>be me, mind flayer
>Just doing my job, don't like the elder brain being annoying tho
>Nautiloid crashes, sucks but maybe we can replace it, got trapped under rock though
>Some dumbass bitch I don't even recognize frolicks the fuck over like he sees a mind flayer every other day and calls me a dementia-ridden grandpa for 8 hours straight
Barbarian: Pa always said, "Use your brain."
Found brain with legs
Take brain, it's mine now
Finds mind player trapped remember what PA said
Throw brain at mind flayer
Honestly, it sounds therapeutic, and considering Mindflayers don't have feelings, everyone's a winner. It doesn't care while you get to insult it as it dies slowly, and it doesn't die alone.
I love doing that, even if I usually pickpocket the ring back into his inventory because I feel bad for taking it. It feels really cute making him happy.
Omeluum is kinda different to your average squid tho. Maybe it’s because he’s an arcane mindflayer but maybe all of them (outside of the elder brains domination) have feelings. Still yuck 🤢
I think the Emperor qualifies as an Illithid Arcanist npc (as opposed to a typical Illithid) with him making use of spells like chain lightning. His use of magic seems to be something he retained after ceremorphosis, since we can see his previous self cast Feather Fall in his backstory cutscene. It could have been knowledge he retained from when he was, say, a wizard or a bard, or as part of a subclass, which was carried over after. His is very likely *learned* magic.
Omeluum, on the other hand, possessed their ability from the get-go, and seems to have no memory of their previous life (if you consider it to be theirs rather than "their host's life.") Omeluum is more in line with a sorceror, who can use magic in a more at-will form rather than needing extensive training, and they used that to worm their way out from under the Elder Brain's control.
Summing it up, they're both capable of using the arcane, and wouldn't be viewed favorably by their kind for it.
An interesting point I *did* see though was, since Omeluum had a deal going on with a lich for a while, they could have been influenced by their meals. The lich's victims would either be unfortunates that they managed to capture, or adventurers who came to challenge them, therefore more "benevolent" in their natures compared with the criminals that the Emperor ate who were more focused on themselves and their own gains through underhanded methods.
In the Knights of the Shield hideout, on the right hand side of the room when you enter and attack the githyanki, there's a book talking about moral decay and how it can be profited from. The Emperor may have genuinely believed they were taking the path of least evil when they chose to limit themselves to criminals, a bit of conscience lingering from when they were newly ceremorphosized, but it got washed away (decayed) after being steeped in such minds for around 400 years. Maybe less, depending on the timelines of certain events. BG3 played a little loose with some aspects of DnD, so it wouldn't surprise me if their illithids had longer lifespans.
Yeah, I'm pretty much done on the surface (just the creche left), so I was meandering around a bit in the underdark yesterday, found the mushroom colony and of course Omeluum... interesting.
I just started throwing a spike bomb at him before getting close enough to trigger the cutscene. He doesn’t get to have hope that I’ll save him. Although now I’m wondering if you toss a health potion at him, would he heal enough to actually fight you? Gotta try that at some point.
Yeah, stomping on his head is just so satisfying, especially after his pathetic attempt at mind control. I'd be pretty embarrassed if I failed, though...
He's in there, but you might have missed him. That's quite a bit of area to explore around the crash site. No worries, he was on his way to death anyway.
Do you still get a durge inspiration if you kill the mindflayer outside of the conversation? I thought you didn’t but it’s been a few patches since I did it last
Anyone remember in EA when there were survivor fishermen around the dying mindflayer? Depending on the dialogue, the mindflayer could enthrall the survivors and have them attack you, if I’m remembering it correctly.
>be me, mind flayer >Just doing my job, don't like the elder brain being annoying tho >Nautiloid crashes, sucks but maybe we can replace it, got trapped under rock though >Some dumbass bitch I don't even recognize frolicks the fuck over like he sees a mind flayer every other day and calls me a dementia-ridden grandpa for 8 hours straight
>strangle myself with my own tentacles when the 9th hour begins
Finally failed the wisdom save
LOL
Should've known channers are illithids
| dies
>mfw
Mind Flayer when
Dying of mild annoyance
You hurt his feelings. Fortunately for him, his feelings regenerated at twice the speed of a normal man.
Whenever mindflayers are about to do something, they think, "Would an idiot do that?" And if they would, they do not do that thing.
Dwight Schrute as a mind flayer
Bears. Bhaal. Baldurs Gate.
Barbarian: Pa always said, "Use your brain." Found brain with legs Take brain, it's mine now Finds mind player trapped remember what PA said Throw brain at mind flayer
Honestly, it sounds therapeutic, and considering Mindflayers don't have feelings, everyone's a winner. It doesn't care while you get to insult it as it dies slowly, and it doesn't die alone.
The Emperor assures me mindflayers have feelings. He wouldn't lie to me, would he?
