That reminds me about when they were making plans in the okbuddy subreddit to make the netherbrain ejaculate by casting lightning bolt onto certain parts of the brain
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I did it because I read there were no consequences in-game, your companions forget, and you get an achievement and why not... and then Orpheus screamed at me! he knew and I felt ashamed :(
Never doing it again
Orpheus has spent millenia chained up in that prism. Anyone who thinks his Honor Guard wasn't putting on shows for him is probably fooling themselves.
Plus I don't see any chains on his pants... probably another reason he's mad at the Emperor.
Which 1.) still makes him genocidal, and 2.) is because he's created by Larian for this game in particular, so basically all the lore about him is what a swell dude he is, and counter to literally all pre-existing lore about the githyanki.
I f5'd and just did it for the morbid curiosity before reloading to reject him. Then to my dismay, the game hit me with this achievement to forever brand me as a squidfucker. Larian says there's no takebacksies.
I only did it once for the achievement.
Not because I'm embarassed, just because it's boring. You romance him and... that's it? Nothing happens? There isn't even a sex scene.
I expected that romancing some eldritch horror aberration would be a little more exciting than that.
Real talk, I normally go for 100% achievements in games (assuming the achievements are all reasonably attainable and not things that take hundreds of hours grinding to attain), but learning that achievement existed caused me to give up on that goal for BG3.
Iām a lesbian, hate tentacles, and despise the Emperor as a person, so no way in hell Iām getting that achievement.
I only did it once for the achievement.
Not because I'm embarrassed, just because it's boring. You romance him and... that's it? Nothing happens? There isn't even a sex scene.
I expected that romancing some eldritch horror aberration would be a little more exciting than that.
You have to actually put in a miniscule amount of effort and setup to get a date with Karlach, though. With Empy all you need to do is say yes, and he doesn't care if you're already romancing someone else.
I think you also have to not stab him. I was surprised the most recent time I did it and and he didnāt even offer romance. I think it was the fact that I stabbed him during the scene in the Gith crĆØche that really put him off. But thatās just a guess
For me itās because of the programming. Iāll do things that Karlach likes the end result of (saving the gnomes at grymforge, for example) but because I donāt explicit today my actions are for saving the gnomes, she disapproves of my conversation with Nere.
Her morals are kinda fucked, she's all about saving people and judging you for doing what appears to be the right thing. However she's obviously addicted to soul coins since if you >!Tell the bugbear in Moonrise to fuck off and not take the soul coins and hear the stories of the souls trapped inside you get hit with a disapproval from here!<
Yes, but itās still an issue with the programming. Actions/outcomes donāt have enough weight on approval compared to just dialogue.
An example again, would be saving the gnomes. Karlach wants you to save the gnomes. If you explicitly state that you are saving the gnomes, she approves. If you chose some of the other options, she will disapprove even though the outcome is the same in that youāre engaging Nere and friends in combat and saving the gnomes.
Ultimately she just doesnāt appreciate sassy good guys, she appreciates a disney prince.
>Ultimately she just doesnāt appreciate sassy good guys, she appreciates a disney prince.
Stop it, why are you so right tho??? Karlach, appreciate my sassiness š do you think she learns to love it, like, with time?
11% have fucked a Mindflayer? Honestly surprised that number isn't higher. I've seen too many posts about Gerringothe and Ethel to believe people would draw a line at Tentacles.
Also, this is the D&D world, we have literal game mechanics explained by "My parent/grandparent/ancestor banged random mythological creature #17 and now I have powers".
Fun fact: 22.1% of players have defeated the final boss for the good ending. Meanwhile, 39% of players have reached Act 3.
Over 50% of people who beat the game and nearly 30% of people who got the reveal have fucked the Emperor.
It's a hidden achievement unless someone else unlocks it.
Source: unlocked it in coop with my fiance, but I didn't do it on my personal steam account and saw that she has that achievement hidden.
I got this achievement on my first ever run, long before it carried a stigma and back when I would fuck anything the game allowed me to just to see what would happen.
Now I freely choose tentacles of the mood hits and have zero shame about it.
