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== Act One ==

! Name !! Effect !! How to Obtain !! Notes

| [[BOOOAL's Benediction (Condition)|BOOOAL's Benediction]] || Gain {{Advantage}} on [[Attack Roll]]s against [[Conditions#Bleeding|Bleeding]] targets. || Sacrifice a companion to [[BOOOAL]] in [[The Festering Cove]]. || Effect stops working if all [[Kuo-toa]] in the Cove are killed.

This buff is granted to all present party members, and is permanently lost upon death (as of Hotfix #6).

| [[Paid the Price (Condition)|Paid the Price]] || You have a +1 bonus to [[Intimidation]] checks, but {{Disadvantage}} on [[Perception]] checks. Additionally, you have {{Disadvantage}} when attacking Hags. Changes the chosen eye's appearance. || Accept [[Auntie Ethel]]'s deal to remove the parasite at the [[Riverside Teahouse]]. ||

| [[Auntie Ethel's Hair]] || Gain +1 to an [[Ability Scores|Ability Score]] of choice. || Defeat [[Auntie Ethel]] during [[Save Mayrina]] and take her deal to spare her life. ||Can be raised above 20.

| [[Volo's Ersatz Eye (Condition)|Volo's Ersatz Eye]] || Grants a permanent {{IconLink|See_Invisibility_Icon.png|See Invisibility|size=25}} effect. Changes the right eye's appearance. || Rescue [[Volo]] from the [[Goblin Camp]]. When speaking to him in the [[Campsite]] afterwards, tell him about your Tadpole infection and agree to his experimental surgery.

|The right eye's colour is permanently changed to "Blue 3". This ''cannot'' be reversed using the [[Magic Mirror]].

| [[Brand of the Absolute]] || Allows the benefits from [[:Category:Absolute_Equipment|Absolute Equipment]] and unlocks unique dialogue options when speaking to followers of the Absolute. || Agree to let a character be branded by [[Gut]] in the [[Goblin Camp]]. || Multiple characters can receive the brand after the first character has been branded by [[Gut]] (by controlling them and speaking to [[Warlock Greez]]).

| [[Proficiency#Instrument Proficiency|Instrument Proficiency]] || You know how to play a variety of musical instruments and are able to entertain a crowd with them. || Pass one of two Charisma (Performance) checks while helping [[Alfira]] with her song in the [[Druid Grove]]. ||[[Bard|Bards]] have this automatically and this provides no additional benefit to them.

| [[Loviatar's Love (Condition)|Loviatar's Love]] || When you have 30% Hit Points or less, you gain a +2 bonus to Attack Rolls and [[Wisdom]] saving throws. || Submit to [[Abdirak]] and put on a good performance for him in the [[Shattered Sanctum]].

|Effect is permanently lost if the character dies and is revived (as of Hotfix #6).

| [[Survival Instinct]] || Gain the additional [[Illithid Powers|Illithid Power]] {{Icon|Cleric Tadpole Survival Instinct.png|30|link=Survival Instinct}}[[Survival Instinct]]. || [[Help Omeluum investigate the parasite]]. || This is an unique Illithid power not obtainable through regular [[Illithid Powers]] progression.

| [[Necromancy of Thay]] || Gain the {{IconLink|Passive Feature Generic Icon.png|Forbidden Knowledge|size=25}} passive feature and {{Icon|Speak with Dead Icon.png|25|link=Speak with Dead}} [[Speak with Dead]] spell once per long rest. || Turn all three pages while reading [[Necromancy of Thay]], a [[Books|book]] found in a hidden area in the [[Apothecary's Cellar]] beneath the [[Blighted Village]]. Turning only 1 page will grant only [[Speak with Dead]]. The reader does not need to succeed on the Saving Throws associated with turning the pages.

|[[Find Familiar: Scratch]]

|Summon the best boy. Scratch's keen nose can discover many things hidden around the world.

|Leave [[Scratch]] with your scent so he joins your camp, then later when he offers you a ball, throw it to play fetch with him. Having [[Scratch's Ball]] in your inventory allows you to use {{SAI|Find Familiar: Scratch}}.

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|[[Find Familiar: Cheeky Quasit]]

|Summon [[Shovel_(Familiar)|Shovel]] (or Basket, or Fork), the Cheeky Quasit.

|Find the unique {{SmItemIcon|Scroll of Summon Quasit}} in one of the coffins of the hidden area in the [[Apothecary's Cellar]] beneath the [[Blighted Village]]. Wizards can learn this spell, or after summoning talk to the Quasit and they will permanently teach you the spell under [[Find_Familiar#Shovel|certain conditions]].

| [[Awakened]]|| You can use all of your Illithid Powers as a [[Bonus Action]]|| Make the Zaith'isk in the infirmary of [[Crèche Y'llek]] explode and succeed at all three saving throws. The saves are significantly easier if you are in the device rather than Lae'zel. The person that gets the buff is always the player character. || Failing any of the saving throws for the Zaith'isk inflicts permanent, stacking penalties to the [[Ability Score]]s of the character inside it: each failure will, respectively, give -2 to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Constitution.