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[Lava Del'Vortel]

File Name: Varshoon - an Illithid NPC
File Submitter: Lava Del'Vortel
File Submitted: 21 Oct 2009
File Category: Miscellaneous Released Mods

Want to have a non-human ally, but still don't want a god-like NPC? Want to know more about the mysterious and exotic race known as the illithid? Will you risk placing your trust into a creature who is a monster only concerned with gathering knowledge? If you are willing to take this risk - join Varshoon. Each of you can learn something more about the race of the other. Well, I should tell you what to do to have this mysterious ally join you; basically, you will need a decent amount of intellect. And what if you don't? Well, you'll have to find that out for yourself. I won't reveal that kind of surprise...
This mod adds to the game a new and unique NPC - Varshoon the Illithid. He has his own kit of Psionic Forcer. Varshoon is a mental warrior. He joins with his own special equipment and it cannot be replaced with any other items.
Varshoon will converse with you many times during the game. There are timed talks, area/item triggered talks and others! Those together create a new "Respect Path" for this NPC. There are also banters and group banters (with 2 other NPC's instead of 1) with all Bioware NPC's. This mod also modifies the normal quest area of the Illithid Tunnels in the Underdark.
This mod includes a new and much better paperdoll made by myself and Erephine.

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[Icendoan]

Congratulations on release!

Icen

[Lava Del'Vortel]

Thx! Now it's only SoA, but if some people will like the mod, I will definitely write ToB portion!

[dreamer2007]

Congratulations on release This NPC sounds very promising and I would like to meet him in the future

[Ankhes]

Great job, Lava! I'll have to do a new reinstall but I'll definitely play him. Since I've had the honour of playing him and helping to proofread I can't wait to see how he is now. Personally I like him and find him interesting. I hope others give him a go!

Edit - if there are typos or grammar mistakes let them be known and blame me, not Lava. These are my first attempts at really helping out a modder.

Thanks, Lava!

Edited by Ankhes, 21 October 2009 - 08:38 AM.

[Lava Del'Vortel]

Ankes, it's only one type I think that the mod without any typos etc doesn't exist
Dreamer, maybe one day you will give this mod a shot Well, I hope that after some days, maybe weeks there will be any good opinion about the project

[Daulmakan]

Congrats! I won't be able to start a new game in a while, but I'll definitely give him a try in the future.

[Lava Del'Vortel]

Because I am too shy to do so...? Illithid NPC is a bit "different" one and Quayle NPC isn't very big one... I think they are "ok mods", but not as good one as Saerileth, Fade etc. Are they really worth advertiseing? I don't even know if someone like the them

[Lava Del'Vortel]

You don't have to start a new game. He can be found in the sewers under Athkatla. You will need a key to Illithid's little location. However to join him as I remember your character needs a high intelligence

[Ankhes]

You don't have to start a new game. He can be found in the sewers under Athkatla. You will need a key to Illithid's little location. However to join him as I remember your character needs a high intelligence

I don't know how high of an intelligence but I am always at 16 or so as a mage. Anyway, if you use G3 Tweaks and select the "no traps or locks" (it is AWESOME!) feature you can just either force the door open or have a thief attempt to unlock it and it will do so easily. In other words, you won't need the key. If you are already familiar with the NTNL feature you can just unlock the Planar Sphere as well. The more places you go with Varshoon the better, so I say the earlier you get him the better especially if you want to gain good influence with him.

I've already found a few minor speech errors so please forgive me. I should have re-read the files before the initial corrections. Lava was too fast and released him and now he won't go back to him to correct my mistakes!

But that's okay. He's working on a major NPC who's looking great so far!

[Fennek]

Thx! Now it's only SoA, but if some people will like the mod, I will definitely write ToB portion!

ToB! ToB! ToB!
It's always a bit sad (and actually also not great in terms of caracter development, XP etc.) to have to change to another NPC in ToB. There's only one who's new there (ignoring mod NPCs) and one doesn't always want to take him with oneself...
And come on, everybody would like to know what you'd make up for the final fight / ending.

[Lava Del'Vortel]

Wow I would never thought that someone is still interested in this one! I would probably add only small content for ToB, because (to be honest) I don't have any big ideas for that part of the game, but... I will think about it

Thanks for playing the mod! I hope you enjoyed it!

[Lisandro]

Hi.

It's a very interesting mod, when you finish it, if you want... I would like to make the spanish translation.

[Lava Del'Vortel]

Of course... however first it must be finished Thx, that may give me some motivation, Lisandro!

[Lava Del'Vortel]

I may have a bad news... You know, I can't feel the character any longer and I believe that it's pointless to force yourself on doing something - usually nothing good comes from that.
However, I decided that there should be at lest *something* in ToB, so I wrote few short dialogues with charname. So, I just uploaded the new version. It includes 4 talks with charname, few interjections, possibility to call Varshoon via Fate Spirit (note that you still need at least 15 intelligence to call him) and bonus one event when you find Skull of a Lich, which may make Varshoon a bit stronger. What's more now you may choose not to install new paperdoll which may look strange on Kwiat_W's GUI. And the last note is that now project is traified.

Well, that would be all. If I do something more about Varshoon, that's probably only bugfixing (if you find any bugs and report them )

Oh, and again thanks to Lollorian for his help! Yollow Lord was quite helpful - as always!

[Lava Del'Vortel]

An update!

Changes: New portraits! Oh, and probably you'd be interested in some new ToB banters... did I mention the portrait?!


PS. Izzy took care of proofreading! She's a great help to me

Edited by Lava Del'Vortel, 02 April 2011 - 03:41 PM.

[Zireael]

An update!

Changes: New portraits! Oh, and probably you'd be interested in some new ToB banters... did I mention the portrait?!


PS. Izzy took care of proofreading! She's a great help to me

Are you interested in translating Varshoon into Polish? I suggested it once to you (and I could probably do it in my spare time... [if I have it - it's as rare as a pot of gold on a rainbow])