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[Test Person]

Could someone please confirm whether this mod is two seperate components or just the one? - BWS for BWP seems to think that there should be two seperate files, but there appears to be only the one available for download: Askaria_Quest v1.3.rar.

Yes both mods are in that download Askaria_Quest v1.3.rar. I have installed them in my current BWP.

Thank-you, - at least that is one less thing I should see in the list of warnings!

[micbaldur]

What do you do after you received the powder from the smith? Talking to Pie at the Inn led to no results and the manor ist empty except for the guards and that standard noble npc. I can't find the mother of that child that died in the dragon's cave either

 

Thanks

You mean that Askaria died at Dragon Cave?

 

If Askaria is dead then reload earlier save, you need Askaria later.

 

Spoiler

Askaria's parents Helmington and Celine are at Manor House (AR6720). Talk to Helmington after you get Bottle of Crystal Powder from Paul at Thunder Hammer Smithy.

 

If parents are not in Manor House something is wrong with that area.

Edited by micbaldur, 11 January 2013 - 09:21 AM.

[Test Person]

Is there no console cheat you can use, provided you can find the relevant ids in the mod files?

[micbaldur]

Sadly enough I don't haven an older save...I guess I have to skip the quest then...

Well..you don't need earlier save, because Askaria is party member, why can't you resurrect (i always forget this and reload myself) her with scroll "raise dead" or at some temple.

 

You need her at final scene with her parents because she has some dialogues with her parents.

 

You could try this also, open cheat console and type this:

Spoiler

CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("zyaska")

[Creepin]

I rarely bash mods, but this piece of work compels me to do so.

 

The mod is bad, really. Here's what come to my attention after 10 minutes of encountering it's content ingame:

- it's actors are named "Outlaw1", "Outlaw2" and so on up to "Outlaw6", but the winner is a person named "Helmington, Askaria's father of Askaria";

- mod opened by a horrendous dialogue along the lines of:

Charname: Hey! You! Why don't you let the girl alone?
Bandit: You bastard! Who d'ya think you are?
Charname: I am a *HERO*!

with "I am a *HERO*!" being the only option to answer;

- last, but not least, the mod only work if you accept 2 mod's NPCs on board, the reason why I ditched horrible NeJ and otherwicely great TS.

 

All in all, it seems like an alpha version with a temporary placeholders for dialogues and NPCs, further mislabeled as a quest mod instead of NPC mod.

Edited by Creepin, 06 March 2013 - 05:20 AM.

[micbaldur]

I have to add that the encounter is unavoidable, set on the streets of Beregost, right in front of Feldepost's Inn – which is one of the earliest (almost obligatory for a low-level party) shops in the game. The Outlaws fire ice arrows, completely wiping my test party that skipped on every fight from the game start. After reloading the nearest quicksave, I buffed them pre-battle and lost only Jaheira in the fight... Most archers fired at the little girl, and she held out good. If you refuse to accept her into a party, she literally removes the pants off the main character – well, in a non-erotic way. She moves really slow, has basically no abilities nor XP (yet some memorized spells), and high resistances to missile and cold damage... Making her a tank for this specific battle, at least.

 

When you enter the inn, some random guy speaks to you, and you have two dialogue options: literally "..." and mildly insulting him. If you choose the latter, he kills you instantly; with the former, he hastes and runs away; I got to the oracle at the top floor, her dialogue seems ether poorly translated, or badly written from the go. But the mod is kinda funny: well at least it's intended to be humorous... And should be marked as such in BWS. With some proofreading and some minor rewriting (at least fix the creature names mentioned above), it could be a fun mod – with some trial-and-error style gameplay. But it IS immersion-breaking nonetheless, and can possibly screw up your installation, since it starts before you can do any proper leveling and/or gearing up.

Well you probably haven't met Little Sapphire Dragon or Hagamemnon yet, those are more epic battles than those "easy" Outlaws.

 

I liked the mod even though battles were "kind" of hard for BG1. Also mods "english" was funny like Tales of Anegh mod but i don't know was funny english due to translation or was mod funny from the start.

 

Over all i think that mod is great addition to BWP expert-install.

[The Imp]

There is another bug that I have found which hopefully will be easy to solve.

The code: line 62 with Notepad++ looks like:

~CHAOSK 2 2 0 2 5 5 2 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5~ //WEAPPROF ¹«±â ¼÷·Ãµµ ¼³Á¤.

If you add this structure to it, you can actually put the right points to them:

//WEAPPF.2DA
//11                            T   S           F   Q             S S
//10                            W   C           L   U             W I
//9     BG1p-           B L S   O   I   W       A   A             O N
//8     roffs           A O H   H   M   A       I   R C   S       R G
//7     L S  '        M S N O   A   I   R     H L   T R L H     2 D L 2                 E E E E E E E E E E E
//6     _ _       S   I T G R   N K T D H     A M   E O O O     H A E W E E E E E E E E X X X X X X X X X X X
//5     S S   S B P   S A S T   D A A A A   S L O   R S N R   S A N W E X X X X X X X X T T T T T T T T T T T
//4     W W   P L I   S R W S   E T R G M C P B R M S S G T D L N D E A T T T T T T T T R R R R R R R R R R R
//3     O O B E U K A I D O W A D A W G M L E E N A T B B B A I D S A P R R R R R R R R A A A A A A A A A A A
//2     R R O A N E X L S R O X S N A E E U A R I C A O O O R N E H P O A A A A A A A A 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
//1     D D W R T D E E W D R E W A K R R B R D N E F W W W T G D I O N 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
~CHAOSK 2 2 0 2 5 5 2 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 2 5 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5~ //WEAPPROF ¹«±â ¼÷·Ãµµ ¼³Á¤.

