// --------------------------------------------- // Ninde J File // --------------------------------------------- BEGIN LK#NINDJ // --------------------------------------------- // Ninde Lovetalks // --------------------------------------------- // 1. Aran and the Shadow Thieves IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL1_intro SAY ~This is certainly a rare treat. I suppose this is what they call 'fresh sea air'? Here I am gadding about with the great unwashed while Aran Linvail is fed seedless grapes by buxom wenches. And I have sand in my undergarments.~ ++ ~Sand in your undergarments? Offering to assist you is the only chivalrous course of action...~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL1_allowme ++ ~Oh Ninde, it is not so bad! The water is clear, the weather fine, and the local's most accommodating...if a little eccentric here and there.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL1_notsobad ++ ~Yes, well I'm not exactly enjoying my time on this dirt-pile island either, but it is a necessary means to an end.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL1_idontlike ++ ~I can already see that your accompaniment will become a chore. I only hope you're as good at spellcasting as you are at complaining.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL1_moaner END IF ~~ LK#NL1_allowme SAY ~Very amusing, Bhaalspawn, but don't try your luck.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_aran END IF ~~ LK#NL1_notsobad SAY ~You, Bhaalspawn, are the kind of person who would find having your leg amputated scintillating fun if you are enjoying this.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_aran END IF ~~ LK#NL1_idontlike SAY ~Indeed. Just look at these slack-jawed seamen! Even their fleas have fleas!~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_aran END IF ~~ LK#NL1_moaner SAY ~Not allowing your compatriots a certain degree of self-expression will simply breed discontent. In short, kitten, I shall moan all I like!~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_aran END IF ~~ LK#NL1_aran SAY ~It's just...argh! Aran Linvail! Why must we serve that up-start backstabbing plebeian? He infuriates me! With his pretensions of nobility and shiny green trousers.~ ++ ~I sense there's a little enmity between you.~ + LK#NL1_enmity ++ ~I noticed those trousers too. They really are quite distracting when one is attempting to engage in serious dialogue with him.~ + LK#NL1_trousers ++ ~Backstabbing? Care to elaborate?~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~Aran Linvail is a likeable rogue, who never did a thing to harm us.~ + LK#NL1_ilikehim ++ ~I'm not fond of him either, but I will do whatever I must to find Imoen.~ + LK#NL1_notfond ++ ~I thought you were supposed to be intelligent--I'm not interested. Shut your mouth.~ + LK#NL1_shutmouth END IF ~~ LK#NL1_enmity SAY ~How very perceptive of you, . No--No, I have never been a friend to the shadow thieves. The organisation as a whole.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_hatethem END IF ~~ LK#NL1_trousers SAY ~It takes a certain degree of class to carry trousers of that magnitude successfully, a class that, among other things, Linvail is obviously lacking in. As are the shadow thieves in general. But I suppose that's what you get if you bundle every Amnish street rat with halitosis and his own set of burglary tools into some supposed organisation.~ ++ ~There's some kind of personal reason you don't like them, then? The shadow thieves, not the trousers, that is.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~The shadow thieves do not really do any significant harm.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~I hate the lawless vagabonds, too, but I had to do what I had to do, Ninde.~ + LK#NL1_end END IF ~~ LK#NL1_ilikehim SAY ~Then that is because you are an infinitely poor judge of character. The only thing worse than being an uneducated Amnish street rat with halitosis and your own set of burglary tools is being the leader of a pack of Amnish street rats with halitosis and their own sets of burglary tools.~ ++ ~There's some kind of personal reason you don't like them, then? The shadow thieves, not the trousers, that is.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~The shadow thieves do not really do any significant harm.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~I hate the lawless vagabonds, too, but I had to do what I had to do, Ninde.~ + LK#NL1_end END IF ~~ LK#NL1_notfond SAY ~Clearly, Bhaalspawn, you are an excellent judge of character...well, if we excuse some of our current companions. But no, I have never been a friend to the shadow thieves. The organisation as a whole.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL1_hatethem END IF ~~ LK#NL1_hatethem SAY ~They exert far too much influence over everything and generally, in the past, that hasn't been particularly conducive to my getting along in life.~ ++ ~There's some kind of personal reason you don't like them, then?~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~The shadow thieves do not really do any significant harm.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~I hate the lawless vagabonds, too, but I had to do what I had to do, Ninde.~ + LK#NL1_end ++ ~I doubt a vampire coven in Athkatla's crypts was particularly conducive to 'people getting along in life' either, but that didn't seem to bother you at all.~ + LK#NL1_vampcoven END IF ~~ LK#NL1_end SAY ~They stick their daggers into situations which do not concern them and...and that has cost me...friends, in the past. Although generally speaking I am not one to hold grudges, neither do I forget. Enough, Bhaalspawn. There are far too many things I would rather be doing then dwelling upon this subject. Let's find this Imoen of yours, mayhaps she'll prove better conversation then the rest of this ragtag band. In fact, my sanity rather depends on it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL1_shutmouth SAY ~I don't know why I bothered making conversation with such a grotesque creature such as you in the first place, Bhaalspawn. In terms of pleasure, 'tis akin to eating one's own head.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL1_vampcoven SAY ~You're undoubtedly correct. But vampires have always been my friends, as opposed to killing them...Shadow thieves stick their daggers into situations that don't concern them, and although generally speaking I am not one to hold grudges, neither do I forget. Enough, Bhaalspawn. There are far too many things I would rather be doing then dwelling upon this subject. Let's find this Imoen of yours, mayhaps she'll prove better conversation then the rest of this ragtag band. In fact, my sanity rather depends on it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 2. Soullessness #1 IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",3) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL2_intro SAY ~I suppose I had best tell you a little more about my...'affliction'.~ ++ ~Please do.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL2_main1 ++ ~Ooh, are you going to tell me all about your rashes in, ah, embarrassing places? (smirk)~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL2_rashes ++ ~I think I understand, for the most part. You don't have a soul, do you, Ninde? Or not the one you were born with, at any rate.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL2_main1 ++ ~To be frank, I'm really not interested.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL2_notinterested END IF ~~ LK#NL2_main1 SAY ~Very well. You must think of me like...a rag doll. Yes, a child's rag doll, and my soul as the thread that is holding me together. Holding my stuffing in, my limbs to my body. Now imagine if the thread was to be picked out.~ = ~I would fall to pieces, disintegrate, literally--and soon I would no longer be a rag doll, just a heap of lint and string. You know what I'm getting at, pudding?~ ++ ~Not really, no. Could you abandon the slightly disturbing metaphor for a moment?~ + LK#NL2_main2 ++ ~And is there no way it can be reversed?~ + LK#NL2_main2 ++ ~Wonderful. You're not going to drop dead in the middle of a battle, are you? That really would be something of an inconvenience.~ + LK#NL2_main2 ++ ~And I suppose the same thing is going to happen to me. Fabulous.~ + LK#NL2_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL2_rashes SAY ~Oh , please stop being so childish just for a moment. I seem to be a bad influence on you, the number of innuendoes and silly double entendres you've been spouting lately. I may have to watch my tongue around you in future, lest you pick up more of my bad habits. *Smile* Anyway...will you listen or not?~ ++ ~Certainly.~ + LK#NL2_main1 ++ ~I don't really have time to chat right now, Ninde.~ + LK#NL2_notinterested END IF ~~ LK#NL2_notinterested SAY ~You certainly know how to make a girl feel wanted, . Hmph. I thought considering your present state you might find my own...similar predicament of interest, but apparently not. I shan't bother you again, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_main2 SAY ~Don't be so tiresome, godchild. My--my immortal elven soul was removed, and as a result, I am dying. Slowly and painlessly, but nonetheless...perishing. I cannot say whether the same will happen to you dear. But, as you are no doubt noticing, a soul is the kind of thing you don't really know you have until you haven't anymore.~ = ~A void blooms inside you like some kind of ghastly flower. At first you dismiss it. The pain is akin to what you might feel if you were separated from a lover; an aching. A slight physical pang of wanting. It grows until it no longer feels alien, and you begin to fear you have lost all your love, the very ability to love or be loved; then everything goes cold.~ = ~You become weaker in mind and body, until eventually you are more void then...person. You are left a mere husk, your instinct to live, to survive, all that remains of your former self. You can live without a soul. But not for long.~ = ~And despite all the research I have conducted, I have learned of no cure, no rescue from my fate but the restoration of what was lost. In other words, we're rather without hope. Would you like a biscuit? They're rather delicious.~ ++ ~You sound a little like Irenicus, Ninde.~ + LK#NL2_irenicus ++ ~After hearing your words I almost understand why Irenicus will go to such lengths to attain one. I would not wish the fate you have described on anyone.~ + LK#NL2_desperate ++ ~Do you think your character altered at all after you lost your soul?~ + LK#NL2_changes ++ ~How did you lose your soul? Your daddy didn't happen to be a ravening lord of murder, did he, because everyone seems to want a piece of that kind of soul.~ + LK#NL2_howlost ++ ~...Hey Ninde, you always know how to cheer this Bhaalspawn up.~ + LK#NL2_cheerup ++ ~Biscuits?! Who could east biscuits at a time like this!? We're dying, Ninde!~ + LK#NL2_biskeetzzzz END IF ~~ LK#NL2_irenicus SAY ~Your arch nemesis and I have a suprising amount in common. (grin) Except, of course, I am vastly more desirable. And you must never accept biscuits from Irenicus, no matter how earnestly he appears to offer them--for they will most likely be malevolent, soul-draining biscuits. Mine, however, are perfectly lovely. Here. Perhaps...perhaps I'll tell you how I lost my soul sometime. I'm feeling a little dejected now, however.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_desperate SAY ~Don't be silly, , there are plenty in this world who deserve such a fate, and worse...and I'm still not sure whether or not I am among them. Enough talk for today. Truth be told I'm feeling rather forlorn. Perhaps I'll tell you how...how I lost my soul, soon enough.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_changes SAY ~Yes. I used to be a better person. Don't look at me like that, you know I'm not exactly a saint. What, you think I was born this cruel and cynical? Perhaps...perhaps I'll tell you how I lost it sooner or later. I'm feeling a little forlorn now.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_howlost SAY ~Unfortunately, my daddy was a moongazing elf who couldn't string his bow quick enough to save himself from a little Drow raid. A story for another time, perhaps. I'm feeling a little forlorn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_cheerup SAY ~My dear Bhaalspawn, if my aim was to cheer you up you'd be on the floor with your britches round your ankles. I can't think of a better way to put a smile on a godchild's face then a little bit of...anyway. Perhaps I'll tell you when you're older. And maybe...maybe I'll tell you how I lost my soul too. The truth be told, I'm feeling a little dejected at the moment.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL2_biskeetzzzz SAY ~Oh, do try not to be quite so melodramatic! We have plenty of time, and you may yet wrest your soul from Irenicus' greasy little mittens. Perhaps I'll tell you how I lost my own soul some day, but the truth is I'm currently feeling more then a little forlorn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 3. Soullessness #2 IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",5) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL3_intro SAY ~I believe I offered to tell you, , of how it was I became...soulless.~ ++ ~And I'd certainly like to hear.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL3_liketohear ++ ~Let me guess, illicit magical experiment gone horribly wrong?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL3_letmeguess ++ ~I'm a little preoccupied at the moment, Ninde. Perhaps another time?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL3_notime ++ ~I've got better things to do then listen to your incessant nattering, elf.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL3_notime END IF ~~ LK#NL3_liketohear SAY ~Very well. It began shortly before the time of troubles. I returned from my birthplace, Cormanthor, with heavy spirits. I felt the trip had been in vain--I had discovered nothing of my origins, and the stirring darkness across the dales compelled me to leave, to return home, which had, in my absence, altered irrevocably.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_letmeguess SAY ~As usual, my esteemed leader, you are entirely wrong.~ = ~It began shortly before the time of troubles. I returned from my birthplace, Cormanthor, with heavy spirits. I felt the trip had been in vain--I had discovered nothing of my origins, and the stirring darkness across the dales compelled me to leave, to return home, which had, in my absence, altered irrevocably.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_notime SAY ~Pfeh, as you wish Bhaalspawn, though you are distinctly lacking in manners to dismiss me so. What's a girl to do? There's just no one to talk to.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL3_main1 SAY ~My family's mercantile business had crumbled under the decidedly lacklustre business planning of my elder brother, Respen, and though he knew of my return I could not bring myself to enter our manor again...it no longer felt right. I had moved on. I was no longer the Amblecrown's young ingenue. But neither was I an independent creature. Although I was no longer a child, I was the pampered and coddled daughter of the Waterdhavian elite, and could not have survived on my own. I returned to my former tutor...and lover, Sykre D'Alysos.~ = ~Sykre was violent and passionate and fierce...and quite possibly the most alluring creature I have ever met. A shadow mage from the Moonsea, he...he taught me all that I know. He changed me, . He introduced me to The Night Hand, a mage cabal--they were powerful, yes, and dangerous as well, but it was Sykre and I who made them nefarious. He had an appetite for chaos, which I, perhaps foolishly, indulged. We do silly things for love.~ = ~Sacrifices. Defiling temples...especially those of Selune. I remember...I remember when Sykre and I broke into Dilatuvelle estate, murdered the dribbling old lord, made love in his still-warm bed. It was a heady time for the group of us; we knew this life could not last, was not sustainable, but we knew we had stepped to far over the edge, that there was no turning back now. We made many enemies, as I'm sure you can imagine.~ = ~The time of troubles came, and life suddenly became difficult. I no longer had magic, and was effectively as helpless as a newborn babe. Our enemies moved in, but...but it was not me they struck at. It was Respen. Waterdeep's shadow thieves were put at a disadvantage by our monopoly on the trade of magical devices. They did not kill my brother...just tortured him.~ = ~He was alive, though barely...and I could not bare the thought of him dying. Perhaps I hadn't been the best or most devoted of sisters, but Respen was the one who had taken me to Waterdeep, plucked me starving from the forest. His kindness was my life. I could not bear him perishing for my stupidity. He could not. He would not. But neither could he be resurrected, or even so much as healed. It was the time of troubles, remember.~ = ~There...there was a last resort. I dragged his limp, heavy body through the streets to the crypts Sykre had taught me to fear. The only part of the city I feared. It poured with rain that night, lashings of it, extinguishing the street lamps and soaking my skirts. I pulled until I screamed with frustration, until blood trickled from beneath my nails. I remember how the pearls tore from his satin doublet and clattered on the cobblestones. I remember how the bloated orphans dived for them. I remember how I cared for nothing but his life.~ = ~And I took him to...to Lassal. *Smile* A name you undoubtedly recognise. He lorded it up in the north in those days, and most of Waterdeep's undead were supplicant to him. It was a wonder I was not instantly sucked dry, but I undoubtedly intrigued him...and I begged him, at any cost, to save Respen. And I suppose he did, in some sense. He sired him, breathed into him a vampiric half-life worse then death. I should have thought. As I say, we do foolish things for...for love.~ = ~But Respen's deliverance came with a hefty price. A soul...for a soul. He gave Respen part of his, and by some magic, took mine as payment. My soul, and twenty years of servitude. I was to be his daylight emissary. I eventually became his tragic mortal pet. Then his consort. And then you found me, and then you killed Lassal. I am thankful, since you broke the bonds of my servitude.... He would like to think I'd weep for him. (smile)~ ++ ~What became of Sykre?~ + LK#NL3_sykre ++ ~What happened to your brother?~ + LK#NL3_brother ++ ~I'm not sure what to think. On one hand, you sacrificed a part of yourself to save your brother, on the other, you helped this...this Nighthand group murder countless innocents.~ + LK#NL3_grey ++ ~You're a nobler person then I believe you give yourself credit for.~ + LK#NL3_grey ++ ~I must confess, I never thought you capable of such an act of selflessness.~ + LK#NL3_grey ++ ~Were you...were you Lassal's lover?~ + LK#NL3_lassallove ++ ~A likely story! No doubt you lost your soul in some magical accident you're too proud to admit to!~ + LK#NL3_likelystory ++ ~You disgusting murderer! Have at you!~ DO ~LeaveParty() SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","GLOBAL",0) Enemy()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL3_sykre SAY ~The law caught up with him, and eventually, he hung, the poor man. He was a genius in his own...special way. (sigh) Memories. Do you not think it grim that the single kindest, greatest act of my miserable existence had the most unpleasant outcome?~ ++ ~Maybe, but that's no reason to give up on goodness. It is not as though every righteous act comes with such a dire cost.~ + LK#NL3_nogiveup ++ ~Heh, yes. I suppose I can understand why you're such an evil harpy now.~ + LK#NL3_evilbitch ++ ~Well, Ninde, it just goes to show that such things are seldom worth doing. They just aren't cost-effective--you would've been far better off if you'd simply left your brother.~ + LK#NL3_justshows ++ ~Psh, your existence isn't all THAT miserable dear. Buck up.~ + LK#NL3_notmiserable END IF ~~ LK#NL3_brother SAY ~I - I never saw him after that night. I assume he's still somewhere in Waterdeep draining brothel girls and street urchins. I didn't exactly save his life in the classical sense.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_main2 SAY ~Do you not think it ironic, though, that the single kindest, greatest act of my miserable existence had the most unpleasant outcome?~ ++ ~Maybe, but that's no reason to give up on goodness. It is not as though every righteous act comes with such a dire cost.~ + LK#NL3_nogiveup ++ ~Heh, yes. I suppose I can understand why you're such an evil harpy now.~ + LK#NL3_evilbitch ++ ~Well, Ninde, it just goes to show that such things are seldom worth doing. They just aren't cost-effective--you would've been far better off if you'd simply left your brother.~ + LK#NL3_justshows ++ ~Psh, your existence isn't all THAT miserable dear. Buck up.~ + LK#NL3_notmiserable END IF ~~ LK#NL3_grey SAY ~I'm a living example that the world is not all black and white and straight lines, , something one such as you would do well to commit to memory.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_lassallove SAY ~Oh, heavens no dear. I'm not *that* kind of necromancer...I prefer my men thoroughly alive and kicking.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_likelystory SAY ~Oh hush, my cynical Bhaalspawn. I am not so crippled by pride as to deny my mistakes.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL3_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL3_nogiveup SAY ~Perhaps not, but opportunities for truly righteous acts are few and far between. It seems we only show our best in the worst of situations, and even then my choice to save him was made from selfishness. I could not have lived if he had died. I do not remember what a love so unconditional felt like...despite the pain it brings, I hope to again someday.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL3_evilbitch SAY ~Do not judge me so harshly, , I may have a tongue like a guillotine but that doesn't necessarily equate to evil. I'm a highly selfish individual undoubtedly.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL3_justshows SAY ~Perhaps, but I could not have lived if he had died. Funny, I do not remember what a love so unconditional felt like...despite the pain it brings, I hope to again someday.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL3_notmiserable SAY ~Maybe not, but perhaps I'd be happier if I had a few screaming brats and a little house in Mistledale. On the other hand, maybe not.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 4. Making your mark IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",7) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL4_intro SAY ~I envy you, .~ ++ ~Because of my astonishingly well-honed physique and commanding aura? (smirk)~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL4_physique ++ ~And why is that, Ninde?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL4_main1 ++ ~Ooh, the elf finally notices an admirable trait in someone other then herself. Surely, this is a first.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL4_cynical END IF ~~ LK#NL4_physique SAY ~Hmm...speaking of your physique, perhaps I should give it a closer examination later on....No.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_main1 SAY ~I envy you the fact that you have been handed the opportunity, with little cost, to make your mark upon this world.~ ++ ~Little cost?! My heritage, this 'opportunity to make my make upon the world', has been more a burden; it has drained me emotionally and physically, and cost the lives of some dear friends along the way. It's not all daisies and sunshine, Ninde, I would've thought that was fairly evident!~ + LK#NL4_lilcost ++ ~I suppose that indeed, it is a boon to know that after I am gone my name will not soon be forgotten. It is what drives me to continue my travels--it would be a shameful thing to die in anonymity.~ + LK#NL4_thankful ++ ~Becoming a figure of legend, one's name being echoed down the ages...this troubles me not. I live for the day, nay, for the moment, and what is the use of infamy after death? After all, it's not as though you'll be about to enjoy it.~ + LK#NL4_carpediem ++ ~There are other ways to achieve a lasting fame then having a divine, murderous birthright forced upon you; perhaps I would rather be known for my mercy, or my enterprise, or for being the greatest lover of women ever to grace the sword coast!~ + LK#NL4_otherways END IF ~~ LK#NL4_cynical SAY ~I notice a great deal of admirable traits in many I have the pleasure of meeting, though not necessarily in you, dear. But you're naivety is perhaps understandable considering the number of blows to the head you must have received these past few years; indeed, I was surprised to find you more cogent then a hobgoblin with a mouthful of grapes. There, . For your resilience, I admire you. (smirk)~ = ~But it is for something else I envy you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_lilcost SAY ~Your path to infamy is undoubtedly one soaked in blood, but that is the very nature of your birthright; a birthright that in itself is a unique gift.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_thankful SAY ~I agree, it would be unfortunate to die without significant legacy. And yet thousands do every day, is that not sad? I wonder what it is that makes you and I different, fuels the fires within us that burn for fame. Perhaps it is our power as individuals, or else our unconventional upbringings? But alas...it seems unlikely now my name will echo down the ages as yours might. A dusty fold of parchments in a Waterdhavian law office, rotting chiffon gowns in a burnt-out northern manor. That is my legacy.~ ++ ~Come now, Ninde, that need not be it! You should immediately begin to sire a brood of your own little Nindelings; then you can be certain of remembrance, at least by some. Heh.~ + LK#NL4_comenow ++ ~No need to be such a fatalist Ninde. You are my companion, after all, and I can think of no reason why those that stood by my side during my adventures should not stand by my side in the songs of bards and the scrolls of scholars in the centuries to come!~ + LK#NL4_mightnotbe ++ ~Yes, I suppose that's it. It seems that the memories of most of you are simply doomed to fade in the mists of time. You are right to envy me.~ + LK#NL4_mightnotbe END IF ~~ LK#NL4_comenow SAY ~I cannot feature myself attempting to raise anything more consequential then a cabbage, a decision that if many of the parents of our companions had made, would render our adventuring group very small indeed. We are a bunch of queer ducks, are we not? Anyway dear, best not stand around any longer if we hope to be thoroughly enshrined in the memories of all and sundry for generations to come.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL4_mightnotbe SAY ~I worry you overrate the significance of your heritage--you are singular, it is true, but there are many others who carry the same blood and bone. If you seek to set yourself above them, it will be a struggle. And it certainly won't do to sit around here chin-wagging all day if we wish to be thoroughly enshrined in the memories of all and sundry for generations to come. But you...you are certainly an interesting companion.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL4_carpediem SAY ~An admirable sentiment, and I suppose it holds some truth, though it is truly a philosophy for the young. Wait, Bhaalspawn, 'til you are a little older, and then perhaps you will appreciate the soundness of my advice. You are, after all, less then half my age...ergh, what a sobering thought.~ = ~But your birthright is a unique gift.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_main2 SAY ~Yes, a gift, . If you could come to terms with this there would undoubtedly be a far less boo-hooing going on all the time, as it is frankly growing rather tiresome.~ ++ ~Sometimes I think you sound like Irenicus, but now it is Sarevok who's sentiments you echo!~ + LK#NL4_sarevok ++ ~You call my heritage a 'gift', and while I concede that it has given me the potential to achieve great infamy, I cannot, as to do so would force me to abandon all that is good and true in myself.~ + LK#NL4_embrace ++ ~Perhaps you are right. I am a godchild...I have powers beyond the dreams of most. Why should I let them go to waste?~ + LK#NL4_correct END IF ~~ LK#NL4_otherways SAY ~Yuch, it's not as though you'd have much competition to the latter title considering that the population of your homeland is composed primarily of buck-toothed pig-farmers who look like what one might get if one forced an ogre to breed with a sack of potatoes.~ ++ ~While we're on the subject of racial stereotypes, is fatalism and tedious periods of self-reflection characteristic to all Moon Elves, or just the few I've met? Grey elf parties must be truly exciting affairs.~ + LK#NL4_racist ++ ~At least I don't get my ears stuck in doors. (grin)~ + LK#NL4_potatoe END IF ~~ LK#NL4_sarevok SAY ~Ah yes, your half brother. I do so wish I could have met him, he sounds like my true intellectual equal. Pity you had to kill the little scamp. Oh well, any ideas as to how I could achieve everlasting recognition?~ = ~I suppose I could pop out a babe or too, what think you?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_end END IF ~~ LK#NL4_embrace SAY ~Hehee, you really can be most tiresome, Bhaalspawn. I suppose you think moral fibre a substitute for real personality. Well, if you have no ideas for ensuring your own place in history, perhaps you could volunteer some for me?~ = ~Speaking of shapely rear ends, perhaps that could be my legacy? Or perhaps I could pop out a babe or too, what think you?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_end END IF ~~ LK#NL4_correct SAY ~Yes, well, don't get carried away. I learnt too late that caution is just as admirable as a monumentally shapely rear end.~ = ~Speaking of shapely rear ends, perhaps that could be my legacy? Or perhaps I could pop out a babe or too, what think you?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_end END IF ~~ LK#NL4_end SAY ~On second thought, no, I cannot feature myself attempting to raise anything more consequential then a cabbage, a decision that if many of the parents of our companions had made, would render our adventuring group very small indeed. We are a bunch of queer ducks, are we not? Anyway dear, best not stand around any longer if we hope to be thoroughly enshrined in the memories of all and sundry for generations to come.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL4_racist SAY ~It is good that, upon occasion, you are able to give as good as you get. Considering our formidable array of enemies, hopefully the same applies to combat, since I have no wish to be a squished elf in the near future.~ = ~In actual fact, I'd would rather pass into legend and eternal life. Any ideas? I suppose I could pop out a babe or too, what think you?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_end2 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_potatoe SAY ~That was once, Bhaalspawn, and I'd thank you not to continually draw attention to that frightfully humiliating lapse in grace. (grin)~ = ~But, to return to the topic at hand, perhaps I could pop out a babe or too, what think you?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL4_end2 END IF ~~ LK#NL4_end2 SAY ~On second thought, no, I cannot feature myself attempting to raise anything more consequential then a cabbage, a decision that if many of the parents of our companions had made, would render our adventuring group very small indeed. We are a bunch of queer ducks, are we not?~ = ~Anyway dear, best not stand around any longer if we hope to be thoroughly enshrined in the memories of all and sundry for generations to come.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 5. The past, present and future IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",9) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL") InParty("Imoen")~ LK#NL5_intro SAY ~You have your sister back. I have heard you both hinting at the exceptionally close relationship you shared as children. Ahh, the tomfoolery of youth. I'll warrant back among the echoey turrets and cloistered monks of your adolescence, neither of you supposed you'd one day be spiritually barren 'adventurers' trotting around Amn, subject to the whims of beings superior to yourselves, desperately attempting to maintain a semblance of the reality you once knew. Pity.~ ++ ~Perhaps things did not transpire quite as I imagined they would, but I always knew adventuring was the right path. I would never have been content being a farmer or a barrel-maker or something.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_alwaysadvent ++ ~Danger, adventure, magic, blood! It is the only reality there is! I am leading the life I had always dreamed I would!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_dangerventure ++ ~Spiritually barren?!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_spiritbarren ++ ~Frankly, Ninde, you abusive hag, I don't want to talk to you at all.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",9) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL") !InParty("Imoen")~ LK#NL5_intro SAY ~You have rescued your sister. I have heard you hinting at the exceptionally close relationship you shared as children, though it may have waned now. Ahh, the tomfoolery of youth. I'll warrant back among the echoey turrets and cloistered monks of your adolescence, neither of you supposed you'd one day be spiritually barren 'adventurers' trotting around Amn, subject to the whims of beings superior to yourselves, desperately attempting to maintain a semblance of the reality you once knew. Pity.~ ++ ~Perhaps things did not transpire quite as I imagined they would, but I always knew adventuring was the right path. I would never have been content being a farmer or a barrel-maker or something.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_alwaysadvent ++ ~Danger, adventure, magic, blood! It is the only reality there is! I am leading the life I had always dreamed I would!