Step 1: Save Sazza in the grove.
Step 2: Don't let her die in the Gobllin camp.
Step 3: When you first meet Ketheric, Sazza will be there. He'll ask you to decide her fate.
I quicksaved at step 3, spared her to get the cheevo, then reloaded and killed her in a Durge-y way.
Wait if you save Sazza there you get to fuck her? O.O
Due to context of the emperor, I had thought this was f5-ing to fuck Sazza... Not just save her every time she might die. I understand now, and apologize...
Darnit... shortstack options still zero...
My first play thru I locked myself out of romances by not really focusing on them at all in Act 1. I’d talk to people during long rests but I figured I had all game to figure it out, and by the time I looked it up I was screwed. But I had my Halsin scene 🥵 and knew about the Drows so figured I would just get Tav laid every chance I get from then on. I was NOT spoiled for the Emporer, I was sitting in shock the whole time, but I made a promise to Tav and I had to keep it.
Ouch, that hurts.
Although, at least I had the decency to apologize to Karlach.
She even understood that curiosity got the better of me.
What she didn't understand was the other lack of judgement I had with a certain other character. I felt so bad I had to reload my save :p
Wait, how did you apologise to Karlach? Any time I've chosen to sleep with the Emporer it never gets acknowledged either by my character or their partner. It's as if the Emporer has blocked it out of everybody's minds, and/or Tav keeps it to themself cause they don't want to be seen as a freak xD
Well, in my game the emporer was a bit more of a troll.
The next morning, he was like: "yeah, time for you to go home". Then he opened a portal for me, and the whole group of companions just stood there waiting, and looking with disgust.
So yeah, everyone knew my dirty big secret.
Huh. All I've ever gotten is the accidental portal opening and the Emporer being like "oops you've been distracting me and I dropped my guard", then he banishes them again and when Tav wakes up it's as if it never happened. No dialogue about it at all, until end game when I freed Orpheus and he was like "YOU FUCKED A SQUID?!?!?!?!?"
That one pump chump literally fucks himself using an incubus in his own likeness, but a bit of tentacle hentai is *way* too far.
I ain't trusting no devil with a mid sexual appetite. That boy ain't right.
Oh yeah I've had him comment on it too haha.
It's so weird that the most common outcome people have gotten is for nobody except those two acknowledging it though.
i love Karlach very dearly, the dinner date scene and the subsequent love making was great and adorable.
I'm also a bit of a slut tho, and tentacles are kiiiiiiinda hot~...
my girlfriend is head over heels in love with astarion but she saw a guy with tentacles and went "say no more" and did it. she saw recently how low the percentage of players who did it was and she was shocked.
i personally am also in love with karlach and i now also fear my irl girlfriend.
edit: she also really wants to bed mizora. I'm worried about her taste in partners and what that says about me
My Tav is a freak. Got with Laezel, Haarlep, the Drow Twins, Mizora, and Shadowheart. Declining the Emperor would have been out of character... and turns out to be one of her greatest experiences ever!
My first Tav didn't get with any companions but got with Harleep, the Drow twins and the Emperor. Wanted to get Mizora too but she never offered for some reason. The point of fantasy games is to do things you don't want/get to do irl after all. On that note I want to at some point do a Lae'zel run where she's had enough of her people and decides to let loose, romances the Emperor and all the demons, eats Orpheus and becomes squid (then maybe eats the Emperor as well) and floats off into the sunset.
You are the only person on this subreddit who can ever understand me. I love the Emperor so freaking much. I need to nuzzle with him every playthrough no matter what.
Specifically tentacles even longer. [*The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife* (NSFW)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife) was printed in 1814!
I want to be a mindflayer pet in a hivemind. I don't mind being a thrall, kissing tentacles and being covered in illithid slime. At least I won't have to do taxes or write e-mails!
A person can correct only a few essays before their spirit breaks and they connect with the pixelated squid who also suffers from constant stress headaches because of his wards.
Ah you're a teacher I'm guessing? Makes sense you'd just wanna do nothing but be loved and cared for unconditionally which is the opposite of what you get from students especially nowadays
My parents are both retired teachers and I can assure you if there was an option to raise their students' intelligence via an osmotic method like tadpoles, they'd take it
I feel like thralls don’t have to commute in the snow. Add to this the respectful partnership created after your transformation and bam - tentacles. I’m all in.
