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Coran's popularity would have been much, *much* higher had he been available earlier. By the time most people get to Cloakwood, they're already in love with someone else.

Move Coran to the Beregost temple, having just collected the quest from Ormlyr himself, and lengthen or eliminate his wyvern timer, and I wager people would be swooning all over him. He's got some great material.

So, are you saying you want your chicken soup by the fire? That could probably be arranged.

That's it, from now on, if I'm going to post a poll, I'm going to have an option for "I just don't vote in polls."

I think people just click on see results and never bother voting.

I wonder if it's too late to add an option...

That is also a valid option. With 6 romances in BG1 NPC plus Kivan, you've got lots of replayability options.

There's your first mistake. No playing of computer games when you should be modding!

Not true, really. It makes a nice break, as long as it isn't the same computer game you're modding for. I'm looking forward to the end of Gavin's current (and hopefully last) alpha run so I can give Tutu a rest for a bit.

And I do plan to break up stretches of BG2 modding with some IWD2.

Yeah, I'll add my agreement to this!

Gavin Mor is a neutral good kitted cleric of Lathander. He will join your party outside the Song of the Morning Temple in Beregost. He starts out with fairly standard cleric gear, a family momento, and a dislike of bandits. Gavin will want to know if your party is a force of goodness. Don't lie to Gavin. It isn't nice.

He was born in Ulgoth's Beard, and is 28. For the last 9 years, he has been serving the Song of the Morning Temple in Beregost. Although he has done a fair amount of travelling on temple business, and has been toughened by a life of hard work and devotion, he never really thought of himself as an adventurer. Everything changes sooner or later, though. He has been through a bit of a rough spot, lately, and thinks he would do well in the company of like-minded individuals, going out into the world and doing some good.

Gavin is not the most ambitious man on Faerun. Nor is he necessarily the bravest. He wishes he were, but he suffers from a good imagination.

Gavin has 2-5 banters with every BioWare NPC. At this writing, there is cross-mod content for the Baldur's Gate NPC Project, but there is no cross-mod content for any other Tutu mod.

Gavin will be failry talkative throughout your journey, with a friendship track consisting of 16 friendship-only talks for a good or neutral protagonist and a romance track of 30 talks. Gavin makes dozens of interjections, and there may be a couple super-sneaky banters along the way.

He has definite ideas about right and wrong. He will not stay with a party whose reputation drops below 4. Please note that this differs from most good NPCs, who leave at 1 or 2.

He participates in 2 existing quests and has one quest of his own.

Gavin has a custom soundset, but does not have other voicing at this time.

Gavin will be romanceable by any good-aligned female of any race, but he is rather choosy. He will not romance assassins, bounty hunters, or necromancers of any alignment. Reputation matters. A reputation of 11 or better is required to start, 15 or better to continue. He is looking for something rather special, and some qualities attract him more than others. He likes his women to be mature, so certain dialog options are going to annoy him. Gavin admires a strong leader, so a charisma of 12 or better and a wisdom of 10 or better are required. He will not tolerate outright cruelty.

In a way, secrecy is preserved. Finding this list is a pain in the neck.

Only have 2 seats, and one of them has to be the pc. I'm thinking ranger pc and Yoshi/Imoen because I happen to like Imoen, but that's just me.

Who am I kidding. I'm never going to actually be able to play this to completion. Or maybe I might. Depends. I *am* going to have to do another run through just to reaffirm my interjection points...

Not a hard mistake to make, though. Ambiguous nickname, picture of a woman, on a forum about an incredibly hot NPC... had me fooled.

But it's nice to see that men aren't completely ignoring Aklon. I was beginning to think that poor BigRob would be all by himself here, among all these women lusting after... Aklon.

Hmmm. Valid point. Forgot about Aerie. I usually just peg her as "redundant" and tend to forget that she can actually do stuff every once in a while.

And I was bemoaning the fact that poor, doomed-to-be-rejected Anomen would have to hold the frontline all by himself. I'm not confident enough using monks to want to risk Aklon until I've practiced a bit. I've run a lot of paladins. Maybe I'll just do a straight fighter or a ranger for a change of pace.

Or, maybe I'll be too busy modding myself to play anyway.

Lemme see...

Aklon (well, duh!), Anomen, Aerie, Haer'Dalis, and I'm going to need a thief and a mage. And one of them has to be the PC, so, maybe PC as a fighter/mage and Yoshimo/Imoen?

ToB will be a walk in the park after SoA. No new relationships or conflicts, everyone is in a holding pattern leading up to the grand finale.

