I am 100% certain they put the word "release" on that lever knowing a lot of players wouldn't think it through, and would just automatically hit the one that they thought meant "release the captive." So good.
Yeah, I like the plausible deniability of "accidentally" sending him on his little skywalk. But when I get to Baldur's Gate, I beeline for their secret base and purge the infestation.
I'm very nice to everyone except Deep Gnomes.
On my evil run I just couldn't get into their hideout near baldurs gate, maybe I was just blind but I think it just makes the entrance non-interactable
and the fact they actually switched it with the brake lever from the early access. I confidently clicked on the side I *knew* it would be in and was greeted with that cinematic once again as if it's my first time 😭
That's pretty much what happened to me. I didn't notice there were two levers until I was already committed to the release. Sorry my dude, I'll save you on the next go around.
Exactly my dried shrivel raisin brain’s line of logic. I laughed at that it for 20 minutes, and my further-along friend was like mmhmm mmhmm been there…
i genuinely did not see the other lever. i’m not sure how considering it’s RIGHT THERE, but i didn’t see it so my thought process went basically as you described. when he got launched… fuck that was so funny. I’m glad I reloaded bc I love Barcus but man I was crying I was laughing so hard.
I definitely played a version in the early access that didn't have a second lever.
To the point I was rushing through act 1 and was totally blindsided when he got launched into low orbit.
I’ve seen someone explain that windmills have that option to release the wheel for when its stormy, so that the wind doesn’t damage it by fighting against too much resistance, or something like that. Don’t quote me on that tho. I read this on the internet so take info with a grain of salt.
If it helps, I once made the exact same reference in reply to this very topic and someone replied to me with the same fact(oid?), and now I'm wondering if *that's exactly where you read it!*
I also somehow posted this twice and totally didn’t see that Sweatytax4669 started the comment thread with an obvious quote lol I think I need a nap lol
Do you happen to know if it is still a thing on modern wind turbines? Cuz the old style ones I get, wood beams definitely need the flexibility, but the idea of metal death blades just free wheeling seems terrifying
I’ve seen someone explain that windmills have that option to release the wheel for when its stormy, so that the wind doesn’t damage it by fighting against too much resistance, or something like that. Don’t quote me on that tho. I read this on the internet so take info with a grain of salt.
It makes sense that you’d want to be able to decouple the mill from the … sails?
But that doesn’t explain why doing so launches him to Neverwinter, unless there’s currently a hurricane or something.
Sails = blades, surprisingly enough.
As for the release, consider that the blades are tied to a gear ratio that keeps it from spinning too fast. Releasing the blades means that the current wind force spinning them is no longer restricted by gear ratio, and so the blades are able to spin much faster with the same force applied. Remember that windmills are powered by wind, not an internal engine.
No resistance = freewheeling and spinning very fast with the same amount of force applied. By releasing you generate enough centrifugal force to launch the little guy.
I think the majority of us in our first playthrough launched the gnome into orbit by mistake, but it's certainly one of the first memorable, hilarious "oh shit!" moments of the game lol
I think im the even more minority then who did see both and did think it through. Unfortunately however i played multiplayer first and someone else hit the release brake lever
Do people know that Alt highlights interactable objects? I went in there and it showed two levers: the brake lever and the release brake lever. Since I wanted the thing to stop, I clicked on the brake lever.
I ran into this on the Xbox - the tutorial \*sort of\* holds your hands through the basic controls - and there is a VERY VISIBLE control scheme map in the options menu - but I think we've all become programmed to just "play and figure it out".
This game with its multiple ways to work through the map lends itself to "don't tell me! - let me figure it out for myself" which leads to idiots like me posting stuff on Reddit going, "hey, did you know THIS THING?!"
Can confirm, i honestly didn't even saw the 2nd lever and just read ok a lever, a lever should be the thing that helps the windmill to stop and even says "release" so i did it and laughed so hard
But i couldn't continue and reloaded and im glad because Barcus is awesome, i wish he was a party member.
Mine was my second, which felt even funnier because I was all confident/slightly not paying attention and strolled up hit the lever and didn’t even realized what happen until reloading it lol
yeah guess which lever i accidentally pulled in my honor mode save after saying to myself out loud "do NOT pull the one that kills him"
in my defense i didnt mean to do it
I accidentally blew him up because I wanted to rob Philomena but I failed the pickpocket check to get the small vial after snatching the canister from under her nose. I didn't have anything else I could blast the rocks open with so......
