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'''Feed the Mind Flayer''' is a [[Quest]] in [[Act Three]] of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with the starving [[Mind flayer (windmill)|mind flayer]] in [[Rivington]].
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'''Feed the Mind Flayer''' is a [[quest]] in [[Act Three]] of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with the starving mind flayer in [[Rivington]].
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==Objectives==
==Objectives==
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{{Quest objective|Kill a humanoid and pick up the body.|
<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Kill a humanoid and pick up the body.</div>
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* A ravenous mind flayer asked us to bring it a humanoid to feast on.
* A ravenous mind flayer asked us to bring it a humanoid to feast on.
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{{Quest objective|Bring the body to the mind flayer.|
<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Bring the body to the mind flayer.</div>
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* We killed a humanoid for the mind flayer - hopefully this will sate its hunger.
* We killed a humanoid for the mind flayer - hopefully this will sate its hunger.
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{{Quest objective|Quest Complete|
<div style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6;">Quest Complete</div>
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* We defeated the mind flayer.
* We defeated the mind flayer.
* We convinced the starving mind flayer to hunt for its food.
* We convinced the starving mind flayer to hunt for its food.
* We left without helping the mind flayer.
* We left without helping the mind flayer.
* The now-sated mind flayer granted us a boon of psionic power.
* The now-sated mind flayer granted us a boon of psionic power.
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== Walkthrough ==
== Walkthrough ==
Screaming can be heard from the [[Abandoned Windmill|abandoned windmill]] in Rivington (X:44, Y:-32). Lockpicking the old rusty door allows the party to investigate. A hatch leads to the windmill basement, with an unconscious [[Mind Flayer]] within.
[[File:Abandoned Windmill.jpg|thumb|Abandoned Windmill]]
Screaming can be heard from the [[Abandoned Windmill]] in Rivington {{coords|44|-32}}. Lockpicking the old rusty door allows the party to investigate. A hatch leads to the windmill basement, with an unconscious {{CharLink|Mind flayer (windmill)|Mind Flayer}} within.
 
Interacting with the Mind Flayer provides the following options:
 
* {{Dialogue option|''It doesn't '''feel''' very fortunate.''}}
* {{Dialogue option|''Wake the newborn mind flayer.''}}
* {{Dialogue option|'''WAKE UP, SQUIDFACE'''|tags=Barbarian}}
* {{Dialogue option|''Connect your mind to this fledging aberration - wake it up.''|tags=Great Old One}}
* {{Dialogue option|''This abomination's existence pollutes the very thin air - try to end it.|tags=Paladin}}
* {{Dialogue option|''Attack the creature before it wakes up.''}}
* {{Dialogue option|''Sneak away.''|roll=Stealth|dc=10}}
 
Choosing to attack the creature immediately starts combat with a level 8 mind flayer. Killing it provides a {{SmRarityItem|Mind Flayer Brain}}, which can be consumed, as well as a Windmill Key, {{SmRarityItem|Ring of Truthfulness}}, a random gemstone, and {{SmRarityItem|Absolute Orders: Newborn}}. Consuming the brain grants one illithid potential. Killing the Mindflayer will also earn the [[Inspiration|Inspirational Event]] '''Kill 'Em While They're Young''' ([[Haunted One]] background).
 
If choosing to wake the newborn, the party can hear its demands. It explains it needs a fresh brain to feed on. This can be responded to in several ways:
* {{Dialogue option|I'll see what I can do.}}
* {{Dialogue option|I can fetch you a corpse, freshly killed. Brain intact.}}
* {{Dialogue option|I never work for free.}}
* ''Offer the mind flayer the body you're carrying.''
* {{Dialogue option|Go find your own meal! Even weakened you're more powerful than anything out there.|roll=Persuasion|dc=15}}
* {{Dialogue option|I will not let you feed on anything in this city, aberration.|tags=Paladin, Druid}}
* {{Dialogue option|I'm not going to bring you food.}}
* {{Dialogue option|''Attack!''}}
 
=== Suitable corpses ===
[[File:Dead Refugee Chapter 3.jpg|thumb|Dead Refugee which can be fed to the Mind Flayer.]]


Interacting with the Mind Flayer provides the following choices:
If agreeing to help the Mind Flayer, it is necessary to find a corpse. Any random corpse will do, including killing random NPCs.


* It doesn't feel very fortunate.
* {{CharLink|Ferg Drogher}} is particularly apropos for this as he walks away to tattle on Shadowheart.
* Wake the newborn mind flayer.
* Attack the creature before it wakes up.
* [STEALTH] Sneak away.


