Sleeta

I am currently writing the friendship track for female and non-romancing male PCs (she'll be your mate as long as you don't annoy her too much to begin with) for my mod, Fade. She already has some friendship interjections added, though.  Some of the friendship talks are amended early LTs, but most will be (or are intended to be!) unique to the friendship track.

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I've been looking forward to this mod. I'm happy to hear the friendship track is coming along.

As for friendship NPC mods, well, my own mod is primarily friendship oriented: Phenalope is an NPC thief who will become friends with either gender and any race and alignment. She will not be romanceable, so you don't have to worry about her interfering in any NPC romances.

I heartily endorse Gothic Rose's Gronk.

We all need a little shiny in our lives. GRONK!

As for why he would get involved with Charname, his rational mind would probably be opposed it to. Unfortunately for him, the details of his little errand for Irenicus requires him to be very close to his target. He eats and sleeps with the rest of the party, they fight battles together, tend each other's wounds. He also has to take measures to "befriend" the PC to earn her trust and extract information from her. It's also natural that he may start to develop a grudging admiration for her as well as feelings of attachment.

What she said.

Like I said before, Yoshimo could probably rationalise getting close to CHARNAME by thinking of it as a means to an end; he's supposed to safely deliver her to Irenicus (one of the times he displays worry is when Renal Bloodscalp brings up the Mae'Var (sp?) quest, asking something along the lines of "You will not injure her/him, sire?" or some such thing), and by getting close to her, maybe even bedfellows, he could say he's doing it JUST to make sure she ends up where she's supposed to be. I suppose it's all how you interpet Yoshimo's character; would he really be willing to tear out someone's heart like that/keep up a facade of emotion when it isn't *really* necessary?

On the other hand, if you want a doomed romance, it could be revealed at Spellhold that Yoshimo really *was* only pretending to get closer to the PC, and have him die as usual. (After apologising for the deception, I think, because I believe Yoshimo was an unwilling traitor, not a heartless bastard.)

*waves pom-poms* Go guys go! Go guys go! I'd really like to see this made into a mod.

Nnnnnnnnnot necessaaaaaaarily. *grin* The thought that sparked my romance fixation actually was this; Do you have to SEE his face to become instilled with hatred? Otherwise, picture a sequence similar to the following:

In the dark, just before rest, Jesaih approaches CHARNAME. Assume that thus far, the two have expressed interest in one another, with Jesaih refuting any advances, and if the romance is triggered, the truth about his mask and the quest for a cure is delayed for some scenarios to spin out. So, in the dark, he could finally admit he has *some* sort of feelings for CHARNAME (not necessarily love at this point), and reveals to her (or him. Why not?) the truth of his curse, thus explaining why things wouldn't work. CHARNAME could either be understanding and stop persuing him, understanding and vow to find a way to remove the curse (this triggering the cure quest to pop up), or both of the previous options, but also insist that he remove his mask, so she/he can trace the contours of his face in the dark, or something else suitably mushy/sweet.

Of course, if CHARNAME is an elf, he/she could see in the dark, so a way around this would be for Jesaih to insist he/she be blindfolded first or cover his/her eyes with his own hands or some such thing.

But yeah, ultimately, you'd have to remove the curse to have a truly "and they lived happily ever after with their twu wuv" ending.

Did any of that sound reasonable to anyone, or just the machinations of a mind with too much spare time to think?