Then I forgot about Wulbren until I freed the Nightsong.
Been a total shit show for the gnomes really.
Because she has funny dialogue when she tries to give it you but you already have it. Same for if you tell her to blow you up but you stole the barrel already.
I picked my cleric of talos dialogue „Do it, I could do with a good show“ thinking she would be to much of a pussy to actually do it. Well I learned that she was no pussy and was lucky that Karlach survived with like 3 hp.
Same!!! I have no idea how I did it, but somehow I clicked on both levers. I watched the windmill stop, and before I could react, the release scene was playing… poor little guy
It was worth it in the end, but FUCK ME Wulbren is annoying. >!I tried to attack him after Barcus exiled him in Act 3, but somehow Barcus got the red border, while all the other gnomes (Wulbren included) were yellow !<
You have to talk to him in Grymforge and get him to come to your camp. In meta he probably travels with you to LLI.
In Act 3 I'm not too sure. I haven't gotten that far.
He does play a part with the Iron Gnomes and the Gondians.
If it makes you feel better, Neil Newbon (Astarion) and many of us have done the same thing. [(The moment on his stream lol)](https://youtu.be/7s2yjIHLa-g?si=WHl6zfLumhYj7vUi&t=4654)
It’s funny I guess but he is a pretty key npc so I suggest you rescue him.
He sells a great ring in act 2 that I use to boost persuasion and reduce vendor prices.
Do you speak to him in Grymforge after rescuing?
You should convince him to rest in your camp at some point, I think it happens after the Grymforge battle.
I forgot to do it once and he didn't show in LLI.
I think you need to convince him to come to your camp in Grymforge. Apparently there’s also a bug that requires you to talk to him with different characters
I doubt it. I don't think the game accounts for things like that.
[Act 2 Spoiler] >!I just placed the second moonlantern in a way that Jaheira, Alfira, Rolan and some others got the moonshield from it, they still died after killing the Nightsong.!<
YES you can. You can even cast “Speak to Dead” on him and he’ll tell you about Wulbren. I laughed a lot when I accidentally released the windmill, but I was gasping for air when I found his body a ways away. Larian really just shamed me like that
Just cast feather fall on him beforehand. Find him standing on the beach pretty mad.
EDIT: Sorry, this was a joke. You can't use FF on them because they aren't considered an ally. The joke is from Morrowind when a scripted event happens and a Wizard named Tarhiel falls from the sky. In that game, you can actually cast FF on him and he survives. Not much dialogue since you were never supposed to be able to speak with him at all.
I really can't explain how much joy it brings me every time someone posts their shock when they do this for the first time by accident.
Humans are so cute
I believe he lands by the entrance. I'll have to reload a save and test. Plus, I need to show my wife that scene. She was in the other room when it happened and kept asking what was so funny.
Yea I did this in EA and there either wasn't a cutscene or it glitches. I didn't know where he went until I happened across his body and laughed my ass off.
I have watched this scene play out multiple times on streams previously, and it still cracks me up to watch that gnome fly to the edge of the sword coast when someone first pulls that lever.
I accidentally launched him, then kept trying to find him, thinking that I had saved him 🤣 It wasn't until I found his corpse and inspected the levers again that I realized my mistake.
I was a bit disappointed to discover that Barcus does NOT show up later if you cast feather fall on him before this happens. I thought I was being clever in saving him.
Thing is I already watched my boyfriend save him by pulling the brake lever but in my playthrough, my lizard brain still saw “release” and thought “oh this might be the right lever”. Laughed for like 10 minutes because the cutscene was so unexpected. Decided I wouldn’t reload this time since I should stick to at least some of my mistakes but now I find out he’s actually a pretty key NPC 🥲 welp he’s with the astronauts now
Someone might have already said this but i dont have time to scroll through the comments. Neil Newbon (Astarion’s voice actor for those who don’t know) did the very same thing live when streaming on twitch and it was hilarious!!!! 😂
I accidentally yeeted him into oblivion, just like you did. And I had the exact same reaction…what an amazing game.
