Same here, im doing evil run on honour (not dark urge) and so far I beheaded Karlach, killed Halsin and everyone in Emerald groove , Wyll and Gale left me. But hey, Minthara thinks im cool.

STAKED? I thought you meant STALKED, and was wondering how that was kinda cute. OMG.

I've resisted all urges to give into the illithid powers in my first playthrough. It's much harder to roleplay an evil character, I've found.

I've always loved the idea of dangling a golden carrot in front of the protagonist, only for it to be a poison chalice at the end. I'm still not sure what the illithid powers will do in the endgame (though I'm in act 3 and will find out soon enough!).

I staked astarion in my honour run by misclicking. For some reason i thought i was clicking the push him off option and then all of a sudden im stabbing my sassy day walker. So sad.