What would you like to see changed/added in a Hexxat (and Clara) mod?
BCaesar
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Update: Clara is now playable and available here:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/71473/playable-clara-all-things-mazzy-version-1-037/p1?new=1
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If anything, around someone who Viconia perceives as having a similar mindset (both of them employ sob stories and are constantly trying to ensnare and manipulate other party members) Viconia would start treating Hexxat as she would another priestess of Lolth - rival, interloper, and (if Hexxat refuses to back down) potentially a threat that needs to be put down at the most convenient opportunity.
As far as I'm aware, it would make Clara/Hexxat the only character in the game where you cannot possibly have both and you must choose one or the other and I think it would make the game much more interesting.
Maybe even give them each character specific quests depending on who you're aligned with (thieves or vampires) to create a scenario where one must play through four times to accomplish every single quest. It would make sense too.
Quest 1: Clara aligned with thieves has a special quest seeking vengeance upon the vampires
Quest 2: Clara aligned with vampires grants a quest where she exacts vengeance on a thief who got her into her dire situation to begin with.
Quest 3: Hexxat aligned with thieves reveals some kind of rivalry between her and Bodhi
Quest 4: Hexxas aligned with vampires allows her to take advantage of yet another thief, much like she did with Clara
I know this is a lot, but you asked for specific ideas, so I wanted to throw it out into the universe and see what it turns up.
If a Clara mod stuck to those guiding principles it could be really interesting and different from the current NPC. Somebody a bit lost not so well defined, not so sure in their approach and without a personal goal, just trying to get by.
So neutral alignment would make sense.
Could have interaction with the prostitutes who don't have much input in the game.
Interactions with thieves and peasants, again those who just make up the background.
Keldorn, Anomen, Nalia, Edwin, Viconia, Valygar, Jaheira, Mazzy and Charname themselves are all quite self entitled. All have backgrounds that are "important", (Aerie and Haer Dalis as well) it's a really different angle to have a "nobody" thrown into the mix.
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Shadow Temple (youknowwhere) with Bodhi's heart or Hexxat's heart. Either would do. (really don't like Bodhi).
Quick question.
Where do you find Montaron's body?
I know I found it once years back but can't remember where.
It happened after the face-off with Galvary or Cavalcade or whatever his name was. I hadn't looted the upstairs when I retrieved the bird, so I cleared out the upstairs and I am almost certain he was in one of the chests in the room with six or eight of them.
Now, I don't always find it, and I think you have to play it something along the lines of what I did. But it does happen, and I could never find a use for it, which bothers the frugal engineer in me.
Thanks for that.
So after the Jaheira/Harper business.
Was beginning to wonder if I'd dreamt it.
As an aside, the things that always bother me having spare in inventory are demon hearts (after the Planar Sphere)
Come on, somebody's got to want them for spells or something.
I'm told they make for a dashed tasty turnip stew.
1. The choice is going to be Hexxat or Clara. You can kill Hexxat and then raise Clara or keep Hexxat and let Clara stay dead.
2. Clara may start as a level 3 shadowdancer, but she's not going to stay there. She should level up quite quickly and the low start will give you lots of options on how to specialize your thief.
3. At the moment, we have no plans to give Clara a romance, quests, or anything like that. But that's where someone else might come in, if they'd like to add that in themselves. We're not against the idea, we just have a lot of other things to work on and BCaesar is still learning how to code.
4. Neither of us has actually played through all of Hexxat yet, but we'll do our best to make the story flow better. Calling her on her OOC BS seems like a good start.
As I said before we're not actually going to delete and re-write anything already in the game since that screws with mod compatibility, but we can add to it in order to try to make things fit better. Now that would be funny. I don't think you can get full control an undead that's the same level you are, but maybe she could pull it off for a few seconds here and there. Something like this came to mind: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061023
For Hexxat I plan to add in more stuff involving her and Bodhi. My basic background for Clara has her as a Shadow Thief (just a low level largely independent operator paying her cut so she's allowed to work in the city without having her legs broken).
From her perspective she's an awful thief whose only strong point is she's good at escaping. So when she steals things she usually gets caught, but she always manages to get away in the end. She's starting as a level 3 Shadow Dancer with all of her points on hide-in-shadows and move silently. But she's only level 3 so you can easily put points on other things as she quickly levels up.
If Clara actually gets banters and such will depend on how much time we have and if someone else works out. Otherwise, you'll have a perfectly playable but quiet thief. Dialogue is more likely than any complicated quests since it doesn't seem that hard to add a few more interjections.