Imoen's Post-Spellhold Biography

[icelus]

This may be on the borderline of fix/unfinished business, but here's the code all the same.

 

This restores a biography that should have been assigned to the post-Spellhold Imoen.cre files.

 

COPY_EXISTING_REGEXP GLOB ~.*\.cre~ ~override~        /* Imoen biography restoration */

  READ_ASCII 0x280 "dv"

  READ_LONG 0x1CC "bio"

  WHILE (("Imoen2" STRING_COMPARE "%dv%" = 0) AND ("%bio%" = 10233)) BEGIN

    WRITE_LONG 0x1cc 2838

    SET "dv" = 0

  END

BUT_ONLY_IF_IT_CHANGES

[Kish]

Yeah, I think this is more UB-material. Does Imoen's biography changing to that new one make a clear-cut improvement to the game? (No.) Do we know it's actually a bug that her biography doesn't change, instead of being intended?

[SimDing0]

The current bio reads "Indeed, her lighthearted outlook has long kept her immune to the hardships of the world, though the dark confines and horrors of your current location have definitely taken their toll."

 

That's a bug.

[Kish]

I'm not sure it's worse than, "...despite the uncharacteristic that has now made its presence known within her." And neither biography seems terribly applicable for Imoen throughout the game--rather, they both seem to be aimed at just-rescued Imoen.

[SimDing0]

Yeh, the second one isn't particularly impressive, upon reading. Perhaps the bug should be "Imoen's post-Spellhold biography still refers to Irenicus' dungeon" rather than relying on the unimplemented one.

[CamDawg]

This is addressed further and fixed in this thread