i’m in act 3 of baldurs gate 3 with 2/3 [collected items] for the main story point so here’s some (stupid/absurd) shit i’ve done in my first run of the game!
spoilers ahead!
(also a little out of order towards the end cause i’ve dropped 169 hours into this bad boy lol)
after recruiting astarion and shadowheart i went to the mindflayer in the ship ruins, trying to resist the mental connection and instantly died leaving shadowheart and astarion to fight the mindflayer who pretty much instantly killed them and had to immediately reload
almost didnt recruit gale cause i somehow missed walking by his rock the first time and had to google where he was 💀
sided with the tieflings instead of laezel and when she got knocked unconscious i tried to cure wounds her and she didnt get back up
i then proceeded to accidentally loot everything off her person so she was laying in mud naked and unaware
stole the druids statue after completing the main quest line so that the tieflings wouldnt die but now i have no use for it
almost didnt recruit laezel because i almost didnt go through with checking out the mountain pass and was going to strictly stick to the underdark
in the grymforge i killed all the duergar before letting out nere because i couldn’t get them to side with me for combat and thought this would be easier
had to revive laezel after killing the gith who killed her and that night i long rested i forgot i looted everything off her body and so instead of being in sleep clothing she was just naked
when in the gith creche (?) i pretty much killed all the gith i came across (not on purpose though)
when walking in the underdark i was going to climb up netting but i passed my perception check too late and traps went off and then i couldnt get up the wall
finding the fish cult and killing them and their god
glitched out halsins questline so i had to leave him in act 2 (maybe i didn’t glitch it, was maybe just the order i did stuff but 🤷♂️)
was so invested in shadowheart lore i immediately did the gauntlet of shar before talking to isobel at last light inn or going into moonrise towers so that was fun
gave the toll collector an identity crisis so they killed themself
convinced the nurses to "experiment" on each other and watched them kill themselves and then failed to convince the surgeon to do the same
in raphaels quest for astarion i had the guy tell his group to kill themselves, told him to kill his pet, and the told him to kill himself
did kethrics phase one no problem got to phase two and told him he could right his wrongs and watched him kill himself and then immediately had to fight the god of death (phase three)
dribbles scavenger hunt (not yet completed)
went into the sewers via the emperors old hideout only to get greeted by orin pretending to be laezel and find out she kidnapped laezel
fought cazador and when astarion asked for help ascending i told him no and watched him kill cazador, break the staff, and then break up with me and leave the party with tears in his eyes ( i reloaded instantly afterwards)
in act one at the goblin camp i put poison in their alcohol and watched them drop like flies
in act one, at the creche, when speaking with the doctor there and using the device i failed all the saves and laezel almost died but the spirit guardian had to step in cause they didnt like that
slept with the emperor in act three soley for the achievement and then reloaded because i felt bad for cheating on astarion
(fun fact abt this one the three people who walked in on me were astarion wyll and jaehira and it made me want to die until i remembered this was a reload done solely for the achievement and not my main save lol)
took out the steelwatch before speaking to gortash and now all of wyrms rock fortress is red so im just an enemy to one section of the city
said i would save the gondians(?), watched several of them die in the prison and then when uprising in the lab every last one of them died in combat
had to fight gortash with no cut scene and cause of the order i did things in uhh wylls dad had to die cause no way was i letting him renew his pact with mizora but the worst part is his quest line, as of when i last was on, is glitched and when i go to speak to him in regards to the quest marker over his head he just greets me like usual 😭
because of the order i did stuff i lost my wyrms rock (fortress) teleport point and when i tried to cross the bridge they wouldn’t let me so i killed a man (the fraudulent toy maker arfur or whatever) and they still wouldn’t let me in so i just decided to enter from the lower city
oh and if you’re wondering why i didn’t go to gortash sooner, when i tried to enter that area/sharess caress, the fist had a steel watch check me and they declared me an enemy of the state or whatever and i got arrested on the spot and then was too afraid to re-enter wyrms rock cause i thought if i went in the front again that the steelwatch would arrest me again 💀
