Romance Question (spoiler)

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The first time I played BGII:SOA and TOB through my romance Viconia got killed by Bohdi and somehow I was never able to get her back - so I played and won the game without her.

Now I am going through the game a second time - with my characters from when I beat the game the first time. As you could imagine - I am sailing through it at a rather fast pace.

I am worried though because I rarely do I hear anytihng from viconia. (Im a neutral evil human - so it is working, also the only other NPC I have in my party is Imoen).

I am almost done with Underdark and She has only had a total of 5-6 conversations with me. At this rate I will kill Irenecus long before the romance is able to develop.

Is there a way to speed up the romance? I thought I remember reading about some sort of mod from a long time ago that sped up the romances - I searched but to no avail. any help would be appreciated.

[ February 02, 2005, 20:39: Message edited by: Beren ]

 

Yes, you can use CLUAConsole to speed it up.

I read a Romance FAQ in Gamefaqs.com :
- CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("JAHEIRAROMANCE","GLOBAL",1) to speed up, note that sometimes she won't take to you because she will talk to you after a certain event.

- CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("JAHEIRAROMANCEACTIVE","GLOBAL",2) to reactive the romance if you screwed it up, ie telling her to shut up

work fine with Jaheira, hope It will do well with Vic

 

The CLUA cheats work for any of the romancable NPCs, all you have to do is to replace the name, i.e. replace "Jaheira" with "Viconia". But, to use the console at all, you have to edit your baldur.ini file and add Debug Mode=1 (case sensitive). Then press control+space in-game and voila! Btw, the number after "active" is the state of the romance. 1 is active, 2 is finished and 3 is screwed. You could also leave the game on pause and go do something else for about an hour.

 

That's odd, as that particular code shouldn't speed up the romance.

If it works, very well, however a better code may be CLUAConsole:AdvanceRealTime(###)
It will advance all real time based quests - Romances and the Ployer quest are the only ones I can think of without mods. Replace the ### with a number (the number of seconds) to advance the time by.

By setting the ViconiaRomanceActive variable to one you are saying there is a romance in progress and setting it to two means that Viconia loves you and the Bodhi quest and such are affected by that, doesn't mean it has finished, but by the end of the romance it should be two still, three means dead as mentioned before. But it shouldn't affect the time. I guess I will have to look into this a bit more.

 

Viconia's romance in SoA will end with 3, due to the last lovetalk. It will pick up in ToB.

 

One of the options of the last dialogue keeps it at 2. Most of the other dialogues that result in 3 mean she leaves the party though. I think they intended it to affect the ToB part of the game but most likely ignored it. I'll check that when I get home too.