The community praises Baldur’s Gate 3 for the many possibilities the game offers. Most of it seems planned. However, some interactions apparently are bugs. A player has now discovered what happens when he throws a certain cat in Act 3 – and warns others not to do the same.
Spoiler Warning: We are addressing a point from the main story in Act 3.
What’s up with the cat?
- Räupchen, or in English Grub, is Yenna’s cat. You meet the lively girl in Act 3 of the game.
- Yenna and Räupchen are important for the story of the game: Orin, one of the 3 antagonists and a shapeshifter, might take Yenna as a victim and abduct her.
- However, before that, she will kill Räupchen – and in the form of Yenna, make your whole party eat her flesh as a stew.
This is what happens after the throw: At this point, the user lalo___cura on Reddit found the lifeless body of Räupchen in his camp. To prevent the corpse from just lying around, the player wanted to “pack her with the other corpses” in his crate.
However, since the cat’s body overwhelmed him and he didn’t want to “sneak” to the chest, he decided to throw the corpse without thinking, with serious consequences. lalo___cura reports:
- Räupchen suddenly stood up again and hissed at him
- A fight immediately broke out between him and the cat
- As a result, all the other companions also joined the fight – on the cat’s side
- Even the dog Kratzer, whom he actually doesn’t have in the camp, appeared
In the end, his companions beat him to death. Jaheira, who is actually something like the strict mother of the camp, supposedly said: “Woe to you if you die on me now!”, while she finally snuffed out his lights.
“He warned you. You didn’t want to listen”
The thread received over 6,800 upvotes and 300 comments within a day, making it one of the largest in the subreddit for Baldur’s Gate 3. Other fans have quite biting comments for the unfortunate one.
For instance, it is said: Räupchen warned him. If you ask the cat with the spell “Speak with Animals” if you may pet her, Räupchen declines. The tomcat doesn’t want that. Others are glad that the cat is okay – the well-being of the player is of secondary importance.
Räupchen is apparently not the only corpse you shouldn’t mess with. Another player killed the devil Raphael and took his body to teach the demoness Mizora a lesson.
Wyll and his father didn’t take that well and attacked him right away. From my own experience, I can also say that even living cats don’t make very good missiles.
Once I threw a very arrogant four-legged creature, who called me his slave, onto the street, and the entire city guard immediately took notice of me. As a Dark Desire, that was more of a problem for the guard than for me.
An “better,” albeit questionable use for corpses has been found by another player:
The best weapon in Baldur’s Gate 3 is a little girl, but she is not doing so well
