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So who wants to hear about the stupid stupid way I'm playing Baldur's Gate 3?
I made it to Act 3 on my first (original character) playthrough like a week before Patch 5 came out, and after finding it absolutely unplayable (on the PS5) decided it was time to go ahead and start an origin character run for the funsies while waiting on the new patch to fix the Lag Hell. Naturally, I picked Gale. Since this was mostly just for fun/to hold me over until I could continue my other file, I decided it would be a nice time to see what happens if you just refuse to consume any magic items. Of course, if you are not playing as Gale and ignore his Orb Problem, he will apparently eventually leave your party, but what if you ARE Gale? I couldn't find an answer with a minimal amount of Googling SO
There are three stages to his Arcane Hunger, each of which give you increasingly debilitating debuffs: Arcane Hunger, Greater Arcane Hunger, and Severe Arcane Hunger. It seems the triggers for progressing to the next stage are the same as the triggers where he would start needing an item in my other file (i.e. that bridge next to the Blighted Village, entering the temple at the Goblin Camp, the Hag's Lair, etc.) which obviously makes sense. I figure with the amount of contingencies in this game for incredibly specific situations, surely there is some kind of unique dialog or fun cutscene that will play if I ignore the Arcane Hunger long enough and just play through the debuffs.
I played Act 1 completely normally, doing a lil quicksave every time I was about to Long Rest just in case the game gave me a cutscene of the big explosion upon waking up (I thought maybe it would be time-based, similar to the game over you get if Gale dies and you leave him for 3 days (? I think?) which does not seem to be the case). I made it through basically everything without anything odd happening besides the aforementioned debuffs. The Severe Arcane Hunger is where things get really sloggy, because Gale can only move at half speed.
I have been slowly trudging EVERYWHERE since the Goblin Camp.
I eventually started going out of my way to make sure I hit all the Arcane Hunger triggers I know about, to see what would happen, and the answer is nothing, aside from Gale occasionally reminding me that he's wracked with terrible pain.
So, surely, the game will certainly not let me into the Mountain Pass without SOMETHING happening, right?
WELL
That's surprising, but whatever, at least now I have the chance to see what happens if you go meet Elminster without having consumed any magic items,
Except
He wasn't there.
I went to the area in the Mountain Pass where the cutscene is supposed to start, and it just. Didn't happen. Nothing happened. I could walk right up to the entrance to the next area.
But SURELY, the game won't let me into the gotdamn Shadow-Cursed Lands without saying SOMETHING about the fact that the orb has been starving for several weeks at this point, right? The game isn't going to let me into Act Freaking 2 without at the very least giving me a game over to tell me I'm not allowed to do this and make me reload and actually feed this poor starving wizard, right?
RIGHT?
WELL
WELL
Here we are. I'm at the Last Light Inn, I'm at the Taco Bell, I'm at the combination Last Light Inn Taco Bell with a bag full of delicious Cheesy Gordita Magic Boots that I refuse to eat.
SO LIKE. How far does this go??? Am I gonna be able to infiltrate Moonrise Towers without ever speaking to Elminster? Am I gonna trudge all the way to Ketheric at half freaking speed and fight him with Disadvantage on everything?? Am I gonna make it all the way to goddang Baldur's Gate with a Netherese orb that is long overdue to explode???
Like I said, I did not find an answer on what happens if you do this on a Gale Origin playthrough, and at this point, I don't even want to, I just want to see how far I can take this.
I already know I'll have to do another normal Gale playthrough where I actually FEED HIM after this, because I'm sure I've missed out on a ton of dialogue and whatnot, especially from Tara who only ever has this to say when I speak with her in camp:
I am genuinely beginning to wonder if there is actually nothing in place to stop me from doing this. I am wondering what the dialogue options will look like when I get to the "Heart of the Absolute" where Gale would ordinarily want to blow himself up, if Elminster had ever shown up to tell him to do so. Maybe the devs just didn't bother, and figured that no one would be stupid and stubborn enough to play through the whole dang thing while so severely debuffed.
Joke's on them, Disadvantage means NOTHING to Magic Missile Machine Gale Dekarios.
