BEGIN X#ADDIAL //Garrick APPEND _GARRIJ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",1)~ GarrickNashkel SAY ~I must admit, , when I joined you I didn't quite imagine we'd have such an, uh, exciting life.~ ++ ~You thought it would be warm taverns and walks in the countryside?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",2)~+ GANA1.1 ++ ~I'm glad I can keep you on your toes.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",2)~+ GANA1.2 ++ ~Be quiet, I don't have time for this.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",2)~+ GANA1.3 ++ ~I don't do what I do to please you, you know.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",2)~+ GANA1.4 ++ ~What, exactly, were you expecting?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriNashkel","GLOBAL",2)~+ GANA1.1 END IF ~~ GANA1.1 SAY ~Well, I must admit I wasn't really sure at all... But I didn't imagine I'd be, say, saving the mines of Nashkel from an incursion of kobolds, led by a foul cleric of Cyric!~ ++ ~Are you saying you're scared and want out?~ + GANA1.5 ++ ~To tell the truth I never quite know what to expect, either.~ + GANA1.5 ++ ~That's the way life is. Less of this yapping; let's get on to the next adventure.~ EXIT END IF ~~ GANA1.2 SAY ~Oh, on my toes for sure, and with my nerves on edge sometimes too!~ ++ ~Are you saying you're scared and want out?~ + GANA1.5 ++ ~To tell the truth I never quite know what to expect, either.~ + GANA1.5 ++ ~That's the way life is. Less of this yapping; let's get on to the next adventure.~ EXIT END IF ~~ GANA1.3 SAY ~Oh, I, uh... Sorry.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ GANA1.4 SAY ~I know that, I was just trying to make onversation! Oh, never mind.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ GANA1.5 SAY ~I'd be lying if I said I was never frightened... But that's part of being an adventurer, right? Facing your fears? Anyway, I, uh, I guess we'd better get a move on.~ ++ ~Right you are; let's go face some more of our fears. Onwards!~ EXIT ++ ~Just so long as I know you're not about to bolt it at the first sign of trouble. Come on, let's go.~ EXIT ++ ~Well you were right about one thing: Moving on. And next time, don't bother me with this sort of rubbish.~ EXIT ++ ~Wandering free, discovering the unknown... Dangerous, but I'm sure you in particular would agree that it makes a good tale. Let's go find something more to write about.~ EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#GarriWar","GLOBAL",1)~ GarrickWar SAY ~Everywhere we go, we hear tales warning of imminent war... We live in, uh, interesting times. Troubled times, too. ~ ++ ~Is there a point to this blather? ~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriWar","GLOBAL",2)~ + GAWA1.1 ++ ~I know what you mean. Still, it means more chance of a good fight!~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriWar","GLOBAL",2)~+ GAWA1.2 ++ ~Something on your mind?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriWar","GLOBAL",2) ~+ GAWA1.3 ++ ~That's true enough. The future, it seems, is uncertain.~DO ~SetGlobal("X#GarriWar","GLOBAL",2) ~+ GAWA1.3 END IF ~~ GAWA1.1 SAY ~Well I was only making conversation! Next time maybe I won't bother.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ GAWA1.2 SAY ~Uh... Well, I suppose that's true. I'd like to avoid those sorts of situations where possible, though.~ ++ ~What's the matter? You a coward? ~+ GAWA1.4 ++ ~Bah! More blood for me then, weakling! ~+ GAWA1.4 ++ ~Each to their own, Garrick.~ EXIT ++ ~Well, I like the occassional bit of excitement but you're right, too much can leave you feeling a bit tired.~ EXIT END IF ~~ GAWA1.3 SAY ~Well, I like this adventuring and all, don't get me wrong. But I am scared, sometimes. There's the thrill of living on the edge, but I never know if I'm going to wake up to be skewered by a hobgoblin's arrow.~ ++ ~I knew it, you're a coward! ~+ GAWA1.4 ++ ~Hmm. Next time I won't bother responding to your musings. Shut. Up.~ + GAWA1.1 ++ ~I think it's something you have to get used to. Sometimes, I have difficulty facing up to it myself. Still, we have to soldier on. ~+ GAWA1.5 ++ ~You don't enjoy staring death in the eyes? What about the joys of close melee combat? You can't deny it makes you feel alive? ~+ GAWA1.2 END IF ~~ GAWA1.4 SAY ~I'd just prefer to live another day, is all. I'm only young, and I'm a lover, not a fighter... Plus I can't very well pen tales when I'm dead, can I? Hmm, unless I was, uh, undead... Creepy.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ GAWA1.5 SAY ~ Thanks, , I'm glad you understand. I guess we'll, uh, just have to get through this together! Well, on to our next adventure, and with luck not our last!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END //Ajantis APPEND ~_AJANTJ~ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~ Global("AjPaladinFriendTalk","GLOBAL",1) ~ THEN BEGIN AJPaladin SAY ~Good , might I ask what made you decide to tread this righteous path?~ [AJANT99] ++ ~It’s a topic I care not to explore. Lets drop the topic until another time, Ajantis.~ + P2P_finish + ~Gender(Player1,MALE)~ + ~Well, I had no particular reason, but one of the fringe benefits is that it’s a great way to meet chicks!~ + P2P_chicks + ~Gender(Player1,FEMALE)~ + ~Well, I had no particular reason, but one of the fringe benefits is that it’s a great way to meet boys!~ + P2P_boys ++ ~It revolves around a story that I heard as a youngster, about the source of the undead being attributed towards the actions of 13 Paladins and how, after a long and tragic battle, 12 of them turned on their colleague, killed him and drank his blood, their reasons being unclear. Then, being ashamed of their actions, they turned and fled, being unable to look upon each other in the full glare of daylight. They lived in an unlife, a decrepit existence, doomed to live off the blood of others.~ + P2P_Legend ++ ~That’s easy. The ills of humanity are many and they seep through society like a weeping wound. The true icons of justice and fairness are so far and few between, their influence wanes as soon as they leave an area. I seek to help rectify this.~ + P2P_Icon END IF ~~ P2P_chicks SAY ~*A curious look spreads across Ajantis’ face. * Really... might we swap a few tales and err...possible hints and tips from your exploits so far...?~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ P2P_boys SAY ~To meet... (*Looks suspiciously at you*). My lady, I am sure this is not the main reason you became a paladin. But if you don't want to talk abou it now, we can move on and continue our duty.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ P2P_Legend SAY ~I have heard of such a tale, but do you think that such a thing is possible? The poles between each are vast, how can there even be the remotest possibility that there is the same point of origination for them and us?~ ++ ~Keep in mind that the actual tale itself is very sparse on detail and is perhaps intended to serve as an illustration of humanity only. Placing too much stock in its literal value, rather than its symbolic value is worthless, Ajantis. Just use such a tale as inspiration for what we can become when facing these fiends.~ + P2P_legend2 ++ ~Absolutely. Does it not make sense to you that these fiends are an eternal reminder of the greed of man? Or what about the vanity of seeking power? Even the saviours of mankind have their weaknesses and these tales serve to remind us as such. Keep the faith Ajantis and it will keep us from harm.~ + P2P_legend3 END IF ~~ P2P_legend2 SAY ~Perhaps you are correct in that assertion. But it makes me wonder why this particular story? Why would it be used as an example when there are better and more recent ones available? No matter, we shall discuss it on our travels.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ P2P_legend3 SAY ~This was my thinking as well. Its details have either been lost over time or hidden from us to prevent such a tragedy from happening again. We shall keep watch over each other, my and be sure that no veil of evil taints us as it did them. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ P2P_Icon SAY ~Are you stating that you seek glory and recognition, or do you seek the absolute eradication of evil?~ ++ ~What, are you not keeping up with me, Ajantis? I’m looking to be glorified as the saviour of the masses, irrespective of what I may do or kill. Have you seen the hero worship people like Elminster and Khelben get?~ + P2P_finish ++ ~The complete destruction of evil, in whatever form it takes, Ajantis. My fate, your fate, perhaps the fate of all of us here is irrelevant, so long as the goal is achieved.~ + P2P_finish2 END IF ~~ P2P_finish SAY ~I see... A paladin you might be in appearance, but not in spirit. Scorn the virtues of our holy forebears at your own peril . I do not see a clear path for you.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#AjantisRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) SetGlobal("X#AjantisRomanceInsult","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ P2P_finish2 SAY ~ Then in this we shall end our discussion. But know that we share similar goals and I look forward to fighting alongside you.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("AjWalls","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN AjWalls1 SAY ~Have you ever studied the advanced techniques of siege warfare? This city's walls look like it has seen its fair share of encounters with a trebuchet or a siege ram. Despite that, the place still looks marvelous.~ [AJANT99] + ~CheckStatGT(Player1,15,INT)~ + ~I’ve been a student of Candlekeep all my infant life, Ajantis. I have a fine appreciation of old, grey architecture and damp ridden walls. Where this fascination in walls and tiles come from is of no concern to me, and not one I particularly care to share at the moment.~ DO ~SetGlobal("AjWalls","GLOBAL",2)~ + Culture1 ++ ~It’s a place of refined beauty - I’ll give you that, but siege technology is somewhat beyond me. I can’t see how you’ve reached that conclusion.~ DO ~SetGlobal("AjWalls","GLOBAL",2)~ + Culture2 ++ ~Our quest focuses on discovering the scourge of the Sword Coast and you’re harping on about er... tiling patterns? What's next? Rugs? Are you aware of the urgency of our tasks?~ DO ~SetGlobal("AjWalls","GLOBAL",2)~ + Culture3 END IF ~~ Culture1 SAY ~You surprise me , in that you show signs of being interested in cultures beyond your own experience, yet when the moment presents itself, you reject it utterly. Have you ever considered that part of being a leader is being able to distinguish the times for leading and those for listening?~ ++ ~And where have you learned about leadership, Ajantis? From the hallowed halls of The Order? From an ancient prelate or some other decayed entity that no longer has any relevance to current affairs? Adventuring isn't as pretty as you may have read. We have to be a strong, fast, effective unit in order to survive. If that calls for culling of inter-party niceties... Well, you get my point.~ + Culture3 ++ ~You... may have a point there, Ajantis. Perhaps I should apologize for my attitude. I've not long been out of Candlekeep and I am still adjusting to the loss of Gorion. Anyway, what you were you saying about siege warfare?~ + Culture2 END IF ~~ Culture2 SAY ~Well, there are several things that give it away. First of all are the gradient textures in some of these buildings here. As you can tell the age of trees by their internal rings, you can ascertain the age of the building from its masonry. You see, natural resources such as granite and other hard rock are eventually used up, meaning that natural sandpits are turned to, as a filler material. When this is applied, you see eventual shifts in the colour of external masonry.~ ++ ~That’s all well and great but all that tells us is that there has been some building degradation. It doesn’t tell us that siege engines actually caused the damage. Can you offer anything else to support this claim?~ + FailedBluff1 END IF ~~ Culture3 SAY ~Your attitude isn’t what I would have come to expect from a leader, . The urgency of the tasks we have to achieve isn’t lost upon us, but I would have expected some integration amongst your fellows. Perhaps next time I shall try military history with you.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ FailedBluff1 SAY ~Well, err...that’s a rather good observation. See, it has to do with the placing of err...will you excuse me for a moment, we’ll catch up on this later... *Ajantis starts polishing his helmet, attempting to look distracted. * ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("AjShieldFriendTalk","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN AjCrest1 SAY ~Come ; Let me show you something. *Ajantis juts his shield on the ground and shows you an emblem of a striking green wyvern, against a sapphire blue background.* This is the family crest of the Ilvastarr family. What do you think?~ [AJANT99] ++ ~Is that supposed to represent ferocity Ajantis, or wisdom perhaps? It’s an interesting symbol and one that manifests your hidden qualities. Is there a story behind it?~ + Family1 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~A family crest suggests family longevity and pride, Ajantis. It also hints at tradition. You should respect this, not everyone has such a lineage that they can show pride and honor in. I should know, as I’m one of them.~ + Family2 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~A family crest suggests family longevity and pride, Ajantis. It also hints at tradition. You should respect this, not everyone has such a lineage that they can show pride and honor in. I should know, as I’m one of them.~ + Family2Bhaal ++ ~Having seen how timid and fragile you are, Ajantis. A rabbit would’ve been more befitting.~ + Family3 ++ ~Mmgh... Sturdy shield. Colorful crest. Very nice. Let's get moving now.~ EXIT END IF ~~ Family1 SAY ~There is, but it’s not a very glamorous one. Rather then being inspired by a heroic battle or tragic love story, it is simply an emblem based on a mosaic by my great-grandfather. He refused to tread the warrior’s path, choosing instead to be an artist. His legacy was the wish for his family not to become conceited and arrogant on their own achievements.~ = ~The green dragon represents the arrogance of men, the streak of jealousy that can run through us all, if you will. The golden background represents the riches of the spirit that are open to us all, the opportunities to achieve more without becoming more conceited. This is what all members of the family wear, in honour of both the man and his vision.~ ++ ~Whilst that isn’t as glamorous as you may wish it to be, it is much more insightful of the pitfalls that one such as yourself will have to face Ajantis. I have every confidence that not only will you be a great paladin, you’ll be a humble one.~ + Humble1 ++ ~Ideologically, that is sound, but realistically it’s pathetic. How can you achieve your goals with a family background that chooses paintbrushes over weapons or humility over glory? Where is the passion to move beyond what your family has imposed on you?~ + Humble2 END IF ~~ Family2 SAY ~Yes, the family pride emanates from all of us, although perhaps not as strongly in me, due to my choice of serving Helm. My path is that of order and humility. This crest helps me to remember that. However, I thought you were raised in Candlekeep? Surely, someone from such a prestigious background is part of a long family chain of learned scholars?~ ++ ~No, I’m not as fortunate as to know the origins of my family. I was raised by Gorion of Candlekeep but I am not his a natural child. My past is as unclear as my future. Still, there is no need for us to sit here and reiterate my own tragic tale, especially when it is so recent. Come, lets move along.~ EXIT END IF ~~ Family2Bhaal SAY ~Aye, you are right, but our sires birth children. It's up to us to grow into men and women.~ = ~Besides the story of Ilvastarr's crest is not a very glamorous one. Rather then being inspired by a heroic battle or tragic love story, it is simply an emblem based on a mosaic by my great-grandfather. He refused to tread the warrior’s path, choosing instead to be an artist. His legacy was the wish for his family not to become conceited and arrogant on their own achievements.~ = ~The green dragon represents the arrogance of men, the streak of jealousy that can run through us all, if you will. The golden background represents the riches of the spirit that are open to us all, the opportunities to achieve more without becoming more conceited. This is what all members of the family wear, in honour of both the man and his vision.~ ++ ~Whilst that isn’t as glamorous as you may wish it to be, it is much more insightful of the pitfalls that one such as yourself will have to face Ajantis. I have every confidence that not only will you be a great paladin, you’ll be a humble one.~ + Humble1 ++ ~Ideologically, that is sound, but realistically it’s pathetic. How can you achieve your goals with a family background that chooses paintbrushes over weapons or humility over glory? Where is the passion to move beyond what your family has imposed on you?