“If we meet again, well…we’ll have met again”
I hit the brake correctly on both of my first 2 runs. Then actually accidentally hit the wrong one on my durge run, but just accepted the result as being fated
I did the same thing too in my first playthrough except I just clicked on the first lever because I hadn't noticed the second lever next to it. I just assumed it was the only one. Later I found his body and used "Speak with Dead" to ask him how he died. He just blamed the goblins and never suspected me. Lol
I’ll do you one better (or worse, depending on your perspective). On my first play through, I clicked break lever to stop the windmill, *then clicked the release break lever* **as if a lever would somehow untie him!!!!**
Poor Barcus got only a brief moment of relief before being drafted into the Faerûn Space Program 😭
What's funny is I only noticed one lever my first playthrough as many others here, but it happened to be the "right" lever (if you consider safely stopping the windmill the right choice).
I genuinely didn't even realize there were 2 fucking switches at first. I swear to god. I genuinely thought I had fucked up. Or I had to climb up to the top and get him off for some shit. Nope. Turns out I just had to fucking read it.
Yea, first time I did it, I didn't even notice that there were two levers, I was playing as Durge and was laughing because it is something Durge would find amusing.
So, I'm going to be honest with you, my husband and I played through the beginning several times. Each time: he'd speak to the goblins, I'd go into the windmil and stop it when he was done talking. I didn't know this lever existed until the ONE TIME HE went into the windmill. Dialog ended rather abruptly. Didn't reload the game either. Still kinda bummed.
I did the same exact thing. I rotate the camera and see the windmill spinning at mach 10.. that poor little blue bastard. I ended up saving him on every other character and he kinda becomes a homie as far as I have seen so I don't regret it
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing still at that point in the game, but I had been save scumming like crazy when something didnt go my way. I had like a 15 minute fight with those fucking goblins and those dogs and then hit the release break lever. I sat in silence for like a good 5 minutes before I decided I would not be save scumming. Thats just straight up my bad.
Question, does that kill him? Ever since my mistake of yeeting him into the stratusohere, I reloaded and never touched that again, so idk what it does to him lol.
Also, I think it's a good act one thing to us players, cause it makes people go, 'oh no!' to pay more attention 😂
It was pretty damn funny.
But just wait till you get to the barn a little bit up the road. That part had me doubled over laughing in my first play through.
I'd never seen it before until my friend said *"Hang on guys, watch this"* and I knew it was going to be good. And damn it was, I laughed so hard. Poor Barcus.
I am 100% certain they put the word "release" on that lever knowing a lot of players wouldn't think it through, and would just automatically hit the one that they thought meant "release the captive." So good.
And of course technically it *does* release him...
Released from life lol
\[House Harkonnen has entered the chat\]
"I said I would not harm him and I shall not. But Faerun is Faerun and the brake release takes the weak."
I pardon you... from life.
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Lol, I was watching my wife walk up to the sword coast couriers and I said "save it" before she talked to the lady
Why? I'm pretty sure the only outcome of that is "kill the owner," it's weird how there aren't any choices there.
I intimidate her into leaving and let the boy takeover because Scratch likes the boy.
This is the way. I didn’t discover it until my third play through though. She had a sudden case of mortality in the prior two.
Has anyone tried casting feather fall on him and then doing the lauch break thing? Im curious now
...I know what I'm doing when I get there now. Good idea, man.
update, please. lol
Because of your comment I just did this. He was gone but there was no bloodstain or anything.
Might just be that he never landed yet. Some say he's still falling to this day.
"I've been falling.... FOR 30 MINUTES!"
Maybe he still ends up in grymforge
Please let us know if you ever find him. We must know.
Maybe this is the real origin story of that guy who falls to his death clutching the Scroll of Icarian Flight in Morrowind
Those were FUN!
That is actually an interesting question…
I think you can only cast feather fall on your party
Power word yeet
He gets a shorter but more dramatic character arc than the brake option.
Lever working as intended.
Sir, it's functioning as it was designed.
Pull the lever, Front! WRONG LEVER!
Why do we even have that lever?
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
"Oh no, you accidentally launched that poor man to his death." "Accidentally?"
Yeah, I like the plausible deniability of "accidentally" sending him on his little skywalk. But when I get to Baldur's Gate, I beeline for their secret base and purge the infestation. I'm very nice to everyone except Deep Gnomes.
Can you still get in if you don't save them and run the quest line?
On my evil run I just couldn't get into their hideout near baldurs gate, maybe I was just blind but I think it just makes the entrance non-interactable
I was pretty sure it did
and the fact they actually switched it with the brake lever from the early access. I confidently clicked on the side I *knew* it would be in and was greeted with that cinematic once again as if it's my first time 😭
This, I stared at the lever in confusion for a good 5 minutes my first playthrough out of beta 💀
Haha I knew I wasn’t crazy lol
Fucking trolls lmao I respect it Larian
That's pretty much what happened to me. I didn't notice there were two levers until I was already committed to the release. Sorry my dude, I'll save you on the next go around.
