Orin kidnapping so annoying (SPOILERS)

[Vizebrator]

This happens pretty early in Act 3 and it feels like in order to get things back to normal you have to rush after a final boss. That is why I had to load a save to avoid going into the sewers even though the game design nudges you to stumble upon the sewers asap after entering the lower city. If a random party member is going to be taken and you have to jump through hoops to get them back you really shouldn't force the player to greatly advance in the main storyline when there are side quests we'd like to get done first.
There is a right way to go about having a party member get either killed or temporarily kidnapped and a wrong way to go about it. Larian did this the wrong way. This can be done for the sake of writing without greatly irritated the player for gameplay reasons. For example in Baldur's Gate 2 Aerie can end up killed at a certain point in the main story and it makes sense storywise but you can also immediately take her body to a specific temple you likely already cleared out and resurrect her. It doesn't force you to proceed further down the main quest line like it does in BG 3.

[Fluff]

Publicado originalmente por Ranpo:

pretty useless anyway, doesn't give good info and is shy.

Oooof

[Censuur]

Publicado originalmente por Forblaze:

I think Yenna disappearing is a glitch.

It's not a glitch. Yenna is Orin. Gortash will all but outright tell you this, but you can also infer as much from talking to the cat, whom if events progress far enough she'll end up feeding to you.

[GrandMajora]

In my Dark Urge playthrough, she kidnapped the kid. It was funny that she thought a hostage would act as a deterrent for stopping me coming after her.

When I showed up in the temple, I told her flat out to go ahead and kill the hostage, as only a child plays with their food.

[yasko21]

Dont know about it but she got helsin.....i have time :D. i think she will let him go when he begins to flirt :P

[Forblaze]

Publicado originalmente por Censuur:

It's not a glitch. Yenna is Orin. Gortash will all but outright tell you this, but you can also infer as much from talking to the cat, whom if events progress far enough she'll end up feeding to you.

No, Yenna is not Orin. Yenna is a potential kidnap victim and both can be on screen at the same time. If you trigger the kidnapping through the long rest, Yenna will also still be alive after Orin dies.

The scene you're describing where she feeds you the cat is when she kidnaps and is impersonating Yenna, the same way she can kidnap and impersonate another one of your companions.

[Caerbannog]

It was Lae'zel for me. I didn't get her back until the end of the game after every quest had been done. She had several lines of dialogue saved up for me, though. In fact, she repeated a few. I should've kept her in my party so Halsin would get stolen. I never brought him out to play in BG once.

[['w']]

Publicado originalmente por Forblaze:

Publicado originalmente por Censuur:

It's not a glitch. Yenna is Orin. Gortash will all but outright tell you this, but you can also infer as much from talking to the cat, whom if events progress far enough she'll end up feeding to you.

No, Yenna is not Orin. Yenna is a potential kidnap victim and both can be on screen at the same time. If you trigger the kidnapping through the long rest, Yenna will also still be alive after Orin dies.

The scene you're describing where she feeds you the cat is when she kidnaps and is impersonating Yenna, the same way she can kidnap and impersonate another one of your companions.

But the game also tells you that there is someone in your camp who is orin and maybe she impersonated the already kidnapped follower, but I also believed that she was all along the child.

Well guess I'm wrong.

[Forblaze]

Publicado originalmente por |wilb|:

But the game also tells you that there is someone in your camp who is orin and maybe she impersonated the already kidnapped follower, but I also believed that she was all along the child.

Well guess I'm wrong.

You can also tell she isn't Orin by the fact that she doesn't have legendary resistance, which everyone Orin is impersonating *does* have.

[kgmi]

Publicado originalmente por phlegmo:

It was Halsin in my case so I was like "oh noes.... anyway"

Wasn't in any rush to save him

You think they had hot, sweaty, bear on slayer form sex in bhaals temple ?

[['w']]

Publicado originalmente por Forblaze:

Publicado originalmente por |wilb|:

But the game also tells you that there is someone in your camp who is orin and maybe she impersonated the already kidnapped follower, but I also believed that she was all along the child.

Well guess I'm wrong.

You can also tell she isn't Orin by the fact that she doesn't have legendary resistance, which everyone Orin is impersonating *does* have.

good to know

[Morpheuskibbe]

In my game when I went into the emperor's basement 'lae'zel' showed up to reveal that she was kidnapped. I reloaded a save like 5minutes earlier, just before going down there, and put lae'zel in my party. Yenna then showed up as the kidnapee

It seems the target isn't chosen till just before its revealed, and you can short circuit it by having the target in the party making it default to Yenna.

[Smart Sheep]

In my case it was Gale, who I didn't care but was worried that not saving him would be an immediate game over blowing up the entire Faerun.

[Edstyles]

Publicado originalmente por Wild Child:

Publicado originalmente por Gvyomar:

Hi, Orin kidnap Halsin in my campaign, but the problem is that too disappear from the camp Yenna. She abandon it suddenly without leaving a letter, something that others NPC do when left the camp. Only the cat remains.

I have no idea what has happened to her.

@Ranpo, the cat is beautiful and amusingly fluffy, so is very useful :D

Exact same with me. Halpin taken and Yenna vanished.

sounds like a bug or oversight . Happened to me too. Tho i have no idea why this kid wanted me to take care of her. I mean we are in the middle of a war xD But i thought fine lets give it a go for content sake but ended up being nothing.

Its act 3 after all quite messy.

[Lard]

Gale always gets kidnapped for me for some reason. This is why i love Orin. She is doing me a favour. Wear his skin, girl. I'm rooting for ya

[Ichthyic]

Publicado originalmente por Ranpo:

She'll only kidnap Laezel, Halsin and Gale, if you have these three in your group, she'll kidnap the kid and kill the cat.

NOT THE KITTY!!! NOOOOOOOoooooooooo....