It's been a while since my last post, as I've been busy with other projects and the little I've gotten done relating to the blog isn't ready for public viewing yet. That said, I do have something to share now: Helarine for BGEE has been updated to "Beta version 1". My poor naming/numbering schemes aside, this new version has a few fixes and changes from the previous alpha version. In short, these changes are:
- Removed PC-initiated dialogue from the mod. Unless I actually give the player something to ask Helarine, this is just an empty list, so I took it out.
- Removed romance confrontations, the scenes where Helarine judges your life choices and makes cryptic comments about people that sound like your love interest dying horribly. These might come back in Shadows of Amn when Helarine can be more open on the people she's talking about, but as-is they just sounded silly. (This doesn't affect the romance-related banters she has with NPCs, though Dorn's no longer actually requires his romance conversations to trigger and was modified accordingly.)
- Added a new friendship track conversation to the end of the friendship track. A lot of the old conversations were changed to plot reactions, so this conversation was added to bring the non-plot related character arc to a smoother ending.
- Added banter accelerator scripts. These will trigger a banter conversation between Helarine and compatible NPCs within 2 in-game weeks of recruiting them for the first time and every two weeks after that for multiple-conversation NPCs (note the timer runs at all times but conversations only start if both Hel and the other NPC are in the party).
While I don't plan on adding much more content to the BGEE version of Helarine, I'd recommend letting me know of any bugs that show up on the BG forums thread so I can fix them.
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In other news, the Warlock BGEE kit is still sitting untouched on my hard drive after the last few futile attempts to get certain abilities to work properly. I hope to at least get a semi-working version done eventually, but it's not going to happen in the next week unless a miracle occurs...
As for the Charlatan and the Elf, I've started drafting chapter three, but it's proving to be a difficult chapter to write, being the climax and resolution of the first major conflict in the story and a setup for the next. That's a lot of pressure for one chapter, so I really want to get it right before I post anything. I'm also considering using Effie as the primary viewpoint character for this chapter (as opposed to writing another Savia chapter) to get a wider perspective on what's going on in the story, but it's been so long since writing the prelude featuring Effie that I'm pretty much re-learning her mindset. It also doesn't help that the easiest ways out of the conflicts presented in chapter three involve disrupting the entire concept of the story, which means I have to figure out a way to move the story forward in a way that makes sense AND explain why the characters don't take the smart/easy way out. Might take a while.
Anyway, that's it for now. Thanks for reading!
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