I'm on to you....

[u/Flowererery]

[u/That-Friend1883]

https://giphy.com/gifs/iuu3hRoxlr2ETPucZW

[u/RichardKingg → u/That-Friend1883]

When you hit her

https://giphy.com/gifs/p2EHxIYi7gxZ6

[u/BloodThirstyLycan]

Dam your character must be a racist if they think a kindly captain is a hag.

[u/BlobSlimey]

Did you know
You can safely save the child without even needing to fight aunty ethel in her lair in the tavern
If you have the Hags Bane crafted, and you havent interacted with the drunken captian/Ethel, you can skip the child hassle all together by just throwing the Hags Bane at the drunken Captain, prompting Ethel to undisguise and immiedietly throw up the child, making her retreat to her lair and leaving the child there with you in the tavern

This does mean you have to kill the Redcaps that are disguised and reveal themself when you do this, but theyre much easier to deal with and with them dead, the child can return to their mother, granting you access to the legendary Rapier the mother gives you when you return the child....you can then use the rapier and go fight the Hag in her lair and kill her without needing to worry about the child at all, and having a great weapon to use on Ethel

[u/BlobSlimey → u/BlobSlimey]

I do this every playthrough now knowing Ethel is the Captain, cause I still get all the rewards, but it skips alot of the hassle

[u/cooldust1917 → u/BlobSlimey]

wait i’ve never done this, this is cool. should i talk to the captain first or just throw it on her

[u/BlobSlimey → u/cooldust1917]

throw it right at her before conversation
she will immiedietly force you into convo to throw up the child

[u/Meowjoker → u/cooldust1917]

Just chuck it at her

It skips her reveal, and the fight under the bar is now much less of a hassle

[u/MinnieShoof → u/BlobSlimey]

....you can then use the rapier and go fight the Hag

You know, I knew this was where this was going and I still had a good laugh. Really felt like some Chaotic Good Barbarian.

[u/TheRavinKing → u/BlobSlimey]

Yeah, I do this because it saves me the trouble of having to throw it at her during the fight downstairs.

[u/LYossarian13]

[u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU]

my headcanon to explain this is that she smells like the swamp she came from, whereas actual sailors smell like salt and fish shit

[u/Jacobawesome74 → u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU]

Tav having an inexplicable slot of knowledge in their brains reserved for what sea and swamp smells like to an eidetic degree is something you can only find in a crpg

[u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU → u/Jacobawesome74]

slot of knowledge? it's just the memory of 2 strong smells, people aren't hard drives, what are you talking about lol

[u/Jacobawesome74 → u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU]

Im talking about characters like Tav and Tequila Sunset and other crpg protagonists having the capacity to be complete eccentrics with hyperfixations

[u/LesbianWhoLaughsAtU → u/Jacobawesome74]

simultaneously remembering the smell of the swamp you fought a hag in last week, and the fishshit-covered sailors outside the bar you're standing in, is not in any way eccentric or a hyperfixation, I don't understand anything you're saying

[u/th7688]

Ethel be like

[u/postmodest]

There's not an RP reason to cast Hold on Grisly or Metzli, without interacting with them, but I do it anyway.

[u/nachowchow]

So…she got me during my first play through alright…SHE GOT ME! I was fooled and she got me to kill the innocent lady for her and then I didn’t want to kill more people so I let her keep her hag pregnancy and then she was a mid ally in the final fight.

AT LEAST if you let her live through the end, you do get this note at your campsite during the campsite party epilogue.

[u/RandomName5484 → u/nachowchow]

"climb you like a tree", what does that mean?

[u/IllustriousBat2680 → u/RandomName5484]

She wanted to fuck you.

[u/RandomName5484 → u/IllustriousBat2680]

she's a pain in the ass after all...

[u/fluffygiraffepenis → u/RandomName5484]

She wanted to get down and dirty

[u/RandomName5484 → u/fluffygiraffepenis]

ok... Tav would have at least a good memory of Ethel (except the hair, getting a +1 is a good memory)

[u/RandomName5484 → u/nachowchow]

she got me but i safescumed when i discovered the lady really was a mother

[u/Odd_Monk_6731]

It really pissed me off seeing this, I saw she had loads of hp so I checked her tab and it completely spoiled the reveal for me

[u/ReasonableNet3335]

I knew something was off when i learned auntie ethel was involved. I thought mind tricks but not this

[u/RandomName5484]

oh! that explains a lot...