Originally Posted by Surge90sf
Originally Posted by Annoyed Player
Originally Posted by Surge90sf
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.

I do think those issues, while not the best explained, have pretty good, logical explanations. Some of them at least.

- You're not actually in the Astral Plane really. You're in a pocket of Astral Plane that specifically exists within the prism. So we're limited to going in and out of the prism and can't use it to just travel elsewhere.

- There's actually no good reason we can't side with Orpheus from this point, really. I think the Emperor's explanation that Orpheus sees us as mindflayers and thus hates makes sense, but there's nothing dictating that that has to be the case. Though Ithink us suddenly being able to just channel Orpheus' power would be pretty dumb andrandom.

- This last issue is I feel the most clear and obvious. We were turning because the Emperor was caught in a serious skirmish with the honor guard and they had him seriously on the ropes, the implication being that he'd have lost if not for us. So he wasn't exactly able to devote his focus to protecting us, which probably is harder when we're so close to the brain, which is also struggling for freedom now we have one of the gems. Once the battle isover and he can focus, no more danger of changing. For all the issues with the game's third act, this particular plot point genuinely seemed pretty self-evident to me and makes perfect sense.