Top-of-the-line elements of Baldur’s Gate 3 is all of the stuff you do not even understand you missed. The half-orc waiter, Honk, is not precisely the juiciest morsel of BG3 esoterica, however as YouTuber Proxy Gate Tactician factors out, he is likely to be the NPC you are least more likely to have met even after a whole lot of hours of play.
Act 3’s Decrease Metropolis is residence to an eatery referred to as the Singing Lute, owned and operated by a half-orc named “Tender” Henk. It is an ironic nickname, however the impolite restaurateur appears to just do high-quality within the pre-Yelp Forgotten Realms. Within the remaining scene of Karlach’s romance arc, Henk does his greatest to kill the temper in your “first date” together with his gruff demeanor and sub-par service.
The factor is, since that is Baldur’s Gate 3, Henk can die at any level (although probably solely by your hand). Enter Honk, Henk’s brother with the identical face and a distinct coiffure, a failsafe NPC to point out up in Karlach’s romance scene and ship the identical traces. He jogs my memory of the equally cheeky Biff the Understudy from the unique Baldur’s Gate, an NPC who reveals as much as ship dialogue traces if their assigned character is already useless.
Honk’s look is elevated by that traditional Larian consideration to element, although. There is a observe from Henk to Honk yow will discover within the Singing Lute that alludes to his existence, and most surprisingly, distinctive voice traces for Karlach’s romance scene within the occasion of a Honk sighting. Karlach appropriately addresses him as Honk as a substitute of Henk, and Henk/Honk’s single voiced line within the scene, an orcish curse, is delivered by a distinct voice actor.
I’m wondering, although, if I may need really seen Honk myself as a consequence of a since-patched glitch. Once I first noticed Karlach’s date scene, I seen one other half-orc an identical to Henk within the background. I initially assumed this was a second occasion of Henk, however I now understand it was probably Honk, somewhat overeager in his anticipation of his brother’s demise.
The eye to element on this sport by no means ceases to amaze me, and Proxy Gate Tactician has one other 9 uncommon BG3 encounters to point out off in the identical video. Certainly one of them, the dragonborn bard Quil Grootslang, I really had met earlier than. Although she’s meant as a failsafe for Darkish Urge gamers who kill their designated first sufferer, Alfira, earlier than the right cutscene, knocking Alfira out with a nonlethal assault triggers Quil’s look in her stead, providing you with a loophole to avoid wasting the Tiefling bard.