Originally Posted by KillerRabbit
2. Right he believes the cure in both impossible *and* undesirable. He's evil - his nature compels him to dominate and control others and he wants to become the same.

And it would be nice to prove him wrong the same way we proved Sarevok wrong in BG1 and ToB - Sarevok believed that we needed to embrace Bhaal's powers to succeed. We didn't and indeed his choice embrace the evil inside was his undoing.

So, again, I would like to have good ending - one that give us a choice between competing evils but of the two evils Orpheus is the lesser one.


Yeah it's kinda sad that currently, the only way to prove him sort of wrong (and I am betting it won't ever be mentioned again) is to turn on him when you enter the Prism in the beginning of act 3, beat his slimy ass and only when he's laying on the ground give him a hand lol. And I could do that with 0 tadpoles absorbed on tactician, eat dust Emperor! Proving that all I need is myself, without any extra illithid bits!

But then, when I told him 'hell no' to the Astral tadpole, he gave me one anyway for 'safe keeping', in case I change my mind (the only place where not absorbing any tadpoles has some type of unique outcome, aside from Jaheira's truth potion interrogation, until ofc Larian tries to push it on you anyway, despite constantly resisting it).

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But then again, I think stomping on the tadpole while he's watching is more fun...

And yeah, this is my 1st run where I truly committed to not munching on tadpoles. 1st run ever I didn't munch until I read somewhere that it doesn't change the endings (which imho should be freaking changed - actions have consequences, yada yada) at all then I munched, in my 2nd run I munched cause it was my 1st ever tactician and I thought the difficulty was gonna be harder, but it's basically "balanced+", but on my current 3rd run I am not munching out of spite and collecting all the tadpoles in my inventory - thank goodness they're pretty light.

By the end game I am gonna make a picture out of all the tadpoles collected in my inventory, with the astral one being the center piece. Also, I am thinking, during the final fight against the brain, when Emperor shows up I am gonna throw the astral tadpole at him to ensure the killing blow. My master evil plan. Just to rub it in. astarionhappy