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Shovel (familiar)

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Shovel is a unique quasit and summonable familiar that can be summoned via the Find Familiar: Cheeky Quasit spell. Unlike regular quasits, Shovel has unique dialogue, and can be interacted with after summoning her.[note 1][url 1]

Her name can be changed to Fork or Basket through dialogue.


Shovel is bored! Shovel wants to murderise!
Shovel

Overview

Shovel is a carefree and upbeat fiend that finds joy in murder, arson and eating babies. She is impatient, and very easily gets bored. In spite of her irreverent demeanour, Shovel can be deeply loyal, even when denied the many pleasures of violence.

Summoning Shovel

There are two ways of summoning Shovel:

Permanently acquiring Shovel

Warlocks and wizards, as well as sorcerers (Draconic Bloodline subclass is recommended due to potential bugs.), can gain the spell permanently in their common tab. After summoning Shovel either by using the Scroll of Summon Quasit found in the Apothecary's Cellar, or by a Wizard that scribed the scroll, that character will automatically initiate dialogue with her. Here you have to do the right dialogue options[note 2] - choosing the first one every time will work. After finishing that dialogue go to the character who you want to be able to resummon Shovel, and start a new dialogue. If that character is a Warlock, Wizard, or Sorcerer, Shovel will call them a "spell shite" and the spell will be added permanently to that characters common tab. Respeccing does not remove the spell. This does not work if you are disguised.

By scribing the scroll on a Wizard, and talking to shovel with another character you can learn the spell on two characters.

History

Shovel was owned by the necromancer Ilyn Toth, who was a cruel and neglectful master. He would often verbally and physically abuse her, and often forgot to feed her. In spite of this, Shovel enjoyed working with her former master.[act1 a]

Attacks and abilities

Similar to other Find Familiar summons, Shovel excels at providing chip damage and harassment in battle. Defensively, her fragile body is at best a distraction against most enemies. Her Invisibility skill is particularly useful for scouting out enemy positions and initiating fights via Surprise attacks.

Unlike ordinarily summoned quasits, Shovel has her own unique lines when using her actions.

Footnotes

  1. Shovel is referred to as she in the description of the Steam achievement Rude, Crude, and Full of Attitude: Find and summon the quasit Shovel. Or is her name... Fork? Maybe Basket?
  2. You cannot change Shovel's name, and you cannot ask about her former master Illyn.

References

  1. Dialogue with Shovel, when spoken to in Apothecary's Cellar.
  1. Patch notes: Baldur's Gate 3 website. Larian Studios. Retrieved 12:08, 2023-11-22.

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