Among the finest components of Baldur’s Gate 3 is all of the stuff you do not even notice 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 could be the NPC you are least prone to have met even after a whole lot of hours of play.
Act 3’s Decrease Metropolis is house 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 wonderful within the pre-Yelp Forgotten Realms. Within the closing scene of Karlach’s romance arc, Henk does his finest to kill the temper in your “first date” along 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 doubtless solely by your hand). Enter Honk, Henk’s brother with the identical face and a unique coiffure, a failsafe NPC to indicate 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 exhibits as much as ship dialogue traces if their assigned character is already lifeless.
Honk’s look is elevated by that basic 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 accurately 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 unique voice actor.
I ponder, although, if I might need really seen Honk myself resulting from a since-patched glitch. After I first noticed Karlach’s date scene, I observed one other half-orc similar to Henk within the background. I initially assumed this was a second occasion of Henk, however I now notice it was doubtless Honk, a bit overeager in his anticipation of his brother’s demise.
The eye to element on this recreation by no means ceases to amaze me, and Proxy Gate Tactician has one other 9 uncommon BG3 encounters to indicate off in the identical video. Considered one of them, the dragonborn bard Quil Grootslang, I really had met earlier than. Although she’s supposed as a failsafe for Darkish Urge gamers who kill their designated first sufferer, Alfira, earlier than the correct cutscene, knocking Alfira out with a nonlethal assault triggers Quil’s look in her stead, supplying you with a loophole to save lots of the Tiefling bard.
