Moonrise Towers used to have two towers and more regions were planned…
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I don’t know if it’s been culled by now in patches, but when I played there were still lines by the narrator talking about the consequences and “if you do this, there’s no going back” regarding the brain worms. All lies, it turns out.

I have no clue why they cut it, but having it actually impact your potential choices and your endings would be thematically appropriate and make for fun and difficult gameplay choices, I would have thought.

The lack of consequences for the brain worms - and lack of rewards or even mentions for abstaining! - was part of why Act 3 soured me on the game quite a bit. Come on, not even a silly achievement for not using any Illithid power all playthrough?

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Yeah, I was very dissapointed by that as well. As far as I’m aware, the only time it matters is when

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The Emperor offers you the Astral tadpole, if you used any worms you have to pass a check that grows harder the more worms you consumed to resist using it, if you abstained you can just say no.

Big shame that’s all that remains of this system.

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Furthermore, there is an option to destroy the special “gift” if you can resist accepting it. However, all you get for doing so is a few brief lines from the Emperor. Your companions don’t seem to notice, and there isn’t even an quest log update.

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Yeah but even that is pointless because there are literally zero consequences to accepting the Astral Tadpole! Even though you’re half Illithid supposedly it all kinda just goes away in the happy ending. I don’t get it.

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Wait you can go half? I took it and became a full on mindflayer immediately. Was this changed in patches?

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As I recall there are two decisions. First you get the choice of the Astral Tadpole, which opens the outer ring of mindflayer powers and gives you black veins in your face and the status “half-Illithid”.

Later - as part of the ending - you can decide to become a full on mindflayer, because for some arbitrary narrative reason the mcguffin can only be operated by one.

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Oh that’s right

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Pretty sure there is an achievement for not using any right?

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There wasn’t when I played but it might have been added in a patch.

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the consequence is that your character looks like shit with black veins all over the face after the awakened upgrade

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My first character actually ended up looking better lol, like more badass than before. But omfg do NOT give it to Shart.

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