It’s 2017 All Over Again, As New Divinity: Original Sin 2 Players Stumble Headfirst Into Larian’s Bizarre Chicken Quest
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In Baldur’s Gate 3, you have the owlbear cub. In Divinity: Original Sin 2… you have a Voidwoken chicken that instills fear throughout Rivellon. At least it’s cute? With all the new players flocking back to Larian’s old games thanks to the new TGA trailer, these kind of discoveries are springing back up, and it’s endearing to watch newcomers fall prey to same traps we did like it’s 2017 all over again.
Do not read ahead unless you want to ruin one of the funniest Larian quests in D:OS2.
One such trap is the Counting your Chickens quest, found at the very start of Act 2 along the main road. If you have the Pet Pal talent, Big Marge will plead with you to find her lost brood, plundered by Voidwoken and secreted away along the river. If you travel north and fight back against these abominations, you will find one surviving egg that you can bring back to the chickens. Quest done, right?
Not quite. If you return, you’ll find that a Voidling chick hatched and slaughtered all of the chickens. However, if you cast Spirit Vision to speak with Big Marge again, she won’t begrudge Peeper’s bloodthirst, but instead ask you to bring him home to his father. This is where things go horribly wrong. The father will demand you murder Peeper where he stands, and seeing as it’s only a misunderstood little demon, the answer is surely, ‘No, bog off’. But if you refuse, the father — and all the nearby elves — will enter combat and descend on your party. And ol’ Peeper? Well, he’s not so cute anymore.
Here’s hoping you have a somewhat recent save file.
DON T KILL MY BABY
“I feel like Jerry out of Rick and Morty or something,” said u/Knoah1996, who stumbled headfirst into this quest. “I found myself in the baby Voidwoken chicken’s corner and was like, ‘Maybe we shouldn’t kill it?’ It was kinda cute and I thought the magic fu**ing bird could maybe cure it or something. No.
“Next thing I know all the elves, five fu**ing Voidwoken chicken and the baby that was just a chicken and is now a giant Voidwoken monster are all fighting me. My magic and physical armour were destroyed and my life was at 50 percent before I could even make a turn. Now my only options are to thug this out somehow which is likely impossible or go back to my recent save which was like two quests ago! Fu**ing Larian lmao”.
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Granted, the elves weren’t always there (they were added with a new quest for the Definitive Edition), but it’s still unbelivably nostalgic reliving the pure chaos of this quest through someone else.
Now, let’s make sure we keep quiet about the raunchy lizard in the Act 2 tavern. That’s one that every new player deserves to experience firsthand.
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