One terrifying Baldur's Gate 3 player has crafted a 'darkest timeline' playthrough which gives everyone the worst ending—except the puppy
As spotted by IGN, one Baldur's Gate 3 player has meticulously planned out a 75-step playthrough which gives every carefully written, lovingly acted NPCs of Baldur's Gate 3 the worst ending possible.
This isn't just some murder run where everyone dies. Reddit user Sparkism (who rather fittingly has the 'Bhaal' flair) specifically devised a step-by-step plan to make everyone in the Sword Coast as miserable as possible. It's meticulously detailed, breaking down the choices required act by morbid act.
The run begins with a few obvious steps—don't get Shadowheart out of the pod, don't rescue Gale—but it quickly takes a dark turn with commands like «pick up Astarion, he'll be important later,» and «recruit Wyll. He's an important piece.» This is immediately followed up by the step: «Let Arabella get bit. Steal her body and show it to her parents.» Shot and chaser.
Sparkism doesn't pick sides, either—after all, routine evil is so pedestrian. Remember the tiefling by the telescope, the one who nearly gets ganked by a bugbear assassin? Sparkism recommends you kill the bugbear, steal her soul coin, and then hurl her off a cliff. Indeed, they aren't content to just lay waste to the Druid Grove like any power-hungry source of evil.
«Set the Gobs on the grove. Turn on Minthara. Wait until the tieflings are massacred, then save whoever remains. Send them off and party,» Sparkism elaborates that this is for the «delicious Kagha cutscene», which I assume is the one where Arabella's parents exact their vengeance on her, and not some dark outcome I'm unaware of because I'm not fantasy Joker.
Perhaps the pettiest suggestion they make is this: «With Laezel in the party, go to the mountain pass and speak on her behalf whenever possible.»
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