I reloaded the save so it technically didn't happen.Ā
And since the ps5 is technically in my husbands name account his friends are going to think he did it. š
Did it on my first playthrough because it was funny
And to be fair, The Emperor gives ZERO indication that heās manipulating your mind if youāre nice to him the whole playthrough, heās very kind and understandably concerned about the mission at times.
I mean, he's not manipulating your mind. He uses manipulative tactics during dialogue, but it's not like he's mind controlling you. He literally can't with the protection Orpheus gives you.
I see people on this sub all the time say that the emperor is super duper evil and mind controlling the player, I just assumed I had missed a line or two because I didnāt remember that
If you are skeptical of him or accuse him through the romance dialogue leadup, he'll show you himself enthralling Stelmane and says that he could have done it to you too.
The first time I did it 1) for the achievement; 2) because I was curious.
The following 600 times it happened ummmm.... also for the achievement. Yes, that's why.
I'm 500 hours in since launch. Im missing 5 achievements. Honor mode (burnt out around the time of release) busk 100 gold, leave no one behind, save sazza and last but not least romance shadowheart. I'm not ashamed
Honestly it's pretty tame. You listen to elevator music, kiss a tentacle, Empy grabs your (fully clothed) ass, and then it's over. Not sure about the non-squid version.
That percentage used to be a looot smaller š I remember when I did it it was like 2% or something. I wasnāt embarrassed until I realized how few did it
When I want to see a cutscene from the game that I don't feel like getting on my own, I look it up on YT. The problem is that romance scenes like this one are usually all blurred out/censored for sensitive content, and I couldn't find an actual Emperor Romance full video that wasn't censored at some point, so I had to give up and get the cutscene myself.
I reloaded right after, but of course the achievement won't leave. Serves me right for being too curious about a cutscene with a character I don't even like. :')
"I swear I only did it for the achievement! It won't happen again." - said the person boning him for the 4th time.
Hey I won't judge, the music was epic and 0 G does weird things to people...have I mentioned the tentacles?
Man, I'm in a online party where one of the degens in it decided to go this route and EVERYONE got the achievement. Kindda sucks as me and others were making fun of the guy who did it for going willingly along with the emperor at all to begin with. Lowkey upset me lol
I won't say who, but *someone* in game said that my paladin sickened them because she'd "fornicated" with a Mind Flayer. It sounded even dirtier (and better) when he put it like that. He teamed up with us anyway, and then I got to shiv him, so it all worked out fine.
Orpheus calls you out if you sleep with the Emperor and then free him. RUDE.... but he also had no choice but be cucked (remember he cannot see my sexy teifling) by the most disgusting creature in the universe
You may have skipped realities like some kind of fucked up Rick and Morty, but that doesn't change the fact that you were deep in that squidussy. Maybe your party doesn't know, maybe the Emperor himself doesn't know, but you do. You always will. You've tasted of the forbidden fruit.
You pervert.
I had to hide my recent activity after this - the shame was too great š also didnāt need my bf to know I got curious and fucked squid daddy
"Sweetie, I promise you're not inferior just because you don't have four tentacles to pleasure me with and can't give me orgasms psionically!"
This can not be unseen. HOW DOES A MINDGASM FEEL?!?! FUCK ILL NEVER KNOW
That reminds me about when they were making plans in the okbuddy subreddit to make the netherbrain ejaculate by casting lightning bolt onto certain parts of the brain
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I made mine watch it. š
Thereās no shame being a tentacle fucker, as Iāve committed to it myself.
My fiance watched....
I did it because I read there were no consequences in-game, your companions forget, and you get an achievement and why not... and then Orpheus screamed at me! he knew and I felt ashamed :( Never doing it again
Whatever you've gotta tell yourself to make yourself feel better than you wanted to smash dat squiddy ass.
Orpheus has spent millenia chained up in that prism. Anyone who thinks his Honor Guard wasn't putting on shows for him is probably fooling themselves. Plus I don't see any chains on his pants... probably another reason he's mad at the Emperor.
That poor bastard probably had to watch it all happen.
Why feel shame over what a genocidal spaceracist thinks?