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_dangerventure ++ ~Spiritually barren?!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL5_spiritbarren ++ ~Frankly, Ninde, you abusive hag, I don't want to talk to you at all.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL5_alwaysadvent SAY ~Hopes and dreams so often go unfulfilled. It hardly seems worth having them. When I was young I wished for no more for myself than to be the wife of some Waterdhavian Lord with a nose so high in the air it could've been what knocked Netheril out of tilt.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_main1 SAY ~I wanted woven Mulhorandi silks and brocade corsets beaded by the hands of Calimport's most disadvantaged orphans, and the chance to inspire awed whisperings whenever I walked into a room. Admiring glances of young bachelors tempered with the frightful murmuring of serving maids who knew I could turn their hair red with a glance.~ = ~But naturally, my own idyllic conception of how I was to live was forced aside by how it truly was to live. Oh, and for the record, a barrel maker is called a cooper. See, I am not so out of touch with the working man. (smirk)~ ++ ~Heh, you probably only know what a cooper is because you used to have a mantel made out of one.~ + LK#NL5_cooperz ++ ~You're right, dreams are seldom realised, but they are nonetheless necessary. How would we survive with them, without something to strive toward? We would be nought but animals.~ + LK#NL5_dreamsfull ++ ~Well, you probably got most of those things in your time, nasally endowed husband aside. Somehow I can tell you were a pretty spoilt child.~ + LK#NL5_soundslike ++ ~What silly aspirations! Frocks and lace and men. Did you not wish to better the world? To use your wealth and talents to further the causes of good?~ + LK#NL5_sillydreamz ++ ~You know what I wanted when I was an adolescent? A busty sun elf in some skimpy mage robes, a cosy little room in an inn, a few simulacrum scrolls and a couple of weeks. What do you say, Nindey? Heehee.~ + LK#NL5_iwanted END IF ~~ LK#NL5_dangerventure SAY ~I think it is most likely Bhaal doing the talking there and not your brain. In any case, I most certainly did not wish for adventure when I was younger. I wished for no more for myself than to be the wife of some Waterdhavian Lord with a nose so high in the air it could've been what knocked Netheril out of tilt.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_spiritbarren SAY ~While I understand you may not want me to twist that particular knife, I'd hasten to point out that in the literal sense, what I said was really quite accurate. That aside, I most certainly did not wish for adventure when I was younger. I wished for no more for myself than to be the wife of some Waterdhavian Lord with a nose so high in the air it could've been what knocked Netheril out of tilt.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_cooperz SAY ~Heh, you can occasionally give as good as you get, sweets. Hmm...I am far too old for hopes or dreams, and yet I seem to manage perfectly fine.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_main2 SAY ~One merely needs to convince ones' self that one has no future to strive toward, and the rest will take care of itself, more or less. You, however, may still reach the age of dribbling and incontinence, and have the pleasure of being a profound inconvenience to your family.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_dreamsfull SAY ~I believe I'm the living contradiction to your little theory. I am far too old for hopes or dreams, and yet I seem to manage perfectly fine.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_soundslike SAY ~And what is wrong with getting what one wishes? Wealth is no use unless it is spent! My birthdays would often cost three thousand gold pieces, 500 Damaran bloodstones, and the life of a peasant--he'd be crushed carrying in the cake, naturally. Oh, don't look at me like that! Just because I expect all your guardian ever got you for your birthday was...a box. Yes. An empty box.~ ++ ~Don't speak ill of the box, Ninde! Imoen and I would have hours of fun with that box, playing Durlag's tower...~ + LK#NL5_knockbox ++ ~Wealth, affluence...these things never concerned me. One can lead a fulfilled life without it.~ + LK#NL5_wealthnever ++ ~My childhood may well have been modest, but it has only made me all the more determined to make my future otherwise.~ + LK#NL5_deprived END IF ~~ LK#NL5_sillydreamz SAY ~Yes, well it may surprise you to learn I was not always the bastion of wisdom, good judgment and overpowering femininity you see before you now. I'd say my aspirations had improved in quality, but I no longer have any.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_iwanted SAY ~Bhaalspawn, you truly are a man of no account! All jesting aside, how have your hopes for the future changed? You may still reach the age of dribbling and incontinence, and have the pleasure of being a profound inconvenience to your family, with a little luck...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_knockbox SAY ~Well, at least you have a sense of humor about the limitations of your upbringing, it really does irk me when the poor cannot see the inherent comic value of their situation. I suppose it never occurred to you that years later you would not merely be *playing* Durlag's tower, though you may have wished it. But do you now wish the same? With a little luck you might still reach the age of dribbling and incontinence, and have the pleasure of being a profound inconvenience to your family, with a little luck...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_wealthnever SAY ~With your powers wealth falls into your lap only too easily. I suppose what you truly desire is something a little more...elusive. You may yet, with a little luck, reach the age of dribbling and incontinence, and have the pleasure of being a profound inconvenience to your family, with a little luck...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_deprived SAY ~So you seek riches? You've already accumulated enough to live quite comfortably and pay whoever you want to call you 'lord' for the rest of your days. I sense a deeper force driving you, Bhaalspawn. You may yet, with a little luck, reach the age of dribbling and incontinence, and have the pleasure of being a profound inconvenience to your family, with a little luck...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL5_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL5_main3 SAY ~Tell me...what do you want to do with the rest of your life?~ ++ ~To travel and continue adventuring. I have never been the type to settle.~ + LK#NL5_traveland ++ ~As unlikely as it sounds, I'd like children, a wife...If anything, all this chaos has left me craving a simple existence somewhere back on the Sword Coast. Run me an ale and call me farmer Bhaalspawn!~ + LK#NL5_family ++ ~Riches, ladies, rubies and wine! Simultaneously if possible.~ + LK#NL5_riches ++ ~For my bloody rule to extend across Faerun, for all too fear and adore me, the world and it's riches in my blood-soaked hands.~ + LK#NL5_bloodyrule END IF ~~ LK#NL5_traveland SAY ~Hmm...the wandering adventure. The grit of the road in his lashes and an unshaven chin...such a figure would once not have seemed out of place in the sauciest dreams of my adolescence! But it has been so long, I am sure you have forgotten what it is to wake up in a familiar bed. I hope you remember soon, for I would not wish this wandering solitude upon my worst enemy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL5_family SAY ~A formidable woman this wife would have to be to put up with your nonsense, sweetling. And what children! If they were to take after their grandsire they would be doubtless more abhorrent then your average life-sucking, screaming, snot-laden, dribbling child. Good luck in your endeavor, you certainly won't be able to wrangle Aunty Ninde into any nose wiping or story reading that might be required.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL5_riches SAY ~Sweetness, I never pegged you for a hedonist! And who can blame you--with such skill as yours, however unrefined, you are perfectly capable of making the silliest of buxom virgin's swoon, though the rubies might prove a little more difficult. Still, do try to find time amidst your orgies to remember *dear* old Ninde.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL5_bloodyrule SAY ~Your ambition does not disappoint, dearest Bhaalspawn. Ensure your judgement does not falter and I'm sure one day I may, with true pride and humility, call you 'evil overlord Bhaalspawn'. Incidentally, if you're ever on the lookout for a dark queen to oversee your ravening horde or vast realm, I trust you'll agree I'd lend the role some glamour. (wink)~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 6.1 IF ~Global("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",0) Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",11) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL6_intro SAY ~Guard duty is truly the most dreary of necessities. , sit with me a while, won't you, so that we might talk?~ ++ ~Very well, I am not too tired.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL6_verywell ++ ~Ninde, guard duty is not supposed to be enjoyable. It's a duty that everyone in our party must do, irrespective of how tedious they find it.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL6_doduty ++ ~Frankly dear, I'd rather eat envy.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_verywell SAY ~Wonderful. What shall be talk about? What could we possibly discuss that might break through the darkness of these times? Kittens? No...I know. Love. Let's talk about love, and the trials, tribulations and triumphs thereof. That ought to lighten the collective mood.~ ++ ~Ah, love is all around us. Love lifts us up where we belong. Was it the wise Alaundo who said 'all you need is love?'~ + LK#NL6_lovelove ++ ~I've encountered more of the tribulations than the triumphs, unfortunately.~ + LK#NL6_moretrials ++ ~Love is for Sunites and octogenarians. I'm more an advocate of raw, animal lust.~ + LK#NL6_lustplz ++ ~There's no time for love on this bloody path.~ + LK#NL6_notime END IF ~~ LK#NL6_doduty SAY ~I thought washing was supposed to be an unpleasant necessity as well until I encountered your little party. When you manage to convince them to wash--their feet at least--without complaint, I'll do guard duty without complaint, Bhaalspawn. It amounts to the same.~ ++ ~Ninde, we are adventurers! Dirty, smelly strong adventurers! Adventurers do not wash, as Waterdhavian ladies don't brawl in bars.~ + LK#NL6_machoman ++ ~Point taken...the smell is getting a little much.~ + LK#NL6_pointtaken + ~InParty("Korgan") !Dead("Korgan")~ + ~Korgan washing would mean Korgan taking his clothes off. And no one, *no one* wants that.~ + LK#NL6_korgybaby END IF ~~ LK#NL6_lovelove SAY ~Do not speak to me of Alaundo. I had to study Alaundo at the academy. If by some hilarious magical anomaly I should ever meet him, I'll be sure to slap him upside the head for the boredom he has indirectly caused me over the years.~ = ~But lovers...of those, I've had a few. , care you for a tale of boys, black louts and blacker magic?~ ++ ~Please, continue.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~Pfegh, I've heard it all. But never the less, carry on.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~On second thought, I have much to lay my mind too tomorrow; I cannot sacrifice what little rest I get to sit up all night listening to your lurid stories.~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_moretrials SAY ~That is true of all and sundry, but do not the moments of memories of a certain calm in the morning, a soft head resting on your chest outweigh those of arguments at sunset or the sting of a slap?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL6_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL6_machoman SAY ~Hmm, I wouldn't be so sure. You should've seen me after a few ales when a buxom floozy began flirting with Sykre. Of course, spell slinging is more my style, but whatever got the job done. Sykre...~ = ~Sykre was beautiful. A beautiful, awful fruit cake. I know. I will tell you about him, if you wish to listen.~ ++ ~Please, continue.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~Pfegh, I've heard it all. But never the less, carry on.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~On second thought, I have much to lay my mind too tomorrow; I cannot sacrifice what little rest I get to sit up all night listening to your lurid stories.~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_pointtaken SAY ~Excellent! I trust you'll be frog-marching us all to a bath-house first thing tomorrow, so I can make myself beautiful again. If Sykre could see me in this state he's undoubtedly--Sykre.~ = ~Yes. I'll tell you more about Sykre.~ ++ ~Please, continue.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~Pfegh, I've heard it all. But never the less, carry on.~ + LK#NL6_main1 ++ ~On second thought, I have much to lay my mind too tomorrow; I cannot sacrifice what little rest I get to sit up all night listening to your lurid stories.~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_korgybaby SAY ~Ha! Who knows what hell would be unleashed upon these unsuspecting realms. But speaking of the removal of clothes...yes. Love. We'll talk about love, and the trials, tribulations and triumphs thereof. That ought to lighten the collective mood.~ ++ ~Ah, love is all around us. Love lifts us up where we belong. Was it the wise Alaundo who said 'all you need is love?'~ + LK#NL6_lovelove ++ ~I've encountered more of the tribulations than the triumphs, unfortunately.~ + LK#NL6_moretrials ++ ~Love is for Sunites and octogenarians. I'm more an advocate of raw, animal lust.~ + LK#NL6_lustplz ++ ~There's no time for love on this bloody path.~ + LK#NL6_notime END IF ~~ LK#NL6_lustplz SAY ~While I admire the sentiment, and agree there's nothing like a long night's red shirting to clear the mind, I like a man who can appreciate the silken nuances of a good romance. And if you can't appreciate such things now, Bhaalspawn, I shall make you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL6_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL6_notime SAY ~How characteristically, grotesquely northern of you, Bhaalspawn. What are you, Illuskan? Lady Sweetwater used to say the best lovers were Chessentans, Halruuans and Thayvians. No coarseness there--all soft hands and sensitive spirits, never did a day's honest labour in their lives. Anyway, if you do not appreciate the silken nuances of a great love, I shall make you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL6_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL6_main1 SAY ~In my youth I was sent to one of Waterdeep's most prestigious magical academies, The Seminary of Mystryl. I was never the most dedicated student, however, more pre-occupied by my own burgeoning charm and how to employ it on the sons of my father's business associates, often to great effect. They were noisy, red-cheeked northern boys, who wouldn't look out of place with their back's glistening over fields anywhere in the Heartlands, though naturally had cut-glass elocution and a passion for team sports, fencing and pretty debutantes such as myself.~ = ~The courtship was hollow, however. Unlike many of my friends I had no intention of marrying just any muscular lad who scaled my balcony at night with a bunch of white roses; besides, I was to be the inheritor of a powerful trading coster, I didn't need their wealth or their thick shoulders. But I knew men early, and enjoyed being an object of their desires, a daughter of one of Waterdeep's great families.~ ++ ~Go on.~ + LK#NL6_main2 ++ ~Very interesting, but I'm going to turn in now.~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_main2 SAY ~Little did I know my family, the Amblecrowns, were about to fall into decline. It happened with the death of my adoptive father, Inaed, which I may or may not have told you, plunged me briefly into a torrent of emotions I was unfamiliar with. They broke me. It was just before his death I met Sykre. At a ball at the Prufrock's I was introduced to him; a handsome young man from the Moonsea, poor but beautiful in a grey silk shirt, with long eyelashes, matching scars on his cheeks, and a rapier on his strong flank.~ = ~He had fled from Mulmaster, where all spellcasters of a certain power are recquired to join the Cloaks, a militaristic organisation. He had been tortured, a sure aphrodisiac to the naïve young girl. His hands shook when he grasped the stem of a goblet. I was drunk on wine, he on the joy of surviving to hold another woman in his arms, before a window outside which snow fell. He laughed at everything I said, had a teasing foreign lilt on his lips and a fierceness to his movements. I fell asleep and he packed me into a coach back to the Amblecrown manor. I had only the name to remember him by; Sykre D'Alysoss.~ = ~I did not think I would see him again, but to my surprise he was hired as a tutor at the Seminary--teaching, naturally, Necromancy. I insinuated my way into his classes to hear that lilting voice, developed a taste for dissections to feel his steady hand guiding my own. Our intimacy was never repeated, however...I'm sure that now he was my tutor, he felt it would be inappropriate. I'd always known when a man desired me, though, and did not give in.~ ++ ~He was your teacher. You dissected things to win a special place in his heart. This story is creepy on so many levels. Then again, you're Ninde. What did I expect?~ + LK#NL6_ewnonce ++ ~You really know how to tell a story. Go on.~ + LK#NL6_know2tell ++ ~This is truly, irrepressibly boring. I'm going to bed.~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_ewnonce SAY ~What did you expect, indeed. Like all aspects of my life, my love life was unconventional to say the least. Ahh...I tire of this story. Mayhaps I'll be in the mood to continue tomorrow morning. Until then, rest well, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6_know2tell SAY ~Perhaps...though truth be told, I tire of this story, for tonight. Perhaps if the mood strikes me I'll continue tomorrow. For now, good night, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END // 6.2 IF ~Global("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NL6.2_intro SAY ~Good morrow, dear. Care for me to finish that story? I'm rather in the mood for a little reminiscing.~ ++ ~Certainly, I'd never say no to one of your stories.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL6.2_main1 ++ ~Ah, more creepy antics of Sykre and Ninde. Why not?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLT6.2WakeUp","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL6.2_main1 ++ ~There's much to be done, Ninde. I'm not sure there's time right now.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6.2_main1 SAY ~Very well. Where was I...hmm, yes...~ = ~My father died on a balmy mirtul morning, and my education at the Seminary was suspended. His funeral took place days later, in a mild spring rain, and I stood by the side of his crypt with my brother's hand on my shoulder. Sykre waited for me at a small shrine to Myrkul just outside that boneyard. I broke away from the procession to go there and he pressed a dagger up against my throat. Ordinarily I would've been frightened...but with his body and his face close to mine, his shirt damp and just barely open...~ = ~It was one of the most erotic moments of my life. He took me there on the altar. Yes, I know, he took advantage of me. My life...my life became increasingly volatile. Sykre, it transpired, had not merely been an escapee of the cloaks of Mulmaster, but was a Shadow Mage; one of those who practice their magics on the very edge of the weave. He was a student of the secretive Iron Fang keep, an enclave of such mages most had only heard of in hushed legend.~ = ~My brother, Shar watch over his soul, was a businessman of the worst degree, and it was not long before the coster began to falter. As all I had known disintegrated, Sykre drew me deeper into his world; and introduced me to his friends. The Night Hands. They were dark, intoxicating times. My powers grew immensely, fuelled by the desire to impress and match my new compatriots in power. Respen, my brother, saw what I had become involved in but was too pre-occupied to intervene...but...no. The story of my time with the Night Hand is--is something else.~ = ~But Sykre...I loved him, in a way. And he certainly was...hmm.~ ++ ~And what became of Sykre, in the end?~ + LK#NL6.2_whatbecame ++ ~That was certainly...interesting. And by interesting I mean downright unsettling.~ + LK#NL6.2_interested ++ ~You were corrupted by your love for him. One should not dedicate oneself so entirely to another; it can only lead to hardship.~ + LK#NL6.2_corruptedzzz ++ ~Ah, love, the sweetest of things.~ + LK#NL6.2_lovesies END IF ~~ LK#NL6.2_whatbecame SAY ~He was hung not long after the Time of Troubles for the murder of a group of Selunites. Much of the Night Hand met a similar fate. Some escaped, I believe...Nemphre fled to Baldur's Gate, and she may still be alive. Orachus Dilatuvel is undoubtedly still conducting his own one-man rampage in Calimport. Lord Nycticorax bought the authorities off, and still lives in Waterdeep as far as I know. And...and I, of course...he was the only many that ever frightened me. ~ = ~ Now and then I still feel him at my back.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6.2_interested SAY ~My dear Bhaalspawn, one falls in love to be unsettled. Perhaps Sykre was not the wisest choice of first love, but I lived to the tale. To tell *you* the tale, in fact. He...he was the only many ever to frighten me...and when I felt at my most invulnerable. Now and then I still feel him at my back.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6.2_corruptedzzz SAY ~Bhaalspawn, I never lived for purity or virtue, and neither for vice, which you'd do well enough to learn. He...he frightened me, truth be told. And he was the only man ever to do so. That was it. That was enough. I sometimes still hear his voice at my back.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL6.2_lovesies SAY ~Our love was many things, but never sweet, .~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 7. IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",13) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL7_intro SAY ~I've not exactly been rose petals, incense and a kitten to you. Out of curiosity, have you wondered why I haven't slit your throat and made off with all your gold yet?~ ++ ~Er...no? Should I be?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL7_suspicion ++ ~No, because I know that deep down you *are* a kitten.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL7_deepdown ++ ~No, you haven't been rose petals, incense and a kitten. You've actually been a callous bitch who has embraced every opportunity to remind me of the difficulties of my situation and eradicate any hope I had left. I'd probably be much better off without you.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL7_notroses END IF ~~ LK#NL7_suspicion SAY ~No. No, you shouldn't be. I confess that was my original plan, but a girl's got to have a little fluidity when it comes to these things.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL7_deepdown SAY ~A kitten from a lion's den. I'm not so certain of that--what I am certain of is that I certainly joined this group with the intention of putting a knife to your neck, and making off with enough to gold to choke a dragon on. But I couldn't do it.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL7_notroses SAY ~My dear, it's not as though you took me along to be your friend, is it? Hm, perhaps if that's how you feel, , we shall see how well you do without me. Try not to get yourself *too* killed, sugarplum.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","GLOBAL",0) LeaveParty() /*teleportaway*/ EscapeArea()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL7_main1 SAY ~The truth is, I like you. I didn't expect to, but I do. You're powerful, attractive and rich.~ ++ ~What superficial reasons to like someone.~ + LK#NL7_superficial ++ ~I like you too, Ninde. You're caustic, cutting cruel...and I wouldn't have you any other way.~ + LK#NL7_ilikeyou2 ++ ~I am, aren't I? Hehe.~ + LK#NL7_lookingood ++ ~Aha, so you confess you joined this group with the intention of killing me!~ + LK#NL7_wtftraitor END IF ~~ LK#NL7_superficial SAY ~Well, do you expect me to like you for your *personality*? Although that's all very well and good, it is...it is something else about you that attracts me.~ ++ ~My astonishing good looks and boyish charms claim another victim!~ + LK#NL7_lookingood ++ ~The feeling is mutual, my dear...~ + LK#NL7_ilikeyou2 ++ ~Perfect. For all I know that 'something else' could be the bounty on my head. And you seem the type.~ + LK#NL7_another END IF ~~ LK#NL7_lookingood SAY ~And if you had any more personal magnetism thieves would likely be able to do significantly more damage with their poorly-aimed throwing knives. I'm...I'm not exaggerating.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL7_ilikeyou2 SAY ~I feel I should warn you--the people who like me are rather prone to, well...horrible death. Then again, that seems a likely enough end for you, anyway. The funny thing is, I rather don't want that for you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL7_main2 SAY ~It's been a long time since I've met anyone I liked, boy.~ ++ ~Great, so I've gone from 'Bhaalspawn' to 'boy'. You'll be asking me to address you by your title next.~ + LK#NL7_beetobee ++ ~And...and I like you too. You're a worthy companion and despite your multitude of flaws...a, erm, interesting friend.~ + LK#NL7_andilike ++ ~(smile) If it so rarely bestowed, then you're appreciation is an even greater honour, Ninde.~ + LK#NL7_greathonour END IF ~~ LK#NL7_wtftraitor SAY ~Verily, I did. ~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_traitor END IF ~~ LK#NL7_another SAY ~Verily, that was my sole intention when I first joined your group.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL7_traitor END IF ~~ LK#NL7_traitor SAY ~But what does that matter? I did not. Could not. If you had any more personal magnetism thieves would likely be able to do significantly more damage with their poorly-aimed throwing knives. I'm...I'm not exaggerating. It's been a long time since I've met anyone I liked, boy.~ ++ ~Great, so I've gone from 'Bhaalspawn' to 'boy'. You'll be asking me to address you by your title next.~ + LK#NL7_beetobee ++ ~And...and I like you too. You're a worthy companion and despite your multitude of flaws...a, erm, interesting friend.~ + LK#NL7_ilikeyou2 ++ ~(smile) If it so rarely bestowed, then you're appreciation is an even greater honour, Ninde.~ + LK#NL7_greathonour ++ ~I'm afraid I cannot tolerate your double-crossing any longer, Ninde! You admit you joined this group with the sole intention of murdering me, then expect our conversation to continue? Hah! Draw steel!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","GLOBAL",0) LeaveParty() Enemy()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL7_beetobee SAY ~Lady Amblecrown; it has a certain elegance on the tongue, does it not? (wink)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL7_andilike SAY ~Hah, 'interesting' might very well be the word, sugarplum.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL7_greathonour SAY ~Goodness, you're more slimy then Aran Linvail's washcloth today, dear. (smirk)~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 8. IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL8_intro SAY ~Correct me if I'm wrong, my dear Bhaalspawn, but it seems as though you haven't given much thought as to how you intend to prevent Bodhi, Irenicus and company from using us as so many jars of strawberry preserve.~ = ~From grinding our bones into luxury bath salts, performing an elaborate puppet show with our skulls, perhaps, if they feel any sort of civic duty, using our dismembered arms to pick up litter from Waukeen's Promenade. Oh, and to complete the festivities, they'll do an abstract finger-painting of our crushing defeat on our dried hides. It will be so terribly amusing for everyone who isn't us. And frankly, I care very little for any who isn't us. Or rather, me.~ ++ ~And then make stylish lace gloves from our entrails, I suppose. Yes, I'm working on a way round that.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL8_forget ++ ~Hah! I'd like to see that leathery undead bimbo and pasty-faced maggotty mageling try!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL8_machoman ++ ~I doubt there can be any planning or strategising for the confrontation that is to come. We will survive, or we will not. It's as simple as that.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL8_liveornot ++ ~Worry not, Ninde, I have a flawless strategy all worked out.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL8_flawless END IF ~~ LK#NL8_forget SAY ~You seem to forget, sugarlump, that Bodhi and myself were on first-name terms for many years, and I've been busy plotting the demise of that neck-munching know-it-all since before you could reach the top shelves in your beloved library.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL8_knowher END IF ~~ LK#NL8_machoman SAY ~And that is precisely the sort of macho posturing that got you into this mess in the first place, and certainly won't get you out of it. The dirtnapping slattern and booming-voiced sadist will, sooner or later, come back to finish you off, and stomping about like some snout-nosed ursine isn't going to avert that.~ = ~You seem to have forgot that I am, perhaps, the best equipped to help you get Bodhi that extra little bit dead. And I assure you, no one has more passion for the endeavour. In fact, I've been busy plotting the demise of that neck-munching know-it-all since before you could reach the top shelves in your beloved library.~ ++ ~Yes, I suppose you're a veritable font of inside information on our enemies...it could come in very helpful.~ + LK#NL8_share ++ ~Why don't you like Bodhi? Aside for the obvious, predatory-killer reasons.~ + LK#NL8_whynotlike ++ ~And I suppose you're overflowing with helpful suggestions? As far as I can see, brute force is the most effective way to deal with Bodhi and her ilk.~ + LK#NL8_bruteforce ++ ~Keep your trap shut, and leave the battle-plan to those better equipped to carry it out.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_liveornot SAY ~And I'm afraid, , this is where you are wrong. You seem to forget, sugarlump, that Bodhi and myself were on first-name terms for many years, and I've been busy plotting the demise of that neck-munching know-it-all since before you could reach the top shelves in your beloved library.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL8_knowher END IF ~~ LK#NL8_knowher SAY ~I also know her. I have it on good authority that her favourite flower is the daffodil and she doesn't like cheese, that strange film that often forms on the top of hot drinks, or people touching her feet. In short, no-one is better equipped to help you destroy her, and no-one has more passion for doing so.~ ++ ~Perfect! We place a bunch of daffodils in the middle of her crypt, and set lots of bear-traps round them. When she comes skulking out to get the flowers, she'll get caught in one of the bear-traps, and then, before she knows what's hit her, CHEESE! Cheese, cheese, cheese from every direction! And when she is finally subdued, we'll all touch her feet! Why did I not think of it before?~ + LK#NL8_madplan ++ ~Yes, I suppose you're a veritable font of inside information on our enemies...it could come in very helpful.~ + LK#NL8_share ++ ~What use is any of this banal trivia to me, Ninde? I'm trying to fight her, not write an amusing profile on her for 'Bloodsucking Fiends Periodical.'~ + LK#NL8_banal ++ ~Why don't you like Bodhi? Aside for the obvious, predatory-killer reasons.~ + LK#NL8_whynotlike END IF ~~ LK#NL8_flawless SAY ~And you would rely on these hapless buffoons to perform it? My dear, with an adventuring group this dire, even the Red Knight would not be able to formulate a fool-proof stratagem for victory. It would appear that I am, as always, your greatest asset.~ ++ ~My greatest asset with the greatest assets! (wink)~ + LK#NL8_omgsexist ++ ~That doesn't inspire much hope, but go on.~ + LK#NL8_forget ++ ~How is it you can help me?~ + LK#NL8_forget ++ ~You? My greatest asset? Ha! I only keep you around for the view.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_madplan SAY ~(smiles) , however endearing your silliness can be, it is, upon occasion, grating. I merely sought to illustrate my encyclopaedic knowledge of the wench, and the course of action it suggests. Which, I believe, is subtlety.~ = ~She has made a very great mistake already; releasing you into Spellhold.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL8_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL8_share SAY ~I am. And this encyclopaedic knowledge of the wench has led me to conclude that you are made a greater threat to her by the sheer fact she believes you are not one.~ ++ ~That's all very well and good, but what should I *do*?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Wait...so what is it that you are suggesting we do, exactly?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Is that all? I had figured that out myself.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_banal SAY ~As a necromancer, and hence an expert on the topic of bloodsucking fiends, I believe I'd know if such a publication exists, and happen to be fairly sure it doesn't. But anyway, Bhaalspawn, do not be so dense; I merely sought to illustrate my encyclopaedic knowledge of the wench, and the course of action it suggests. Which, I believe, is subtlety.~ = ~She has made a very great mistake already; releasing you into Spellhold.