#baldur's gate 3#poor gale#this man is having the worst time of his life#long post#gale dekarios#no gale dinner
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starting my gale side blog sooon oooo
#bg3#baldur's gate 3#bg3 screenshots#bg3 gale#gale posting#gale of waterdeep#gale dekarios#gale screenshots#virtual photography#my bf saw him and said 'why does he look like a hobo' 😭#poor gale#ITS OK GALE U ARE A VERY HANDSOME HOBO
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tav & co. after a night out in baldur’s gate
a doodle
#bg3#bg3 tav#bg3 astarion#bg3 oc#bg3 gale#bg3 fanart#bg3 posting#meme#video games#astarion#poor gale#bg3 wyll#bg3 lae'zel#bg3 karlach#bg3 shadowheart#bg3 shitpost
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Hobo Gale isn't real he can't hurt you
Hobo Gale :
#gale dekarios#bg3#I was testing and swapping hairstyles on diff characters and this happened#lmao#and the Jojo pose#baldur's gate 3#poor gale#baldurs gate iii#bgiii#shitpost#gale of waterdeep#bg3 gale#bg3sd.txt
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(Lil crop bc it makes me laugh)
#halsin loves it#lae'zel is just there#poor gale#bg3#bg3 comic#halsin#lae'zel#gale dekarios#tavstarion#spicybardjj
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An Astarion Thought….
How would Astarion react to a Tav/someone who also likes to bite people? Not hard, not for vampirism reasons, but in the way many people like to playfully put their teeth on their friends/partners.
Tav: Astarion, can I bite you?
Astarion: Why?? You’re not a spawn…? *racks his brain for any missed signs of vampirism, but coming up with nothing*
T: *gently noms his arm*
A: ?!?! What do you even get out of this?!
Tav, with a mouthful of vampire arm: Luh ooo! (Love you!)
A: You’re weirder than Gale, and that’s saying something…
#just tav tings#astarion ancunin#astarion#bg3#bg3 astarion#baldurs gate tav#baldurs gate 3#tav x astarion#gale being gale#gale of waterdunk#poor gale#astarion x tav#baldurs gate#baldurs gate headcanon
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I finally got Halsin in my solo playthrough at camp and at the tiefling party everyone in camp was flirting with my Tav and now all I can think of is the other companions trying to warn Halsin not to fall in love with her and he's just standing there like "We just met lol I'm sure I'll be fine" only for them to have a conversation five minutes later and he goes back to the others like "Alright, yeah, I get it. Sorry to have doubted you all"
#video games#baldurs gate 3#bg3#baldurs gate posting#baldurs gate tav#baldurs gate playthrough#bg3 playthrough#halsin#this little drow has a lot of rizz apparently#poor gale
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"You're upset, because Tara likes the druid?"
"NO.. I'm upset because Tara.. has seen The Druid's... Feline wildshape form..she's not going to..well, she won't...but she's having THOUGHTS alright."
"..You're upset.. because Tara fantasises about the druid, she seems like a rather proper lady to me..?"
"Well she's not YOUR familiar is she.. god, the descriptions. Look I'm not one to tell a lady how to express herself, feline, human or otherwise. But sometimes there's a little too much self-expression... You understand..right?"
"..uh, not exactly.. but commiserations?"
"..it is appreciated."
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went to go respec my tav and withers was like so i heard thou hast a bosom companion and i was like, oh shadowheart? i wish, we aren’t quite there yet.
then i went to go respec gale not realizing withers also talks to companions about this and he was like “so i heard no one wants to fuck you.”
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OK, into the goblin camp. Rakha's dark urge bloodthirst was sated for a little while by killing the gobbos in the outer post, so we're not quite going in guns blazing, but if someone looks at her funny, heads are probably going to end up rolling. She's feeling very on edge after the Absolute's voice blindsided them on the bridge.
The most eye-catching (and ear-catching) thing happening in the celebration happening outside is, of course, Volo, who is being forced to sing by several of the goblins at swordpoint.
And the song is terrible.
"With fragulous crown and with scepter abrade,
Dror Ragzlin short work of the innkeeper made!
The inn burned to ash! The captives were many!
Goblinkind had reduced them to cowering filfenny!
So raiseth your goblets and drain them with pride!
Dror Ragzlin, the True Soul, hath led you galide!"
Baffling. Rakha knows nothing of music - she didn't even get a chance to hear Alfira sing before the beast gutted her - but it's easy enough to see that this is meant to be entertainment, and in fact that the goblins seem to be enjoying it. But it is nonsense.
"I reckon Dror Ragzlin's the gobbo in charge," Wyll says thoughtfully, "the way this one's carrying on."
Rakha grunts. That explains some of it. Not all. "'Fragulous'?" she asks with some bewilderment. "'Galide'? I don't know this language."
She has wondered to herself on more than one occasion how she knows any language, when so much else seems to be lost to her. But the bard's strange tongue is most certainly a mystery.
One of the goblins gives her a disdainful glare. "Common, ye turnip," she snarls.
Rakha scowls. That very well might be true, and the words simply lost on her. She doesn't like the possibility much. Sometimes it feels as if for every bit of this world she starts to understand, she finds a hundred other things that spark no recognition at all.
