Introduction
This WeiDU mod takes the almost-but-not-quite-finished content that shipped with Black Isle's classic Planescape: Torment CRPG, and finishes and polishes it so you can actually see and enjoy the new content in your game. And as you shall soon see, there's quite a bit of it. Version 2.0 of this mod comes with no less than 14 full and non-trivial restorations.
The key thing to know here is that the vast bulk of the content of this mod was written and developed by the folks at Black Isle that created the rest of the game. They did the first 95%, we modders are just doing the last 5% to hook it into the game, so you can expect that the material and dialogues here will be within the spirit and style of the original game.
Here's the short list of components. Click here for a detailed description of each.
- "Restored Able Ponder-Thought Research"
Originally Restored by: Restoration Pack, SKARDAVNELNATE. Completely Redone by Qwinn
- "Restored More Morte Mortuary Moments"
Originally Restored by: Restoration Pack, SKARDAVNELNATE, Qwinn
- "Restored Candlestick Quest"
Originally Restored by: Platter
- "Restored Deionarra's Truth Conversations"
Originally Restored by: SKARDAVNELNATE
- "Restored Pendant of Yemeth Quest"
Originally Restored by: SKARDAVNELNATE
- "Restored Elyce & Company Quest"
Originally Restored by: SKARDAVNELNATE
- "Restored Curst Citizens"
Originally Restored by: SKARDAVNELNATE
- "Restored Curst Prisoners"
Originally Restored by: Qwinn
- "Restored Carl Parfidor"
Originally Restored by: SKARDAVNELNATE, scripting by Qwinn
- "Restored Alley of Dangerous Angles Thugs"
Originally Restored by: Qwinn
- "Restored Morte & Ingress's Teeth Banter"
Originally Restored by: Qwinn
- "Restored Items"
Originally Restored by: Platter's Fixpack, Restoration Pack, SKARDAVNELNATE
- "Restored Party Comments and Banters"
Originally Restored by: Restoration Pack, Qwinn
- "Restored Item Cheats - Not Recommended"
Originally Restored by: Restoration Pack, Qwinn
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Installation
Unfinished Business was created and tested on a clean install of the 4-CD version of Planescape: Torment, followed by the application of the Official PS:T Patch 1.1 available at Sorcerer's Place, followed by the PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack.
Installing the PS:T Fixpack prior to PS:T Unfinished Business is very strongly recommended. The PS:T Fixpack readme contains instructions for creating a good base for all other mods, including how to patch the game if you have the 4CD version and installing your language pack if necessary.
Once the base of a patched and bug-fixed install is laid down, any other WeiDU mods you wish to install can be installed in any order. For example, after installing the Fixpack, feel free to install Qwinn's PS:T Tweak Pack before or after Unfinished Business, it should make no difference. All WeiDU mods are designed to play well together and introduce no conflicts with one another.
To install Unfinished Business, simply extract pstub.rar into the main directory of your Planescape: Torment game (probably C:\Program Files\Black Isle\Torment). Click Setup-PST-UB.exe and follow the prompts.
Your first option during the installation procedure will be to install all of the "Recommended Components". Saying Yes to that option will install the entire mod except for the "Restored Item Cheats - Not Recommended" component. You will then have a separate option to install that component, if you so wish. This is the suggested method of installing the Unfinished Business mod, but you should feel free to customize it and only install the specific components you prefer.
To uninstall, simply click Setup-PST-UB.exe once more and follow the prompts.
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Detailed Component List
1. Restored Able Ponder-Thought Research
95% of what's necessary to have Able Ponder-Thought conduct research on three subjects for you is in the original game files. This component completes it. You will need to leave the Clerk's Ward altogether and return for him to have time to finish his research.
2. Restored More Morte Mortuary Moments
This component restores two bits regarding Morte in the Mortuary:
"Morte's Original Intro:"
The main Morte dialog file the game ships with contains an introductory conversation with Morte that is much like all the other conversations in game - you have multiple options in what you say, lots of different conversation paths to explore, etc. What actually shipped is a lobotomized version with almost no options in your responses, probably so as to introduce players new to CRPG's more slowly to the whole experience. This UB component restores Morte's introduction to the originally intended more complex version. You can get quite a lot more dialogue out of Morte in the original intro if you dig for it.
"Morte Comments on Dhaal's Book:"
Originally restored by SKARDAVNELNATE and done in a slightly different manner by Qwinn, this extends Morte's walkthrough in the mortuary slightly.
3. Restored Candlestick Quest
Originally restored and distributed as a stand alone restoration mod by Platter, SKARDAVNELNATE provided some good fixes for this restoration of a quest in the Buried Village, and Qwinn added some additional scripting fixes to the portals. The vast bulk of the content here is all from Black Isle.
