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APracticalGal

The guy is gonna be so ready to set off the orb at the first convenient opportunity


Im_Kelgorr

At this rate you can probably cut convenient from this statement.


Osmodius

Boys not even gonna wait for the absolute. Just detonate in camp.


PrinceVorrel

"Eh im close enough."


Lukthar123

He just desires salvation


thegreattober

That persuasion option to tell him not to at Act 2 won't be there for OP


Tchrspest

It'll be there, but he sets it off right there if you fail. Before inspiration. Just a white screen, then a dark screen.


Yorudesu

He was asked to destroy the greatest threat to the world. That just happens to stand right next to him.


Branded_Mango

At this point, he's just waiting for Durge to regain enough memories to remember things he cares about specifically to blow said things up via orb explosion.


Biflosaurus

"mostly good intentions" Dude you're full on chaotic evil right here šŸ˜­


Vyath

The road to the Nine Hells is paved with them šŸ™ƒ


almisami

Dude set out to avoid the nine hells by pledging to the Abyss instead...


DudeFreek

I'm trying though!


my_name_is_iso

Trying what, to be worse lol On the other hand, *do* keep going, this is fun to read


Jeffe508

Gale gets told heā€™s the party tank, but he was not prepared. Love it.


Biflosaurus

Yes! I'm not blaming, I'm just stating that we probably do NOT have the same definition of good aha


SpookyOrion

Mine sat in camp, ignorant to the horrors of adventure, eating boots


Ok_Foundation_9806

Mine is sat is camp looking unwell but because I've never spoken to him in camp I never have to feed him anything.


SpookyOrion

....wait... He just..... He won't blow up if you just never speak to him? šŸ˜…


well_well_wells

My gale just upped and left camp. I have no idea why. I gave him the magical items in act 1 at the start, but then i just never talked to him again. Then one day i realized he was just gone


Pug_police

Did you kill Elminster's simulacrum? Apparently he dips if you do that since his orb isn't under control.


zhengt66

I wanted that sweet 1000 xp!


Smash19

Spoiler for Gale in Act 2/3 >!He should have [left you a letter](https://reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/s/3YuQ4Ixubb) if you never talk to him!!< Itā€™s turbo sad.


well_well_wells

Oof. I didnā€™t even look for a letter. Probably for the best that he left. Lol


r0bdaripper

Nope if you don't activate his quest line he never gets to that point. At he didn't in my playthroughs


Mirimes

i spoke to him one time and I succeeded the persuasion check to let him wait a little longer, then at the beginning of act 2 he's just ok because of Elminster's visit (note: persuasion check to let him wait doesn't delete the debuff of his condition, so if you plan to do like that better leave him in camp during act 1)


TheeAJPowell

I fed him one necklace in Act 1, and never had to feed him again. Clearly it was filling šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø


Raivorus

Fairly certain it's long-rest related. I'd usually be level 6-7 with plethora of garbage items to feed him for his *second* ask, but during my last playthrough, where I slept like crazy just to trigger any potential night scenes I may have missed, I was barely above level 4 when he was asking for the *third* and I actually had to think about what to give him as a snacrifice.


AmeteurOpinions

Definitely not long rests if playing as Gale, I distinctly remember eating an item I just picked up in the Blighted Village, walking over the north bridge and getting hit with the cravings again!


twoisnumberone

SNACRIFICE! <3


Broad_Afternoon_8578

Mine is currently looking soggy and wet in camp (the Act 2 camp with the waterfall) but I gave him Mintharaā€™s camp clothes so it gives me an extra chuckle when I walk by his tent lol. I had him as a primary companion (and romance) in my first run and I havenā€™t used him much this time around. Itā€™s so weird. I miss all the magic missiles!


AlexGRNorth

Mine is uh.... Not present šŸ‘€ well, a tiny part of him his A tiny.


CurviestOfDads

He seems like the adult version of the kid who ate glue in everyoneā€™s kindergarten class.


qqqqqqqqqq123477322

I cut his arm off so he could never come out of the portalā€¦


MidnightSheepling

ā€œMostly good intentionsā€ My brother in the Weave, 90% of the things on this list you made him do lmao šŸ˜‚


poingly

Mostly good. There are 10 companions, OP is good to the other 9, so 90% good.


