christopherous1 • 1 yr. ago. I would recommend not killing any of the playable characters, killing certain characters will have an effect on the story. Most importantly the elf in the cave. The woman who you can sort of romance also appears later in act 4 if you ask to meet her later and she isn't dead.Never again. Be warned though that if you dismiss them after the game registers that you 'escape' Fort Joy, they can teleport to an area at the end of Act 1 and be un-rerecruitable until you can get to that area. My best guess is that once you check the box for 'Escaped Fort Joy' the game then changes your 'base' to the end-of-act Camp, even
I am curious as to what others choose to do for this part. I ended up killing all 4 myself. Not out revenge for gareth, but thought of it as a mercy killing. The dwarf was clearly being tortured so i killed him first, this was a no brainer due to being a dwarf lover and not wanting him to suffer. Next was the elf, part of me felt like it was asking to be slayed and not saved, for killingI generally end act 2 at around late level 15 or early level 16. If that's where you are, then yes, you can murder them if you wish. If not, I'd suggest keeping them alive so that you can at least refresh their shops as you continue to level through the act.
ACT 2 AND 4 SPOILERS Her name's Butter. You can meet her girlfriend in Driftwood. But Butter herself doesn't actually reappear until aft 4, where you can find her corpse, apparently killed by voidwoken, though she doesn't leave a spirit for you to find out what happened.