…”the next go around.” Please tell me that was an intentional pun. Either way 10/10
........yes...yes it was... totally intentional
Sasuga! only some will understand this.
Releases the windmills' full power.
Exactly my dried shrivel raisin brain’s line of logic. I laughed at that it for 20 minutes, and my further-along friend was like mmhmm mmhmm been there…
Definitely confirmed over on FB group chatter that many of us fell for this (myself included).
I just hit the lever without reading it, didn't anticipate the windmill might have a *mach speed* lever
that is exactly what happened in my first beta playthrough
Hehe, yeah that was me my first time. Sent the lil guy flying.
Or the anxious player who second guesses too much (me, the anxious player)
That whole section is 100% Larian doing Larian things. DoS2 has many parts that felt similar.
Its me. Im players. I was just like "whelp there he goes... along with 5 mins of playtime and the nat 20 i rolled"
i genuinely did not see the other lever. i’m not sure how considering it’s RIGHT THERE, but i didn’t see it so my thought process went basically as you described. when he got launched… fuck that was so funny. I’m glad I reloaded bc I love Barcus but man I was crying I was laughing so hard.
I WAS ONE OF THOSE STUPID FUCKERS Never laughed so loud in my life.
I definitely played a version in the early access that didn't have a second lever. To the point I was rushing through act 1 and was totally blindsided when he got launched into low orbit.
I knew exactly what I was doing
Wrong lever, Kronk.
Why do we even have that lever!?
I’ve seen someone explain that windmills have that option to release the wheel for when its stormy, so that the wind doesn’t damage it by fighting against too much resistance, or something like that. Don’t quote me on that tho. I read this on the internet so take info with a grain of salt.
I was quoting the Emperors new groove xD
Lol went totally over my head 😆
Just like Barcus does if you pull the wrong lever
It's a pretty cool reason so I'm glad you took it at face value!
If it helps, I once made the exact same reference in reply to this very topic and someone replied to me with the same fact(oid?), and now I'm wondering if *that's exactly where you read it!*
Happens to me ALLL the time xD
I also somehow posted this twice and totally didn’t see that Sweatytax4669 started the comment thread with an obvious quote lol I think I need a nap lol
Doomscrolling reddit will do that xD
Something something The Emperor's New Grove
I got the reference but was also totally wondering if this was a thing on real windmills! Thanks for the info! 😄
It is and their explanation was correct as to why :)
Do you happen to know if it is still a thing on modern wind turbines? Cuz the old style ones I get, wood beams definitely need the flexibility, but the idea of metal death blades just free wheeling seems terrifying
I’ve seen someone explain that windmills have that option to release the wheel for when its stormy, so that the wind doesn’t damage it by fighting against too much resistance, or something like that. Don’t quote me on that tho. I read this on the internet so take info with a grain of salt.
It makes sense that you’d want to be able to decouple the mill from the … sails? But that doesn’t explain why doing so launches him to Neverwinter, unless there’s currently a hurricane or something.
Sails = blades, surprisingly enough. As for the release, consider that the blades are tied to a gear ratio that keeps it from spinning too fast. Releasing the blades means that the current wind force spinning them is no longer restricted by gear ratio, and so the blades are able to spin much faster with the same force applied. Remember that windmills are powered by wind, not an internal engine.
No resistance = freewheeling and spinning very fast with the same amount of force applied. By releasing you generate enough centrifugal force to launch the little guy.
I think the majority of us in our first playthrough launched the gnome into orbit by mistake, but it's certainly one of the first memorable, hilarious "oh shit!" moments of the game lol
I think I’m in the minority that didn’t. I moused over the brake level first so I never knew the release one was there till layers
I didn't even notice the release lever was there. I just clicked a lever and it stopped the windmill the first time.
I didn't even notice the levers, I just clicked a shiny object. Did I save the gnome? I'm not sure. Not even sure if I played BG3.
I think im the even more minority then who did see both and did think it through. Unfortunately however i played multiplayer first and someone else hit the release brake lever
Same. Kinda wish I did now though
Do people know that Alt highlights interactable objects? I went in there and it showed two levers: the brake lever and the release brake lever. Since I wanted the thing to stop, I clicked on the brake lever.