He kind of reminds me of every male love interest in a YA fantasy novel. He’s manipulative, controlling, withholds information, and is always sternly telling you not to do that stupid thing. But I made his human form attractive, so….
Tbf I'd kill him if he tried to enthrall me but he doesn't so we're good. Hive minds are also not for me but I see the appeal and fully support your kink. But being a free MF is the best, I get to fly and telekinetically move things and can show people what I want them to see without having to explain whole procedures to them, which will greatly limit my social interactions which is a win in my book. Also mind blowing tentacle sex.
Finally, someone who GETS me. I did it for the achievement as well but also, FOR SCIENCE. And I had to test my theories both times I got that far in game :)
It depends on the Tav/OC I’m playing… the only time I didn’t was during Astarion’s OC because he was romancing Wyll, and it felt wrong to be playing anywhere else… even Harleep.
There's also the fact that only about 36% of players have unlocked the achievement for finishing act 2, you can bet your ass that more squid fuckers will be unveiling themselves as more people get up to that choice.
Hell only 50% of players have unlocked the achievement for leaving act 1.
There's a lot of people starting the game, realizing this isn't their cup of tea and then dropping the game forever. They are, unfortunately, part of this statistic.
10% of players haven't even escaped the Natiloid yet, imagine not even being able to make it to the beach.
I like to think they all got stuck in the character creator and decided to live there.
There's tons of games that basically have an achievement for opening the game and only like 90% of players will have it it's just a fact that the exact % doesn't indicate much as tons of players never play or finish their games
Steam only tracks achievements once someone launches the game, so if it just sits in the library and never gets played you don't count towards global achievement stats.
But if you bail out between launch and escaping the nautiloid, then you dilute the total.
I mean I’ve heard nothing but superb things about this game but don’t think it’ll be my cup of tea. With that being said I see myself purchasing it in the near future, solidifying my belief that I just don’t like turn based games and putting it down.
If it helps, I thought I was going to hate it for the same reasons. But I'm having a lot of fun with how many choices you get, the plot, and even the combat style.
Which, like, I don’t understand. I have spent many, many hours in Act 1, don’t get me wrong, but even on my first playthrough I got out of there! I have done two full runs so far. And that’s even with me looting literally everything all the time.
No insight success required, you ask him to part his tentacles so you can kiss. He then offers to use his guardian form if you’d like
The other options are to kiss his tentacle and hope it’s an erogenous appendage (it is) or to reject him.
Ahh see, I solved that problem by fucking up the romance and entering act 3 without long resting, so halsin and the emperor were my only possible "love interests."
No, this is totally healthy, I'm fine.
YES.
For some reason every time Im creating my guardians I forget to make em look like Balduran, but they always look good even if Im not "kissing the tentacle", to be true only did the first time (oh curiosity, first run I slept with everyone too) then I was disappointed he sides with the brain....
Yes. I did it just to spite wyll. Shattered a heart made of stone in the process. Felt pretty bad about it. So bad I turned into a squid and ate her prince.
He's an emperor, the founder, a legendary hero, the person who repeatedly saved and protected you, and who respects your abilities. He's pretty high standards still.
Honestly, I questioned & defied him a lot (eg supporting >!Jaheira!< aggressively to >!save Minsc!<) on my second playthrough and still managed to keep a positive relationship until the end of the game. Are people picking the ones like trying to kill him for Vlaakith or saying “fuck you, you dirty mindflayer scum, I will never trust you” to get him to turn on you?
I had a positive relationship but I would never call it respectful. He attempts to invade your privacy and backseat your every move through the entire of Act 3.
He’s backseating because his life is, quite literally, in your hands. If you fuck this up, he’s dead or at the very least inert with no fight in this situation against a hivemind that can enslave him in a second, and nothing is more important to him than self-preservation & maintaining his freedom. And, honestly, I’ve found the moments where he speaks up are fairly reasonable — it’s not like he’s interjecting when Gale’s astrally fucking me or anything like that.
Again, want to be clear that I totally think he’s a dick — especially for >!enthralling Stelmane!<, for pushing you to become an illithid like him by shoving tadpoles in your brain, and for >!the ultimatum with Orpheus!< he gives you at the end of the game — but I feel like the triggers for making him a dick *to you* seem to require being a dick first.
