As for the ticking clock of the tadpoles, the best idea I could think of was making every long rest equivalent to a [illithid] dialogue use, so everytime you rest the stronger it grows, you'd even start having the dreams with every long rest.
Disagree with this! Using the powers or not is a character development choice that should stay a dialogue choice, as it is now. They also added more dialogue in patch 4 to make it more clear that Tav is not in immediate danger.
