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I imagine there are very few people nerdy enough to ask such questions, but Im really curious.

So I like to roleplay as if I dont know anything what my character doesnt.

And my main goal is to get rid of the tadpole. By this logic as soon as I find out Halsin cant help me I leave behind all the druid groove thing and travel to either find the purification thing Laezel talk about or moonrise tower.

1st seems the most logical as why would you go straight to the base of some insane cultists and might even meet the absolute who obiosuly after your artifact and your party. There is no clear goal to visit towers and time is short.

Gityanki on the other hand know a lot about illithids and such, their tech is quite advanced and we have all reasons to believe we can be saved there. We travel there and by the time we already meet out dream visitor and have all reasons to believe they at very least protects us even if their ultimate goal is unknown. And here we have a choice to enter the artifact and kill them or refuse and lose Laezel. In my walkthrough I refused to even place the artifact, after the purification fails you already should be suspicious about all the gityanki thing. So if we act logically you lose Laezel here - right?

Next stop is the tower. You seems to have more time than you thought, but still should harry. Not to mention the dream person is suspicious in its own way and can be leading you into trap for some reason, so you also would be wise to refuse eating a single tadpole. Especially since they dont insist. From what I undestand you lose Halsin and can't possibly know that night song somehow gonna lift the curse. So your best bet is to sneak in and pretend to be a cultist. There you find out about and realize you must stop it all, its no longer about you only. From here you have no other way to achieve the goal but collect all stones and trust our prism friend, so you kinda give up to do all quickly and can relax a bit - there is no strict timer anymore.

So my question is for inpractical nerds like me. Do you think this is how MC story should look if we try to play it realistically? Lose many characters, ignore a lot of content in act 1 and be forced to pretend as cultists? (I only did good playthrough, so dont really know how it works)? At least as bonus we can have Minthara in our group - why wouldnt we save her, she is a victim and has mutual goal with us.

update: I forgot you cant ignore night song.

You're trying to pretend that you don't know anything but you're still enforcing your knowledge on the story
In that world, githyanki are considered as a major threat. Nobody in their right mind would seek help from them.

That said, I am trying to roleplay similarly. Except I trusted the dream visitor and took my time protecting tieflings. That said, without any spoilers or additional "real world" knowledge I've missed Karlach, Lazael and Will in my Act 1, lol Halsin also had to save himself.

Hm, I didnt know that! But desperate times call for desperate measures? From out characters pov we have days before we turn and no way to prevent it on horizon. Thats why I think its a questionable decision to waste time and help anyone if it doesnt get you closer to solve your problem.

[quote=Berseria]Hm, I didnt know that! But desperate times call for desperate measures? From out characters pov we have days before we turn and no way to prevent it on horizon. Thats why I think its a questionable decision to waste time and help anyone if it doesnt get you closer to solve your problem.[/quote]

By the same arguement, "desperate times call for desperate measures"... If the Absolute created/controls the parasites, then they would have the answers of how to get rid of the parasites. Infiltrating the Absolute's organization, makes perfect sense if your goal is to learn what they know.

Exactly! If githyanki are OK, so are the cultists.

I wrote a post earlier, but the forum ate it.

There are plenty of opportunities in Act 1 to find out that the tadpole you have doesn't function the way that tadpoles normally do. Even if you don't trust the dream visitor, there are multiple characters who can give you this information. By Act 2, it's outright told to your character that
It's not "more logical" to rush, at all.

Again neither we know we are safe and have unlimited time to just stroll around. If we choose to believe the dream visitor - they are under attack since dream one - which is concerning and otherwise we only learn how the tadpoles are different which doesnt nessecerely mean its a good thing. Its a dangerous thing on its own and even more so when it has some weird properties we dont know much about. Id say the moment the prism saves us from the unknown trio we can at least for the moment rely on the dream visitor - they are our best bet (tho they are a tiny bit suspicious leading us right into enemies hands).

But Laezel seems as a good choice too - since we were helping her all along, fighting with her and that means something for a society like hers. Plus we initially get accepted by her kin, even if the peace doesnt last long. And after we are attacked we have no other way, but fight through and get some extra information along the way.

So I still think githyanki > cultists for pirority. Even tho I agree I understimated how hostile and dangerous they are lorewise in eyes of normal people.

Initially they attack and try to kill us, on the orders of a dragon rider - assuming you don't go the long way around.

Yeah, I am not sure what do you mean "accepted". They attack, trying to make them friendly (is this even possible??) would take even more time.