AToTB S02: Rewrite the script with the elves thinking the baddies are grey mages #5255
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Personally I don't see any conflicts with the 1.14 lore. But I do think that you should pay more attention to the case of Elves or even the elvish leader staying alive until you unmask the Necromancers. Otherwise it will feel left incomplete whenever someone actually manages to do so. (Btw I'm not sure if you meant to ping me, maybe you wanted LordLewis instead?) |
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I've added an elvish scout riding in (regardless of whether any other elves are alive), saying "I heard sounds of battle, but did not expect to see this. I will inform the Council, they can work out who the necromancers are.", and riding off quickly. Konrad - thanks, I meant to ping you as you'd recently commented about this in the forum threads. I should have pinged LordLewis too, but Github's auto-complete isn't picking up based on that name; if you'd ping him it would be appreciated by me. |
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| message= _ "Curses! If they had been an hour slower, our master’s reinforcements would already be here to meet us." |
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Although this is not a part of the change, this line does seem a bit illogical. If the reinforcements were travelling towards there, it's unlikely that Arvith wouldn't get to fight them, as they'd be on his way, as far as I know. And IIRC there is nothing that even mentions these reinforcements later on. I would either suggest that he says something like he was planning to send someone for reinforcements, or dropping out this line completely.
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Good catch. I think this wording would be better, but it needs corresponding changes to the objectives and time over events (which both reference these reinforcements too) :
# po: There are no undead on the map yet, but Muff Toras summons some immediately after saying this
message= _ "Curses! If they had been a few hours slower, I might have been able to cover my tracks without arousing the elves’ suspicions. Still, no need for the disguise any more."
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It looks good (your version). As for the turn limit, I guess unlimited could be fine. Or the time limit could remain the same, as they need to find Baran as soon as possible.
… grey mages This is about 10 lines of translatable text, not sure if it's okay to backport to 1.14. The storyline itself is going to have large changes by 1.18 (maybe 1.16), so I'm not sure if this will ever be in a stable release. If a player loads a start-of-S02 save without the who_slew_mordak variable then it will still work, showing the "I saw the killing blow with my own eyes" version. Explanation for what's going on (put in the commit message because this bit is non-canon): There are some "grey mages" in the Grey Woods, who appear in the Liberty campaign. Most of the details of these were removed from 1.15, but in 1.14's Liberty S06 they don't tolerate necromancers. SotA mentions an ancient elvish civil war in these woods, with the ghosts still haunting the battlefield. I'm assuming a general truce between elves and grey mages, on the understanding that the grey mages are doing exorcisms of ghosts from the ancient war.
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Going to force-push to add a changelog message, without changing the other files. |
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@Earth-Cake and @Konrad22
This is about 10 lines of translatable text, not sure if it's okay to backport to 1.14.
The storyline itself is going to have large changes by 1.18 (maybe 1.16), so I'm not sure if
this will ever be in a stable release. But having had the idea, I thought I'd make a PR for it.
If a player loads a start-of-S02 save without the
who_slew_mordak variablethen it will stillwork, showing the "I saw the killing blow with my own eyes" version.
Explanation for what's going on (put in the commit message because this bit is non-canon):
There are some "grey mages" in the Grey Woods, who appear in the Liberty
campaign. Most of the details of these were removed from 1.15, but in 1.14's
Liberty S06 they don't tolerate necromancers. SotA mentions an ancient elvish
civil war in these woods, with the ghosts still haunting the battlefield. I'm
assuming a general truce between elves and grey mages, on the understanding
that the grey mages are doing exorcisms of ghosts from the ancient war.