Volo's eye surgery.

[Raz]

I'm not typically a squeamish person. I can deal with gore, torture, horror, all manners of nonsense and shenanigans but its something about Volo digging in my characters eyeball that just makes me squirm and not want to look at the screen. The scrapping noise against the back of the eyesocket, Amelia and her narration of the scene so even if I turn away, I hear it all. Just... *shudders* Ugghh.

Then the scene lasts unbearably long due to all the bloody prompts you get!!! There is like, six! WHHHYYYY! Hurry up and yank out my eye for my magical one so I do not have to continuously suffer the narration, Volo!!!

[Minnzy]

I got mildly uncomfortable when it happened honestly. Couldn't say no to the buff though! Really hammered it in there though which made my eye tingle a bit lol

[Lemon]

wait, you're not supposed to eat the blue m&m volo gives you?

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Minnzy:

I got mildly uncomfortable when it happened honestly. Couldn't say no to the buff though! Really hammered it in there though which made my eye tingle a bit lol

First time I did not even know about the buff.

[Raz]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Minnzy:

I got mildly uncomfortable when it happened honestly. Couldn't say no to the buff though! Really hammered it in there though which made my eye tingle a bit lol

First time I did not even know about the buff.

Damn eyeball is better than See Invisibility 'cause it keeps doing a roll check whereas the former doesn't seem to trigger as often. Always gotta get that Volo eye, but gods above and devils below... the friggin' scene

[OldWhovian]

Volo's Eye Surgery is one of those things I meta game. I'd never make a character stupid enough to try it unless they had the foresight to know that they get see invisible out of it.

[seeker1]

Far better than Volo's surgery is True Seeing.

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Unimplemented_spells#True_Seeing

It's in the game as a level 6 spell, just left unimplemented, so only mods can bring it back to the player.

I can tell you if you use it, not only does it reveal invisible assailants during the Vault fight, but keeps them from reassuming invisibility (you don't even have to cast Faerie Fire on them or any other spell).

May be why Larian left it out of the game. LOL.

[jonnin]

the short range and low probability of success + its easy to get see invis all day with a scroll or potion for the few places its an issue make this 100% flavor and totally skippable.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Raz:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

First time I did not even know about the buff.

Damn eyeball is better than See Invisibility 'cause it keeps doing a roll check whereas the former doesn't seem to trigger as often. Always gotta get that Volo eye, but gods above and devils below... the friggin' scene

Just make sure to keep the character outside the haunted house until the exorzism is done.

[Piperbird]

I'm pretty good with everything, but eyeball stuff is my 'thing'. Ugg, it just makes me squiggly. I get through this scene peeking through my fingers so I can only see the dialog at the bottom of the screen until it's over.

Same with the opening cinematic. I pay very close attention to the wall until that's over.

[[TG] zac]

I can relate, I am the same way with my teeth when it comes to the dentist.

I do mechanical engineering and fabrication for a living, served two tours in the marines and grew up on a farm.
I have been cut, had lacerations (IED fragmentation), been kicked by a horse, had broken bones a number of times, been stabbed (accidentally fell on a railroad spike when I was 15) and been burned rather badly (welding accident as a teenager scared my left lower forearm)

With most of them I was able to go to a nice quiet place in my mind and tune the world out.

But someone holds a drill on one of my teeth ? It don't matter what they have dosed me with it still makes me extremely uncomfortable.

[Chaosolous]

I'm not squeamish at all for bodily harm.

Unless it's an eye thing. I can't watch eye things. They make me very very uncomfortable. Probably because one of my biggest practical fears is going blind.

I couldn't do the Dead Space scene with the eye needle either.

[Favonius]

I see what you mean.
I'm usually laughing when watching horror movies, but that scene is my limit
To the point i'm not taking the buff very often. I usually say to myself that RP-speaking my Tav would never do that, but the real reason is the cutscene is a real pain.
The buff is great and the price is high, i think it"s a good balance.

[Isengrym]

I just did this recently on my second playthrough. My first character was definitely too sensible to go for it. This time around, I the player knew about the buff, and Volo made the offer just after the "Dream Visitor" first appeared, so I rationalized it as my character being desperate enough to try it even though Volo is clearly unqualified to perform the procedure. She thought that dream indicated that the tadpole was getting stronger and messing with her, so she was ready to try anything to get rid of it.

It was really hard to watch, though. I am squeamish, and that scene had me shuddering. I can't watch the tadpole insertion at the beginning of the game, either.

[seeker1]

Spoilers?

That Volo screws up the surgery on your eye ... well what does he NOT screw up? As Minsc once says of Volo, "this man cannot hurt a fly! I know! I once saw him try!"

Yeah, the answer to your tadpole is some idiotic bard doing amateur surgery on you with an icepick. That's REALLY gonna work. I didn't even have to look for spoilers to doubt this would work. But yes, I eventually heard after succeeding at nothing but mauling your real eye, you get a consolation prize of an artificial eye with see invisibility on it. Now you and Wyll both have fake eyes (though his is a sending stone).

As said above, see invisibility is an easy spell to cast and get in a variety of ways, it really doesn't make the eye all that good, even IF you won't use mods to obtain True Seeing. But it has no downside, other than when you look at your character's face and notice visually one of the eyes looks ... fake.

[Isengrym]

Oh, I know it requires massive in-character stupidity. I rationalized my metagaming as the character being so desperate she'd just try it anyway, despite all misgivings. She's also trying to resist the Dark Urge, so anytime she does something very stupid and likely fatal, part of her is thinking that it might not be such a bad thing if she died anyway.

On my second playthrough I'm trying to do some things I haven't done before. Sometimes they require some mental gymnastics, as in this case. *shrug* Now I know how that scene goes. And Wyll has something to say about it afterwards!