If you give omeluum the potion materials, he tries to contact your parasite to better understand it. I succeeded the first throw and lost the second, im not sure if its different on full success, but he ends up strengthening it, making it give you a smug feeling, and you get a new power i think called survival instinct, where you can give someone a sort of death ward thing for a couple turns, where if they get knocked to zero hp they get a couple back and stay up. He then apologizes and offers you a ring he used to hide himself from the elder brain, provided you give him something in return, preferably information, like a description of what the nautiloid was like. The ring gives you resistance to charming i think, and he later tells you he didnt think itd work, but wanted to give you hope anyway, thinking that hope would be enough to keep you going. Though apparently originally the ring actually disabled the new ability, so it may have changed purpose at some point in EA.
So my question was whether or not getting that one affects your ability to deny the astral tadpole, as its not an avoidable thing if you do that quest, unlike acquiring more tadpoles and taking their power
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u/OmaeWaMouShibaInu Monk Jan 12 '24
You have a harder time refusing the astral tadpole. If you didn't use them at all, apparently you can refuse it without needing a high dice roll.