I think much of this stuff is still a little bit broken. I barely began a 3rd run through after finishing twice, and those two other times I only got easy, random sex with Lae'zel for my masculinity and Wyll because... IDK. I barely even talked to that dude and suddenly I catch him dancing and he wants to bang.

The people I want to fuck don't give me the time of day, and their approval was maxed out. In the carnival, there's a thing that you can use to find out how close a companion feels about you. I took gale and he was apparently down to clown, but I never actually got any options that led to an encounter.

Plus, between the first two runs, what scenes played and when were totally different. Even without changing much about how I chose things or the order I did them, even minor things like when Gale decides to eat a magic item or when Lae'zel and Shadowhart would argue happened seemingly at random.

At this point, I believe both sides of the horniess argument are true. Some people got stonewalled, others got the pansexual harem.

And they show interest in you as a person, but I wouldn't call that horny. Once I turned them down they didn't bother me anymore, and I've been to act 3 3 times already due to failed romances (if you don't have shart in your party in act 1 it's quite hard to raise her approval with just act 2 shadowlands. I tried everything, but nothing, nada.) and maybe 5 times to act 2 too, so I've had plenty of their interactions.

Think of it this way. If you weren't there they wouldn't have even gotten together as a group, they would have been lost or alone and most would have begun their ceremorphosis process since only shadowheart was with the artifact, and that unsociable girl would hardly join with anyone. So you are the glue holding the group together, paying them attention, the only one who's basically tending to their personal needs, and assuming they all find you attractive, I think that it's natural to develop a crush in you, the leader. Then it's a matter of how each one likes their courting and if you are interested.

You can do event 1 and 2 of Gale and turn him down with a sentence that was like "I'm not interested, Gale", which is nowhere near the "Eww you suck" option I've seen everywhere. I think that option shows up with his apparition in the camp? but bby that point if you are a good friend of his, you really should go to see what's up since that scene triggers close to the event with Elminster. Then if he's interested in you you can say no, or if you are already in another relationship, there won't be any sexual trigger or anything, and if you are pursuing him, I recall that the third option was what stated before.

IDK, the bonds you form with your party members feel quite real to me after considerin what they are going through and how are they acting with each other in the situation they are in where nobody is really helping them.

I turned down Gale's magic show and he still confessed his love for me later because apparently the only answer to "we're friends, aren't we?" is either "let's fuck," giggling coyly, or "ew, I hate you." I just wanted to be friends. ):