The point is to tone down the absurdness of the game.
This is dangerously turning into God of War 2 and soon we will have Selune, Shar, Bhaal, Mystra involved in a weird carnival.
Ceromorphosis can take up to 7 days and you could easily create a plot using the same idea of slowing its progression. Not that is feasible anymore.
Absurdeness? Well we do talk about larian here. They tend to have a knack for exactly this. If you compare it to DOS2 it IS toned down.
Every story can be a good one, no matter how far over the top. I think though that the more absurd a storyline is, the harder you need to plot to make it good. Even if it is a fantasy setting, players need some logical threads to go by.
Take the Nautiloid crash: We get thrown out of a fast-moving ship, fall a pretty huge distance while the ship still moves away from us and.....end up right in the wreckage of said ship, saved by a higher power...yea, right. Why go through all this if they want us ending up near the ship anyway. I would rather accept surviving said crash with 1HP and limping movement for a few steps (having been saved from certain death by our tadpoles) then this fall without moving and stopping right before earth stuff. Way more believeable imo.
Going on: Let us say our tadpoles stopped the fall to secure their survival, why the heck do they save us only once? We can die anywhere in this game, juming into the hole at the spider queen is pretty much the same situation but no stopping there. Why? Inconsistent.
And so on. A lot of pieces simply do not fit together very well. so they make up for a pretty brittle story. I sincerly hope they get this glued together later, otherwise we may end up with a b-movie type of game with lots of facepalm situations. Would make me sad.
I would love to see them change some things to get this on a more believable-unbelievable level (get a good author look over the story).
On the other hand i agree with GM4Him: We want the game to be finished, so a full rewrite will not happen anyway, just remove a few of the bigger kinks in the storyline.
