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7/11/2025, 12:09:01 PM
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>eating
It shows a tadpole digging into your brain and turning the flesh pale while darkening the veins. The only time the tadpole "eats" anything is when you use your illithid dialogue.
>Yes, the manipulative illithid that pulls your strings wants you to become illithid.
This is beyond the context of act 1, but I'll strike your points down anyway.
The ghaik has nothing but glowing praise for the benefits of "evolving", and even tries to force the astral tadpole on you. But it never manipulates you to become full illithid, nor does it "pull your strings". It genuinely wishes to save Faerun, but it has to guard some information from you considering how illithids are viewed across all planes. The Elder Brain even tells you, in no mixed words, that she anticipated the Emperor's exact moves, to recruit adventurers to save the realm.
The Emperor, if it were possible, likely would have allowed you to undergo ceremorphosis, if it felt itself and a group of newborn mind flayers could destroy the Elder Brain. But even in that situation, there's no accounting for being discovered by people from the Emerland Grove, the goblin camp, Last Light, Moonrise Towers, Rivington, and Baldur's Gate. Without the guise of mortals, that's just a marathon of hurdles to exhaust you before making it to the Elder Brain.
>It makes it easier for you to be manipulated into becoming partial illithid
'Manipulated' is not at all the word you want. Enhancing the power of the tadpole allows it to exercise its instinct over your will to absorb the astral tadpole, which plays grim music as the Narrator explains a transformation that sounds like something you can't come back from.
>if the devs
Complain about what the exact weather was when they were working on the game, or launch day while you're at it. Point at the Chinese zodiac and scoff that they didn't choose a different year for early access or whatever. The phases of the fucking moon.
>eating
It shows a tadpole digging into your brain and turning the flesh pale while darkening the veins. The only time the tadpole "eats" anything is when you use your illithid dialogue.
>Yes, the manipulative illithid that pulls your strings wants you to become illithid.
This is beyond the context of act 1, but I'll strike your points down anyway.
The ghaik has nothing but glowing praise for the benefits of "evolving", and even tries to force the astral tadpole on you. But it never manipulates you to become full illithid, nor does it "pull your strings". It genuinely wishes to save Faerun, but it has to guard some information from you considering how illithids are viewed across all planes. The Elder Brain even tells you, in no mixed words, that she anticipated the Emperor's exact moves, to recruit adventurers to save the realm.
The Emperor, if it were possible, likely would have allowed you to undergo ceremorphosis, if it felt itself and a group of newborn mind flayers could destroy the Elder Brain. But even in that situation, there's no accounting for being discovered by people from the Emerland Grove, the goblin camp, Last Light, Moonrise Towers, Rivington, and Baldur's Gate. Without the guise of mortals, that's just a marathon of hurdles to exhaust you before making it to the Elder Brain.
>It makes it easier for you to be manipulated into becoming partial illithid
'Manipulated' is not at all the word you want. Enhancing the power of the tadpole allows it to exercise its instinct over your will to absorb the astral tadpole, which plays grim music as the Narrator explains a transformation that sounds like something you can't come back from.
>if the devs
Complain about what the exact weather was when they were working on the game, or launch day while you're at it. Point at the Chinese zodiac and scoff that they didn't choose a different year for early access or whatever. The phases of the fucking moon.
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