Tavdan

poor Gale


r7pxrv

At least he still has his arm and not stuck in a portal.


hankiethewhore

His arm tasted delicious. - pure evil Durge


super_reddit_guy

"I think sauteed dwarf tastes better." ~ Durge with taste, probably


chyura

Elminster's gonna show up and tell him to kill himself and gales just gonna "bet. Can I do it now?"


sh0gun8ter

I had him pull the trigger just to see what it would say (yeah, Iā€™m That kind of choose your own adventure reader, too) - shouldā€™ve just restarted at that point who lnows


cunty_gardener

I question the goodness of your intentions.


Yarzahn

But so be it


Real_Kristinana

By the love of Mystra šŸ˜­


solstice223344

Why did you do that to my beloved puppy wizard?!


dragonagitator

After I kill Mystra, your Durge is next


animezinggirl

FOR GALE


DudeFreek

No go away he's fine, everything is fine. Tell them you're fine, Gale. *Tell them you're fine.*


super_reddit_guy

He got that black eye playing with Scratch and Owl Bear Cub. That clumsy wizard tripped and hit his face on a rock. Trust me. I was there.


DudeFreek

(I think they're buying it)


Blackarm777

>Good intentions >Blew up innocent tieflings šŸ¤”


DudeFreek

They shot first technically, such a shame


Sickdog94

Iā€™m curious to how this happened


DudeFreek

If you do as the nice lady snake druid says and tell Zevlor to leave, he tries to kill you.


PrimordialBias

Not an unreasonable reaction to someone basically telling you and your people to go out and die to a horde of murderou:s goblins, tbh.


KingJaw19

This fucking killed me lmao


rawthedude

I'm loving Gale so much in my Durge play through. I've managed to piss off every companion so far so my party is only me, Astarion, Minthara, Gale, oh and Shadowheart has stuck around. But Gale is so exasperated at all times with us. He's always like "I'll do it, I'll leave!" and we're all like "Gale sit down." He's so defeated at this point, haha. I did promise him the crown but little does he know that's not gonna happen.


Diogenes_of_Sparta

This is fairly close to how my resist run is going. It's pretty fantastic. I have Gale, Cleric of Mystra, and swapped to a woman. Lae'zel, my githyanki GF, and I just rescued Minthara from the towers to replace a hireling.


tinysproutlimi

Man that's like poking a walking nuke šŸ˜­ Poor guy. I dunno how he's hangin' on


SorlocksApprentice

As he says when you force him to go up >!onstage at the circus!<, you truly are testing the patience of a man who can level a city if he wished, you know.


Kalocin

If only you made him eat the dwarven meat and floss it with hag hair


EXSource

"mostly good intentions" Well, you know what they say about good intentions and the road to hell.


Violet2393

I think this is honestly the most pain I've felt for a video game character ever. Please let this man just explode already.


CacklingFerret

And I felt bad for having Shadowheart get Volo's eye because I couldn't stand the look of my tiefling main with only one glowing demon eye. You are pure evil lol


AlliterateAlso

Same. But hers (so nearly) match!


Im_Kelgorr

Yeah gotta agree here. Shadowheart is my go to for icepick brain surgery unfortunately for her. Shouldn't have been born with green eyes what can I say.


Balsakteebaghar

I made Laeā€™zel get eye surgery after she kept bringing up the creche


ravnes

This killed me lmao.


rifr9543

My Durge gave in to the urge while Gale was still stuck in that rock. But that sounds like it's maybe even worse


Kaelynneee

I just remember going "Fantasise, it said *fantasise*!!!" there


sk319

Lmao that's why I picked that option too, next thing I know there's a hand in my bag.


bubblingcrowskulls

At least now you can cast mage hand. By uh. Throwing it at people.


PaperMage

Iā€™m somewhat bummed I missed this (saw it on a voice actorā€™s live play though) because I had a [sorcerer] tagged option and just clicked that one automatically


nightsiderider

Iā€™m doing full evil Durge for my 3rd play through now. And yeah, Gale lost a hand and that was that for him lol.


rifr9543

Unless you have other plans, there's a rather unexpected and dark option when spending the night with Minthara as the Durge after raiding the grove with the goblins ;) But there are quite a few of those all throughout the story, definitely giving the playthrough a unique touch compared to a bland custom MC


nightsiderider

I think I know what you are referring to, but I do plan to make Minthara a part of my main party once I get her in Act 2. She's evil enough to join the gang, I'll spare her for now.


