How do you know the Emperor stop our transformation? Because he told you?
It is Orpheus' power that disrupts mindflayer psionics, how on earth would a mindflayer(the Emperor) use mindflayer psionics, to steal a power that disrupts mindflayer psionics, to disrupt mindflayer psionics (Elderbrain)? Does that make sense to you? Because it does not make sense to me.
Seems like extremely lazy writing.
From what I remember, if you go against the emperor at the start of act 3 in Astral Prism, everyone instantly turns into mindflayers. Supposedly, because emperor is no longer channelling Orpheus power.
The way I see it, I would completely scrap the Emperor and simply attribute to Orpheus having a passive aura that protects you, instead of contrived bullshit and the Guardian they came up with.
That entire sequence is very vague. Because if you don't escape to the astral plane in X rounds you turn regardless of the Emperor "protecting you".
After that you can kill the Emperor and you do not turn until you exit the astral plane. Which does not make sense on any level;
- why can I not just stay in the Astral plane and go back into the material at a distance where the elder brain does not have influence.
- Why can I not talk to Orpheus after killing the Emperor? Surely he would help me if I vow to free him? Or I could channel his power myself, which would make much more sense than a mindflayer doing it for reasons explained in my previous post.
- Why were we turning before escaping to the astral plane, but after a chat with the Emperor all of a sudden there is no problem anymore? Yes you can make excuses for this, but none that do not come across as lazy (shortcut) writing.
Which is exactly my point. Act 3 is a mess. Emperor being Balduran seems more like a lie, to make characters trust him, not actual thing. It also adds nothing to the game.
If the Emperor didn’t exist I don’t think the story would be damaged, if anything it would be better. Picture this:
-Daisy wants us to use tadpoles, we refuse, but they start tempting/tormenting our characters.
-We get to act 3, but instead of Emperor we meet Orpheus honor guard, as the field weakens, leading us to Astral Prism.
-They explain to us that it’s Orpheus, who protected us by close proximity and ask us to help their Leader.
-This leads to Raphael being more than a sidequest.
Overall, I just stopped playing the game in Act 3 because of the sheer amount of problems
