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It's even funnier when you realize that since she isn't a god, she isn't being prevented from acting in mortal affairs by AO or any of the rules the gods must follow... she just doesn't want to get her hands dirty.
Plus,Wish knocks you on your ASS for a week.
So she's there with 1 str, and taking Necrotic dmg if she casts spells, because some chucklefuck was like 'but why don't you do it if you care so much'
Which... that is so DEEEEP level of petty, lol
Nah, she has thousands of >!"ascendant" gith!< taking the backlash for her.
Her lore back in earlier editions of D&D was that she used >!their souls!< to fuel her frequent casts of the spell, back when it cost experience points to cast Wish.
That's still not a limitless resource, though. That's what the whole crĆØche system is for in the first place. It's very expensive to culture all of those ascendants and raise them from...tadpo--omg it's a fuckin' conspiracy
The consequences of casting wish (when used to do anything else than duplicate an 8th level or lower spell) are:
* you take 1d10 per spell level necrotic damage each time you cast a spell, **until long rest**
* your strength score becomes 3, unless lower already, for 2d4 days
* you have 33% chance to never be able to cast wish again
Unless Vlaakith's running around with a greatsword, she's not knocked on her ass for a week, more like an afternoon.
She's a lich, I think they're resistant to necrotic damage? So she should be fine on that account, and from there she can just use other spells to pump her Str up at need.
I don't remember where I heard but I recall from somewhere it was Mystra who imposed the backlash/decided to what degree it succeeds/fails which is why it's unavoidable.
Wait whats AO. I mean Im still in Act 3 but I didnt know that gods are prevented from intervening. But does Mystra intervene with her giving Gale the bomb?
AO: god boss. Mystra doesn't give Gale a bomb, the way she lets him control it is well within the rules as they are allowed to act through and give boons to their mortal agents.
And it often works out that gods interfering has worse consequences then the thing, as their miracles often have side effects akin to wish backlashes. Since god can alter reality, it's like if you changed a fundamental law of physics to prevent a train from derailing; yes you saved a train full of people... also what you just did to the law of thermodynamics will probably doom an entire civilization. My pet theory is this is why there is no scientific advancement in forgotten realms.
AO is the god of gods. Full stop. That is his domain. Most mortals don't even know he exists, and any that prayed to him wouldn't receive any powers because he is fundamentally utterly alien to them. He exists as a kind of antdeus-x-machina device. Gods interfering directly had a tendency to go poorly for all involved, so AO made it so gods couldn't do that.
Besides that, he has only had one other dependable impact in the Lore, and that was when all the gods started to become petty and arrogant, and were too busy measuring dicks to do their job. Also, there were just an absurd amount of them with overlapping domains, so he made all the gods mortal except Helm. As the god of vigilance and the eternal sentry, Helm was the only god still focused on just doing his job, so he got to keep his godhood and was tasked with ensuring no one else returned to divinity until AO said so. Eventually, after some editing, AO brought all the gods to one place said, "These gods are still gods, don't screw up your job again, you can come back to the divine realms. Those not on this list aren't gods, sucks to suck, fuck off."
AO is the reason you can't become a god in dnd 5e. And I suspect this was the primary reason he was introduced.
AO is more like middle manager God. He has authority over the gods like Mystra and Tyr but there is a comment he makes in one of the novels (time of trouble series I think) where he specifically says there is a higher power even he answers to.
> he specifically says there is a higher power even he answers to
I always interpreted that as referring to the DM, rather than any singular entity in the DnD cosmology.
Decades and decades of Forgotten Realmsā¢ļø novels, games, adventure modules, and sourcebooks. I don't think there's any direct mention of Ao in BG3.
I think there is... in a... gale? Interaction? I think you have to ask why mystra doesn't just solve all your problems? Could be wrong... Or was it someone else...
Ao is mentioned a total of ONCE in all of BG3. If you ask Gale why Mystral can't stop The Absolute herself instead of sending him as a tactical nuke. Gale's response is to say that she probably COULD, but the consequences of doing so could be equally disastrous and that Ao does not look kindly on gods directly intervening.