~ + Humble2 END IF ~~ Family3 SAY ~Scoff at my demeanor if you wish but this emblem serves to remind me of the arrogance of my peers, arrogance similar to yours infact. Have you any symbolic possession that does the same for you?~ + ~InParty("Imoen")~ + ~No, I don’t and they aren’t needed. The remains of the family I ever knew are now laying in an open field and my bestest friend is straggling along with us now. Why would I need a man-made symbol to remind me of anything? I have all the reminders I need - weakness will get you killed.~ + Family1.1 + ~!InParty("Imoen")~ + ~No, I don’t and they aren’t needed. The remains of the family I ever knew are now laying in an open field; my only childhood friend is draped along the arm of some two-bit warrior somewhere. Why do I need to remember such weakness when I trying to distance myself from it?~ + Family1.1 ++ ~No, I’ve not and neither do I need it. Whilst the time I spent at Candlekeep was important to me, it is also important that I move on with my life. Cooped up in those walls, I learned nothing of the outside world beyond the uttered words of old merchants and the mumbled phrases of scholars. I am where I need to be Ajantis, no reminder of my childhood will change that.~ + Family1.2 END IF ~~ Humble1 SAY ~I...thank you for your compliment and hope that I can justify your faith in me. Ours is a long path and I doubt it will take long for an opportune moment to present itself. Then, we shall measure my progression in both the arts of swordplay and of humility.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ Humble2 SAY ~Which limits are you referring to, ? The ability to look at how my ancestors handled themselves, both on and off the field, serves as nothing but an inspiration. Perhaps your comments are born of ignorance, or perhaps jealousy. It matters not, however, we should be heading off.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ Family1.1 SAY ~How I feel sorry for you. You were privileged in so many ways, having had access to both minds and materials that the rest of civilization could only dream of, only to become what you have. What a power of righteousness you could have been. I shall watch you closely from henceforth.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ Family1.2 SAY ~Whilst I am somewhat sorry to hear you say that, I do understand. There was many times during my own adolescence that I wished for a change in scenery. I longed for new places to explore, other than the same small, confined space of home. How many times did I look at the grey, overcast skies and wish that I were elsewhere? Too many to recall, I must say. Mind, we cannot sit here all day, reminiscing of last dreams and adventures yet to come. We should head off.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END //FALDORN APPEND ~_BFALDO~ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("FaFriendTalk","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1 SAY~Here they stand, the dirty bastions of civilization! GRRR! Hurry, , I cannot listen to the moans of the Great Mother as the criminal miners rip open her loins, spilling her unborn and her innards without losing my mind for much longer! ~ [FALDO99] IF ~~THEN REPLY ~Excuse me, Faldorn...I am feeling sickly. Can...can you be less descriptive in the future?~ GOTO FAPC1.1 IF ~~THEN REPLY ~All I can hear is the wind...~ GOTO FAPC1.2 IF ~~THEN REPLY ~Erm...we *were* moving at a good pace, and we *only* stopped so we could listen to your small speech.~ GOTO FAPC1.3 IF ~~THEN REPLY ~Step it up, people! Onward, to punish the heretics!~ GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~THEN REPLY ~Yeah, yeah... Well, ye can marvel in punishing miners; I'll pick up the loot. But we both will enjoy the slaughter part, me thinks.~ GOTO FAPC1.5 IF ~~THEN REPLY ~Faldorn, I have no problem with mining in general, but my goal is to investigate the Iron Throne. Since you seemed a valuable ally and wanted to do...something similar... I agreed to this alliance. Try not to disgust me with your blind hatreds, since I am still in charge here, and will leave you on your own whenever it pleases me.~ GOTO FAPC1.6 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.1 SAY ~If you cannot stomach my words, how are you going to aid me in cutting asunder mine enemies?~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Well, you’d laugh, but unleashing havoc and destruction is way easier on my stomach than hearing out your... speaches.~ GOTO FAPC1.7 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~You are right. I should have toughened up after killing so many...~ GOTO FAPC1.7 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I can stomach your words, but I cannot stomach your intentions. While I understand your outrage with the offenses caused to the Nature- ~ GOTO FAPC1.2 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.2 SAY ~Silence, townling! If you do not wish to hearken, LOOK!~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO FAPC1.2A END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.3 SAY ~I am strong, but I needed to relieve my heart from the horror that flooded it. LOOK!~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO FAPC1.2A END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.2A SAY ~Look at these piles of gore seeping with acidic fluids! They were earth’s own liver and stomach before they were broken! The Great Mother made the ore the color of bleeding flesh for a reason... And the torturers will never stop! They will grind her whole body into the stinking mess without pity. They will burn her green children only to produce cruel steel to continue killing!~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~In a way it feels like poetic justice that the buyer of an iron sword most often dies on the iron sword. Maybe...maybe there is balance to it?~ GOTO FAPC1.8 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~You have convinced me! Let us attack!~ GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Yeah, it’s an ugly sight. But one needs iron, you know. ~ GOTO FAPC1.9 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.4 SAY ~Grrr! Today we fight for Sylvanus and for the Great Mother! My pack, may your strength never fail you!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.5 SAY ~Grrr! Dare you think about the loot when the Great Mother is abused! LOOK!~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO FAPC1.2A END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.6 SAY ~Open your eyes, townling, and open them wide, before I cut your veins to see if it is blood that flows through you or dwarven piss! LOOK!~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO FAPC1.2A END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.7 SAY ~That’s because the stupid monks tried to reign in and twist your natural beastly rage with their false teachings! I will show you the right way for a to live, but now we have no time left! Let us go!~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO FAPC1.4 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.8 SAY ~Balance can never be achieved by destruction alone, you dolt. Now, quit banding words and attack the mines!~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Arguing with you is like rolling a boulder up to the top of the mountain: Useless and can well kill you for all your efforts. Let us just go.~ GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~You are right, of course.~ GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~*Roll your eyes.* Whatever you say....~GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I have no desire to listen to the lies you spout, druid. ~GOTO FAPC1.10 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.9 SAY ~You are *that* stupid, ei? Or did the monks twisted you into Nature’s Enemy? I thought you had right instincts... ~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Arguing with you is like rolling a boulder up to the top of the mountain: Useless and can well kill you for all your efforts. Let us just go.~ GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I do indeed! *Shake your head* Stupid misconceptions! We shall charge the Nature’s Offenders! NOW!~GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~*Roll your eyes.* Whatever you say....~GOTO FAPC1.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I have no desire to listen to the lies you spout, druid. ~GOTO FAPC1.10 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC1.10 SAY ~Grrr! Then do not listen! But do not be standing here like an oak tree, only much skinnier, uglier and absolutely useless. Let us do what the Great Mother wants us to do, and we flap our tongues later!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("FaFriendTalk","GLOBAL",4)~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2 SAY ~*Approvingly* There is a beast hidden in you, , but which one?~ [FALDO99] IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Then you are blind, druid. is what I am, and I daresay it is quite plain.~ GOTO FAPC2.1 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Phew, beast! I am no beast, Faldorn.~ GOTO FAPC2.2 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Beast? I think I’d rather be a plant... Sitting there all day, thinking quietly, with nobody but wind to bother you...*Sighs wistfully* Wonderful life!~ GOTO FAPC2.3 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Hmm...now that I think about it, it must be a wolf.~ GOTO FAPC2.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Har-har...I’d help ya to figure that out! ‘Tis a bear!~ GOTO FAPC2.5 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I have heard myself compared to a fox before...when they thought I was out of the earshot...~ GOTO FAPC2.6 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~That must *surely* be a sign of a *true* druid, to see a beastly feat in everyone. 'Tis a pity you were not blessed with such a talent.~ GOTO FAPC2.7 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.1 SAY ~Grrreat! Of course! s are beasts like any other! Grrreat answer!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.2 SAY ~What! You think of beasts as lesser? Fool ! Oh! I HAVE it! You are simply a ! s are beasts like any other, so there is no point to look for another beast similar to you in mannerism. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.3 SAY ~Yes, yes, that’s true. *Faldorn’s face darkens*. Unless of course farrrrrmers come with their plows and gluttonous herds, or evil woodcutters mark you as their victim. ~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~All things must die. Is it really much better dying from a disease or hit by an arrow than in a cow’s mouth or in the fires of a furnace?~ EXIT IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Then I am glad that I am a and can defend myself!~ GOTO FAPC2.1 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Hmm...now that I think about it, I’d rather be a wolf.~ GOTO FAPC2.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Har-har...A bear then! Bears are big...~ GOTO FAPC2.5 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Well...if it has to be a beast... I have heard myself compared to a fox before...when they thought I was out of the earshot...~ GOTO FAPC2.6 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~That must *surely* be a sign of a *true* druid, to see a beastly feat in everyone. 'Tis a pity you were not blessed with such a talent.~ GOTO FAPC2.7 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.4 SAY ~Wolves! Now I know why I feel akin to you. I have a blood brother, a he-wolf. The smartest and weariest beast, a stealthy stalker and a dangerous foe. We can run as a pack one day, if you wish.~ IF ~Class(Player1, DRUID_ALL)~ THEN REPLY ~We will hunt together, blood sister, when I take on my animal form.~ GOTO FAPC2.9 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~That might be an interesting experience...perhaps we’d even howl at the full moon together.~ GOTO FAPC2.9 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Nay, Faldorn, I would not want to do that.~ GOTO FAPC2.10 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Erm...I will think about it, alright?~ GOTO FAPC2.10 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.5 SAY ~A -bear is good to have in a party. Great size and great strength, deceptively bulky, but often quicker than a smaller beast. GRRR! I am glad we hunt together bear!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.6 SAY ~*Looks at you attentively* Yes, yes, those who did call you that had a good eye, if poor brain to gossip about you so carelessly.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.7 SAY ~ Grrr! YOU! YOU! *Pauses for a second* I know. You are a mocking bird!~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Right. Now that you have resolved this highly important issue, can we please move onto something mundane, such our current quest?~ GOTO FAPC2.11 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~*Sigh and roll your eyes* Very well. Can we move already?~ EXIT IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~*Sarcastically* How *very* fascinating!~ GOTO FAPC2.11 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Faldorn, I am not some stupid beast OR bird!~ GOTO FAPC2.2 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.9 SAY ~ Wooouh-ouuugh-ooooooooo!!!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.10 SAY ~You do not know what you are missing!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC2.11 SAY ~*Nods to herself* Yes...a mocking bird.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~GLOBAL("FaFriendTalk","GLOBAL",6)~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3 SAY ~I was luckier than you in my fostering. It must feel terrible discovering how many lies you were taught by *civilized* monks.~ [FALDO99] IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Are you an orphan too, Faldorn? ~ GOTO FAPC3.1 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Uhm...you grew up in a druid’s grove or something like that, right? ~ GOTO FAPC3.2 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Gorion was the *best* parent a child can wish for. And he never lied to me...unless you count not telling the truth as lying... ~ GOTO FAPC3.3 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Of course. But now I can think for myself finally!~ GOTO FAPC3.4 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~BAH! I am bloody *happy* that I am not some barbarian get given away as an offering! ~ GOTO FAPC3.5 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.1 SAY ~ Nobody is an orphan! The Great Mother cares for all of her children. As for woman who birthed me, I do not know. The tribe offered me to the druids, when I was a newborn. ~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~But why?~ GOTO FAPC3.6 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~How touching. Now let us go, Faldorn.~ EXIT IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~You should tell this story more often. Maybe it will compel people to take better care of their kids, once they know how you came to grow into such a...druid.~ GOTO FAPC3.2 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Yes, yes, I remember the story now.~ GOTO FAPC3.2 END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.2 SAY ~I pity all the children who are forced by their heretical parents to live in the cities. GRRR! It’s just like caging cubs!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.3 SAY ~Of course he lied! Otherwise you won’t be looking so wistfully at the houses and city walls. Besides, all townilings are liars and their words are just as murky and twisted as the streets of their cities. GRRR! Only those who live in the wilds speak their mind openly!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.4 SAY ~Ah! You are not as hopeless as the rest of the townlings. I feel good about us hunting together.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.5 SAY ~Har! You are a typical townling then, seeing everything in a perverted way. See, you always had this stigma of a "base-born", a "nameless", a "kinless" or "some whore’s get" attached to you. While I ran freely knowing well that the Great Mother welcomes me, no matter who sired me.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.6 SAY ~ My tribe’s land was hit by drought and frost for a few years. The prey became scarce and the streams went dry. Tempus, Auril and spirits of the ancestors did not listen to my peoples pleas. Then the tribe elders decided to give a newborn as an offering to the druids. ~ IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~But why *you*? Where you a shaman’s daughter or something? ~ GOTO FAPC3.6.1 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~*Shake your head* Barbarians. Did it help with the rains?~ GOTO FAPC3.6.2 IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I see. Well, we have to move now.~ EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.6.1 SAY ~Maybe. Or maybe I was the only one born that winter? Maybe my mother died in a childbed, or she was heavy with me when a stronger man killed her previous husband and took her to be his wife, and nobody would want another cub? I know not and it’s not important. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN FAPC3.6.2 SAY ~Yes. Sylvanus was pleased that the Black Raven brought a vessel for the spirit of Kador the Burner, the famous druid who fell to the Nature’s enemies and sent rains. Kador’s spirit now lives in me...I just know it!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END //EDWIN APPEND ~_EDWINJ~ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#EdwinFriendTalk","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN BEGIN EDPC1 SAY ~Simian…yes, I do mean *you*, little whose main goal seems to be wandering aimlessly through barbaric lands. Do you even realize what kind of luck you had in meeting me and having me join your…shall we name it company? Do you even suspect what gem you have inadvertently discovered? (No, of course not. is so thick that is clueless that has a Red Wizard of Thay in employ.)~ [EDWIN99] ++ ~A very red jewel?~ GOTO EDPC1.1 + ~Class(Player1,MAGE_ALL)~ + ~Oh, quit your whining. I am at least as good a mage as you are, if not a better one.~ GOTO EDPC1.2 + ~Class(Player1, SORCERER)~ + ~Wizard, you study every night for hours to make your poor head keep what my blood gives me freely. I think it’s you who should be in awe of me, not vice versa.~ GOTO EDPC1.3 ++ ~Well, enlighten me then. It is a sore thing not to know just how lucky I am.~ GOTO EDPC1.4 ++ ~As far as I am concerned you are yet another clown who leeched himself to my glorious self, to snatch himself a sliver of fame from my plate and to get crumbs from my spoils.~ GOTO EDPC1.5 END IF ~~ EDPC1.1 SAY ~ A Red Wizard of Thay wears his robes with pride and expects deference from those who are graced with their sight… This would occur in civilized lands, of course.~ ++ ~So, what’s so special about the Red Wizards, Edwin? It is a sore thing not to know just how lucky I am. ~ GOTO EDPC1.4 ++ ~*Snicker* That explains why a Red Wizard would dress up like a desperate picador, but what about you, Edwin?~ GOTO EDPC1.6 ++ ~ In our uncivilized lands, *we* barbarians would rather laugh, than bow to such as you.~ GOTO EDPC1.5 END IF ~~ EDPC1.2 SAY ~The Red Wizards of Thay hold the darkest secrets of the strongest magic! The weakest of our Zulkir could grind that pathetic Elminster of yours to dust with a flick of her finger. (I hold more power in my pinky then does in dry little brain, I am sure.) ~ ++ ~And Zulkir would be a honey and nut pastry?~ GOTO EDPC1.7 ++ ~Oh, bite it, Edwin. Red Wizards think themselves so important, but in truth they are no better than other mages. In fact they are worse, because they spend too much time on political scheming and too little on researching magic.~ GOTO EDPC1.8 ++ ~You have convinced me of the Red Wizards’ superiority, Edwin. If you shall offer me a practical demonstration of your skill in the next battle, I’ll kneel before you and forever worship your prowess. I’m sure you wish to hurry that joyous occurrence along, so let’s just move. NOW!~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.3 SAY ~Indeed, in a land that prefers hard boiled eggs to meringue a la crème, your artless approach to magic would be more appreciated, than my perfectly honed skill. Luckily, there are more enlightened societies out there. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.4 SAY ~I will have you know, simian, that you have a Red Wizard of Thay gracing you with his presence. I have been groomed to rule. The only thing that stops me from seeking to conquer this wasteland is that it is utterly barbaric and unappealing to a sophisticated thinker of my caliber.~ ++ ~Ah, well. I would not mind ruling Baldur’s Gate myself, but tastes differ.~ EXIT ++ ~ Oh, bite it, Edwin. Red Wizards think themselves so important, but in truth they are no better than other mages. In fact they are worse, because they spend too much time on political scheming and too little on researching magic. ~ GOTO EDPC1.8 ++ ~ You have convinced me of the Red Wizards’ superiority, Edwin. If you shall offer me a practical demonstration of your skill in the next battle, I’ll kneel before you and forever worship your prowess. I’m sure you wish to hurry that joyous occurrence along, so let’s just move. NOW!~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.5 SAY ~ I see your wit is as sharp and cutting as a boiled potato. (That goes to prove that you don’t have to be a druid for wildlife to talk back.)~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.6 SAY ~I *am* a Red Wizard, you dullard!~ ++ ~O! Who would have guessed! *you start laughing*~ GOTO EDPC1.5 ++ ~No kidding?!~ GOTO EDPC1.4 ++ ~Calm down, Edwin. A practical demonstration of your outstanding skill in the next battle is in order. And we won’t get there unless we move. NOW!~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.7 SAY ~The Zulkir, my painfully ignorant travel companion, are the most powerful mages among the Red Wizards. They have complete dominion over the wizards in their respective schools of magic. (Shall I have to clarify *that*, I wonder?)~ ++ ~Magocracy does not sound like a very good way of governing to me… True mages should be removed from the affairs of the world to practices true arcane art.~ GOTO EDPC1.9 ++ ~ Oh, bite it, Edwin. Red Wizards think themselves so important, but in truth they are no better than other mages. In fact they are worse, because they spend too much time on political scheming and too little on researching magic. ~ GOTO EDPC1.8 ++ ~ You have convinced me of the Red Wizards’ superiority, Edwin. If you shall offer me a practical demonstration of your skill in the next battle, I’ll kneel before you and forever worship your prowess. I’m sure you wish to hurry that joyous occurrence along, so let’s just move. NOW!~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC1.8 SAY ~Yes, yes, the challenges posed by the unilateral mind. Those who are accepted into the ranks of the Red Wizards are talented beyond what barbarians here can imagine. Thusly, they excel in both magic and politics.~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO EDPC1.9 END IF ~~ EDPC1.9 SAY ~True mages should not be removed from the world; they should rule it. Keeping wizards from leadership would leave the world stumbling in the dark like a headless chicken.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN BEGIN EDPC2 SAY ~, what part of "I command you to kill the Rashemi witch" did you not understand? Mayhaps I should put it in simpler, shorter words? Would you need it to be written down and read to you aloud five times a day so you could keep it in your tiny mind?~ [EDWIN99] + ~!Alignment(Player1, MASK_EVIL)~ + ~Why do you even need to kill her? Is she a person of some importance?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.1 + ~Alignment(Player1, MASK_EVIL)~ + ~Why do you even need to kill her? Is she a person of some importance?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ + EDPC2.1a + ~Gender(Player1, FEMALE) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,CHR)~ + ~Hmm…that reading out loud idea is not that bad. I love the sound of your voice almost as much as you do yourself, Edwin.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.2a + ~Gender(Player1, FEMALE) !CheckStatGT(Player1,12,CHR)~ + ~Hmm…that reading out loud idea is not that bad. I love the sound of your voice almost as much as you do yourself, Edwin.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.2b ++ ~I promised you to kill her, and I will make good on my word.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.3 ++ ~*Sighs* do this, do that…somebody give this monkey a banana!~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.4 ++ ~Mayhaps I should cut your throat and see if your blood is red like your skirt.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3) ActionOverride("edwin",ReallyForceSpell("edwin",WIZARD_PROTECTION_FROM_FIRE) ActionOverride("edwin",ReallyForceSpell(Player1,WIZARD_FIREBALL)~ EXIT ++ ~What part part of, "I am tired of hearing your voice", did you not understand?~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",3)~ GOTO EDPC2.4 ++ ~Oh, I understood every word you said... I was just ignoring you.~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.1 SAY ~She is a Rashemi witch, and it is my appointed task to destroy her. That is all you need to know (and all can comprehend anyway. What would a simian know of the prospects that will open before me if I gain Nevron’s trust?)~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.1a SAY ~ She is a Rashemi witch, and it is my appointed task to destroy her. Let us say that her demise shall be the first step of my glorious ascent.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.2a SAY~ Ah, yes, indeed – the sound of my voice. I shall have you know that many before you have found it alluring, especially in the hour of sunsets. Yet I feel obliged to remind that my fabulous voice is not going to be there for you to enjoy if the witch lives.~ ++ ~Is she a person of some importance?~ + EDPC2.1a +~ CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,CHR)~+ ~Were you and her… er… connected in any way before that you so greatly desire her death, my precious?~ + EDPC2.8 +~ !CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,CHR)~+ ~Were you and her… er… connected in any way before that you so greatly desire her death, my precious?~ + EDPC2.5 ++ ~I promised you to kill her, and I will make good on my word.~ + EDPC2.3a END IF ~~ EDPC2.2b SAY ~*Rolls his eyes* (Not *another* barbarian lusting after my perfect self… ) Listen, o woman of er… integrity. My fabulous voice is not going to be there for you to marvel at, if you won’t kill my adversary.~ ++ ~Were you and her… er… connected in any way before that you so greatly desire her death, my precious?~ + EDPC2.5 ++ ~ Do you even need to kill her? Is she a person of some importance?~ GOTO EDPC2.1 ++ ~I promised you to kill her, and I will make good on my word.~ + EDPC2.3 END IF ~~ EDPC2.3 SAY ~In your own grim and shabby way you have quite a… commanding presence. If one closes his eyes to your unwashed face, dreadful accent and a beggar’s outfit that is. Now, off you go, simian. ~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF~~ EDPC2.3a SAY ~You have a charming and commanding presence. I foresee our collaboration shall be pleasurable in more ways than one. ~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.4 SAY ~(It is amusing how they always imitate their betters) Kill DYNAHEIR! Not a goblin, not a xzvart, not a kobold – DYNAHIER! D-Y-N-A… Just kill her and then we will talk fruits!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.5 SAY ~What are you alluding at, you insipid… (Wait! That might just be the stimulus that simian will respond to!) Dynaheir was the love of my life, . And she betrayed me… horribly. (That’s enough details for this stupid cow, I think) Kill her, and I will let you drool over me in adoring gratitude. I might even kiss you. Later. Much later.~ ++ ~How about – a kiss now, murder later?~ + EDPC2.6 ++ ~How did she betray you, Edwin?~ + EDPC2.7 ++ ~I promised you to kill her, and I will make good on my word. We will discuss romantic implications some other time.~ + EDPC2.3 + ~CheckStatGT(Player1,15,INT)~ + ~Huh, good try... But not believable. Care to try again?~ + EDPC2.9 END IF ~~ EDPC2.6 SAY ~No, simian, that won’t do at all. I have a standard, and you will meet it after you done what I ordered you to do.(If she can follow commands it might not be a total loss.)~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.7 SAY ~I said: horribly. Now kindly pick your jaw up from the ground and attend to my task and your…(How should I name it? Cross-country hide and seek? ) Ah well, quests.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC2.8 SAY ~ Of course not – my perfect taste in women would prevent me from ever becoming involved with such a fanatical, primitive and plain-minded wench. ~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO EDPC2.1a END IF ~~ EDPC2.9 SAY ~ Of course not – my perfect taste in women would prevent me from such a mistake. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",4)~ THEN BEGIN EDPC3 SAY ~This land is infested with mercy, which in time causes such complications as feeblemindness. You are sick, very sick , , and it is I who suffers from your symptoms. Can your brain grasp the fact that I did not come here to *save* the witch and to travel in her abhorring company, but to kill her?~ [EDWIN99] + ~InParty("Minsc")~ + ~Edwin, I do not care for Dynaheir, but I want to have Minsc along.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ GOTO EDPC3.1 ++ ~Oh, shut up. She is useful.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ GOTO EDPC3.2 ++ ~Indeed, you have blotched your task, so I can report you to your Zulkir as a traitor. Now, I suggest that you do what I say.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ GOTO EDPC3.3 + ~Gender(Player1, FEMALE)~ + ~Truth be told, Edwin, I don’t really want to kill Dynaheir.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ GOTO EDPC3.6 ++ ~Well, let us kill her then!~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ EXTERN ~_BDYNAH~ EDPC3.4 ++~I shall not suffer such indignity as the murder of a comrade at arms. Dynaheir is under my protection, Edwin, and you’d better not forget it.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#EdwinDynaheir","GLOBAL",5)~ + EDPC3.12 END IF ~~ EDPC3.1 SAY ~You keep the witch because of the critter-worshipping oaf? ~ = ~(Precisely what I would expect from an orphan begotten in a haystack.)You need not loose him, … if I were to arrange an… accident…~ ++ ~Right you are, Edwin. He is strong, but he is stupid. Go ahead with your plan.~ + EDPC3.5 ++ ~No, I do not like this conspiracy. Let’s just kill Dynaheir and be done with that. ~ EXTERN ~_BDYNAH~ EDPC3.4 ++ ~ Oh, shut up. She has her uses.~ GOTO EDPC3.2 +~Gender(Player1, FEMALE) CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,CHR)~ +~Why exactly do you need to inform me? Have my leadership skills impressed you to such an extent that you seek my approval?~ GOTO EDPC3.8 +~Alignment(Player1, MASK_EVIL) !Gender(Player1, FEMALE)~ +~Why exactly do you need to inform me? Have my leadership skills impressed you to such an extent that you seek my approval?~ GOTO EDPC3.7 END IF ~~ EDPC3.2 SAY ~I cannot call her a mediocrity, , for it would be an exaggeration of her capabilities. Your… party (yes, yes, that’s the more flattering word than a rag-tag band) will be much better off if you replace her.~ = ~And if you are… afraid of the resistance she can put up… I can arrange an… accident…~ ++ ~Right you are, Edwin. Go ahead with your plan.~ + EDPC3.5 ++ ~No, I do not like this conspiracy. Let’s just kill Dynaheir and be done with that. ~ EXTERN ~_BDYNAH~ EDPC3.4 ++ ~ Dynaheir lives, Edwin. Or should I report to your Zulkir that you have failed your task and are willingly consorting with a Rashemi witch?~ GOTO EDPC3.3 +~Gender(Player1,FEMALE) CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,CHR)~ +~Why exactly do you need to inform me? Have my leadership skills impressed you to such an extent that you seek my approval?~ GOTO EDPC3.8 +~Alignment(Player1, MASK_EVIL) !Gender(Player1,FEMALE)~ +~Why exactly do you need to inform me? Have my leadership skills impressed you to such an extent that you seek my approval?~ GOTO EDPC3.7 END IF ~~ EDPC3.3 SAY ~ My amateur comedian companion, your words would mean less to my Zulkir than the rattle of a pebble caught in the sole of his boot. I suggest that you do not try to play this game with me, . It would be too boring to win over you.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobalTimer("EdwinKillsDynaheir","GLOBAL", 15000)~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC3.5 SAY ~That will be done in due course.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobalTimer("EdwinKillsDynaheir","GLOBAL", 15000)~ EXIT END IF ~~ THEN BEGIN EDPC3.6 SAY ~Oh, you do not want to kill the witch - that’s bloody brilliant! Your sense of humor is growing on me, I swear! (I do hope she is joking…)~ +~ !CheckStatGT(Player1, 15, INT)~+~ It is not a jest. I do find her useful, and besides, I fear for your safety.~ GOTO EDPC3.9 ++~ Yes, I’m a funny one. Let’s kill her, then.~ EXTERN ~_BDYNAH~ EDPC3.4 +~ InParty("Minsc") CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,INT)~+ ~ Truly, Edwin, to me murder lacks that subtle je ne sais quoi. It hardly seems like a feat to do away with the witch before you know what she’s after. Besides, she seems well guarded and I fear for your safety.~ + EDPC3.11 +~ !InParty("Minsc") CheckStatGT(Player1, 15,INT)~+ ~ Truly, Edwin, to me murder lacks that subtle je ne sais quoi. It hardly seems like a feat to do away with the witch before you know what she’s after. Besides, she seems skilled in her craft and I fear for your safety.~+EDPC3.11 ++~You could do this without constantly pestering me about it you know. It’s not like you lack the opportunity, seeing as you’re traveling by her side.