Bishop's Romance (OC)

This is a fan-made modification for the NWN2-OC that adds new dialogues, expansions to the existing dialogues and the flirt-pack to an existing character, Bishop. Flirt-packs are accessed via the main question menu, where the new option (Flirt with Bishop) will appear. The flirts differ between Act II and Act III. Two or three talks are 'hidden' and will appear if certain events occurred and you tried to flirt with Bishop. You do not have to be evil-aligned or have high influence with Bishop to romance him. The mod does not modify the influence over the character, in order not to upset the game's balance. The last meeting with Bishop still requires high influence with him to eventually obtain a different conclusion. The first lines of NWN1-style talks are voiced, and the cutscenes are fully voiced.

WARNING: You character interpretation may differ from the mod author's.

Compatibility

This mod is designed to work with NWN2-OC with or without MotB expansion pack. Due to the nature of the Electron Engine, the mod will be incompatible with any other mod using the same NWN2-OC files. Any and all mods for NWN2-OC that will want to use the same files and want to maintain the compatibility are free to take the OC files modified by this mod and apply further changes to them.

Installation

Bishop's Romance comes with two .rar files. The BishopRomance_V1.1.7z file has to be un-zipped into your:

• Program Files\Atari\Neverwinter Nights 2\Override

directory (NOT the My Documents one!), and the BR_Music.rar file has to be un-rared into your:

• Program Files\Atari\Neverwinter Nights 2\Music

directory (NOT the My Documents one!).

I also recommend that you install the 2 fixes, as described below:

Replace_DLG_fix.rar
This makes the following updates to the dialogues: A small typo fix in Casavir's Temple dialogue; A fix for 'bedroom' talk repeating; better delays on the banter with Bevil. This fix is recommended for any version. Upload and un-rar it to your BishopRomance/dlg folder, replacing the old versions of the files as well as incorporating all the earlier fixes.

Replace_NCS_fix.rar
This is my desperate attempt to get the dialogues to trigger under V1.12 of the game. The delays are all drastically reduced, which in the testing case (Marcus talk) helped trigger the dialogue. Upload and un-rar it to your BishopRomance/ncs_nss folder, replacing the old versions of the files, if you'd like to try this fix.

Contact Information

This mod was created by Domi Sotto (aka Melirinda). Visit the Gibberlings Three forums (www.gibberlings3.net) for information on this and any other Gibberlings Three mods on which I may be working.

Thanks and Acknowledgements

First, a big thanks to the wonderful community at The Gibberlings Three. Thanks to this still active and vibrant Infinity Engine modding community that welcomed their wayward pervy Electron fancier.

Thanks to the fanfiction.net community that took interest in the project while it was still a pile of dialogues and ideas, nowhere near becoming a mod.

Thanks to the good folk at the BioWare forums for encouragement, help and answering this newb's coding questions.

A special gratitude is reserved for Dirtywick for catching the bug that almost killed the mod and drove me insane!

And, of course, a standing ovation to the following people whose participation and good will made this mod possible:

Editor: Krista (aka sininsilence)

Music Themes: Kat Bella (aka the acefes)

Voice-Actors:

• Bishop - Rob Dupuis (aka the Wizard)
• Casavir - Jackie Cooper
• Grobnar - Daniel Roberts
• Luskan Assassin - Shugojin
• Shandra - Wynne

Testers: Churr, Simi Parthenopaeus, rachellespen, swimhard2787, Nhadaliinia

Rogue Dao's Lip Flappers were used for the facial animations during the conversations.

Copyright Information

This mod may not be sold or published. The modified OC files can be used in other NWN2-OC mods for the purpose of avoiding mod conflicts or loss of content.

Version History

V1.1 (2008-Jun-17): Added a trial version of fixes for the scripts and a small update to select dialogues. I hope that this can be a base for V2.

V1.1 (2008-Feb-22): Added a separate fix, Replace_DLG that deals with the 4 dialogues improperly labled as cutscenes, and attempts to 'slow down' the flirts.

v1 (BETA): First public beta release.

Legacy

On the old IGN Vault, this was a Hall of Fame winner with a score of 9.83 based on 79 votes. Here is the archived file download table: