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Thank you for your feed back and comments! What exactly do you mean? His complaining if they are supposed to go disguised as Drow into the Drow city? Well, as a paladin, Ajantis is no fond of having to play a false game, even if he knows that anything else would be siucidal. Thanks, that seems to be a "no valid links or reply" (NVLOR) bug. I'll have a look at it. No, the priest should be still there after the Underdark. eSqr: I didn't see your post .. You were quicker!

The morning after after the wedding night is a nice idea. Maybe also after the first night (if that's not the wedding night). Ankhesenpaaten: Speeding up is difficult, as there are so many different conditions for some of the events. How far into the romance are you, i.e. what was the last LT about? btw: PC and Ajantis don't have to be married at that point, it can all be done after Underdar, too.

Thank you, Ardanis, for your information. Thank you, that is great! You can download and play, but beta means beta so there are still bugs in it. Some are already fixed locally and will be with the next update, which I'll hopefully will provide soon. It's only one romance (from me), but different mods to play this romance depending on whether you play original BG1 or a BG1 to BGII engine conversion (Tutu / BGT). Have a look at the readme: The first choice will kill any romanctic content. The second one is for the case that Ajantis and PC romanced and got engaged in BG1. Additionally, there is also the case of a new beginnings romance for BGII. It should be compatible with those mods, yeah. You have the choice upon install.

Indeed I do! He looks so much younger. Very nice! May I use it as an alternate portrait for both my BG1 and BGII mods? Are you referring to me? As I said, I don't care about Zcar/Montaron neither Jaheira, so that quest was always one I did wondering why I bother. Can anyone tell me what happens in the Jaheira romance after / during that quest?

Wellyn was murdered by that thief. Keldorn goes for a murderer in that trading city (happenes while the PC walks by), too. It's important for Jaheira' Romance. And if you play friendship path... Yeah, I realized my remark was totally biased. I'll have to have a look at that quest again.

I am adding a way to not steal yet receive the temple items, so making this possible for the Zcar quest seems in line. I have to think about it; I don#t think the Zxar quest is that important anyway. Thanks, I'll have a look at it.

Very good question: Because I forgot about this quest. Hm, would Ajantis tolerate the theft, if it is about to save someone? I might change this quest so that the PC can talk to the Harpers instead. Wasn't there a mod that already makes this possible? Yes, one of the lines is not supposed to show. Thank you for reporting! I am not sure he would, actually. Not that he isn't proud about her, but it's not his style to tell everyone. But it's a nice idea. I'll have a look at the situation again. The ring take about two days. She did tell her choice to Ajantis resp. the ringsmith, yes? Ajantis will say when it's all prepared, then they can go to the temple. I don't understand, do you wait for the first spawn in the Government District, of doesn't he show in the prison? How far did the quest proceed so far, did Ajantis talk to Eila, and did they meet in the city?

Thank you for the kind words, Kulyok, and dalarosa. ToB part is not forgotten: Romance for ToB is designed, two lovetalks are written, basic package with call by spirits in pocketplane is coded - but don't expect anything soon.

Sounds like a mess. I'll have a look at it... Yep, there was the EscapeAreaMove, but without any setting of a kickedout variable. No, that's not supposed to be there, he will stay. Fixed locally. Good catch!

Evaine Dian: Cool, thank you for the report. That line wasn't supposed to show for the engaged path, obviously, I forgot to negate the check. Fixed locally. Saw your edit: That is nonsense, of course. He leaves when they are married, but he shouldn't say otherwise first. Did you chose the PID after the marriage for the breakup? sisterpatrick: Thank you for the kind words. It would be great if you could tell me the dialogue in which he refers to her as "love". Your PC chose Anomen? Did you start from the engegd path for the Ajantis romance, and went everything well? About the quickslot - I am not sure what you mean about items having the note in their description. Could you give an example? Of course I would like to add such a line, to make things easier. Ankhesenpaaten: I am gald the quest works for you now. Senka: Cool, have fun!

Thank you for your ideas and the discussion. Others ideas that came up were: -invent a spell that creates an relistic image of the object that could be used to make the copy -bribe a temple priest to give the item fo some time so a duplicate could be made -go the straight way and talk to the high priest of the temple, explain the situation and get their help in having a copy made. I really like the last idea. It has so absolutely nothing to do with stealing any more, and is very much paladin-like. About your first idea, Uncle Bertie: I also think that Ajantis wouldn't agree the item to be stolen by somebody else. But getting Renal's help for the copy is a realistic idea. About the other quests: Of course Ajantis objects to killing someone for the Shadow Thieves. If the other quests (killing the mage and killing the thief) are given, he objects and stresses his interest that the PC first talks to these persons. The mage will instantly attack, and he is evil, and the thief, well, is a thief. If the PC lets him go, Ajantis is not sure whether it was good thing to do or not. It's an awkward situation. While designing Ajantis, I had a good look at Keldorn's reaction. In some cases, they don't go far enough in my opinion. Of course I want to blend into the game, yet for an NPC with X+ dialogues and PID, the level of the original BioWare NPC is left behind anyway. I wanted him to be believable, as a paladin in the D&D world. Now, BGII is not good for this at all, since the PC has to side with one of two evil sides for the game to continue. So, of course Ajantis will accept that the PC sides with Aran Linvail, because otherwise I could have stopped developping the NPC. But yes, the thief quest was one of the first things I did for this mod (after the reaction to Sir Sarles), so the reaction might be a bit stronger than in other situations. Yet still not unappropriate. I wouldn't know there is such a bad case for a paladin in BG1. There, it is mainly look for your main enemy - now look for the boss of this main enemy - now look for the boss of this boss, etc. Engine limitations is the reason Ajantis won't react to thefts done in houses, looting tombs, etc. But in my head I see him complaining about that, and I would have implemented it if it would be feasible with an appropriate amount of effort. Evaine Dian: Oops, could well be that I made a romance talk available for the friendship track, and forgot to eliminate all love talk references. Thank you for the report. Thank you very much also for the proof reading, it is very much appreciated. Yeah, I can't believe how much different reply options and parallel dialogue paths I am offering the player and wrote reactions to things probably no-one will ever play.