~ + EDPC3.10 END IF ~~ EDPC3.7 SAY ~It is a matter of basic courtesy, given that you have convinced yourself and these other simpletons that you are the leader of this group. I shall not waste time on consulting you on this issue. (Good. It is good.)~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobalTimer("EdwinKillsDynaheir","GLOBAL", 15000)~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC3.8 SAY ~I was under the impression that we had an understanding regarding the witch. I hope that you haven’t lost your stomach for a little conspiracy – it is, after all, the spice of life, and you do seem like one who appreciates a touch of perversion.~ +~ InParty("Minsc") CheckStatGT(Player1,15,INT)~+ ~ Truly, Edwin, it hardly seems like a feat to do away with the witch before you know what she’s after. Besides, she seems well guarded and I fear for your safety.~ + EDPC3.11 + ~!InParty("Minsc") CheckStatGT(Player1,15,INT)~+ ~ Truly, Edwin, it hardly seems like a feat to do away with the witch before you know what she’s after. Besides, she seems skilled in her craft and I fear for your safety.~+EDPC3.11 + ~!CheckStatGT(Player1,15,INT)~ + ~But she doesn’t even mind having you around! Dynaheir didn’t actually do anything to you! I mean, if you did attack her, she might…~ + EDPC3.9 ++ ~Right you are, Edwin. Go ahead with your plan.~ +EDPC3.5 ++ ~I shall not suffer such indignity as the murder of a comrade at arms. Dynaheir is under my protection, Edwin, and you’d better not forget it.~+ EDPC3.12 END IF ~~ EDPC3.9 SAY ~What an utterly charming (if obviously dim witted) disposition you have, my dear…Let me set your mind at ease – I am perfectly capable of doing away with the witch. Yet, to demonstrate that I am not without respect towards a woman’s delicate sensibilities I shall not consult you again on such prosaic subjects. (I see that my plans for the Wychlaran will encounter no opposition from her.)~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobalTimer("EdwinKillsDynaheir","GLOBAL", 15000)~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC3.10 SAY~It’s been a pleasure to confer with you nonetheless. (I see that my plans for the Wychlaran will encounter no opposition from her.) ~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobalTimer("EdwinKillsDynaheir","GLOBAL", 15000)~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC3.11 SAY~ Let me set your mind at ease – I am perfectly capable of doing away with the witch. However, your concern for my well being is unexpectedly touching and gaining more insight into the Wychlaran’s plans might actually prove beneficial.~ =~Very well, my dear, you have proven a point. She will be dealt with in due course.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC3.12 SAY ~ This feeblemindedness has affected you more than I had originally thought. Perhaps you have tiny illithid dwelling inside your rapidly shrinking skull. If I could actually bring myself to care, I would feel sorry for you; as it is though, I just hope it is not contagious.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#EdwinFriendTalk","GLOBAL",4)~ THEN BEGIN EDPC4 SAY ~Ah, how I miss the graceful and sophisticated women of my homeland… It looks that women *here* are simply keen on pretending they are manly men. Others provide conversation as fascinating as the rumbling of a boulder…Not to mention the ones who think mimicking the mating rituals of wild ducks is attractive. (One could go mad from all that quacking, wing flapping and tail wiggling.)~ [EDWIN99] ++ ~*Snort* The observation would have nothing to do with the quarrel you had with your one-night lady friend back there, of course.~ GOTO EDPC4.1 ++ ~*Hotly* Why do you always have to berate others? Have you ever considered that women here do not care for you, because you look and act ridiculous?~ GOTO EDPC4.2 + ~Gender(Player1, MALE)~ + ~*Shrug* Say what you will, but they are good enough for me.~ GOTO EDPC4.3 + ~Gender(Player1, FEMALE) OR(2) CheckStatGT(Player1, 12,INT) CheckStatGT(Player1, 12, CHR)~ + ~Is that so? What type would you prefer, then? Birds of paradise, mother hens, silly geese…~ GOTO EDPC4.4a ++ ~Please, please, give me a moment’s respite from your whining!~ GOTO EDPC4.5 END IF ~~ EDPC4.1 SAY ~I assure you that my observation has a purely philosophical value. It has nothing to do with the self-interested lowly wench. Yet, all theories need practical application - I suppose she could serve as an example of the outrageous attitudes here.~ ++ ~*Hotly* Why do you always have to berate others? Have you ever considered that women here do not care for you, because you look and act ridiculous?~ GOTO EDPC4.2 + ~Gender(Player1, MALE)~ + ~ *Shrug* Say what you will, but they are good enough for me.~ GOTO EDPC4.3 + ~Gender(Player1, FEMALE) OR(2) CheckStatGT(Player1, 12,INT) CheckStatGT(Player1, 12, CHR)~ + ~ What happened? I thought you were quite popular amidst the barmaids and free-spirited ladies of the region. ~ GOTO EDPC4.4 ++ ~Please, please, give me a moment’s respite from your whining!~ GOTO EDPC4.5 END IF ~~ EDPC4.2 SAY ~No! Of course not – it is just that the women from these parts are so used to oafs that they could not recognize perfection if it bit them on the…erm, nose. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC4.3 SAY ~Now, of course, the indiscriminative voracity of your barbarian taste would push you to copulate with a slag, if a local intellectual pointed you to it and told you it was female. I, on another hand, require stimulating conversation, bodily hygiene and some distant trace of good manners in a woman that is deserving of my attention.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC4.4 SAY ~ An inconsequential and trivial matter, I assure you.~ ++~Has Edwin turned discrete all of a sudden? Where are all the spicy details?~ GOTO EDPC4.5 ++~Oh, thank you for not sharing it, then. Gods forbid I could ever hear something trivial or inconsequential from you.~ EXIT ++~For once I’d like to hear something constructive from you. Since I now know what kind of women you find repulsive, do enlighten me on what kind – if any – you actually like.~ + EDPC4.4a END IF ~~ EDPC4.4a SAY ~*pauses and smirks* Would you like an honest response, or the pompous line I serve debutantes at Spring Solstice ball? It is quite charming and well conceived, as befitting a man who is as versed in the ways of the world as I am. However, you do seem to be past the age when young women believe that denying men sensual favors will result in death or permanent debilitating affliction. Or that they would do anything to win your favour.~ ++~Who knows?~ +EDPC4.6 ++~That is a horrible and demeaning thing to say!~+EDPC4.7 ++~The honest answer will do, I should think…~ +EDPC4.8 END IF ~~ EDPC4.5 SAY ~That only proves your own stupidity. Sages would be grateful for a single word from me.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC4.6 SAY ~Not so (quoth I), let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame: My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write your glorious name; Where, whenas death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ THEN EDPC4.7 SAY ~ It is only demeaning for those who would actually buy such nonsense. To others, it is simply amusing; I see it is not the case with you. (A sense of humor does require intelligence. What *was* I thinking?)~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC4.8 SAY ~One option would be a woman whose perfect beauty is unmarred by any trace of intelligence. Of course, she should be at least bright enough to see that being overly communicative spoils her charm – after all, a marble statue might be beautiful to behold, but one wouldn’t really expect it to speak wise words.~ ++~I should have expected that…~ + EDPC4.9 ++~That’s so typical of you! When will you learn women are not inanimate objects?~ +EDPC4.10 ++~It’s surprising that you even like another type of woman.~ + EDPC4.9 END IF ~~ EDPC4.9 SAY ~Obviously, you do not understand the complexity of my personality. You might have mistaken me for a shallow man – let me assure you, shallow I am not. (Constantly being misunderstood makes me taste bile.)~ =~ Even ladies who were less endowed by nature can catch my eye and benefit from my unparalleled talents, provided they challenge my intellect rather than cause the blood to rush away from my head at first glance.~ ++~Excuse me while I regain my ability to speak.~ EXIT ++~I am sure all the less fortunate womanhood are grateful for your immense generosity.~EXIT ++~I can’t decide whether I should be flattered or offended that you are still capable of coherent speech in my company.~ EXIT END IF ~~ EDPC4.10 SAY ~Inanimate? No. (Do I stutter as I speak, I wonder?) Animate and quite beautifully so. If anything from this conversation should by some miracle attach itself to your memory, let it be the fact that being overly communicative is a sin.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END CHAIN3 ~_BDYNAH~ EDPC3.4 ~So thou hast shown thy true colors at last! And they art red. Let us battle then!~ DO ~ActionOverride("Minsc", LeaveParty())ActionOverride("Minsc", Enemy())ActionOverride("Dynaheir", LeaveParty())ActionOverride("Dynaheir", Enemy()~ EXIT APPEND ~_SHARTJ~ //shar interest IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO1 SAY ~Whatever you are putting your bedroll next to mine for?~ [SHART99] ++ ~Am I? Do not get any ideas, wench. It was purely an accident.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.1 ++ ~O, quit this stupid game - it is not like you to lure a man with a pretend resistance.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.2 ++ ~You want me, girl. Do not deny it.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.2 ++ ~O no… it's not what you are thinking, Shar-Teel. I just wanted to talk.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",3)~+ SHRO1.3 END IF ~~ SHRO1.1 SAY ~Accidents are preventable, you moron. Move your stupid blankets away from mine and do not you ever dare to look at me like that again.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.2 SAY ~You think I am playing *games* with you? Whom you are taking me for?~ = ~I am serious, you son of a strumpet!~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.3 SAY ~*Grins* Just to talk, HA!~ = ~*Reaches with her hand for the front of your breeches.* Would not you rather? ~ ++ ~*Stay Shar-Teel's hand* Are you taking me for a liar? I said I wanted to talk and I-~ + SHRO1.4 ++ ~*Cough* Now, that you mentioned it… you do that *rather* thing better than talking anyways.~ + SHRO1.5 ++ ~I knew you wanted me, girl. So what was that crap about not wanting me close at hand?~ + SHRO1.2 END IF ~~ SHRO1.4 SAY ~And you are sleeping alone tonight, you base-born tongue-waggler.~ = ~Or go find yourself a hussy. I care not.~ = ~Talking, bah!~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.5 SAY ~Listen you, lover-boy, and listen carefully.~ = ~*Crooks and waggles her finger, until you lean to her close enough and she is sure you are listening to her every word.*~ = ~*I* will tell you when I want you under my blankets. Now pipe it and leave me alone.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT END //Shar had first hit IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN BEGIN SharAfterFight1 SAY ~That should be a lesson enough for you.~ [SHART99] ++ ~O, no. I am not leaving it like that. No woman refuses my demands, attacks me and lives to tell the tale. Till death do us part, Shar-Teel, till death do us part. ~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.6 + ~!InParty("Dynaheir") !InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You cut me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.5 + ~InParty("Dynaheir") !InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You cut me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.5Dyna + ~!InParty("Dynaheir") InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You cut me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.5Bran + ~InParty("Dynaheir") InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You cut me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.5Bran ++ ~Ah, Shar_Teel, why must you be so cruel?~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",3)~ + SHRO1.7 END IF ~~ SHRO1.6 SAY ~Gladly! I wanted a rematch for the longest time and nothing excites me more than the fight to the death. Especially the one I am winning!~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~Enemy()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.7 SAY ~If I was cruel, I would not have stopped in mid-swing. Revoltingly, I felt pity for you.~ = ~But that does not mean that I am going to go all sappy.~ = ~*Crooks and waggles her finger, until you lean to her close enough and she is sure you are listening to her every word.*~ = ~*I* will tell you when I want you under my blankets. Now pipe it and leave me alone.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.5Dyna SAY ~So I did. Go run and complain to the wizardess, boy. She is one of them *kind* ones. I have no desire to listen to your whining. ~ ++ ~You might be a crazy bitch, but it's you who I want. I am not going to run to anybody.~ DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~I think I will indeed try my luck with Dynaheir. She is a *lady*.~ + SHRO1.8Dyna ++ ~Dynaheir is wonderful. I thought she'd never have me; but you aren't easy either. That should teach me never to settle for second best. If I have to sweat to win a woman's attention, I'd better go for the one I truly want.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.5Bran SAY ~So I did. Go run and complain to the blonde priestess who dares to call herself a warrior, boy. I have no desire to listen to your whining.~ ++ ~You might be a crazy bitch, but it's you who I want. I am not going to run to anybody.~ DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~I think I will indeed try my luck with Branwen. She is a healer….~ + SHRO1.8Bran ++ ~Branwen is… magnificent. I thought she'd never have me; but you aren't easy either. That should teach me never to settle for second best. If I have to sweat to win a woman's attention, I'd better go for the one I truly want.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.8Dyna SAY ~*Snorts* Well, go for it. I certainly wouldn't be jealous of a man who likes *ladies*.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.8Bran SAY ~*Snorts* Well, you go then. Maybe after she'd patch you up… I'd think of some future uses for you.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END //Player1 had first hit IF WEIGHT #-2 ~ Global("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",4)~ THEN BEGIN SharAfterFight2 SAY ~You are still as sturdy in a fight as I remember it.~ ++ ~O, no. I am not leaving it like that. No woman refuses my demands, attacks me and lives to tell the tale. Fight me, bitch, till death do us part. ~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.6 + ~CheckStatGT(Player1,13,CHR)~ + ~Yes, I am. And I am still as good under the sheets as you remember it… ~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.9 + ~!InParty("Dynaheir") !InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You attacked me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.5 + ~InParty("Dynaheir") !InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You attacked me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.5Dyna + ~!InParty("Dynaheir") InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You attacked me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.5Bran1 + ~InParty("Dynaheir") InParty("Branwen")~ + ~You attacked me, you crazy bitch!~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.5Bran1 ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel, why must I fight you? I wish you could be courted in a more… conventional way…~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharLoveFight","GLOBAL",5)~ + SHRO1.10 END IF ~~ SHRO1.9 SAY ~Hades! Fighting does make my blood run high.~ = ~*Shar-Teel throws her sword on the ground and jumps at you, pushing you to the ground with all her weight. She sits herself on your chest and presses a dagger to the base of your neck, while her lips close around yours.* ~ = ~*Between the hungry kisses she growls:*~ = ~Do not try your luck again, lover-boy. I will tell you when I want you under my blankets!~ = ~Like right now…~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty() SetGlobal("ShartSex","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.5Bran1 SAY ~So I did. Go run and complain to the blonde priestess who dares to call herself a warrior, boy. I have no desire to listen to your whining.~ ++ ~You might be a crazy bitch, but it's you who I want. I am not going to run to anybody.~ DO ~ RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~I think I will indeed try my luck with Branwen.~ + SHRO1.8Bran1 ++ ~Branwen is… magnificent. I thought she'd never have me; but you aren't easy either. That should teach me never to settle for second best. If I have to sweat to win a woman's attention, I'd better go for the one I truly want.