Minsc/Banter

A collection of Minsc's remarks and overhead conversations with other characters.

Remarks

At low health:

Boo does his best to hold my wounds closed, but some healing might help.
Hah, these wounds might have killed a lesser warrior! Although... that is a lot of blood.
Healing, quickly, or Boo shall have to find another mount!

Attacked by party member:

HEY! Hands off the hamster.

Can't fit in a small hole:

Do not send a ranger to do a hamster's job, hm?

Can't fit in a tiny hole:

Truly? Now Minsc thinks you are making mock.

Can't use an item:

Not now, perhaps.
Not working.
No.
It's no use.

Can't use an item while in combat:

Eh, not now. Perhaps Boo can hold it for you?
Not now!
Battle first, thingy later.
Ah-ah. A berserker needs both hands, the better to squeeze at evil's skull.

Finding a locked item:

OPEN! No, that did not work. Perhaps there is another way.
It must be unsealed elsewhere.
Hm. Sealed tighter than a Thayan's heart.
We shall have to open it elsewhere, Boo? And not with my skull? Strange.

Looking at a globe:

We have travelled far and wide, Boo, but I know not this land of... 'globe'?

Looking at an astrolabe:

Boo! Can you see your house from here?

Looking into a mirror:

Bounce light all you wish, little mirror. Minsc will only bounce it back!
Boo, Minsc has something in his teeth. Would you mind...?
Perhaps I should paint the rest of my skull. What say you, Boo?

Looking into a telescope:

Observe, Boo. Perhaps we shall see your miniature giant space mother, soaring across the skies.

Surprised by mimic:

Eat me once, shame on you. Eat me twice - WATCH IT!
Down, beast! Minsc is too much of a mouthful for your kind.

Location Remarks

Act Three

Act 3 Spoilers! This section reveals details about the story of Baldur's Gate 3.

Party Banter

Minsc and Astarion

(By the Basilisk's Gate)

Minsc: Ah, but it is a fine thing to walk with friends beneath the warming sun!
Astarion: Friends' might be a stretch, but otherwise - yes, I fully agree!
Minsc: You might have your cloudy locks to keep the heat off your head, but do not forget that Minsc has Boo! We will be like twins, eh?
Astarion: We will? Gods - two hundred years and I've never missed seeing my reflection more.

(In Harborview Park)

Minsc: Oh, I do not know, Boo. If you buried the nuts here before we were stone, I am thinking they might have gone bad.
Astarion: Minsc! Enough! The hamster isn't saying a damn thing and you know it.
Minsc: Well, Astarion. Boo is of good breeding, and so only speaks when he has something nice to say.
Minsc: Perhaps this is why he has never seen fit to speak to you.
Astarion: How delightfully vicious. I'm beginning to like the hamster.

(By the Eastern Docks)

Minsc: ASTARION! FISH! ASTARION!
Astarion: Minsc, please - slow down. Use your words.
Minsc: Minsc has thought how you might be a more virtuous vampire - feast on fish instead. They are made of naught but neck!
Astarion: It's a sweet thought, but fish just doesn't have the flavour of full-blooded red meat.
Minsc: No, you do not 'agree', Boo. I told you you have been spending far too much time around the pale one...

(Ascendant Astarion)

Minsc: Do not think your twinkly-eyed wiles will work on us, vampire lord.
Astarion: Oh, I know I could never tempt you, but maybe your little friend would like to perch on a more elegant shoulder?
Minsc: Do not look into his eyes, Boo! Think not of nesting in his thick and downy mane!
Astarion: You'll never know unless you try. Just once? Maybe you'll like it.

(Spawn Astarion)

Minsc: No, Boo. Astarion is a friend now - he would never bite you.
Minsc: Yes, vampire?
Astarion: Yes... I mean - no? I am not interested in biting the rodent is the point.
Astarion: Not least because he lives in your trousers...

