A sacrifice, or a leap of faith.

Do you want mindflayer abilities, or do you want it to be the other guy?

Six months after your partings at the docks, Withers summons everyone back to camp for a party.

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing Shadowheart looking fondly up at the player character [Don’t use this one for a hero image, her haircut/colour is a spoiler]

It feels like the setting for a fix-it fanfiction - and I’m sure in several places it is.

If you want to hug your friends, there are new hugs.

If you want to wear a really fancy outfit, there’s a chest full of dyes and partywear.

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Music is playing, Halsin is dad dancing, and everyone is happy to see you.

This can, at times, stretch your suspension of disbelief.

The horror there is that validating and gratifying outcome in itself.

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing the campsite decorated for a feast, and a bard surrounded by glowing instruments

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing Withers and the player character in a stone room, saying ‘she is not here’.

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing Lae’zel with a purple glow around her, saying how violently happy she is to see the player

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing the player character and Halsin sharing a friendly hug

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing an issue of the Baldur’s Mouth Gazette, with headlines about vampire spawns, Elturian refugees, and a new bardic school

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing a letter from Mayrina, describing her plans for her life with her new baby, Connor

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing Withers beckoning the group to a toast

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing Milil, the Lord of Song, protesting that the player doesn’t know who he is

Screenshot of Baldur’s Gate 3, showing the player character wishing a toast ‘to the hope of more adventures to come!’