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Wyll gives her a slight smile, seeing her confusion. "No fear," he says in an undertone, low enough only for her to hear. "They're no words I ever heard of either. He's making them up."
She feels herself relax just slightly at this gesture of encouragement. "For what purpose?"
"To make the goblins think he's smart, I suspect. And you, for that matter," he says with a soft laugh. "Though I don't think it will hold out for long - look there." And indeed, Volo seems to have lost the thread of his song, and one of the goblins is in the process of hustling him off the stage with a kick. "Ouch."
"As I told you," Lae'zel puts in dryly. "A master only of falsehoods. And perhaps foolishness."
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The rest of the courtyard is full of celebrating goblins. Rakha gathers, from overheard conversations, that they are celebrating a raid on a nearby settlement, the capture of some important prisoner. None of them seem to notice Rakha's presence particularly, which makes a certain amount of sense - Nettie did say they would likely take the tadpole infection as indication that they are all on the same side.
Two particular things catch her attention - the first is the owlbear cub they first spotted in the cave with its mother some days back. There's no sign of the large one, but the cub is being tormented by one of the goblins, who is trying to get everyone nearby into a game of 'chicken-chasing.'
Rakha has no interest in the game, and would happily skewer the goblin, but as for the little beast...
She remembers Wyll's guidance for befriending Scratch, and crouches down to its height, sticking a hand out for it to sniff.
Narrator: You notice a shiver run through his feathered coat - fear, a desperate longing for the safety of his nest. But his mother is gone - taken. All that's left are these creatures.
She snorts softly. Adrift. As I am.
Offer him your hand. He can follow your scent to your camp in the wilderness.
"Oh, thank the gods," Gale says dryly. "I did worry you might be about to lash out with another kick."
"That was not my choice," Rakha mutters. "I've no quarrel with the beast."
Wyll smiles. "He'll make a fine addition to camp, if we can get him there."
In the end it doesn't take much effort to frighten the goblins into letting the cub go. With a joyful hoot, it barrels off into the distance at top speed.
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The other moment of interest is a drunk goblin holding forth to several others in one corner of the courtyard - and who, seeing Rakha, decides unilaterally that they are going to have a problem.
"And who're you?" he shouts up towards her. "Nother pest? Think ya rule the world just cuz ya got a scary face? Hah!"
Rakha glares at him silently, irritation stirring rapidly into anger in the back of her mind. The goblin - unfortunately for him - keeps talking.
"We got the Absolute on our side now. Ya better learn yer place! Go on - kiss my foot, or I'll wipe that nasty look right off yer face!"
The anger slides into rage, like a worn and comfortable glove sliding back onto a fist. Her vision whites out at the corners and she feels the beast stir in her head.
Lae'zel hisses with similar annoyance. "End him or leave him," she snaps sharply. "But don't you dare grovel to this slug."
Rakha feels a cool smile twist her lips. In this, she and Lae'zel are very much alike. The disrespect is guaranteed to call up the rage faster than anything else. And this creature will suffer for it now - it only matters how.
Kill, says the beast. Kill. Make him bleed. Pull him apart, piece by piece by bloody piece until there is nothing left.
She feels her control slipping, the hunger suddenly surging up again, inescapable.
Ponder how it would taste to bite his toe clean off.
Yes. That would be good. Turn the tables. Pull him apart. Make him suffer. Make it hurt. Make the blood poor from his foot as he tries to fight back and dies, and dies, and dies...
Narrator: You kneel before him, eagerly feigning reverence.
Before she fully realizes it, she has moved beyond thought into movement, her knees hitting the cold, damp stone. Her head drops; she can smell the stink of the goblin, overwhelming, before everything fades out and the beast takes over completely, her jaws closing like a predator around the goblin's foot.
Narrator: But with one quick snatch, you envelop a toe in your foul maw.
(A/N: Definitely trying to take all Dark Urge choices that don't involve a companion death, but also this is GROSS lol. Ew.)
Narrator: The toe itself tastes of curd, cave-aged, with thick helpings of rancid gristle.
The goblin screams, matching the dark screaming in her head. She tastes his blood on her tongue and it is intoxicating like fine wine. The bitter flesh contrasts with it, stokes the hunger higher still. She wants more. She wants him to bleed and scream and die under her blade. He mocked her and he will suffer...
She reawakens in a blood-hungry haze. The goblin's toe is clutched in one fist, dripping hot across her palm. The goblin is still screaming with pain and rage.
"You fiend! I'll teach you some respect!"
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"When I said end him," Lae'zel says, unsheathing her sword as the nearest goblins close around them, "that was not what I meant."
"Now who's acting surprised when they shouldn't be?" Gale says dryly. "Ow!" he adds, as Lae'zel elbows him sharply in the ribs.
