Early on in Baldur's Gate 3, there's this horrible feeling that the tadpole in your brain could transform you into a mindflayer at any moment. Understandably, especially on your first playthrough, you'd do anything to rip it out, whether that means stumbling into the heart of a githyanki creche or making deals with a hag in the middle of the swamp. But maybe the most desperate move is asking a man who interviews bears for help.
Cue Volo, who offers to remove the tadpole with an ice pick, rummaging around your eye socket with his crude instrument to poke and prod at the critter. Not only does he fail spectacularly, but when he rips the ice pick out, your eye flings off into the mud. Thankfully, he has a spare one lying around, which permanently grants you the See Invisibility buff — it's not exactly a worthwhile trade-off.
He scurries off before you can throttle him, meaning that only one party member can get Volo's Ersatz Eye and its accompanying buff. But if you really want everyone to join in on the fun and get skewered with an ice pick by a bard-shaped wizard, one player found a pretty inventive...