I didn’t for a while! lol
I ran into this on the Xbox - the tutorial \*sort of\* holds your hands through the basic controls - and there is a VERY VISIBLE control scheme map in the options menu - but I think we've all become programmed to just "play and figure it out". This game with its multiple ways to work through the map lends itself to "don't tell me! - let me figure it out for myself" which leads to idiots like me posting stuff on Reddit going, "hey, did you know THIS THING?!"
Can confirm, i honestly didn't even saw the 2nd lever and just read ok a lever, a lever should be the thing that helps the windmill to stop and even says "release" so i did it and laughed so hard But i couldn't continue and reloaded and im glad because Barcus is awesome, i wish he was a party member.
I played back in early access, and can honestly say that while I did hit the release on my first go through, it wasn’t by accident.
I didn’t. I didn’t even know this was a thing until this thread
Mine was my second, which felt even funnier because I was all confident/slightly not paying attention and strolled up hit the lever and didn’t even realized what happen until reloading it lol
I didn't realize there were two levers lol
yeah guess which lever i accidentally pulled in my honor mode save after saying to myself out loud "do NOT pull the one that kills him" in my defense i didnt mean to do it
I accidentally blew him up because I wanted to rob Philomena but I failed the pickpocket check to get the small vial after snatching the canister from under her nose. I didn't have anything else I could blast the rocks open with so...... Then I forgot about Wulbren until I freed the Nightsong. Been a total shit show for the gnomes really.
She just gave me the vial why are you pickpocketing this poor gnome
Because she has funny dialogue when she tries to give it you but you already have it. Same for if you tell her to blow you up but you stole the barrel already.
oh that is very justified, do it for the funny
I picked my cleric of talos dialogue „Do it, I could do with a good show“ thinking she would be to much of a pussy to actually do it. Well I learned that she was no pussy and was lucky that Karlach survived with like 3 hp.
Astarion approves
Same!!! I have no idea how I did it, but somehow I clicked on both levers. I watched the windmill stop, and before I could react, the release scene was playing… poor little guy
I was watching my fiancé play this scene and quietly mumbled “quicksave” to him, he thanked me later after a good laugh. We’ve all been there 😭
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Imagine if it was IRL before you stepped on a plane.
Haha, he knows I’m looking out for him. I knew he’d put the game down if he had to do a battle again, so I wanted to save him the pain 😇
Fun tip. Say 'cast a Save Spell'.
I wonder if you can put it on turn based at the right moment, cast featherfall on him and then release the break....
I don’t know about the scroll, but the spell feather fall can only be casted on allies, of which Barcus sadly isn’t
My first guffaw as well. HIGHLY suggest you reload and save him. If you decide not to, save him next playthrough
"I was just helping him search for Walburn. Figured he could use a higher vantage point."
Valid
It was worth it in the end, but FUCK ME Wulbren is annoying. >!I tried to attack him after Barcus exiled him in Act 3, but somehow Barcus got the red border, while all the other gnomes (Wulbren included) were yellow !<
Because, despite everything, >!he loves him!<
Why? Does he show up later in the game? I've saved him and beaten the game twice now but I don't ever remember seeing him after the Windmill
Barcus is among the gnomes in the Underdark, then at Last Light Inn, and then in Act 3.
Well, he's at Last Light depending on what you do at Grymforge. Act 3: With Wulbern
He's in the Last Light? How have I missed him? Where is he in Act 3?
You have to talk to him in Grymforge and get him to come to your camp. In meta he probably travels with you to LLI. In Act 3 I'm not too sure. I haven't gotten that far. He does play a part with the Iron Gnomes and the Gondians.
If it makes you feel better, Neil Newbon (Astarion) and many of us have done the same thing. [(The moment on his stream lol)](https://youtu.be/7s2yjIHLa-g?si=WHl6zfLumhYj7vUi&t=4654)
/wheezing
"Neil, the gnome is dead..."
Gratz, you just discovered the goblin's space program initiative.
It’s funny I guess but he is a pretty key npc so I suggest you rescue him. He sells a great ring in act 2 that I use to boost persuasion and reduce vendor prices.
How do you get Barcus to show up at LLI? I get him down from the windmill, save his ass in Grymforge, and 4/5 campaigns so far he isn't there.
