I think Jaheira could use a little work, too.. I think a friendship might be nice, to add onto what is already there. She has travelled with you since you left Candlekeep - why don't I get the feeling that we know each other well when I play with her?

AIMS

- Let Jaheira open up to you a little on a female friendship track! Jaheira desperately needs a friend, and you have known her since Candlekeep.
- Give the impression that you have been travelling with Jaheira for a long time.

- Give her a few quests in ToB - it IS her homeland of Tethyr, which she has desperately wanted to visit since the start of SoA.

IDEAS

- Jaheira is a very closed person. However, Khalid was her husband for a long time. I can see her becoming a little unbalenced. Her nightmares prove this. She desperately, desperately needs a friend, and it seems to me the only way to befriend her is in the romance. And what if you could take her to breaking point?
- umm.. muh?
- Squish some bugs in the romance if there still are any

DISCUSSION TOPICS

- Could Jaheira become mentally unbalenced if pushed far enough?
- Would she let <CHARNAME> push her off balence?
- Is there a possibility that <CHARNAME> was something of a rebound relationship if you romanced her?



DISCUSSION THREAD:

Tameon: 

The Jaheira Romance is extremely buggy, but I don't know if any of our coding-type peoples can do anything about that.

Again, I must stress the sheer stupidity of her being in a wartorn Tethyr- her homeland- and saying next to nothing about it. Also, Calimsham is not that far from Amkethran. Khalid was born and raised in Calimsham. See where I'm going with this? 


Moongaze:

Dorks indeed. Anyway...I think a friendship with Jaheira is a must. I mean, you've known her for...how long? Ever since you met in the Friendly Arm Inn? And now, after Khalid's death, she'll only open up to you if you're an attractive goody-two-shoed guy? I don't think so. Besides, quite a lot of people get the willies when they consider Khalid really didn't die that long ago when she lets on she fancies CHARNAME....


Feuille:


I know!

I agree, a friendship with Jaheira would be reeeeally good. She'd probably become a favourite character - it almost happens occasionally, but then I'm not playing the romance so I get hardly any indepth stuff about her, so I just stay with the ole favourites wink


Tameon:

I had always hoped to find out more about Jaheira's past, before she joined the Harpers and became a druid and all that nonsense. Perhaps you could take the liberty of conjuring up something to that effect? The people at the BGINPC Project certainly did, and it worked out fantastically. 


Kae:


It will be in the second dialogue where you actually get to the meat of the discussion. I think its going to be about her feeling torn between Tethyr and <CHARNAME>. And then, in the third one, she expands upon why she feels like that, and some new bits of history-- before Khalid, obviously. I mean, Khalid is very nice and all, but kinda dead, so I don't feel the need to write much about him.

Then there will be a final fourth dialogue (only in the friendship), which WILL concern Khalid, and Jaheira thanking <CHARNAME> for helping her through their ordeal, and she resolves to turn her eyes to the future instead of dwelling in the past- in her owns words...

'Dwelling in the past is folly, it will not bring back the things we love. Tethyr may be torn and broken, but I am not, and I feel I must turn to the future to help my homeland. There is nothing we can do that we have not already done, and there is no use thinking on things we could have done.'


Or something to that effect. wink


For the SoA friendship, I plan on having her follow a similar path to the romance in that she has dreams of Khalid, but instead of leaving her and <CHARNAME>, he stays with her in spirit. And she has a bit of a cry on <CHARNAME>'s shoulder, and things are good again. What else was there...

Oh! And she'll blame herself for Khalid's death. Thought that might make it interesting. Because, you know, she lived, and he died, and if she hadn't followed <CHARNAME> he would still be alive and stuff.


EDIT: And oh, its a bit hard to write her life before the Druids, because she grew up with them. Since she was about 5, I'd say, but I'll see what I can do smile