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.8Bran1 SAY ~Bah! Go. At least I would not have to worry any more that the hussy sliped poison into my wine.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO1.10 SAY ~Keep wishing.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",4)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO2 SAY ~Don't think I haven't noticed you looking my way wantonly.~ = ~Who do you think I am to bed with a man every night, my mother? I won't let you put a bastard in my belly and make me beg for your favors because of it.~ ++ ~Slow down, Shar-Teel. If that is your concern, I can always restrain myself manfully. ~ + SHRO2.1 ++ ~It's kind of difficult not to take you for someone I have never met. Just who is your mother? ~ + SHRO2.2 ++ ~Ah, so that was my plan all along? Nevermind the assassins; Nevermind avenging my father's murder! Sure, my life's goal is to sire a bastard child on Shar-Teel! Women...~ + SHRO2.3 ++ ~You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. Do you want to talk?~ + SHRO2.4 ++ ~You are hallucinating...~ + SHRO2.3A END IF ~~ SHRO2.1 SAY ~*Snorts* To restrain yourself manfully one has to be a man. As pathetic as this title is, you still have not gotten even there.~ ++ ~If I have to prove myself to you, I will, Shar-Teel. What do you want of me? A dragon's head?~ + SHRO2.5 + ~InParty("yeslick")~ + ~Enough. If I am too young for your taste, go er… seduce Yeslick.~ + SHRO2.6 +~!InParty("yeslick")~ + ~Enough. If I am too young for your taste, go find yourself an older man.~ + SHRO2.6 ++ ~You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. Do you want to talk?~ + SHRO2.4 ++ ~Er… let us lay my experience aside for a moment. Tell me something about yourself. For example… eh… just who is your mother? ~ + SHRO2.2 END IF ~~ SHRO2.2 SAY ~A whore. And she is dead.~ ++ ~I see. How did she die?~ + SHRO2.7 ++ ~A whore? Well, when they said that the apple fell by the apple tree they did not mean you, huh?~ + SHRO2.8 ++ ~Fascinating.~ + SHRO2.7 END IF ~~ SHRO2.3 SAY ~Don't you 'women' me! I am not -~ ++ ~I know, I know. You are not your mother. In the spirit of enlightenment, perhaps you can tell me just who your mother is?~ + SHRO2.2 ++ ~You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. Do you want to talk?~ + SHRO2.4 END IF ~~ SHRO2.3A SAY ~Hallucinating?! How dare you! I am not -~ ++ ~I know, I know. You are not your mother. In the spirit of enlightenment, perhaps you can tell me just who your mother is?~ + SHRO2.2 ++ ~You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. Do you want to talk?~ + SHRO2.4 END IF ~~ SHRO2.4 SAY ~I'd tell you what is wrong with me - stooping myself to taking your yapping seriously! That's what wrong with me. Go lift your hind leg at some other bush, mongrel and don't bore me with your 'talking'.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.5 SAY ~Your own head, more like. My own sword can get me as many dragonheads as I need.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.6 SAY ~More than anything else about males, I hate their notion that a woman must 'get' a man.~ = ~As if I needed one in the first place.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.7 SAY ~She died in birthing the third child for her bastard of a husband.~ ++ ~Husband? I thought you said she was a whore?~ + SHRO2.9 ++ ~Was that child… you, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO2.10 ++ ~That must have been a tragedy for you… I am sorry, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO2.11 ++ ~Uhm… now I understand where this fear of having babies is coming from.~ + SHRO2.12 END IF ~~ SHRO2.8 SAY ~No, they did not.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.9 SAY ~She was, before my father knocked her up. To listen to him to tell the tale, she then threatened him to go public, what with him being a lieutenant of the Flaming Fist and the hero of Fort Flame's defense. He married her then and shushed everyone who knew her in her days as a jolly maid of the Undercellar.~ ++ ~Well, whoever she was, it must have been a tragedy for you to lose her… I am sorry, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO2.11 ++ ~Uhm… now I understand where this fear of having babies is coming from.~ + SHRO2.12 ++ ~You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. I hope that this talk helped you to ease your burden a little?~ + SHRO2.4 ++ ~What… what was your mother's name, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO2.13 END IF ~~ SHRO2.10 SAY ~It was.~ ++ ~What… what was your mother's name, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO2.13 ++ ~Uhm… now I understand where this fear of having babies is coming from.~ + SHRO2.12 ++ ~Oh, dear. You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. I hope that this talk helped you to ease your burden a little?~ + SHRO2.4 END IF ~~ SHRO2.11 SAY ~It was not much of a tragedy, you fool. I was the third child of Angelo and Verana Dosan. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.12 SAY ~I fear nothing, you moron. ~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO2.13 SAY ~*Shrugs* Verana, if you need to know.~ ++ ~It's a beautiful name, you know. And so is Shar-Teel…~ +SHRO2.14 ++ ~Ah, well.~ EXIT ++ ~So her name was Verana, not 'a whore'. You know, Shar-Teel, I think that something is seriously wrong with you. I hope that this talk helped you to ease your burden a little?~ + SHRO2.4 END IF ~~ SHRO2.14 SAY ~Oh, beat it.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END //// IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",6)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO3 SAY ~So they hail you as a hero now, don't they?~ ++ ~Yes, they do, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO3.1 ++ ~They hail *us* as heroes. It's a big difference.~ + SHRO3.2 ++ ~You've noticed? I am flattered.~ + SHRO3.1 ++ ~ I don't care. The main thing is, I got gold out of it and saw men fall before me.~ + SHRO3.3 ++ ~Is my answer going to send you on another one of your tirades?~ + SHRO3.3A END IF ~~ SHRO3.1 SAY ~Don't puff you chest out like a pigeon. They called my father a hero, and he is a pathetic jerk.~ ++ ~Your father was a hero, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.4 ++ ~ Are there more members of your family out there? I'd like to get this over with quickly, by listening to all your hatreds for them in one shot... if that is possible?~ + SHRO3.5 + ~Global("Chapter","GLOBAL",7)~+ ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 END IF ~~ SHRO3.2 SAY ~Makes no difference to me. I love bloodshed, and I love coins that a mercenary's position brings a woman. Give that to me and you can have your 'hero' thing. ~ = ~But don't go around proud like a duck who just laid an egg. They used to call my father a hero, and he is a pathetic jerk.~ ++ ~Your father was a hero, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.4 ++ ~ Are there more members of your family out there? I'd like to get this over with quickly, by listening to all your hatreds for them in one shot... if that is possible?~ + SHRO3.5 + ~Global("Chapter","GLOBAL",7)~+ ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 END IF ~~ SHRO3.3 SAY ~ Now those words I respect. I love bloodshed, and I love coins that a mercenary's position brings a woman. Give that to me and someone else can have the 'hero' bull. ~ = ~It's nothing to be proud about. They used to call my father a hero, and he is a pathetic jerk.~ ++ ~Your father was a hero, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.4 ++ ~ Are there more members of your family out there? I'd like to get this over with quickly, by listening to all your hatreds for them in one shot... if that is possible?~ + SHRO3.5 + + ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 END IF ~~ SHRO3.3A SAY ~And what if it does? Are you too weak to take an honest opinion?~ = ~You are just like my father then, who puffed out his chest like a pigeon. They called *him* a hero, and he is a pathetic jerk.~ ++ ~Your father was a hero, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.4 ++ ~ Are there more members of your family out there? I'd like to get this over with quickly, by listening to all your hatreds for them in one shot... if that is possible?~ + SHRO3.5 + ~GlobalLT("Chapter","GLOBAL",7)~+ ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 END IF ~~ SHRO3.4 SAY ~O, yes, he certainly was a hero.~ = ~ When the New World of Maztica was discovered, Duke Eltan of the Flaming Fist was among those intrigued by it. Like all males he had a stupid idea-fix. He dreamt to succeed where Balduran failed in his fool's quest to reach Anchorome. Eltan gathered together a fleet and sent Flaming Fist mercenaries west, where some sailed to Chult and others sought Anchorome itself. With male leadership the expedition was a disaster.~ = ~Disease, fierce storms, rampaging Sahuagin, savage Elven warriors, attacks by whale-like beasts on the ships - you name it. Of the more than five hundred mercenaries who had sought out Anchorome, less than a hundred remained to flee Elven territories and establish a besieged settlement at Fort Flame. Among their number was a Commander who distinguished himself in battle against the Sahuagin, a man by the name of Scar. My father was a little known private.~ = ~ By the time the expedition had reached the site of Fort Flame, he had personally slain a Sahuagin and three Elves. When the initial Elven surprise attack had fallen like a hammer on the already weary remnants of the Flaming Fist expedition, my father had been one of the few to hold to his position while many of the other pathetic Flaming Fist soldiers broke and fled. In the end, his position held, a counterattack routed the Elves, and all who had manned their posts became heroes. Scar himself led the counterattack, and took down the names of the defenders for later commendation. ~ = ~When some of the expedition's survivors launched from Helmsport back to Baldur's Gate, Angelo and Scar were among them. When they returned, they were greeted as heroes, and Angelo was hailed as a respected war hero and lieutenant in the Flaming Fist.~ +~GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",6)~+ ~I do not believe it! A man like that would not have betrayed Duke Eltan!~ + SHRO3.7 ++~He sounds like a hero indeed.~ + SHRO3.8 + + ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 END IF ~~ SHRO3.5 SAY ~I have two brothers, Azar and Sask. They are measly worms, just like my father.~ ++ ~I thought you said that your father was a hero?~ + SHRO3.5 + + ~Why do you hate your father, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO3.6 ++ ~Thank you for sharing. Now, let's get moving.~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO3.6 SAY ~Because he is a liar and a man for sale to anyone with enough money to buy his silence. He recruits similarly corrupt men… Not women; He prohibited women Flaming Fist members from serving in his sector of Baldur's Gate.~ ++ ~I did not know you were adhering to some code of honor, Shar-Teel.~ +SHRO3.9 ++ ~If he made a good living out of it… what's the problem?~ + SHRO3.10 ++ ~So you hate him because he does not involve women in his machinations?~+ SHRO3.11 END IF ~~ SHRO3.7 SAY ~That he very well would... And did.~ = ~He is strong, yes. But it does not mean that he is honest.~ = ~ He is a man for sale, and anyone with enough money can buy his silence. He recruits similarly corrupt men… Not women; He prohibited women Flaming Fist members from serving in his sector of Baldur's Gate.~ ++ ~I did not know you were adhering to some code of honor, Shar-Teel.~ +SHRO3.9 ++ ~If he made a good living out of it… what's the problem?~ + SHRO3.10 ++ ~So you hate him because he does not involve women in his machinations?~+ SHRO3.11 END IF ~~ SHRO3.8 SAY ~Yes, a hero. On the surface.~ = ~Inside he is a liar. He is a man for sale, and anyone with enough money can buy his silence. He recruits similarly corrupt men… Not women; He prohibited women Flaming Fist members from serving in his sector of Baldur's Gate.~ ++ ~I did not know you were adhering to some code of honor, Shar-Teel.~ +SHRO3.9 ++ ~If he made a good living out of it… what's the problem?~ + SHRO3.10 ++ ~So you hate him because he does not involve women in his machinations?~+ SHRO3.11 END IF ~~ SHRO3.9 SAY ~Ysena taught me that to earn respect one has to be above selling oneself.~ = ~ My father... is more of a whore than my mother was.~ ++ ~I see. But I feel that there is more to your hatred of him than him being a corrupt man. Did he… Were you... violated in any way?~ + SHRO3.12 END IF ~~ SHRO3.10 SAY ~ He covers up for corrupt merchants who want their slave trading or drug dealing kept quiet, he befriends politicians who do not want their boozing or whoring to become public knowledge.~ = ~He is the most despised thing among thieves - a Fist for sale.~ ++ ~I did not know you were adhering to some code of honor, Shar-Teel.~ +SHRO3.9 ++ ~I see. But I feel that there is more to your hatred of him than him being a corrupt man. Did he… violated you in any way?~ + SHRO3.12 END IF ~~ SHRO3.11 SAY ~I hate him because he did not consider women worthy of being anything more than a man's bed-warmer and a kitchen slave! I spent all my childhood serving my father and brothers, because I'm female! My brothers are his pride and joy, and I… he *laughed* when he saw me training with the sword. He did not beat me up or anything… he just laughed and told me to stop fooling with men's things and pick up a broom instead.~ = ~If not for Ysena…~ + ~Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Ysena… She was your mentor of sorts, was not she?~ + SHRO3.13 + ~!Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Ysena… Who was Ysena?~ + SHRO3.13 ++ ~Oh, well. I have heard enough for one . Let's keep moving.~ EXIT ++ ~Well, maybe he was not that far off the mark. I am not trying to excuse his rudeness, but would not you be happier nicely dressed and married to a likely lad, than plodding through vales and dales in rusted chainshirt and dented helm, doing a butcher's job…~ + SHRO3.14 END IF ~~ SHRO3.12 SAY ~Violated? Ha! I was not good enough for that.~ = ~I spent all my childhood serving my father and brothers, because I'm female! My brothers are his pride and joy, and I… he *laughed* when he saw me training with the sword. He did not beat me up or anything… he just laughed and told me to stop fooling with men's things and pick up a broom instead.~ = ~If not for Ysena…~ + ~Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Ysena… She was your mentor of sorts, was not she?~ + SHRO3.13 + ~!Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Ysena… Who was Ysena?~ + SHRO3.13 ++ ~Oh, well. I have heard enough for one . Let's keep moving.~ EXIT ++ ~Well, maybe he was not that far off the mark. I am not trying to excuse his rudeness, but would not you be happier nicely dressed and married to a likely lad, than plodding through vales and dales in rusted chainshirt and dented helm, doing a butcher's job…~ + SHRO3.14 END IF ~~ SHRO3.13 SAY ~Do I look like a bard to you?~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~IncrementGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO3.14 SAY ~Did wild dogs give you rabies?~ ++ ~No Shar-Teel, I truly think that one day the right man will come into your life and your attitudes will change. I even hoped that it had already happened…~ + SHRO3.15 ++ ~*Shake yourself* They must have; Remind me to go shoot more of them, one of these days. In revenge… and I like how they somersault in the air in their death throws.~ + SHRO3.16 ++ ~I was just kidding, Shar. Do not you have a sense of humor?~ + SHRO3.17 END IF ~~ SHRO3.15 SAY ~Eewww… stay away from me, gooey one.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO3.16 SAY ~That's better.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO3.17 SAY ~ I have a very good sense of humor. *Shar-Teel slaps you on your face so hard that your head booms like a great bell. She looks at your stunned expression and laughs* ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END //// Interest 4 IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",8)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO4 SAY ~I figured I'd tell you of Ysena.~ +~Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~No you would not. From what you said before it'd just be a load of feminist bullshit.~ + SHRO4.1 +~!Global("SHCHdone","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Only if that would not be another load of feminist bullshit.~ + SHRO4.1 ++ ~Of course. I must confess that I was curious to know more.~ + SHRO4.2 ++ ~Go right ahead. ~ + SHRO4.2 + ~Class(Player1, FIGHTER_ALL)~ + ~That's boring. Let's do some practice fighting instead.~ + SHRO4.3 END IF ~~ SHRO4.1 SAY ~Burn in Hells!~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO4.2 SAY ~I was twelve then and went to the market to buy groceries to cook a dinner for my father and two brothers. By chance, I stumbled into a warrior woman, dressed in plate armor. It was severely marked and dented from battle. She had long stringy white hair and those piercing blue eyes… I had never seen eyes like that. She snarled at me, grabbed me by my arm and slammed me against a wall.