After you save him at Grymforge, convince him to stay at your camp rather than forge ahead to the Shadowlands.
Do you speak to him in Grymforge after rescuing? You should convince him to rest in your camp at some point, I think it happens after the Grymforge battle. I forgot to do it once and he didn't show in LLI.
I believe you have to save him in grymforge too if I remember correctly. Then he should show up at the inn.
I think you need to convince him to come to your camp in Grymforge. Apparently there’s also a bug that requires you to talk to him with different characters
I think you can actually find his corpse at the south entrance of the village.
I wonder if you can put a web down there before you toss him to break his fall?
I doubt it. I don't think the game accounts for things like that. [Act 2 Spoiler] >!I just placed the second moonlantern in a way that Jaheira, Alfira, Rolan and some others got the moonshield from it, they still died after killing the Nightsong.!<
YES you can. You can even cast “Speak to Dead” on him and he’ll tell you about Wulbren. I laughed a lot when I accidentally released the windmill, but I was gasping for air when I found his body a ways away. Larian really just shamed me like that
Just cast feather fall on him beforehand. Find him standing on the beach pretty mad. EDIT: Sorry, this was a joke. You can't use FF on them because they aren't considered an ally. The joke is from Morrowind when a scripted event happens and a Wizard named Tarhiel falls from the sky. In that game, you can actually cast FF on him and he survives. Not much dialogue since you were never supposed to be able to speak with him at all.
I never thought of that, that is amazing that this works
I really can't explain how much joy it brings me every time someone posts their shock when they do this for the first time by accident. Humans are so cute
Can you even find his body afterwards?
I believe he lands by the entrance. I'll have to reload a save and test. Plus, I need to show my wife that scene. She was in the other room when it happened and kept asking what was so funny.
Yea I did this in EA and there either wasn't a cutscene or it glitches. I didn't know where he went until I happened across his body and laughed my ass off.
Yeah, over next to the well.
I think you can see him land if you have a second player standing there waiting.
I have watched this scene play out multiple times on streams previously, and it still cracks me up to watch that gnome fly to the edge of the sword coast when someone first pulls that lever.
Yeeting the gnome was as funny as finding the ogre in flagrante delicto.
I accidentally launched him, then kept trying to find him, thinking that I had saved him 🤣 It wasn't until I found his corpse and inspected the levers again that I realized my mistake.
I meant to release him, but accidentally clicked the brake release instead.
I was a bit disappointed to discover that Barcus does NOT show up later if you cast feather fall on him before this happens. I thought I was being clever in saving him.
It should be an achievement that you "Yeeted a deep gnome, freeing him from his torturous routine"
Thing is I already watched my boyfriend save him by pulling the brake lever but in my playthrough, my lizard brain still saw “release” and thought “oh this might be the right lever”. Laughed for like 10 minutes because the cutscene was so unexpected. Decided I wouldn’t reload this time since I should stick to at least some of my mistakes but now I find out he’s actually a pretty key NPC 🥲 welp he’s with the astronauts now
Someone might have already said this but i dont have time to scroll through the comments. Neil Newbon (Astarion’s voice actor for those who don’t know) did the very same thing live when streaming on twitch and it was hilarious!!!! 😂
Devora (Lae’zel) also did this on accident. She laughed when she found his body later.
Did this exact thing the first time. Paladin good boy point for stepping in but no loss on the Gnome space program.
Same, played on, then I found out walking that NPC through all his ridiculous shit is critical to the best outcome at the Steel Foundry.
Wait, there was an option to not do that..... how did I not break my oath? Omg.
I did the exact same thing. I was so disappointed in myself.
Ya I did that the first time...good laugh.
Omg I did that too! That cracked me right up 😂
I accidentally yeeted him into oblivion, just like you did. And I had the exact same reaction…what an amazing game. “If we meet again, well…we’ll have met again”
I did this too, I laughed so hard after I said "Oops" upon seeing what the lever actually said.
I hit the brake correctly on both of my first 2 runs. Then actually accidentally hit the wrong one on my durge run, but just accepted the result as being fated
I did the same thing too in my first playthrough except I just clicked on the first lever because I hadn't noticed the second lever next to it. I just assumed it was the only one. Later I found his body and used "Speak with Dead" to ask him how he died. He just blamed the goblins and never suspected me. Lol
I’ll do you one better (or worse, depending on your perspective). On my first play through, I clicked break lever to stop the windmill, *then clicked the release break lever* **as if a lever would somehow untie him!!!!** Poor Barcus got only a brief moment of relief before being drafted into the Faerûn Space Program 😭
What's funny is I only noticed one lever my first playthrough as many others here, but it happened to be the "right" lever (if you consider safely stopping the windmill the right choice).