was also surprised when gale was totally okay with breaking into private quarters when it was for his own gain idk the bit i’ve talked to him i just didn’t expect for him to be so okay and on board with it? whatever he got to read his silly book and tell me that he wants to become a god but we’ll deal with that later
also breaking into the vault for jaehiras quest was so silly! after rescuing mayrina in act one my ass always tries to keep water on me and what do you know it was useful for causing a short circuit (with a little help from call lightning lol)
and that’s all i can think of right now (3:30am) but i’m sure there’s more to come as deal with orin and rescue minsc… and also collect dribbles head lmao
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!! im back again bc i remembered a theory i heavily believe in on tt abt 109 and i sent this to someone else too so heres the basic gist of it
notice the correlation between atsushi vs akutagawa + dazai vs chuuya both are fighting their vampire port mafia rivals, while the protagonists are losing, ex. atsushi loses an arm and a leg, dazai breaks his legs and gets shot, but we know atsushi is the mc, there fore won't be killed off. due to the parallels between the two protags, dazai AND atsushi might win or make it out alive, unless asagiri wants to be a little shit and show us either
a. the different two ways the relationships could go (life and death)
b. he likes to make us suffer
oh and dazai's a big money maker so that too !! either way dazai most likely will live (+ sigma but thats for another ask)
thanks for coming to my ted talk
(p.s i was the uhhh feral chuuya anon earlier LKMFAFIOSJ) ((big switch up))
feral chuuya anon!! you have the range
but yeah i agree i can’t imagine asagiri killing either atsushi or dazai off. atsushi is not only the main character but i’m pretty sure there’s also a lot of things he has left unresolved in this arc. it would be against the themes of bsd to kill him after he chose to believe in hope and fight to save the people around him
same with dazai i just can’t believe they’d ever kill the suicidal guy in the reasons to live manga. not even talking about how he’s such a fan favorite and how in there’s still a lot you can develop in his character and his relationships to other people
also asagiri loves fake cliffhanger deaths. even if one of them did supposedly die i’d have to wait for the next twenty chapters without their appearance to actually believe it
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thinking about 4-sided dive and Taliesin talking about Bells Hells being npcs and like...
Reality itself works so different for PCs and NPCs. There’s the obvious class level things but also like. Death saves are a PC thing - it’s an optional rule for NPCs and honestly not widely used. Unless they’re the big bad, or it’s specified nonlethal, basically anyone the main characters knock to 0 is instantly dead, whereas you usually have to work to kill a PC permanently.
There are a lot of fallacies that dnd parties tend to fall into as they get higher levels and less attached to the world. Getting super rich and just giving away gold like it’s nothing when it’s a full days labor. Expecting to find high level magic items for sale in backwater towns or get someone to cast spells for them. Being surprised that the random townie they hit has <5 hp.
Main Characters get to live in the cartoon logic world where they can get stabbed in the gut and be better with a good nights rest, versus everyone else living in this grimdark world where all of these attacks cause serious, permanent injuries, and even if they do get brought up from 0 they’ve got months of recovery.
Every other member of the Bells Hells has either always been close enough to Adventurers that they got caught in the bubble (Orym, FCG) or have been weird long enough they forgot it’s not normal (Chetney, Laudna, Imogen) if they ever knew (Fearne). But Ashton? Ashton feels like they still view the world the way they did as an npc thug.
Of course you run and leave people behind. The only healing you have is potions, and once someone’s down chances are even that won’t bring them up. What’re you gonna do with a corpse, bury it? That’s not worth a life, you leave them behind, no second thoughts...
And going from cartoon world to grimdark world is scary af, suddenly realizing what you do leaves scars - but it’s nothing compared to the reverse. Going from violence having consequences to it all being fixed in the morning. Learning that this could all have been fixed so easily but instead you were watching people be hurt - learning that it’s relatively cheap to bring people back from the dead. That’s horrifying.
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