Then why doesn't the ceremorphosis pod require that you use the tadpole in order to use it? Or even better, why doesn't the transponder (the control panel of the ship) require that you use the tadpole?
How should we know, we didnt created it.
Funny that nobody ever mentioned any discomfort about the fact that you actualy *dont* need to find some runic key to control the transponder, or instant ceremorphosis device ...
Also i can think about two reasons for transponder:
1) You DONT actualy use it ... you just connected two tentacles (feel free to imagine them as wires) ... there was no direct control on your side.
2) That would actualy be bad design we are talking about here ... you would be forced to use tadpole in order to finish tutorial, and that would indeed be cheap ... this way, if you decide not to use tadpole, nothing really changes* ... you still get to the helm, finish tutorial and your story continues.
(*unless you REALLY want to kill everyone in the Helm
even tho, Shadowheart is hardly any strong help in order to achieve that since you cant adjust her spells)
Different point of view:
There is also possibility that we had to use our tadpole, bcs usage of Shadowheart pod was in direct contradiction with its purpose ...
I mean Ceremorphosis chamber was created to ceremorphosing people ... and we ceremorphosed person in there ... that is fitting to its purpose.
The transponder in the helm is controlling the ship movement ... and we controlled ship movement with it ... again fitting to its purpose.
But containment pod for Shadowheart were suppose to contain her ... and we were acting against the purpose, since we wanted to free her, even Us was against it ... therefore we had to use our psyonic power, to persuate (for lack of better therm in my vocabulary) the devide that this is something Mind Flaer comands ...
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Shadowheart is a special prisoner. She is carrying the Gith weapon. So, special security is called for.
Exactly ...
Either that or she is the only prisoner in some sort of sense ... i mean her pod was the only one we have found that was locked after all ...
Maybe we were in just some sort of "containment vessel" ... but she was locked in regular prison pod, for dangerous specimens ... if that makes any sense.
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If I we're one of the mindflayers, I would just take the gith weapon from Shadowheart. It makes zero sense to let her keep it.
Asuming they can touch it.
Surely you noticed that when you try several times to drop the box, it "hurts" your haracter (it makes zapping sound and flash a little) ... maybe is is capable of even stronger attack, i mean we dont really know what killed those Mind Flayers, do we?
Yes, i know its just theory ... but i dare to presume that if Mind Flayers let Shadowheart keep the weapon, they had to have some really good reason.
There is also second option, few times mentioned here ... they simply didnt know about it.
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These things are eating our brains and morphing us into monsters. I want to really stress over using it. Life or death situation. Not check the gith girl's mind journal to see how she feels about me.
Then i presume you are also happy about this change?