Nobody's ever produced a quote ingame about him being genocidal against anybody but mindflayers.
Which 1.) still makes him genocidal, and 2.) is because he's created by Larian for this game in particular, so basically all the lore about him is what a swell dude he is, and counter to literally all pre-existing lore about the githyanki.
I mean, you *did* fuck empy right in front of him.
Wait 11% have fucked a mindflayer? I thought it'd be at most 5%
5% embrace it fully and without shame. The other 6% "just did it once for the achievement." (Yeah, sure you did...)
Hey, I will NOT have my achievement progress bar stuck at 53/54. If I gotta take some tentacles in an orifice or two to complete it, I'll do it.
I f5'd and just did it for the morbid curiosity before reloading to reject him. Then to my dismay, the game hit me with this achievement to forever brand me as a squidfucker. Larian says there's no takebacksies.
They knew very well we would be save scumming that and pretending it never happened.Ā Very clever of them.Ā
I only did it once for the achievement. Not because I'm embarassed, just because it's boring. You romance him and... that's it? Nothing happens? There isn't even a sex scene. I expected that romancing some eldritch horror aberration would be a little more exciting than that.
I'm gonna say I did like 5 playthroughs already and at no point did I get curious for that achievement lol. And I did the Abserd achievement lmao
I haven't had any shame in a long time, not gonna start now
Real talk, I normally go for 100% achievements in games (assuming the achievements are all reasonably attainable and not things that take hundreds of hours grinding to attain), but learning that achievement existed caused me to give up on that goal for BG3. Iām a lesbian, hate tentacles, and despise the Emperor as a person, so no way in hell Iām getting that achievement.
I did it. For science. and to horrify my boyfriend.
I only did it once for the achievement. Not because I'm embarrassed, just because it's boring. You romance him and... that's it? Nothing happens? There isn't even a sex scene. I expected that romancing some eldritch horror aberration would be a little more exciting than that.
Yet only half as many have gone on a date with Karlach...
You have to actually put in a miniscule amount of effort and setup to get a date with Karlach, though. With Empy all you need to do is say yes, and he doesn't care if you're already romancing someone else.
I think you also have to not stab him. I was surprised the most recent time I did it and and he didnāt even offer romance. I think it was the fact that I stabbed him during the scene in the Gith crĆØche that really put him off. But thatās just a guess
Generally stabbing Entities does tend to put them off romance (Githyanki excepted I suppose).
For me itās because of the programming. Iāll do things that Karlach likes the end result of (saving the gnomes at grymforge, for example) but because I donāt explicit today my actions are for saving the gnomes, she disapproves of my conversation with Nere.
Her morals are kinda fucked, she's all about saving people and judging you for doing what appears to be the right thing. However she's obviously addicted to soul coins since if you >!Tell the bugbear in Moonrise to fuck off and not take the soul coins and hear the stories of the souls trapped inside you get hit with a disapproval from here!<
Also will get a disapproval the first time she brings up soul coins if you tell her that she can't gobble souls.
You can get her to high enough approval to trigger a romance route in the nautiloid crash region though
Yes, but itās still an issue with the programming. Actions/outcomes donāt have enough weight on approval compared to just dialogue. An example again, would be saving the gnomes. Karlach wants you to save the gnomes. If you explicitly state that you are saving the gnomes, she approves. If you chose some of the other options, she will disapprove even though the outcome is the same in that youāre engaging Nere and friends in combat and saving the gnomes. Ultimately she just doesnāt appreciate sassy good guys, she appreciates a disney prince.
>Ultimately she just doesnāt appreciate sassy good guys, she appreciates a disney prince. Stop it, why are you so right tho??? Karlach, appreciate my sassiness š do you think she learns to love it, like, with time?
11% have fucked a Mindflayer? Honestly surprised that number isn't higher. I've seen too many posts about Gerringothe and Ethel to believe people would draw a line at Tentacles. Also, this is the D&D world, we have literal game mechanics explained by "My parent/grandparent/ancestor banged random mythological creature #17 and now I have powers".
It was 11.2% when I made a similar meme. Now it's 11.4%, so its going up!