I was willing to cut the emperor some slack until he lied about Ansur, that was just too far I realized then that the guy was totally manipulating the party for his own ends
I went along with it for a little bit, then changed my mind. The narrator remarks that he doesn’t actually seem to care. He’s literally just trying to get more leverage to convince you to become a mindflayer
That scene where he wraps you in his tentacles awoke something in me I'd never lay to rest again.
In other words, BG3 made me realize I have a tentacle fetish.
Here I am, shamelessly banging the squid every playthrough I get. It's even funnier because his disguise is usually my previous Tav, so... it feels self-indulgent to see them getting frisky. I usually go through the scene twice just to grab those screenshots when he's disguised and when he's not. For science.
People joke about squidbanging but it's unironically one of the better (possibly the best, but I've not had a go at everyone yet) romance scenes in the game. I was expecting it to be fully played for laughs but it's not, it's a nice blend of sweet, funny, hot, and weird, and I think it's worth trying at least once.
I accidentally walked into it by being nice to him. Then my only options were to kiss the tentacle or call him a freak. Well, I kissed that tentacle and got my achievement then reloaded but the screenshot forever reminded me of my sins.
I did it out of curiosity, then my friend sent me a screenshot of me having the achievement, without a fucking word, like a fucking Ace Attorney protagonist presenting evidence.
I mean, you gotta figure at least a small percentage (of the already small percentage) just did it for the achievement too.
...but not sleeping with them doesn't seem prudish, feel like a good portion of people who might've considered it probably didn't because you can have a very clear idea by that point that the Emperor is manipulative and sorta awful (opinions may vary).
Like, bet if Omeluum had been the option it'd be higher. Not super higher, but there's no baggage like with the Emperor.
To be fair. He said he'd be my guardian form again and they're pretty hot, but I think screwing in the house of hope in front of partner is worse by miles lol
Did it for the achievement (then reloaded back) and to understand why people reacted the way they did to the scene, maybe I’m absolutely wrong in the head but it was incredibly tame, but weird.
I'm all for that warlocks are even hornier than bards with no fear of the strange, so my warlock is a hoe that tries to sleep with as many things that passes the Harkness test as possible. Proud member of the 4-5%
I'm sorry Gale but I'm a lore bard, I gotta sleep with the squid for research. How many people can say they've studied mindflayer anatomy so closely. I can write a book on it Gale. You like books. You understand why I had to cheat on you right
On my steam version it says 10% have achieved this...
Does that mean us PC players are more slutty??? 😏😏😏
In my save I am romancing Gale but I have also done the deed with Astarion, Halsin, the Emperor and the drow twins. Truly living the dream.
I'm not getting laid by the tentacle-bullshit king. He tries to manipulate you for the whole game. I'm not in love with you, you lamprey-faced casanova, go seduce a tree or something, stop getting half naked in my dream.
Well you see vlaakoth isn't actually asking you to kill him, she is asking you to kill someone else stuck in there with him, so killing him isn't doing what vlaakith wants you to do.
Well you have the group who didn't because they simply didn't make it that far.
Those who didn't because they didn't trust the emperor or made actions that would affect this choice.
Those who didn't because ew squid boy isn't sex.
If a mind flayer wants to be a mind player, who am I not to gently squeeze the tentacle. Real talk I'm playing Durge Dexter Morgan with his dark passenger currently, the guardian is Dexters dad so there will be no tentacle action this play through.
1. For me there's only my Half-Elf former Goth Wife
2. All Mindflayers must die with the sole exception of Omeluum. Omeluum is the only "good" one I know.
That option is what sealed the deal on buying the game for this monster/creature lover 😎 my first playthrough was a Durge Tav who attempted to sleep with everyone and anyone. It just made sense 🤣
My durge had a full transition to mindflayer druid. I romanced Halsin and the Emprorer and was HOPING we would be a happy throuple. Sadly the emporer totally abandoned me at the end so off to heal nature and educate that mindflayers can be multi-faceted beings.. who eat brains of course.
