ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

• In quests, "There and back again" has been a long-standing niggle for me, since it never tells you what to do when you've found the first quest item but not the second. (That's a policy I've tried to stick to over in the T2 module: the quest log entry for an unfinished quest should always include an answer to the question, "What do I need to do next?") Also, it checks the quest internally for isCompleted() rather than isSuccess(), which means it never does show the last line you're supposed to get when you finish the quest. I've reworded things some there.
• I'm still convinced the "A mysterious staff" quest log description is buggy; whether I die in the ambush or kill Ukruk, the description still seems to end with the "They asked about the staff" line (missing, again, the what-to-do-next part). I've rejuggled the sequence of quest checks and tested to make sure it works.
• Over in chat dialogs, in the Sher'tul fortress butler chat, it always seemed to me that the "I am not your master" option should be before the "What is this place?" option, just to make the narrative flow better.
• I knew I'd seen Aeryn suggest that you should go talk to Zemekkys, but I hadn't seen it in a long time. Took a bit of digging, but I found it: it's in a part of the Aeryn chat that's only shown if you got a sun paladin escort before going east (which would explain why I hadn't seen it in a while… ). That strikes me as questionable: the player still needs to know to talk to Zemekkys, after all, whether or not they ever got a sun paladin escort. For now I'm just unilaterally setting the "seen a Sunwall person" flag when we load that chat. Also, I figure the "Tell me more about the Gates of Morning" option should go away once you've done it, like some of the other options do.
• For Stire the Alchemist in Derth… okay, I'm a sucker for cheezy wordplay.

Hooks:
  Chat:load [to tweak chats of interest]
Superload:
  mod.class.Player:
    on_quest_grant() [to change log descriptions for quests of interest]

• The Aeryn chat giving you the Charred Scar quest, of course.
• For the Temporal Warden chats in Temporal Rift, I borrowed one of the images used for Point Zero townsfolk:

  

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rexorcorum wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:52 am Aha, so we've missed some of those. I guess, I'll have to upscale this guy a bit as well, having a blurry chat portrait surely hurts my eyes.

Zizzo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:18 pm (This may still trip over that weird bug that sometimes shows the most recently used talent in the chat dialog in place of the NPC portrait; I haven't tested for that specifically.)

• The chat to select your Worldly Knowledge reward tree. Apparently we don't count as "using" said talent at chat time. We use the talent image for this one (which, ironically, is also a question mark, but at least a more thematically appropriate one ).
• The chat at the end of the arena unlock quest. This NPC is supposed to be the same Shady cornac man we talked to in Derth, so we reuse his image here.
• The chat at the start of the Arena campaign, where you select 30 or 60 rounds. No obvious choice here; I went with the corresponding achievement image.
• In the Arena campaign, the chats for starting and winning a boss fight, and for starting and winning the final fight against the master of the arena. These were the tricky ones; the obvious choice for the NPC portrait, after all, is the boss/master NPC themself, but we don't have access to those from anyplace useful, so I had to do some ugly meatball surgery on the Arena actor generator.

rexorcorum wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 8:49 am Yey, superb work, as always, Zizzo! No more Attack talent portraits granting you 2 generics in Derth's Arena!