Choosing to attack the creature immediately starts combat with a level 8 mind flayer. Killing it provides a [[Mind Flayer Brain]], which can be consumed, as well as a Windmill Key, [[Ring of Truthfulness]], [[Bloodstone]], and Absolute Orders: Newborn. Consuming the brain grants one illithid potential.
Previously existing corpses will also work. Some options include:
* A dead refugee near the Ironforge Gnome hideout {{coords|45|66}}
* A murdered refugee in the Well in front of Sword Coast Couriers
* {{CharLink|Brilgor|icon=Portrait Ghost.png}} buried behind the {{coords|-106|-19|Open Hand Temple}}
* {{CharLink|Lorgan|Father Lorgan}} in the Open Hand Temple {{coords|-57|-22}}
* {{CharLink|Ffion Goldgrind}} on the upper levels of {{coords|-13|76|Fraygo's Flophouse}}


If the player chooses to wake the newborn, they can hear its demands.  
The party must pick up the corpse and bring it back to the Mind Flayer, to be rewarded with one skill point for the [[Illithid Powers]] tree. If the Mind Flayer is fed, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will later re-appear in [[Armbrust's Home]] in the [[Lower City]], killing {{CharLink|Tym Armbrust}} and his whole family. The Mind Flayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it at this point will not grant an additional illithid skill point.
* What do you need?
* Was it you I heard screaming when I entered the windmill?
* Attack!
* Leave


It needs a fresh brain to feed on. This can be responded to in a multitude of ways:
Feeding the Mind Flayer earns the [[Inspiration|Inspirational Events]] '''Unexpected Parenting''' ([[Haunted One]] background) and '''Newfound Subject''' ([[Noble]] background). [[Oath of the Ancients]] Paladins will break their oath if this option is chosen.
* I'll see what I can do.
* I can fetch you a corpse, freshly killed. Brain intact.
* I never work for free.
* [PERSUASION] Go find your own meal! Even weakened you're more powerful than anything out there.
* I'm not going to bring you food.


=== Suitable Corpses ===
If the Mind Flayer is persuaded to get its own meal, it leaves the windmill to go hunt, with no further reward. This will result in the death of nearby picnicker {{CharLink|Sloncha Owena}} and the disappearance of her beau {{CharLink|Bogdan Vortleson}}.
[[File:Dead Refugee Chapter 3.jpg|thumb|Dead Refugee which can be fed to the Mind Flayer.]]
 
== Companion approval ==
 
* [[Barbarian|[BARBARIAN]]] '''WAKE UP, SQUIDFACE!''' {{Approval|Astarion|+1}} {{Approval|Lae'zel|+1}} {{Approval|Gale|+1}} {{Approval|Shadowheart|+1}} {{Approval|Wyll|+1}} {{Approval|Karlach|+1}} {{Approval|Jaheira|+1}} {{Approval|Minthara|+1}} {{Approval|Minsc|+1}} {{Approval|Halsin|+1}}


If the party agrees to help the Mind Flayer, they need to find a corpse. Any random corpse will do, including killing random NPCs. Previously existing corpses will also work. Some options include:
* Kill the mind flayer {{Approval|Minthara|+1}} {{Approval|Minsc|+1}} {{Approval|Lae'zel|+1}}
* [[Dead Refugee]] near the Ironforge Gnome hideout (X:45, Y:66)
* [[Brilgor]] buried behind the [[Open Hand Temple]] (X:-106, Y:-19)
* [[Father Lorgan]] in the Open Hand Temple (X:-57, Y:-22)
* [[Ffion Goldgrind]] on the upper levels of [[Fraygo's Flophouse]] (X:-13, Y:76)


The party needs to pick up the corpse and bring it back to the Mind Flayer. After which, he unlocks one illithid potential.
== Quest rewards ==
''Kill the mind flayer''


If the Mind Flayer is persuaded to get its own meal, it simply leaves the windmill to go hunt.
* {{MdRarityItem|Mind Flayer Brain}} (grants one point for the Illithid Powers skill tree if consumed, just like a {{SmRarityItem|Mind Flayer Parasite Specimen}})
* {{MdRarityItem|Ring of Truthfulness}}


== Quest Rewards ==
''Feed the mind flayer''
* An additional point for the Illithid skill tree, either gifted from the Mindflayer or consumed from the Mindflayer brain. The Mindflayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it will not grant an additional Illithid skill point.


