I don't see Moonrise stuff in Underdark (UND) Dialogs, is it in text anywhere? Or info from audio files?
It is in the journal entries. I would not be surprised to see the knights work with the absolute. No hint so far of a cure that works. The game seems to let the players fail again and again to eventually force them into the Raphael deal.
Makes me wonder how long can we actually keep going without trying to heal it. You can skip Nettie, refuse the Hags price, ignore Volo. Halsin can't do anything yet (and he might be dead for some walkthroughs) and creche is beyond EA (again, Laezel might not be in the party by then), as are the Moonrise towers (the biggest question right now). Will we be somehow forced to try and solve our tadpole problem till Act 1 ends?
The main quest for Act 1 is called "remove the tadpole". Halsin did say that we will find answers at the Moonrise Towers and that's pretty much the end of Act 1. So yes.
The game plot pretty much set up Halsin -> Moonrise Towers too. All the failure options are optional.
