Being based onDungeons & Dragons, the developers behindBaldur’s Gate 3made sure to go above and beyond to try and account for every single decision that players make, no matter how stupid. It has certain failsafes to stop you from softlocking your game or throwing away things you desperately need, but Larian somehow managed to predict that some people are just far too committed to choosing chaos, by whacking people that lose a certain key story item with a secret bad ending.If you dont want spoilers, look away now.
In the final Act of Baldur’s Gate 3, you’re tasked with collecting three Netherstones that will allow you to take on the big bad guy, The Absolute. These items are crucial to the game’s plot, and losing them is something that the game goes out of its way to ensure you don’t do, with The Emperor telling you off if you happen to remove one from your inventory and place it in a random box somewhere. You’re not even allowed to throw them like everything else in the game, on the off-chance that you accidentally throw one into a canyon or something.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 players have never been sticklers for the rules though, and YouTuber BOB_BestOfBugs decided to find out what happens if you go out of your way to make sure a Netherstone is completely irretrievable (thanksPC Gamer). To do this, they simply circumvent the inability to throw the Netherstone by placing it in a jar and throwing that instead. Once they throw it off the end of a dock and into a pond, The Emperor calls you out on how much of an idiot you’ve been and things go south very quickly.
You’re immediately transported to The Absolute, who wastes no time brutally turning you into a Mindflayer along with your entire party. You’re then immediately hit with a ‘Game Over’ screen and are forced to restart from your last save, with nothing but a crippling sense of shame for your efforts. If you want to try and get this ending for yourself, be aware that sometimes you’ll need to lose two Netherstones, so verify you don’t end up softlocking your game in the process.
Throwing a Netherstone into a pond is a pretty stupid thing to do, almost as stupid astaking a cackler that does nothing but cause chaos on a grand adventure, but it’s neat that Baldur’s Gate 3 takes such a ridiculous outcome into account and goes out of its way to punish you for it. There may even be other bad endings like this that we haven’t discovered just yet, though I’m sure another daring adventurer will be along to fail where others thought it impossible.
