Help with understanding story in Act 1.

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

I just got the cut scene with the guardian for the first time, after playing for about 30hours.
I am now extremely confused and conflicted over this story...
SO... we play for all of act 1 only to learn at the end of it that the ilithid powers are good? Are we supposed to be suddenly ok with the idea of a parasite in our heads because a dream guardian told us so?
It feels like characters I meet with a parasite in their heads are ether evil and part of some weird cult, or is a potential companion...
wtf is even going on...

[['w']]

I guess they try some 3D chess, what ever choice you take you will be f.... meanwhile you are on borrowed time and try to appease the dream guardian, but play all fields.

[GM Morgan]

If you’ve got an evil psychic worm in your brain would you trust your dreams when they tell you ‘nah, your powers are fine. Why do you go get some more?’ Or would you be smart and not trust it.

[igor140]

I think you're asking the right questions : )

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

Originally posted by GM Morgan:

If you’ve got an evil psychic worm in your brain would you trust your dreams when they tell you ‘nah, your powers are fine. Why do you go get some more?’ Or would you be smart and not trust it.

Yeah, this is what I am considering. The dream guardian could just be a mindflayer messing with me. What pisses me off is that stuff can just happen to your character for the sake of the story, but almost everything else that happens in game is based on ability tests/saves. So surely I would have the chance, no matter how small to pass the wisdom saving throw to see through a mindflayer trick... and at the very least I would be made aware my character just had to make a wisdom saving throw.

Kudos to the writers for actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with us just like mindflayers do. But I can't help but feel the actual fury and frustration that my character would be feeling. (especially after Astarion calls me a party pooper) >:(

[Angelina]

Choices. You don't have to follow the advice of the guardian. You can totally go against their wishes and never use the power.

[Xenomorph Kitty]

Originally posted by MΛRCUS HΞLIUS:

Originally posted by GM Morgan:

If you’ve got an evil psychic worm in your brain would you trust your dreams when they tell you ‘nah, your powers are fine. Why do you go get some more?’ Or would you be smart and not trust it.

Yeah, this is what I am considering. The dream guardian could just be a mindflayer messing with me. What pisses me off is that stuff can just happen to your character for the sake of the story, but almost everything else that happens in game is based on ability tests/saves. So surely I would have the chance, no matter how small to pass the wisdom saving throw to see through a mindflayer trick... and at the very least I would be made aware my character just had to make a wisdom saving throw.

Kudos to the writers for actually ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with us just like mindflayers do. But I can't help but feel the actual fury and frustration that my character would be feeling. (especially after after Astarion calls me a party pooper) >:(

In my first complete run I finished a couple of nights ago, the entire run I didn't use a single illithid speech check and didn't absorb any more worms either. I never fully trusted the guardian, or at least my character didn't. I just said things to appease it and ignored it's constant telling me to eat worms x)

The mental conflict is indeed nice to follow.

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

Originally posted by Angelina:

Choices. You don't have to follow the advice of the guardian. You can totally go against their wishes and never use the power.

Curse this game for having such freedom! ;)