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL8_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL8_whynotlike SAY ~Because she is badly dressed, bestial, and insists on decorating her lair in that garish Mulhorandi fashion; hieroglyphic motifs are best used in small doses, a simple rule of interior design Bodhi remains blissfully ignorant of. She is irritatingly cryptic, cryptically irritating, and, when one thinks about it, more a mosquito than a queen among the undead.~ ++ ~You obviously *want* to destroy her, but do you have an effective way of doing so?~ + LK#NL8_mistake ++ ~She get's my blood up to, if you'll excuse the pun. So I suppose you have a clever plan as to how to kill her slowly, painfully and with optimal humiliation?~ + LK#NL8_mistake ++ ~I care little for your personal dislike of her. She's merely an obstacle in my way to Irenicus.~ + LK#NL8_mistake END IF ~~ LK#NL8_mistake SAY ~And fortunately, she has made a very great mistake already; releasing you into Spellhold.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL8_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL8_bruteforce SAY ~Dear, you're so very, very wrong. I believe the situation calls overwhelmingly for subtlety; you are made a greater threat to her by the sheer fact she believes you are not one.~ ++ ~That's all very well and good, but what should I *do*?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Wait...so what is it that you are suggesting we do, exactly?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Is that all? I had figured that out myself.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_endall SAY ~If you truly hold my opinions in this matter in such low esteem, you'll hear no more of them, dolt. You'll choke on your own ineptitude, sooner or later.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_main1 SAY ~She did this under the strength of her belief in her own invulnerability, and this is her greatest weakness. She places too much stock in your divine heritage, and believes without it you are helpless. The...the strange new ways your heritage have revealed themselves forced her to re-evaluate this somewhat, but nonetheless, you are made a greater threat to her by the sheer fact she believes you are not one.~ ++ ~That's all very well and good, but what should I *do*?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Wait...so what is it that you are suggesting we do, exactly?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Is that all? I had figured that out myself.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_omgsexist SAY ~Yes, this is true, but nonetheless, we are discussing what is possibly the only thing in which my lovely feminine appendages are irrelevant; how to overcome Bodhi. Fortunately, she has made a very large mistake already; She places too much stock in your divine heritage, and believes without it you are helpless. The...the strange new ways your heritage have revealed themselves forced her to re-evaluate this somewhat, but nonetheless, you are made a greater threat to her by the sheer fact she believes you are not one.~ ++ ~That's all very well and good, but what should I *do*?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Wait...so what is it that you are suggesting we do, exactly?~ + LK#NL8_main2 ++ ~Is that all? I had figured that out myself.~ + LK#NL8_endall END IF ~~ LK#NL8_main2 SAY ~The most effective course of action is undoubtedly caution--intrigue. Keep a low profile, let her believe you're busy making friends with the worms and that insufferable riddle spirit in Spellhold. Return to Athkatla, find friends wherever there are friends to be found, and attack. I have little doubt she has returned to her old lair--and she will be severely weakened. With any luck the task should be even easier than it was last time. But under no account are you to allow her to see you are yet strong, even with Bhaal's essence removed.~ = ~While it is true that your recently acquired new...'abilities' may have given her some indication of this...denial is a very powerful thing.~ ++ ~You think storming those vampire-ridden crypts was *easy* last time, do you?~ + LK#NL8_easyeh ++ ~That's not a bad idea, actually. There are many in Athkatla who owe us favours who I'm sure we could rope into helping.~ + LK#NL8_ropeinto ++ ~Well, that was useless.~ + LK#NL8_endall ++ ~Bodhi is small fry compared to Irenicus--he is the priority. Have you any bright ideas for overcoming him?~ + LK#NL8_brightideas END IF ~~ LK#NL8_easyeh SAY ~I would've found it easy in your position, but then, it has been said that the only things I am not good at are being poor, getting into the trouble, and saying no to handsome men. Hehe.~ ++ ~Aren't you forgetting a few things, there? (grin)~ + LK#NL8_forgetting ++ ~And it's certainly true! You're indispensable, Ninde.~ + LK#NL8_indispensable ++ ~In that case...hmm, why don't you slip into my bedroll tonight for a little fun?~ + LK#NL8_bedrollz ++ ~Don't make me laugh, fool.~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_ropeinto SAY ~It's not a bad idea at all, is it? Then again, it has been said that the only things I am not good at are being poor, getting into the trouble, and saying no to handsome men. Hehe.~ ++ ~Aren't you forgetting a few things, there? (grin)~ + LK#NL8_forgetting ++ ~And it's certainly true! You're indispensable, Ninde.~ + LK#NL8_indispensable ++ ~In that case...hmm, why don't you slip into my bedroll tonight for a little fun?~ + LK#NL8_bedrollz ++ ~Don't make me laugh, fool.~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_brightideas SAY ~As far as I can tell, Irenicus is all tight trousers and creepy sewn-on face. I would find it simple enough to defeat him, in your situation - but then, it has been said that the only things I am not good at are being poor, getting into the trouble, and saying no to handsome men. Hehe.~ ++ ~Aren't you forgetting a few things, there? (grin)~ + LK#NL8_forgetting ++ ~And it's certainly true! You're indispensable, Ninde.~ + LK#NL8_indispensable ++ ~In that case...hmm, why don't you slip into my bedroll tonight for a little fun?~ + LK#NL8_bedrollz ++ ~Don't make me laugh, fool.~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_forgetting SAY ~Ah, yes. Seal clubbing; I simply can't abide by it. And I can't play the harpsichord, either. (smiles)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_indispensable SAY ~It's nice to see that my status as a generally exemplary elf is appreciated. (smiles)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL8_bedrollz SAY ~No. (smile)~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 9. Racial (tall races) IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",17) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL") OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,HALFORC) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ LK#NL9_tall_intro SAY ~(As you walk along, you become slowly immune to the sounds around you, be they the obtrusive flit of birdsong, or the crunch of dust beneath your weary feet. But you do, however, notice the quick colt-like steps, behind you. As they momentarily wake you from the drudgery of marching, you feel two arms rubbing up across your shoulders, along your jaw, and sliding up towards your eyes. They are round and warm. Their fingers work their way across your brow and temples, before abruptly falling to your shoulders once again.)~ = ~Hello, Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~Hello Ninde. Come to torment me? (smile)~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_tall_torment ++ ~Well, if it isn't the exemplary elf. How are you today?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_tall_exemplary ++ ~I feel I must forewarn you that I'm not in the mood for your antics right now.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_tall_warning END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_torment SAY ~! Quite the opposite indeed. I came to tell you how very handsome you looked today.~ ++ ~Hmm...what is it you're after, Ninde? I always have to take your compliments with a pinch of salt.~ + LK#NL9_tall_pinchof ++ ~I make it my business to *always* look fabulous.~ + LK#NL9_tall_fabulous + ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_human_haggard + ~Race(Player1,HALFORC)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_halforc_haggard + ~OR(2) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_elf_haggard ++ ~Thank you...it's quite enough to make a Bhaalspawn blush!~ + LK#NL9_tall_blush END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_exemplary SAY ~Quite well, pet, though not half as well as you, I'd wager.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL9_tall_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_main1 SAY ~You're positively glowing...mm, and how very well it becomes you.~ ++ ~Hmm...what is it you're after, Ninde? I always have to take your compliments with a pinch of salt.~ + LK#NL9_tall_pinchof ++ ~I make it my business to *always* look fabulous.~ + LK#NL9_tall_fabulous + ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_human_haggard + ~Race(Player1,HALFORC)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_halforc_haggard + ~OR(2) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_elf_haggard ++ ~Thank you...it's quite enough to make a Bhaalspawn blush!~ + LK#NL9_tall_blush END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_warning SAY ~Antics? The way you talk about me you'd think I was a mischievous child. I simply wished to tell you how well you like today.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL9_tall_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_pinchof SAY ~I have ulterior motives, I assure you. I merely imagined you'd never been told before how very handsome you are.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + LK#NL9_human_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,HALFORC)~ + LK#NL9_halforc_main2 IF ~OR(2) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ + LK#NL9_elf_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_human_main2 SAY ~Hmm...I always did favour human lovers above those of my own race--you've a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention *chest hair*.~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my chest hair. Chest hair of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_chesthair ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_halforc_main2 SAY ~Hmm...I always did favour half-orc men--you've a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention *tusks*.~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my tusks. Tusk of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few potent magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_orcelf ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_elf_main2 SAY ~I've always liked an elfin male– you've a certain grace about you that's most attractive. Not to mention the *ears*.~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my ears. Ear of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_orcelf ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_fabulous SAY ~And you certainly succeed, though it's possible for a man to spend a little too much time on personal grooming.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + LK#NL9_human_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,HALFORC)~ + LK#NL9_halforc_main2 IF ~OR(2) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ + LK#NL9_elf_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_human_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I always did favour human lovers above those of my own race--you've a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention *chest hair*.~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_tall_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my chest hair. Chest hair of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few potent magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_chesthair ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_tall_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_halforc_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I always did favour half-orc men– you've a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention *tusks*.~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_tall_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my tusks. Tusk of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few potent magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_orcelf ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_tall_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_elf_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I've always liked an elfin male– you've a certain grace about you that's most attractive. Not to mention the *ears*.~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_tall_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my ears. Ear of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_tall_orcelf ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_tall_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_tall_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_blush SAY ~I doubt you've been told before just how handsome you are.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + LK#NL9_human_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,HALFORC)~ + LK#NL9_halforc_main2 IF ~OR(2) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)~ + LK#NL9_elf_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_formerlovers SAY ~You have loved before? And here I thought you were too young for such things. Care to tell me about it?~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dynaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_chesthair SAY ~Heh, you needn't worry. I infinitely prefer it attached to your torso. Tell me, dear, has a woman ever been fortunate enough to seduce you, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone?~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dynaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_orcelf SAY ~Heh, you needn't worry. I infinitely prefer them attached to your head. Tell me, dear, has a woman ever been fortunate enough to seduce you, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone?~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dynaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_hotelf SAY ~And infravision. Useful! So you have had an elfin lover before? Or any lover at all? Or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone? (smile)~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dynaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_hornbag SAY ~Goodness, , don't flatter yourself. You're attractive to me in the same way a particularly fluffy cat might be, or an appetising soufflé. Though doubtless other women would appreciate your masculine charms. Have you ever taken a lover, Bhaalspawn, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone? (smile)~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dyhaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_surprisederb SAY ~There is more to me then it might initially appear, as I believe there is to you. Infact, I sense the sweet remnants of a love not long forgotten behind your voice. Care to expand, pudding?~ ++ ~Her...her name was Dynaheir. She was a Rashemaar mage, as powerful as she was beautiful.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She...was called Branwen, a cleric of Tempus from the north, and as brave and impassioned a woman as one could ever meet.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Ah, Shar-Teel. Never has there been such a fearsome, fiery wench!~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_tall_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_tall_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_tall_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir SAY ~A mage, eh? It is good to see you have an eye for an intelligent woman, sweetpea. You could have every scantily clad sylph this side of Marsember falling at your feet...so I'd advise you practice a little discernment when it comes to who you attach yourself too. So far, it seems you have done so.~ ++ ~What kind of woman do you think I should look for?~ + LK#NL9_tall_shouldilook ++ ~Scantily clad sylphs? I wish!~ + LK#NL9_tall_scantsylf ++ ~Perhaps you should work on practising what you preach Ninde, since you are yourself a walking catalogue of failed and abusive relationships.~ + LK#NL9_tall_catalogue END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_branwen SAY ~Impassioned? Impassioned is good. I could never stand these horrible drab little females that seem to appeal to the majority of men. You are handsome and powerful, , traits that few women can honestly resist. I'd advise you practice a little discernment when it comes to who you attach yourself too. So far, it seems you have done so.~ ++ ~What kind of woman do you think I should look for?~ + LK#NL9_tall_shouldilook ++ ~Perhaps you should work on practising what you preach Ninde, since you are yourself a walking catalogue of failed and abusive relationships.~ + LK#NL9_tall_catalogue END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_sharteel SAY ~Fiery is good, certainly a vast improvement on the drab little scantily clad sylph favoured by most men. You are handsome and powerful, , traits that few women can honestly resist. I'd advise you practice a little discernment when it comes to who you attach yourself too. So far, it seems you have done so--your natural ruthlessness pervades your love life.~ ++ ~What kind of woman do you think I should look for?~ + LK#NL9_tall_shouldilook ++ ~Scantily clad sylphs? I wish!~ + LK#NL9_tall_scantsylf ++ ~Perhaps you should work on practising what you preach Ninde, since you are yourself a walking catalogue of failed and abusive relationships.~ + LK#NL9_tall_catalogue END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_comfort SAY ~I understand what it is to lose a lover, Bhaalspawn, whether in blood or from the bed. Though if you would rather not discuss it I shan't press you. What was her name?~ ++ ~Her name was Dynaheir, and she was a mage.~ + LK#NL9_tall_dynaheir ++ ~She was called Branwen, an impassioned cleric.~ + LK#NL9_tall_branwen ++ ~Shar-Teel was her name. She was a fiery warrior, and brilliant company.~ + LK#NL9_tall_sharteel ++ ~I really would rather not talk about it. ~ + LK#NL9_tall_rather END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_passing SAY ~Dear me, , it seems as though you've been rather too liberal with yourself. I know every scantily clad sylph this side of Marsember must be positively gagging for you, but that doesn't mean you ought to oblige them all.~ ++ ~I can't help it if I find the prospect of a little sweet digression with a tavern wench or adventuress to good to pass up. (grin)~ + LK#NL9_tall_scantsylf ++ ~Perhaps your right--I rather wish I'd waited for someone with a little more allure to come along.~ + LK#NL9_tall_pursue ++ ~I didn't peg you to be much an advocator of chastity, Ninde!~ + LK#NL9_tall_chastity END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_nonever SAY ~Dear me! Is that simply because the opportunity never arose, or because you did not desire it, honeyfeet?~ ++ ~I've simply never met a woman I found alluring enough to pursue.~ + LK#NL9_tall_pursue ++ ~If I was to love a woman it would put her in considerable danger.~ + LK#NL9_tall_considerable ++ ~There's no room for love. Not now, at least.~ + LK#NL9_tall_endromance ++ ~I'm not a lover, Ninde, I'm a fighter, and that will never change.~ + LK#NL9_tall_endromance END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_shouldilook SAY ~That, my sweet, is entirely down to you. Considering our like of work, a woman it would be a pleasure to die beside, and who would not be made too desolate by such a prospect. I'm tired, Bhaalspawn. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_scantsylf SAY ~Really, Bhaalspawn, you are such a disappointment sometimes! As much as I appreciate the heavy looks of the odd brooding chunk of manhood, as easy on the eye as I might find him, I would never lower myself to bedding him...for that...hmm. For that there must be something else.~ = ~But enough of talking! I'm tired. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_catalogue SAY ~It is true that I have not come away from my own brushings with love unscathed, but I have learnt something from them, and feel obliged to pass my ineffable words of wisdom on to the young and the hopeless.~ = ~But really, Bhaalspawn, you do have the unfortunate habit of dredging up unpleasant memories whenever we talk. It is most tiring. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_rather SAY ~Your silences is understandable, if not admirable.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_pursue SAY ~That is admirable, Bhaalspawn, and I advise you to maintain your exacting standards. You are, if you don't mind me saying so, quite the catch, and it would be a shame if every Ethelwen, Elenora and Eleina had got her claws in you already.~ = ~But I'm tired, pudding. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_chastity SAY ~Which is good, because I am most certainly not. As much as I appreciate the heavy looks of the odd brooding chunk of manhood, as easy on the eye as I might find him, I would never lower myself to bedding him...for that...hmm. For that there must be something else.~ = ~But enough of talking! I'm tired. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_considerable SAY ~Then you had best find a woman it would be a pleasure to die beside, and who would not be made to desolate by the idea of doing so.~ = ~But enough talking. I'm tired. Give me a piggyback, won't you? I shall be scandalised if you say no.~ ++ ~Hop on, Ninde, I'll see what I can do.~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~(smile) Certainly, it would be a pleasure to be entwined in your thighs, if only in a practical capacity!~ + LK#NL9_tall_goodtome ++ ~Then prepare to be scandalised, Ninde. I'm your leader, not your pack-horse.~ + LK#NL9_tall_packhorse ++ ~Perhaps if you didn't spend so much time pointlessly shooting your mouth off you wouldn't get so tired.~ + LK#NL9_tall_shooting END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_endromance SAY ~And...and it is a shame to hear it.~ = ~(Ninde walks by your side in silence for a short while, before moving beyond you in graceful, loping strides.)~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_goodtome SAY ~You are good to me, Bhaalspawn.~ = ~(You continue for a while with the warm weight of Ninde nestled beside your pack, her cheek pressed smooth against yours. She is silent, which is strange for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle rasp of her breath against your ear, like the sussurance of dry leaves stirring in the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_packhorse SAY ~You may not be a packhorse, Bhaalspawn, but you certainly can be an ass from time to time. (smile)~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_tall_shooting SAY ~Or perhaps it is maintaining civility to a half-wit like you that is tiring me, hmm?~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END // 9. Racial (short races) IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",17) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL") OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,DWARF) Race(Player1,GNOME)~ LK#NL9_short_intro SAY ~(As you walk along, you become slowly immune to the sounds around you, be they the obtrusive flit of birdsong, or the crunch of dust beneath your weary feet. But you do, however, notice the quick colt-like steps, behind you. As they momentarily wake you from the drudgery of marching, you feel two arms rubbing up across your shoulders, along your jaw, and sliding up towards your eyes. They are round and warm. Their fingers work their way across your brow and temples, before abruptly falling to your shoulders once again.)~ = ~Hello, Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~Hello Ninde. Come to torment me? (smile)~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_short_torment ++ ~Well, if it isn't the exemplary elf. How are you today?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_short_exemplary ++ ~I feel I must forewarn you that I'm not in the mood for your antics right now.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL9_short_warning END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_torment SAY ~! Quite the opposite indeed. I came to tell you how very handsome you looked today.~ ++ ~Hmm...what is it you're after, Ninde? I always have to take your compliments with a pinch of salt.~ + LK#NL9_short_pinchof ++ ~I make it my business to *always* look fabulous.~ + LK#NL9_short_fabulous + ~Race(Player1,HALFLING)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_halfling_haggard + ~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_dwarf_haggard + ~Race(Player1,GNOME)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_gnome_haggard ++ ~Thank you...it's quite enough to make a Bhaalspawn blush!~ + LK#NL9_short_blush END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_exemplary SAY ~Quite well, pet, though not half as well as you, I'd wager.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL9_short_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_main1 SAY ~You're positively glowing...mm, and how very well it becomes you.~ ++ ~Hmm...what is it you're after, Ninde? I always have to take your compliments with a pinch of salt.~ + LK#NL9_short_pinchof ++ ~I make it my business to *always* look fabulous.~ + LK#NL9_short_fabulous + ~Race(Player1,HALFLING)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_halfling_haggard + ~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_dwarf_haggard + ~Race(Player1,GNOME)~ + ~While I appreciate the sentiment, I'm certain I look like I feel. Haggard and bruised, like something Firkraag chewed up and spat out again.~ + LK#NL9_gnome_haggard ++ ~Thank you...it's quite enough to make a Bhaalspawn blush!~ + LK#NL9_short_blush END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_warning SAY ~Antics? The way you talk about me you'd think I was a mischievous child. I simply wished to tell you how well you like today.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL9_short_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_pinchof SAY ~I have ulterior motives, I assure you. I merely imagined you'd never been told before how very handsome you are.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HALFLING)~ + LK#NL9_halfling_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + LK#NL9_dwarf_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,GNOME)~ + LK#NL9_gnome_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_halfling_main2 SAY ~I've always liked a hin male– you've got a certain charm that's most overlooked. Not to mention the *foot hair*.~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my foot hair. Foot hair of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_halfling ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_dwarf_main2 SAY ~I've always liked a dwarven male– you've got a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention the *beards*. I adore facial one could just curl up in, and yours is must luxuriant. How do you manage it?~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my beard. Beard of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_dwarfgnome ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_gnome_main2 SAY ~I've always liked a gnomish male– you've got a certain eccentricity about you that's most endearing. Not to mention the *noses*. Bulbous and beautiful.~ ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my nose. Nose of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_dwarfgnome ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_fabulous SAY ~And you certainly succeed, though it's possible for a man to spend a little too much time on personal grooming.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HALFLING)~ + LK#NL9_halfling_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + LK#NL9_dwarf_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,GNOME)~ + LK#NL9_gnome_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_halfling_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I've always liked a hin male– you've got a certain charm that's most overlooked. Not to mention the *foot hair*.~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_short_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my foot hair. Foot hair of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_halfling ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_short_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_dwarf_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I've always liked a dwarven male– you've got a certain hardiness about you that's most attractive. Not to mention the *beards*. I adore facial one could just curl up in, and yours is must luxuriant. How do you manage it?~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_short_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my beard. Beard of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_dwarfgnome ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_short_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_gnome_haggard SAY ~You look quite the opposite, Bhaalspawn, I assure you, though undoubtedly you're modesty stems from being not told often enough how handsome you are, if at all. Hmm...I've always liked a gnomish male– you've got a certain eccentricity about you that's most endearing. Not to mention the *noses*. Bulbous and beautiful.~ = ~As for you bruises and such, well--with a little aloe balm and some arnica they should clear up well enough, though I personally feel they add to your rugged charm.~ ++ ~I didn't know you had such a knowledge of herbal cures. No offence, but considering your temperament, it's a little suprising.~ + LK#NL9_short_surprisederb ++ ~You'd be wrong there. You're...you're not the first woman to have thought me handsome.~ + LK#NL9_short_formerlovers ++ ~Aha, so you're ulterior motive is to harvest my nose. Nose of a Bhaalspawn; that sounds like it'd have a few good magical properties.~ + LK#NL9_short_dwarfgnome ++ ~Ninde...are you, well...do you want to sleep with me? You're certainly talking like you do, you little hornbag!~ + LK#NL9_short_hornbag ++ ~Funnily enough I always preferred elfin women to any other--there's something lovely about a girl with pointy ears and infravision.~ + LK#NL9_short_hotelf ++ ~That's quite enough of your flattery Ninde, I can't abide sweet talk. Leave me be.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_blush SAY ~I doubt you've been told before just how handsome you are.~ IF ~Race(Player1,HALFLING)~ + LK#NL9_halfling_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + LK#NL9_dwarf_main2 IF ~Race(Player1,GNOME)~ + LK#NL9_gnome_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_formerlovers SAY ~You have loved before? And here I thought you were too young for such things. Care to tell me about it?~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_halfling SAY ~Heh, you needn't worry. I infinitely prefer it attached to your feet. Tell me, dear, has a woman ever been fortunate enough to seduce you, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone?~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_dwarfgnome SAY ~Heh, you needn't worry. I infinitely prefer it attached to your head. Tell me, dear, has a woman ever been fortunate enough to seduce you, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone?~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_hotelf SAY ~And infravision. Useful! So you have had an elfin lover before? Or any lover at all? Or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone? (smile)~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_hornbag SAY ~Goodness, , don't flatter yourself. You're attractive to me in the same way a particularly fluffy cat might be, or an appetising soufflé. Though doubtless other women would appreciate your masculine charms. Have you ever taken a lover, Bhaalspawn, or do you think that battle-hardened body is for fighting alone? (smile)~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_surprisederb SAY ~There is more to me then it might initially appear, as I believe there is to you. Infact, I sense the sweet remnants of a love not long forgotten behind your voice. Care to expand, pudding?~ ++ ~I'd--I'd rather not talk about it, Ninde. There are still memories of times too close for comfort.~ + LK#NL9_short_comfort ++ ~There was a woman here or there, but none I felt more then a passing pain at being separated from.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~There was never a woman.~ + LK#NL9_short_nonever END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_comfort SAY ~I understand what it is to lose a lover, Bhaalspawn, whether in blood or from the bed. Though if you would rather not discuss it I shan't press you. What was her name?~ ++ ~There have just been...women. None of whom I was too attached to.~ + LK#NL9_short_passing ++ ~I really would rather not talk about it.~ + LK#NL9_short_rather END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_passing SAY ~Dear me, , it seems as though you've been rather too liberal with yourself. I know every scantily clad sylph this side of Marsember must be positively gagging for you, but that doesn't mean you ought to oblige them all.~ ++ ~I can't help it if I find the prospect of a little sweet digression with a tavern wench or adventuress to good to pass up. (Grin)~ + LK#NL9_short_scantsylf ++ ~Perhaps your right--I rather wish I'd waited for someone with a little more allure to come along.~ + LK#NL9_short_pursue ++ ~I didn't peg you to be much an advocator of chastity, Ninde!~ + LK#NL9_short_chastity END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_nonever SAY ~Dear me! Is that simply because the opportunity never arose, or because you did not desire it, honeyfeet?~ ++ ~I've simply never met a woman I found alluring enough to pursue.~ + LK#NL9_short_pursue ++ ~If I was to love a woman it would put her in considerable danger.~ + LK#NL9_short_considerable ++ ~There's no room for love. Not now, at least.