~ ++ ~And that's where Ysena came and saved you from this bitch?~ +SHRO4.4 ++ ~Fascinating!~ + SHRO4.5 ++ ~I would not stand for anyone treating me like that!~ + SHRO4.6 END IF ~~ SHRO4.3 SAY ~Sure, sounds good.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO4.4 SAY ~You fool, that was Ysena!~ ++ ~And you like this woman?~ +SHRO4.5 ++ ~I would not stand for anyone treating me like that!~ + SHRO4.6 END IF ~~ SHRO4.5 SAY ~Can't you keep your mouth shut while I am telling you of the greatest mercenary in Baldur's Gate?~ = ~You are flea's piss compared to her.~ = ~So, she hits me on the wall and says: "Little brats shouldn't get in the way of their betters. Run away quickly, and perhaps I won't break your arm for your impudence. Go on, get out of here!"~ = ~She hurled me into the street, barely paying me another glance.~ ++ ~That was an act of wanton cruelty!~+ SHRO4.7 ++ ~She did not even care about what she'd done to you!~+ SHRO4.7 ++ ~I would not stand for anyone treating me like that!~ + SHRO4.6 END IF ~~ SHRO4.6 SAY ~You are not *that* tough, even now; If Ysena met you when you were twelve, she'd have squelched you like an overripe fig. I was lucky that my ribs did not crack.~ = ~But I did not care about my bruises. I said to myself, "There goes a woman who has the will and strength to deal out abuse as she sees fit. Just like a man... "~ = ~So I followed her. When the woman noticed she was being tailed, she hid to see who was following her. When she saw that it was I again, she became enraged. She leapt out of the shadows and wrapped her fingers around my neck, lifting me in the air with one hand.~ = ~I still remember how malevolent her eyes had been when she said: "You filthy little urchin! Didn't I tell you to run along home!? If I have to tell you again, I'll break you in half! What are you, a pick-pocket? If I find anything missing, I'll cut your stinking little...." ~ ++ ~What *did* you want with her?~ +SHRO4.8 ++ ~And what did you reply?~ + SHRO4.9 ++ ~You know, it's quite a brave thing to do to harass mean looking warriors when you are a skinny twelve-year-old. Even then you had spunk.~ + SHRO4.10 END IF ~~ SHRO4.7 SAY ~It meant nothing to her! But to me…~ = ~I did not care about my bruises. I said to myself, "There goes a woman who has the will and strength to deal out abuse as she sees fit. Just like a man... "~ = ~So I followed her. When the woman noticed she was being tailed, she hid to see who was following her. When she saw that it was I again, she became enraged. She leapt out of the shadows and wrapped her fingers around my neck, lifting me in the air with one hand.~ = ~I still remember how malevolent her eyes had been when she said: "You filthy little urchin! Didn't I tell you to run along home!? If I have to tell you again, I'll break you in half! What are you, a pick-pocket? If I find anything missing, I'll cut your stinking little...." ~ ++ ~What *did* you want with her?~ +SHRO4.8 ++ ~And what did you reply?~ + SHRO4.9 ++ ~You know, it's quite a brave thing to do to harass mean looking warriors when you are a skinny twelve-year-old. Even then you had spunk.~ + SHRO4.10 END IF ~~ SHRO4.8 SAY ~I wanted to be her!~ = ~I asked her if I can train with her, and she seemed to be taken aback for a second. But she decided to try me out.~ = ~"Why would I bother training a scraggly, weak little girl like you?" she asked.~ = ~And so I said it. For the very first time, I voiced what I desired for years! "Because I want to have power, I want to have control, and most of all I want to kill every man who has ever disrespected me!"~ = ~She shook me one more time and then smiled. And so I became Ysena's pupil.~ ++ ~Perhaps she saw something of her own youth in you.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Perhaps she was simply bored and wished to humor you for her own amusement.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Just what did your apprenticeship entail? What did Ysena do?~ + SHRO4.12 END IF ~~ SHRO4.9 SAY ~I asked her if I can train with her, and she seemed to be taken aback for a second. But she decided to try me out.~ = ~"Why would I bother training a scraggly, weak little girl like you?" she asked.~ = ~And so I said it. For the very first time, I voiced what I desired for years! "Because I want to have power, I want to have control, and most of all I want to kill every man who has ever disrespected me!"~ = ~She shook me one more time and then smiled. And so I became Ysena's pupil.~ ++ ~Perhaps she saw something of her own youth in you.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Perhaps she was simply bored and wished to humor you for her own amusement.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Just what did your apprenticeship entail? What did Ysena do?~ + SHRO4.12 END IF ~~ SHRO4.10 SAY ~So I did. And because I did I asked Ysena if I can train with her, and she seemed to be taken aback for a second. But she decided to try me out.~ = ~"Why would I bother training a scraggly, weak little girl like you?" she asked.~ = ~And so I said it. For the very first time, I voiced what I desired for years! "Because I want to have power, I want to have control, and most of all I want to kill every man who has ever disrespected me!"~ = ~She shook me one more time and then smiled. And so I became Ysena's pupil.~ ++ ~Perhaps she saw something of her own youth in you.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Perhaps she was simply bored and wished to humor you for her own amusement.~ + SHRO4.11 ++ ~Just what did your apprenticeship entail? What did Ysena do?~ + SHRO4.12 END IF ~~ SHRO4.11 SAY ~What does it matter? The main thing, Ysena took me as her apprentice.~ ++ ~I guess.~ EXIT ++ ~Just what did your apprenticeship entail? What did Ysena do?~ + SHRO4.12 END IF ~~ SHRO4.12 SAY ~Anything that brought money. Robbery, pirate raids, slave trade….~ ++ ~A strong woman. And so are you. I respect that.~ + SHRO4.13 ++ ~Maybe we should make a contact with her? She sounds like a prominent figure in Baldur's Gate underworld.~ + SHRO4.14 ++ ~Slave trade? I thought you were better than that!~ + SHRO14.15 END IF ~~ SHRO4.13 SAY ~*Looks at you suspiciously* You better not be trying to worm your way under my blankets.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO4.14 SAY ~Ysena is dead. And so we will be, if we don't start paying attention to our surroundings.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO14.15 SAY ~Why that? Every man or woman got what they deserve. If they are not powerful enough to defend themselves, woe to them! It's the right of the strong one to decide the weak one's fate. So if a powerful person wants slaves, weak ones become slaves. I'd rather be with the strong ones and profit myself, then become a slave or worst, defend slaves from their masters! They only get what they deserved by being weak.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END // Interest 5 IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",10)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO5 SAY ~*Shar-Teel stretches and extends her long, muscular legs toward you* Here, lover boy. Take my boots off.~ ++ ~*Kneel by Shar-Teel and take one of her boots in your hands.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",11)~ + SHRO5.1 ++ ~I would prefer stripping the breeches off you. You can keep the boots on…~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",11)~+ SHRO5.2 ++ ~Just because I listened to the ramblings about your life, it does not mean that you can wipe your feet on me, Shar-Teel.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",11)~+ SHRO5.3 ++ ~And I thought you knew how to remove your own footwear without adult supervision.~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",11)~ + SHRO5.2 END IF ~~ SHRO5.1 SAY ~Shit, I slept with a slave! Ewww…~ = ~*Shar-Teel kicks you in the face with her heel.*~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ActionOverride(Player1,ApplyDamagePercent(Player1,5,CRUSHING)) SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO5.2 SAY ~You have a sharp tongue and muscles to back it up; I like it. How about we give another go to the dancing between the sheets?~ ++ ~I would not say no to that!~ + SHRO5.4 ++ ~Sorry, Shar-Teel. I lost interest in you.~ + SHRO5.5 ++ ~A she-bear would make a better lover than you, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO5.6 END IF ~~ SHRO5.3 SAY ~I was starting to think you were turning into a gooey-eyed sop.~ ++ ~Now you know that I am not. And?~ + SHRO5.7 ++ ~I was having similar thoughts. Thank you for conducting this little experiment that has convinced us both otherwise.~ + SHRO5.2 ++ ~Beat it. I am too tired to listen to your bitching to. ~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO5.4 SAY ~Then shut your mouth and dive in.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO5.5 SAY ~Easy come, easy go.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO5.6 SAY ~And have you tried a she-bear?~ ++ ~No need; I have you to crush my bones and bite my neck… come here, you.~ + SHRO5.8 ++ ~I am thinking about it.~ DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~No, but I heard of a man who did. He lived with her for the whole winter and then she ate him. Now that I have recalled that sad tale, I think I much prefer you.~ + SHRO5.8 ++ ~*Smirk* Close enough.~ + SHRO5.8 END IF ~~ SHRO5.7 SAY ~ How about we give another go to the dancing between the sheets?~ ++ ~I would not say no to that!~ + SHRO5.4 ++ ~Sorry, Shar-Teel. I lost interest in you.~ + SHRO5.5 ++ ~A she-bear would make a better lover than you, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO5.6 END IF ~~ SHRO5.8 SAY ~She-bear? I think I like that. But try to call me darling and I will kill you.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END //Interest 6 IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",12)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO6 SAY ~I have told you all about my past, . I say you have one on me.~ +~!Class(Player1, BARD_ALL)~ + ~Do you expect me to tell you my life story? You must be crazy! I am no bard!~ + SHRO6.1 + ~Class(Player1, BARD_ALL)~ + ~My past is in my songs, she-bear.~ + SHRO6.2 +~ CheckStatLT(Player1, 17,STR)~ + ~And that's how I want to keep it, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO6.3 +~ CheckStatGT(Player1, 16,STR)~ + ~And that's how I want to keep it, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO6.4 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I do not know where I was born or to whom. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody tore off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.5 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I only now have uncovered that Bhaal had sired me. I neither know where I was born nor who my mother was. As Gorion wrote, she died giving birth to me. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody tore off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.6 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~I was born somewhere, I suppose; Gorion, a powerful mage adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep. On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled... from someone. That 'someone' ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep. On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled from my half-brother, Saverok. He ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.1 SAY ~Bah, you still can put a few words together!~ +~ CheckStatLT(Player1, 8,INT)~ + ~Me can do dat, Shar-Teel. But many sentences... Er... problem! 'Specially all in a row.~ + SHRO6.9A +~ CheckStatLT(Player1, 18,STR)~ + ~I would not want to lose the advantage I have over you, by keeping my past secret, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO6.3 +~CheckStatGT(Player1, 17, STR)~ + ~I would not want to lose the advantage I have over you, by keeping my past secret, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO6.4 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I do not know where I was born or to whom. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.5 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I only now have uncovered that Bhaal had sired me. I neither know where I was born nor who my mother was. As Gorion wrote, she died giving birth to me. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.6 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I was born somewhere, I suppose; Gorion, a powerful mage adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep.. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled... from someone. That 'someone' ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled from my half-brother, Saverok. He ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.2 SAY ~I'd be damned if I would waste my time on listening to your wailing! Tell it plain!~ ++ ~My *wailing?* I am a very good bard, I will have you know! One of the best in the West for that matter.~ + SHRO6.9A + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I do not know where I was born or to whom. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.5 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Very well. I only now have uncovered that Bhaal had sired me. I neither know where I was born nor who my mother was. As Gorion wrote, she died giving birth to me. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.6 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I was born somewhere, I suppose; Gorion, a powerful mage adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep.. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled... from someone. That 'someone' ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled from my half-brother, Saverok. He ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.3 SAY ~*Shrugs* Fair enough. You are weaker than me, so you need some edge to remain my equal.~ = ~On the other hand, it also suits a man to have a bit of mystery 'bout him.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.4 SAY ~You, gangrenous mongrel! *Swings her gauntleted hand at you*~ ++ ~Hush, Shar-Teel. People tell personal stuff like that when they feel like it; And you are trying to club it out of me? What's next? Will you try to wrestle my journal away?~ + SHRO6.9 ++ ~I'll tell you all you need to know, in time.~ + SHRO6.10 ++ ~Does your anger perhaps indicate that you are more curious about me than you want to show? That perhaps you *gasp* trust me?~ + SHRO6.11 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Alright, alright! I got the er... hint... I do not know where I was born or to whom. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.5 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~Alright, alright! I got the er... hint... I only now have uncovered that Bhaal had sired me. I neither know where I was born nor who my mother was. As Gorion wrote, she died giving birth to me. My own memory starts the record of my early years quite abruptly. It's as if somebody had torn off the first few pages of a book and you start reading from the middle of Chapter 2.~ + SHRO6.6 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I was born somewhere, I suppose; Gorion, a powerful mage adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep.. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled... from someone. That 'someone' ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled from my half-brother, Saverok. He ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.5 SAY ~I did not mean to sit here like a stump for hours while you go on about *books* and *chapters*!~ ++ ~Flower, that's the only way I'd tell the story. Do you want to hear or not?~ + SHRO6.12 ++ ~I was weaned in a library, she-bear. It's natural that I slip to books and chapters when I speak of my childhood.~ + SHRO6.13 + ~!Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I was born somewhere, I suppose; Gorion, a powerful mage adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep.. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up. I did and we fled... someone. That someone ambushed us and did in for Gorion. He did not got me though, but he sure tries hard to correct that glitch. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up quickly and we fled from my half-brother, Saverok. He ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plan. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.6 SAY ~Your Sire - now, that was a God to my liking!~ = ~Too bad I have to settle for the son!~ = ~Are you truly his blood going on like that about *books* and *chapters*?~ ++ ~Doubt not my blood, flower. It sings in me. But that's the only way I'd tell the story. Do you still want to hear or not?~ + SHRO6.14 ++ ~Yes, I was conceived from the Lord of Murder's seed, but I was weaned in a library, she-bear. It's natural that I slip to books and chapters when I speak of my childhood.~ + SHRO6.15 ++ ~Well, go find my father then. They say some of his essence still floats under Boaraskyr bridge.