Minsc and Gale

(At Sorcerous Sundries)

Minsc': Minsc has never trusted places such as this. Too much of a wizard's power can be simply packaged and picked up.
Minsc: Well, picked up by all but Minsc. When he touches the many delicate little jars, oh how the wizards shout and stare!
Gale: Fear not, Minsc. You have a wizard at your side who positively encourages such curiosity. You'll fit right in.
Minsc: Obliged, wizard. Should we find our way to a weaponsmith, Minsc will rough you up a little - so that you too can fit in.

(In the Water Queen's House)

Minsc: Umberlee - her clerics possess a nasty streak as wide as her oceans.
Gale: So their reputation suggests - especially among the good folk of Waterdeep. I'm curious to learn how you fell foul of them...
Minsc: 'Blasphemy', said the temple priestess. But Minsc says: do not give horns to your statues if you do not wish the visitors to try and make them toot.
Gale: Yes, that would probably do it.

(At the House of Hope)

Minsc: Gale! You will perhaps able to explain where Boo has not - what exactly is the difference between a devil and a demon?
Gale: A fascinating question, one that boils down to which criteria we choose to apply. Are we speaking about the physiological? Theological? Etymological?
Minsc: Eh. Just how-to-kill... -ical.
Gale: Oh. Then for your purposes, they are exactly the same.

Minsc: Gale. Minsc worries you might send a fireball up his butt, with all of this stringy hair in your face.
Gale: Is that why you keep your head shaved? I assumed it was a custom of some sort.
Minsc: Oh, no! Most warriors of Rashemen wear long battle-braids, weighed down with stone. Minsc can show you, when next we camp?
Gale: Thank you, but I'm more wizard than warrior. I'm not sure my scalp would stand up to such a plaiting.

Minsc and Karlach

Karlach: Minsc, you come from an entire nation of berserkers. Give me some of those good Rashemaar pointers.
Minsc: Oh. There is much to be learned. Deep breaths. Meditative trances. Strange and stinking mushrooms.
Minsc: But Minsc could master none of this. Which made him sad. Which made him mad. Which made him the berserker you see before you.
Karlach: Huh. Really?
Minsc: And there is always Boo, with the needful nip when anger is slow in coming. This is not how you do it...?

Minsc: Karlach - do I see you gazing long at Boo? You wish to have a hamster of your own, I think.
Karlach: I wouldn't say no. But really I was thinking... how old is he, Minsc?
Minsc: He is quite obviously in his prime. For a miniature giant space hamster.
Karlach: And he's always looked the exact same? No chance Jaheira's been swapping him out every few years?
Minsc: Karlach! Minsc and Boo thought better of you, than to be so concerned with looks.

(Approaching the Guildhall)

Minsc: Are you familiar with the evil works of Nine-Fingers and her Guild, Karlach?
Karlach: I've Heard of her - and everyone knows the Guild. They're not bad if you know how to work 'em.
(If Minsc (grudgingly) agreed to work with Nine-Fingers)
- Minsc: Hm. Boo and I, we are in need of honest berserkers to keep the Guild honest in turn. Will you show us how this 'working' is done?
- Karlach: Sure. The trick is to let them mess with you just once, and show 'em what happens. They won't try again.
(If Minsc has not agreed to work with Nine-Fingers)
- Minsc: Minsc means to do no working. When he breaks the guildmaster, it will be for the fun of it alone.

(In the Undercity Ruins)

Minsc: A dead and foul place. Only a villain would nest down in these tunnels.
Karlach: Hang on, weren't you living in the sewer?
Minsc: Entirely different! That was foul only in its smells, and the way our water tasted. But it was home.
Karlach: Fair enough, buddy. Home is where the heart is, anyway.
Minsc: Ah - in that case, home is in my pocket, nestled on soft bed of flesh and fluff.

(At the Temple of Bhaal)

Karlach: What a pesthole! Can't wait to clear this place out.
Minsc: There will be much trading of threats and insults, no doubt. But Minsc will be ready when it is time for boot to meet butt.
Karlach: You and me both, pal.