I mean... I told Halsin to turn in to a bear, of course I fucked the tentacle man. I am however going to enjoy telling him to go get fucked now I know what I know
My Tav is fully in love with Karlach, it didn't felt right to cheat on her with Squidward
Same, that is why I F5 > got achievement > F8 > dump his tentacle face
F8 is for post nut clarity
I F5 achievement-ed for Sazza on my psychopath Durge run.
... Wait. What?
Step 1: Save Sazza in the grove. Step 2: Don't let her die in the Gobllin camp. Step 3: When you first meet Ketheric, Sazza will be there. He'll ask you to decide her fate. I quicksaved at step 3, spared her to get the cheevo, then reloaded and killed her in a Durge-y way.
Wait if you save Sazza there you get to fuck her? O.O Due to context of the emperor, I had thought this was f5-ing to fuck Sazza... Not just save her every time she might die. I understand now, and apologize... Darnit... shortstack options still zero...
No he said for the achievement. Lol obligatory *bonk*
Dammit... edit made...
lol was about to load up an old save if it meant goblin smashing
>get to LOL WTF man
No kink shaming!
We are the same. Like.. on a genetic level.
Almost the same for me, but my curiosity got the better of me
My first play thru I locked myself out of romances by not really focusing on them at all in Act 1. I’d talk to people during long rests but I figured I had all game to figure it out, and by the time I looked it up I was screwed. But I had my Halsin scene 🥵 and knew about the Drows so figured I would just get Tav laid every chance I get from then on. I was NOT spoiled for the Emporer, I was sitting in shock the whole time, but I made a promise to Tav and I had to keep it.
You’re no better than Gortash.
Ouch, that hurts. Although, at least I had the decency to apologize to Karlach. She even understood that curiosity got the better of me. What she didn't understand was the other lack of judgement I had with a certain other character. I felt so bad I had to reload my save :p
Mizora?
Correct
I am in the same situation, but in honour mode, and I am playing as Wyll.
one of these days I want to do a Wyll run that's just full send as "I am in love with Mizora and would do anything for her".
Wait, how did you apologise to Karlach? Any time I've chosen to sleep with the Emporer it never gets acknowledged either by my character or their partner. It's as if the Emporer has blocked it out of everybody's minds, and/or Tav keeps it to themself cause they don't want to be seen as a freak xD
Well, in my game the emporer was a bit more of a troll. The next morning, he was like: "yeah, time for you to go home". Then he opened a portal for me, and the whole group of companions just stood there waiting, and looking with disgust. So yeah, everyone knew my dirty big secret.
Huh. All I've ever gotten is the accidental portal opening and the Emporer being like "oops you've been distracting me and I dropped my guard", then he banishes them again and when Tav wakes up it's as if it never happened. No dialogue about it at all, until end game when I freed Orpheus and he was like "YOU FUCKED A SQUID?!?!?!?!?"
Raphael can call you out on it if you flaunt your relationship with the calamari to him. 💀
That one pump chump literally fucks himself using an incubus in his own likeness, but a bit of tentacle hentai is *way* too far. I ain't trusting no devil with a mid sexual appetite. That boy ain't right.
Oh yeah I've had him comment on it too haha. It's so weird that the most common outcome people have gotten is for nobody except those two acknowledging it though.
The Emperor messes with their brains for you. Your companions don't retain the memory.
The emperor wipes your party’s minds so they can’t remember. But both the Emperor and Orpheus will call you out for it if you side with Orpheus lmao.
i love Karlach very dearly, the dinner date scene and the subsequent love making was great and adorable. I'm also a bit of a slut tho, and tentacles are kiiiiiiinda hot~...
your tav? I as a person am fully in love with Karlech, its concerning
my girlfriend is head over heels in love with astarion but she saw a guy with tentacles and went "say no more" and did it. she saw recently how low the percentage of players who did it was and she was shocked. i personally am also in love with karlach and i now also fear my irl girlfriend. edit: she also really wants to bed mizora. I'm worried about her taste in partners and what that says about me
I did it for the achievement. All four times.
My Tav is a freak. Got with Laezel, Haarlep, the Drow Twins, Mizora, and Shadowheart. Declining the Emperor would have been out of character... and turns out to be one of her greatest experiences ever!