~ + LK#NL9_short_endromance ++ ~I'm not a lover, Ninde, I'm a fighter, and that will never change.~ + LK#NL9_short_endromance END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_shouldilook SAY ~That, my sweet, is entirely down to you. Considering our like of work, a woman it would be a pleasure to die beside, and who would not be made too desolate by such a prospect. I'm tired, Bhaalspawn. Enough talking for now.~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_scantsylf SAY ~Really, Bhaalspawn, you are such a disappointment sometimes! As much as I appreciate the heavy looks of the odd brooding chunk of manhood, as easy on the eye as I might find him, I would never lower myself to bedding him...for that...hmm. For that there must be something else.~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_catalogue SAY ~It is true that I have not come away from my own brushings with love unscathed, but I have learnt something from them, and feel obliged to pass my ineffable words of wisdom on to the young and the hopeless.~ = ~But really, Bhaalspawn, you do have the unfortunate habit of dredging up unpleasant memories whenever we talk. (She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_rather SAY ~Your silences is understandable, if not admirable.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_pursue SAY ~That is admirable, Bhaalspawn, and I advise you to maintain your exacting standards. You are, if you don't mind me saying so, quite the catch, and it would be a shame if every Ethelwen, Elenora and Eleina had got her claws in you already.~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_chastity SAY ~Which is good, because I am most certainly not. As much as I appreciate the heavy looks of the odd brooding chunk of manhood, as easy on the eye as I might find him, I would never lower myself to bedding him...for that...hmm. For that there must be something else.~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_considerable SAY ~Then you had best find a woman it would be a pleasure to die beside, and who would not be made to desolate by the idea of doing so.~ = ~(She continues by your side a short way, in complete silence--which is quite the rarity for the elf, the only sound coming from her the gentle sussurance of her breath, like the sound of drying leaves stirred by the wind.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL9_short_endromance SAY ~And...and it is a shame to hear it.~ = ~(Ninde walks by your side in silence for a short while, before moving beyond you in graceful, loping strides.)~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END // 10. IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL10_intro SAY ~Whenever I see blood I can't help but think of Lassal, and as you can imagine, with the amount of it that's flying about these days, I end up thinking of him often...and not always unkindly.~ ++ ~I got the impression you despised him.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL10_despised ++ ~He tricked you into giving away your soul without making you aware of the consequences of doing so. I wouldn't be able to forgive him that, if I were you.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL10_givingsoul ++ ~What does it matter? He's dead now, and by your hand.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL10_byurhand ++ ~He was merely Bodhi's fumbling henchman. Don't worry yourself over him.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL10_henchman ++ ~Oh Gods, you weren't in love with him, were you? That would be one perverse revelation too many.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL10_pervrev END IF ~~ LK#NL10_despised SAY ~I suppose I did, by the end, when the fool had muzzled himself for the sake of Bodhi. But it was not always so. He was not always a gelded fool, gathering dust in the recesses of that dank tomb. Our relationship was certainly...complex. Would you care to hear about it?~ ++ ~Why not.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~You know how I love your stories, Ninde. Of course.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~We haven't the time right now, Ninde.~ EXIT ++ ~I'd rather give Irenicus a lovely big kiss.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomance","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_givingsoul SAY ~I did, at first, but hatred is a very difficult thing to maintain, , especially when you are allied with someone for as long as I was with Lassal. More then a decade...Would you care to hear more about the years I spent with him?~ ++ ~Why not.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~You know how I love your stories, Ninde. Of course.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~We haven't the time right now, Ninde.~ EXIT ++ ~I'd rather give Irenicus a lovely big kiss.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomance","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_byurhand SAY ~And , I'm certainly not having any second thoughts about that. It is merely difficult to maintain ones hatred after so long. More then a decade, infact...would you care to hear about it?~ ++ ~Why not.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~You know how I love your stories, Ninde. Of course.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~We haven't the time right now, Ninde.~ EXIT ++ ~I'd rather give Irenicus a lovely big kiss.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomance","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_henchman SAY ~The fool gelded himself when Bodhi appeared, but he was not always so helpless. He was powerful once, not when I first met him--but that was a decade ago. Over a decade. Would you care to hear how I spent that decade?~ ++ ~Why not.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~You know how I love your stories, Ninde. Of course.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~We haven't the time right now, Ninde.~ EXIT ++ ~I'd rather give Irenicus a lovely big kiss.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomance","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_pervrev SAY ~(sigh) As I've told you before, Bhaalspawn, I'm not *that* kind of necromancer. After a decade one grows somewhat attached to even the most repellent creature. A decade...care to hear the story of it?~ ++ ~Why not.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~You know how I love your stories, Ninde. Of course.~ + LK#NL10_main1 ++ ~We haven't the time right now, Ninde.~ EXIT ++ ~I'd rather give Irenicus a lovely big kiss.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomance","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_main1 SAY ~Very well. Hmm...~ = ~I don't know how it was that he did it, wrested my soul from me, but their magics worked in the Time of Troubles, when no others did. At first I was bound to him by the idea that he had the knowledge to reverse his actions, and that if I served him well he would do so. I was sadly disillusioned. ~ = ~I was not to see any of my friends or acquaintances from Waterdeep again. We travelled. Through Calimshan, Tethyr, Cormyr, Chessenta and to the deepest eastern reaches of Faerun--Mulhorand. During the nights we would ride in open-topped carriages through streets in Calimport that reeked of jasmine and sea salt to watch the half-efreet casting on street corners. We listened to brass elfin harps ringing clear in the Wealdath, and in Mulhorand saw the white processions marching from limestone temples and the Lords in chariots drawn by snarling crocodiles.~ = ~It was Var the Golden I loved best, for the fields of grain after which it is named, ever-collapsing in the wind that blew in from the fierce north. I was drawn into the fire and smoke of it all. In Waterdeep or house had been full of the twisting furniture and liquid silk of these lands...but I fell in love with their sands, their hot currents, their people.~ ++ ~It sounds as though your time with Lassal was far from torturous.~ + LK#NL10_main2 ++ ~Such experiences...I one day hope to travel as you have.~ + LK#NL10_travel ++ ~So Lassal took you to the east. But what next? Why did you end up in Amn?~ + LK#NL10_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL10_travel SAY ~I forget you have seen so little of the world, though many of its wonders have passed through your hands. If anything, you must at least ride a camel. A very strange experience. I shall continue.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL10_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL10_main2 SAY ~I was Lassal's daylight emissary. While he napped in his sarcophagi in his marbled halls, his fine eyes turned inward, I would undermine his enemies and find him new allies. I was not only able to walk abroad as he could not, but I had the advantage of surprise--powdered, made prim who would take me for the servant of an undead Lord? I was rewarded for my service. The ankh was from a Selunite priestess he drained in Mulhorand...in my honour. (smile)~ = ~It took...it took a long time before I noticed the hollowness. Before I noticed I did not even balk at having the women carried away--from whores to nobles--that he would drink. In my time with the Night Hand...what I wouldn't have given to be remorseless then. Then.~ = ~When all the wine in Estagund turned sour in my mouth, Bodhi came. I know not how he knew her, but he was enamoured of her, and I became less his consort, more his serving maid, killing who he wished killed with all the numbness of the skeletons he raised to fill his goblet with blood. I had no choice but to serve...what had now become my sentence.~ = ~And then you came. Ho hum.~ ++ ~An interesting tale.~ + LK#NL10_taleointer ++ ~And you know no more about were Bodhi came from? About her past?~ + LK#NL10_anythingbo ++ ~Why did you not simply leave them?~ + LK#NL10_leavem ++ ~It seems to me you've always been someone's servant. First Sykre, then Lassal.~ + LK#NL10_servant END IF ~~ LK#NL10_taleointer SAY ~I suppose it is. , make no mistake; I have seen much...and yet I have seen so little.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL10_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL10_anythingbo SAY ~Unfortunately for you, dear, I had very little interest in Bodhi, and remarkable contempt for her. She was not as bestial once, as she is now. She used to wear red satin and her hair long. She never liked me, and I never liked her, and this holds true today. But...I tire of this. We will speak again soon.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_leavem SAY ~Because what else was I to do? I would've wasted away somewhere, and I suppose it took my mind of it. I suppose I still clung to the hope he might take pity and restore me...which was foolish. (sigh)~ = ~, make no mistake; I have seen much...and yet I have seen so little.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL10_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL10_servant SAY ~You are right, Bhaalspawn, you are. And do not think I do not know it. Perhaps that is what I wanted...perhaps that is where I fell.~ = ~, make no mistake; I have seen much...and yet I have seen so little.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL10_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL10_main3 SAY ~I have lived to an age that any peasant might consider ripe, stroked tiger skins and the crusted sapphires of the east with these fingers...and yet I wanted more from my life. I don't know what, but more. Maybe I wished for glory. Maybe to find what remains of my bloodline. Maybe to choose when my own death will come.~ ++ ~I doubt there are any who do not wish they had done more with their lives. 'Tis the condition of all mortals.~ + LK#NL10_mortals ++ ~There is still time for these things, Ninde. You are wrong to think your situation is hopeless.~ + LK#NL10_wrongto ++ ~You travel with me, Ninde, and we do great things. Your name will be remembered alongside my own...bards will write songs about you! Surely that's some consolation?~ + LK#NL10_console END IF ~~ LK#NL10_mortals SAY ~(smile) Forgive me my arrogance, , but I am no mortal, and I am not meant to live as one. There is this gnawing, Bhaalspawn, and you cannot understand it. You are only a boy after all.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_wrongto SAY ~(smile) You forget, , I was not born mortal, I was made mortal. I am supposed to be timeless. There is this relentless gnawing, Bhaalspawn, and you cannot understand it. Not yet. You are just a boy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL10_console SAY ~Perhaps; or perhaps I am once again insignificant in the shadow of a greater man. It is kind of you to console me, but you know that it is , the Bhaalspawn who will be timeless where I was meant to be. (Smile) You forget, , I was not born mortal, I was made mortal. There is this relentless gnawing, Bhaalspawn, and you cannot understand it. Not yet. You are just a boy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 11. What do you like about me? IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL11 SAY ~Often I look around myself at the copious ills of human society, and wonder where it all went wrong for the fledgling race. Then I find myself wondering of everyone I meet...were they borne of love or of something else?~ = ~It's a marvellous thought, isn't it? Each an every one of us is the result of a good old fashioned bedding. Marriage, rape, an accident, a whore, a hot summer, a drunken fling, a saucy wink, incest, an impassioned affair, a long dreamed of blessing or simply the God's dipping their divine quills into the interminable ink of the realms. Isn't it wonderful?~ ++ ~No, Ninde, a great many of the things you just mentioned are not wonderful. Far from it, in fact!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL11_farfromit ++ ~Life is a salty and splendid thing indeed!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL11_splendid ++ ~I suppose I've never really thought about it.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL11_carryon ++ ~Ninde, I really am tired of you mouthing off. It's not merely irritating but also downright dangerous. If you get an arrow of fire through your head because of your incessant nattering, I'm just going to laugh. If you get an arrow of detonation through your head, I'm going to be angry.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL11_angryarr END IF ~~ LK#NL11_farfromit SAY ~My dear, nature is a language all it's own, as incomprehensible as we often find it...and by Shar, you certainly have a very antiquated approach to the world! The best way of dealing with things is simply to sit back and laugh.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL11_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL11_splendid SAY ~Splendid in it's own gargantuan ridiculousness. The best way of dealing with things is simply to sit back and laugh, don't you agree?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL11_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL11_carryon SAY ~My dear, nature is a language all it's own. The best way of dealing with things is simply to sit back and laugh.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL11_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL11_main1 SAY ~Laugh at the way none of us really care if the others live or die, most men are perfectly content to while their days away with a slim, pretty thing, and blissfully ignore the entropy at the core of all human endeavour.~ ++ ~I'm never quite sure if you're a scientist, a philosopher, a poet, or just a cynic.~ + LK#NL11_neversure ++ ~Hm...you seem like an avid student of human nature, and yet you so often fail to see the good inherent it. You talk all about the entropy, the vice and the fear, but ignore the virtue, nobility, passion and unconditional love we all carry within us.~ + LK#NL11_avidstudy ++ ~Eh, entropy shmentropy, pet. I want ale and bawdy songs and buxom wenches and to hells with the great scheme of things. It makes my head ache.~ + LK#NL11_shmentropy ++ ~You've got it in one, Ninde. I don't know why I'm always trying so hard to avert colossal crises and save lives and things--it's hardly worth doing. Mankind just seems to get itself back into a fix the next tenday.~ + LK#NL11_nxtenday ++ ~So you think we should just simply resign ourselves to the state of the realms, never seeking to improve them?~ + LK#NL11_notimprove END IF ~~ LK#NL11_angryarr SAY ~An arrow of detonation through the head? What a way to die. I want to look pretty when I die. What if I talk quietly? As quietly as a paladin creeping home from a brothel? I promise, darling. Maid's honour. Heh.~ ++ ~Well, if you put it that way. Carry on.~ + LK#NL11_carryon ++ ~Not quite enough! Just do me a favour, elf, and keep your mouth shut.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_neversure SAY ~Perhaps I am a little of each. Which is it you like best, Bhaalspawn?~ ++ ~I think you're a poet at heart.~ + LK#NL11_poet ++ ~It's the scientist in you I find most intriguing.~ + LK#NL11_scientist ++ ~The more philosophical side of you is undoubtedly the best.~ + LK#NL11_philosopher ++ ~The cynic in you has it's appeal, strangely enough.~ + LK#NL11_cynic ++ ~None of them. I like the rare glimpses tenderness I see now and then...~ + LK#NL11_tender ++ ~I like both sides! Preferably unclothed and covered in massage oil.~ + LK#NL11_massageoil ++ ~Dear me, that's like asking me to decide between having my teeth pulled out, being boiled in oil, having my legs broken or having frightful verse read to me by an aspiring half-orc bard. I really, REALLY don't like you.~ + LK#NL11_aspbard END IF ~~ LK#NL11_avidstudy SAY ~Nobility is self-preservation dressed up as something higher, and love likewise crooked donkey made up like a white charger. I am many things, but not an idealist. This way, I am never disappointed by the world; simply bemused and delighted by it all!~ ++ ~Well, it seems to work well enough for you. Perhaps I should adopt your attitude.~ + LK#NL11_nindeism ++ ~I'm still not convinced. I've seen far greater forces at work in the realms then instinct, self-preservation and lust. Would you have me believe that that is all illusory?~ + LK#NL11_shmentropy ++ ~At the end of the day, the nature of the universe isn't something I turn my mind to often. As long as I'm warm and fed and all the rest of it I couldn't care less for entropy.~ + LK#NL11_shmentropy END IF ~~ LK#NL11_shmentropy SAY ~Thankyou for illustrating my point succinctly, ...but if you don't appreciate my philosophy, how do you prefer me, honeybunch...?~ ++ ~I like the poet in you..~ + LK#NL11_poet ++ ~I like your cynicism. Whoever said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit clearly never met Lady Amblecrown.~ + LK#NL11_cynic ++ ~I like the rare glimpses tenderness I see now and then...~ + LK#NL11_tender ++ ~Naked and covered in massage oil.~ + LK#NL11_massageoil ++ ~Dear me, that's like asking me to decide between having my teeth pulled out, being boiled in oil, having my legs broken or having frightful verse read to me by an aspiring half-orc bard. I really, REALLY don't like you.~ + LK#NL11_aspbard END IF ~~ LK#NL11_nxtenday SAY ~Human beings are not as good at anything as they are at getting themselves into trouble, and perhaps the truly infuriating thing is that if *you* don't help them wriggle out of it again, some other armoured interfere will surely do so just as effectively. So when you think about it, you're entirely redundant! How very impotent you must feel.~ ++ ~Impotent, frustrated, angry, lonely...and an extensive list of similar adjectives. And let me tell you, 'cuddly' doesn't feature.~ + LK#NL11_frustration ++ ~Not really. I know I do good and righteous things. My deeds may be eclipsed by those of individuals more powerful then myself, but that doesn't mean I should stop doing them. You really are very cynical sometimes, Ninde.~ + LK#NL11_nocynicplz ++ ~It's true. My struggle is a noble yet ultimately fruitless one, but I shall never abandon it.~ + LK#NL11_fruitless ++ ~Yes...yes! You're bloody right. What's the point of it all? You've never done a single charitable thing for everyone and yet you seem to get along perfectly well.~ + LK#NL11_philosopher END IF ~~ LK#NL11_notimprove SAY ~Human beings are not as good at anything as they are at getting themselves into trouble, and perhaps the truly infuriating thing is that if *you* don't help them wriggle out of it again, some other armoured interfere will surely do so just as effectively. So when you think about it, you're entirely redundant! How very impotent you must feel. 'Improving the realms', indeed.~ ++ ~Impotent, frustrated, angry, lonely...and an extensive list of similar adjectives. And let me tell you, 'cuddly' doesn't feature.~ + LK#NL11_frustration ++ ~Not really. I know I do good and righteous things. My deeds may be eclipsed by those of individuals more powerful then myself, but that doesn't mean I should stop doing them. You really are very cynical sometimes, Ninde.~ + LK#NL11_nocynicplz ++ ~It's true. My struggle is a noble yet ultimately fruitless one, but I shall never abandon it.~ + LK#NL11_fruitless ++ ~Yes...yes! You're bloody right. What's the point of it all? You've never done a single charitable thing for everyone and yet you seem to get along perfectly well.~ + LK#NL11_philosopher END IF ~~ LK#NL11_poet SAY ~In that case...here's a verse for you, pet. I forget the bard...I just remember reading it in the library the night before an examination at the Seminary. On one of those thick, strange-smelling nights that follows a too-hot day.~ = ~Had I heavens' embroidered cloths, enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_scientist SAY ~In that case, did you know there are long-necked beasts with teeth the size of my forearm in the Sea of Fallen Stars so large that you could live quite comfortably in one of the ventricles of its heart? Just to put things in perspective, you dear little Bhaalspawn, you!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_philosopher SAY ~I've been waiting 50 years for someone to suggest they enjoyed my misanthropic speculations, but philosophy says nothing to me about my life, generally speaking. Your sages and mages have nothing to say about the warm pleasures of a drunken stupor, or why the light playing a certain way in the treetops can recall a vivid recollection of one's childhood so effectively.~ = ~Perhaps you should not let prophets and dreams say so much to you about your life, either. You'd enjoy things far more, I'm sure, chicken. You're so serious sometimes.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_cynic SAY ~In that case, , we are stuck in a world in which a people with the same Gods, the same dirty secrets, the same bestial urges, would rather be brought together for battle than for love. And undergarments are uncomfortable and inhibiting.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_tender SAY ~Why , you touching old sentimentalist!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_massageoil SAY ~(smile) Truly, , you are a man of no account! Well...play your cards right, dear, and who knows where the day may take us. Though I doubt your quite that smooth.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_aspbard SAY ~Heavy words lightly flung, . If you find my occasional pushiness so very unpalatable perhaps I could recommend a more submissive female? I know a very good drab by the name of Ellen.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_nindeism SAY ~Darling, I'm of the belief everyone could do with a little more Ninde.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_frustration SAY ~My dear, things are ever so hectic. If all this is ever over, I'll have to introduce you to the wonders of a Damaran herbal steam bath. I don't think it is likely to ever be over though, which may be just as well, because you in Waterdeep's most luxurious bathhouse would be almost as incongruous as Irenicus dancing the foxtrot in pink satin.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL11_nocynicplz SAY ~Well if you don't appreciate my witty cynicism, how do you prefer me, honeybunch...?~ ++ ~I like the poet in you..~ + LK#NL11_poet ++ ~I like your cynicism. Whoever said sarcasm is the lowest form of wit clearly never met Lady Amblecrown.~ + LK#NL11_cynic ++ ~I like the rare glimpses tenderness I see now and then...~ + LK#NL11_tender ++ ~Naked and covered in massage oil.~ + LK#NL11_massageoil ++ ~Dear me, that's like asking me to decide between having my teeth pulled out, being boiled in oil, having my legs broken or having frightful verse read to me by an aspiring half-orc bard. I really, REALLY don't like you.~ + LK#NL11_aspbard END IF ~~ LK#NL11_fruitless SAY ~How awfully bleak. Perhaps you should not let prophets and dreams, sages and mages say so much to you about your life and what you ought to do with it. You'd enjoy things far more, I'm sure, chicken. You can be so serious sometimes.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 12. After death IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",23) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL12 SAY ~I suppose now is as good a time to ask as any. , what do you wish to be done with your body after you die?~ ++ ~I know I happen to get myself into, er, difficult situations on a-little-bit-more-than-daily basis, but don't start drawing up the plans for the monument yet.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL12_monument ++ ~If you're trying to be a comforting presence in my time of greatest need, you are failing magnificently.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL12_magnificent ++ ~Err...well I've never really thought about it, actually.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL12_neverthort ++ ~I've never considered the matter, and I'm not about to start, either. Far too depressing if you ask me!~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL12_monument END IF ~~ LK#NL12_monument SAY ~I am simply curious--and rather of the belief that how a man wishes to look after his death is a firm indicator of how he wishes he had been in life. And that...that's something I'd like to know that about you. So?~ ++ ~Something fairly understated, I suppose. With my friends, and family, if I have any. Perhaps a nice tombstone, that sort of thing. As any man might be buried.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal ++ ~A little class would be appreciated. I wouldn't say no to a marble statue of me looking all dignified in the Duchal palace at Baldur's Gate, or some sort of ostentatious monument. I'd like to be remembered, but I'm not overly concerned with what happens after I am dead.~ + LK#NL12_afterdead ++ ~Well, I would like a prominent and glorious mausoleum--in Candlekeep perhaps--to act as fitting monument to my great and tempestuous existence. I will be buried in sumptuous robes of state and enough gold jewelery to break a back. I'll be carried through the city by a crowd of my weeping devotees, and my body will be followed by legions of my mourning admirers.~ + LK#NL12_sumptuous ++ ~What happens to my body does not concern me. My mortal remains could be eaten by rabid dogs for all I care.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal END IF ~~ LK#NL12_magnificent SAY ~A comforting presence? Well, I could transfigure myself into a chaise lounge, but I fear that might somewhat hamper my usefulness in a combat scenario. Depressing as you find the question, do answer, darling.~ ++ ~Something fairly understated, I suppose. With my friends, and family, if I have any. Perhaps a nice tombstone, that sort of thing. As any man might be buried.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal ++ ~A little class would be appreciated. I wouldn't say no to a marble statue of me looking all dignified in the Duchal palace at Baldur's Gate, or some sort of ostentatious monument. I'd like to be remembered, but I'm not overly concerned with what happens after I'm dead.~ + LK#NL12_afterdead ++ ~Well, I'd like a prominent and glorious mausoleum--in Candlekeep perhaps--to act as fitting monument to my great and tempestuous existence. I will be buried in sumptuous robes of state and enough gold jewelery to break a back. I'll be carried through the city by a crowd of my weeping devotees, and my body will be followed by legions of my mourning admirers.~ + LK#NL12_sumptuous ++ ~What happens to my body does not concern me. My mortal remains could be eaten by rabid dogs for all I care.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal ++ ~No. I'm tired of you, Ninde, and I'm tired of your morbid chatter. Get lost. Preferably in a beholder lair.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL12_beholders END IF ~~ LK#NL12_neverthort SAY ~Yes, well, there's a lot you haven't thought about. Consider this a prime opportunity for the expansion of your intellectual horizons. So?~ ++ ~Something fairly understated, I suppose. With my friends, and family, if I have any. Perhaps a nice tombstone, that sort of thing. As any man might be buried.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal ++ ~A little class would be appreciated. I wouldn't say no to a marble statue of me looking all dignified in the Duchal palace at Baldur's Gate, or some sort of ostentatious monument. I'd like to be remembered, but I'm not overly concerned with what happens after I'm dead.~ + LK#NL12_afterdead ++ ~Well, I'd like a prominent and glorious mausoleum--in Candlekeep Gate perhaps--to act as fitting monument to my great and tempestuous existence. I will be buried in sumptuous robes of state and enough gold jewelery to break a back. I'll be carried through the city by a crowd of my weeping devotees, and my body will be followed by legions of my mourning admirers.~ + LK#NL12_sumptuous ++ ~What happens to my body does not concern me. My mortal remains could be eaten by rabid dogs for all I care.~ + LK#NL12_justnormal ++ ~No. I'm tired of you, Ninde, and I'm tired of your morbid chatter. Get lost. Preferably in a beholder lair.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL12_beholders END IF ~~ LK#NL12_justnormal SAY ~What a crippling lack of imagination you demonstrate! What kind of man wishes for such an anonymous death, such indifference to follow in the wake of his name? You aren't nearly confident enough, sweetness.~ ++ ~There's a thin line between confidence and plain self-importance, wouldn't you agree?~ + LK#NL12_selfimport ++ ~Perhaps you're right. I am a Bhaalspawn, great and powerful. Surely my burial should mirror that?~ + LK#NL12_reflect ++ ~Not at all. I'm simply more concerned with my life then my death. After all, it's not as though I'm going to be around to enjoy an opulent burial, is it?~ + LK#NL12_opulent ++ ~I'd prefer to think I was simply modest. Why do I deserve any more than the common man?~ + LK#NL12_commonplace END IF ~~ LK#NL12_afterdead SAY ~Opulent, yet not outrageous. My Lord, you are a man who knows he does great things but does not wish undue admiration for them. Clever.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_sumptuous SAY ~Opulence befits a man like you, my Lord. You do great things, and you know you do them. But I think there are a profusion of great things yet to come; you are balanced on the very diamond-tip of the age. It is you who will strike into the shadow, glow above all.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_beholders SAY ~Your dismissals would sting more if they were wittier, .~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_selfimport SAY ~But confidence befits a man like you, my Lord. You do great things, and you know you do them.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_reflect SAY ~It does, my Lord. You do great things, and you know you do them.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_opulent SAY ~Mm, this modesty doesn't become you my Lord. You do great things, and you know you do them.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_main1 SAY ~But I think you are yet to do a profusion of great things; you are balanced on the very diamond-tip of the age. It is you who will strike into the shadow, glow above all.~ ++ ~Ninde, you're just setting me up for disappointment!~ + LK#NL12_disappointment ++ ~Yes. I am glad there is another who realises my power.~ + LK#NL12_realise ++ ~Is...is that what you want for me?~ + LK#NL12_want4me ++ ~But I don't want any of that! I would trade it all to have Gorion back, to have stayed in Candlekeep, to have found a nice rosy-cheeked farm girl to settle down with.~ + LK#NL12_humble ++ ~What you describe is attractive, but I am not yet sure of the role I will play in the future of the realms. I might die tomorrow, for all we know.~ + LK#NL12_disappointment ++ ~You have a habit of making everything sound more profound then it really is. I'm simply doing the best I can to survive.~ + LK#NL12_survival END IF ~~ LK#NL12_commonplace SAY ~Mm, but modesty does not become you my Lord. You do great things, and you know you do them. But I think there are a profusion of great things yet to come; you are balanced on the very diamond-tip of the age. It is you who will strike into the shadow, glow above all. You deserve better than the common man because you are greater than the common man When your time comes, the common man--the very realms themselves - will burn and quake before you.~ ++ ~Ninde, you're just setting me up for disappointment!~ + LK#NL12_disappointment ++ ~Yes. I'm glad there is another who realises my power.~ + LK#NL12_realise ++ ~Is...is that what you want for me?~ + LK#NL12_want4me ++ ~But I don't want any of that! I would trade it all to have Gorion back, to have stayed in Candlekeep, to have found a nice rosy-cheeked farm girl to settle down with.~ + LK#NL12_humble ++ ~What you describe is attractive, but I am not yet sure of the role I will play in the future of the realms. I might die tomorrow, for all we know.~ + LK#NL12_disappointment ++ ~You have a habit of making everything sound more profound then it really is. I'm simply doing the best I can to survive.~ + LK#NL12_survival END IF ~~ LK#NL12_disappointment SAY ~It rests in your own hands, my Lord...Sykre once told me--and they are words as true today as they were all those years ago--that it is rarely the well behaved who make history. He was right. When the very realms shiver at the touch of your feet you will thank me for this advice. Anything...anything you wish can be yours. Your power is limited only by your imagination.