Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Let our Intellect Devourer buddy join the camp as a pet

If anyone has no idea what I am talking about spoilers: As soon as you get out of the mind-flaying cradle there is an elevator in the... next room? You can see a yellow diamond with the name of Brainy's brain donor.
Click the thingy and ride the elevator up and chat with your new friend Brainy. I kept him alive in my playthrough and even when the mind flayer tried to kill us brainy stuck with us and when I landed on the beach my friend was nowhere to be seen id like him to join our camp even if it's only as a pet like an Owlbear cub and Scratch so they can be friends

I really dont understand why people care so much about a "character" we have 1 word and a half with in the tutorial...

There are 2-3 dead intellect devourers near Shadowheart (by the chapel door) if you don't let her out of the pod. I head-canon that one of them is Us (our tutorial friend).

Getting back on topic:

You can pass a skill check to guarantee his obedience, and LaeZel seemed weirdly cool with it right off the bat plus he tore Imp faces off with 2d4 and critted my heart.

I like this. Another fine addition to my collection.

Hmm, complicated lore-wise. "Us" is an enemy. But maybe we can take "Us" to

Us would be OP. I say no. He's great for a prologue companion, but he'd make animal companions and such seem lame.

And just to have him at camp seems off to me. Astarion makes it clear he's afraid of the "brain things" and rightly so. SH clearly doesn't like them. Lae'zel only put up with Us because it was helping you get to the helm. She certainly wouldn't let it roam the camp. And I doubt Gale and Wyll would approve as well.

I just can't see it being a viable option. To me, it would be pure meta.

Hey, why not after all ...

As long as litteraly everyone who will see that thing will go imediately hostile towards your character ... party members included. :P

I mean feel free to corect me but US is basicaly equivalent of having throphies of murdered whores (seen American Psycho?) ... you may be proud on your collection ... but you REALLY dont want anyone to find out about it.

Let me get this straight... you want a brain-eating aberration that can turn you or any of your companions into a mindless thrall in your camp?

IIRC there was an interview shortly after early access launched where the devs explained that they toyed with the idea of having Us be a proper companion, but ultimately scrapped it in the end.

Probably a very good call, because the very existence of that thing following the party would have taken the overall narrative in very bad and messy directions.

He is just one of....Us....besides I poked my thumb in his brain...he likes me now.

That would seldom be a question in my game, since US normally dies heroically fighting the Cambions ( they survives the commander, but seldom the two lackeys). And I normally don't use precious healing spells on US, since I'm pretty sure, that they will turn on the party as soon as it is clear, that my character is not on the mindflayers side. I settle for Scratch and owlbear cub. I would love to have one of the spider babies from the matriarch fight as a pet though, they are cute.

He does. And he's tired of pretending he doesn't.

I want those as combat pets for my Beast Mastery Ranger. :3

I mean... it's not that different from your average cat.

I would genuinely hate if this was a thing.
It makes no sense whatsoever.

Well... I serve my cat out of my own free will.


Yeah, I'd hate it as well.
The owlbear cub at least makes sense, since owlbears can apparently be tamed and trained (at least to a degree).

I would be happy to get any new pet! At the top of my list is a displacer kitten pet.

Yeah, in case, I didn't make myself clear:I agree with those, who say that keeping US as a companion or camp follower is a really bad Idea.
I do think, that we might get more pets along the way. Maybe not as exstensive as in Pillars of Eternity, where I had 6 pets or so, before even entering the main city.

Sure you do, buddy.