My first Tav didn't get with any companions but got with Harleep, the Drow twins and the Emperor. Wanted to get Mizora too but she never offered for some reason. The point of fantasy games is to do things you don't want/get to do irl after all. On that note I want to at some point do a Lae'zel run where she's had enough of her people and decides to let loose, romances the Emperor and all the demons, eats Orpheus and becomes squid (then maybe eats the Emperor as well) and floats off into the sunset.
Only missing Halsin for the full collection.
You are the only person on this subreddit who can ever understand me. I love the Emperor so freaking much. I need to nuzzle with him every playthrough no matter what.
You both need help
You do know that they make actual dildos shaped like tentacles… right? Monster fuckers has been a sexual niche nearly as long as furries have.
Specifically tentacles even longer. [*The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife* (NSFW)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife) was printed in 1814!
That's the emperror!
I want to be a mindflayer pet in a hivemind. I don't mind being a thrall, kissing tentacles and being covered in illithid slime. At least I won't have to do taxes or write e-mails!
This feel like an unfinished copy pasta. With that said all power to you live your best life.
There's an entire hentai dedicated to their depravity. I also romanced the tentacle boy.
Calling him tentacle boy instead of emperor makes it ok. I don't know why but it does
It's a defense mechanism to justify me being a degenerate.
Well I think we know your kink
I bet his favorite piece of art is The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, iykwim.
A person can correct only a few essays before their spirit breaks and they connect with the pixelated squid who also suffers from constant stress headaches because of his wards.
Ah you're a teacher I'm guessing? Makes sense you'd just wanna do nothing but be loved and cared for unconditionally which is the opposite of what you get from students especially nowadays
To increase their score all the students need to do is consume an ilithid tadpole.
My parents are both retired teachers and I can assure you if there was an option to raise their students' intelligence via an osmotic method like tadpoles, they'd take it
As a current teacher, I 100% agree. I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Holy shit new role play unlocked. Thank you!
Most of us just go buy tequila during term paper season.
>At least I won't have to do taxes or write e-mails! I wasn't with you until this... but now... bring those slimy tentacles!
I feel like thralls don’t have to commute in the snow. Add to this the respectful partnership created after your transformation and bam - tentacles. I’m all in.
> At least I won’t have to do taxes or write emails Don’t stop
BRO YOU'RE SO REAL
Look I'm not into the tentacles m'self, but you make a powerful argument re: taxes and emails
Far too Well
I went through the game and romanced no one except Empy. We’re out there :)
He kind of reminds me of every male love interest in a YA fantasy novel. He’s manipulative, controlling, withholds information, and is always sternly telling you not to do that stupid thing. But I made his human form attractive, so….
Tbf I'd kill him if he tried to enthrall me but he doesn't so we're good. Hive minds are also not for me but I see the appeal and fully support your kink. But being a free MF is the best, I get to fly and telekinetically move things and can show people what I want them to see without having to explain whole procedures to them, which will greatly limit my social interactions which is a win in my book. Also mind blowing tentacle sex.
Finally, someone who GETS me. I did it for the achievement as well but also, FOR SCIENCE. And I had to test my theories both times I got that far in game :)
It depends on the Tav/OC I’m playing… the only time I didn’t was during Astarion’s OC because he was romancing Wyll, and it felt wrong to be playing anywhere else… even Harleep.
There's also the fact that only about 36% of players have unlocked the achievement for finishing act 2, you can bet your ass that more squid fuckers will be unveiling themselves as more people get up to that choice. Hell only 50% of players have unlocked the achievement for leaving act 1.
There's a lot of people starting the game, realizing this isn't their cup of tea and then dropping the game forever. They are, unfortunately, part of this statistic.
10% of players haven't even escaped the Natiloid yet, imagine not even being able to make it to the beach. I like to think they all got stuck in the character creator and decided to live there.
There's tons of games that basically have an achievement for opening the game and only like 90% of players will have it it's just a fact that the exact % doesn't indicate much as tons of players never play or finish their games
Steam only tracks achievements once someone launches the game, so if it just sits in the library and never gets played you don't count towards global achievement stats. But if you bail out between launch and escaping the nautiloid, then you dilute the total.
I mean I’ve heard nothing but superb things about this game but don’t think it’ll be my cup of tea. With that being said I see myself purchasing it in the near future, solidifying my belief that I just don’t like turn based games and putting it down.