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_realise SAY ~And it pleases me that you are aware of your own capabilities, my Lord...Faerun is a ripe, ruddy fruit, ready to be torn from the bough, glistening for a fierce bite. Anything...anything you wish for can be yours. Your power is limited only by your imagination.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_want4me SAY ~I simply want you to fulfill your true potential, my Lord...Faerun is a ripe, ruddy fruit, ready to be torn from the bough, glistening for a fierce bite. Anything...anything you wish for can be yours. Your power is limited only by your imagination.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_humble SAY ~But who are you to deny fate when she extends a hand? I simply want you to fulfill your true potential, my Lord...Faerun is a ripe, ruddy fruit, ready to be torn from the bough, glistening for a fierce bite. Anything...anything you wish for can be yours. Your power is limited only by your imagination.~ = ~And of course...a little inspiration. And that's where I come in, hmm?~ ++ ~You...you're a bad influence on me, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_einfluss ++ ~What nonsense, Ninde. Going on like I'm some unstoppable force of nature, when I'm actually nothing like it. I'm just a man. A powerful one, maybe. But nonetheless, still simply a man.~ + LK#NL12_justaman ++ ~The way you speak frightens me, Ninde. You would have me seize the power of my bloodline without thought...but that can lead only to darkness.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL12_darkness ++ ~My thoughts have not, and will not, change.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL12_darkness END IF ~~ LK#NL12_survival SAY ~But my Lord...you are so much more. Faerun is a ripe, ruddy fruit, ready to be torn from the bough, glistening for a fierce bite. Anything...anything you wish for can be yours. Your power is limited only by your imagination.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL12_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL12_main2 SAY ~And of course...a little inspiration. And that's where I come in, hmm?~ ++ ~Ninde, you are, and you ever will be, my muse for evil and naughtiness.~ + LK#NL12_naughty ++ ~Darling, I'm the son of the ravening Lord of Murder. When it comes to evil, I don't need any help.~ + LK#NL12_noneedno ++ ~You...you're a bad influence on me, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_einfluss ++ ~What nonsense you talk, Ninde. Going on like I'm some unstoppable force of nature, when I'm actually nothing like it. I'm just a man. A powerful one, maybe. But nonetheless, still simply a man.~ + LK#NL12_justaman ++ ~The way you speak frightens me, Ninde. You would have me seize the power of my bloodline without thought...but that can lead only to darkness.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL12_darkness END IF ~~ LK#NL12_naughty SAY ~(smiles) You should be pleased that Ninde, a seasoned doer of naughtiness would deign to take a rank amateur like yourself under her wing.~ ++ ~Oh, it's not your *wing* I'm looking to be under, Ninde. Heh.~ + LK#NL12_notwing ++ ~Honoured, truly.~ + LK#NL12_honoured ++ ~Excuse me, but do you know who you're talking to, here? , the scourge of the righteous, bane of the benevolent, and scarer of small children!~ + LK#NL12_titles ++ ~Really, how patronising! The most evil thing you've ever done is wear orange and purple together. If anything, it is you who should be learning from me.~ + LK#NL12_notwing ++ ~Oh ho! You were calling me 'Lord' a moment ago, but now I'm 'a rank amateur'. You're a most capricious woman, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_capriciousness END IF ~~ LK#NL12_noneedno SAY ~Please, , you are but a rank amateur. The most evil thing you've ever done is wear that outfit.~ ++ ~And the most evil thing you've ever done is question my impeccable dress sense!~ + LK#NL12_notwing ++ ~Excuse me, but do you know who you're talking to, here? , the scourge of the righteous, bane of the benevolent, and scarer of small children!~ + LK#NL12_titles ++ ~Perhaps you're right. I could do with a few pointers.~ + LK#NL12_pointers ++ ~Oh ho! You were calling me 'Lord' a moment ago, but now I'm 'a rank amateur'. You're a most capricious woman, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_capriciousness END IF ~~ LK#NL12_einfluss SAY ~I try ever so hard to be. You should be pleased that Ninde, a seasoned doer of naughtiness would deign to take a rank amateur like yourself under her wing.~ ++ ~Oh, it's not your *wing* I'm looking to be under, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_notwing ++ ~Honoured, truly.~ + LK#NL12_honoured ++ ~Really, how patronising! The most evil thing you've ever done is wear orange and purple together. If anything, it is you who should be learning from me.~ + LK#NL12_notwing ++ ~Oh ho! You were calling me 'Lord' a moment ago, but now I'm 'a rank amateur'. You're a most capricious woman, Ninde.~ + LK#NL12_capriciousness END IF ~~ LK#NL12_justaman SAY ~If you believe you are 'just a man', you do not understand yourself at all.~ IF ~~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLikesPC","GLOBAL",-1)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_darkness SAY ~Then your folly is greater than I had thought. It is not my job to lead you to yourself.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_notwing SAY ~(Rolls eyes) Very amusing. What would this journey be without your erudite wit, I wonder?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_honoured SAY ~As well you should be, dear. Now let us continue to blight this fine day with marching. By Velsharoon, you are a harsh taskmaster.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_capriciousness SAY ~Well...a woman never got anywhere by being obliging...~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_titles SAY ~With breath like that it isn't just babies you're scaring, pet. Now let's continue to blight this fine day with marching. By Velsharoon, you are a harsh taskmaster.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL12_pointers SAY ~Well, let us get the basics right before we move on to more advanced evil-doing. Perhaps you should consider some jaunty facial hair? A well-combed moustache is the hallmark of a high-quality villain. But for now, let us continue to blight this fine day with marching. By Velsharoon, you are a harsh taskmaster.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // Underdark LT (no number, formerly LT13) IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalk_underdark","GLOBAL",2) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalkTimer_underdark","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL13 SAY ~You know, it really is quite beautiful down here.~ = ~Oh, don't look at me like that, . I'm not suggesting we start up a small guesthouse down here and market it for the picturesque vistas, but...glowing slimes. Marvellous stone work. Beautiful.~ ++ ~It's...different, I'm certain of that.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL13_diffoo ++ ~You have very strange ideas about what's beautiful, Ninde. Then again, should I be surprised? You have very strange ideas about everything.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL13_everything ++ ~Very beautiful. Maybe not conventionally so, but it has a charm all it's own.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL13_diffoo ++ ~Funnily enough I find it difficult to appreciate the subtle beauty of the stones and the slimes when I'm constantly dodging crossbow bolts.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL13_bultz ++ ~Beauty? It's a sodden hole unfit for habitation by, well, anything. Let alone a dashing young demi-god such as myself.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL13_habitation END IF ~~ LK#NL13_diffoo SAY ~It reminds me of Skullport. In the black days of my rebellious youth I'd haunt the seediest Inns I could find, become embroiled in all sorts of naughtiness other girls would have balked at.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL13_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL13_everything SAY ~And always have done. I wonder why that is? In the black days of my rebellious youth I'd haunt the seediest Inns I could find, become embroiled in all sorts of naughtiness other girls would have balked at.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL13_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL13_bultz SAY ~Well, forgive me, , for attempting to make the best of a bad situation. Perhaps my evidently inane attempt to find the beauty in everything was the death throe of my elven nature. Hah.~ ++ ~Well, whether you act like one or not, you're still, in all practical terms, an elf.~ + LK#NL13_anelf ++ ~You're just a big lump of cultural confusion, really. An elf brought up as a human, whose elven traits have been removed.~ + LK#NL13_culcon ++ ~Put a sock in it, Ninde, or you'll be hearing the death throes of something else very soon.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_irksome END IF ~~ LK#NL13_main1 SAY ~Most elves, too, I would imagine. I was always an exceptional creature.~ ++ ~Well, whether you act like one or not, you're still, in all practical terms, an elf.~ + LK#NL13_anelf ++ ~You're just a big lump of cultural confusion, really. An elf brought up as a human, whose elven traits have been removed.~ + LK#NL13_culcon ++ ~Aye, and thank Cyric you are exceptional. I'd be reaching for the garrotte, if it were otherwise.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_irksome END IF ~~ LK#NL13_habitation SAY ~No offence, darling, but I've seen you look more dashing. Upon current inspection, the adjective that first springs to mind is 'beleaguered'. I can see my attempt to make the best of a bad situation was unappreciated. Perhaps my evidently inane attempt to find the beauty in everything was the death throe of my elven nature. Hah.~ ++ ~Well, whether you act like one or not, you're still, in all practical terms, an elf.~ + LK#NL13_anelf ++ ~You're just a big lump of cultural confusion, really. An elf brought up as a human, whose elven traits have been removed.~ + LK#NL13_culcon ++ ~Put a sock in it, Ninde, or you'll be hearing the death throes of something else very soon.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_irksome END IF ~~ LK#NL13_anelf SAY ~But am I, ? Am I really? I remember nothing of Cormanthor, where I was born. My parents. For me it is, to all practical purposes, as though they never existed.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL13_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL13_culcon SAY ~That's exactly it, . I remember nothing of Cormanthor, where I was born. My parents. For me it is, to all practical purposes, as though they never existed.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL13_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL13_irksome SAY ~You are certainly in an irksome mood today, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_main2 SAY ~I am not immortal. I am not a sylvan creature of divine grace and goodness. I'm just a little rich girl from Waterdeep who fell in love with the smut of it all.~ + ~OR(4) Race(Player1,HALFORC) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF)~ + ~It is true you were raised amongst humankind, far removed from the circumstances of your birth, but that's no reason to distance yourself from your heritage so entirely. I was also raised by humans, but that doesn't compromise my race.~ + LK#NL13_compro + ~Race(Player1,HUMAN)~ + ~It is true you were raised amongst humankind, far removed from the circumstances of your birth, but that's no reason to distance yourself from your heritage so entirely.~ + LK#NL13_compro + ~OR(2) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,ELF)~ + ~I've also felt distanced from my elven compromising at times.~ + LK#NL13_compro ++ ~I see your point.~ + LK#NL13_cpoint ++ ~Yes, dear, you *are* an elf. You've got pointy ears and go all dewy-eyed over nature and theology. I've never met an elfier elf. ~ + LK#NL13_elfier ++ ~I was under the impression you were perfectly content as you were, and not particularly concerned with your distance from your elven roots.~ + LK#NL13_acquaint ++ ~Did you never try to re-acquaint yourself with your background?~ + LK#NL13_acquaint END IF ~~ LK#NL13_compro SAY ~But your compromising aside, you are still a member of your race through and through. This sort of thing always contrives to upset me. Cheer me up, .~ ++ ~Do you think there is any way you could be restored?~ + LK#NL13_restoration ++ ~Well, elf or not, I still have the utmost respect and admiration for you. Hopefully that cheers you up.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Does dancing cheer you up?~ + LK#NL13_dontfeellike ++ ~Did I ever tell you how pretty you are, Ninde? You're very pretty. Possibly even the prettiest.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Err...What do you get if you cross a blonde with a Mindflayer?~ + LK#NL13_mindflayer ++ ~It's not my job to cheer you up, woman.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanctActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_woman END IF ~~ LK#NL13_cpoint SAY ~Doesn't it contrive to upset one? Shar, I'm depressed. Cheer me up, .~ ++ ~Do you think there is any way you could be restored?~ + LK#NL13_restoration ++ ~Well, elf or not, I still have the utmost respect and admiration for you. Hopefully that cheers you up.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Does dancing cheer you up?~ + LK#NL13_dontfeellike ++ ~Did I ever tell you how pretty you are, Ninde? You're very pretty. Possibly even the prettiest.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Err...What do you get if you cross a blonde with a Mindflayer?~ + LK#NL13_mindflayer ++ ~It's not my job to cheer you up, woman.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanctActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_woman END IF ~~ LK#NL13_elfier SAY ~That is not true . I've met artichokes more elfin then myself.~ ++ ~And at least artichokes have hearts. Haha.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_artichokes ++ ~I suppose you're right.~ + LK#NL13_urite ++ ~But you have only yourself to blame, you know, if you feel so removed from your elven heritage.~ + LK#NL13_acquaint END IF ~~ LK#NL13_acquaint SAY ~After completing my education I returned briefly to Cormanthor. It is...a poignant place. I suppose because I knew it's many graves held my ancestors, but would not hold me. Mistledale was beautiful, it's bells ringing across its greens. The forest itself...dark. It is overrun with Drow, now. My visit was cut short by, well, the Time of Troubles, funnily enough! Tis a wonder I didn't bump into old father Bhaal.~ = ~But anyway, , this subject is depressing. I am depressed. Cheer me up, .~ ++ ~Do you think there is any way you could be restored?~ + LK#NL13_restoration ++ ~Well, elf or not, I still have the utmost respect and admiration for you. Hopefully that cheers you up.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Does dancing cheer you up?~ + LK#NL13_dontfeellike ++ ~Did I ever tell you how pretty you are, Ninde? You're very pretty. Possibly even the prettiest.~ + LK#NL13_respeck ++ ~Err...What do you get if you cross a blonde with a Mindflayer?~ + LK#NL13_mindflayer ++ ~It's not my job to cheer you up, woman.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanctActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL13_woman END IF ~~ LK#NL13_restoration SAY ~I have researched the matter extensively, but it has yielded nothing. I believe whatever magics Lassal used died with him. Who knows how ancient he was? Lassal may have walked under the eaves of Netheril, fought in the Crown Wars...My being is the result of most ancient magics, as is yours.~ = ~It is something we shall speak more on. For now, my Lord, I think it best we continue.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_respeck SAY ~Why, you can be quite the charmer sometimes, my handsome Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_dontfeellike SAY ~My Lord--a perfect idea, but so ill timed. Perhaps one day we will dance. I rather think I would like that, my handsome Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_mindflayer SAY ~Heh, a very hungry Mindflayer? My, that one was doing the rounds a decade past, my handsome Bhaalspawn. Still, I suppose with your sheltered compromising you were unable to keep abreast of developments in contemporary humour. So I forgive you, and appreciate the effort.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_woman SAY ~And it isn't my job to entertain you with scintillating conversation, either, but I liked to think you appreciated the effort.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_artichokes SAY ~My, that one was doing the rounds a decade past, my handsome Bhaalspawn. Still, I suppose with your sheltered compromising you were unable to keep abreast of developments in contemporary humour. Pity, that.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL13_urite SAY ~Mmm...my handsome Bhaalspawn, I think you'll find I'm rarely otherwise.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 14. History and childhood! IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",27) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL14 SAY ~You, like I, were adopted. Tell me a little about your foster father, this Gorion...~ = ~I think I'd like to have met the man who made a .~ ++ ~He was a good, noble man. He died protecting me from my brother, something that will always cause me anguish.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL14_anguish ++ ~Gorion meant well, but was a little foolish now and then, like most unthinking do-gooders. I'm thankful for all he did for me, but glad to be out of his shadow.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL14_dogoodars ++ ~He was a fool, whose antiquated notions of nobility got him nothing more than a sword through his chest. I'm well shot of him.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL14_shotofhem ++ ~Gorion did not make me in any sense. From the very first days of my childhood I struck forth in my own image.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL14_dogoodars ++ ~I do not like to talk about it, Ninde.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL14_notalksya END IF ~~ LK#NL14_anguish SAY ~Yes, well as admirable as you might find his behaviour, I hope to Shar you don't begin to emulate it. Without resorting to crude hyperbole, throwing yourself on the very un-proverbial-and-big-sharp-sword is, at best, incredibly stupid.~ ++ ~I agree completely. I would never sacrifice my life for that of another...I am simply thankful that Gorion didn't feel the same way.~ + LK#NL14_gorionfel ++ ~I think perhaps if you care for someone so deeply, it wouldn't be a question of choice. You would have to.~ + LK#NL14_pacify ++ ~Do you find it so difficult to conceive of putting someone other than yourself ahead?~ + LK#NL14_sumahead ++ ~I should've known better than to speak about Gorion with you. You insist on rubbishing even him.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL14_rubbishing END IF ~~ LK#NL14_dogoodars SAY ~It is good that you are so keen to follow your own path--I respect this--but there is no weakness in acknowledging those who have protected you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL14_main1 SAY ~I find...I find my thoughts often turn to my own foster-father...and to my brother.~ ++ ~I would be interested in hearing more of them. You've told me much of the darker side of your past, but so little of your formative years.~ + LK#NL14_formative ++ ~And they, like Gorion, are long since dead.~ + LK#NL14_longsince ++ ~I dread to think what kind of family could have produced a harpy as sour as you.~ + LK#NL14_soure END IF ~~ LK#NL14_shotofhem SAY ~Why, ! I'd expect gentler words even from you. There is no weakness in acknowledging those who have protected you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL14_notalksya SAY ~Oh, my Lord--but why so secretive? I can be a sympathetic ear when I wish to be.~ ++ ~Very well. He was a good man, an honourable man--and he died defending my life. I spent the best part of my time adventuring seeking to avenge him.~ + LK#NL14_anguish ++ ~He was a good man, but given to pointless sentimentality. I respect him, but I am pleased to be able to shape my own course independent of him.~ + LK#NL14_dogoodars ++ ~Nought but a would-be scholar fraught with ill-placed benevolence.~ +LK#NL14_shotofhem ++ ~Do not press me, Ninde. It is a subject I do not wish to discuss with you or anyone.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL14_anywon END IF ~~ LK#NL14_gorionfel SAY ~As am I. Amn would be a significantly less fascinating place if you were absent from it.~ = ~Speaking of benevolent foster families, I often find myself thinking of my own. My father...and my brother.~ ++ ~I would be interested in hearing more of them. You've told me much of the darker side of your past, but so little of your formative years.~ + LK#NL14_formative ++ ~And they, like Gorion, are long since dead.~ + LK#NL14_longsince ++ ~I dread to think what kind of family could have produced a harpy as sour as you.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL14_soure END IF ~~ LK#NL14_pacify SAY ~I have known no such sacrificial love, though others may have felt it for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main1alt END IF ~~ LK#NL14_sumahead SAY ~I understand it well enough in theory, but have never felt a passion so strong it was self-sacrificial...though others may have felt it for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main1alt END IF ~~ LK#NL14_main1alt SAY ~My own family--my foster father, my brother--showed such kindness to me. I often find myself thinking of them.~ ++ ~I would be interested in hearing more of them. You've told me much of the darker side of your past, but so little of your formative years.~ + LK#NL14_formative ++ ~And they, like Gorion, are long since dead.~ + LK#NL14_longsince ++ ~I dread to think what kind of family could have produced a harpy as sour as you.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL14_soure END IF ~~ LK#NL14_rubbishing SAY ~You demonstrate such gross misunderstanding, .~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL14_formative SAY ~Very well. But where to begin? Hmm...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL14_main2 SAY ~I was found by a merchant's caravan bound for Waterdeep, wandering through the forest, made brainless either by some Drow magic or the slaughter I had just witnessed, little more than a child. Respen Amblecrown rode at the party's head, and it was him who insisted I be brought to Waterdeep. Now, I am an expert at divining ulterior motives...but there were never any behind his actions except to bring a smile to a sullen face. Or in this case...to save my life.~ = ~His father--our father--Inaed Amblecrown, was a little more wily in nature, a little colder in heart, but soon grew as attached to me as his son had done. He despised his son, with his slow ways and soft voice. But he was a shrewd, intelligent man, with an eye for the magical. Seeing my aptitude, he took me in. He taught me. Soon I was more his daughter than Respen was his son. But I do not think Respen felt any bitterness. He was happy to be left to his riding, his swordplay, his quiet kindness...we--we were closer than many siblings of the same blood.~ = ~We would share quiet smiles across the dinner table about our father's eccentricities. Find the best banisters to slide down, torment the housekeepers. We were very different, but I suppose, much like you and Imoen.... very close. Unconditionally so. When father died, the estate and the trading coster fell to a young man still unripe, still immature and without any head for business. Our wealth had once seemed as true and unending as the sky, but now began to swiftly diminish.~ = ~For the first time I was terrified of what lay beyond the city gates--and felt unprepared for it. I was the sweet fascination of Waterdeep's high society--but that could not last. What was expected of me? An advantageous marriage, a kind temperament. I did not want any of this. I threw myself into my studies. I began to research shadow magic and necromancy. I slept with every man who wanted me. I replaced Oghma with Shar. I was confused, distraught, and making myself thoroughly unpalatable to the world of social niceties and big money I had once tried so hard to be a part of.~ = ~Respen had enough on his plate without an errant sister, but there was little he could do. I was set in my ways. After joining the Night Hand I made more enemies every day, and did not care. With Sykre and the others I felt infallible, the invulnerability of youth multiplied by the giddying power I found within myself.... I remember the last night I saw Respen alive.~ = ~We stood beside each other in the court yard of our manor, the night cold, the soft currents of kinship still running between us despite all I had done to sully his name. He asked me if I wished him to keep my chamber in the house. I said I did not care. He smiled at me. He said he had to ride to Silverymoon on urgent business that night. I told him his horse looked a pathetic beast. He smiled at me again and ruffled my hair. I squeezed his hand. A strange storm was brewing to the east and the stallion shied from the gates, marble eyes rolling. It was the storm that was to bring the Gods with it, your father among them.~ = ~That night he was murdered by Shadow Thieves, seeking me. But not just murdered. Bloodied to an unrecognisable pulp as a certain gesture. In a sick way, I admired their thoroughness. I felt hollowness in the back of my throat. Death was real, not a child's game, an act of defiance against life. My brother, my rock, was murdered. I had felt what it was like to be both the murderess and the murdered. For I was murdered--the last remaining spot of me left untouched by the black.~ = ~I am not one to hold grudges, but those who did that to him, destroyed a spotless soul and body that existed to prop up others, eyes without the barest tinct of corruption...I will destroy them totally and utterly, in body, in mind, in soul. Laugh as I drag from them a final heavy scream, then bring them back and start it all again. I would never tire of it, you know.~ ++ ~I am sorry you lost your brother. It sounds as though you cared for him a great deal.~ + LK#NL14_greatdeal ++ ~I know the ardency with which you want vengeance. I felt it myself, when Gorion was killed.~ + LK#NL14_gorkilled ++ ~It is not good to have such a vengeful attitude, Ninde.~ + LK#NL14_novenge ++ ~That...that explains a lot to me about you.~ + LK#NL14_greatdeal ++ ~Hells, how longwinded and boring that was!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL14_anywon END IF ~~ LK#NL14_longsince SAY ~Longer, actually. I will tell you a little about them.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL14_soure SAY ~What a repellent little whelp you are, . I sometimes wonder why I bother with you.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL14_anywon SAY ~You wish to be alone on top of your mountain. Very well, I shall bother you no longer.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL14_greatdeal SAY ~Yes...I--I have realised that whatever advanced ideas we have about what will bring us happiness, nothing ever brings us as much happiness as our childish joys, which are often un-planned, un-sought. It is a pity I learn this only now and not- no.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_end END IF ~~ LK#NL14_gorkilled SAY ~Yes...my story mirrors yours in many ways. Do you also find that whatever advanced ideas we have about what will bring us happiness, nothing ever brings us as much happiness as our childish joys, which are often un-planned, un-sought. It is a pity I learn this only now and not- no.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_end END IF ~~ LK#NL14_novenge SAY ~Perhaps you are right. Vengeance is a very adult desire, and I find that whatever advanced ideas we have about what will bring us satisfaction, nothing ever brings us as much happiness as our childish joys, which are often un-planned, un-sought. It is a pity I learn this only now and not- no.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL14_end END IF ~~ LK#NL14_end SAY ~My Lord, you are a good listener. Thank you.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 15. The clincher IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",29) RealGlobalTimerExpired("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL")~ LK#NL15 SAY ~You are especially silent tonight, Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~Ninde...~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NL15_ninde ++ ~And I suppose you've come to get me talking again? I would be...glad of the company.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NL15_ninde ++ ~Ninde, while usually your companionship pleases me immensely...tonight I--I don't know. I must think.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NL15_ninde ++ ~I am silent because I can find nothing to talk about.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NL15_contrary ++ ~I was trying to clear my head a little, but I suppose a vitriolic doxy so completely lacking in human emotion as yourself won't really understand. Or care. You know, Ninde, contrary to what you might think, I never did like you much.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1) SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NL15_contrary END IF ~~ LK#NL15_ninde SAY ~Shh.~ = ~His stomach--the corpse eating God. And his hard brain--sacred assassin. One a flame-horned mountain-stone, in the sun's disc, he heaps them all up, for the judgement.~ = ~I cannot help but think of that verse when I look at you.~ ++ ~Beautiful.~ + LK#NL15_beautiful ++ ~I doubt Deneir himself could boast such fine verse.~ + LK#NL15_poetgod ++ ~And why is that?~ + LK#NL15_whythat ++ ~That's quite enough of that. I'm beginning to feel a little woozy, who knows what kind of hokum you're using on me.~ + LK#NL15_hokum ++ ~Gods, Ninde, I'm really in no mood for your tired poeticisms.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_poeticism END IF ~~ LK#NL15_poeticism SAY ~Fine. Then I shall leave you to your loneliness.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_contrary SAY ~You make life very difficult for yourself, my Lord. Too difficult. You've climbed your mountain and now you seek to melt it. As you would have it, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_beautiful SAY ~It is a cold night...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_poetgod SAY ~I wouldn't go that far. I am no demigod, though I keep the company of such.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_main1 SAY ~You are very handsome, . Worry...it becomes you. I feel it beneath your skin as clear as your collarbones. But what ails thee, my handsome Bhaalspawn?~ ++ ~The battles that lie ahead. There are many...and I know I may not lead us all through them alive.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I know it won't be long now until a final altercation with Irenicus. He--he is undeniably powerful.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I am worried that...that I am falling in love.~ + LK#NL15_fallinluv ++ ~I am not certain I will be able to protect all those I care about through what is to come.~ + LK#NL15_impending + ~InParty("Imoen2") !StateCheck("Imoen2",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ + ~I worry about Imoen. I know little of what that beast did to her, what ghosts her mind was barraged with. She--she may never be as she once was. The thought scares me. She was all I had left of brighter days.~ + LK#NL15_imoen ++ ~The slayer encroaches further upon me every day. How long will it be until the lines blur? It is the one battle I am sure I will lose.~ + LK#NL15_soulangst ++ ~It's that rash on...well, you know where. I'm starting to think I caught something off that lass in Brynnlaw!~ + LK#NL15_stdz END IF ~~ LK#NL15_whythat SAY ~Because you are a very handsome Bhaalspawn...and frightening, as well. Worry...it becomes you. I feel it beneath your skin as clear as your collarbones. But what ails thee, my Lord?~ ++ ~The battles that lie ahead. There are many...and I know I may not lead us all through them alive.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I know it won't be long now until a final altercation with Irenicus. He--he is undeniably powerful.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I am worried that...that I am falling in love.~ + LK#NL15_fallinluv ++ ~I am not certain I will be able to protect all those I care about through what is to come.~ + LK#NL15_impending + ~InParty("Imoen2") !StateCheck("Imoen2",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ + ~I worry about Imoen. I know little of what that beast did to her, what ghosts her mind was barraged with. She--she may never be as she once was. The thought scares me. She was all I had left of brighter days.~ + LK#NL15_imoen ++ ~The slayer encroaches further upon me every day. How long will it be until the lines blur? It is the one battle I am sure I will lose.~ + LK#NL15_soulangst ++ ~It's that rash on...well, you know where. I'm starting to think I caught something off that lass in Brynnlaw!~ + LK#NL15_stdz END IF ~~ LK#NL15_hokum SAY ~Goodness, you've been in Amn far too long. I play no tricks. What good would it do? But you are worried. I feel it under your skin as clear as your collar bones.~ ++ ~The battles that lie ahead. There are many...and I know I may not lead us all through them alive.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I know it won't be long now until a final altercation with Irenicus. He--he is undeniably powerful.~ + LK#NL15_impending ++ ~I am worried that...that I am falling in love.~ + LK#NL15_fallinluv ++ ~I am not certain I will be able to protect all those I care about through what is to come.