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Thanks, Zanari, for the good wishes Kivan's romance, thanks to Kulyok's good and timely idea, will be played in BG2 both as a continuation of BG1 relationship, but with a possible recap of the BG1 talks, if a PC not familiar with BG1 material wishes to initiate them from PID's. In any case the thing is going to be rather huge and mainly consists of friendship talks with the additional branches for an interested female player + some 'romance only' talks. When I did want to do Coran-BG2, I thought along the lines of she left him, so he retaliated by getting back with Safana. I tried this in a fanfic, but this works for a very limited amount of PCs. So, then, I thought that I would give PC a choice of who left whom and why in the initiation dialogue (they had a lover's quarell and PC left the town whith her companions to have him to think over his behaivoir and then dissappeared w/o a trace and he took it as a rejection; they never had the commited relationship in BG1; they were trying each-other out in the elven way by parting etc). This would have affected the paths of the romance and Coran's alignment. I would again have branched it, the way I did in BG1. Again, the problem is we cannot carry over the GLOBALS, since the TUTU guys or anyone for that matter won't do a transition module. Another way was to simply substitutre Coran and Safana cameo for romantic purposes and just have him there, in Irenicus dungeon, with PC.

Glad you like it. To the best of my knowledge both Ajantis' and Xan's romances will be continued into BG2 by the respective authors. In my case though, I think that Kivan-SoA is going to be my last mod for BG2. Coran is a great character, and fun to write for, and I have no Mary-Sue problem with him, but Kivan is my 'un' true luv'

Divine Remix, duh.

It is impossible to redo the project in vanilla as it is now - because we draw heavily on BG2 coding provided by either TUTU or BGT. One of the aims of the project was trying to convince people that there are more NPCs in the game than Minsc, Imoen, Khalid and Jaheira, along with making these all-time-favorites interesting and fascinating in BG1 contest, of course. While bringing in a BG2 character in BG1 is possible for some of BG2 characters, Aerie is a clear exception from this rule, because her backstory clearly states that she was a caged prisoner until Quayle came into her life as a protector. But look at it this way - while you can't have Aerie, you might meet a couple of people that influenced her one way or another - Quayle, who became her father-figure, and Dynaheir - Minsc's former witch. There are also a number of interesting and versatile fighters in BG-TUTU cast, such as Kagain, Shar-Teel, Ajantis, Yeslick or Coran. Branwen, kitted as a cleric of Tempus via Song and Silence could be a fierce warrior. Safana, imo is as interesting a character as Imoen, or, if you like Aerie, Skie with her Eldoth dilemma could be an interesting story for you to watch. Faldorn could be an appealing alternative for Jaheira for some. In other words, trying to break the mold of the Imoen-Minsc-Dynaheir-Kivan-Branwen or Imoen-Misnc-Dynaheir-Khalid-Jaheira or Imoen-Xan-Khalid-Jaheira-Kivan party could lead to fun and surprisingly satisfying gameplay Cheers, and have fun howevere you chose to play

Heh, the guy ought to have the reason to be as persistent as he is....

Nah, I took out the decisevly romantic talk if PC romances someone else out of Kiv, plus overall it's not even a quarter of what the 'romances-romances' get. ANd he shuts up if reputation is too low for his liking. And yep, as another survivor of all three romances running together, I emphatically advise to let max of two

Placed into the perpetual maintenance: Bug fixes, polishing the mod based on players' feedback. There are plans to add a quest or two in and more interjections for a couple of characters (Quayle and Safana mainly). Anything else will be announced separately.

Yep. Check the followings: "X#XARomanceInactive","GLOBAL" "X#XARomanceActive","GLOBAL" "X#XANMatch","GLOBAL" "X#XALoveTalk","GLOBAL"

It's easy to tell when Xan's romance starts - you get the talk immediately once you exit the Nashkel mine. I think Jastey did not want Ajantis to look like he is out looking for love, but fall in love only because what PC is, what she does, and he'd fall in love with a paragon of virtue. I know that it is difficult, but I think you have a good point about the N cleric. I will ask her if she is interested in adding LN cleric an exception to the 'all good alignments' rule.

It is too early to ask, I guess, but what the heck We did try to make a wide range of romances, so the question is if you found the one which suited your PC well and which one it was

Have fun playing

Phase III is available for public download. WARNING: Please, uninstall the previous version of the mod before unpacking V11!

O yes, you can. I appreciate the shortest test runs as long as I have reports (with bugs or without). I am hoping to put out 8th alpha with the fixed ending for Coran's romance and Hanali's cycle tomorrow night and I need a couple of runs on that. If you'd like to test any other aspect, you can jump in immediately.

Some new and cute SEKRIT stuff added to Coran's Romance to give the poor elf a chance to compete with the bright knight and melancholic sorcerer (as if!). You'll have to find it, but there is now a flirt option that unlocks seven new NPC-initiated flirts come the night. Don't look at me - it was Kulyok's idea, I just had time on vacations to write it up!