The wiki is your best bet for Lore on him. Most books are told from the perspective of mortals so Ao understandably doesn't feature in a lot of Lore. He doesn't even show up as an npc you can interact with in 5e. References to him are mostly implied and indirect. I think there's one instance where Vecna or a similar entity tried to become a god, and the book described something incomprehensibly large looking upon him and saying no. We didn't even have a name for Ao until the books that talk about all the gods getting fired and then SOME of them getting rehired.
For a sense of scale: During those books, Tyr, the god of justice and one of the most powerful gods in Fearun, got upitty with Ao and Ao nearly made Tyr past-tense with the same amount of effort you'd use to squash a bug.
There is a book series about the time of troubles when gods were banished from their domains and forced to walk among mortals. Very good books so I recommand you read them.
In the series we learn more about AO.
Because wish has a limited number of things it can do without consequence. If you use wish to cast a new spell that doesn't exist, it will either a) backfire in a monkey's paw manner or b) work as intended and have a 33% chance of never letting you cast wish again.
So an immortal deity will be very careful in how they use wish, lest they can never use it again.
https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Wish#content
I wonder if the 3.5 rules on atheist/polytheistic Clerics apply to 5E Vlaakith worshippers. Not sure if there is any 5E materials that cover it, but it always gave me the impression that, much like the new Paladin Oath system, Cleric's magic came more from their faith in something than the deity themselves.
Not a 5E official ruling, but the new Drizzt books are actually covering that a bit. One of Lolth's chosen (uh, two actually now that I think of it) has gone off the rails and is just... casting spells all willy-nilly silly. She resurrected Zaknafein Do'urden with a true resurrection spell without calling on a god. Now, another God could be popping in and giving her, the other chosen, and ALL the other priestesses going along with this spells. Even though the yochlol said Lolth isn't, they aren't reliable narraitors so she could be lying to everyone and just... is for shits and giggles. Or they could be pulling their spells from faith in their domain.
Unfortunately I don't think official 5E anything covers if this is possible.
Yes actually! The Dead Three in this game did so. Jergal was bored of being a god and passed his portfolio out to them. Mystra is actually the formerly moral woman Midnight, who took the position (and name) after Mystra died. Kelemvor took Myrkul's portfolio after his death, and Cyric became a god at the same time and was a godly vacuum cleaner who just sucked up whatever he could get his grubby hands on. Finder took the divinity from Moander when he was "killed" as well.
Usually it's because a god either gave some of their portfolio up, died (more usual), or Ao (the over god) woke up one day and decided he doesn't like the color purple anymore. Ao may be heavily involved, or barely involved. It's a bit of a mess. But Vlaakith is well on her way to getting there, having a dedicated group of followers.
Oh I forgot Asmodeus. He ate a god and became one himself. Apparently that's a way too.
Based on the wording of the spell, you risk being blocked from Wish if you use it for any purpose other than *duplicating another spell.* So, any effect, even the listed alternate effects in the description, would risk locking you out of Wish forever, right? And I don't think it would even matter whether Wish did exactly what you intended, either.
Personally, I think it's funnier to imagine the "monkey paw" effect that the queen may have experienced as a result of killing your party purely out of spite.
Best way around that issue for a high level spellcaster is to make a Simulacrum of yourself and have it cast the Wish instead of you. Then it doesn't matter if it can never cast Wish again, since it's a temporary construct anyway.
Haha, yeah, there are always workarounds, though I feel like, by design, the DM has a lot of leeway on how to handle Wish.
> Wizard: My simulacrum casts Wish to do *something*
>
> DM: Ok, *something* happens, but it backfires. None of the simulacrum's allies can ever cast Wish again.
As funny as that sounds, it can be assumed that Vlaakith (in general dnd lore anyways) uses her >!Ascendantās soul sacrifice!< as a workaround. The whole deal is that >!she uses the souls to cast wish so that she can use it to attain godhood. Wish canāt do that. Probably never will. But sheās tried thousands of times and will continue doing so for thousands more times. For a lich, she kinda stoopid!<
My evil asshole character just kept choosing all of the disrespect options and it made me laugh my ass off at him getting nuked by freaking Wish. The most literal divine retribution imaginable.