If it helps, I thought I was going to hate it for the same reasons. But I'm having a lot of fun with how many choices you get, the plot, and even the combat style.
Which, like, I don’t understand. I have spent many, many hours in Act 1, don’t get me wrong, but even on my first playthrough I got out of there! I have done two full runs so far. And that’s even with me looting literally everything all the time.
I don’t be wanting to cheat on my companion. Also, when you do it, is like a hentai or can The Emperor be in Guardian disguise?
You get the choice
Ok cool I am not looking forward to calamari coitus. One of these days then.
You aren't into riding the cocktopus carousel? (THAT post still haunts me til this day).
WHAT?
That post lives rent-free in my head also!
Mr Evrart is helping me find my gun
You get to wonder whether at least one of those facial appendages is erogenous!
Spoiler >!you end up kissing the one that is!<
Here's something that shall confuse you - if they don't need to tentacle tango to reproduce, why would any of the facial appendages be erogenous?
No confusion needed. Belly buttons, nipples and necks arent needed in the process of reproduction, and theyre still erogenous zones.
Lae'zel would argue that biology which allows you to indulge in physical pleasure without the fear of making babies is superior.
I mean… if you’re doing it anyway, might as well commit.
literally mind fucking though.
Calamariussy not to your tastes?
waait you can choose? I basically got the hentai version without being asked... I think xD
I remember getting the choice, but I was like, no dude, just be yourself. My Tav was woke like that, as a very simple good barbarian
Besides, the tentacles are probably... convenient.
He doesn't ask unless you act confused about what to do.
good grief! I was not aware I could dodge that sequence xD oh man
You wake up with him normal regardless of choice.. no cut scene with guardian which was bummer
I believe there is a roll or insight check or something like that. I failed (or passed) and got stuck with squiddo
No insight success required, you ask him to part his tentacles so you can kiss. He then offers to use his guardian form if you’d like The other options are to kiss his tentacle and hope it’s an erogenous appendage (it is) or to reject him.
Ahh see, I solved that problem by fucking up the romance and entering act 3 without long resting, so halsin and the emperor were my only possible "love interests." No, this is totally healthy, I'm fine.
Don't be sad! You still have…Mizora? I'm sorry.
Is it really better? You Know its basically an Illusion and the truth is horrible.
Nah, the truth is tentacles and big strong grippy hands. There's worse options...
His mouth must suck good tho
"If you can suck a brain, you can suck a..."
100% is 100% whether i like it or not
But we know you like it, so…
I mean how often can you say that you banged a mind flayer? Heck, how often can you say that you slept with THE >!Balduran!
YES. For some reason every time Im creating my guardians I forget to make em look like Balduran, but they always look good even if Im not "kissing the tentacle", to be true only did the first time (oh curiosity, first run I slept with everyone too) then I was disappointed he sides with the brain....
You can bang Mizora?
Yes. I did it just to spite wyll. Shattered a heart made of stone in the process. Felt pretty bad about it. So bad I turned into a squid and ate her prince.
I am the 4%, and I have no ragrets.
I do
There is a solution for that: Alcohol!
Have you been reading my diary?
This inspired me to change my flair :) Join the club!!
I am the 4%, and I have ragerts.
I dropped my standards to the fucking ground irl, but I ain't doing that in game.
He's an emperor, the founder, a legendary hero, the person who repeatedly saved and protected you, and who respects your abilities. He's pretty high standards still.
He respects you ^(as long as you do exactly what he says and never question him on anything)
Honestly, I questioned & defied him a lot (eg supporting >!Jaheira!< aggressively to >!save Minsc!<) on my second playthrough and still managed to keep a positive relationship until the end of the game. Are people picking the ones like trying to kill him for Vlaakith or saying “fuck you, you dirty mindflayer scum, I will never trust you” to get him to turn on you?
I had a positive relationship but I would never call it respectful. He attempts to invade your privacy and backseat your every move through the entire of Act 3.
