So I completed Boc's quest for the first time and...

[WhateverWorks]

wtf? There should really be some kind of warning about the outcome, because I really just don't feel right inside now because of the way this situation plays out. I'm going through doing NPC quests since I've never done most of them. They could have made Ranni's quest the main questline and it would have still been as long of a game.

[vamirez]

Be careful when you meddle in the affairs of FromSoft NPCs - Hollywood endings are really rare ;)

[WhateverWorks]

Yeah but this one just made me feel so wrong. There should be some kind of hint, maybe there is and I didn't notice. IDK. Most characters I don't think it would matter, Irina situation felt pretty bad too. Like I really couldn't at least escort her to the merchant's camp?

[vamirez]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

Yeah but this one just made me feel so wrong. There should be some kind of hint, maybe there is and I didn't notice. IDK. Most characters I don't think it would matter, Irina situation felt pretty bad too. Like I really couldn't at least escort her to the merchant's camp?

I don't think there is a hint. Also I wouldn't leave anyone with those merchants... o_O

[WhateverWorks]

I think she'd be alright with the merchant considering he'd be under threat of death from the tarnished. Also, Blaidd's outcome messed me up. He came off like one of the few decent entities in the Lands Between. But I guess if your literal being is bound to someone and they dip out of reality you probably would short circuit.

This games quest lines suck and I love it. I haven't been so captivated with a game since Oblivion released, or maybe the first time playing the Mass Effect series.

[vamirez]

Originally posted by WhateverWorks:

I think she'd be alright with the merchant considering he'd be under threat of death from the tarnished. Also, Blaidd's outcome messed me up. He came off like one of the few decent entities in the Lands Between. But I guess if your literal being is bound to someone and they dip out of reality you probably would short circuit.

This games quest lines suck and I love it. I haven't been so captivated with a game since Oblivion released, or maybe the first time playing the Mass Effect series.

I was amazed that there are a few NPCs in ER that actually have a good ending, or at least survive ;)

[HoboCop]

Everyone have moments of weakness. Boc wanted you to leave him to his fate after that beatdown by other demi-humans. Did you? No. You went there, killed his people, and gave him his mother's needle. That was your one big arse hint - DO NOT listen to Boc when he's at his low. Just remind him of his mother.

Boc is a weak creature, with an incredibly mild mind, who lives in a very depressing world of cruelty and death. He only survived due to his mom, who loved him for what he was. It makes perfect sense that getting reborn into something he's not would only make him weaker, and would also make him feel as if he betrayed his mom's wishes. Thus... suicide.

[DavesBarbaricCookie]

there is a hint for an alternative ending for him, you just gotta keep your eyes peeled and read item descriptions carefully ;)

[HoboCop]

Originally posted by DavesBarbaricCookie:

there is a hint for an alternative ending for him, you just gotta keep your eyes peeled and read item descriptions carefully ;)

Gotta find that item first, which isn't really easy and not everyone would find it before progressing the quest considering ER's game design.

[opus132]

You didn't tell him he was beautiful, didn't you. Monster.

[SoundsOfNight]

From hates their NPCs more than they hate us.

[echo_ML]

I swear every Soulsborne NPC is better off if you don't finish their quest

Still though, Boc's ending is pretty happy as long as you don't give him the larval tear. Just tell him he's beautiful, because he is. :)