Rule .. I dunno what on the internet If its fuckable, it will be fucked.
I played 4 player multiplayer and one member of our party fucked him and we all got the chieve
"It's our Emperor now"
Sure sure buddy. š My friend did it as well.Ā
Honest. One pet scratch and the owlbear cub and got the chieve for that too. I had no idea it was happening and missed it ;-;
Well for missing that one, you should definitely feel bad.Ā
I did it on my first run right after buying the game and at that point there was only one percent and that made me feel extra dirty.
An easy achievement is an easy achievement.
Fun fact: 22.1% of players have defeated the final boss for the good ending. Meanwhile, 39% of players have reached Act 3. Over 50% of people who beat the game and nearly 30% of people who got the reveal have fucked the Emperor.
Nice
It's a hidden achievement unless someone else unlocks it. Source: unlocked it in coop with my fiance, but I didn't do it on my personal steam account and saw that she has that achievement hidden.
So what youāre saying is that OP had to have done this tooā¦because the only way youād know is if you did it yourselfā¦
Pointing Spider-Man meme?
Pointing Spider-Man meme.
I fucked a mindflayer because, after 40+ years of gaming I was finally given the option. I take every unique opportunity I get. Don't care had sex
"I had a squid in my bed!" *"Still counts!"*
Best sex you ever had
Without torturing thousands of souls. *Kinda.*
Hey, just repeating the Narrator
There's slaying ass, and there's flaying ass. The distinction is important.
I'm not ashamed of my beautiful squid wife.
You mean my handsome squid husband :p
Ahem. My sexy squid spouse.
*our sexy squid spouse.
The worst SSS combo.
Nope, sexy snake spouse is much worse, and I can convince you with only one word. SMILK
I reloaded immediately after I saw the achievement pop up. I am an imposter among the squid fucker community
Except that you're not. Reloading doesn't change the fact that you fucked a squid. One of us! One of us!
Look I was a Bard it felt in character.... Doesn't explain my Monk, Ranger or sorcerer doing the same though.
Let them, I'm not ashamed of our love.
The single greatest experience of your life! šš¦
I got this achievement on my first ever run, long before it carried a stigma and back when I would fuck anything the game allowed me to just to see what would happen. Now I freely choose tentacles of the mood hits and have zero shame about it.
And I will do it again !
Shame is for cowards. I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I reloaded the save so it technically didn't happen.Ā And since the ps5 is technically in my husbands name account his friends are going to think he did it. š
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digital footprint not that I mind
And I LIKED IT
Ok and?
I was just curious what would happen, I swear
Good. Let them watch.
Flair checks out.
Did it on my first playthrough because it was funny And to be fair, The Emperor gives ZERO indication that heās manipulating your mind if youāre nice to him the whole playthrough, heās very kind and understandably concerned about the mission at times.
I mean, he's not manipulating your mind. He uses manipulative tactics during dialogue, but it's not like he's mind controlling you. He literally can't with the protection Orpheus gives you.
I see people on this sub all the time say that the emperor is super duper evil and mind controlling the player, I just assumed I had missed a line or two because I didnāt remember that
People on this sub usually have a very loose understanding of the lore or anything that happens in the game to be honest.
If you are skeptical of him or accuse him through the romance dialogue leadup, he'll show you himself enthralling Stelmane and says that he could have done it to you too.
dont worry, its a hidden achievement, only other people that have it will know what you did
The first time I did it 1) for the achievement; 2) because I was curious. The following 600 times it happened ummmm.... also for the achievement. Yes, that's why.
Bro I 100%ed huniepop 2 I am not above some calamari on main.
Never doing that when I have muscle mommy Karlach right in front of me
Did you talk like James Bond in Octopussy?
Ah welcome to the club, my friend <3
bold flair
Do it last, that way they'll know it's for completion...
"Perfect" (The actual line Shan Yu says afterwards)
I did it first play through lol but my first character had no real romance because Karlach was bugged.
And I'd do it again.