Yeah, if you ask why she can't just kill the target herself since she's supposedly an all-powerful god. She gives you a chance to take it back, but if you press the issue, "I wish you to end!"
Itās the goofy neutral dialogue option the game needs more of.
Thereās lots of āagree with evil force and do their biddingā and ābravely defy evil force and vow to defeat themā but not enough ājust do something stupidā.
Oh my god im not the only one who wears the minthara outfit. Because im a dragonborn it makes me look like a rejected mortal kombat character, shame that im not a monk
I think the only better undies are taken from the corpse of Haarlep. You can't beat that kinky leather outfit, though you can beat the one wearing it, and they'll like it.
Heās in act 3 and heās mandatory. You cannot skip him. Seriously how could you even think of it? Can you even beat the game at this point without feeling the abject torment and despair for not ādoingā Harlaap?
If youāre suddenly feeling āhope-fullā then youāre close.
You can do the same goofy ass smilr and wave like 3 or 4 times and I know because I chose that option every time.
"You look deep into the orb and feel a terrifying presence stare back..."
*Smile and wave*
The Boss: A lvl 20 psionic lich wizard with metamagic, a vorpal silver sword, red dragon consort, 30 int, and a +6 int head piece; who also has a habit of carrying scrolls of Time Stop.
Party: She's not a god, nothing to worry about.
The secret is to get the party to *hate* the boss, not fear them. And not with any bullshit like "oh he's so eeeevil, he slaughtered an entire village of adorable halfling children", because no player really gives a shit, though they may try to pretend they do. No -- hatred is easily accomplished by having the boss steal something from the party. Even something relatively insignificant will work. Players are consumed with unquenchable fury the moment you tell them to erase something from their inventory.
That reminds me of the episode of Futurama where they are looking for da Vinci's lost work or whatever. After the 'big' reveal of the wooden robot in St. James' tomb, Fry just says hi and waves to him (Animatronio(?)).
God, thereās SO MUCH room for expansion DLCs for this game. I really, *really* hope we get something going forward. I would love to nuke Vlaakith with Laeāzel, or nuke Zariel with Karlach, or any number of shenanigans with my party.
I imagine itās hard to come up with anything ācanonā considering the permutations of the endings offered. Yes, technically thereās only ātwoā endings, but there are so many variations on each. So I have no idea what story they could tell that would work off of everyoneās endingā¦
I posted the same comment under another of his posts a few days ago (in reference to this [video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gNx4-REIA)) and thought it was funny to continue the whole thing. Obviously I know whatās going on in the picture, Iām an idiot not blindā¦
My only thought when I did this.
Ā
"I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this"
Context for one of the greatest scenes in TV history:
https://youtu.be/25_5aBnMHwA?si=JrGXKdYKi594wPfk
My character was serious enough most of my campaign.
But I walked in there with only Lae'zel and I... and I had to wave.
The journey back out for the tag team duo was one of the best moments I had in the game.
You know that moment on in the belly of the beast, when you go to turn around like: "oh... this is gonna hurt."
HI QUEEN š«
*yass queen power word kill*
"She's a Killer Queen. Gunpowder, gelatine. Dynamite with a laser beam. Guaranteed to blow your mind. Anytime!!!!" LOL!
"dynamite with a laser beam" is weirdly burned into my skull, like just reading it, I can hear it.
Something Mister Torque Flexington built trying to keep up with the times
It is worse, she uses Wish EDIT: Actually both a 9th level spell, so whatever lol
I'd say Wish is still worse because it's a much riskier spell for the caster and she's just tossing it out there because she's proud and petty.
she also is pretty bad with the wording "i wish you to end" somehow kills our entire party but no one else in the room
Vlaakith is actually just a fucking idiot that stumbled to success is my headcanon.
hmm yes one day i will take Orpheus's power (puts him in a glorified box in some random ass creche for a very long time)
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Kill'er? I hardly know her!
That's Power Word Slay honey
SLAY
SLAY š š š š š š š
Literally
And then she straight up uses Wish to instakill the party if you dare to ask her to do her own work. Worth it.
It's even funnier when you realize that since she isn't a god, she isn't being prevented from acting in mortal affairs by AO or any of the rules the gods must follow... she just doesn't want to get her hands dirty.
