She can at least read, which isn't something urchins can regularly do.
That depends ...
Do you know many urchins, that was picked, embraced and raised by secretive sect of fanatics, and then used as secret agent for some mastermind überimportant plan?
I mean just as many so we have some statisticaly wide enough group, to determine if readins is common knowledge among them.
I pointed out that Baldur's Gate 1 starts out EXACTLY this way.
And i pointed out that personaly i dont care about other games ... if you want me to say it specificaly, then yes ... that includes Baldur's Gate 1.
No matter how many (or wich) games did their start levels as "hide there and pretend you dont exist while big boys will deal with this" ... it still sucks.
Even if the people who die willingly are crazy fanatics (they aren't, at least in Tantras they were ordinary people who lived there),
You realize this is just cultural right?
If majority of your country is fanaticaly religious, its your standard ... they become "normal ordinary people".
I could try to find out examples ... but forum rules forbids talking about real politic, or religion ... so you would have to google yourself. :-/
there is still a high possibility that you'd take the headbash option, especially given the knowledge that
A. you might turn into a mind flayer any moment (as pointed out by Lae'zel)
B. You have no idea when this tadpole starts rampaging
C. Once the tadpole activates, you're definitely dead, and if you're neutral or good-aligned,
D. Once you're dead by the tadpole, it's likely you'd be the death of at least a few dozen people, if not more.
So either way, you're dead.
Cant help the feeling that option C is not complete. O_o
I think your knowledge is missing few important parts ...
A > As pointed by Lae'zel (and then confrimmed by Omeluum, Halsin and Ethel) you SHOULD HAVE allready start turning ... so your "any moment" is obviously not as "any moment" as it might seem in first few conversation on this topic in your party.
B > You do actualy ... since you have withnessed turning on board of Nautiloid, where conciderably big amount of Illithid (bio?)tech was present to allow that transformation ... since you are not around that kind of tech anymore, you can aswell easily presume that at least "fo far" you are relatively safe.
C > That much is true ... except is not a "once" but more like "if".
D > This one is completely true ... question is if your character even care.
E > Once you meet Nettie, you also find corpse of Drow-Male that carried his own parasite ... that corpse dont have even the slightest signs of transformation ... and since he is dead for quite some time (and therefore was not on the Nautiloid) you can easily come to conclusion, that if this transformation was rather delayed than entirely stopped ... someone who was tadpoled before you, will also turn sooner than you ... and since this one was still quite fine, you are not in such hurry as you might think ... this theory is later prooven by existence of Edowin, Gut, Minthara, Ragzlin, Nere and Flind ... and also confrimmed by Halsin, Ethel and Omeluum.
F > There is no guarantee that smashing your help will help ... for one, as wiki said this must be done as soon as possible ... and by the time you get to the Grove, you allready have tadpole inside of you for almost a day ... by the time you would find Halsin (presuming the is the only one powerfull enough to offer you this option) you allready have it inside of you for at least few days ... so, this "method" for lack of better therm, would not be possible allready anyway ...
Also your tadpole problem is hardly ordinary one ... so same as ordinary transformation does not work ... we can say that ordinary methods of their removal would not ... Example and kinda proof is Ehel ... she said it herself, she allready helped few people with this problem in the past, but your tadpole is different.
G > Even if all abowe would be ignored and we would get the option ... the only possible outcome would be game over, since our companions no longer have litteraly any reason to stay with us ... and would no longer have litteraly any reason to stay here either ... especialy not go to Moonrise Towers.
With headbash you have the chance to come back without going through the agonizing transformation, in a controlled environment where there IS someone to bring you back.
That is the problem ...
There ISNT (no matter how much caps lock we will be using
) someone to bring you back ... you said it youreself, Halsin didnt offered to ressurect you. :P
