Added a couple of Potions of Animal Speaking to the Epilogue.

Thank fuck. I was sad I couldn’t say good bye to my good boy Scratch.

Duergar are better.

My dragonborn warlock doesn’t understand your joke.

Ive got 700 hours in game and yesterday i came across a scene i hadn’t seen before. You’ll be feeling that way for a while.

perhaps the mind flayer is seeing it’s own hand opening a holding pod?

I hadn’t thought of that! Good call. It’s very ambiguous no matter how you read it.

The Narrator says that mind flayer near Ragzlin isn’t your captor.

This mind flayer’s build is smaller, its garb plainer - a fearsome creature even in death, but not the one that tormented you.

Then the first time Ragzlin asks who killed it it shows you this memory:

You see a clawed hand open a holding pod - devoid of flesh, only darkness.

Then Dror asks a second time and the mind flayer responds with this memory:

You see a clawed hand open the holding pod. The murk clears to reveal a face. Yours.

So we don’t have clawed hands first off. And we never opened a holding pod except Shadowheart’s. So is the illithid making it up? Did Orin (or another doppleganger) pretend to be us? Those are my two guesses at what’s happening.

Our abductor isn’t the near dead illithid near Astarion. None of the illithid that you can interact with in act 1 are our captors as far as i can tell. I think this because i once picked up all the illithid bodies and sent them to camp to see if the Dror Ragzlin illithid still accuses you. It does.

Besides at 22str I think she can jump about 60’ anyway.

Jumping takes a bonus action, fly doesn’t.

You make everyone take the astral worm?

The worm gives you persuasion and intimidation expertise for a reason.

I tried to make them all eat it in my honor run. Laezel it didn’t work with since she has two checks but everyone else was fine since they put up minimal arguments against using it. Except Astarion of course, he used it as quick as I did.

Gale boom is how I finished honor mode so you’ll be happy to know it works fine. Good luck. Some of those act 3 fights are just plain unfair.

Those outer ring powers are really good but the reason I personally always use the astral tadpole is the free flight on everyone.

Fly to get around the battlefield is stupidly overpowered especially if all your guys have it. It basically doubles your movement as soon as you get it since fly is 60 ft of movement.

I’m confused. In what way does sarcasm break paladin oaths? Not even devotion paladins would break their oaths via sarcasm. Here are the tenets of a devotion paladin:

Tenets of Devotion

Though the exact words and strictures of the Oath of Devotion vary, paladins of this oath share these tenets.

Honesty. Don’t lie or cheat. Let your word be your promise.

Courage. Never fear to act, though caution is wise.

Compassion. Aid others, protect the weak, and punish those who threaten them. Show mercy to your foes, but temper it with wisdom.

Honor. Treat others with fairness, and let your honorable deeds be an example to them. Do as much good as possible while causing the least amount of harm.

Duty. Be responsible for your actions and their consequences, protect those entrusted to your care, and obey those who have just authority over you.

As you can see sarcasm isn’t mentioned.

How does sarcasm break my oath? As a lawful paladin I don’t care if they’re mad about being blocked from doing something illegal.

It just wasn’t about being evil.

I mean, it can be about evil. If you give Gale enough leash he will take the Karsus weave and the crown, merge them, and become a god.

Honor mode is one single save, permanent death. You can’t go back once you make a decision. It’s the reason you should know exactly how you’re planning on running honor mode so you don’t make mistakes that bork your save file or kill you outright (taunting Vlaakith is one way to kill yourself via dialog). I died on my first honor attempt due to stupidity so take my warning to heart. My second run was much more careful and now I have the golden dice.

You really are missing out. The narrator is great. She adds lots of tension and mystery to some scenes.

Wiping the game doesn’t wipe save files but if you’re super worried you can always backup the save file to a usb drive before you uninstall the game.

I know this is going to be painful to hear for a 100gb game but have you tried reinstalling the game? I had an issue on PS5 when the game first came out that only went away after a reinstall. I don’t believe there is a setting to disable the narrator voice.

What gift? Im struggling to think of anything at the end of act 2 that is given to Tav.

Edit: I thought some more on it, do you mean the astral gift? If thats the gift you took then you could play it like this: Emp used his persuasion to convince you to take the gift. You realized it was a trap and now you will use those powers to betray Emp. Free the person in the bubble and free yourself from the ghaik. You are restored to humanity if the BBEG dies. I tried to be mostly spoiler free in case you hadn’t played through fully already.

I took a sacred oath, sir! I can’t serve you Mr 40 year old Drow or I become an oathbreaker. Sorry, not sorry.