That, and it's shorter.

Work is a jealous lover: when you've got something you need to do that does not involve it, it just demands more attention.

Such is always the way of things.

Every time I see the word Pharmacopeia, I always think of the United States Pharmacopeia, a massive tome detailing lots of things to do with drugs, drug components, dietary supplements, and anything that might contain the phrase "active ingredient," like sunscreen, mouthwash, over-the-counter cold tablets, deodorant, or hand lotion. It weighs about 15 pounds (exageration), and has numerous supplements.

After spending any amount of time with it, I know I always feel laid back, if "out cold" could be considered laid back.

Ooh, here's a nasty one. Suppose Aklon has already chosen the pc over Aerie, but then the pc goes and chooses CN Anomen over Aklon. That would make for some good drama when Anomen and Aerie spar.

Progress has been made! Yay!

I think you'll find that the process of doing Aerie's conflicts will help make Anomen's go faster. The perspective is different, but a lot of the material will cover the same ground.

Or not. Your love triangle has just acquired an extra side. If the pc is female and Anomen and Aklon are both competing for her attention, and Aerie is competing with the PC for Aklon's attention, it sounds like you've got a good line-up for the Jerry Springer show.

Unfortunately, Anomen is also 3 people wrapped up in one uptight, sexually repressed bundle: Anomen Delryn, son of Lord Cor Delryn; Anomen, late of the Order of the Radiant Heart and recent convert to the whims of chaotic neutrality; and Sir Anomen, Knight of the Order of the Radiant Heart.

You're going to have to account for all three. I imagine Aklon would have more trouble with CN Anomen than with Anomen Delryn or with Sir Anomen.

But for all that, will it really matter? CN Anomen doesn't act all that different than LN Anomen or even LG Anomen. Except with regards to members of the Order and with Aerie...

Back to paragraph 3. Suppose the pc has just chosen Aklon over Anomen and Aklon has just chosen the pc over Aerie. What is going to happen when Anomen and Aerie come to blows after Anomen's ejection from the Order?

Sorry, I've been wrestling with one of the heavier LTs all evening, and am in an odd frame of mind.

@Kulyok: I know what you are talking about. Gavin's interaction in FW3500 uses different part of the area, is extremely minor, and will be over with before Xan's quest begins.

Oh, all right. It is more important to reduce conflict between mods than it is to keep quest locations secret.

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FW3400 main NPC placement

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FW3319 Gavin's old house in Beregost: interjection to NPC as well

FW1007 Gavin's family home in Ulgoth's beard 2 npcs added

If someone were to read what I wrote, they're digging in the wrong spot. I lied.

But it proves a point.

The only thing that gives me pause about posting area reservations is that anyone who pleases can view this list.

For example, House 16 in Beregost was Gavin's old house, he makes a comment if you go in it, and that's about it. Now there's an actor in there who says that with the iron shortage the only work he can find is cleaning houses. All Gavin does is interject into that guys dialog. No big deal who knows about that. But suppose the quest was meant to happen there. I wouldn't want someone to miss half the quest, or complete it before they even were assigned it by just looking it up and consoling in. I like the idea that there is a random chance you could stumble across it, if you raid every house in town on your first trip through, so I don't want to add conditions like the creatures will only spawn after chapter 4, or if Gavin is in the party, or anything like that.

Is there some way we can get this up on a protected forum, or on Wiki, which is at least inconvenient enough to deter the casual looker.

I always wondered about why the love interest would be abducted instead of Player 2, who has stood by the PC through thick and thin, presumably forever. Pity there is no way to assign a DV to PLayer 2.

If Amber is romancing Player 2, I'm guessing that the answer to that question is "no." Bodhi gets her kicks torturing the Bhaalspawn. This means abducting her committed partner. Player 2 isn't a Bhaalspawn, so Bodhi would gain nothing by kidnapping Amber.

I would imagine, though, that if Amber were romancing player 1, and the relationship were sufficiently advanced, the abduction would happen normally.

I don't think Aklon dislikes Aerie, but I think there might be a few people here who don't care for her much.

Not a big fan of NPC-bashing myself. After all, your least favorite NPC is bound to be someone else's favorite.

Now *in-character* NPC dislike is another story. If there is a legitimate reason for one NPC to loathe and abhor another, so much the better, a *little* abuse would be appropriate.

I could see Aklon getting along poorly with Edwin. Edwin thinks he is better than everyone else, and does not object to the idea of slavery. Aklon might have a hard time getting past that.