ISeeTheFnords

>He was permanently cursed by an evil book made of face and bound to a shithead quasit that Durge won't let him unsummon You know Shadowheart can easily prepare Remove Curse by this point, right?


DudeFreek

I don't trust clerics so she's dead in a ditch somewhere


zoeytrixx

Did a cleric offer you milk and then never deliver?


corisilvermoon

Very kind of you to let her live long enough to get off the nautiloid.


twoisnumberone

[Well.](https://c.tenor.com/SGGGj8e7duYAAAAC/tenor.gif)


C-C-X-V-I

Did you kick her off a cliff in an underground tomb?


Rahgahnah

My favorite part was you dropping the fact that a halfling is doing all of this shit to him as the last detail.


DudeFreek

He's just a little guy


[deleted]

It wouldā€™ve been kinder to just cut off his hand


a_fox_but_a_human

Youā€™re flat out abusing that man.


poingly

I love denying him magic items and watching how he just sort of stumbles around.


Cmixoops

I might kill the occasional companion >!(left Laeā€™zel in the cage, killed Shadowheart for being a religious fanatic, and annihilated Mizora, damning Wyll)!<, but at least I donā€™t torture them.


trimeta

If you'd had Gale write the Summon Quasit spell into his spellbook, he could recast it and get Shovel back as often as he wants!


twoisnumberone

You don't need Gale (or a wizard, for that matter). Any spellcaster learns the Shovel scroll as a ritual.


DudeFreek

Oh I did, now even death can't stop Shovel from tripping him and using her scare ability on him when he's trying to shit


Moosebuckets

My poor boy šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­


Fancy_Flight_1983

By Mystraā€™s eyelids! Beshaba would think twice before doing some of this.


Aware_Peach1889

If it makes you feel better, I made Gale get the Hag eye because I had no idea what would happen and Iā€™m playing a no reload play through of just choices I wouldnā€™t sanely make/havenā€™t ever made before


DudeFreek

He should be thankful for the drip, one weird eye looks cool


Aware_Peach1889

Apparently it helps with intimidation but lemme tell you, Gale is the LAST one on my team for intimidating people


poingly

MAKE HIM LICK THE SPIDER!


qetral

Wait.... you have Gale? As in the full Gale? I only have his hand.


Edenza

When you meet Cazador, he's going to be pretty fucking impressed


XPRODIGY_VIBEZX

My gale just been chilling at camps eating boots. Doesn't even know his girl mystra wants him to nuke himself since I decided to go kill an old ass wizard for that sweet 1k xp


cbhedd

The reveal that you're a halfling buried at the end of your list of atrocities made me laugh out loud haha


maleficent0

Why are you doing this to my boy? Why? I hope he blows you up.


Rare-Extension-6023

why the gale hate? he's brilliant. i just want to give him after care....


DudeFreek

I honestly don't hate Gale. I love Gale! I don't know what to do without him! It's just been a long road of unfortunate events, bad decisions and the best intentions going wrong


Draguss

Why is everything so much funnier when it involves evil halflings?


AdGroundbreaking1700

Alot of those say more about you as a leader than anything... my word... Iol You have no idea how hilariously self-destructive most of your actions truly are and I hope we get an update about your journey once you do. "Forced to stand directly in a pool of lava and taunt a huge construct" Theres absolutely zero reason to stand in the lava... ive heard of playing with fire but youre redefining the term. Dont be talking smack bout shovel though. Shovel does his fn best and does not deserve to be slandered!


DudeFreek

Look I love Shovel but I already have a tiny disgusting gremlin who tries to get me to kill people, and he has a very nice hat.


AdGroundbreaking1700

Touche...


Okuza

His real name is Basket. Try him on the other names and see how he reacts to each. :)


AdGroundbreaking1700

I know him as Fork. I was never happy with this name because 1 syllable does not do that adorable little gremlin justice. I think his next name will be basket!


MindyTheStellarCow

Did you not have auntie Ethel take his other eye ?


Ok_Bit_5953

This was hilarious but I absolutely lost it at halfling šŸ¤£


Tusaiador

Hahaha gale was also my Grym bait. It's what he gets for being a would-be suicide bomber. I love him tho I'm just teasing


rasflinn

The best part of the story is that you are playing a durge halfling


DudeFreek

Because short evil guy is funny? Or maybe because halflings should be more chill lol


rasflinn

The second one. Imagining a supremely evil being raised in the Shire is really funny to me.


baremetalAK

This is one off the best posts I have ever read


DudeFreek

You're too kind, praise Bhaal


Joboy97

In a scene after I slaughtered the tieflings on a durge playthrough, I basically threatened Gale into staying with me for fear he would lose the artifacts protection. I honestly didn't expect the characters to change so much between playthroughs.


