When do you guys typically trigger the first Dream Visitor night?

[Raz]

I am messing around to see how far off I can hold back the Dream Visitor coming to me at night to stop me from turning Illithid. I am about to hit the Githyanki Creche and have not had the sequence yet due to not sleeping often, and making sure other higher priority night events take effect (Tiefling night party, Wyll becoming a devil).

[Chaosolous]

TBH I never plan around it, so... whenever it happens.

[Mike Garrison]

I believe it is always triggered by trying to cross the bridge into the goblin camp. Obviously you also need to long rest, though.

[Raz]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

I believe it is always triggered by trying to cross the bridge into the goblin camp. Obviously you also need to long rest, though.

Yes, crossing the bridge triggers the flag for it to happen, however, if you queue up higher priority cutscenes to happen upon starting your long rest, it will not happen. Like I said, I am about to hit up the Creché and haven't gotten the scene yet. Goblins are all dead. Paladins are dead. The scenes associated with them take priority over the night sickness due to transforming.

[belgix]

Originally posted by Raz:

Yes, crossing the bridge triggers the flag for it to happen, however, if you queue up higher priority cutscenes to happen upon starting your long rest, it will not happen. Like I said, I am about to hit up the Creché and haven't gotten the scene yet. Goblins are all dead. Paladins are dead. The scenes associated with them take priority over the night sickness due to transforming.

You probably need to clear the backlog of cutscenes in your game. I don't know if the game could play more than 2 in one night (got that once in my playthrough). It might be but I doubt, you need to camp on the first encampment for that specific cutscene to trigger. You don't have a real DM to fix all this kind of issue for you ;-)

[Chaosolous]

Sounds like an interesting experiment either way, be sure to let us know if you ever get forced into it.

[Raz]

Well, damnit lol... Trying to go to the Creché auto forces you into a Longrest to meet the dream visitor. I am assuming the same would be true if I went through the Underdark to hit the Shadow Cursed lands.

[Mike Garrison]

Originally posted by Raz:

Well, damnit lol... Trying to go to the Creché auto forces you into a Longrest to meet the dream visitor. I am assuming the same would be true if I went through the Underdark to hit the Shadow Cursed lands.

I figured it would. The dream visitor needs to tell you to "stay away from the Githyanki" and also needs to save you from the Zaith'isk.

And of course, if you eventually go into the Planecaster....

[Raz]

Originally posted by Mike Garrison:

I figured it would. The dream visitor needs to tell you to "stay away from the Githyanki" and also needs to save you from the Zaith'isk.

And of course, if you eventually go into the Planecaster....

The ***** talks to us whenever we come across a tadpole pre-meeting them (tadpole at the grove, all the tadpoles at the Goblin camp) so figured warning us not to ♥♥♥♥ with the Gith would follow a similar thought process.

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Always happens to me in the Underdark, I hate it.

[Razorblade]

The scene will be forced to trigger during any "area-transition" camp scene (Wilderness to Rosymourn or Grymforge to the Shadowlands), so that's as far as I've gotten during normal gameplay. I'm pretty sick of Act 1, and tend to rush through it, so I normally get the scene then.

That being said, transition-camps are pretty buggy, and are skippable with certain glitches, so I've made it all the way to the Act 2 point of no return without seeing the Dream Visitor, before getting bored with that playthrough. If you don't rest during Act 2 until the point of no return (if I recall correctly), you'll skip the two Dream Visitor cutscenes during that act, and not see the Dream Visitor for the first time until the transition between Act 2 and 3. However, while you won't see them, they will speak to you telepathically in Act 2, so challenge partially failed, I suppose.