(At the Morphic Pool)

Minsc: Karlach, this brain we go to bully - Boo has suggested it is large. Wizard-brain large? Boo-brain large?
Karlach: Like... as many Boo-brains as a mortal mind can fathom. It's an elder brain, after all. You heard of those?
Minsc: Of course!
Minsc: What is an elder brain?
Karlach: Honestly, I'm not completely sure. But I know it'll be no match for you, me, and the hamster.

Minsc and Lae'zel

Minsc: Bah! Fine, Boo. Lae'zel - my hamster wishes me to tell you:
Minsc: You are the most beautiful thing he has ever seen.
Lae'zel: I'm afraid I can't return the sentiment - but I know of some githyanki who would find him quite... appealing. Mouth-watering, in fact.

Minsc and Shadowheart

Shadowheart: Hey Minsc, what was it like, being a statue?
Minsc: Dark. Lonely. Helpless.
Shadowheart: The dark is Shar's domain. You wouldn't have been lonely if you embraced her.
Minsc: Evil! Never!

Shadowheart: Hey Minsc, How do you judge what's evil?
Minsc: Enough trick questions! Evil is clearly evil.
Shadowheart: Am I evil? You called my goddess so.
Minsc: If I decide you are evil, my blade will inform you of the fact.

Minsc: Shadowheart. I saw you pluck Boo from the ground, when you thought no one was watching.
Minsc: It pleases you, to hold him? And you have truly cleansed yourself of Shar?
Shadowheart: I suppose you're right. On both counts.
Minsc: HMMMMMMMM. Then for one day only, you may carry him in your pocket. So long as it is clean. Padded. Well-aired.
Minsc: And full of nuts!

Minsc: Boo will not permit himself to be held by you any longer, Shadowheart.
Minsc: He fears you will sacrifice him in some Sharran ritual of dark oils and leather.
Shadowheart: Oh, he's far too precious for that. I'll go find a comely barmaid or guardsman instead.

Minsc and Wyll

(Entering Devil's Fee)

Minsc: Who adorned these walls? Better to have hung a mirror, and taken a good long look at themselves.
Wyll: A bloody display of murderous power. Bhaal means to stoke fear, make us cower.
Minsc: All it does is make Minsc wonder if Boo has already eaten this villain's eyes.

(At Danthelon's Dancing Axe)

Minsc: Danthelon's Dancing Axe...? Minsc would sooner fight with a sword - even an annoying one, which talks out of turn.
Wyll: I'm surprised you're so fond of swords. A battleaxe would seem more suitable for a man of your... stature.
Minsc: The sword is simpler - only one point, so you know which end the evil goes on! But I suppose a warrior must wield whatever weapon he can.
Minsc: Sword, axe, boot... Minsc once choked an ogre with its own loincloth. The smell might be the closest I have come to tasting of death myself.

(At the Wyrmway Puzzle)

Minsc: A puzzle, is it? Boo is most adept at their solving - no matter where Minsc hides the nuts, Boo is always able to sniff them out!
Gale: I'm rather a dab hand myself when it comes to a spot of intellectual intrigue...
Minsc: The nuts are in my pocket, wizard. Please do not go patting at Minsc's person.

(If Wyll is being romanced)

Minsc: Minsc has felt Boo's heart is fluttering faster than usual... for our friend the Blade is bethrothed.
Wyll: Ah, my thanks. Perhaps we might even marry, if fate wills it.
Minsc: If you cannot find a bear to be the bearer of your ring, Boo would like you to know that he is available.

(At the Lodge)

Minsc: Who is this large man of sternness and stone? Boo mislikes his look - as if he is knowing things that Minsc is not.
(Before Balduran's Reveal)
- Wyll: Relax, the both of you - it's Balduran, our city's valorant founder.
- Minsc: Ahh, this makes more sense! Some relation to the Baldur who owns the gate perhaps, Boo?
(After Balduran's Reveal)
- Wyll: It's Balduran. Our city's valorant founder - and now, the illithid we carry in that gods-forsaken prism.
- Minsc: Ah. Then Minsc and Boo prefer him this way. Better stern than smug.

