Actually Lae'zel does know it's a threat, the Gith have been slaying Mindflayers for how many centuries, pretty sure they would have the most knowledge on tadpoles and ceremorphosis, also if the Gighyanki didn't have the knowledge, then their more heroic monastic idelogucal cousins the Githzerai would know about it.
BTW if you think Mindflayer is bad, wait until a Dragon goes though Ceremorphosis,
you'll get a Brainstealer Dragon.
You don't say.
OP was talking about a scenario where nobody knew the tadpole was a threat. I explained what would happen in that scenario.
Well maybe act 1 in its entirety, at least how you meet the companions, is flawed, we WOULD need another reason for them to join us, maybe some companions would need their stories changed for it to work without the impending doom tadpole BS.
That doesn't make the current thing any less flawed, however, Larian had all the control they needed, it's not like they HAD to work with these characters, they could've just made different characters, different stories.
Whatever they were to add, it'd need to be some kind of 'impending doom' threat to everyone in the party for some of the current companions to be willing to work together. Or they would indeed have to rewrite them completely, and then they couldn't be written to be at odds quite as much which would just lead to a boring cast of characters.
