Minsc/banter

Overview

Approval

Banter

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

Remarks

Selected

• Evil hides, and Boo seeks!
• Have you met my hamster?
• Sword at my side and hamster at hand.
• Justice, truth, and the virtuous boot.
• Steel sharp, hamster hungry.
• Life is simple, and so is Minsc.
• The city reeks of evil! Or perhaps Boo just needs to bathe.
• Another day, another dajemma.
• Justice walks on four feet. And sleeps in my boot.
• My boot craves the crunch of unvirtuous nethers.
• Sleep with one eye open, evil. Maybe both.
• Every kicked buttock, another step on the path.
• Boo says: What?

Selected (in combat)

• To glory! Or glorious death.
• You point, I punch.
• Can we fight now? Boo is not used to this taking of turns.
• To arms! Wait, no - to swords!
• Butt-kicking, for goodness!
• Go for the eyes, Boo!
• Weep if you wish. Minsc will not judge.
• I have missed this. The adventure. The danger. The kicking of butts!
• Swallow your battle cries, fiend - and wash them down with steel!

Selected (sneaking)

• Minsc waits. Boo watches.
• Still as stone? I have had the practice.
• Wait - you can see me?
• See how still Boo lies? He dreams of evil's doom!
• WHAT? Wait. Shh.
• Sneaking, sneaking, sneaking.
• I am - soverystealthy.
• It is difficult to charge from down here.
• CRAMP!
• Head-high to a halfling.
• Better to look evil in the eye. Even if it be very small.
• Butt-level, all the better for the kicking.

Selection spam

• ARGH! My EYE, Boo! They went for my EYE!
• Know that if you poke Boo, no higher dimension will keep you safe!
• Heehee. Heeheeheehee.
• Well, Boo? How do you want to do this?

Selection spam (in combat)

• Are you perchance a squeaky wheel in need of a kick?
• I am armed! Armoured! And entirely sick of your foolishness.
• I begin to grow annoyed. It is well for you that Boo does not let me learn the bad words!
• Ignore them, Boo. Let them gaze deep into their own abyss, and wonder just what it is they are trying to achieve.

Selection spam (sneaking)

• A little to the left? But not so hard you make me giggle.
• Boo...? Are you dancing down there, or...?
• Hush! I am surprising Boo for his birthday! He is... uh... eh... how old do hamsters get...?
• I am the night. A pity, then, that it is so bright out.

Moving

• Where Boo leads, Minsc follows.
• Cometh the hour, cometh the hamster.
• Catch the clicker, Boo!
• Where Minsc plants his boot, goodness grows.
• Stand aside, evil! Legend coming through!
• Leap now, look later.
• Dig your graves, evil! Minsc and Boo come to tuck you in.
• You cannot hide, evil! Boo smells your bubbling guts a mile away!
• Less prattle, more battle!
• When all of this is done, Boo will dine on tadpole for a month.
• Camaraderie! Adventure! Violence!
• Tonight, Boo dines on foe-flesh.
• Tonight - Boo dines on foe-flesh.
• Minsc takes orders from only one tiny beast, and he is much cuter than a worm. Yes he is. Yes he is.

Moving (in combat)

• Boo breaks the hearts, Minsc breaks the bones!
• Villainous face, meet virtuous fist!
• My hamster has dined on god-flesh! You are but a tiny crumb!
• Feel the backhand of justice!
• Boo is napping - so die in silence, evil!
• Boo says smite! That means I must hit you very hard, I think.
• Charge! But charge quietly.
• Someone hold Boo! He will not enjoy the bumpings to come.
• Someone hold Boo! He does not enjoy the bumpings to come.
• Boo's battle cry is too high for your hearing - but you should tremble all the same.

Moving (sneaking)

• Soft and sure as hunting hamsters.
• Feet light as feathers, and softer than Boo's.
• See how the hamster stalks his prey.
• Just tell me when to shout my battle cry.
• A berserker's knees are not made for all this bending.
• Quietly, Boo.
• Soften my step, Boo! No - get out of my boot.
• The hunter stalks his prey. The hamster waits for the fun to start.

Hiding

• Let us tread soft and sure as hunting hamsters.
• Still this patter of paws, Boo - we must be quiet.
• Butt-level, all the better for the kicking.
• I am. Soverystealthy.

Hiding (in combat)

• It is difficult to charge from down here.
• I do not like this bendy battle-stance.
• Quick Boo - sit on my skull, so the light does not betray us!
• Remember, Minsc. Quiet battle cries only.
• Boo - say BOO!
• The hunter stalks his prey. The hamster naps until the action starts.

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!

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.

After a Short Rest

• Watch out, evil. None nap so powerfully as Boo!
• My hamster, he is so full of beans!
• I did not sleep. I did not snore. It was a battle-trance.
• Ah, but it was good to feel the breeze between my toes. Back to the road.

On character death

Player:

• A noble soul has fallen! Boo will reap the vengeance of a thousand tiny bites!

Player (Dark Urge):

• Our friend has fallen! Guard the body, Boo, so a priest might stuff the soul back in!

Lae'zel:

• I know you do not fall so easily, gith child. On your feet!

Shadowheart:

• Shadowheart, no! Stand, so you might mock Minsc again!

Karlach:

• Karlach - NO! Boo, we must heap more fuel upon her flames!

Jaheira:

• There are many who thought they had killed the great Jaheira. I will show you what became of them!

Gale:

• No, wizard! You have so many more lectures for Boo to sleep through!

Wyll:

• Wyll! Shed a tear for the Blade of Frontiers, Boo - but first, the VENGEANCE!

Minthara:

• Dark elf! Do NOT go into the LIGHT!

Astarion:

• Astarion! NO!

Halsin:

• Rise again, druid! You are too large for your beloved earth to swallow!

Location Remarks

Act Three

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

Party Banter

Minsc/banter and Astarion

(At Basilisk 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.

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(At 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...

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(At 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.

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(If the player is romancing Astarion, and Astarion stayed a spawn)

• 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...

---

(If the player is romancing Astarion, and Astarion became an ascendant)

• 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.

Minsc/banter 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.

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(At 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.

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(At 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.

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(If the player is romancing Gale; after act 3 romance scene)

• 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/banter 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...?

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(At the entrance to 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 has 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.

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(At 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.

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(At Bhaal Temple)

• 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.

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(At 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.

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(If the player is romancing Karlach; after act 3 romance scene)

• 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.

Minsc/banter and Lae'zel

(If the player is romancing Lae'zel; after act 3 romance scene)

• 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/banter 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!

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• 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.

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(If the player is romancing Shadowheart, and Shadowheart chose Selune)

• 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!

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(If the player is romancing Shadowheart, and Shadowheart chose Shar)

• 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/banter and Wyll

(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.

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(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.

(If our guardian's true identity is known)

• 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.

(If our guardian's true identity is not known)

• 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?

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(At Bonecloak's Basement)

• 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.

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(At 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.

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(If the player is romancing Wyll; after act 3 romance scene)

• Minsc: Minsc has felt Boo's heart is fluttering faster than usual... for our friend the Blade is betrothed.
• 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.

Minsc/banter and Halsin

(At Baldur's Mouth)

• 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.

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(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!

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(If the player is romancing Haslin in act 3)

• 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/banter and Jaheira

(At Lower City 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?

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(At Guildhall)

• 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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(At 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.

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(At 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.

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(At Szarr 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.