Help! My partner accidentally had clown sex (in Baldur’s Gate 3)

polygon.com:

Baldur’s Gate 3’s companions really make the game. They each have a fascinating backstory, distinct personality, and of course, a beautiful (or extremely horny) romance arc. Work hard enough to earn a companion’s trust, and you can share a heartfelt exchange and a beautiful night of intimacy. Just beware of what items you have equipped when that happens… because they just might show up.

[Ed. note: The rest of the story contains spoilers for the Shadowheart romance arc, and the very beginning of Act 3.]

We had just entered Rivington, and of course we went right into the Circus of Last Days. The whole crew was there: My Druid character along with Astarion, plus my partner roleplaying a Monk named Dex and his girlfriend Shadowheart. We weren’t about to pass up some lively entertainment, or the chance to murder a clown named Dribbles. We made lively conversation with Akabi — who luckily did not turn us into a wheel of cheese — and with Zara the Mummy.

Unfortunately, my partner made one dire miscalculation. He took up Zara on her offer of face paint for Shadowheart, his beau and our party’s primary healer. What he did not know was that it would be clown paint, and that it could not be removed until a long rest. What he also did not know was what would await him.

Off to a long rest we went, ready to wipe the clown paint off Shadowheart’s beautiful mug. But she had some things she wanted to tell Dex first, and some things she wanted to do with him.

Reader, my partner is afraid of clowns.

Obviously, I was watching the whole thing (kinky) and helped my partner make sensible dialogue choices while he hyperventilated. We were in this together.

Shadowheart took Dex to a beautifully secluded spot, a shoreline where waves gently