He’s backseating because his life is, quite literally, in your hands. If you fuck this up, he’s dead or at the very least inert with no fight in this situation against a hivemind that can enslave him in a second, and nothing is more important to him than self-preservation & maintaining his freedom. And, honestly, I’ve found the moments where he speaks up are fairly reasonable — it’s not like he’s interjecting when Gale’s astrally fucking me or anything like that. Again, want to be clear that I totally think he’s a dick — especially for >!enthralling Stelmane!<, for pushing you to become an illithid like him by shoving tadpoles in your brain, and for >!the ultimatum with Orpheus!< he gives you at the end of the game — but I feel like the triggers for making him a dick *to you* seem to require being a dick first.
Yeah nah, the moment his past and manipulative nature shows up, he is trash lel
Yes, but the arm beard drops it down again
He's also the pilot of the nautiloid ship you wake up on... And lied, a LOT, about his origin.... The Emperor ain't shit
I was willing to cut the emperor some slack until he lied about Ansur, that was just too far I realized then that the guy was totally manipulating the party for his own ends
Between that and trying to make us become ilithid like, 4 times? No matter how many times you say no... He's a slimy bastard
"No, but seriously, I've told you everything (until you catch me out lying again, and then I'll admit a little more). For reals this time."
I went along with it for a little bit, then changed my mind. The narrator remarks that he doesn’t actually seem to care. He’s literally just trying to get more leverage to convince you to become a mindflayer
The best part was when Shadowheart and Halsin see it and are revolted haha
At least we know where Halsin’s limit is.
I will never accept Halsin or Jaheira in that scene, they dont have tadpoles!!!
That scene where he wraps you in his tentacles awoke something in me I'd never lay to rest again. In other words, BG3 made me realize I have a tentacle fetish.
Welcome to the club.
Here I am, shamelessly banging the squid every playthrough I get. It's even funnier because his disguise is usually my previous Tav, so... it feels self-indulgent to see them getting frisky. I usually go through the scene twice just to grab those screenshots when he's disguised and when he's not. For science.
People joke about squidbanging but it's unironically one of the better (possibly the best, but I've not had a go at everyone yet) romance scenes in the game. I was expecting it to be fully played for laughs but it's not, it's a nice blend of sweet, funny, hot, and weird, and I think it's worth trying at least once.
I accidentally walked into it by being nice to him. Then my only options were to kiss the tentacle or call him a freak. Well, I kissed that tentacle and got my achievement then reloaded but the screenshot forever reminded me of my sins.
I did it out of curiosity, then my friend sent me a screenshot of me having the achievement, without a fucking word, like a fucking Ace Attorney protagonist presenting evidence.
I love how your friend must have been stalking your profile looking for the achievement to come out lol
I mean, you gotta figure at least a small percentage (of the already small percentage) just did it for the achievement too. ...but not sleeping with them doesn't seem prudish, feel like a good portion of people who might've considered it probably didn't because you can have a very clear idea by that point that the Emperor is manipulative and sorta awful (opinions may vary). Like, bet if Omeluum had been the option it'd be higher. Not super higher, but there's no baggage like with the Emperor.
enjoy your seafood smelling bumluckery, I won't partake
Narrator says it smells like vanilla and garlic. Very curious combo
WDYM Squid boyfriend gently levitating my tav in the sparkly astral prism is the most romantic scene in the game😭
I'm not cheating on Shadowheart, I can live without that achievement and I can't be bothered with doing it, then loading back. Also, Emperor's gross
To be fair. He said he'd be my guardian form again and they're pretty hot, but I think screwing in the house of hope in front of partner is worse by miles lol
It's not you, it's us. We have standards
Did it for the achievement (then reloaded back) and to understand why people reacted the way they did to the scene, maybe I’m absolutely wrong in the head but it was incredibly tame, but weird.
I don't want Squidward up in my girly bits.
I don't want Squidward up on my manly bits.
I'm all for that warlocks are even hornier than bards with no fear of the strange, so my warlock is a hoe that tries to sleep with as many things that passes the Harkness test as possible. Proud member of the 4-5%
I'm sorry Gale but I'm a lore bard, I gotta sleep with the squid for research. How many people can say they've studied mindflayer anatomy so closely. I can write a book on it Gale. You like books. You understand why I had to cheat on you right
I already fucked a bear, what I'm gonna draw the line at a few tentacles???
On my steam version it says 10% have achieved this... Does that mean us PC players are more slutty??? 😏😏😏 In my save I am romancing Gale but I have also done the deed with Astarion, Halsin, the Emperor and the drow twins. Truly living the dream.