And everything before the Bastard Swords should be zero, as well as all the Extrax's.
 
What comes to the rest of it:

For the chaos knight you should be able to put ***** in blunt weapons with the exception of staves.
 
This works fine for maces and flails but not for hammers.

The Blunt Weapons proficiencies are not even used by the game, as the User Interface doesn't give the options to put points to them in the character level up screen, as it's before the Bastards Swords... and the Morning Stars are tied to the Flails in the original game.

Edited by The Imp, 19 April 2014 - 08:34 AM.

[armitage]

Hello. First time poster here with a question about the mod:

 

Spoiler

I got Askaria rescued from the bandits. Went to the inn, talked to the oracle, went to the caves and lucked out on the dragon. Now, I know that this is a high level quest and that I should not even attempt to try it unless I'm ready for Sarevok, have a full party and I'm up to my eyeballs in magical equipment but I needed to get inside the inn to talk to the locksmith for a temple quest (my party is level 6 and has already cleared all 3 levels of Ulcaster).

After the dragon fightI encounter the 3 monk party and after trying a lot of times to take on Hauser  he still gives me a party wipe every single time. So, I have the choice to give him the stone and get on with my life or CTRL+Y him and his OP, camping party. I did the latter and I don't know what to do now. So my questions are:

• Does anything happen if I give him the stone or is this the end of the quest? Because Askaria hasn't said anything about it.
• Does the mod break if I CTRL+Y everything and just get on with it? Because from what I have read, it is one of "those" mods and I just can't waste time/resources/a party slot on a mission that ammounts to nothing more than dumb luck and big numbers.
• What exactly do I do when I get out of the crystal dragon cave? The oracle just repeats the same line and Askaria's parents don't say anything to me, even if I have the stone in my inventory when I talk to them.
• Can I just bench her in an inn somewhere until I have a level 10 party or will she vanish forever in between chapter transitions?

 

 

[micbaldur]

Hello first time poster.

 

Spoiler

Yes quest is over if you give Stone of True Seeing to Hauser.

Let Hauser talk and attack. Then ctrl-Y them if you want to.

Check that global "HAU#SM" is 2.

If not open console and type:

SetGlobal("HAU#SM","GLOBAL",2)

Then talk to Viscous Shaman Pie at Beregost and good luck with Hagamemnon.

You can dump Askaria somewhere if you want to. She stays there until you need her.

Edited by micbaldur, 02 March 2015 - 08:15 AM.

[armitage]

Thank you very much micbaldur! I was finally able to finish the quest (with a liberal use of ctrl+y)

[Roxanne]

By coincidence I installed this mod with my expert all-you-can-eat BWS installation.

Not commenting quality(??) or content (?) of the mod, blocking Feldepost in Chapter2 of the game already should be avoided. All it needs is in ar6700.bcs to add

 

IF
GlobalGT("Chapter","Global",5) //Add this
    Global("zyaskaexists","AR6700",0)
THEN
    RESPONSE #100
        SetGlobal("zyaskaexists","AR6700",1)
        CreateCreature("zyaska",[1738.2768],0) // Askaria
        CreateCreature("zya#1gan",[1819.2758],3) // Outlaw1
END

 

Respectively the Askaria/Baf/ar6700.baf should be fixpacked in this way.

Edited by Roxanne, 05 November 2015 - 07:18 AM.

[bay94c]

When Askaria leaves, the overpowered ring she leaves with the PC doesn't seem to do what it's supposed to.  Has anyone ever fixed this?  It doesn't have the level 1 / 2/ 3 spell resistance. Tested by successfully getting hit by magic missiles repeatedly.

 

Just to answer my own question I've downloaded and looked at the .itm file with dltcep and it's missing the level 1 and level 2 parameters that would block those level spells (it only had a level 3 spell block).  In case anyone wants, I've fixed it.

Edited by bay94c, 12 March 2019 - 02:55 PM.

[bay94c]

 ZYARING2.ITM   450bytes   217 downloads

 

the last post didn't add the item   here it is, you'll put it in the Askaria folder or if you've already been given the ring, put this in the override folder, drop the bad one, clua this one in.

[megangreen]

Hello. First time poster here with a question about the mod:

 

Spoiler

I got Askaria rescued from the bandits. Went to the inn, talked to the oracle, went to the caves and lucked out on the dragon. Now, I know that this is a high level quest and that I should not even attempt to try it unless I'm ready for Sarevok, have a full party and I'm up to my eyeballs in magical equipment but I needed to get inside the inn to talk to the locksmith for a temple quest (my party is level 6 and has already cleared all 3 levels of Ulcaster).

After the dragon fightI encounter the 3 monk party and after trying a lot of times to take on Hauser  he still gives me a party wipe every single time. So, I have the choice to give him the stone and get on with my life or CTRL+Y him and his OP, camping party. I did the latter and I don't know what to do now. So my questions are:

• Does anything happen if I give him the stone or is this the end of the quest? Because Askaria hasn't said anything about it.
• 
  
• Does the mod break if I CTRL+Y everything and just get on with it? Because from what I have read on https://edubirdie.co...writing-service, it is one of "those" mods and I just can't waste time/resources/a party slot on a mission that ammounts to nothing more than dumb luck and big numbers.
• 
  
• What exactly do I do when I get out of the crystal dragon cave? The oracle just repeats the same line and Askaria's parents don't say anything to me, even if I have the stone in my inventory when I talk to them.
• 
  
• Can I just bench her in an inn somewhere until I have a level 10 party or will she vanish forever in between chapter transitions?

I was about to ask the same question because I faced the same problem. Have been trying to find the solution, however, my attempts weren't lucky.