== Notes ==
* {{MdRarityItem|Ring of Truthfulness}}
* One point for the Illithid Powers skill tree


* If you feed the mindflayer and let it live, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will  re-appear in the [[Lower City]] killing a couple of NPCs.


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Latest revision as of 18:15, 20 November 2024

A newly born Mind Flayer.

Feed the Mind Flayer is a Quest in Act Three of Baldur's Gate 3. It can be started by speaking with the starving mind flayer in Rivington.

Objectives[edit | edit source]

Kill a humanoid and pick up the body.
  • A ravenous mind flayer asked us to bring it a humanoid to feast on.
Bring the body to the mind flayer.
  • We killed a humanoid for the mind flayer - hopefully this will sate its hunger.
Quest Complete
  • We defeated the mind flayer.
  • We convinced the starving mind flayer to hunt for its food.
  • We left without helping the mind flayer.
  • The now-sated mind flayer granted us a boon of psionic power.

Walkthrough[edit | edit source]

Abandoned Windmill

Screaming can be heard from the Abandoned Windmill in Rivington X: 44 Y: -32. Lockpicking the old rusty door allows the party to investigate. A hatch leads to the windmill basement, with an unconscious Mind flayer (windmill) Mind Flayer within.

Interacting with the Mind Flayer provides the following options:

  • It doesn't feel very fortunate.
  • Wake the newborn mind flayer.
  • [BARBARIAN] WAKE UP, SQUIDFACE
  • [GREAT OLD ONE] Connect your mind to this fledging aberration - wake it up.
  • [PALADIN] This abomination's existence pollutes the very thin air - try to end it.
  • Attack the creature before it wakes up.
  • [STEALTH] Sneak away. (DC 10)

Choosing to attack the creature immediately starts combat with a level 8 mind flayer. Killing it provides a Mind Flayer Brain, which can be consumed, as well as a Windmill Key, Ring of Truthfulness, a random gemstone, and Absolute Orders: Newborn. Consuming the brain grants one illithid potential. Killing the Mindflayer will also earn the Inspirational Event Kill 'Em While They're Young (Haunted One background).

If choosing to wake the newborn, the party can hear its demands. It explains it needs a fresh brain to feed on. This can be responded to in several ways:

  • I'll see what I can do.
  • I can fetch you a corpse, freshly killed. Brain intact.
  • I never work for free.
  • Offer the mind flayer the body you're carrying.
  • [PERSUASION] Go find your own meal! Even weakened you're more powerful than anything out there. (DC 15)
  • [PALADIN] [DRUID] I will not let you feed on anything in this city, aberration.
  • I'm not going to bring you food.
  • Attack!

Suitable corpses[edit | edit source]

Dead Refugee which can be fed to the Mind Flayer.

If agreeing to help the Mind Flayer, it is necessary to find a corpse. Any random corpse will do, including killing random NPCs.

  • Ferg Drogher Ferg Drogher is particularly apropos for this as he walks away to tattle on Shadowheart.

Previously existing corpses will also work. Some options include:

The party must pick up the corpse and bring it back to the Mind Flayer, to be rewarded with one skill point for the Illithid Powers tree. If the Mind Flayer is fed, it will leave the windmill after a long rest. It will later re-appear in Armbrust's Home in the Lower City, killing Tym Armbrust Tym Armbrust and his whole family. The Mind Flayer can still be killed for its brain after giving it a corpse, but consuming it at this point will not grant an additional illithid skill point.

Feeding the Mind Flayer earns the Inspirational Events Unexpected Parenting (Haunted One background) and Newfound Subject (Noble background). Oath of the Ancients Paladins will break their oath if this option is chosen.

If the Mind Flayer is persuaded to get its own meal, it leaves the windmill to go hunt, with no further reward. This will result in the death of nearby picnicker Sloncha Owena Sloncha Owena and the disappearance of her beau Bogdan Vortleson Bogdan Vortleson.

Companion approval[edit | edit source]

  • [BARBARIAN] WAKE UP, SQUIDFACE! Astarion approves +1 Lae'zel approves +1 Gale approves +1 Shadowheart approves +1 Wyll approves +1 Karlach approves +1 Jaheira approves +1 Minthara approves +1 Minsc approves +1 Halsin approves +1
  • Kill the mind flayer Minthara approves +1 Minsc approves +1 Lae'zel approves +1

Quest rewards[edit | edit source]

Kill the mind flayer

Feed the mind flayer


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