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My second playthrough he turned up with no proficiencies! I gather that's a semicommon problem with modded NPCs anyway?

Had this one happen in two separate games imported from the same SoA file in ToB: Using CLUAConsole: AdvanceRealTime(9999999) a few times in the pocket plane right at the beginning of ToB, Arath will talk about the wraith who taunts him in the grove with Gorion's fake ghost before you've been, as if it were a normal lovetalk. I'd thought I'd missed something about his mom's ghost showing up to yell at him back in his SoA quest.

It wasn't! I'm just concluding the SoA portion and I adored every minute. I might write up a more detailed review when I've finished ToB. I think if I ever write an NPC, though, I'll include some inventory item called Advice Mallard or something who checks how many talks have currently been completed for the current chapter versus how many there are and what's necessary to advance the next step, so as to avoid what do I dooo moments/accidentally progressing through the plot too quickly and missin out. Use Advice Mallard: "You and Arath are doing great! Don't go confront Bodhi until you've had a few more conversations, though! Maybe you should try sleeping outdoors! If you hang out in the Underdark a while longer, Arath will probably have something more to say about caverns!" or somethin.

And godDAMN I wish I'd known about advancerealtime! Still, I learned a little about how the timers work, so that was cool.

I think I did! The text when I set the lovetalk forward made it pretty clear that we were meant to be in an inn.

Workaround workarounded, didn't seem to miss much/anything but just bumping the lovetalk up one. ...this isn't one of those slutshamey romances that ends before it starts if you sleep with the target early, is it? Tell me it ain't.