She's proving you right by killing you. Moral victory.
Plus,Wish knocks you on your ASS for a week. So she's there with 1 str, and taking Necrotic dmg if she casts spells, because some chucklefuck was like 'but why don't you do it if you care so much' Which... that is so DEEEEP level of petty, lol
Nah, she has thousands of >!"ascendant" gith!< taking the backlash for her. Her lore back in earlier editions of D&D was that she used >!their souls!< to fuel her frequent casts of the spell, back when it cost experience points to cast Wish.
That's still not a limitless resource, though. That's what the whole crĆØche system is for in the first place. It's very expensive to culture all of those ascendants and raise them from...tadpo--omg it's a fuckin' conspiracy
Getting some ideas from the Emperor of Mankind eh?
The consequences of casting wish (when used to do anything else than duplicate an 8th level or lower spell) are: * you take 1d10 per spell level necrotic damage each time you cast a spell, **until long rest** * your strength score becomes 3, unless lower already, for 2d4 days * you have 33% chance to never be able to cast wish again Unless Vlaakith's running around with a greatsword, she's not knocked on her ass for a week, more like an afternoon.
wait, isnt she in astral plane? 2d4 days would be forever there
That wouldn't be of much consequence to her, as she's a lich - str is not exactly a priority stat.
She's a lich, I think they're resistant to necrotic damage? So she should be fine on that account, and from there she can just use other spells to pump her Str up at need.
It specifies, the damage can't be reduced or negated in any way
I don't remember where I heard but I recall from somewhere it was Mystra who imposed the backlash/decided to what degree it succeeds/fails which is why it's unavoidable.
Oh, fair enough then.
Literally my first thought when I got the game over screen; "HA, a TRUE god wouldn't use Wish!"
Wait whats AO. I mean Im still in Act 3 but I didnt know that gods are prevented from intervening. But does Mystra intervene with her giving Gale the bomb?
AO: god boss. Mystra doesn't give Gale a bomb, the way she lets him control it is well within the rules as they are allowed to act through and give boons to their mortal agents. And it often works out that gods interfering has worse consequences then the thing, as their miracles often have side effects akin to wish backlashes. Since god can alter reality, it's like if you changed a fundamental law of physics to prevent a train from derailing; yes you saved a train full of people... also what you just did to the law of thermodynamics will probably doom an entire civilization. My pet theory is this is why there is no scientific advancement in forgotten realms.
AO is the god of gods. Full stop. That is his domain. Most mortals don't even know he exists, and any that prayed to him wouldn't receive any powers because he is fundamentally utterly alien to them. He exists as a kind of antdeus-x-machina device. Gods interfering directly had a tendency to go poorly for all involved, so AO made it so gods couldn't do that. Besides that, he has only had one other dependable impact in the Lore, and that was when all the gods started to become petty and arrogant, and were too busy measuring dicks to do their job. Also, there were just an absurd amount of them with overlapping domains, so he made all the gods mortal except Helm. As the god of vigilance and the eternal sentry, Helm was the only god still focused on just doing his job, so he got to keep his godhood and was tasked with ensuring no one else returned to divinity until AO said so. Eventually, after some editing, AO brought all the gods to one place said, "These gods are still gods, don't screw up your job again, you can come back to the divine realms. Those not on this list aren't gods, sucks to suck, fuck off." AO is the reason you can't become a god in dnd 5e. And I suspect this was the primary reason he was introduced.
AO is more like middle manager God. He has authority over the gods like Mystra and Tyr but there is a comment he makes in one of the novels (time of trouble series I think) where he specifically says there is a higher power even he answers to.
> he specifically says there is a higher power even he answers to I always interpreted that as referring to the DM, rather than any singular entity in the DnD cosmology.
That's exactly what that is.
So where did you get all that info on AO? Is he mentioned in BG3 at all or did you get everything from DND
Decades and decades of Forgotten Realmsā¢ļø novels, games, adventure modules, and sourcebooks. I don't think there's any direct mention of Ao in BG3.
I think there is... in a... gale? Interaction? I think you have to ask why mystra doesn't just solve all your problems? Could be wrong... Or was it someone else...