~ + LK#NL15_impending + ~InParty("Imoen2") !StateCheck("Imoen2",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ + ~I worry about Imoen. I know little of what that beast did to her, what ghosts her mind was barraged with. She--she may never be as she once was. The thought scares me. She was all I had left of brighter days.~ + LK#NL15_imoen ++ ~The slayer encroaches further upon me every day. How long will it be until the lines blur? It is the one battle I am sure I will lose.~ + LK#NL15_soulangst ++ ~It's that rash on...well, you know where. I'm starting to think I caught something off that lass in Brynnlaw!~ + LK#NL15_stdz END IF ~~ LK#NL15_impending SAY ~There are many battles ahead, this is true. Some of us may die--so it goes. I know you, Bhaalspawn. You will fight on. You will strike for the heart...as you struck for mine.~ ++ ~I love you, Ninde. ~ + LK#NL15_iluvu ++ ~I care for you a great deal, Ninde--a great deal. But I cannot...all it would do is endanger you further.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~So you mean to say, all this time, while you've been scathing, vitriolic, beastly, cruel and conniving to me...you've actually loved me? Dear, the phrase is 'treat them mean, keep them keen', not 'verbally batter them to within an inch of sanity, keep them keen.' But...but whatever you did, it worked. I am yours, Ninde. Irretrievably.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~Ahh, my wily charms claim yet another gasping victim!~ + LK#NL15_victim ++ ~What...what do you mean?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_whatdoumean ++ ~Your heart? Pity I missed. Then again, it's a pretty small target, is it not?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_smaltarg END IF ~~ LK#NL15_fallinluv SAY ~Those without souls cannot love, . At least, that is according to the lore that I have read. Then again...~ = ~I again find I am thrilled to feel a pair of eyes upon me, that something fine and dark stirs within my heart. Perhaps the old sages were wrong again.~ ++ ~I love you, Ninde. ~ + LK#NL15_iluvu ++ ~I care for you a great deal, Ninde--a great deal. But I cannot...all it would do is endanger you further.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~So you mean to say, all this time, while you've been scathing, vitriolic, beastly, cruel and conniving to me...you've actually loved me? Dear, the phrase is 'treat them mean, keep them keen', not 'verbally batter them to within an inch of sanity, keep them keen.' But...but whatever you did, it worked. I am yours, Ninde. Irretrievably.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~Ahh, my wily charms claim yet another gasping victim!~ + LK#NL15_victim ++ ~What...what do you mean?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_whatdoumean ++ ~Don't make me laugh, Ninde. You? Capable of love? ~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_smaltarg END IF ~~ LK#NL15_imoen SAY ~It is odd that your attachment to her remains...so intact. When Lassal took my soul, I lost all love. All love. I am glad you have yet to experience it...it is like...boredom. An ultimate, incurable boredom, never to love again, feel the thrill of someone fine and mysterious to you stirring in your heart. I had not in thirty years.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_soulangst SAY ~I see it gnaw at you every day, and yet you prove so...resilient. When Lassal took my soul, I lost all love and all life. All love. I am glad you have yet to experience it...it is like...boredom. An ultimate, incurable boredom, know you are never to love again, feel the thrill of someone fine and mysterious to you stirring in your heart. I had not in thirty years.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_main2 SAY ~And then I met you. My dark lord, my Bhaalspawn. You...you struck for my heart.~ ++ ~I love you, Ninde. ~ + LK#NL15_iluvu ++ ~I care for you a great deal, Ninde--a great deal. But I cannot...all it would do is endanger you further.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~So you mean to say, all this time, while you've been scathing, vitriolic, beastly, cruel and conniving to me...you've actually loved me? Dear, the phrase is 'treat them mean, keep them keen', not 'verbally batter them to within an inch of sanity, keep them keen.' But...but whatever you did, it worked. I am yours, Ninde. Irretrievably.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~Ahh, my wily charms claim yet another gasping victim!~ + LK#NL15_victim ++ ~What...what do you mean?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_whatdoumean ++ ~Your heart? Don't make me laugh. You don't have a heart.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_smaltarg END IF ~~ LK#NL15_stdz SAY ~My Lord, my dark, my Bhaalspawn. With all the battles to come he jokes even now. You are foolish and fierce, and you...you have struck for my heart.~ ++ ~I love you, Ninde. ~ + LK#NL15_iluvu ++ ~I care for you a great deal, Ninde--a great deal. But I cannot...all it would do is endanger you further.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~So you mean to say, all this time, while you've been scathing, vitriolic, beastly, cruel and conniving to me...you've actually loved me? Dear, the phrase is 'treat them mean, keep them keen', not 'verbally batter them to within an inch of sanity, keep them keen.' But...but whatever you did, it worked. I am yours, Ninde. Irretrievably.~ + LK#NL15_endanger ++ ~Ahh, my wily charms claim yet another gasping victim!~ + LK#NL15_victim ++ ~What...what do you mean?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_whatdoumean ++ ~Your heart? Pity I missed. Then again, it's a pretty small target, is it not?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_smaltarg END IF ~~ LK#NL15_iluvu SAY ~I--that is to say...I fear you are mistaken, Bhaalspawn. Godchild. I did not mean--you are a child...a boy. You have...so many battles. I will fight them with you. But not love--I have no love. There is none left for you or for any other. I...~ ++ ~Ninde, do not leave me tonight.~ + LK#NL15_notleave ++ ~It changes nothing. Whether you love me or despise me, I will still be yours. Hopeless and devoted.~ + LK#NL15_devoted ++ ~Perhaps you do not love me yet, but I am convinced that you will. Just look at this roguishly handsome face!~ + LK#NL15_roguishly ++ ~You are mine, Ninde. You are now, and you always will be...and you know it.~ + LK#NL15_unoeet ++ ~As you would have it, Ninde. Goodnight.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_gudnight END IF ~~ LK#NL15_endanger SAY ~You enchant me, my Lord...but I do not love you, so do not think it. I have no love. There is none left for you or for any other. I...~ ++ ~Ninde, do not leave me tonight.~ + LK#NL15_notleave ++ ~Perhaps you do not love me yet, but I am convinced that you will. Just look at this roguishly handsome face!~ + LK#NL15_roguishly ++ ~And I do not love you, either.~ + LK#NL15_either ++ ~You are mine, Ninde. You are now, and you always will be...and you know it.~ + LK#NL15_unoeet ++ ~As you would have it, Ninde. Goodnight.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_gudnight END IF ~~ LK#NL15_victim SAY ~And confidence that befits a demigod, too. You enchant me, my Lord...but I do not love you, so do not think it. I have no love. There is none left for you or for any other. I...~ ++ ~Ninde, do not leave me tonight.~ + LK#NL15_notleave ++ ~Perhaps you do not love me yet, but I am convinced that you will. Just look at this roguishly handsome face!~ + LK#NL15_roguishly ++ ~And I do not love you, either.~ + LK#NL15_either ++ ~You are mine, Ninde. You are now, and you always will be...and you know it.~ + LK#NL15_unoeet ++ ~As you would have it, Ninde. Goodnight.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NL15_gudnight END IF ~~ LK#NL15_whatdoumean SAY ~I mean that--no. No, it does not matter, . It is...it is a cold night. Sleep well.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_smaltarg SAY ~My soul was taken but my heart was not, though it may've grown harder. You are mistaken if you think your words sting, Bhaalspawn. They merely prove to me that you...you show no resilience in the face of the black. You have submitted sooner than I thought you would, and you disgust me for it. I was mistaken in thinking you strong.~ = ~Goodnight, soulless one, empty cloak.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_notleave SAY ~As you wish, my Lord. But you needn't look so pleased with yourself, either, since you won't be getting into my petticoats. It is not the night for such things.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_end END IF ~~ LK#NL15_devoted SAY ~Gods, this is like being followed home by a mangy puppy. I mean that in the best possible sense, of course. A mangy puppy with a certain rustic appeal. Anyway.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_end END IF ~~ LK#NL15_end SAY ~Here...I will sit by you a while. We...we needn't speak. Just rest, my Lord.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_roguishly SAY ~Heh. Well, I've successfully resisted so far, my Lord. You may have to up your game a bit if you really want me falling at your feet, eager to fulfil your every whim. Just look at this flawless specimen of womanhood! Who wouldn't?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_end2 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_unoeet SAY ~Really, my Lord, you may have to up your game a bit if you really want me falling at your feet, eager to fulfil your every whim. Just look at this flawless specimen of womanhood! Who wouldn't?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL15_end2 END IF ~~ LK#NL15_end2 SAY ~But not tonight, at any rate. Here...I will sit by you a while. We...we needn't speak. Just rest, my Lord.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_either SAY ~Then here...I will sit by you a while. We...we needn't speak. Just rest, my Lord. Rest and pretend these are better times, more apt for love.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL15_gudnight SAY ~Then sleep, Bhaalspawn, and pretend these are better times, more apt for love.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END // 16. Post-encounter IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",31)~ LK#NL16 SAY ~Don't look at me like that, .~ ++ ~You told me that Shadow Thieves murdered your brother.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL16_shathieves ++ ~Like what? Like you're the kind of woman who would murder her father and brother?~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL16_murderss ++ ~I'm not in the least bit upset with you, dear, I just don't know why you didn't tell me sooner. It simply proves to me what an enterprising girl you were.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL16_enterpri ++ ~You disgust me, Ninde. You slaughtered your family, then covered your tracks. I spared you, but cannot allow you to travel with us any longer.~ DO ~RealSetGlobalTimer("LK#NindeLoveTalksTimer","GLOBAL",2700) IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_shathieves SAY ~They--they did not. But neither did I, ! I did not murder him at any rate...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main END IF ~~ LK#NL16_murderss SAY ~I did not kill Respen, ! I--I did not murder him, at any rate.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main END IF ~~ LK#NL16_enterpri SAY ~Do not speak like that, ! You know nothing of this, nothing! Enterprising? Has your life made you so utterly insensible to the implications of death, of killing?~ = ~I did not kill Respen, ! I--I did not murder him, at any rate.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main END IF ~~ LK#NL16_main SAY ~...I--he challenged me, about my behaviour with Sykre and the Nighthand and things escalated--it was the Time of Troubles...my magics were erratic and I...I killed him.~ ++ ~And what of Inaed, your father? I suppose that was an accident, too.~ + LK#NL16_accitoo ++ ~An unfortunate mistake on your part. You must feel such remorse.~ + LK#NL16_misteak ++ ~I think you're lying to me again. You are a talented spellcaster, and yet you expect me to believe you simply lost control of yourself like that?~ + LK#NL16_likethat ++ ~An accident? A likely story. You murderous witch, you killed those who only ever sought to care for you!~ + LK#NL16_caryou ++ ~Eh, well it's not as if I care either way.~ + LK#NL16_eithway END IF ~~ LK#NL16_longer SAY ~Then you have protected me thus far and I can ask for no more. Thank you, Bhaalspawn. I will fondly remember our time together, and am sorry it had to end with such...such bitterness. Farewell.~ IF ~~ DO ~LeaveParty() SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","LOCALS",0) EscapeArea()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_accitoo SAY ~For this...for this I have no excuse. I killed with a darker mind, that night.~ ++ ~Care to elaborate?~ + LK#NL16_elaborate ++ ~I think your lasts shreds of compassion probably died with your brother.~ + LK#NL16_shreds ++ ~The powerful are often struck by murderous feeling.~ + LK#NL16_feelin ++ ~So you did murder him, as the paladin claimed!~ + LK#NL16_claimed END IF ~~ LK#NL16_misteak SAY ~The sort of mistake one only makes once. But I have killed with a darker mind than I had that night.~ ++ ~I am not surprised.~ + LK#NL16_nodoubt ++ ~Care to elaborate?~ + LK#NL16_elaborate ++ ~What of your father? Did you murder him, as the paladin claimed?~ + LK#NL16_claimed ++ ~I think your lasts shreds of compassion probably died with your brother.~ + LK#NL16_shreds ++ ~The powerful are often struck by murderous feeling.~ + LK#NL16_feelin ++ ~I, too, have killed inadvertently. It is not pleasant.~ + LK#NL16_inadvert END IF ~~ LK#NL16_likethat SAY ~The coming of the Gods disrupted the weave--whatever my intentions, I could not have cast correctly. That night...that night, I did not have murder in mind.~ ++ ~An accident, then. But what about Inaed?~ + LK#NL16_watinaed ++ ~What of your father? Did you murder him, as the paladin claimed?~ + LK#NL16_claimed ++ ~I, too, have killed inadvertently. It is not pleasant.~ + LK#NL16_inadvert ++ ~I am still not certain I believe you.~ + LK#NL16_notcert END IF ~~ LK#NL16_caryou SAY ~Keep your wig on, . The coming of the Gods disrupted the weave--whatever my intentions, I could not have cast correctly. That night...that night, I did not have murder in mind.~ ++ ~An accident, then. But what about Inaed?~ + LK#NL16_watinaed ++ ~What of your father? Did you murder him, as the paladin claimed?~ + LK#NL16_claimed ++ ~I, too, have killed inadvertently. It is not pleasant.~ + LK#NL16_claimed ++ ~Still, I do not believe you! How can you expect me to, after the revelations of today?~ + LK#NL16_notcert ++ ~You lie, evil-doer! It was foolish of me to trust you!~ + LK#NL16_trusya END IF ~~ LK#NL16_eithway SAY ~Your anger would be preferable to your apathy, ...nonetheless, thank you for not surrendering me to Archonson.~ = ~Let us...let us continue.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_elaborate SAY ~I poisoned Inaed, the doddering old fool. Although...my motives were confused even then. Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret END IF ~~ LK#NL16_nodoubt SAY ~I had hoped you would be. What kind of abhorrent creature am I if you think killing my own brother was simply...simply an unpleasant diversion for me? I have only killed with such arrogance once. Yes...my father, Inaed. I poisoned him.~ = ~But even then my motives were confused. Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_shreds SAY ~Probably a little before that, when I killed my father. I poisoned him.~ = ~But even then my motives were confused. Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_feelin SAY ~You forget, , I am not built of evil as you are. My motives were ever confused...my father, for example. I poisoned him. Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money? Who can say.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_claimed SAY ~Yes. And my father, too. Apologies for not telling you sooner, but why tell the truth when a lie is so much more appealing for all involved? Besides, my intentions and my actions are rather divorced from each other. When I killed my brother, I did not mean to.~ = ~When I killed my father, I poisoned him. Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money? Who can say.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_inadvert SAY ~Now, completely intentional killing--that's a whole different kettle of fish. My father for example. I poisoned him.~ = ~Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money? Who can say.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_watinaed SAY ~I poisoned him.~ = ~Perhaps I wished to put into practice all I had been studying, see for myself how easy it was to tip the scale. Or perhaps it was something as mundane as simply wanting his money? Who can say.~ ++ ~What happened was unfortunate, Ninde, but do not dwell upon it. Not a day goes by when someone or something does not die by my hand, and yet I cannot become preoccupied by it.~ + LK#NL16_emoshun ++ ~I often find myself wishing you were...kinder, somehow.~ + LK#NL16_kinder ++ ~It's nice your so pragmatic about these things.~ + LK#NL16_prgmatic ++ ~Do you regret killing the Amblecrowns? It certainly seems like you do, but one can never be sure with you.~ + LK#NL16_regret ++ ~You are an abhorrent creature indeed, and one I no longer want in this group!~ + LK#NL16_longer END IF ~~ LK#NL16_notcert SAY ~Then I shan't bother giving you more to puzzle over.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_trusya SAY ~No need to get your undergarments in a twist. Am I to suppose you no longer want me in your party, then, honeypie?~ ++ ~No. I am very angry with you, but would prefer you remain with us.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT ++ ~Yes. I suggest you get moving now.~ DO ~LeaveParty() SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","GLOBAL",0) EscapeArea()~ EXIT ++ ~Since the paladin is not around to finish his job, someone ought to for him! To arms!~ DO ~LeaveParty() SetGlobal("LK#NindeJoined","GLOBAL",0) Enemy()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_emoshun SAY ~Yes, you kill many. But are you so insensible to what that means? You think it is merely beds that will go unmade, a woman unloved, that a- Gods. Death is an ugly thing, . Killing has a certain glamour. Death...you know nothing of it.~ ++ ~I know what it means to kill. I know what it is to have friends killed. I know what it is to exist without a soul--dying is the only thing I haven't done.~ + LK#NL16_dying ++ ~I am not unaware of the implications I have to do...I just know I have to do it. I have no choice. If I could put an end to all of this, to the death that surrounds me, I would have.~ + LK#NL16_surround ++ ~Perhaps. But I'm still learning.~ + LK#NL16_learning ++ ~And I'm glad. I think perhaps if I had intimate knowledge of death it would make it too difficult to face. And I must face it, every day.~ + LK#NL16_erryday ++ ~I don't think I want to know either.~ + LK#NL16_erryday END IF ~~ LK#NL16_kinder SAY ~There's nothing unkind about apathy. You can wish whatever you care to. I sometimes wish I'd never learnt to lie so well. I sometimes wish I'd become Lady Archonson instead of Sykre's apprentice. I sometimes wish I had slimmer thighs, but the feeling passes.~ = ~I wish we had not had to kill him. He's still so handsome.~ ++ ~He's very handsome, and seems like a noble sort of chap. But I can't imagine you together. It would be like the sun falling in love with night.~ + LK#NL16_loviatar ++ ~I wouldn't say so. Then again, it's very hard to look handsome with your face mashed to a pulp, after all. Hur hur.~ + LK#NL16_hurhur ++ ~It was a senseless battle, but he was unrelenting. I wasn't about to hand you over to him.~ + LK#NL16_handsu ++ ~I am sorry for your loss, if you still cared for him.~ + LK#NL16_cared ++ ~So what's the story behind the pair of you, anyway?~ + LK#NL16_storiez ++ ~Yes, dear, but there are plenty more fish in the sea. Pick yourself up and move along. We've got work to do, you know.~ + LK#NL16_word2do END IF ~~ LK#NL16_prgmatic SAY ~Oh, so I used to think. But then I realised I was insensible to what death...what death means. You think it is merely beds that will go unmade, a woman unloved, that a- Gods. Death is an ugly thing, . Killing has a certain glamour. Death...you know nothing of it.~ ++ ~I know what it means to kill. I know what it is to have friends killed. I know what it is to exist without a soul--dying is the only thing I haven't done.~ + LK#NL16_dying ++ ~I am not unaware of the implications I have to do...I just know I have to do it. I have no choice. If I could put an end to all of this, to the death that surrounds me, I would have.~ + LK#NL16_surround ++ ~Perhaps. But I'm still learning.~ + LK#NL16_learning ++ ~And I'm glad. I think perhaps if I had intimate knowledge of death it would make it too difficult to face. And I must face it, every day.~ + LK#NL16_erryday ++ ~I don't think I want to know either.~ + LK#NL16_erryday END IF ~~ LK#NL16_regret SAY ~Any fool can regret yesterday, it does not necessarily mean a thing. I think...perhaps I do, though. I know I said otherwise to Jallen--I mean, Archonson--but...they need to know there are bad people in the world. People of a kind of bad they cannot understand.~ = ~Somehow I don't think the message got very far. I wish we had not had to kill him. He's still so handsome.~ ++ ~He's very handsome, and seems like a noble sort of chap. But I can't imagine you together. It would be like the sun falling in love with night.~ + LK#NL16_loviatar ++ ~I wouldn't say so. Then again, it's very hard to look handsome with your face mashed to a pulp, after all. Hur hur.~ + LK#NL16_hurhur ++ ~It was a senseless battle, but he was unrelenting. I wasn't about to hand you over to him.~ + LK#NL16_handsu ++ ~I am sorry for your loss, if you still cared for him.~ + LK#NL16_cared ++ ~So what's the story behind the pair of you, anyway?~ + LK#NL16_storiez ++ ~Yes, dear, but there are plenty more fish in the sea. Pick yourself up and move along. We've got work to do, you know.~ + LK#NL16_word2do END IF ~~ LK#NL16_dying SAY ~Yes, well I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_surround SAY ~And well I believe it, . I have had enough. Perhaps when you see the boy whose name you used to scribble on your school parchments lying in a bloodied heap at your feet, it's time to call it a day.~ = ~I wish we had not had to kill him. He's still so handsome.~ ++ ~He's very handsome, and seems like a noble sort of chap. But I can't imagine you together. It would be like the sun falling in love with night.~ + LK#NL16_loviatar ++ ~I wouldn't say so. Then again, it's very hard to look handsome with your face mashed to a pulp, after all. Hur hur.~ + LK#NL16_hurhur ++ ~It was a senseless battle, but he was unrelenting. I wasn't about to hand you over to him.~ + LK#NL16_handsu ++ ~I am sorry for your loss, if you still cared for him.~ + LK#NL16_cared ++ ~So what's the story behind the pair of you, anyway?~ + LK#NL16_storiez ++ ~Yes, dear, but there are plenty more fish in the sea. Pick yourself up and move along. We've got work to do, you know.~ + LK#NL16_word2do END IF ~~ LK#NL16_learning SAY ~There are three things that can never be learnt; the nature of love, the true will of the Gods, and the consuming experience of an utter death.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_erryday SAY ~Then it is good that death is one of the three things a intimate knowledge of can never be acquired; the nature of love, the true will of the Gods, and the consuming experience of an utter death.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_main2 SAY ~When I venerated Oghma and not Shar I would ask him every night how it is we can be so afraid of that place from which so many return. It can be used to control a nation, subdue a wife, break a child. Oh, and seduce your young elven apprentice. No-one ever made death look as good as Sykre did.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_loviatar SAY ~It is strange you should say that. It felt more like the she-wolf falling in love with the huntsman.~ = ~And now I am to him as the night is to the sun. The heavy veil of doom, the chance to be forgotten.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_hurhur SAY ~Quite. Though he still manages to make you look like a porcine northern dunderhead. Funnily enough, everything makes you look like a porcine northern dunderhead. Perhaps it is simply that you are a porcine northern dunderhead.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_handsu SAY ~And I thank you for it. I'd promise to repay you...but promises were never quite my thing. Take this, instead.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_end END IF ~~ LK#NL16_cared SAY ~Care about him? , I'd practically forgotten he existed. In my youth I wore spectacles. He was one of the rough young males who took great delight in stealing them. And tugging on my braids. And pinching my ears.~ = ~So, naturally, I fell madly in love with him. He ended up hiding in the gaurdrobe from my maidservants in the morning to avoid scandal, commanding my arm at every seasonal dance. It's funny isn't it? Childhood sweetheart one moment, decaying offal the next.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_storiez SAY ~In my youth I wore spectacles. He was one of the rough young males who took great delight in stealing them. And tugging on my braids. And pinching my ears.~ = ~So, naturally, I fell madly in love with him. He ended up hiding in the gaurdrobe from my maidservants in the morning to avoid scandal, commanding my arm at every seasonal dance. It's funny isn't it? Childhood sweetheart one moment, decaying offal the next.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_main3 END IF ~~ LK#NL16_main3 SAY ~Yes, we are suckling at death's mouldering teat, my dear. Our position is a sorry one.~ ++ ~I shall take you away from all this someday, Ninde. That, I promise.~ + LK#NL16_handsu ++ ~Death's mouldering teat? Frankly, there are nicer teats around.~ + LK#NL16_tetatete ++ ~We won't be for much longer. First Bodhi, then Irenicus...and then rest. No more mouldering teats for .~ + LK#NL16_namoremo ++ ~I can see what transpired here today has effected you most profoundly. I've never seen you this way before.~ + LK#NL16_transpried ++ ~Sooner or late I'm going to grow tired of these macabre musings.~ + LK#NL16_macabre END IF ~~ LK#NL16_word2do SAY ~You are quite right, . I can see why this is a most inconvenient time to distract you with my profound existential crises.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_tetatete SAY ~Hmm...Their certainly are, dear. But try not to become to pre-occupied with them! They've been the downfall of many a greater man, honeybunch. In fact, I dare say they are a danger to civilisation at large.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_namoremo SAY ~A rest well deserved...I hope I can join you in it, . Until then...I have something for you. Perhaps...some momentary respite. And a thank you.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL16_end END IF ~~ LK#NL16_transpried SAY ~I am...I am simply tired, . Let us move on.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_macabre SAY ~I am sorry if I try your patience, but I hope that day is later rather then sooner. I am very thankful for what you have done for me today, . Now...let us move on.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL16_end SAY ~(Ninde regards you for a moment or two, her expression unreadable, before planting a kiss on your cheek. Sweet and light, it's almost the kind of kiss you'd give to friend--almost. It's more the glitter of her feline eyes as she turns away from you that suggests there was something behind the gesture beyond simple camaraderie.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END // 17. IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",33) !Global("LK#NindeRestored","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NL17 SAY ~So it draws to a close. The treehoppers will be saved, Irenicus given a thorough licking--though not literally, he would taste of pickles and old leather--and you will have your soul back. All will be right in the world.~ ++ ~I don't think so. I have the funny feeling there will be plenty more battles to fight after we have done away with Irenicus. Harder, bloodier ones.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL17_harbloo ++ ~Perhaps all my immediate troubles would come to an end, but I have broader concerns, such as the happiness of my companions, the balance of the very realms.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL17_balants ++ ~One can only hope so. I have been struggling for too long.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL17_strugz2 ++ ~Do I sense a touch of sarcasm, there?~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL17_tousarc ++ ~You never know. He could kill us all. Wouldn't that be wonderful.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL17_vandaf END IF ~~ LK#NL17_harbloo SAY ~The eve of our final battle and already your thoughts turn to the next? You are a hardened one. Perhaps it would do you some good to relax a little. Uncoil.~ ++ ~I have not kept myself alive these years through relaxation.~ + LK#NL17_relxno ++ ~Hmm...you telling me to relax is a little counter-productive, since as soon as you express some interest in my state of being, I start wondering what you're really after. Then I worry. ~ + LK#NL17_theniwor ++ ~Ordinarily, I would agree with you, but there are too many dangers, at present.~ + LK#NL17_atpresn ++ ~You are right. I am very much on edge. It would do me good to unwind.~ + LK#NL17_unwindo ++ ~Hardened in more ways then one. I must say...that robe hugs you in all the right places. Heh.~ + LK#NL17_riteplass END IF ~~ LK#NL17_balants SAY ~The balance of the realms? My handsome Bhaalspawn...will you never tire of being the golden boy of Faerun? Reach out and take what you want? Because I know there is something you want. My Lord, it is time for you to be just a little bit...deliciously...selfish.~ ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.)~ + LK#NL17_kisohmy ++ ~You know what I want? Very clever of you. *I* don't even know what I want.~ + LK#NL17_ievno ++ ~If only it were that easy. I try to prioritise my own desires, but circumstances often force me to sideline them.~ + LK#NL17_sidelin ++ ~Perhaps you are right. I spend to long worrying about others. Tonight could be my last, for all I know, so why am I spending it thinking of others?~ + LK#NL17_ovover ++ ~Again you attempt to draw me to your own, thoughtless ways!~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_strugz2 SAY ~You have struggled, and yet you are stronger for it, my Lord. How I love a strong man...~ = ~(Ninde sits for a moment, regarding you askance in the firelight, before beginning to gently unlace her bodice. She stops, and the dark silk of her robe falls about her shoulders with a hiss, revealing bare shoulders, the soft upper curve of her full breasts. She pauses, gently drawing the garment apart, and fixing you with a very strange look.)~ ++ ~(Kiss Ninde)~ + LK#NL17_kisohmy ++ ~(Stroke Ninde's cheek)~ + LK#NL17_cheestro ++ ~I say, and about time to! I've been waiting months to get that godsdamned robe off you, now it looks like putting up with all your moaning is finally going to pay off! Come here, Nindey.~ + LK#NL17_payonin ++ ~Ninde, if you are after something, just come out with it, there's no need to start taking your clothes off.~ + LK#NL17_cloveof ++ ~Er, as flattered as I am that you'd offer yourself to me like this, I don't really think it's a very appropriate setting.~ + LK#NL17_notimnopl END IF ~~ LK#NL17_tousarc SAY ~Why, nothing could be further from the truth, my Lord. I may be a monumentally flawed being, but I am not entirely spiteful. The past few months have given me...cause to appreciate you. As difficult as that may be to believe, it is true. I appreciate you and happen to want favourable things to befall you, my handsome Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~It is reciprocal, Ninde.~ + LK#NL17_recipro ++ ~Well, I like to think I have been a worthy leader and a good friend.~ + LK#NL17_gudfrnd ++ ~I always get a little suspicious when you start going on about how brilliant I am...~ + LK#NL17_theniwor ++ ~I appreciate lots of things. Holy water, bags of holding, and jolly halfling innkeepers. You, however, are not one of the things I appreciate.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_vandaf SAY ~I have far too much confidence in your abilities to believe such a thing, . But...but suppose this was to be your last night. How would you spend it?~ ++ ~I've never considered it. I suppose I really ought to.~ + LK#NL17_ievno ++ ~I can think of no way I would rather spend it than here--with you.~ + LK#NL17_iwivu ++ ~Back in Candlekeep. After these many months I long to revisit it.~ + LK#NL17_revisit ++ ~With my friends and those that love me best.~ + LK#NL17_lovemeb ++ ~I would wish to be alone, to contemplate, reflect on all that I have done.~ + LK#NL17_allvdone ++ ~Ninde, must you persist in directing my thoughts to subjects so morbid and unpleasent?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL17_relxno SAY ~Perhaps you are simply unaware of how intensely pleasurable relaxation can be. A man like you...always travelling, always working so very hard...isn't that right, my Lord?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_main1 SAY ~(As Ninde speaks, she slowly positions herself behind you, and, kneeling, begins to rub your shoulders. Her face just inches from your neck, you feel her warm breath on your ear, your shoulder, and are acutely aware of the low, feminine sighs she emits, seemingly in appreciation as her fingers ease across your skin.)~ = ~(Out of the corner of your eye, you notice her robe gradually loosening about her shoulders, falling open a little, revealing the first teasing curves of her ample breasts, her delicate golden throat.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~Ninde, I fear this is neither the time, nor the place.