4. Restored Deionarra's Truth Conversations
SKARDAVNELNATE'S description of his restoration: "There are several dialog options [regarding Deionarra's fate] that can't be accessed before the Fortress of Regrets. However a few of them are non specific enough where TNO doesn't need to know all the details. Using the Deionarra Sensory Stone and speaking with Iannis should be enough to piece together that something happened. Iannis's dialog is too detailed but if it is enabled it will now work properly."
Note that this is NOT the "Deionarra's Truth" mod out there that also restores Iannis's conversation about Deionarra's fate despite the fact that there's no way that TNO could know what he discusses in it. As he says, SKARDAVNELNATE's version only restores conversational bits that are consistent with what the player can know at that point in the game.
5. Restored Pendant of Yemeth Quest
Originally restored by SKARDAVNELNATE, this is possibly the single biggest restoration in this mod. This component restores a quest involving 6 actors spanning two different areas, mostly in or near the Smoldering Corpse Bar. To start it, talk to Ratbone in Ragpicker's Square. Note that this is NOT the Ratbone that was in that area in the original game - that Ratbone gets renamed to Carver in the PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack so as to avoid redundancy with -this- Ratbone that is restored by this mod.
6. Restored Elyce and Company
Originally restored by SKARDAVNELNATE, with some additional fixes by Qwinn, this quest restores Elyce, her brother and her boyfriend to the game, and there is a small quest involved.
7. Restored Curst Citizens
Seven cool new Curst Citizens, originally restored by SKARDAVNELNATE, all with interesting dialogues dug up from within the game's unimplemented files.
8. Restored Curst Prisoners
This is original to PS:T Unfinished Business, restored by Qwinn. This component restores 9 prisoners (all from the original game files) to the Curst Prison, which is otherwise practically empty except for guards. If by some chance those prison doors were to ever open, and the prison erupt into riots and chaos, don't expect the prisoners to ignore the opportunity!
9. Restored Carl Parfidor
Another cool restoration originally done by SKARDAVNELNATE. In the original game, you can hire someone to kill Carl Parfidor, but you can never actually meet him. Now you can! As with all other UB components, the dialogue enabled here was written by the Black Isle staff. And if you do have Carl Parfidor snuffed, you will meet a "Curst Administrative Assistant" instead, also as intended. Qwinn added scripting so that the hired help doesn't simply disappear and Carl doesn't just get magically replaced.
10. Restored Alley of Dangerous Angles Thugs
This is original to PS:T Unfinished Business, restored by Qwinn. The generic thugs in the Alley are very unintelligent, aware only of whether or not you'd paid their gang's toll. I found other buried dialogue files where they are actually aware of events unfolding around them, will comment on them, and they will no longer all be maniacally obsessed with your 10 copper piece toll.
11. Restored Morte & Ingress's Teeth Banter
This is original to PS:T Unfinished Business, restored by Qwinn. It restores a very amusing (non-voiced) banter between yourself, Morte and Ingress's Teeth. Before Morte can use the teeth, you will need to use them with Morte nearby. Please be aware that unlike all the other recommended components of Unfinished Business, this restoration includes dialogue not contained within the unmodded game files. This was necessary to deal with some game engine limitations. The first half of the banter is almost all by Black Isle, the second half is mine. I hope you'll find my epilogue as amusing as the original content.
12. Restored Items
As of version 2.00, the items restored to the game by this component are the Rat Charm, the Fiend's Teeth, the Eye of Vecna, Devil's Due and the Chaos Feather. All except the Rat Charm were originally restored in the Restoration Pack.
The Rat Charm is available from Barking Wilder if you are a Xaositect, you ask him the right question, and you have the right component item in your inventory. Note that the Rat Charm can only be used by those of Chaotic alignment. The Fiend's Teeth (usable by Morte) becomes available on a merchant which is restored to Curst, named Murk. The Eye of Vecna will not become available until later in the game... be sure to check with Vrischika if you come back after leaving Sigil for any length of time. Devil's Due and the Chaos Feather will be found in a container somewhere within the walls of Sigil - or at least, it's reputed to be, though no one knows for sure.
13. Restored Party Comments and Banters
There are many unused sound files in the game. This component is here to house any that are restored.
Version 2.00 of PS:T Unfinished Business does not yet contain any new interparty banters, but it does contain 3 voiced comments. One was originally restored in the Restoration Pack, a comment by Grace about Fell the first time she enters the Hive area containing his parlor. Qwinn has added another two, both in the main Clerk's Ward area, one when Morte first enters it and another when Grace first enters it.
