guguma

Hello All,

Before I present my idea, I must say that the IE modding community is the best one I have seen, I truly understand the difficulties present in modding after going through a BWP I am simply amazed at what everyone did, and I cannot congratulate you enough.

SO HERE IS THE IDEA,

One thing (and maybe the only one) that bothers me with BG2-TOB, is the ending, the Melissan battle. Seriously an annoying priest jumping in a vortex of essences 3 times and You have to battle her 3 times until a planetar declares who the winner is, and Melissan is declared the loser just because she cannot contain the essences, it is unfair for Melissan, and it is unfair for you!!! This is not an epic ending at all don't you agree, if it was not for Solar, Melissan would probably shred us to pieces since we will be exhausted. It feels as if Solar comes in like the mother of Melissan and You and stops You from fighting:

-Solar: No, no, no stop you two, Melissan give <CHARNAME>'s essencs back now they are not Yours
-Melissan: But...
-Solar: I said NO Melissan, they are not yours to play with, now be a good girl
-<CHARNAME>: -Yaaaay!!
-Solar: Now you be a good God of Murder, OK (pats <CHARNAME> on the head)...

this is just silly.

What I am thinking is instead of that we could battle Melissan only once then something weird happens (whatever you may imagine) and here comes Bhaal (of course he will not be Bhaal which has access to the entire essence pool). So imagine this, Melissan is defeated, just as You are about to strike the final blow Bhaal interrupts, some dialogue occurs between Bhaal and Melissan and Bhaal kills Melissan (in a terrible way), then a dialogue between You and Bhaal. So in the end Bhaal has the essence he had gathered from Melissan, You have Yours, and You can fight over the rest of the essences. That would be a more epic and better ending would not it?

Thanks for reading.