Early on inBaldur’s Gate 3, there’s this horrible feeling that the tadpole in your brain could transform you into a mindflayer at any moment. Understandably, especially on your first playthrough, you’d do anything to rip it out, whether that means stumbling into the heart of a githyanki creche or making deals with a hag in the middle of the swamp. But maybe the most desperate move is askinga man who interviews bearsfor help.
Cue Volo,who offers to remove the tadpole with an ice pick, rummaging around your eye socket with his crude instrument to poke and prod at the critter. Not only does he fail spectacularly, but when he rips the ice pick out, your eye flings off into the mud. Thankfully, he has a spare one lying around, which permanently grants you the See Invisibility buff — it’s not exactly a worthwhile trade-off.
How To Give Everyone In Your Party Volo’s Eye
He scurries off before you can throttle him, meaning that only one party member can get Volo’s Ersatz Eye and its accompanying buff. But if youreallywant everyone to join in on the fun and get skewered with an ice pick by a bard-shaped wizard,one player found a pretty inventive way to make it work.
All you need to do is cast Hold Person on Volo before asking him to do the surgery. When he finishes, he can’t run away, so you may swap to another character and repeat until everyone has their own all-seeing eye.
When Hold Person runs out (i.e. after you Long Rest), he’ll run off, and there doesn’t appear to be any way to permanently trap him in camp. u/3b1e6d634e9f7962f783 tried boxing him into a “prison” made of chests and other junk, but he magically disappeared. Like I said, bard-shaped wizard.
So, if you want everyone to have their own Volo Eye, you have to do the Hold Person exploit in one go, before he has the chance to flee. Why anyone would let him perform surgery on them after watching Tav get mutilated is beyond me, though — I can almost hear Shadowheart side-eyeing us from here.