~ EXIT + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~+ ~If you insist. I believe that Bhaal, the Lord of Murder knocked off my mother. Her other lover, a powerful mage by the name of Gorion, adopted me and raised me in Candlekeep. It's a fortress, with a library in its main Keep.On Mythrul 1st this year, Gorion told me to pack up. I did and we fled my half-brother, Sarevok. He ambushed us and did in for Gorion. He did not got me though, but he sure tries hard to correct that glitch. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END IF ~~ SHRO6.7 SAY ~You've had a few hard years then too.~ = ~That does not make you less of a pox-ridden son of a strumpet though.~ = ~Move it, or do you expect me to fall on your chest lady-like and weep for you?~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.8 SAY ~Your Sire - now, that was a God to my liking!~ = ~That does not make you less of a pox-ridden son of a strumpet though.~ = ~Move it, or do you expect me to fall on your chest lady-like and weep for you?~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.9 SAY ~Your what?! A diary! You keep a diary!~ = ~*For a few moments Shar-Teel laughs so hard she cannot speak.*~ = ~I did not think you were a 'diary' sort of man!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.9A SAY ~Bah, whatever! It's not your tales I am after.~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO SHRO6.16 END IF ~~ SHRO6.10 SAY ~What am I - a LADY to shoo me away with polite lies and promises? ~ = ~Bah, for all I care you can stuff your biography where the sun never shines!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.11 SAY ~Yeah… RIGHT! *Shar-Teel storms away, but she did not punch you in the face. Probably, for her it's just like blushing for any other woman.*~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~IncrementGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.12 SAY ~Go ahead, but don't call me one of those annoying, smelly things again.~ ++ ~The way you put it, I am even more inclined t'call you my flower, Shar-Teel. The similarity is stunning!~ + SHRO6.16 ++ ~I was thinking of a different kind of flower. The spiny, hardy ones that they say grow in the deserts. They survive the harshest temperatures, the sandstorms and droughts. Even through such adversity, they still manage to bloom. Their blossoms are much prettier than your garden variety daises.~ + SHRO6.11 ++ ~I grew up in Candlekeep, the place where they keep the tomes that you hate so much, under the wise tutelage of Gorion. He was a very powerful mage and we had a quiet life until... until one fair day, I was summoned to my foster father. He was quite agitated when he commanded me to get ready for the long road ahead. He was agitated. When I remembered that I was accosted on that very day by two men who tried to kill me, I knew that something was afoot and my life was about to be changed forever.~ + SHRO6.18 END IF ~~ SHRO6.13 SAY ~O, go on, otherwise you'd never finish!~ ++ ~I grew up in Candlekeep, the place where they keep the tomes that you hate so much, under the wise tutelage of Gorion. He was a very powerful mage and we had a quiet life until... until one fair day, I was summoned to my foster father. He was quite agitated when he commanded me to get ready for the long road ahead. He was agitated. When I remembered that I was accosted on that very day by two men who tried to kill me, I knew that something was afoot and my life was about to be changed forever.~ + SHRO6.18 END IF ~~ SHRO6.14 SAY ~It sings in you and and you call me one of those annoying, smelly things?! I would have thought that a Spawn of Bhaal would be able to think of something 'decent' to call a woman.~ = ~Bah, get on with it already. I see no foes anyway.~ ++ ~The way you put it, I am even more inclined to call you my flower, Shar-Teel. The similarity is stunning!~ + SHRO6.16 ++ ~I was thinking of a different kind of flower. The spiny, hardy ones that they say grow in the deserts. They survive the harshest temperatures, the sandstorms and droughts. Even through such adversity, they still manage to bloom. Their blossoms are much prettier than your garden variety daises.~ + SHRO6.11 ++ ~I grew up in Candlekeep, the place where they keep the tomes that you hate so much, under the wise tutelage of Gorion. He was a very powerful mage and we had a quiet life until... until one fair day, I was summoned to my foster father. He was quite agitated when he commanded me to get ready for the long road ahead. He was agitated. When I remembered that I was accosted on that very day by two men who tried to kill me, I knew that something was afoot and my life was about to be changed forever.~ + SHRO6.18 END IF ~~ SHRO6.15 SAY ~Bah, go ahead, I see no foes anyway.~ ++ ~I grew up in Candlekeep, the place where they keep the tomes that you hate so much, under the wise tutelage of Gorion. He was a very powerful mage and we had a quiet life until... until one fair day, I was summoned to my foster father. He was quite agitated when he commanded me to get ready for the long road ahead. He was agitated. When I remembered that I was accosted on that very day by two men who tried to kill me, I knew that something was afoot and my life was about to be changed forever.~ + SHRO6.18 END IF ~~ SHRO6.16 SAY ~*Laughs roughly* One day I'd cut out your tongue, lover-boy. For now I'll just do this. *Shar-Teel kisses you harshly and then her teeth close like a trap, leaving your lower lip bloody.* ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO6.17 SAY ~Finally, some actions! Keeps, books, phew! *spits on the ground*~ ++ ~There is little left to tell. We left the Keep and fled from... someone. That 'someone' ambushed us and murdered Gorion... He did not get me though, but he has sure been trying hard to correct that glitch in his plans. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.7 END IF ~~ SHRO6.18 SAY ~Finally, some actions! Keeps, books, phew! *spits on the ground*~ ++ ~It turned out that we fled from my own half-brother, Sarevok. He ambushed us and killed Gorion. He failed at his attempt to get me, but he has been trying hard to correct that glitch. All I have been doing since leaving Candlekeep is trying to find the miscreant. And a couple of odd jobs in between.~ + SHRO6.8 END //Interest 7 IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",14)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO7 SAY ~Hey, you are bleeding, .~ ++ ~Yes, my gentle angel, I am. Will you kiss me better?~ + SHRO7.1 ++ ~*Shrug* Apparently.~ + SHRO7.2 +~HPPercentLT("Sharteel",99)~ + ~And so are you, she-bear.~ + SHRO7.3 ++ ~Aren't I proud to be involved with such an observant woman!~ + SHRO7.4 END IF ~~ SHRO7.1 SAY ~*Shar-Teel cocks her head to one side and examines you critically. Then she punches you precisely where your wounded flesh is the most painful.*~ + ~CheckStatGT(Player1,14,CON)~ + ~*With grind your teeth but remain standing.*~ + SHRO7.5 + ~CheckStatGT(Player1,14,CON)~ + ~*You hit Shar-Teel right back.*~ + SHRO7.5A IF ~!CheckStatGT(Player1,14,CON)~ THEN DO ~ActionOverride(Player1,PlayDead(90))~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.2A SAY ~Neither do I. It's all nonsense.~ IF ~~ GOTO SHRO7.2 END IF ~~ SHRO7.2 SAY ~You get that looked at, you hear me?~ ++ ~What do you know, wench? There is no need.~ + SHRO7.1 ++ ~Alright, she-bear.~ + SHRO7.6 ++ ~Can it be care that I hear in your voice?~ + SHRO7.7 END IF ~~ SHRO7.3 SAY ~Ha! Right you are. Shall we mingle our bloods?~ ++ ~*Take her by her chin* No, I have other designs for you than making you my blood sister. The custom frowns on bedding one.~ + SHRO7.8 ++ ~I… I will view such a vow as the highest honor Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO7.9 ++ ~I can live without it.~ + SHRO7.2A ++ ~How marvelously dramatic! ~ + SHRO7.1 END IF ~~ SHRO7.4 SAY ~So you proud of me? Say, should I slash my wrist now and we mingle our bloods?~ ++ ~*Take her by her chin* No, I have other designs for you than making you my blood sister. The custom frowns on bedding one.~ + SHRO7.8 ++ ~I… I will view such a vow as the highest honor Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO7.9 ++ ~I can live without it.~ + SHRO7.2A ++ ~How marvelously dramatic! ~ + SHRO7.1 END IF ~~ SHRO7.5 SAY ~Well, at least you can put you can back up your mouth with your muscle.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.5A SAY ~*Shar-Teel takes the punch stoically without blocking.* Glad you aren't a weakling that is afraid to pick a fight with a woman. *She wipes her bleeding nose and snorts.* More of that red sticky stuff… So, shall we mingle our bloods?~ ++ ~*Take her by her chin* No, I have other designs for you than making you my blood sister. The custom frowns on bedding one.~ + SHRO7.8 ++ ~I… I will view such a vow as the highest honor Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO7.9 END IF ~~ SHRO7.6 SAY ~The sooner you'd do it, the better, you wool-headed idiot!~ ++ ~Alright, alright… I am going!~ EXIT ++ ~Can it be care that I hear in your voice?~ + SHRO7.7 END IF ~~ SHRO7.7 SAY ~Whatever you always say these stupid things for?~ ++ ~I do not know. Guess, I am an idiot who worries what you think about him.~ + SHRO7.10 ++ ~I do not know. A man's curiosity perhaps.~ EXIT ++ ~Curse my big mouth!~ EXIT ++ ~Are you going to hit me or something if I answer this question?~ + SHRO7.11 END IF ~~ SHRO7.8 SAY ~And who said you're going t'bed me?~ ++ ~Your eyes did.~ + SHRO7.12 ++ ~No one. I just… hoped… you might want to.~ + SHRO7.13 ++ ~I did.~ + SHRO7.14 END IF ~~ SHRO7.9 SAY ~But you know the price of that honor, lover-boy? I would never sleep with my blood brother.~ ++ ~Wait, wait! I have changed my mind, Shar-Teel.~ + SHRO7.15 ++ ~That's fine. My respect for your far exceeds my carnal desires…~ + SHRO7.16 ++ ~Let me put it that way, Shar-Teel. I can take any woman I wish when we pass through the next village. Some will come willingly, some will need persuasion, but none of them can give me more than that. You can.~ + SHRO7.17 END IF ~~ SHRO7.10 SAY ~Fool! Pathetic male fool! ~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~IncrementGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.11 SAY ~So you are afraid of me? That's good. Men like dogs should know their place.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.12 SAY ~I would have plucked out these traitors, but I need them to fight! Maybe I should poke yours out so that you could not see-~ = ~But they are… beautiful, your eyes.~ = ~*She spits* Get away from me, fool! Pathetic male fool! ~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~IncrementGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.13 SAY ~Ha! Keep hoping. Hopes adorn a man.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.14 SAY ~Never listen to liars, .~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.15 SAY ~And so did I. By every god in a million pantheons I swear, I knew men were weak, but that weak?~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.16 SAY ~Well, mayhap you are prepared to give up your carnal desires, but I am not.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~IncrementGlobal("X#SharKind","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO7.17 SAY ~And you want me to be standing there watching you jumping whores? I think not!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END //Interest 8 IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#SharInterestTalk","GLOBAL",16)~ THEN BEGIN SHRO8 SAY ~That Gorion you keep talking about, was he good to you?~ ++ ~I was not talking about Gorion, Shar-Teel. At least not to you.~ + SHRO8.1 ++ ~He was very kind to me, yes.~ + SHRO8.2 ++ ~*Shrug* He fed me, clothed me and made sure I memorize lots of useless lore. Would you call it 'being good' to someone?~ + SHRO8.3 END IF ~~ SHRO8.1 SAY ~Then it's past time you do. I told you of my father.~ ++ ~You told me how much you hate your father and you expect me to tell you how much I hated Gorion. But since I loved Gorion I prefer not to talk about it to you.~ + SHRO8.2 ++ ~*Sigh* Very well. He fed me, clothed me and made sure I memorize lots of useless lore. Would you call it 'being good' to someone?~ + SHRO8.3 ++ ~Shar-Teel, if I had a choice between you and a mongrel dog for a confidante, I would have went for the owner of a wagging tail.~ + SHRO8.4 END IF ~~ SHRO8.2 SAY ~Right. How come then you do not have his name? Did he begrudge it to you because you are a bastard born?~ + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Demi-gods need no last names, Shar-Teel. I am and it is sufficient.~ EXIT ++ ~Where did you get this nonsense from? Of course I have Gorion's last name!~ + SHRO8.5 ++ ~I… I suppose he wanted me to be known under my mother's name.~ + SHRO8.6 ++ ~Are you happier for being Shar-Teel Dosan, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO8.7 ++ ~Because Greymantle does not suit me?~ + SHRO8.8 ++ ~I do not even *know* what Gorion's last name was. He was called the Grey and Greymantle, and he was also known as Spellweaver, and the Harper's Hand… ~ + SHRO8.9 END IF ~~ SHRO8.3 SAY ~He did better by you than mine father did by me… ~ = ~But at least mine gave me his bloody name. How come you do not have Gorion's name? Did he begrudge it to you because you are a bastard born?~ + ~Global("KnowBhaal","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Demi-gods need no last names, Shar-Teel. I am and it is sufficient.~ EXIT ++ ~Where did you get this nonsense from? Of course I have Gorion's last name!~ + SHRO8.5 ++ ~I… I suppose he wanted me to be known under my mother's name.~ + SHRO8.6 ++ ~Are you happier for being Shar-Teel Dosan, Shar-Teel?~ + SHRO8.7 ++ ~Because Greymantle does not suit me?~ + SHRO8.8 ++ ~I do not even *know* what Gorion's last name was. He was called the Grey and Greymantle, and he was also known as Spellweaver, and the Harper's Hand… ~ + SHRO8.9 END IF ~~ SHRO8.4 SAY ~Yeah, I figured you'd want someone who'd roll over on her back the moment you look at her. *Shar-Teel spits* Bah, go find yourself one like that then.~ IF ~~ THEN DO ~ SetGlobal("X#SharInterest","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.5 SAY ~Gah, shut up. Gorion this, Gorion that, I have Gorion's last name… I am sick and tired of hearing about your stupid Gorion!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.6 SAY ~More like he did not give a shit about how a bastard's ass calls himself. It's so like men… ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.7 SAY ~I use that name to spite my father, so he can choke on my 'fame'! I would shout it to the crowds to loath on my way to gallows. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.8 SAY ~*She snorts* It sure does not fit you. ~ ++ ~And you are what, weighing my name against Dosan in case we get married? ~ + SHRO8.10 ++ ~What's in my name for you, she-bear?~ + SHRO8.11 ++ ~I am glad we agree on something…~ EXIT ++ ~Whatever.~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.9 SAY ~That's pathetic. I like dwarven names. Battlerager, Stoutshield, Bloodaxe - those are good names! ~ +~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + ~Then ye should be thrilled that I did not take Gorion's.~ + SHRO8.8 ++~You what, picking a man with a decent name to marry, so that you can be rid of Dosan?~ + SHRO8.10 ++ ~I am glad we agree on something…~ EXIT ++ ~Whatever.~ EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.10 SAY ~Ye gods! I would not marry in the first place, and in the second, even if I did under the spell of feeble-mindness, no doubt, I would never change my name. I have too much fun using it to spite my father. He chokes on my 'fame'! I would shout it to the crowds to loath on my way to gallows. ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ SHRO8.11 SAY ~Exactly the same as in the rest of you… NOTHING!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END APPEND ~_BXZAR~ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("XzFriendTalk","GLOBAL",3)~ THEN BEGIN X#XzarFriend2 SAY ~Damnation! I’ve broken one of my vials…~ ++ ~Oh, I’m sorry. ~ + XZPC2.1 ++ ~Oh… what was it for? ~ + XZPC2.2 ++ ~That’s fantastic. I can smell the contents from here. Get rid of it. ~ + XZPC2.3 END IF ~~ XZPC2.1 SAY ~Yes, well I can get another very easily… ~ ++ ~Oh… what was it for? ~ + XZPC2.2 ++ ~Uh-huh. Not easily enough to cover that stench. Dump it! ~ + XZPC2.3 END IF ~~ XZPC2.2 SAY ~Oh, well I use them to collect… specimens… ~ ++ ~Specimens? What do you mean by that? ~ + XZPC2.4 ++ ~You mean all that blood and goop you collect? Disgusting! Keep it away from me!~ + XZPC2.3 END IF ~~ XZPC2.3 SAY ~Certainly. I am no more insensible than you to the fact that this sample is spoilt beyond recovery. I *would* have expected a more comradely sympathy for my plight, however. You really are very crass and insensitive, you know.