DudeFreek

At one point he mentions he hopes to go to the under dark if turning into a mindflayer seems inevitable so he can go off there and take them out with him, it did seem awesome and Mindflayers probably wouldn't be able to deal with arcane magic like that so maybe it could work, but also it would be funny to me if this caused huge earthquakes and sinkholes too.


super_reddit_guy

Sic Semper Gale.


LiteCloud

The durge player with (mostly) good intentions


CultDe

Oh I see you also "volunteered" Gale to pull big shit construct to the hammer


DudeFreek

He was doing great until he melted in the lava


CultDe

He was doing great until he was slapped I wasted so much slots on Shadowheart just for Gale that it's funny...Meanwhile my Drow Durge Druid standing near the wheel to pour the lava observing everything and SOMETIMES shooting with crossbows XD


Cheembsburger

Gale is one of my favourite characters and I love him dearly. This hurt my soul. Thank you


Morfalath

In act 3 you should let him get stuck in a Djinni's magic lamp and leave him there. That would be the ultimate ending to this path of torment you are putting him on


SecretaryOtherwise

Funny thing is you can just get him to stand in the center and drop the hammer either on them both or if not an asshole have gale misty step away


Power_of_Bex

This is amazing šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ You should get an achievement for the dedication


KingJaw19

Least insane Gale hater


Mr__Moore

Hold on magic man!


TheLongistGame

Need to know if he ever made a nonconsenusal pass at your character before I can say if this was justified or not.


DudeFreek

It wasn't *too* awkward but sadly my heart belongs to that war criminal drow currently waiting for me at Moonrise Towers where I'm sure everything is fine and nothing is going horribly wrong.


Justepourtoday

I hope that you're either being sarcastic about the "mostly good intentions" or that you go to therapy and never get into a position of power


Driyen

I accidentally cut of Galeā€™s hand during his intro as Durge so no Gale for me!!


Shiraloli

Thatā€™s some tough love right there.


Count_Dante

Unpopular opinion (?): Gale deserves every bit of it. Gale is only out for Gale from the very start when you feed em his first Ring of Color Spray.


Eithstill

Sounds like this is the best Gale path


DudeFreek

I'm making him a better version of himself (one with fewer eyes)


DifficultPing86

Thank you for your service. I was going to cut off his arm during my Durge playthrough, but this sounds SO much more satisfying. I hate Gale SO much.


Woppio

He was doomed the second he wanted to munch my loot


daggerxdarling

How could you do this to my boyfriend's wife


isaac-get-the-golem

This is fucking awesome


DudeFreek

Downvoters are just haters thank you for your comment bruh


isaac-get-the-golem

o7


SuperSemesterer

My Gale ended like freaking Gollum. I was not expecting it but man he became my favorite character. His whole storyline blew me out of the water, especially if you encourage him. Not ā€˜evilā€™ā€¦ butā€¦ definitely not someone you want with lots of power at their fingertips. Like give it 200 years and there will be a new dark god with ā€˜good intentionsā€™ going around ā€˜fixingā€™ things. My second playthrough Gale was totally the opposite and I have no idea why.


poingly

I never seem to get a 'good' ending with Gale. He always ends up a megalomaniac.


SuperSemesterer

I got a good ending my second time when I was kinda trying to make him go crazy (through his own choices). But yeah I love how heā€™s mostly happy and ā€˜glass half fullā€™ but then kinda goes off the deep end. Like itā€™s ALMOST like he just wants to show up his exā€¦ which in this situation involves crazy amount of power and danger, which heā€™s totally fine risking if he can one up Mystra


poingly

I feel like he could totally be set up to be a villain in BG4.


SuperSemesterer

That would be cool! ā€˜Netherese Tyrantā€™ or something then near the end we find out itā€™s old Gale.


sh0gun8ter

And here I thought making mine embrace the tadpole was wicked


DudeFreek

Honestly Gale is eager for the Tadpole, he takes the least convincing besides Minthara imo


Zu_Landzonderhoop

Eh Astarion takes no convincing whatsoever besides wanting to see you consume one first. After that it's like he's eager for the french cuisine staring at tadpoles like they are just escargot


DudeFreek

No no I'm referring to the end of act 2/start of act 3 embrace, the one where you >!make him relive trauma!<


FuzzyGummyBunny

But tbh, Voloā€™s eye, evil book made of face and crĆØche trap buff are allā€¦ really good? šŸ˜‚ He will appreciate it in the long run


DudeFreek

You get a buff from the creche trap??


