... one of the items reminds me of a Family Feud meme edit I saw years ago xD Host: "Name a spell that would help you break out of prison stealthily." Contestant: "... Fireball! Wai-" Host: "FIREBALL? To BREAK OUT?" Contestant: "... Yes?" Host: "STEALTHILY!?" Contestant's family: "Yeahh!" "You're damn right!" "GOOD ANSWER!" Host: "Okay... let's uh... look what the board has for 'a spell that would help you break out of prison stealthily.' The top answer given in our survey says..." ... DING Host: "FIREBALL!??????" Contestant's family: "HELL YEAH!"
@@alzzarla4610 Honestly, who would Knock, Alter Self, Mass Suggestion when Fireball is right there. (Couple of weeks ago our sorc tried to lightning bolt a pickpocket. A child pickpocket. An orphan child. While our city guard escort was. standing. right there. Getting out of THAT one involved my enchanter turning his familiar into a dwarf [who could only say chrrp chrrp... so convincing] and trying to pass him off as the culprit. Somehow this worked.)
Considering you can miss a majority of these type of interactions by just disregarding the animals or not even taking animal speak is insane to me. Really feels like a campaign where the DM just says "Whatever, talk to the stupid rat named SKITTLE of all things instead of my hand crafted, carefully well thought out characters"
I now want to run a crazy homeless person who is acting as a pillar of the community for rats, raccoons, pigeons, the odd vulture, and so on. Act as an intermediary for a bazaar in the storm drains.
@@mattwo7 There's a type of wild mouse that hunts (bugs?) by the light of the moon and howls ultrasonically when it kills! I also had a hamster who laughed audibly when he was tickled. Even had one who sang to us. Rodents are very cool.
Gosh a permanent vendor in camp would be amazing, and it'd have been doubly so if the only way to unlock that is by finding this rat and having the ability to converse with it lol, two very specific things, but that's what makes it a secret feature. Would have been a cool secret find.
I thought for sure the joke would be that he sells garbage because rats have a different idea about what is and isn't valuable, and then he just happened to sell everything you could need to do a jailbreak.
Just when I thought this game couldn't be even more amazing, I find this video. I lost it when the rat had thieves tools and a scroll of dimension door, the exact things needed to escape a prison LOL 😂. These developers are so clever.
His puns are more on point than his cute lil nose. Vote to get Skittles to join the party somehow. Look at him, you could just carry him about and feed him tender morsels of yummy treats.
It blows my mind how much time and effort and voice lines they have put in this game that a lot of people won’t even get to hear, because it requires casting a spell first. Like Speak with Animals or Speak with the Dead. So awesome.
@@meme13100 It's a reference to Warhammer Fantasy: specifically the Skaven (evil Ratmen) and how there's a whole conspiracy to hide the fact they exist from the general (human) population. Which the fandom exaggerates to even the concept of "talking rats" being completely preposterous to the average person.
I never thought someone could rival cat puns and what animal does it? A rat! Well now that I think about it it does make sense as cat and rat do rhyme with each other so all the cat puns that just cat instead can be replaced by rat but they also came up with some pretty unique ones! Anti-Cat Pun propaganda give the other animals room for puns!!!😂
Prisoner: Excellent, those bastard guards didn't find the Scroll of Dimensional Door I had tucked away, now to find... it... oh gods... WHERE THE HELLS IS IT?! Skittle: Rat-astrophe for you, friend, but cheese-ing to my customers!
Pay attention to the spells he had. Every one of them tells a plan to escape prison, make guards chasing you slip over on the Grease'd floor, and then set fire to them all when they're covered in grease. 🤣
So, I got the speak with animals spell on my bard thinking that it might be useful once in a while.... I think I've spoken to more animal than non-animal NPC's at this point. There are Just so many animals out there with useful stories to tell.
Goes to show that Larian REALLY did their homework. Not only they made a far above average RPG video game, but also FULLY based on TTRPG like they intended. 3 times out of 5 talking with animals in the game can bring more insight, lore and flavor to any quests you're currently undertaking than talking with human/humanoid NPCs, big example is the elder rothé you met very early in Grymforge. The way he talks about _The Ketheric Thorm_ sets the tone much better than Halsin himself or Jaheira later on. Not to mention that, if we ever got a chaotic narrator update in which Milly is allowed to be sassy and make snarky comments all the time like she is in the outtakes, pretty sure the Narrator would be like "Yeah, sure, you got like a thousand different matters to attend to, many of them directly envolve different evils that threaten most if not ALL LIFE but... sure, spend 45 minutes talking to a rat merchant while you peruse his wares, I'll just be over here... wondering why _I_ waste my time with _you_ *loud sip of coffee*"
