Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Some general opinions on the story

If this game pulls off complex choices it'll leap frog a few of my favorites, choices rarely feel complex but more there's a good choice and a bad choice.

For the immediate fail if I'm remembering correctly, once you siege the grove and have the party you're outed by the Absolute or at least by those three in charge. Minthara states that your death was ordered and while you can get her to back off the cult is still out for you. It may be each group is merely a cell and that the Cult is diversified but that's getting into full game assumptions. But if the Cult's leadership has figured you out you wont be able to do much infiltrating, at least nothing high level. You are correct about choices on how to infiltrate though, that's more a personal view rather than any game critique. Though, if you don't pull your speech checks with Minthara your infiltration is more or less rendered moot.

Are we actually sure that the Cult is a part of our tadpole alterations. I'm not sure if its two parties or three with the Mindflayers implanting, the Cult hijacking and then a third party messing with ours. It seemed to still be a lot of speculation rather than a hard "these are the people we need to deal with". Maybe it is just two and the process was messed up during the tampering, therefore only two groups. Also, being fair, there is the third option of the Cult not mattering other than as a potential option for removing the tadpole. After all you could simply want the blasted thing out and after that good luck to all parties. Though I don't think we'll be getting quite that level of choice, more than likely the Absolute will be involved in the endgame.

Astarion is frankly the only character currently that can be used to argue going any routes involving the cult, which is semi problematic. After that I think its a distant Shadowheart and then a really (really) long mile for Lae'zel and honestly probably not. With that said he's also the least trustworthy of the companions, very blatantly untrustworthy regardless of how entertaining he can be.