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Several of the goblins crowd around to join in the fray, but Rakha and Lae'zel are both of a single mind, focused on the one that started the whole business - the one currently bleeding heavily out of one foot. And when he falls, Rakha is very satisfied to see that he begs, at once.
"Wait - I yield! I yield!" he bellows, terrified, as Rakha stands over him.
Rakha could not care less. This is beyond her now, and there is only the beast, and it will not be calmed until the goblin is dead. Lae'zel clearly feels the same.
Wyll and Gale have been watching this play out with some bemusement, a little further back. Gale looks troubled, but Wyll has his eyes narrowed, and to Rakha's distant surprise, he sounds almost as angry as she feels when he speaks.
"He wants mercy. I say show it to him - decisively."
Ignore his pleading and prepare for the finishing blow.
Lae'zel smiles in satisfaction as Rakha's knife slides from its sheathe. "A fine show of force," she murmurs. "The worms shall feast tonight."
The goblin panics completely and begins scuttling away in a desperate attempt to escape as Rakha closes with him. "HELP!" he screams. Faces from all over the camp begin to turn and look towards them. "HELP ME!"
Rakha's knife slides into his mouth and pins him to the wall behind him, and a roar goes through the whole camp.
"So much for a quiet entrance," Gale says wearily. "Yes, yes, I know," he adds as Lae'zel shoots him a glare. "I should have expected it."
#bjk plays bg3 durge#rakha the dark urge#this one got long :P#but yay Durge dialogue!#gross durge dialogue :P#and all the violence we could have expected i suppose :P#poor gale#i'm pretty sure he is the least comfortable in the team with rakha by FAR
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no, Gale, I was only asking if you could find Astarion for me. He must be lost somewhere and I need him to keep going with us! I can't find him anywhere!
Oh...uh....
He went...that way....
I'll just...keep waiting here...at camp...doing nothing...
#poor gale#gale of waterdeep#bg3#gale dekarios#bg3 gale#gale#baldur's gate 3#askgale#arcaneinquries#context: gale GALE GAALLLEE ask
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My Durge Character Lancer.. the evil twin sister of Lance
#gaming#bg3#bg3 tav#baldur's gate 3#baldurs gate tav#the dark urge#bg3 durge#This ones a lol f*cked up in the head#just a lil...#poor gale#his hand is gone
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My first completed bg3 playthrough:
decides to romance Gale in my first full playthrough.
struggles to not hoe it up with every other companion because Gale gets jealous.
running by circus.
Karlach wants to go.
There is someone who tells love fortunes.
Gale is not in my party.
lol Karlach wanted to be here, let's do it.
The dryad says we are uber compatible or w/e.
comes back with Gale hours of game play later.
The dryad happily explains she already gave me my love reading or w/e.
Oops.
finishes game, tells Gale I love him and that we'll be together and deal with the crown or w/e it is you say on the dock after the brain falls in the ocean.
Karlach, starts to blow up.
Game ends with me, Wyll, and Karlach charging off into the Hells.
I assume Gale is still standing on the dock going, "Wait, what?"
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#brba#breaking bad#watching breaking bad#i just watched the s3 finale#hhhhhhh#jesse pinkman#poor jesse#poor gale#mine#walter white
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Gale slipped on his own ice and fell down like this. He looks so defeated lol
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And that's another chapter done. My writing beta, aka my nana, is going to read it tomorrow.
This next chapter got some more Astarion and Karlach friendship since I can't just not write more of the two of them.
One friendship that I haven't gotten to yet in the story that I'm excited to explore is that I picture Nulihn in the game is good friends with Wyll. My plan had been to have the fourth party spot be a spot for Wyll and Gale to share, especially since when I beat the game on the same subclass, I just had Gale pretty much the whole time, especially since Rowan ended up becoming good friends with him. (Which I had not been expecting since my first character, who I've neglected since I prefer Durge over Tav, didn't really like Gale much.) Nulihn, however, hasn't had Gale in the party much. I keep just not switching out Wyll lol. I do kind of picture that out of the two, Nulihn would be closer to him. But yeah, so far in the story, Nulihn has only met Wyll, and the situation overshadowed the possibility of making new friends. Also, Wyll doesn't like Astarion for reasons that Astarion doesn't know yet, so I'm planning on having Wyll make an appearance in a few chapters again soon.
#I fear that Gale won't get to shine in Nulihn's playthrough until certain points in Act 3#poor Gale#though tbf my other character that I've been playing is good friends with him and usually has him in the party#the nerds have to stick together for that playthrough lol#but yeah I want to write more Wyll#and like not from Astarion's pov since they have a history of not getting along#for now at least lol#des says stuff
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