~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_theniwor SAY ~Why so paranoid, my Lord? So many enemies, so little time for pleasure...~ = ~(As Ninde speaks, she slowly positions herself behind you, and, kneeling, begins to rub your shoulders. Her face just inches from your neck, you feel her warm breath on your ear, your shoulder, and are acutely aware of the low, feminine sighs she emits, seemingly in appreciation as her fingers ease across your skin.)~ = ~(Out of the corner of your eye, you notice her robe gradually loosening about her shoulders, falling open a little, revealing the first teasing curves of her ample breasts, her delicate golden throat.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~Yes, that's very nice, Ninde. But the thing is, I'm still wondering what exactly you're after.~ + LK#NL17_cloveof ++ ~Ninde, I fear this is neither the time, nor the place.~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_atpresn SAY ~Then put those enemies in a box, lock it, and throw it down a mineshaft. For tonight at least. Lay aside your bird-poise, your worries...and who know what I may lay aside. Perhaps I shall start with...this...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_main2 SAY ~(As Ninde speaks, her flame-brimming eyes never leave yours, even as she kneels before you in an oddly supplicant pose, like a harem girl before a sultan. She begins to unlace her bodice, slowly, before tantalisingly drawing apart the dark folds of satin, watching your face from beneath black lashes as the garment falls about her waist, her tantalising breasts exposed, her slender waist naked to the night.)~ ++ ~Ninde, I-~ + LK#NL17_ninnyi ++ ~(Pull Ninde to you.)~ + LK#NL17_pull2u ++ ~Very nice, dear. You can put them away, now.~ + LK#NL17_putwayn ++ ~Oh dear. Contrary to what you obviously believe, nothing could be more disgusting to me than the sight of your grotesque form paraded so.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_unwindo SAY ~I like it when you take my advice, my Lord. It makes me feel useful...but I can be useful in other ways, too...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_riteplass SAY ~Why, you are an awful letch, my Lord. I ought to try and present you with a sight that robs you of your capacity for such mouthfuls of offence.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_kisohmy SAY ~(Your action seems to surprise Ninde at first, and she recoils a little beside you. After a moment, however, she has placed an arm about your neck, and her lips brush softly against yours. Not hesitating, she deepens the kiss. She tastes of cinnamon and sour apples, and just a moment later you find she is on your lap, her robe pushed back across her smooth thighs, her legs wrapped around your waist, her whole body pressed and tight against yours.)~ ++ ~I love you, Ninde.~ + LK#NL17_ninnyluv ++ ~(Undo Ninde's robe.)~ + LK#NL17_undorob ++ ~(Run your hands down Ninde's thighs.)~ + LK#NL17_undorob ++ ~(Push Ninde away from you.)~ + LK#NL17_putwayn END IF ~~ LK#NL17_ievno SAY ~Then maybe I should give you some ideas, my Lord.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_sidelin SAY ~Circumstances be damned, for tonight, at least.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_ovover SAY ~My point precisely, my Lord...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_end SAY ~Then...then I see that you have no strength. What man is it that will not take what he sees, what he knows he can have? Shar, what he deserves! No man at all, I say.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL17_cheestro SAY ~(As you stroke her cheek, Ninde's closes her eyes, and presses her face against your hand. As your touch moves closer to her mouth, however, they flicker open again, and meet yours with a knowing gleam. She turns her head, and your fingers fall against her bow lips. Holding your hand in her own, she kisses the tips of your fingers, before opening her mouth, and gently biting the tip of your thumb.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~Ninde, I fear this is neither the time, nor the place.~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_payonin SAY ~(Ninde giggles throatily, and moves across to you. Without a moments hesitation, she places herself in your lap, her smooth thighs around your waist, her robe fallen to just below her navel, revealing her tantalising breasts. With another giggle, she lifts her arms above her head in a mock stretch and yawn, arching her body tight and firm against yours, seeming to invite your touch.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~(Kiss Ninde's neck.)~ + LK#NL17_keeneck ++ ~(Caress Ninde's breasts.)~ + LK#NL17_undorob ++ ~Ninde, I fear this is neither the time, nor the place.~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_cloveof SAY ~(Ninde shakes her loose hair in exasperation, before reaching out and taking your hands in hers. As she does so, her robe falls completely free of her body, leaving her tantalising breasts and slender waist naked to the night.)~ = ~I would've though it was fairly obvious what I want, at this juncture. You.~ = ~(With an expression so earnest you think it slightly contrived, but at the same time seemingly wholly sincere, she takes your hands, and places them firmly against her soft breasts.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~(Kiss Ninde's neck.)~ + LK#NL17_keeneck ++ ~(Caress Ninde's breasts.)~ + LK#NL17_undorob ++ ~Ninde, I fear this is neither the time, nor the place.~ + LK#NL17_end END IF ~~ LK#NL17_notimnopl SAY ~(Ninde shakes her loose hair in exasperation, before reaching out and taking your hands in hers. As she does so, her robe falls completely free of her body, leaving her tantalising breasts and slender waist naked to the night.)~ = ~(With an expression so earnest you think it slightly contrived, but at the same time wholly sincere, she takes your hands, and places them firmly against her soft breasts.)~ ++ ~Mmm...Ninde...~ + LK#NL17_moanguy ++ ~(Take Ninde in your arms.)~ + LK#NL17_takarms ++ ~(Kiss Ninde's neck.)~ + LK#NL17_keeneck ++ ~(Caress Ninde's breasts.)~ + LK#NL17_undorob ++ ~I mean it Ninde, we mustn't. Not now.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL17_recipro SAY ~And there are very many things I appreciate about you. Not least, those shoulders...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_gudfrnd SAY ~Oh, I don't want you to *befriend* me, my Lord...~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_gudfrnd2 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_gudfrnd2 SAY ~(As Ninde speaks, her flame-brimming eyes never leave yours, even as she kneels before you in an oddly supplicant pose, like a harem girl before a sultan. She begins to unlace her bodice, slowly, before tantalisingly drawing apart the dark folds of satin, watching your face from beneath black lashes as the garment falls about her waist, her tantalising breasts exposed, her slender waist naked to the night.)~ ++ ~Ninde, I-~ + LK#NL17_ninnyi ++ ~(Pull Ninde to you.)~ + LK#NL17_pull2u ++ ~Well, although you may feel differently--that is all I want from you. Friendship. I am sorry, Ninde...I just can't. ~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Oh dear. Contrary to what you obviously believe, nothing could be more disgusting to me than the sight of your grotesque form paraded so.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_noapps SAY ~Pity, but how could I expect the tastes of a low-bred northern barn rat to be anything other than unrefined? I hope the thought of Irenicus being so near at hand keeps you as warm as I could.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL17_iwivu SAY ~(Ninde's flame-brimming eyes never leave yours, even as she kneels before you in an oddly supplicant pose, like a harem girl before a sultan. She begins to unlace her bodice, slowly, before tantalisingly drawing apart the dark folds of satin, watching your face from beneath black lashes as the garment falls about her waist, her tantalising breasts exposed, her slender waist naked to the night.)~ ++ ~Ninde, I-~ + LK#NL17_ninnyi ++ ~(Pull Ninde to you.)~ + LK#NL17_pull2u ++ ~I am sorry Ninde, but I meant...as a friend, not as a lover.~ + LK#NL17_putwayn ++ ~Oh dear. Contrary to what you obviously believe, nothing could be more disgusting to me than the sight of your grotesque form paraded so.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_revisit SAY ~Candlekeep be damned, for tonight, at least.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_lovemeb SAY ~What about with one who would love you bodily. Pray, ...trade your Sune for Sharess.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL17_gudfrnd2 END IF ~~ LK#NL17_allvdone SAY ~I am not sure if I should take that as a hint, and leave you...or not.~ = ~(As Ninde speaks, her flame-brimming eyes never leave yours, even as she kneels before you in an oddly supplicant pose, like a harem girl before a sultan. She begins to unlace her bodice, slowly, before tantalisingly drawing apart the dark folds of satin, watching your face from beneath black lashes as the garment falls about her waist, her tantalising breasts exposed, her slender waist naked to the night.)~ ++ ~Ninde, I-~ + LK#NL17_ninnyi ++ ~(Pull Ninde to you.)~ + LK#NL17_pull2u ++ ~I'm sorry Ninde, but I really do wish to be alone, tonight. ~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Oh dear. Contrary to what you obviously believe, nothing could be more disgusting to me than the sight of your grotesque form paraded so.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_moanguy SAY ~(Ninde leans forward, so close to you that her cherry lips brush your ear.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_takarms SAY ~(You draw Ninde onto your lap, her slender figure still, her eyes very dark and black and unabashedly fixed on your face. Her lips parted, she breathes heavily, shiveringly, before teasingly drawing apart the folds of silk that frame her tempting cleavage. Tilting her head to one side, she pouts sweetly, then leans up to whisper in your ear.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT // ++ ~Ninde...I love you deeply, and I would be a lucky man. But I do not feel the time is right for us to do this.~ + LK#NL17_notuim2dis ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_ninnyi SAY ~(Ninde regards you with her head on one side, shrewdly as opposed to tenderly, fiercely aware of her nakedness, yet not shamed, but with a touch of determination in her features.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_pull2u SAY ~(You pull Ninde hard to your chest, and she winds her arms about your neck, her nails gently grazing your shoulders and back as she quivers in your arms. Your hear the elf moan as your lips meet, but abruptly, she draws away. She looks at you with something like suspicion, before her features collapse back into lusty sweetness.)~ = ~(Ninde leans forward, so close to you that her cherry lips brush your ear.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_putwayn SAY ~(Ninde looks about her momentarily in confusion, before her features quirk in an ugly expression of indignance.) ~ = ~(Without another word, Ninde gathers her robe to her bare body, and sweeps away, trailing the musky scent of cinnamon and incense smoke.)~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL17_ninnyluv SAY ~(Seeming at first to have not registered your declaration, Ninde once again brands your lips with hers, before drawing away, and looking you directly in the eyes. The sun elf does not respond at first, then suddenly giggles and clings to you all the tighter. Lifting her mouth to your ear, she whispers.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_undorob SAY ~(As you trace your fingertips across Ninde's rosegold skin, your hand is met by hers, and she pulls away from you slightly. Her expression is darkly enticing, and as she observes you beneath charcoal lashes, you notice her lithe body is quaking slightly in your arms. She leans forward once more, putting her mouth to your ear.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END IF ~~ LK#NL17_keeneck SAY ~(As your lips brush against the fragrant skin of her neck, Ninde murmurs something and clutches at you with something between vulnerability and profound lust. Her lithe body tenses in your arms, and she draws away from you a little, her lips touching your ear. She whispers.)~ = ~Take me, tonight. I am begging, Bhaalspawn. I need to--I need to know if-~ = ~Bed me, my Lord...let me please you. As only...I...can.~ ++ ~I would be delighted to, Ninde...~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Hey, don't need to ask me twice!~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~T'would be an honour. I only hope I can please you as much as I am certain you will please me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeNookie","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT ++ ~Ninde, you are a very attractive woman, but I wouldn't want to complicate our relationship--especially not at present. I'm sorry.~ + LK#NL17_end ++ ~Erm, no thanks. I'd rather take a cuttlefish back to my bedroll.~ + LK#NL17_noapps END // Morning After (LT 18) IF ~Global("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",35) !Global("LK#NindeRestored","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NL18 SAY ~(You wake with a start, sensing some sudden movement beside you, and reach for your weapon as second nature. As your fingers brush the morning-cooled metal, a softer hand meets your own. Remembering Ninde, you relax, and roll over to face her. She is still, her eyes limpid pools, and she appears to be gazing vacantly at something just beyond your shoulder. After a few moments, she collects herself, and speaks.)~ = ~Good morning, Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~Good morning, Ninde. I trust you slept well?~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_GMLOVE ++ ~What do you mean by waking me like that? You gave me quite a fright.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_QUIFRI ++ ~Is something wrong? You don't look quite yourself.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_QUITEURS ++ ~Yeah, whatever, Lady. Less gaping, more making me breakfast.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_MOREBREKM END IF ~~ LK#NL18_GMLOVE SAY ~I slept well at first...but then I had a dream. A nightmare.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_QUIFRI SAY ~Oh, I didn't realise...I am quite affrighted myself.~ ++ ~Why?~ + LK#NL18_QUITEURS ++ ~You certainly look more than a little on edge.~ + LK#NL18_QUITEURS ++ ~I know I'm not the handsomest of men, but I hoped my face would excite different emotions.~ + LK#NL18_QUITEURS END IF ~~ LK#NL18_QUITEURS SAY ~I had a dream last night. Well, a nightmare.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_main1 SAY ~I dreamt I lay in a pool, naked but for a white night shift I wore as a girl. The pool was black, and in the most lightless cavern. I tried to move, but found myself unable too. The only sound in the cave was this torturously regular dripping, and as I listened to it...this...this dread begin to gather in me.~ = ~I felt as though something was rising from the deeps of the pool and there was no way I could escape it. Something made more frightening because I did not know what it was, and I could feel the water surging against my body but couldn't even turn to see what the growing shadow in the pool belonged too.~ ++ ~That sounds...very unnerving. It was only a dream though. Be at ease.~ + LK#NL18_BATEAZE ++ ~I am sorry that a night so sweet could be tainted by such an imagining.~ + LK#NL18_MAGININ ++ ~Strange. I simply hope it wasn't prophetic.~ + LK#NL18_WANTPROP ++ ~Pfft. Nightmare? What I wouldn't give for such nightmares! That was a pleasant stroll in a meadow compared to the horrors I am nightly bombarded with.~ + LK#NL18_BOMBARD END IF ~~ LK#NL18_MOREBREKM SAY ~My, it seems we were both used.~ ++ ~Used? How do you mean?~ + LK#NL18_HOWUMEN ++ ~It does not concern me. I wanted a night with you, and now I want breakfast. I am a creature of impulse.~ + LK#NL18_IMPULZE ++ ~You were, perhaps, but not I! is never used.~ + LK#NL18_BUNOTI END IF ~~ LK#NL18_BATEAZE SAY ~Please! Please do not do that--I do not want the sweet assuaging male, brimming with ready smiles and opened arms. I don't want this from you, Bhaalspawn.~ ++ ~Then what do you want, Ninde? I am confused. Sometimes I get the impression that there is something growing between us, but as soon as I act upon it, you drive me away.~ + LK#NL18_DRIVWA ++ ~Well, like it or not, you've got it. You seem distressed, and no matter how you attempt to persuade me otherwise, I know I cannot leave you like this.~ + LK#NL18_LEEVLIKE ++ ~And why not? I care for you Ninde--why should I not express it?~ + LK#NL18_EXPREIT ++ ~Then you would prefer I was callous? I bedded you then left you to your miseries? Then perhaps I ought to do just that.~ + LK#NL18_PRAWILL ++ ~Thank the Gods! I know what I wanted, and I got it last night. I suppose I can drop the noble swain act now.~ + LK#NL18_MOREBREKM END IF ~~ LK#NL18_MAGININ SAY ~And...and I am sorry that my own quiet decline should be interrupted by nights of foolishness such as that just passed.~ ++ ~You didn't seem to think it foolish last night.~ + LK#NL18_LANITE ++ ~Foolish? Tell me, Ninde, what is foolish about two people who are drawn to each other being together?~ + LK#NL18_WUTFOOL ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I really don't appreciate this. I wish for once you would decide what you wanted, and stop all this nonsense. You either want me or you don't, so make your choice. I'll be toyed with no longer~ + LK#NL18_NUNSENS ++ ~Foolish? Boring is the word I'd use. Honestly, I thought you were supposed to be good at that sort of thing.~ + LK#NL18_GUDSORT END IF ~~ LK#NL18_WANTPROP SAY ~I don't think it will be. The night before last I dreamt I spent a wonderful night with a charming Bhaalspawn--that dream went unfulfilled. Shar, how foolish I have been.~ ++ ~I assume you're talking about me?~ + LK#NL18_WELLGAH ++ ~I really don't appreciate this. I wish for once you would decide what you wanted, and stop all this nonsense. You either want me or you don't, so make your choice. I'll be toyed with no longer~ + LK#NL18_NUNSENS ++ ~Then I am sorry you didn't enjoy it as much as I did.~ + LK#NL18_ASMASI ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~Yes, well I found it all a little underwhelming, too. I thought you were supposed to be good?~ + LK#NL18_GUDSORT END IF ~~ LK#NL18_BOMBARD SAY ~But you see, the nightmare was as nothing to waking up and seeing you beside me. Shar, what a fool I have been.~ ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I know I'm not the handsomest of men, but I hoped my face would excite different emotions. ~ + LK#NL18_QUITEURS2 ++ ~I really don't appreciate this. I wish for once you would decide what you wanted, and stop all this nonsense. You either want me or you don't, so make your choice. I'll be toyed with no longer~ + LK#NL18_NUNSENS END IF ~~ LK#NL18_HOWUMEN SAY ~You had the temerity to think I desired you? No--I simply needed to...to find something out. And now I have.~ ++ ~To find what out?~ + LK#NL18_FINWUTOU ++ ~Yeah, well I found something out alright. You're an awful lover and have smelly breath in the morning.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_IMPULZE SAY ~And I am one of experimentation. That was what last night was...an experiment.~ ++ ~An experiment into what, precisely?~ + LK#NL18_PRECISEL ++ ~And what did said experiment reveal to you?~ + LK#NL18_SEDEXPR ++ ~Funny, I thought experiments were supposed to reveal something. All last night revealed to me is that you are a decidedly lacklustre lover.~ + LK#NL18_GUDSORT END IF ~~ LK#NL18_BUNOTI SAY ~Hah! Then you had the temerity to think I desired you? No--I simply needed to...to find something out. And now I have.~ ++ ~To find what out?~ + LK#NL18_FINWUTOU ++ ~Yeah, well I found something out alright. You're an awful lover and have smelly breath in the morning.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_DRIVWA SAY ~Bhaalspawn, there is nothing growing between us. I suppose you had the temerity to think I desired you.~ ++ ~All the eyelash-batting and back-rubs rather gave me that impression.~ + LK#NL18_THUTIMPR ++ ~If you did not, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I don't desire you especially, either. But when some cheap slattern throws herself at you like that--well. You just can't say no.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_LEEVLIKE SAY ~Then it is you who will suffer. I suppose you had the temerity to think of me as a fallen woman, to be redeemed through your virtue and delicate attention? I do not want it. I despise it.~ ++ ~If this is so, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~That was not my intention at all. It is simply that--unlike you- I value kindness and empathy above cruelty and cynicism.~ + LK#NL18_CRUCYNI ++ ~You are a fallen woman, Ninde. I see that you were once virtuous and sweet, but now you are just bitter. Perhaps I had hoped to redeem you through my kindness. Can you blame me?~ + LK#NL18_BLAMMIE ++ ~And I despise you.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_EXPREIT SAY ~You say you care for me?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_LEEVLIKE END IF ~~ LK#NL18_PRAWILL SAY ~I would rather you removed myself from your sight and never bestowed your attentions on me again. You disgust me.~ ++ ~If I disgust you so, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_PRECISEL ++ ~Then I will leave, and never presume you hold affection for me again.~ + LK#NL18_AFFEGAIN ++ ~Believe me, your feelings of disgust are mutual.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_LANITE SAY ~I suppose you had the temerity to think I desired you. I do not. I simply needed to...to find something out. And now I have.~ ++ ~To find what out?~ + LK#NL18_FINWUTOU ++ ~Yeah, well I found something out alright. You're an awful lover and have smelly breath in the morning.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_WUTFOOL SAY ~Ha! You have the temerity to think I am 'drawn to you'?~ ++ ~All the eyelash-batting and back-rubs rather gave me that impression.~ + LK#NL18_THUTIMPR ++ ~If you did not, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I don't desire you especially, either. But when some cheap slattern throws herself at you like that--well. You just can't say no.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_DESOLEV SAY ~I intend to leave, but first, there is something you ought to know; last night was...an experiment. I had to find out...if you are as cold as I. If our union would be as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_NUNSENS SAY ~Want you? Then you had the temerity to think I felt affection for you?~ ++ ~All the eyelash-batting and back-rubs rather gave me that impression.~ + LK#NL18_THUTIMPR ++ ~If you did not, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I don't desire you especially, either. But when some cheap slattern throws herself at you like that--well. You just can't say no.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_GUDSORT SAY ~Perhaps such a comment would cause greater offence if I thought you had some authority on the matter. As it is, you have so little with which to draw comparison, it isn't worthy of note.~ = ~You see, I didn't sleep with you for your entertainment, or for mine. I simply needed to...to find something out. And now I have.~ ++ ~To find what out?~ + LK#NL18_FINWUTOU ++ ~Yeah, well I found something out alright. You're an awful lover and have smelly breath in the morning.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_WELLGAH SAY ~And once again, our Bhaalspawn demonstrates his unparalleled deductive skills.~ = ~Last night was disastrous. I knew it would be so.~ ++ ~Which begs the question; why did you offer yourself to me in the first place?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~I knew it wouldn't exactly be world-changing for me, either, but a bedding is a bedding.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_ASMASI SAY ~Bhaalspawn, I did not sleep with you for your entertainment, or for mine. I simply needed to...to find something out. And now I have.~ ++ ~To find what out?~ + LK#NL18_FINWUTOU ++ ~Yeah, well I found something out alright. You're an awful lover and have smelly breath in the morning.~ + LK#NL18_SMELMORN END IF ~~ LK#NL18_QUITEURS2 SAY ~Bhaalspawn, what else could your face evoke in me but disgust, after such a night? You seem surprised--I suppose you had the temerity to think I desired you.~ ++ ~All the eyelash-batting and back-rubs rather gave me that impression.~ + LK#NL18_THUTIMPR ++ ~If you did not, then why did you offer yourself to me last night?~ + LK#NL18_LARNIGH ++ ~I won't do this. I won't argue with you. Desist, or leave.~ + LK#NL18_DESOLEV ++ ~I don't desire you especially, either. But when some cheap slattern throws herself at you like that--well. You just can't say no.~ + LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO END IF ~~ LK#NL18_FINWUTOU SAY ~If you are as cold as I. If our union would be as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_SMELMORN SAY ~Your words are wasted. There is just one more thing I have to say to you. I need to know if you are as cold as I. If our union would be as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_PRECISEL SAY ~An experiment that would answer me something I have wondered since Spellhold--if you are as cold as I. If our union would be as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_SEDEXPR SAY ~That every night...every night is just another soulless puppet show, with or without you rutting away on top of me. That I felt nothing.~ = ~But that's just part of it I wanted to know if it would be every bit as beastly hollow for you as it was for me. If you would feel filthy in the morning. If you would want to hold me--or hurt me. Because I don't feel a thing.~ = ~So open your heart to me, Bhaalspawn; tell me. How did it feel?~ ++ ~It was an enjoyable night, I only hoped this morning would be, also. I should've known your vindictiveness would get in the way of any growing affection between us. ~ + LK#NL18_WOODBE2 ++ ~The very question insults me--last night meant more to me then you could conceive, Ninde--and this morning brings me pain in equal measure.~ + LK#NL18_EQMEASUR ++ ~I don't believe you. I know that there is something between us, deny it all you like.~ + LK#NL18_DENALLU ++ ~You are right--no soul, no sensation. I felt nothing for you.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_FELNUFF ++ ~It was a good time, and nothing more. I don't feel any profound attachment to you, if that's what you're asking.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_FELNUFF ++ ~What does it matter? Anything I felt for you last night has vanished since.~ + LK#NL18_VANSIN ++ ~Darling, I've found more meaningful things on the sole of my boot.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_UNDRSID END IF ~~ LK#NL18_THUTIMPR SAY ~All part of the illusion dear. I worried I pounced too quickly before, but last night...a lamb to the slaughter, my dear. I've just one more question for you. I need to know if our union was as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_LARNIGH SAY ~Because I needed to know if you are as cold as I. If our union would be as beastly hollow for you as it was for me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_JUSAYNOO SAY ~Your opinion of me is an irrelevancy at this juncture. I've just one question to ask you; was our union as beastly hollow for you as it was for me?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_CRUCYNI SAY ~I couldn't care less about your values, Bhaalspawn. I just have one more question to ask you; was our union as beastly hollow for you as it was for me?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_BLAMMIE SAY ~Gods, , do let me know if you ever manage to free yourself from the talons of righteous absurdity. Until then, I've one question left to ask you; was our union as beastly hollow for you as it was for me?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_AFFEGAIN SAY ~Please, but before you do, I've one question left to ask you; was our union as beastly hollow for you as it was for me?~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_main2 END IF ~~ LK#NL18_main2 SAY ~If you would feel filthy in the morning. If you would want to hold me--or hurt me. Because I don't feel a thing. Every night...just another soulless puppet show, with or without you rutting away on top of me.~ = ~So open your heart to me, Bhaalspawn; tell me. How did it feel?~ ++ ~It was an enjoyable night, I only hoped this morning would be, also. I should've known your vindictiveness would get in the way of any growing affection between us. ~ + LK#NL18_WOODBE2 ++ ~The very question insults me--last night meant more to me then you could conceive, Ninde--and this morning brings me pain in equal measure.~ + LK#NL18_EQMEASUR ++ ~I don't believe you. I know that there is something between us, deny it all you like.~ + LK#NL18_DENALLU ++ ~You are right--no soul, no sensation. I felt nothing for you.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_FELNUFF ++ ~It was a good time, and nothing more. I don't feel any profound attachment to you, if that's what you're asking.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_FELNUFF ++ ~What does it matter? Anything I felt for you last night has vanished since.~ + LK#NL18_VANSIN ++ ~Darling, I've found more meaningful things on the sole of my boot.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NL18_UNDRSID END IF ~~ LK#NL18_WOODBE2 SAY ~Poor, dear Bhaalspawn. Do you still think this is all about affection? Some great romance faltering in the face of adversity? It is about me. It is *always* about me.~ = ~All you need to know is that love...is natural and real, but not for those such as us.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NL18_EQMEASUR SAY ~You are still talking like this our great romance. So you still think this is about riding into the sunset, my hand warm in yours? It is about me. It is *always* about me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_end END IF ~~ LK#NL18_DENALLU SAY ~Believe all you want, if you think what you believe still matters. If you think this is still about some great romance, faltering in the face of adversity? It's not. It's about me. It is *always* about me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_end END IF ~~ LK#NL18_FELNUFF SAY ~Then perhaps you begin to see what this is all about. That you will have moments of happiness when you feel in love with the world, swept away in it all. But it will pass. You are growing up. Growing old.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_end END IF ~~ LK#NL18_VANSIN SAY ~You need not answer in more words than that, for I see you begin to realise what this is about. Not some great romance, faltering in the face of adversity. It is about me. It is *always* about me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_end END IF ~~ LK#NL18_UNDRSID SAY ~So the poor Bhaalspawn still thinks it is about winning, about spite. It's not. . It is about me. It is *always* about me.~ IF ~~ + LK#NL18_end END IF ~~ LK#NL18_end SAY ~All you need to know is that love...is natural and real, but not for those such as us.~ IF ~~ EXIT END ADD_TRANS_TRIGGER SUELLE2 18 ~OR(3) !InParty("Ninde") Dead("Ninde") !Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ // Adding to the transition list in Ellesime's final dialogue state EXTEND_BOTTOM SUELLE2 18 IF ~InParty("Ninde") Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ + LK#NR END // Restoration scene CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR ~You are all our saviours, but to one of you we can offer a more significant gift than our gratitude alone; Anilessa, soulless-one.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I assume you mean me?~ == SUELLE2 ~Yes.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Is it money? I like money.~ == SUELLE2 ~It is a gift much greater. Ninde, if will consent to help, then we may be able to restore you. To restore your soul.~ == LK#NINDJ ~My...soul. Shar.~ END ++ ~I will do whatever is recquired of me to affect Ninde's restoration.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_AFFREST ++ ~My help? How do you mean?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_DOUMEEN ++ ~I've had my final dealings with Ninde, I'm afraid. You can try to cure her if you want, but you must do so without my help.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_DOSOWIV CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_AFFREST ~Are you certain, ? This is not a decision to be taken lightly. You must give part of your own soul if hers is to be returned--you may find yourself diminished, should you choose to.~ == LK#NINDJ ~...I--I would ask you not to do this. I would ask you not to so that I owed you nothing. But perhaps just once...I should lay aside calculation, and...~ = ~And beg you to save me. Please.~ END ++ ~I wish for Ninde to be restored, whatever the cost to myself.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~And what will you give me if I do, Ninde?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_GIVIFIDO ++ ~Diminished? How exactly will I be effected?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_HOWUDIM ++ ~Can no other soul be used but mine?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUNBUT ++ ~I am sorry. My soul has been hurled about quite enough already. I just can't risk harming myself.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_SELFHARM CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_DOUMEEN ~Ninde's soul cannot simply be plucked from the ether; a conduit must be provided. You must give some of yourself that she may be restored.~ END ++ ~I wish for Ninde to be restored, whatever the cost to myself.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~How might I be effected?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_HOWUDIM ++ ~And does it have to be me who provides this...conduit?