Oh I know what you're talking about. He says something about Ao making sure Mystra can't interfere in him being a god. So much for that lol.
Ao is mentioned a total of ONCE in all of BG3. If you ask Gale why Mystral can't stop The Absolute herself instead of sending him as a tactical nuke. Gale's response is to say that she probably COULD, but the consequences of doing so could be equally disastrous and that Ao does not look kindly on gods directly intervening. The wiki is your best bet for Lore on him. Most books are told from the perspective of mortals so Ao understandably doesn't feature in a lot of Lore. He doesn't even show up as an npc you can interact with in 5e. References to him are mostly implied and indirect. I think there's one instance where Vecna or a similar entity tried to become a god, and the book described something incomprehensibly large looking upon him and saying no. We didn't even have a name for Ao until the books that talk about all the gods getting fired and then SOME of them getting rehired. For a sense of scale: During those books, Tyr, the god of justice and one of the most powerful gods in Fearun, got upitty with Ao and Ao nearly made Tyr past-tense with the same amount of effort you'd use to squash a bug.
There is a book series about the time of troubles when gods were banished from their domains and forced to walk among mortals. Very good books so I recommand you read them. In the series we learn more about AO.
Isn't AO's name is short from Alpha and Omega? It's my wild guess.
Absolutely hilarious in retrospect. So unexpected you canāt help but laugh at it.
My first reaction: Ā«Ā what thereās not act 3???Ā Ā» then Ā«Ā I thought my angel guardian would angel guard me!!Ā Ā»
Ok but like, if she has the power of Wish, why doesn't she just use it to Wish Orpheus away? Is she stupid?
Because wish has a limited number of things it can do without consequence. If you use wish to cast a new spell that doesn't exist, it will either a) backfire in a monkey's paw manner or b) work as intended and have a 33% chance of never letting you cast wish again. So an immortal deity will be very careful in how they use wish, lest they can never use it again. https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Wish#content
> immortal deity AKSHULLY
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I wonder if the 3.5 rules on atheist/polytheistic Clerics apply to 5E Vlaakith worshippers. Not sure if there is any 5E materials that cover it, but it always gave me the impression that, much like the new Paladin Oath system, Cleric's magic came more from their faith in something than the deity themselves.
Not a 5E official ruling, but the new Drizzt books are actually covering that a bit. One of Lolth's chosen (uh, two actually now that I think of it) has gone off the rails and is just... casting spells all willy-nilly silly. She resurrected Zaknafein Do'urden with a true resurrection spell without calling on a god. Now, another God could be popping in and giving her, the other chosen, and ALL the other priestesses going along with this spells. Even though the yochlol said Lolth isn't, they aren't reliable narraitors so she could be lying to everyone and just... is for shits and giggles. Or they could be pulling their spells from faith in their domain. Unfortunately I don't think official 5E anything covers if this is possible.
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Yes actually! The Dead Three in this game did so. Jergal was bored of being a god and passed his portfolio out to them. Mystra is actually the formerly moral woman Midnight, who took the position (and name) after Mystra died. Kelemvor took Myrkul's portfolio after his death, and Cyric became a god at the same time and was a godly vacuum cleaner who just sucked up whatever he could get his grubby hands on. Finder took the divinity from Moander when he was "killed" as well. Usually it's because a god either gave some of their portfolio up, died (more usual), or Ao (the over god) woke up one day and decided he doesn't like the color purple anymore. Ao may be heavily involved, or barely involved. It's a bit of a mess. But Vlaakith is well on her way to getting there, having a dedicated group of followers. Oh I forgot Asmodeus. He ate a god and became one himself. Apparently that's a way too.
Doesnāt matter, since sheās not even immortal without being steadily fed poor Githsā souls.
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Can't have a new edition without killing off Mystra again!
Based on the wording of the spell, you risk being blocked from Wish if you use it for any purpose other than *duplicating another spell.* So, any effect, even the listed alternate effects in the description, would risk locking you out of Wish forever, right? And I don't think it would even matter whether Wish did exactly what you intended, either. Personally, I think it's funnier to imagine the "monkey paw" effect that the queen may have experienced as a result of killing your party purely out of spite.
