The first run is usually "do everything, save everyone". I didn't want to touch any tadpole and stayed "clean" the whole run, my stash contains the several dozens tadpoles I collected everywhere. I only kept the spectral one on me (important for what's next).
Now we're in the prism for the last time, and the choice is "do you want to screw yourself or an entire race ?", and it does not seem that any alternative exists. I tried to talk to (romanced) Karlach since she was proposing to transform herself, but there was no dialog option for it (and I probably would not let her do it...).
So I thought ok, if this is really unavoidable, I can use the spectral tadpole that I kept, since it's not the full transformation. But the tadpole is gone from my inventory (I checked the save before the final part to be sure, and I still had it).
Great ! So I transformed, reluctantly, thinking that with the crown, it could be at least possible later to reduce the effects of the transformation.
Then comes the question of what to do with myself, embrace the condition or kill myself. I promised Karlach to stay with her, so I chose "We'll see...", then went killing demons with her in Avernus.
I was disappointed and felt really dumb that my original idea of not using any tadpole went really poorly... Especially with the powers I just discovered during the last part, I shot myself in the foot during the whole playthrough for nothing, and the game prevented me to use the "mild" solution with the spectral tadpole (don't know if it's a bug, or intentional). But ok, I was in hell, eating demon brain with Karlach alive !
Then came the epilogue... Where I failed 3 constitution checks in a row, switched Halsin hostile, fled the fight, watched the others in the camp butcher Halsin, and got yeeted out by Withers... I didn't need that salt in addition...
Am I the only one that approached the tadpoles like this and felt that way in the end ?