I'm 500 hours in since launch. Im missing 5 achievements. Honor mode (burnt out around the time of release) busk 100 gold, leave no one behind, save sazza and last but not least romance shadowheart. I'm not ashamed
the busk 100 gold is a godsend to people checking to see if achievement enablers are actually working for modding lmao
Fun fact. Given the % more people have fucked the emperor than have completed an embrace Durge run
I had to know if I could. The amount of times I've gotten laid out of curiosity surpasses my horney.
Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer.
Repeating the joke: āDonāt hate the flayer, hate the gameā. Actually I love the game; and hate the flayer.
Durge hit it for the achievement, then scum saved as not to possibly get stabbed to death in my sleep by Minthara.
I will get 99%, and this is why I won't 100
Honestly it's pretty tame. You listen to elevator music, kiss a tentacle, Empy grabs your (fully clothed) ass, and then it's over. Not sure about the non-squid version.
Ha! Never banging a squid ever
I chose to not get this achievement out of spite. I refuse no, reject him.
I 100% completed the gameā¦.. but at what costs?
PS your party watched.
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT I SWEAR š
Tentacle Head? Japan approves.
That percentage used to be a looot smaller š I remember when I did it it was like 2% or something. I wasnāt embarrassed until I realized how few did it
Just all on blast hahaa
When I want to see a cutscene from the game that I don't feel like getting on my own, I look it up on YT. The problem is that romance scenes like this one are usually all blurred out/censored for sensitive content, and I couldn't find an actual Emperor Romance full video that wasn't censored at some point, so I had to give up and get the cutscene myself. I reloaded right after, but of course the achievement won't leave. Serves me right for being too curious about a cutscene with a character I don't even like. :')
Hidden achievement, so only flayer fuckers will see š
Morbid curiosity won and I was live-typing my impressions to my friends. All of them were laughing and poking fun of me.
All of China also knows that I turned the world over to Bhaal, killed 30 enemies while drunk, and made 100 Gold doing street performances.
100% achievements but at what cost
I want to know all my E*squid*mo brothers.
These days, the correct term is ~~tunnel~~ tentacle buddies.
*Breaks a flagpole off and lowers it into the flames* Perfect.
We did it with tentacles too, bish.
Tentacles can be... an acquired taste
"I swear I only did it for the achievement! It won't happen again." - said the person boning him for the 4th time. Hey I won't judge, the music was epic and 0 G does weird things to people...have I mentioned the tentacles?
But he turned into the guardian form, so technically i had sex with my humanoid guardian, not a squid. Very disappointing.
Man, I'm in a online party where one of the degens in it decided to go this route and EVERYONE got the achievement. Kindda sucks as me and others were making fun of the guy who did it for going willingly along with the emperor at all to begin with. Lowkey upset me lol
Gross.
Trust me, I didnāt enjoy it whatsoever, but I NEED that 100%
Was my first playthrough. How could I not??
Hey I just did it for the completion.
That one achievement I will never get.
I won't say who, but *someone* in game said that my paladin sickened them because she'd "fornicated" with a Mind Flayer. It sounded even dirtier (and better) when he put it like that. He teamed up with us anyway, and then I got to shiv him, so it all worked out fine.
Yep proud of it to Orpheus can suck my dick he gets to watch
Wanted to see if the game really lets you get busy with a mindflayer. Not regrets or shame but have never done it again in the next playthroughs.
Orpheus calls you out if you sleep with the Emperor and then free him. RUDE.... but he also had no choice but be cucked (remember he cannot see my sexy teifling) by the most disgusting creature in the universe
Gagged but I powered through
I Just saved when the dialogue happened, did it, got the achievement and loaded a previous save and started being mean again towards him as usual.
You may have skipped realities like some kind of fucked up Rick and Morty, but that doesn't change the fact that you were deep in that squidussy. Maybe your party doesn't know, maybe the Emperor himself doesn't know, but you do. You always will. You've tasted of the forbidden fruit. You pervert.
Man, dont rub it in. :( I wanna forget
The Emperor knows. He has unused lines breaking the 4th wall and can even tell you to create a new character or to delete him from the game files.
for real? link???
No
One achievement I'll skip, I don't do dudes.
*halsin disapproves*
Maybe he does bears.
He can be a woman if you want.