It's in act 3.
Play it like I do: game ends with act 2, after that it's just a sandbox to try out spells. Act 3 is broken - and while it has been getting better, it is still nowhere close to the quality of act 1 and 2.
That... that is a genius solution to the act 3 problem as a whole!
But on topic: yeah, the way that entire scene is set up is just weird. On my 1st run I was like: so he is bragging about being the force behind the Absolute and nobody in the audience says a damn thing? They just clap along?
On my 2nd run, once I got past the final boss of that room which were constant game crashes
(the moment Gortash's cutscene started no matter what graphic settings I used, game kept on crashing on both Vulkan and DirectX 11, eventually found a solution in full screen mode and even then the game ran at ~10fps - didn't happen on my 1st run, so Larian broke something in patch 1 or 2), as a Dark Urge the entire situation was even more baffling than on my 1st run... and honestly? I have no idea how Larian can possibly fix it, other than make Upper City an actual zone we can visit and that we get an actual invitation to attend that scam of a ceremony that is moved from Wyrm's Rock to somewhere in the Upper City, but that would also require rewriting Orin's entire abduction scheme.
