Today I learned that when you have Abela the Nymph in your inventory, she makes sounds every time you click her. "I must be free!" Is she the only such inventory "item" in the game after Boo?
Today I learned that Korgan, after you complete his business regarding the Book of Kaza, gives you a lead about hunting Valygar for the Cowled Wizards. That seems to be an arrangement he had made, about a bounty job. And he is smart enough to figure out Tolgerias might be lying.
I never saw those dialogues before because I usually talked to Madeen much earlier than finding the Book of Kaza.
Wasn't too long ago until I realized declining Garren's hospitality sets off the Radiant Heart team on your butt throughout all of Athkatla.
If you just leave the windspear hills and go back to playing the game normally, and if you consistently avoid and let Alcor (the mage) escape, you can farm them for insane early experience and infinite gold (sell the full plates). Zero rep loss either.
Fairly recently I learnt that after helping Aldeth in Baldur's gate, you can kill him and get no hit to reputation, nor will the merchant's guild go hostile. As a result you can then spawn Dabron in central Baldur's gate and kill him for his crossbow.
Also you get to kill that treacherous milksop Aldeth!
If Valygar falls as a target of Imprisonment in the Planar Sphere (eg. casted by Tolgerias under SCS), once you free him, you can find him carrying his own body.
The relevant script piece regarding Valygar and his body:
IF
Die()
!InPartyAllowDead(Myself)
!StateCheck(Myself,STATE_STONE_DEATH)
OR(2)
Allegiance(Myself,ENEMY)
Allegiance(Myself,NEUTRAL)
!Dead("Tolger") // Tolgerias
Dead("Valygar") // Valygar
Global("DropValygar","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
CreateItem("misc7l",0,0,0) // Valygar's Body
SetGlobal("DropValygar","GLOBAL",1)
DropInventory()
END
Translated to human terms - if he dies and is removed from the party while Tolgerias is alive, then the game creates the "Valygar's Body" item in his inventory and then drops it on the ground. Petrification is called out as an exception; you can either break his statue and get the body, or cure him and invite him back into the party.
Imprisonment removes him from the party, and clearly also counts as death. The game then tries to drop his stuff on the ground, but apparently that fails due to the imprisoned state - leaving the body in his inventory. Oops.
The relevant script piece regarding Valygar and his body:
IF
Die()
!InPartyAllowDead(Myself)
!StateCheck(Myself,STATE_STONE_DEATH)
OR(2)
Allegiance(Myself,ENEMY)
Allegiance(Myself,NEUTRAL)
!Dead("Tolger") // Tolgerias
Dead("Valygar") // Valygar
Global("DropValygar","GLOBAL",0)
THEN
RESPONSE #100
CreateItem("misc7l",0,0,0) // Valygar's Body
SetGlobal("DropValygar","GLOBAL",1)
DropInventory()
END
Translated to human terms - if he dies and is removed from the party while Tolgerias is alive, then the game creates the "Valygar's Body" item in his inventory and then drops it on the ground. Petrification is called out as an exception; you can either break his statue and get the body, or cure him and invite him back into the party.
Imprisonment removes him from the party, and clearly also counts as death. The game then tries to drop his stuff on the ground, but apparently that fails due to the imprisoned state - leaving the body in his inventory. Oops.
Maybe he has an out-of-body experience that becomes real. Is the body Valygar, or is it the vessel that carries the body? Spooky shit! ?
Today was the first time I realized that as a "non-magical" weapon, hits with Flame Blade ought to disrupt mages right through the ubiquitous PFMW, Stoneskins combo.
Today was the first time I realized that as a "non-magical" weapon, hits with Flame Blade ought to disrupt mages right through the ubiquitous PFMW, Stoneskins combo.
The bad news is that the fire damage strikes as a level 2 spell, so it won't go through MGOI or spell turning/deflection/trap.
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P.S. Boo is not an item!
I never saw those dialogues before because I usually talked to Madeen much earlier than finding the Book of Kaza.
If you just leave the windspear hills and go back to playing the game normally, and if you consistently avoid and let Alcor (the mage) escape, you can farm them for insane early experience and infinite gold (sell the full plates). Zero rep loss either.
Also you get to kill that treacherous milksop Aldeth!
IF Die() !InPartyAllowDead(Myself) !StateCheck(Myself,STATE_STONE_DEATH) OR(2) Allegiance(Myself,ENEMY) Allegiance(Myself,NEUTRAL) !Dead("Tolger") // Tolgerias Dead("Valygar") // Valygar Global("DropValygar","GLOBAL",0) THEN RESPONSE #100 CreateItem("misc7l",0,0,0) // Valygar's Body SetGlobal("DropValygar","GLOBAL",1) DropInventory() ENDTranslated to human terms - if he dies and is removed from the party while Tolgerias is alive, then the game creates the "Valygar's Body" item in his inventory and then drops it on the ground. Petrification is called out as an exception; you can either break his statue and get the body, or cure him and invite him back into the party.
Imprisonment removes him from the party, and clearly also counts as death. The game then tries to drop his stuff on the ground, but apparently that fails due to the imprisoned state - leaving the body in his inventory. Oops.
Maybe he has an out-of-body experience that becomes real. Is the body Valygar, or is it the vessel that carries the body? Spooky shit! ?
I do kind of wonder if that's something worth changing. Probably too minor an issue to bother with.