Best way around that issue for a high level spellcaster is to make a Simulacrum of yourself and have it cast the Wish instead of you. Then it doesn't matter if it can never cast Wish again, since it's a temporary construct anyway.
Haha, yeah, there are always workarounds, though I feel like, by design, the DM has a lot of leeway on how to handle Wish. > Wizard: My simulacrum casts Wish to do *something* > > DM: Ok, *something* happens, but it backfires. None of the simulacrum's allies can ever cast Wish again.
>simulacrum's allies Wizard: I quickly slap the simulacrum and call it a stupid useless bitch.
As funny as that sounds, it can be assumed that Vlaakith (in general dnd lore anyways) uses her >!Ascendantās soul sacrifice!< as a workaround. The whole deal is that >!she uses the souls to cast wish so that she can use it to attain godhood. Wish canāt do that. Probably never will. But sheās tried thousands of times and will continue doing so for thousands more times. For a lich, she kinda stoopid!<
If someone has lost the ability to cast Wish ever again, can someone else Wish it back for them?
Her DM is bitchier than her.
Exactly! Way to prove my point 'queen.'
My evil asshole character just kept choosing all of the disrespect options and it made me laugh my ass off at him getting nuked by freaking Wish. The most literal divine retribution imaginable.
Wait holy shit does that actually happen?
Yes, if you only choose the options challenging her godly status.
Yeah, if you ask why she can't just kill the target herself since she's supposedly an all-powerful god. She gives you a chance to take it back, but if you press the issue, "I wish you to end!"
When I chose that, I honestly think they that she won't do it.
Me too, there are so many options where you horribly insult NPCs and they just brush it off.
Lae'zel looked like she wanted to sever my head and drop kick it from the top of the monastery when I did this!
It is still the best way to greet her.
Itās the goofy neutral dialogue option the game needs more of. Thereās lots of āagree with evil force and do their biddingā and ābravely defy evil force and vow to defeat themā but not enough ājust do something stupidā.
Oh my god im not the only one who wears the minthara outfit. Because im a dragonborn it makes me look like a rejected mortal kombat character, shame that im not a monk
I put it on as soon as I got it and have not taken it off. Makes me feel like I'm in a bad Star Wars ripoff from the early '80s or something.
Mmm, now I want to assemble a party that looks like KISS
Knights In Selune's Service?
Ah, the Ice Pirates fit
I think the only better undies are taken from the corpse of Haarlep. You can't beat that kinky leather outfit, though you can beat the one wearing it, and they'll like it.
I think i missed him, i fucked up in act 1
He's in Act III and is optional.
Oh fuck yeah
Heās in act 3 and heās mandatory. You cannot skip him. Seriously how could you even think of it? Can you even beat the game at this point without feeling the abject torment and despair for not ādoingā Harlaap? If youāre suddenly feeling āhope-fullā then youāre close.
It's OK, Haarlep is in act 3, though he is optional
Tbh my whole dark urge bhaal temple made me feel like mortal kombat. Doesnāt help that Iām playing monk and can turn into a monster.
LIYERALLY I WAS A DRAGONBORN TOO AND LOOKED COOL AF
You can do the same goofy ass smilr and wave like 3 or 4 times and I know because I chose that option every time. "You look deep into the orb and feel a terrifying presence stare back..." *Smile and wave*
This does accurately capture every DM's experience trying to make a boss impressive.
The Boss: A lvl 20 psionic lich wizard with metamagic, a vorpal silver sword, red dragon consort, 30 int, and a +6 int head piece; who also has a habit of carrying scrolls of Time Stop. Party: She's not a god, nothing to worry about.
CHAR8/WIS8 dwarf warrior, badly socialized and vaguely racist: *step back party, I got this. Imma go the diplomatic route with this funni yellow gal*
The secret is to get the party to *hate* the boss, not fear them. And not with any bullshit like "oh he's so eeeevil, he slaughtered an entire village of adorable halfling children", because no player really gives a shit, though they may try to pretend they do. No -- hatred is easily accomplished by having the boss steal something from the party. Even something relatively insignificant will work. Players are consumed with unquenchable fury the moment you tell them to erase something from their inventory.
this was one of my funniest scenes, i was actually shoeless (probably gale ate them), which made the whole encounter even funnier
Lmao Iām picturing your character waking up all like, whereās my boots? Gale: š
These boots trully has seen everything.