A piece of good news: Great thanks to Kulyok for tackling the expanded PID options for the 7 NPCs that were lacking them up until now!

It was a fun idea, but alas, I have no interest in developping it further. So, honestly and without further ado - this mod is dead and the work on it will not be resumed.

Hi Melisah, have not seen you in a while... the portrait is a part of the BG1NPC portrait pack You can see it here, with the credit of course: http://www.gibberlings3.net/portraits/thumbnails.php?album=2

I think this is the most frequently asked question in regards to this mod: why Deheriana's Restoration depends on the presence of one of these two characters in the party? Why not Anomen, Jaheira and Viconia? And: Is it obvious in the game? Here are my reasons: Firstly, and most importantly: Deheriana's resurection is an evil descision. I have added some dialogue to make it clearer in the latest versions. Kivan is in the wrong, and he does what he does out of fear. The question is, could he, for once be simply lucky, the luxury he never had before, always recieving the double-edged gifts? My answer is, he can, and the randomness of luck is represented by him having a friend in the adventuring party who just can reach Deheriana, when Kivan himself fails. Secondly: Restoring Deheriana is not a spell-casting kind of action (unlike her ressurection). It's simple emotional warmth directed by a stranger at Kivan and herself that tips the scale. Why Cernd and Aerie? I was looking for chracters with a) strong healing (not spell-casting power, but character feel) b) non-judgemental and c) warm to Kivan personally. Aerie is my strongest candidate, due to her story of healing a child she does not know anything about, her heart's goodness remaining unchanged, non-embittered while exposed to cruelty. She also immediately recognizes Kivan as an elder-brother type figure, and their relationship is quite cordial. Cernd is a character whose very warm potential was imo never explored in the game, and I thought it to be an ideal chance for him to show his quality. Another important thing for me was his backstory, where he leaves his wife and it results in her death. This imo will enable him to understand and not berate Kivan's efforts to not let go of his loved one. And, Kivan and Cernd form a good solid friendship. Why not Jaheira? The strongest reason of them all is that every time Jaheira faces with the ressurection and restoration - both in Khalid's and Sarevok's cases - she is adamantly against it. While she makes an effort, when Deheriana is ressurected, to see if there is anything there left of the living woman, she does not continue, because there is too much in her that is against it. Also, this will be putting Jaheira in a terrible situation, again, regarding Khalid. i don't think it can be developped, without writing additional suit of talks for Jaheira, especially if Jaheira romances PC. Why not Anomen? He just don't get enough patience, enough understanding. He is young, rush and far from being infinetly kind. The game also suggests that Anomen is a racist, so the whole elven dilemma will imo irritate him - elves who whine about something weird while humans have to deal with real troubles, real evil etc. Why not Viconia? By one simple reason - she hates Kivan's guts, and I was to write her reaction it would have ended up as a negative one, that would have sent Deheriana back to hurt Kivan. My veiw of Viconia being extreme, clashing badly with the majority's view, and me not prepared to irritate Viconia's fans, I simply avoid writing anything Kivan-related for Viconia. Is it obvious from the game? Yes and no. Character's relationships with Kivan are relatively clearly defined, so I hope that both Aerie and Cernd come across as being on very friendly terms with Kivan, while Jaheira and Anomen both have tensions with him, and Viconia's visible restrain not to go for Kivan's throat is mutual and apparent. Does it need more manifesting than that? I think, not. The mod has endings for all occasions... And, another reason is that going from 3 to 6 characters will complicate handling of the subplot, which is already pretty convoluted.

The screenshot gallery is now complete, featuring the examples of our dangerous activity from all three Phases. The newest material are the screenshots from all six romances (though, of course, Coran's is old news ): Ajantis' Romance Screenshot Branwen's Romance Screenshot Coran's Romance Screenshot Dynaheir's Romance Screenshot Shar-Teel's Romance Screenshot Xan's Romance Screenshot Enjoy!

You win! 19 October 1811 is indeed the date I was thinking of

Flexible romance timers subcomponent (discussed here: http://forums.gibberlings3.net/index.php?showtopic=4377 ) was included in the mod - each romance can be run at 15, 30, 45 min and 1 hour frequency.

Awww, thanks. Makes me forget the bruises my too-witty-for-his-own-good Charname just recieved from Shar-Teel

Kulyok had done an incredible and aweinspiring job with reviewing each and every file for punctuation, stray typos, standartisation, capitalization, and general embelishment of the 'look' of the dialogues for Phase I and II. She is now pouring over the Phase III. Let not a comma be missplaced and a round of applause!

@Western Paladin: thank you, I'll shoot you a PM tonight @Hendryk - that's getting closer but still a bit too far to the West

Flirts are nightmare with all these options (shudders)! And good luck, Rob. Looks like you are getting there