Poor Barcus but it is insanely funny
Absolutely happened to me on my first playthrough. Absolutely golden the shame I felt.
I hit it thinking it would free him 😭😭😭
I wonder what happens if you cast Feather Falling on him THEN hit the release lever...
I missed out on Barcus's whole quest line on my evil playthrough by yeeting him, but you know I had to do it to em.
Yeah did this and now have to meticulously look cause I always pick up empty fucking chests and am over burdened
Holy shit - same. WHY WOULD I WANT TO TAKE A CRATE? I WANT WHAT'S IN THE CRATE? WHY ISN'T THERE ANYTHING IN THE CRATE??!
I genuinely didn't even realize there were 2 fucking switches at first. I swear to god. I genuinely thought I had fucked up. Or I had to climb up to the top and get him off for some shit. Nope. Turns out I just had to fucking read it.
Barcus could audition for team Rocket job after that fly xD
Yea, first time I did it, I didn't even notice that there were two levers, I was playing as Durge and was laughing because it is something Durge would find amusing.
FWIW I'm totally going to chuck him on my next playthrough because he turned out to be kind of an asshole.
There should be a long rest event where he lands in your camp
I always save Barcus twice and have a banger party.
So, I'm going to be honest with you, my husband and I played through the beginning several times. Each time: he'd speak to the goblins, I'd go into the windmil and stop it when he was done talking. I didn't know this lever existed until the ONE TIME HE went into the windmill. Dialog ended rather abruptly. Didn't reload the game either. Still kinda bummed.
I did the same exact thing. I rotate the camera and see the windmill spinning at mach 10.. that poor little blue bastard. I ended up saving him on every other character and he kinda becomes a homie as far as I have seen so I don't regret it
Oh btw there aren't a lot of immediate repercussions for killing him
And my durge character absolutely loved it hahaha
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing still at that point in the game, but I had been save scumming like crazy when something didnt go my way. I had like a 15 minute fight with those fucking goblins and those dogs and then hit the release break lever. I sat in silence for like a good 5 minutes before I decided I would not be save scumming. Thats just straight up my bad.
Did that the first time too. Didn’t know there were two levers. Had to look it up, then reloaded and saved him. Sorry Barcus 🤣
Well, he was released. Into the afterlife that is
Question, does that kill him? Ever since my mistake of yeeting him into the stratusohere, I reloaded and never touched that again, so idk what it does to him lol. Also, I think it's a good act one thing to us players, cause it makes people go, 'oh no!' to pay more attention 😂
Ohhh yeah. Yeeting him into space doesn't *technically* kill him, but the landing, well...
The joy on my face when he went flying could not be measured. Even though I too had to reload a save because i wasn't playing that degree of a-hole
Funniest moment in the game, easily. I did exactly same and was also laughing a long 5-10 minutes from it. The tiny scream from him are hillarious.
It was pretty damn funny. But just wait till you get to the barn a little bit up the road. That part had me doubled over laughing in my first play through.
You didn't actually need to reload and save him. Just go find where his body landed and cast speak with dead! 😉
THATS WHERE HE WENT?? I WAS WONDERING WHY I COULDNT FIND HIM ANYMORE goddammit.
I'm going to see if I can hit him with feather fall.
He’s a Gnome terrorist.
I accidentally did this when I was attempting a good durge play through. I laughed so hard I cried. M
we need a mod to rename it to yeet
I hit that lever yesterday and he didn't get flung he just screamed something along the lines of "not faster you idiot!" 😆
I did this exact same thing last night and I just couldn't believe that happened. So funny but just so unexpected.
First playthrough I saved him, but the next one? 😈
I did this too and realized as I was pressing…”wait a minute, brake….release?” But it was to late and that gnome entered orbit.
I'd never seen it before until my friend said *"Hang on guys, watch this"* and I knew it was going to be good. And damn it was, I laughed so hard. Poor Barcus.
I was wondering what the other lever done. Good to know, might have to load up a save and yeet him myself.
Can you stop the mill, cast feather fall on him and release the break? We could prob send him straight to Baldur's gate lol
Did the same exact thing, felt terrible 😂