14. Restored Item Cheats - Not Recommended
Vrischika's dialogue has disabled conversation paths where she offers to sell you the "Sword of Wh'ynn" - aka "The Cheater's Blade" - and "The Tome o' Cheats". Their descriptions indicate what they are supposed to do, but neither of them actually did anything. This component enables them and makes them actually work. The Sword of Whynn takes you immediately to the ending movie and credits, which WILL spoil the story for you if you've never played it before. The Tome makes the game trivially easy and boring. Note that this component actually also restores a third item - as buying either of those two items from Vrischika also makes a new tattoo available from Fell.
The Cheats available in the UB version 2.00 Tome of Cheats are the Teleport Cheat, Rest Anywhere Cheat, Wealth Cheat, Attribute Score Cheat, Death Cheat, Experience Cheat, Word 'o Good and Evil Cheat, and Word o' Law and Chaos Cheat.~
Two things of note about the Tome o' Cheats. One is that Qwinn's PS:T Tweak Pack also contains a Tome o' Cheats tweak, the difference being that with the Tweak Pack mod you start the game with the Tome o' Cheats in your possession, whereas in this component you have to wait until you get to Vrischika (as was... *cough*... "intended") a fair ways into the game before you can buy the Tome (and it's... rather expensive from her). The other thing of note is that this has -nothing- to do with Platter's Tome o' Cheat mod, which I've never even downloaded or seen. The dialog you see when you use the book is entirely authored by Qwinn. The conversation with Vrischika about the book is what was contained in the original files, and the only thing there that I modify slightly is the listing of the cheats available in the Tome.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Q: While playing one of these components, I ran into a bug. What can I do?
A: Report the bug here at the PS:T Unfinished Business Mod Forum at Spellhold Studios, and I'll do everything I can to resolve your issues in a timely manner.
Q: I had problems installing Unfinished Business. Help?
A: Before installing PS:T Unfinished Business, did you install the Official Patch 1.1 (if you have the 4-CD version) and then the PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack, as described in the Installation Procedure?
If you believe you did, please report the issue here at the PS:T Unfinished Business Mod Forum at Spellhold Studios, and I'll do everything I can to resolve your issues in a timely manner. It would be helpful if, in your post describing your problem, you attach the SETUP-PST-UB.DEBUG file which you'll find in your Torment folder.
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Credits
This mod integrates some work which was originally created by the talented modders Platter, Cilantro (author of the Restoration Pack) and SKARDAVNELNATE, reimplementing them in a compatibility-friendly WeiDU format and adding some totally new and original content by Qwinn as well.
Unfortunately, Platter and Cilantro have all but disappeared from the internet since their work, and my attempts to contact them have failed, but they still deserve great credit for the effort and quality of their work which has been reimplemented here.
SKARDAVNELNATE willingly consented to allow me to refer to his All Inclusive Fixpack for this mod and was helpful in answering my many questions, and for that he deserves great credit for the (hopeful) success of this mod and has my gratitude as well.
Qwinn - that would be me - did all the WeiDUization work which required manually reimplementing every mod by all the other authors. That means if there's problems in Unfinished Business that don't appear in their work, it's almost certainly all my fault, don't blame them. Blame me for everything that goes wrong. But DO let me know about it at the forums, linked at the top of this readme. The end goal is to have -no- bugs.
Many thanks also go to the various modders over at the Gibberlings 3 forums who patiently answered many of my dumber questions as I learned how to mod, particularly Miloch, Isaya, devsin and Nythrun who pointed me in the right direction at a couple of tricky points, and to the various players who encouraged me to keep up the project over at G3 as well (particularly, but definitely not limited to, Icendoan, Daulmakan, and Bearwere). I'd also like to extend credit to Spellhold Studios, and K'aeloree and SConrad in particular, for graciously permitting me to host all three mods here and to grant them a prominent position on the main forum page. Finally, thanks to thebigg over at the Pocket Plane Group for hearing out and implementing my wish list for additional features to include in WeiDU 207 that made my job easier.
Version 2.00:
Thanks to the many kind players who lent their hard work to translating these mods. Ghildrean provided the Spanish translation, Yakkuz provided the Italian translation, and the German translation was produced by cooperation between (in alphabetical order) Arkain, Avantenor, Doctor Who, Homisite, and Zenju, with Homisite and Zenju leading the project. Zenju, incidentally, also did the most recent revisions for the german translation of the game, and as such I am especially grateful for his help.
I hope you enjoy your best Planescape: Torment experience yet! As fickle as memories can be (as TNO could well assert), may the memory of this, the best CRPG ever written, never die.
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