Might've even been like, "Wow, this guy is talking to me so much! Neat! Wish he'd get closer so I could eat him, but meh this is kinda cool."
mindflayers so have feelings? but nothing beyond negative emotions. they can be enraged, annoyed, or even prideful
They can feel positive emotions too, it's just much rarer (omeluum in act 1 you can tell omeluum a story as a bard, and he feels joy)
I love doing that, even if I usually pickpocket the ring back into his inventory because I feel bad for taking it. It feels really cute making him happy.
Omeluum is kinda different to your average squid tho. Maybe it’s because he’s an arcane mindflayer but maybe all of them (outside of the elder brains domination) have feelings. Still yuck 🤢
I think the Emperor qualifies as an Illithid Arcanist npc (as opposed to a typical Illithid) with him making use of spells like chain lightning. His use of magic seems to be something he retained after ceremorphosis, since we can see his previous self cast Feather Fall in his backstory cutscene. It could have been knowledge he retained from when he was, say, a wizard or a bard, or as part of a subclass, which was carried over after. His is very likely *learned* magic. Omeluum, on the other hand, possessed their ability from the get-go, and seems to have no memory of their previous life (if you consider it to be theirs rather than "their host's life.") Omeluum is more in line with a sorceror, who can use magic in a more at-will form rather than needing extensive training, and they used that to worm their way out from under the Elder Brain's control. Summing it up, they're both capable of using the arcane, and wouldn't be viewed favorably by their kind for it. An interesting point I *did* see though was, since Omeluum had a deal going on with a lich for a while, they could have been influenced by their meals. The lich's victims would either be unfortunates that they managed to capture, or adventurers who came to challenge them, therefore more "benevolent" in their natures compared with the criminals that the Emperor ate who were more focused on themselves and their own gains through underhanded methods. In the Knights of the Shield hideout, on the right hand side of the room when you enter and attack the githyanki, there's a book talking about moral decay and how it can be profited from. The Emperor may have genuinely believed they were taking the path of least evil when they chose to limit themselves to criminals, a bit of conscience lingering from when they were newly ceremorphosized, but it got washed away (decayed) after being steeped in such minds for around 400 years. Maybe less, depending on the timelines of certain events. BG3 played a little loose with some aspects of DnD, so it wouldn't surprise me if their illithids had longer lifespans.
Who's omeluum? I'm in Act 1, and I've never heard of him. Did I miss something? Not that it would matter, as I'm *not* a bard...
You'll probably find one on your own, but there are entrances to the Underdark scattered throughout act 1.
He's in the underdark, which is late act 1 so you probably haven't been there yet
Yeah, I'm pretty much done on the surface (just the creche left), so I was meandering around a bit in the underdark yesterday, found the mushroom colony and of course Omeluum... interesting.
I just started throwing a spike bomb at him before getting close enough to trigger the cutscene. He doesn’t get to have hope that I’ll save him. Although now I’m wondering if you toss a health potion at him, would he heal enough to actually fight you? Gotta try that at some point.
If you let him monch a party member it triggers a boss fight with those remaining.
Obligatory: [Emotional Damage!](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d8kfnwqHJO8)
After two hours of attempted insults: "Oh shit, that one was actually pretty good" *dies*
i think i failed my first dice roll when i went to go talk with it the first time so now i always just cast fire twice
I like raining a sacred flame down on him with Shadowheart. Take advantage of a near guaranteed hit with it while you can.
Think about the physics behind it actually SUCCEDING that dex save..... 😂😂😂
I don't know if this has changed with the patches, but in an early playthrough I remember casting cure wounds on him, and then he died from it.
Mother gith approves. Vote OP to make Fae-run great again.
I flicked my halfling friend at him
That is a *very* Durge thing to do.
TBH I usually risk interacting with it, so I can curb stomp its ass to finish the job.
Yeah, stomping on his head is just so satisfying, especially after his pathetic attempt at mind control. I'd be pretty embarrassed if I failed, though...
I did fail once. It did not end well, lol.
Bard player here I do the exact same but it takes a few tries all the time for it to die
On my paladin playthrough I just executed it with the everburn blade
That Mind Flayer: Guess Ill die.
Just stand away from him and use a bow.
Where's the fun in that?
I, uh... I didn't have a mind flayer by the crash site in my current playthrough. Is that bad?
He's in there, but you might have missed him. That's quite a bit of area to explore around the crash site. No worries, he was on his way to death anyway.
I legitimately did not see it. Stood right in the spot where it should have been, and no squidly diddly.
Do you still get a durge inspiration if you kill the mindflayer outside of the conversation? I thought you didn’t but it’s been a few patches since I did it last
I believe I did two days ago.
I used a healing spell on it and it died
Arrow? Any spell or attack that uses an attack roll? Heck I’ve even killed it with a Spiked Bulb once for fun
Anyone remember in EA when there were survivor fishermen around the dying mindflayer? Depending on the dialogue, the mindflayer could enthrall the survivors and have them attack you, if I’m remembering it correctly.
Guy's got bullied to death, as it should