Dark Urge Story?

[GrandMajora]

Alright, so I got the scene with the bard and my butler appeared, but after that I can't find him anywhere in camp, and nothing seems to be triggering any new cutscenes regarding my origin.

I really, really don't want this playthrough to be like my Astarion one, where I somehow was doing something that skipped or ignored any of his vampire content until Act 3.

What do I have to do to get more scenes with my butler? Because if The Dark Urge turns out to be another disappointment, then I might just stick to using custom Tavs from now on.

I chose Origins specifically to explore their unique stories, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do to prompt their advancements.

[zastcat]

cause massacres, hang out with bad guys, and generally do things that you'd expect from somebody whose only understanding of chaotic evil as an alignment is "lol stab everybody"

that or just stand around being brooding and conflicted during every dark urge dialogue option that comes up, generally speaking unless you're shooting first and asking questions when they're a corpse you'll inevitably run into *somebody* who will have some dialogue with 1 of your characters if you explore enough

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by zastcat:

cause massacres, hang out with bad guys, and generally do things that you'd expect from somebody whose only understanding of chaotic evil as an alignment is "lol stab everybody"

that or just stand around being brooding and conflicted during every dark urge dialogue option that comes up, generally speaking unless you're shooting first and asking questions when they're a corpse you'll inevitably run into *somebody* who will have some dialogue with 1 of your characters if you explore enough

Okay, I did pretty much every side quest I can think of in the first section of Act 1.

I even killed Esther, and have just killed the inquisitor in the creche, and still no new scenes involving The Dark Urge have happened. Not even stabbing the dream visitor at Vlaakith's command got any kind of unique response.

Once again, it seems to be repeating the same scenario as Astarion, where the unique Origin scenes are few and far between, or even non-existent as the case seems to be for me.

As I said before, I chose the Origins specifically because I wanted to see how they alter the gameplay experience. But if it seems to me like those changes require very specific prompts to trigger, then I may as well not even bother with them from now on.

Should just play a Tav, because it doesn't make any difference right now.

[ComradePreacher]

The butler comes to you, he will ask of you later in Act 2, only if you're hip enough to do such.

[Kyutaru]

The next scene should be to kill a certain person in Act 2, so first you have to get there and possibly even meet them. Just keep resting regularly so other cutscenes don't overwrite your chance.

[Ephemerant]

I haven't even had the butler show up in my playthrough, and I'm at the Underdark now. I had the scene with the Bard and everything.

I've been resisting as much as possible. Does that keep the butler from showing up?

[ComradePreacher]

Let me say this again, aslong you've had the bard scene, he will come to you in Act 2 for a new..Prize. He will arrive some camp night when you've progressed a lil bit of act 2.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Ephemerant:

I haven't even had the butler show up in my playthrough, and I'm at the Underdark now. I had the scene with the Bard and everything.

I've been resisting as much as possible. Does that keep the butler from showing up?

No, he showed up in my camp during one of my rest scene after the bard.

Did you successfully hide the body, or pass the memory check? That's what I did.

[Morgian]

Bard? Butler? Now I know I must have missed something.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

The next scene should be to kill a certain person in Act 2, so first you have to get there and possibly even meet them. Just keep resting regularly so other cutscenes don't overwrite your chance.

Who is this person? I've already beaten the game as Astarion, so there's not much you can give away in terms of spoilers at this point.

I don't want to have to rely on guess work, because as I said, I was extremely disappointed with my Astarion playthrough. His vampirism never came up a single time in my whole playthrough, until the very end of his quest where I had to confront his master.

Maybe it's because I was using his bite attack in battle to keep him happy? I don't know, but I expected a hell of a lot more out of his gameplay than what I ended up getting.

[Ephemerant]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Ephemerant:

I haven't even had the butler show up in my playthrough, and I'm at the Underdark now. I had the scene with the Bard and everything.

I've been resisting as much as possible. Does that keep the butler from showing up?

No, he showed up in my camp during one of my rest scene after the bard.

Did you successfully hide the body, or pass the memory check? That's what I did.

I don't remember if I passed the memory check, but I'm playing 100% trying to resist always, so I didn't hide, and confessed to the group.

[GrandMajora]

Originally posted by Morgian:

Bard? Butler? Now I know I must have missed something.

The tiefling bard that's torturing the squirrels.

You can find her in the grove, along the pathway leading to the harpies. Take a detour off to the side and follow the singing.

Pass the dexterity check to smash her lute, and you should eventually get a unique camp scene for The Dark Urge.

[Xiwang]

im roleplaying it as someone who is trying to get over that urge, but takes every single excuse to kill anything. i managed to make astarion dont behave like a pendejo in the first meeting and keep him alive.

because for a serial killer like the dark urge if you treat it poorly it will come and kill you later. the characters near the dying dwarf, i killed them by being honest so it was slef defense, the goblins? all dead because goblins are evil and wyll put in my mind that idea, so the entire goblin camp is empty of life now.

the paladins dead because karlach said they were evil, shadowhearth? she behaves like a decent human being when you are honest with her and treat her like a decent human being so you can keep her. laezael ignored because she is just mentally deranged aka as tsundere and as the story progress while she is not in my party i can only feel pity for her, but depending on what she does she will be killed in the mountains.

when i found the bard's corpse i forced to do nothing an confronted the party, wyll didnt give a flying eldricht blast about it. karlach and shadowhearth disliked it but i was honest with them and they said they wont leave me but will keep and eye on me to prevent that from happen again, im waiting to see what happens next.

probably gonna delete the entire goth yankees race from the game,

[Ephemerant]

Originally posted by GrandMajora:

Originally posted by Morgian:

Bard? Butler? Now I know I must have missed something.

The tiefling bard that's torturing the squirrels.

You can find her in the grove, along the pathway leading to the harpies. Take a detour off to the side and follow the singing.

Pass the dexterity check to smash her lute, and you should eventually get a unique camp scene for The Dark Urge.

No, you don't need to smash the lute to get the scene. I didn't smash the lute and got the scene.

[Morgian]

Ok, looks like I missed the trigger event, because I never found the beach with the harpies, and never interacted with the children there. Seems like that cuts any "dark urges" right out of the game.
That is probably a bug, as it should be something ongoing, and not a one-time thing.

[Ephemerant]

Originally posted by Morgian:

Ok, looks like I missed the trigger event, because I never found the beach with the harpies, and never interacted with the children there. Seems like that cuts any "dark urges" right out of the game.
That is probably a bug, as it should be something ongoing, and not a one-time thing.

You can be a "good guy" resisting Urges and still get the Bard scene. I think the only requirement is interacting with her and making an impact.

Up until that point, I resisted every chance I could get.