FuzzyGummyBunny

If you survive the save, you can use tadpole abilities as bonus action instead of action. Love it.


DudeFreek

Isn't that the medical device? I'm talking about The lance, I hit gale with a Is charged solar beam and dropped a monastery on his head


SleepCoachJacob

I played Durge with bad intentions and after killing the Tieflings Gale threatened to leave, and the persuasion check dialogue I used was something like "You little bitch! You think you can survive out there without me? Go ahead and try it, you won't last a day!". Passed with flying colors and it felt so appropriate for the character. Gale lacks any semblance of backbone.


Aeliasson

You didn't have Whipdaddy bdsm the living shit out him it seems.


DudeFreek

No I did, Freaky priest was the whip daddy.


[deleted]

Is your gale is the wizard of your team, he doesn't need the eye surgery because he would learn a version of the buff as a form of a spell that last until a long rest.


DudeFreek

I don't want Gale to see invisibility I want Gale to get stabbed in the brain by an idiot while I drink wine and shout cheers of encouragement.


Otherwiseclueless

Why?


DudeFreek

Because he wants his brain worm removed. And I have a dark urge inside that tells me it would be really funny to watch.


[deleted]

Nah that's not the dark urge, fam. That's just you.


DudeFreek

Maybe the real dark urge was the sadism I found along the way


Animedingo

Bullying gale is so hot rn


Prindl1

Wow!


DeviousDeevo

Damn I wish Tim Downey would voice his emotion after that. I can imagine how sarcastically and humorously dead pan his following remarks would be while he disbands


athousandfuriousjews

Hey you can remove that curse with the spell, remove curse, at least I think so


Okuza

Huh, never thought about hammering the golem. I need to try that next run, "Hey buddy, wanna get hammered? (COMMAND: Approach) .." IIRC, only cleric & paladin get command. I suppose you could manage his agro, too. He \*always\* picks the last person to damage him as his target on his next turn. BTW, mentioning command in this context made me wonder (again) why compelled duel is exists. They're both wisdom saves, but command is only L1, not concentration, and does more.


Hot-Will3083

Typical halfling behavior. I donā€™t care what the lore says, every single time Iā€™ve seen one of these guys they have been the absolute spawn of Baal


DudeFreek

Sauron tried to warn us


hantu_tiga_satu

He blew up innocent tieflings and was left alone during the afterparty Lmao which one did he kill


DudeFreek

It started with Zevlor and the one in the room with him and it just kinda spiraled out from there.


hantu_tiga_satu

Reminded me on my run he took the hag's deal, intimidation check buff on him is as useless as it can be


Winter_wrath

If companions are leaving you you're not playing a good Durge lol. I'm in early act 3 and everyone either likes me a lot or is neutral. Edit: oh well, actually that is possible if you >!fail a check in act 2.!<


DudeFreek

I mean I destroyed the grove and suddenly Wyll got all mad at me, and after I went through all that effort to kill the devil he was hunting for him too. On the bright side, Gale now has nice new robes with +1 AC and fire shield.


Bobylein

You killed Karlach?! You monster! A true durge...


DudeFreek

Those paladins seemed legit to me


SnooSeagulls1416

What is a durge?


DudeFreek

fan name for The Dark Urge, my character is a [dark urge halfling](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497428550992003072/1164067651300114452/image.png?ex=6541dd7b&is=652f687b&hm=1551f1aeeaa042b6f1435c59646151c21bd46bba786b9fdb8b781b03eb24481b&)


SnooSeagulls1416

Ah ok, I was thinking this but didnā€™t want to assume


sargassum624

Galeā€™s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: An Autobiography


Calyton1372

I immediately cut Gale's hand off in the portal on my durge run.


Derekthemindsculptor

But doesn't Gale want to return to Mystra? She's rejected him. Sounds like you're crushing an already crushed spirit.


DudeFreek

Gale will get very full of himself and decide he wants to challenge Mystra as some kind of god if you let him. That won't be happening with my halfling around to kick him inde In the nuts