Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General [HUGE SPOILERS] Datamining Thread

Does drinking the potion Omeluum (that friendly mind flayer in the Underdark) gives the player seem to have any negative effect on possible mind control at Moonrise Towers? After all the main character does receive a special tadpole ability from repulsing Omeluum's barrier-lowering-infiltration-attempts and in turn, we do get that mind barrier ring from him to shield the tadpole from growing, now I'm asking this question, because according to the journal update - it states that 'The potion Omeluum gave us didn't work - it made the parasite stronger.' Which is why I am curious what kinds of repercussions this will have? Or does actually using the tadpole in dialogue and that repulsor ability only count towards possible 'bad ending'?

I doubt it matters (at least I hope so). Making the ending dependent on a task you couldn't predict the outcome of is not a good project.
Besides, from what I tested, Omeluum's "help" does not start a dream sequence.
Most likely, the main consequence of the quest is a ring that should protect you from mind control if you've used tadpole too often.

I actually did test spamming that repulsor ability over and over in a secluded zone and kept on going to rest over and over to reuse it, and mind you, all my saved characters up to this point have not used tadpole powers a single time thus they had not triggered a single dream, so my finding was - spamming repulsor does trigger the first dream (you gotta rest a lot and spam that ability like a madman), the one where the voice says 'where are you?', but further spamming didn't trigger the other dreams, what I found to be quite odd.

Which is why I was wondering if that tadpole 'getting stronger' will have any consequences. Sure, you had no way of knowing, but you could always reload. Not to mention - hag's offer is similar, takes your eye away, tells you the tadpole is steeped in netherese magic and trusting Volo is just dumb. Still, each of these tadpole removal options has dire consequences. Also, I don't trust Omeluum, he might sound quite benevolent, but in the absolute best case scenario, he's a neutral party, he didn't mind working with a damn lich for crying out loud, then he changed his mind about his lich friend... also, Society of Brilliance is a neutral organization, in comparison Harpers are generally considered good and Zentharim are evil.

By the way, I wonder how the plot is supposed to work for warforged, while races such as halflings can somehow be explained, in the case of warforged I do not see any possibility.
From what they associate, they don't even have an organic brain. Technically they have no way of becoming a mind flayer.
Unless Larian suddenly changes knowledge of them, I doubt they will show up in the full game without modifying the plot especially for them.

there are tadpoled skeletons in the game files.

I can still believe the skeletons animated by tadpoles (even though it's stupid).
After all, they would be enemies (please say they're just enemies)

After all, playable warforged (they shouldn't even be here) not only contradicts lore but also logic. Even if by some miracle he was infected, the tadpole would starve to death.
The character should just tell the rest of the companions to take care of themselves and leave.