3. Roadside cliffs.
3.1. The introduction cutscene for Astarion needs an overhaul. How did he get the boar in this place? Every normal living creature is supposed to run away from the crashed Nautoloid. Why does he even need a boar, when he is pretending anyway? Why does he openly attack our character even if we have other companions with us? Does he expect to win a fight against a few people alone? How insolent must he be to make our character to ask him to join us after his hostility, instead of himself begging to take him with us? So many questions and no answers. The last question even creates a problem with his recruitment. You need to be a very merciful person to willingly recruit him under such conditions, but at the same time he is the best companion for an evil PC.
A) Replace the boar with an actual Intellect Devourer (or two) at some distance. Astarion should not claim that he has it cornered. He should pretend to be too afraid of the thing to engage himself.
B) If we have companions they should immediately decide to fight doesn't matter what our personal decision is. Astarion should try to drag our character a bit away from the Intellect Devourer and our companions, if he catches us.
C) After he will realize that our character is a victim just like him, he must both apologize and offer his services as an “experienced diplomat with some sleight of hands and wits” in our quest in search for a healer. He may even mention that as a nobleman and a magistrate employee he may have connections in Baldur’s Gate that may prove helpful if we get there.
D) Give us an option to humiliate him a bit before allowing to join us.
E) Allow us to kill him, right there, right now.
(And others too, btw ... why Gale is the only one who give us option to Draw our weapon and attack? :-/ )