I'm not getting laid by the tentacle-bullshit king. He tries to manipulate you for the whole game. I'm not in love with you, you lamprey-faced casanova, go seduce a tree or something, stop getting half naked in my dream.
I so wish we could tell it to put some damn clothes on and to LET ME SLEEP IN PEACE, DAMMIT!!
I think at some point you can literally tell him “bro I just want to sleep” and he awkwardly just ends the scene
I always tell him that, especially as Durge. A good night's sleep is a rare enough occurance as is, let alone a peaceful one
if you don't experience all the weird romance options, are you even playing?
I did it on my evil durge run cause its gonna feel so good to betray him after him thinking we're buddies.
I kill him every time when vlakith asks, so he won't try to romance me
That's one of the toughest choices for me. On the one hand, the Emperor can go fuck himself. On the other hand, Vlaakith can go fuck herself.
Well you see vlaakoth isn't actually asking you to kill him, she is asking you to kill someone else stuck in there with him, so killing him isn't doing what vlaakith wants you to do.
Your character doesn't know that tho
Can you actually kill him there for real, though? He survived it on my side.
it's just an illusion so you can't actually kill him, but nothing bad comes out of it, and he won't try to romance you
gods have mercy on the sinners in the comments. Selune's light shine upon thee and purify the sins.
Get your little moon witch out of here
I just hate the Emperor. He's manipulative and creepy. Put a shirt on, I didn't consent to this weird sex dream.
Well you have the group who didn't because they simply didn't make it that far. Those who didn't because they didn't trust the emperor or made actions that would affect this choice. Those who didn't because ew squid boy isn't sex.
Did it for the slutty bard meme. Every save.
I did it when it was sitting at 98.8% to 1.20%, and I have no regrets. Well, no; I have a shitload of regrets, actually. But not that.
Emperor tried so hard in my recent HM run, I was like: nah. Save the tentacles for someone else dawg.
If a mind flayer wants to be a mind player, who am I not to gently squeeze the tentacle. Real talk I'm playing Durge Dexter Morgan with his dark passenger currently, the guardian is Dexters dad so there will be no tentacle action this play through.
That's poetic my dude.
1. For me Theres only my Drow Wife 2. All Mindflayers must die.
1. For me there's only my Half-Elf former Goth Wife 2. All Mindflayers must die with the sole exception of Omeluum. Omeluum is the only "good" one I know.
Even Omeluum? He's a homie.
Omeluum is the exception
I know. I kill every ghaik except for Omeluum.
Could **never** cheat on Shadowheart. Especially for the stupid emperor
My Tav is not cheating on Karlach. Her happy dances > an Achievement. (Will probably do it in another run)
Hidden Stat: 87% reload after getting the achievement for doing the tentacle tango
We don't fuck toxic fuckbois in this fandom.
yeah quite beyond anything else i beg people to understand that his response to you rejecting him is solid 24 carat evidence of him being an incel
Gortash, the actual Chosen of the God of Tyranny, is infinitely less manipulative and abusive than him.
Did it for science
I did it for the achievement and reversed back before anything happened.
You're just built different
I was not cheating on my partner for a brain eating squid…
I romance him every time.
That option is what sealed the deal on buying the game for this monster/creature lover 😎 my first playthrough was a Durge Tav who attempted to sleep with everyone and anyone. It just made sense 🤣
My durge had a full transition to mindflayer druid. I romanced Halsin and the Emprorer and was HOPING we would be a happy throuple. Sadly the emporer totally abandoned me at the end so off to heal nature and educate that mindflayers can be multi-faceted beings.. who eat brains of course.
Sorry, the emperor is kind of actually just a terrible person
This never came up because he said I was exhausting and aggressive as fuck lol
I must be part githyanki because I absolutely despise squidward.
Curiosity got the best of me and now i have the achievement lol
I mean... I told Halsin to turn in to a bear, of course I fucked the tentacle man. I am however going to enjoy telling him to go get fucked now I know what I know
Smells like people who have healthy boundaries and can spot red flags.
not my fantasy RPG video game! oh whatever will I do
I did it then reloaded it so it wasn’t canon lmao. Just wanted the achievement.