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The whole absolute side of things is really kind of screwed up and badly written. At least the Druid path kind of makes sense. Only a truly insane character would side with the cult, no rational character could.
If you think you came up with a rational in game reason you are not rational. If you wanted the gear out of character that's fair enough.
infiltration and no i didnt get the stupid brand, that puts a huge visible target on you
Even infiltration is not a rational reason. It's the closest you can get to it, but given your situation and given the lack of a true invitation to join you're up against a timetable of sorts and there's every reason to believe as soon as some people who aren't distracted or goblin realize they don't know you they wouldn't off you.
Plus the realization you have to kill a likely healer and all his people to join up... and even if you find out you might have more time than you originally thought to find a healer before running into that choice you aren't going to feel comfortable with a brain slug and would want it out asap if you aren't insane...
Only a character who is in universe a complete moron or insane would join.
Now your playing with fire. If you did that, would you ever planes travel again? omg what would happen if you "woke" that tadpole in your brain? Or somehow another being, besides a mind flayer, with psion ability figured out how to use it to control you. Then you become the slave, to a new master!
My theory is that something in Faerun prevents the tadpole from evolving. It's even mentioned in part of the starting cinematic somewhere. That, in the legends of past, the mind flayers have used someplace as an incubator. But the beings don't transform until after they are taken back to the nautaloid.
I dunno, maybe just my imagination running away with me.
Don't need to theorize too much. The mindflayers modified the tadpoles with netherese mcguffin magic. Known.
The cults clerics are drawing power from Bhaal as he's in league with them in some way - pay attention to the gobbo cleric. That allows them to masquerade the psionic influence of the flayers as a new god. Known.
They want to connect with the far realms maybe, or back in time if they're silly enough to go full comic book. Bhaal to gain full divinity again, them to start the mindflayer incursion and rebuild their society for real.
We know that the goblins are not the only ones who worship the Absolute. The tower we are suppose to be headed toward at the end of the current EA is suppose to be one of the follower's bases of operation. So chances are better than good that there are still other Absolute followers we will run into and if nothing else having the Mark ourselves should mean maybe they are not immediately hostile.
Additionally(purely speculation now on my part), I fully expect toward the end game that this Absolute will become something more commonly known about. Chances are high(imo) that there will be people who recognize the symbol later in the game and are immediately hostile toward those with it, or are also in league with this group and it opens doors(game paths) that would be unavailable without it.
Personally I have no doubts that to get the "super happily ever after ending" we will have to completely avoid using the tadpole and siding with the Absolute. My only question on it is if there will be degrees of bad endings. I could see both turning into a Mindflayer completely being possible or maybe winning the day for the Absolute and ending up some kinda thrall to it.
I'd like to see an option to say "screw you" to everyone and you and the tadpole taking things into your own hands(tentacles) and maybe co-oping the ceremorphosis process to become something new...a Mindflayer with the thoughts/abilities/soul of its host still intact, which is supposedly a prophecy of some kind among the Mindflayers.
WHat do you think? :)
Ofc it will. U are essentially giving in to whatever is the evil boss of this game.
We may see some more things about it in act 2 but my guess we might only be able to recruit certain companions depending if have the mark or not.
As to why is the mark there. Well Simply to give player options . Doesnt mean its bad writing :p Remember its a game before a book. If you want to be the most evil of things possible to mankind well you got your options. If you want to make a deal with Raphael(The Devil) even tho obviously its a bad choice. U probably can.
Im thinking this game is going to have a multitude of player options never seen in any other game.