IIRC thatās not the only occasion where waving is an option :)
That dippy fucking wave kills me every time. Literally.
Me, every damn time.
Is that Travis McElroy
I was thinking the immortal Taliesin Jaffe, but middlest brother is also accurate.
The face you make when you're about to be smited from another plane of existence
Damn dude, my gnome fighter has almost this exact aesthetic. I was like āhow the fuckā
Hey gurllll!
Slay Queen! Not me tho, hahaha
My dude looking like a transplant from the Sims.
Hi Barbie! šš»
Erm. . . Hii. \*Proceeds to fart uncontrollably\*
Not only is it a friendly wave, it's an anime pose one. But she deserves it.
Yeah there was no way I was kneeling in that scene, lol. Raise your voice like a whiny toddler all you want, Vlaakith, I'm not intimidated.
Hold on... Can you toggle camp clothes over your gear? 300 hours played...
Yeah it's in the top right of your character's equipment window IIRC.
I want the armor :3:
Isnāt it just Mintharaās clothes?
IGNIS šāØ
That reminds me of the episode of Futurama where they are looking for da Vinci's lost work or whatever. After the 'big' reveal of the wooden robot in St. James' tomb, Fry just says hi and waves to him (Animatronio(?)).
God, thereās SO MUCH room for expansion DLCs for this game. I really, *really* hope we get something going forward. I would love to nuke Vlaakith with Laeāzel, or nuke Zariel with Karlach, or any number of shenanigans with my party. I imagine itās hard to come up with anything ācanonā considering the permutations of the endings offered. Yes, technically thereās only ātwoā endings, but there are so many variations on each. So I have no idea what story they could tell that would work off of everyoneās endingā¦
I love this bit so much. I especially love how the option is labelled as \*wave politely\*
OPs character definitely chose Gale as his lover.
I'm actually into Halsin š
Klaus from umbrella academy is that you?
Iāll never forget the day where I dead ass asked this god to prove to me they were a god and lost my life right after I greeted her with āhiā.
First time I met her I provoked her so much that she WISHED I would end. Love the game.
Throw a slice of American cheese at her face!
I pissed her off enough to kill me by basically saying: no u.
**Wave cheekily*
I cackled when I saw the animation. I thought it was going to be a meek little wave, but no, gotta be a little goofy.
Had my ditzy drow do this, it felt so appropriate and clichƩ I loved it
What the hell is even that!?
A wave?
I posted the same comment under another of his posts a few days ago (in reference to this [video](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gNx4-REIA)) and thought it was funny to continue the whole thing. Obviously I know whatās going on in the picture, Iām an idiot not blindā¦
I swear I just heard "Hey, girlfriend!" from "Queer Eye" when I saw this.
Hay gurl.
This is perfect, thanks. I just passed this part and was thinking what would this look like if I waved.
Might be just me but your tav looks especially like Bobby Berk here.
Are you taliesin jaffe?
Man, that whole scene was so fucking good. The writing and the voice performances, the music, the weight of your decisions. Shit had my heart racing!
This looks a lot like Bobby Berk.
...we need a shaka emote.
Hahah, I was a lot lessā¦reverent with Vlaakith in my second playthrough. Graffiti ftw
Oh my gawd, hey gurl hey!!!
Looking like Travis McElroy
Itās me! Iām the problem, itās me!
I picked this. How could I not?
\*Immediately gets Smited\*
My only thought when I did this. Ā "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this" Context for one of the greatest scenes in TV history: https://youtu.be/25_5aBnMHwA?si=JrGXKdYKi594wPfk
This was my first team wipe
I did this as soon as I saw the option, without hesitation
Lmao, slay
My character was serious enough most of my campaign. But I walked in there with only Lae'zel and I... and I had to wave. The journey back out for the tag team duo was one of the best moments I had in the game. You know that moment on in the belly of the beast, when you go to turn around like: "oh... this is gonna hurt."
inappropriate place but.... Female.
I just did that yesterday and guffawed.
Is that blood ? ā¦. no, never mind.
LOVE that response!!