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC2.4 SAY ~Well, you’ve seen me gather the hearts’ blood of several creatures, no? I use these collectibles in my experiments. I don’t understand why, but almost everyone seems to have some little distaste for my efforts. ~ ++ ~Actually, no. It sounds very interesting to me. ~ + XZPC2.5 ++ ~You’re a sick, insane Necromancer, and I wonder *why* I allow you and your revolting collection anywhere near me! ~ + XZPC2.3 ++ ~Uh...it might be that your preoccupation with death and decay strikes people as a little…odd. ~ + XZPC2.9 END IF ~~ XZPC2.5 SAY ~*Really*? I… I don’t meet many girls who like my sort of hobbies. ~ ++ ~Maybe you could show me sometime? What you do with your… specimens? ~ + XZPC2.7 ++ ~Yeah, well I’m pretty open-mined. Just don’t make me a specimen, ok? ~ + XZPC2.8 ++ ~Ok, done playing along with this one. You’re freaking me out and the smell is making me sick. Just get rid of it. In silence! ~ + XZPC2.3 END IF ~~ XZPC2.7 SAY ~Of course! I can’t deny such pleasures to one so willing!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC2.8 SAY ~Oh, well that’s a little disappointing, . But only a little bit. You really would make a *magnificent* subject…~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC2.9 SAY ~Only *living* people. But consider; the dead must outnumber the living by ten thousand to one by now. So who are we - the living - the temporarily living, I mean - to be so prejudiced against true democracy?~ ++ ~Right, right, right. Just dump the stink and fall back in line. ~ + XZPC2.3 ++ ~Could be just a practical thing. The dead aren’t much in evidence; don’t have a lot to say for themselves, you know? ~ + XZPC2.10 ++ ~Hmm. You may have a point there. Maybe you can give me a little instruction the next chance you get. ~ + XZPC2.7 END IF ~~ XZPC2.10 SAY ~Ahhh, but they *can*! You will be astounded - I hope, one day soon - to discover the eloquence of the deceased, . ~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END END APPEND ~_XZARJ~ IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("X#XzarMendas","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN BEGIN XzarMendas SAY ~Ah, look at this corpse, .~ = ~Note that the intestines are lower in relative mass, as is typical for a canid, as opposed to the ominivorous demands on the human digestive tract, but that they are located suitably for a biped rather than a quadruped.~ ++ ~Urrrppp!~ DO ~SetGlobal("X#XzarMendas","GLOBAL",2)~ + XZPC3.0 END IF ~~ XZPC3.0 SAY ~No, look! This is the *interesting* part. The unused torso space is occupied by an enlarged heart and lungs. Hence the creature's unnatural endurance. The additional power of the heart's pumping action would also account for its bleeding so *very* copiously when dismembered.~ = ~Perhaps, now I shall show you what I do with my specimens, yes? ~ ++ ~I was wondering when you’d show me! ~ + XZPC3.1 ++ ~Couldn’t we wait for something more… interesting? ~ + XZPC3.2 ++ ~This is more disgusting than I thought- never mind! ~ + XZPC3.3 END IF ~~ XZPC3.1 SAY ~First, I cut open its chest - like so. There! Can you see the heart? ~ ++ ~Yes, its there, right? ~ + XZPC3.4 ++ ~ No, I can’t. Sorry. ~ + XZPC3.5 ++ ~I… I think I’m going to be sick. ~ + XZPC3.6 END IF ~~ XZPC3.2 SAY ~Nonsense! Its bestial ferocity is the perfect essence for a beginner’s first distillation. Now.~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.1 END IF ~~ XZPC3.3 SAY ~CHICKEN! Fit only to make a salad of. Or do you lay eggs as well? No matter - this is what I expected.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC3.4 SAY ~Correct! You take to this well. Now hold the vial still while I extract the blood…~ ++ ~Why did you cut it there? Does it matter where you do it? ~ + XZPC3.7 ++ ~That’s a lot of blood… ~ + XZPC3.8 ++ ~Oh - I’m going to be sick! ~ + XZPC3.6 END IF ~~ XZPC3.5 SAY ~That doesn’t matter. In the wolf’s case, the spleen would do even better but you’d never find that. Just stay away from these big puffy things. They are lungs and no use to anyone. Unless you find one in a fish, that is…ahem. ~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.5a END IF ~~ XZPC3.5a SAY ~See? Here is the heart. Lovely, isn’t it? Now hold this vial whilst I fill it. ~ ++ ~Why did you cut it there? Does it matter where you do it? ~ + XZPC3.7 ++ ~That’s a lot of blood… ~ + XZPC3.8 ++ ~Oh - I’m going to be sick! ~ + XZPC3.6 END IF ~~ XZPC3.6 SAY ~Hee-hee! Suppression of the gag reflex is part of the learning process, . But not on the specimen, you fool! Over there! ~ ++ ~Bluh-WOOAHLP! ~ + XZPC3.18 ++ ~*You keep your rebelious dinner down. There is a reason to why the songs call you a Hero of the Sword Coast!*~ + XZPC3.7a END IF ~~ XZPC3.7 SAY ~Yes, it does. You get the most blood when you gut it along this curve. Hmm. Could really have used a larger bottle. No matter. Your sleeves are washable, I trust?~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.7a END IF ~~ XZPC3.7a SAY ~Well, that’s all of it. That’s how you collect the blood. Now to its use. ~ ++ ~*Smile* I’m looking forward to it! ~ + XZPC3.9 ++ ~Well, maybe… It *does* make me a little nauseas. ~ + XZPC3.18 END IF ~~ XZPC3.8 SAY ~Yes, quite a lot. Could have used a larger bottle actually. Never mind that now. I’ve seen you launder your clothing and assume your face and hands are washable as well…~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.8a END IF ~~ XZPC3.8a SAY ~Anyway… that’s how you collect the blood. Next, I’ll show you what to do with it. ~ ++ ~*Smile* I’m looking forward to it! ~ + XZPC3.9 ++ ~Well, maybe… It *does* make me a little nauseas… ~ + XZPC3.18 END IF ~~ XZPC3.9 SAY ~*He grins insanely at a point beyond your left ear.* If I dared hope for so much, I’d say you *really* enjoy this. ~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.10 END IF ~~ XZPC3.10 SAY ~Now! See that pretty little flower I preserved? You, , shall pour the heart’s blood over it whilst I recite the enabling cantrip: Oh, gay blossom Within you abide The spirit of poor wolfman From the Other Side. ~ ++ ~That sure was impressive. Now what? ~ + XZPC3.11 ++ ~Okay. We’ve now got a blood-soaked flower. What of it? ~ + XZPC3.12 END IF ~~ XZPC3.11 SAY ~Well, I translated - entirely for your benefit. Couldn’t expect you to appreciate Necromantic in five minutes, could I? Anyway… ~ IF ~~ THEN GOTO XZPC3.12 END IF ~~ XZPC3.12 SAY ~*Now*, , you take the flower! ~ ++ ~Huh! What a let-down. I….OOWWW!!!~ DO ~ApplyDamage(Player1,5,FIRE)~ GOTO XZPC3.13 END IF ~~ XZPC3.13 SAY ~Childishly simple but…effective, is it not? ~ ++ ~You bastard! That ‘flower’ is a dire stinging nettle! ~ + XZPC3.14 END IF ~~ XZPC3.14 SAY ~Really? I bow to the superiority of your botanical lore. But…what, pray tell, has the type of flower to do with any of this? ~ ++ ~It’s got poisoned thorns, dammit. I’ll be itching for a week if I don’t die of blood poisoning first on account of your foolery. ~ + XZPC3.15 ++ ~That ‘poor little flower’ bites worse - all by itself - than any wolf I’ve ever met. ~ + XZPC3.16 ++ ~Nothing. Nothing at all. You’re a wonder wizard of the first degree, Xzar.~ + XZPC3.17 END IF ~~ XZPC3.15 SAY ~Oooh! Would you do that for me? I’d be ever so grateful, really I would.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC3.16 SAY ~Then behold the power of unintended magecraft, , for never have I observed of clearer case of like calling to like - which, as you doubtless will *not* know, is the foundation of *all* thaumaturgy!~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC3.17 SAY ~You know, somehow, , you say that as if you have expected any other result.~ IF ~~ THEN EXIT END IF ~~ XZPC3.18 SAY ~Really, you astonish me. I’ve seen you covered from toe to crown in random muck from the accidents of combat. Is it the intelligent purposefulness behind this mere drop that discommodes you? Now if you are *quite* finished amusing yourself, may we continue the lesson? ~ ++ ~Uh…sure…but…not now. Next year, this time…maybe…~ EXIT ++ ~Phew. *spit* Yeah, I’m ready. ~ + XZPC3.10 ++ ~*Blech!* Ah…Xzar, dare I ask *why* you are prodding my late lunch there on the ground? ~ + XZPC3.19 END IF ~~ XZPC3.19 SAY ~I wasn’t! Well, not really. Just the off-chance, you know…that you’d coughed up something important. But you don’t seem to have done, so if we might continue? ~ ++ ~Sure. Let ‘er rip. ~ + XZPC3.10 ++ ~No! Not now and not ever! Let’s move it.~ EXIT END END //SKIE CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~CombatCounter(0) !See([ENEMY]) InParty("MONTARON") See("MONTARON") !StateCheck("MONTARON",STATE_SLEEPING) Global("SKMO1","LOCALS",0)~ THEN ~_BSKIE~ SKMO1 ~Montaron, you're staring again! *sigh* Have I smudged my eyeshadow... what I'd give for a mirror...~ [SKIE99] DO ~SetGlobal("SKMO1","LOCALS",1)~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~Weren't starin'. Were curious, though. Why'd a well-born dolly-bird such as ye be, take t' hangin wi' a pack o' alley-bashers 'n' cuthroats like we? Seems ye'd have had better choices fer yer 'musement - *and* fer yer dippin'.~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~I am not hanging around! I... I am an adventurer at heart like you and . But father...No! He has nothing to do with this! Nothing!~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~Heheh! Daddy won't stick yer pastimes, eh? Not ree-spectuble, is they? Heh. I knows *that* tune well enow. Angries the blood, don't it?~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Anger? *sigh* It's... er... just silly things really. Like how he is always telling me to dress like a lady and not a street urchin, even though *I* should be allowed to dress how I feel! Or... or when he insists on embarrasing me in front of people by telling them "what a beautiful baby" I was! Or..~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~(Phew! Looser'n a barrel o' herring 'at's gone ripe inna sun.)~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~...me to say the "right words" when he is introducing me to his oafish friends at his silly partys! Not to mention trying to marry me off to every noble boy this side of Waterdeep, *never* letting me have any privacy, and worst of all not letting me out of the house without *six* armed gaurds to watch over me! Oh... he just makes me SO mad!~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~Heh! Two's comp'ny 'n' three's none, so six'd be twice as worse, I guess. But yer dad, he musta own a right pack o' they guards; t' hess-court yerself about, yet keep th' homeplace safe, too~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Not too many... only about half the city watch. He's alway's telling me it's "for your own safety Skie" ... but I can *never* get anytime alone with all those eyes watching me. That's why I used the secret door to get out at night.~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~Pfeh! See-krit doors! Tradesman door, ye mean. They 'see-krit doors' is fer kiddies' tales, they is!~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~(smile) No, there really is one - politics here in town *may* become rather rough at times. It's along the northern wall just underneath the second hanging basket.... Hey, you know what Monty, you're nice. If a little curious.~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~North wall... second bas... Eh? Curious? Well, I ne'er minded learnin' from one what knows 'n' *I* don't know much 'bout yer gent-tree hereabouts, plainly~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~As I said; you're a little curious. Don't forget though *giggles* curiosity killed the cat!~ == ~_BMONTA~ ~May have done. Big, fat cats, too, I reckon...~ EXIT CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~CombatCounter(0) !See([ENEMY]) InParty("XZAR") See("XZAR") !StateCheck("XZAR",STATE_SLEEPING) Global("SKXZ1","LOCALS",0)~ THEN ~_BSKIE~ SKXZ1 ~Hmm... What's this? Hey Xzar! You dropped something.~ [SKIE99] DO ~SetGlobal("SKXZ1","LOCALS",1)~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Oh? I don't think so. What is it?~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~It's only a tatty notebo... hey... what's this? "that new girl's noble blood should serve adequately - a vial, or maybe three - in case of mishap. When she is asleep perchance..."~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~No, doesn't ring any bells here. Sorry.~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Hey! I *saw* you drop it!~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Nonsense. That would imply that I coveted a vial of your blood. Why would anyone want that? Even yourself? Ah-ha! I have it! Red ink!~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~ Uh...have you actually managed to *lose* money by adventuring?~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Er...no. I believe...financially...our efforts have been rather successful. Perhaps ...the ritual of Barzenak...now where has that twit of a girl got herself to?~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Er.. I'm right here beside you Xzar. What's the ritual of Barzenak?~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Oh, that? Silly thing. Barzenak was a tutor of my youth. Kept a household staffed entirely by zombies. The joke, such as it was, required each undead slave to have had at least forty-seven generations of noble ancestry in life. *He* thought that was funny but...I say! How many generations of nobility have preceded you, young lady?~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Well, let me think. There wa... Hey! Your not thinking about turning me into a zombie are you?~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~No...although it would be a fine joke on old Barzy if your pedigree were not up to snuff. (sigh) But he's dead himself, now, so he couldn't appreciate it.~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~I hope someone made a zombie of *him*.~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Of dear Barzenak? Why ever for? No. He tried to become a lich...didn't quite make it. They stuffed him, I as I heard it, and sat him in the hallway of his former home. The new owner claimed his effigy keeps the zombies up to their work.~ == ~_BSKIE~ ~Stuf...ugh... that's horrible, Xzar! Why must you be *so* disgusting?~ == ~_BXZAR~ ~Well *pardon* my sugar-coating it for you! If I didn't imagine it all. I could tell you...one way or the other...if I could *just* find that compact little reference volume I used to have.~ EXIT CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~InParty("MINSC") See("MINSC") !StateCheck("MINSC",STATE_SLEEPING) AreaType(FOREST) Global("KIMI2","LOCALS",0)~THEN~_BKIVAN~ KIMI2 ~My soul aches for my lost Deheriana.~[KIVAN 24] DO~SetGlobal("KIMI2","LOCALS",1)~ ==~_BMINSC~~Come brother of the woods, do not be so gloomy! Why not be happy at the beauty of nature? Not to mention all the righteous buttkicking we get to apply to evil's backside!~ ==~_BKIVAN~~I enjoy it just fine Minsc. But revenge is the only thing that drives me, the only thing that keeps me alive...To be able at last to slay that animal named Tazok, to finally send him screaming to the Abyss...~ ==~_BMINSC~~Kivan is scary sometimes, isn't he Boo? Just look at his eyes glowing!~ = ~*Squeak*~ ==~_BMINSC~~Ahem...Kivan, Boo says he understands your pain, and that he too will have Tazok's eyes for the friend he murdered.~ ==~_BKIVAN~~Boo has lost someone to that fiend as well?~ ==~_BMINSC~~Yes and no. Well, his friend still lives, but he burried himself alive in his own pain, and refuses to come out. Evil should be punished, yes! But righteous heroes shouldn't slowly kill themselves each day with grief... Evil wins that way. After all, we fight evil so we can enjoy goodness, not gloominess, right, Kivan?~ ==~_BKIVAN~~*Kivan claps Minsc on his shoulder and turns away*~ ==~_BDYNAH~ IF ~InParty("DYNAHEIR")~ THEN ~Please, dost not fault Minsc for his cheery nature. He means no harm.~ ==~_BKIVAN~ IF ~InParty("DYNAHEIR")~ THEN ~I know that dear lady. I pray that he never changes.~ ==~_BCORAN~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~BOO said that?!~ ==~_BMINSC~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~Ranger's honor!~ ==~_BCORAN~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~Say, Minsc... has...er... has Boo ever been in love?~ ==~_BMINSC~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~Sure! Boo loves Minsc! And Minsc loves Boo! It's a bond that cannot be broken!~ ==~_BCORAN~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~Then imagine that one of you was murdered in the most foul fashion...~ ==~_BMINSC~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~M-M-Minsc without Boo? No! Nooo! Minsc would cry and cry and... oh... Minsc understands... No wonder Kivan is so gloomy... and that he wipes out evil with such...ummm...oh, what's the word...Yes, that's it Boo... fervor! Well, Minsc and Boo shall help our gloomy friend make mincemeat out of the stinky half-ogre! And then hamsters and rangers everywhere shall rejoice!~ ==~_BCORAN~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~Ah, yes, they shall. And people might even stop accusing me of plotting to preserve Kivan's melancholic demeanor so that I stay the most attractive man in the party... Wonderful. Now, let us continue on our quest so Kivan gets his chance to tickle Tazok with his spear... And perhaps the rest of us get to put in a hit or two as well. ~ ==~_BMINSC~ IF~InParty("CORAN")~THEN ~And everyone shall... ~ == ~_BMINSC~ ~Oh, look Boo, clover! Let's go find a lucky one!~ = ~*Squeak*~ EXIT