(At the Morphic Pool)

Wyll: Our great adventure nears its climax. If I should fall, I want you all to know it's been an honour to fight beside you.
Minsc: You will not fall, warlock. And if you do, Minsc shall simply pick you up again. What - do you doubt us in this final hour?
Wyll: Yeah, but you... you're Minsc.
Minsc: And you are Wyll of the Pale Eye. Now hush, and turn your mind towards our many, many many enemies.

Minsc and Halsin

(At the Elfsong Tavern)

Minsc: See, Boo? They have made their repairs. The owner once used Boo to mop up her ale, and she and Minsc had a discussion on the matter.
Halsin: Trouble seems to seek you out, Minsc. I know the feeling - the larger you are, the more likely someone wishes to test themselves against you.
Minsc: Minsc sometimes wishes he was small as Boo - so that he might sit and listen to the storytellers in peace.
Halsin: Perhaps you should study the druidic arts - with wildshape, you could make yourself as diminutive as you please. Smaller than Boo, even.
Minsc: Oh. OHOHOHO.

(At Felogyr's Fireworks)

Minsc: Bah. Boo says the many colours remind him of home, but Minsc has never enjoyed these fireworks.
Halsin: They may have their purposes. You could cast fireballs of sorts, without having to spend years studying magic tomes.
Minsc: ...Archdruid. You are as formidable in mind as you are in muscle.
Minsc: Gather the sparking sticks, Boo! With sword in one hand and these in the other, we need truck with wizards no more!

(If Halsin has been romanced)

Minsc: Boo has been speaking to a certain squirrel-friend who frequents our camp, Halsin.
Minsc: He was turned from a red squirrel to a grey, all by one shocking sight. Minsc thinks you owe him an apology.
Halsin: Apologise for partaking in one of nature's most solemn rites? That squirrel should be glad to bear witness.
Minsc: ...No, Boo, I do not know what this has to do with the bears...

Minsc and Jaheira

(Entering Cazador's Palace)

Minsc: If Minsc had any hairs on his head, this place would set them all a-standing. And look how Boo's bunches his hackles!
Jaheira: We three have come through darker places than this together, Minsc.
Jaheira: And hamsters don't have hackles.
Minsc: Does Jaheira not set your heart at ease, Boo? It is comforting, to know that one so wise can be so wrong.

(In Bloomridge Park)

Minsc: All of these statues - could they, too, be heroes all? Frozen in stone until the city has need of them?
Jaheira: The Harpers keep records of those who fought for the city - I think I would recall mention of a bare-assed little cherub in all our story and song.
Minsc: Well. Boo would also think you would have noticed when Minsc himself was frozen for over a century.
Jaheira: ... do you know, I had forgotten just how catty your hamster can be.

(In The Blushing Mermaid)

Minsc: Jaheira, Minsc's memory of his last time in this taproom is a little... fuzzy. Did he...?
Jaheira: Fear not, Rashemaar. It has never been your way to over-indulge.
Jaheira: But you did offend one of my contacts by letting Boo paddle around in her tankard. Pewter, I believe - she cracked it over your head.
Minsc: Oh, praise the Three! Minsc was afraid he had shamed myself. I will, eh, leave a penny at the bar.
Jaheira: Best leave two. I cracked her with my own, afterward. She was drinking grog - Boo's backside could only have improved it.

(Entering the Sewers)

Minsc: AH! The smell of adventure, in the very heart of the city!
Jaheira: The city's lower intestine, perhaps.
Minsc: Better yet! What swifter way to strike at evil's butt than to crawl through its innards?

(In the Guildhall, before meeting Nine-Fingers Keene)

Jaheira: If Nine-Fingers survived the fray, she will be right back to work in there. We ought to speak to her.
Minsc: She has you in her thrall, Jaheira. Minsc will still her serpent tongue, before it has a chance to twine around your thoughts!
Jaheira: That, she will definitely have something to say about.

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