I Guess I Should Have Eaten It
I feel tricked. ;p It is my second full play through, the first one being back in 2023.
>!At the end of Act 2 (or start of Act 3, I guess) I met the Emperor, and he handed me the Astral tadpole. I failed my saving throw (I think it was Wisdom) and was left with two options: Eat the tadpole, or accept it. I did not choose "Eat" because I read the line to mean that would be absorbing it, which I did not want to do. So I had no option but to accept it (I cannot remember the exact wording, but it was the only other option after I failed the roll) -- and now I am horribly disfigured and partial illithid (because being the child of Bhaal wasn't enough for me, apparently, lol.)!<
>!So ... if I had "eaten" the tadpole ... would that have actually destroyed it, instead? ;p !<
Because I feel like I definitely thought it meant something else!