Thank you for the reports, Evaine Dian! The banters between Ajantis and Yoshimo are random banters, that get triggered by the engine. It is coincidence that two dialogues were triggered directly after the other (or, maybe they enjoyed talking so much.). To the messenger: Hm, I don't see why he would be created and the engaged romance talk would fire in case of the new beginnings romance. Do you have a save game from shortly before it happened? EDIT: No, wait, I think I know at least why the second dialogue would fire, but nor why Douglas would be created a second time. I added some more checks, so hopefully that's solved locally. Thanks again! The NVLOR is fixed locally. AkashaCatBat: Yes, the messenger comes after the Underdark.

Thank you for the kind words! And please, post any bugs or issues here. Don't bother finding the text in the tras, if you can give me the sentence or the misspelled word, I will search for it myself. Proof-readings are always welcome, of course!

Only if you say that he is repeating himself, in that case dialogues would be redundant. But as it is, I think a mere repitition is not there, unless I overlooked it in my design. The whole thing bothers him quite a bit, and he needs to talk about it. About the expansion of the thief quest: I would like to include the possibility that CHARNAME can get duplicates of the temple items. The only problem is: From whom? (S)he would need someone who knows what she is talking about, meaning the way leads someplace dark and illegal - which brings us to the shadow thiefs, haha. Maybe one of Renal's guys would fake it for her? But why would he, and why would the PC trust him? My first idea was that the PC draws a scetch in the temple and then finds a goldsmith, but then I thought: Would a scetch from my PC suffice as a draft?

Senka: You are right, Keldorn doesn't say anything if the stealing should take place in the temple of Thalos.

To Keldorn's reaction (which I studied, as an example): In case of party with lower rep, that should steal from temple of Lathander, Keldorn leaves the party. I think he can be recruited later again, though. For party with higher rep, that is supposed to steal in temple of Thalos, Keldorn states his disagreement but stays. Oh, and to the thief quests for Ajantis: It's mostly the stealing he doesn't accept. As soon as the fist quest is finished, he can be recriuted again.

That's good ideas, I never thought of extending the thief quests this way, just about his reaction to it. The other thing he won't tolerate is siding with Bodhi, apart from that I can't recall any other quest. Have a look at the "Ajantis_reactions.txt" for spoilers about his reactions to certain things in the game. Evaine Dian put my thoughts about the discussed topic very nicely. I think he is too much into duty and watchfulness to get her pregnant in the circumstances. If, of course, you say that they should stay chastely in this case, then our opinions differ totally. (I, too, think he chose the worst moment for it - yet, when else should he have done it?)

Senka: Thank you for playing the mod. Sorry it didn't work for you. darlarosa: Ajantis attacks the PC if the rep goes below 8. I wouldn't know why the rep would fall, though, as there is no rep decrease in the mod, just a reaction to the actual rep in the game. AkashaCatBat: No, there is no way other than to send him away during the thief quest. He can be taken back into the group later again, though.

Senka:

Hm, I already muted him for many LTs, but it seems he still loves that phrase. If it is indeed too loud, the sounds would need to be tweaked.

Thank you for your comments and feed back! Thank you Evaine Dian for this very lovely review. It is very comforting to have the impression the mod gets played (and is liked). Ajantis uses the BG1 sounds. They are implemented via ogg -> wav transformation, so I'd assume the quality is not as good as in BG1, although I'd have the impression it is at least acceptable. I would gladly include voiced lines, but I'll wait until the ToB part before I'll ask around. EDIT: Senka, do you mean it's too loud?

Kaeloree and Leomar: Thank you for the explanations. Subcomponents has the advantage that the log shows which choices were made. I will think about it. This thread is fine for comments and bug reports. Thank you for your feed back so far. Concerning more journal entries: I thought I added the most important information.. but it should be no problem to add some more. Yeah, the invisible rune - as soon as I found out that an item with no picture works in the game it had to go in there.

Thank you for the feedback and heads up. What exactly do you mean with automated install?

Thank you! The mod is now available as an open beta from the downloads page: http://www.rosenranken.org/index.php?actio...on=mods;cat=soa

Got it, thank you. I wanted to write above that it doesn't necessarily mean that you will be able to post, but maybe it will work. Anyway thank you for your interest!