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUNBUT ++ ~Eeh, sounds a little too risky to me. Sorry Ninde.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_SELFHARM CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_DOSOWIV ~If you will not...then I am afraid it cannot be done. Your divinity is necessary to the-~ == LK#NINDJ ~...I--I would ask you not to do this. I would ask you not to so that I owed you nothing. But perhaps just once...I should lay aside calculation, and...~ = ~And beg you to save me. Please.~ END ++ ~Now suddenly you need my help. Perhaps you should have thought of that before you chose to end our relations.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_CHORELAT ++ ~I don't know what to do. On the one hand, I want you realise the consequences of your treatment of me...but on the other, I still care for you, and I know this may be your only chance to recover what was taken from you. Very well, I will help.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~And what will you give me if I do, Ninde?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_GIVIFIDO ++ ~It's too late. You cannot take back what you have said.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_UHEVSED CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ~, I...~ == SUELLE2 ~Then I shall begin the ritual.~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("lk#nicut")~ EXIT CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_GIVIFIDO ~Give? , this is perhaps not a decision to be made for selfish purposes. The-~ == LK#NINDJ ~No, Ellesime. I understand him. And he understands me. A trade, then.~ = ~If--if you do this, my Lord, suffice to say I will be very, very...yours.~ = ~(As she speaks Ninde approaches you, her face turned to yours, until she stands boldly before you, and slides her soft arms about your shoulders, her body positioned so that her curves brush just slightly against your chest.)~ END ++ ~Ahh, Ninde, always making me offers I can't refuse. Very well. You shall have your soul back.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.) You shall have your soul back.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~That's not what I meant. I want you, but I want a chance to be with you. And not just in my bedroll. Have your soul back, that we might finally be together.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~Wow, you really are a whore. No suprises there, then. Sorry, the offer just doesn't tempt me.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NAHTEMP CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_HOWUDIM ~It is impossible for me to tell you exactly what will happen. You may find yourself physically weaker...perhaps some of your stranger abilities will vanish. In truth, I cannot say. The Seldarine demand a sacrifice, and only you can make it.~ END ++ ~Whatever the risk, I am willing.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~And you're certain it has to be me? We couldn't just kidnap some poor sap from the forest and use him instead?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUNBUT ++ ~If you can give me no greater idea of what is at stake, then I am afraid the answer is no. I cannot endanger myself and my friends for the sake of just one, no matter what my feelings are.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_SELFHARM ++ ~Physically weaker? My abilities vanishing? No thank you. I wouldn't give my Godly nail clippings to save Ninde, let alone my powers.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NAHTEMP CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUNBUT ~I am afraid it must be you. Your divinity is a necessity.~ END ++ ~If it must be me, then it must be me. Ninde, you shall have your soul back.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~No, I will not be a part of this.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUPARTS CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_SELFHARM ~Then it will not be done. It is right that you should be considerate of the dangers involved in such a ritual, . And Ninde...I am sorry. I hope that perhaps another for your restoration will arise in the future.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I wouldn't bet on it, dear.~ == SUELLE2 ~Perhaps not. May the Seldarine protect you, though you have long since strayed from their light; you were snatched by another from the life you should have led, among your people, but it is you who must now pay the price. Live well, if you can, though it seems there is naught but darkness ahead.~ END IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_CHORELAT ~You are right, of course, and I can only endeavour to make amends. Give me the chance to and you shall never hear a spiteful words from me again.~ == SUELLE2 ~What say you, ?~ END ++ ~Very well. Ninde, you shall have your soul back.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_main2 ++ ~And what will you give me if I do help you, Ninde?~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_GIVIFIDO ++ ~Perhaps you should have been more careful in the way you have treated me. I only hope you learn from this. I will not help you.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUPARTS CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NR_UHEVSED ~How well I know it. I may be aware of the meanness with which I have treated you...but rest assured, you shall never have my remorse.~ == SUELLE2 ~It saddens me to see one so young speak words so sad. Ninde, soul or no soul, may the Seldarine protect you, though you have long since strayed from their light; you were snatched by another from the life you should have led, among your people, but it is you who must now pay the price. Live well, if you can, though it seems there is naught but darkness ahead.~ END IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NAHTEMP ~Your decision to assist Ninde should not have been made on such superficial grounds, but nonethless, I respect your choice.~ = ~Ninde, soul or no soul, may the Seldarine protect you, though you have long since strayed from their light; you were snatched by another from the life you should have led, among your people, but it is you who must now pay the price. Live well, if you can, though it seems there is naught but darkness ahead.~ == LK#NINDJ ~The Seldarine hate me, as I hate you.~ == SUELLE2 ~It saddens me to see one so young speak words so sad.~ END IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NR_NUPARTS ~It saddens me to know that my kinswoman will not be restored, but I respect your decision, and trust it has been made with the utmost consideration.~ = ~Ninde, soul or no soul, may the Seldarine protect you, though you have long since strayed from their light; you were snatched by another from the life you should have led, among your people, but it is you who must now pay the price. Live well, if you can, though it seems there is naught but darkness ahead.~ END IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT APPEND LK#NINDJ // Post-restoration, unselfish IF ~Global("LK#NindeRestored","GLOBAL",1) !Global("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NLR SAY ~(A dazzling white light lifts away from her prone form. As Ninde stirs, you find yourself at her side, her head resting in your lap. Her skin seems to shed a new fragile glow as the ritual draws to a close, and the elf clutches desperately at her throat and robes, shaking, as though something within her would still resist the change. Eventually, she is still, and you could hear a dry leaf fall as the chamber waits for her to regain consciousness.)~ = ~...?~ ++ ~I am here.~ + LK#NLR_NOSHITSHER ++ ~Shh. How do you feel?~ + LK#NLR_HOWUZFE ++ ~And who were you expecting, Arilyn Moonblade? (smile)~ + LK#NLR_AZMOON ++ ~Praise the Gods, I was beginning to think she'd killed you.~ + LK#NLR_SHAQILLE END IF ~~ LK#NLR_NOSHITSHER SAY ~You...you are. And I am glad of it. Shar...my head hurts...~ ++ ~I'm not feeling terribly chipper either. I suppose it must be a side effect of the ritual.~ + LK#NLR_SIDZFECT ++ ~You should rest.~ + LK#NLR_SHUDREST ++ ~And you're not feeling different at all? Because I'd hate to have put myself at risk just to give you a little ache in the cranium.~ + LK#NLR_CRANZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_HOWUZFE SAY ~I'm not certain...but Shar...my head hurts...~ ++ ~I'm not feeling terribly chipper either. I suppose it must be a side effect of the ritual.~ + LK#NLR_SIDZFECT ++ ~You should rest.~ + LK#NLR_SHUDREST ++ ~And you're not feeling different at all? Because I'd hate to have put myself at risk just to give you a little ache in the cranium.~ + LK#NLR_CRANZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_AZMOON SAY ~I'm right glad you're not...I don't like...Harpers. Shar...my head hurts...~ ++ ~I'm not feeling terribly chipper either. I suppose it must be a side effect of the ritual.~ + LK#NLR_SIDZFECT ++ ~You should rest.~ + LK#NLR_SHUDREST ++ ~And you're not feeling different at all? Because I'd hate to have put myself at risk just to give you a little ache in the cranium.~ + LK#NLR_CRANZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SHAQILLE SAY ~(Weak smile) No...I think I'm...quite well. A little...a little headache, that's all.~ ++ ~I'm not feeling terribly chipper either. I suppose it must be a side effect of the ritual.~ + LK#NLR_SIDZFECT ++ ~You should rest.~ + LK#NLR_SHUDREST ++ ~And you're not feeling different at all? Because I'd hate to have put myself at risk just to give you a little ache in the cranium.~ + LK#NLR_CRANZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SIDZFECT SAY ~(Haltingly, Ninde raises herself, wrapping her arms about your shoulders for support. Her eyes never leave your face as she embraces you. There is something different about her as she coyly gazes up at you from beneath dark lashes. The lines of her face seem softer the shape of her lips more round and inexact. She gently strokes a hand across your brow, and smiles.)~ = ~Probably. Still...I am sorry if you aren't feeling your usual...vigorous self.~ ++ ~Don't worry. I would bare a lot more discomfort for your restoration.~ + LK#NLR_RESTROD ++ ~Sorry? I should think so. I put myself to all this risk for you...~ + LK#NLR_RISKFORO ++ ~Seeing you is more then enough to restore me.~ + LK#NLR_RESTROD ++ ~How I feel doesn't matter. How do you feel? Do you think it has worked?~ + LK#NLR_HASHWOR ++ ~So am I, since now would be the perfect time for one of those romantic moments you and I keep missing out on.~ + LK#NLR_TOUTON END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SHUDREST SAY ~(Haltingly, Ninde raises herself, wrapping her arms about your shoulders for support. Her eyes never leave your face as she embraces you. There is something different about her as she coyly gazes up at you from beneath dark lashes. The lines of her face seem softer, the shape of her lips more round and inexact. She gently strokes a hand across your brow, and smiles.)~ = ~But I don't want to rest. I want to kiss you.~ ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.)~ + LK#NLR_KYETAGE ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF ++ ~Not yet. Do you think it worked? The ritual?~ + LK#NLR_HASHWOR END IF ~~ LK#NLR_CRANZZ SAY ~(Haltingly, Ninde raises herself, wrapping her arms about your shoulders for support. Her eyes never leave your face as she embraces you. There is something different about her as she coyly gazes up at you from beneath dark lashes. The lines of her face seem softer, the shape of her lips more round and inexact. She gently strokes a hand across your brow, and smiles.)~ = ~Why, that's true. You did put yourself at risk for me, didn't you? Mm...I'll have to think of some way to return the favour...perhaps starting tonight...(Ninde moves a little closer to you, and plants a kiss just to the side of your mouth.)~ ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.)~ + LK#NLR_KYETAGE ++ ~Erm, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you that we are, in fact, being watched. By elves. Lots of elves.~ + LK#NLR_AHELFAT ++ ~Yes. I think I'll see to it that you do return the favor. I didn't help you get your soul back just to feel warm and fuzzy inside.~ + LK#NLR_WARFUZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_RESTROD SAY ~(giggle) You seem to be playing the honourable adventurer with more relish than usual.~ ++ ~Well, I pride myself on being the Bhaalspawn you could take home to mother. If your mother wasn't dead, that is.~ + LK#NLR_TAKHOM2 ++ ~I'm not 'playing' anything, Ninde. I am saying, with total sincerity, that there's a lot I would do to secure your happiness. I care for you.~ + LK#NLR_SINCLARE END IF ~~ LK#NLR_RISKFORO SAY ~Why, that's true. You did put yourself at risk for me, didn't you? Mm...I'll have to think of some way to return the favour...perhaps starting tonight...(Ninde moves a little closer to you, and plants a kiss just to the side of your mouth.)~ ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF ++ ~Erm, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you that we are, in fact, being watched. By elves. Lots of elves.~ + LK#NLR_AHELFAT ++ ~Yes. I think I'll see to it that you do return the favor. I didn't help you get your soul back just to feel warm and fuzzy inside.~ + LK#NLR_WARFUZZ END IF ~~ LK#NLR_HASHWOR SAY ~I don't know...I think it must have. I do feel different, but I don't think I could explain to you how, exactly...but I do know I want to kiss you.~ ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.)~ + LK#NLR_KYETAGE ++ ~Erm, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you that we are, in fact, being watched. By elves. Lots of elves.~ + LK#NLR_AHELFAT ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF END IF ~~ LK#NLR_TOUTON SAY ~(Ninde smiles, and tenderly touches the side of your face.)~ = ~We'll never miss out on anything again. Kiss me, .~ ++ ~(Kiss Ninde.)~ + LK#NLR_KYETAGE ++ ~Erm, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you that we are, in fact, being watched. By elves. Lots of elves.~ + LK#NLR_AHELFAT ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF END IF ~~ LK#NLR_KYETAGE SAY ~(Ninde kisses you with an innocence, a soft freshness and urgency you don't usually associate with her. It feels as though your embrace has only just begun, when she breaks away with a giggle, indicating the elves crowding the chamber.)~ = ~Don't you love the way they are all feigning deep interest in the architecture? As enjoyable as this is, I'm not sure I want to be responsible for the corruption of dozens of baby Suldanesselan minds.~ ++ ~Just minutes ago you would've been delighted to be the corrupter of dozens of baby Suldanesselan minds. I hope we won't be seeing too much of a change in my minxish Ninde...~ + LK#NLR_NO2CHANZ ++ ~I'm glad you're finally becoming more considerate. I should've known it would take intervention by the Seldarine to achieve such a thing.~ + LK#NLR_SELINTE ++ ~I suppose you're right. Perhaps we should continue in a more...intimate setting, mm? ~ + LK#NLR_MATESET ++ ~Sod the baby Suldanesselan minds. (Continue kissing Ninde)~ + LK#NLR_CONKEES END IF ~~ LK#NLR_LKSOULF SAY ~(Ninde gives you a playful bat on the shoulder as she speaks, and, biting her lip, feigns offense.) You mean you didn't like me before? Oh, , I am left truly desolate.~ ++ ~I liked you very much before, as you well know. I just think that now I will have all the good parts of Ninde, her humour, her intelligence, her thoughtfulness and her beauty without the spite, or the cruelty. At least, that's what I hope.~ + LK#NLR_WATIHOP ++ ~I adored you before, I do not doubt I will adore you know.~ + LK#NLR_RADNOOW ++ ~I liked you well enough before--I'm reserving judgment on this new Ninde for now. I haven't seen enough of her.~ + LK#NLR_NUFFOVER ++ ~I care for you a great deal--but I think as a friend, and nothing more.~ + LK#NLR_NOWTMORE ++ ~Liked you? Ninde, I love you!~ + LK#NLR_LUVS4UU ++ ~What can you expect, as foul to me as you were?~ + LK#NLR_FOWLASUW END IF ~~ LK#NLR_AHELFAT SAY ~So we are. And don't you love the way they are all feigning deep interest in the architecture? As enjoyable as this is, I'm not sure I want to be responsible for the corruption of dozens of baby Suldanesselan minds.~ ++ ~Just minutes ago you would've been delighted to be the corrupter of dozens of baby Suldanesselan minds. I hope we won't be seeing too much of a change in my minxish Ninde...~ + LK#NLR_NO2CHANZ ++ ~I'm glad you're finally becoming more considerate. I should've known it would take intervention by the Seldarine to achieve such a thing.~ + LK#NLR_SELINTE ++ ~I suppose you're right. Perhaps we should continue in a more...intimate setting, mm? ~ + LK#NLR_MATESET ++ ~Baby Suldanesselan minds be damned! (Kiss Ninde)~ + LK#NLR_CONKEES END IF ~~ LK#NLR_WARFUZZ SAY ~(Ninde raises a brow as you speak, before recognition gradually begins to creep across her sweet features. Clearing her throat, she moves away from you slightly, with a platonic pat on the shoulder.)~ = ~Well in that case, ...far be it from me to over-romanticise the moment. Perhaps...well, there is a lot to be done. We should discuss this later. Just...help me up.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLR_TAKHOM2 SAY ~Speaking of my mother, for the first time, I rather wish she was around, since I'm evidently doing the sorts of things an uppity elf could be proud of. I always thought that if my mother could see me...I would fall rather short of expectation. But now...well, I've helped save Suldanesselar, and found myself a sturdy Bhaalspawn beau in the process.~ = ~Do you find yourself wondering what Gorion would think about the course you have taken, the things you do?~ ++ ~Sometimes, but I try not to live in his shadow. As thankful as I am to him for all he did, I am still my own person.~ + LK#NLR_SHTILLPER ++ ~I often worry that I am not following the path Gorion wanted me to. I am convinced he wanted me to live a life of peace, to escape from the violence my heritage has forced upon me...but I haven't been able to. It is distressing.~ + LK#NLR_DAESTRES ++ ~I do, but I'm fairly sure he'd approve.~ + LK#NLR_SHURHED ++ ~All the time. He is the guiding force of my life.~ + LK#NLR_GUIDZIN ++ ~Never. If I spent all my time agonizing over what that grizzly old blighter would think, I'd never get the chance to do anything fun.~ + LK#NLR_ANFINFUN END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SINCLARE SAY ~Why, you do care for me, don't you? I'll have to try and think up a way to return the manifold kindness you have shown me...perhaps starting tonight...~ ++ ~Mmm...I think I'm going to like this new, soulful Ninde.~ + LK#NLR_LKSOULF ++ ~Ninde, I have no interest in anything besides friendship.~ + LK#NLR_NOWTMORE ++ ~Erm, perhaps now would be a good time to remind you that we are, in fact, being watched. By elves. Lots of elves.~ + LK#NLR_AHELFAT END END CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NLR_NO2CHANZ ~Oh, I don't think there's any danger of that...~ = ~(An insouciant half-smile quirks Ninde's pink mouth, and she runs her hand down across your chest, and - to your surprise - a good deal lower. You hear a few quiet gasps from behind you and imagine the elves there are making even more of a show of averting their eyes.)~ == MAZZYJ IF ~InParty("Mazzy") !StateCheck("Mazzy",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~(Sigh) Arvoreen give me strength.~ == MINSCJ IF ~InParty("Minsc") !StateCheck("Minsc",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Why does the elf queen pull such a face? Minsc sees nothing that- oh. Oh. Cover your eyes, Boo!~ == EDWINJ IF ~InParty("Edwin") !StateCheck("Edwin",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Must I be forced to bear witness to this grotesque little freak show? You'd think we had nothing better to do than watch the pair of you drool all over each other's malformed bodies. (Bodies...Ninde. Ninde's body. Hmmm.)~ == JAHEIRAJ IF ~InParty("Jaheira") !StateCheck("Jaheira",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Ninde! This is neither the time nor the place for adolescent canoodling. Really, you'd think you were both seventeen.~ == KORGANJ IF ~InParty("Korgan") !StateCheck("Korgan",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Aye, she's a likely lass, even after all this soul-switchin' jiggery!~ == IMOEN2J IF ~InParty("Imoen2") !StateCheck("Imoen2",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Ew, ! Get a room. Preferably one in Thesk. Just far, far away, please!~ END ++ ~Ninde!~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLR_NOUDON ++ ~(Grin) Well...er, that answers my question.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLR_QUESANS ++ ~I'd appreciate it if you weren't so...so inappropriate!~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLR_SOINAPP APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NLR_SELINTE SAY ~Oh, you need not have such little faith. I rather think the time for faith has come.~ = ~Anyway, we had best be moving on. But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_CONKEES SAY ~(Ninde laughs then breaks from your embrace, looking back up at you and running her finger across the line of your lips.)~ = ~Goodness, it's modesty. I haven't felt that in years. How strange. I think we had best be moving on, . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_WATIHOP SAY ~Perhaps the time for hope has come. I think we had best be moving on, . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_RADNOOW SAY ~You adored me? I'm surprised you could stand me. We...we had best be moving on . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_NUFFOVER SAY ~Then begin to make your judgment today. We should be moving on, . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_LUVS4UU SAY ~I wish I could respond I kind, but I can't...not yet. Who knows, perhaps it will come. We ought to move on now, . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_FOWLASUW SAY ~I have been foul to you. I only hope you will give me the chance to correct my behavior. We ought to move on now, . But before we do, one last thing; I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_MATESET SAY ~Hmm, perhaps we should. But, before we do--I have one last thing to say to you. I want to thank you, . You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SHTILLPER SAY ~Then again you show wisdom. It is good we should be our own, but neither should we forget those who made us who we are...and those who made great sacrifices for us. I want to thank you, . You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ = ~And now you have proved to me your courage, your passion...your potential. , you will make the realms quake, and hearts burn like young stars. And I give my life to yours, to you whose light is fiercer than any I have known.~ = ~So come, my love. Let us away.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLR_DAESTRES SAY ~You have always done what you have had to do. What criticism can be levelled at a man who rises to each challenge? He would be proud, for it is an overwhelming tide you swim against, and you have not yet faltered.~ = ~Ahh, , we will have time to speak of this further. But, before we do--I have one last thing to say to you. I want to thank you, . You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SHURHED SAY ~(Ninde smiles, and fixes you with a cheeky pout.) You think he'd approve of me?~ = ~Ahh, , we will have time to speak of this further. But, before we do--I have one last thing to say to you. I want to thank you, . You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_GUIDZIN SAY ~(Ninde smiles kindly up at you, stroking the side of your face.) Do not forget to be your own man, . Sooner or later you may have to stray from your ideal if you are to survive. But it is right we remember those who have made great sacrifices for us. As you have done for me.~ = ~And now you have proved to me your courage, your passion...your potential. , you will make the realms quake, and hearts burn like young stars. And I give my life to yours, to you whose light is fiercer than any I have known.~ = ~So come, my love. Let us away.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLR_ANFINFUN SAY ~Such fierce independence is most admirable...but we should not forget those who have made great sacrifices for us. . As you have done for me.~ = ~And now you have proved to me your courage, your passion...your potential. , you will make the realms quake, and hearts burn like young stars. And I give my life to yours, to you whose light is fiercer than any I have known.~ = ~So come, my love. Let us away.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLR_NOWTMORE SAY ~One good thing about having lived for as long as I have...you grow used to disappointment. I suppose at--at least I did not yet love you. I will still never forgot the sacrifice you have made for me.~ = ~And now you have proved to me your courage, your passion...your potential. , you will make the realms quake, and hearts burn like young stars. And I give my life to yours, to you whose light is fiercer than any I have known.~ = ~So come, my friend. Let us away.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLR_NOUDON SAY ~(Ninde giggles and withdraws her hand.) You are right, this is perhaps best left for a more intimate setting. But before we go anywhere--I have one last thing I wish to say to you.~ = ~I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_QUESANS SAY ~(Ninde smiles and withdraws her hand.) Yes, well...you may see me paying a little more attention to societal norms from now on. I did attend finishing school, after all. But sometimes I just can't resist. I have so much to say to you. We should find a more intimate setting. But before we go anywhere--I have one last thing I wish to say to you.~ = ~I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_SOINAPP SAY ~(Ninde giggles and swiftly withdraws her hand, placing it on her heart as though taking an oath.) Then I promise that until we proceed to a more intimate setting, I'll be the very paragon of virtue. Finishing school girl's honour. But before we go anywhere...I have one last thing I wish to say to you.~ = ~I want to thank you. You have done more for me than I dared dream you might. That day you blazed into Bodhi's lair and I was unforgivably rude to you was clearly a fateful one.~ IF ~~ + LK#NLR_end END IF ~~ LK#NLR_end SAY ~And now you have proved to me your courage, your passion...your potential. , you will make the realms quake, and hearts burn like young stars. And I give my life to yours, to you whose light is fiercer than any I have known.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END END // Post-restoration, selfish CHAIN IF ~Global("LK#NindeRestored","GLOBAL",1) Global("LK#NindeSelfish","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS ~(A dazzling white light lifts away from her prone form. Her skin seems to shed a new fragile glow as the ritual draws to a close, and the elf clutches desperately at her throat and robes, shaking, as though something within her would still resist the change. Eventually, she is still, and you could hear a dry leaf fall as the chamber waits for her to regain consciousness.)~ = ~...Shar...~ == SUELLE2 ~She wakes.~ END ++ ~And none too soon. I was starting to think you'd killed my mage.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS_MYMAGE ++ ~She might be okay, but by Talos, I'm not! Your little hokum has given me a jarring headache.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS_JARRIN ++ ~If you say so. I suppose she made need some time to recuperate, or some such--your people ought to take her, for now.~ EXTERN SUELLE2 LK#NLRS_FURNOW APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NLRS_MYMAGE SAY ~Don't.... don't worry. I bounce back. My head aches...~ ++ ~Moan to someone else, Ninde. I'm not interested.~ + LK#NLRS_MOANTW ++ ~As long as your casting ability isn't damaged.~ + LK#NLRS_CASTABI ++ ~I'm not exactly feeling at my best, either.~ + LK#NLRS_EIVAR ++ ~Women and their excuses.~ + LK#NLRS_HAEXCUS END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_JARRIN SAY ~(Ninde raises herself slightly, and gives you a tired smile.) You...you are a selfish man, .~ ++ ~Selfish? I hardly think you can level such a criticism at me after what I have done for you.~ + LK#NLRS_FEROO ++ ~Perhaps I am. Your point? I have learnt the hard way never to give without expecting something in return.~ + LK#NLRS_FEROO ++ ~No more so than you.~ + LK#NLRS_MARENU ++ ~I have no time for this. I just--I just want to finally rest.~ + LK#NLRS_FINARES END END CHAIN SUELLE2 LK#NLRS_FURNOW ~As you wish, , though I imagine she will have much to say to you.~ == LK#NINDJ ~No--I am...I am not so very weak. Please . I...I must speak with you.~ END ++ ~Very well. Speak with me.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS_SPAKEIM ++ ~No, Ninde. I don't want to speak to you. I just wish to rest, now.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS_FINARES ++ ~For the last time, woman, I'm not interested! I merely played my part in your restoration so I would no longer have to be audience to your whingeing.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NLRS_WHINGYS APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NLRS_MOANTW SAY ~Oh. I--I see. Well, far be it from me to over-estimate you. We should go...I too am tired of this. Tired of everything. But first I wish to tell you that I am thankful to you. You are selfish, but I understand selfishness, and I am thankful anyway.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_CASTABI SAY ~(Ninde raises herself slightly, and gives you a tired smile.) You...you are a selfish man, .~ ++ ~Selfish? I hardly think you can level such a criticism at me after what I have done for you.~ + LK#NLRS_FEROO ++ ~You're my mage. I need you to be at your best, both for my safety and your own. What's selfish about that?~ + LK#NLRS_BOOATZ ++ ~Perhaps I am. Your point? I have learnt the hard way never to give without expecting something in return.~ + LK#NLRS_FEROO ++ ~No more so than you.~ + LK#NLRS_MARENU ++ ~I have no time for this. I just--I just want to finally rest.~ + LK#NLRS_FINARES END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_EIVAR SAY ~No, I...I should suspect you are not, though if you are expecting sympathy, I'm afraid you may be disappointed. I feel warmer now, yet colder. Colder to you.~ = ~But worry not, I suppose I am thankful. Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_HAEXCUS SAY ~'Tis no excuse. And remember that I am thankful to you.~ = ~Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_FEROO SAY ~It was not criticism, . Selfishness--I understand selfishness, and I am thankful to you regardless of your own.~ = ~Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_MARENU SAY ~I have been very selfish in my time, it is true, but it would be selfish of me now if I was not thankful to you. So I am.~ = ~Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_FINARES SAY ~Very well, it is more than understandable. Come to me later, if you desire, and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_SPAKEIM SAY ~I want to thank you. I am thankful. I am, but now I wish only for sleep, and you undoubtedly feel the same. There is so little I want to say to you, but so much I want to do. You have returned the world to me, yet denied me it. But no more words.~ = ~Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_WHINGYS SAY ~Very well, it is more than understandable. Come to me later, if you desire, and you may take what you want from me. And I shall try not to whine then. (Ninde's smile is bitter-sweet, now.)~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NLRS_BOOATZ SAY ~And no lasting harm has been done to me. Quite the opposite, the world has been given to me. It is a shame you hope to keep me caged within it. But no more words. Just rest.~ = ~Come to me later and you may take what you want from me.~ IF ~ReputationLT(Player1,10)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100a")~ EXIT IF ~ReputationGT(Player1,9)~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("cut100b")~ EXIT END END // --------------------------------------------- // Ninde Scenery Comments // --------------------------------------------- // Most Noble Order of the Radiant Heart CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-2 ~Global("LK#Ninde_radiantheart","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN LK#NINDJ LK#Ninde_radiantheart ~Ooh, I smell noble swain! (sigh) It would almost be worth being a damsel in distress for such bulging biceps. Quick, , distress me.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_radiantheart","GLOBAL",1)~ == KORGANJ IF ~InParty("Korgan") !StateCheck("Korgan",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Why didn't you say, Ninde? I'll distress yer rightly enough!~ EXIT // Sahuagin Rebel Prince dead APPEND ~LK#NINDJ~ IF ~Global("LK#Ninde_rebeldead","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN LK#Ninde_rebeldead SAY ~Hee.~ ++ ~Heh. Ninde, you certainly do have a talent for naughtiness...~ + LK#Ninderebel_missychief ++ ~Why, thank you, Ninde! I couldn't stand the smelly fish-man either.~ + LK#Ninderebel_either ++ ~As much as I appreciate your mischievous streak, I'd appreciate it if you kept it under wraps at times like this, alright?~ + LK#Ninderebel_underraps ++ ~Ninde! I don't think you realise the implications of such idiotic outbursts! You've potentially just eliminated an entire species with a few idle words!~ + LK#Ninderebel_idlewords ++ ~I'm just speecheless. What on earth do you think gives you the right to undermine my leadership like that?~ + LK#Ninderebel_speechless ++ ~How dare you, Ninde! It isn't your place to decide who we do and don't deal with.~ + LK#Ninderebel_impetuous END IF ~~ LK#Ninderebel_missychief SAY ~Mmm...I'm simply glad you appreciate it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#Ninderebel_either SAY ~Oh, you're quite welcome, darling.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#Ninderebel_underraps SAY ~Point taken, pet. You have my word that from henceforth, I will not permit my inherent naughtiness to interfere with situations that recquire diplomacy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~LK#Ninderebel_idlewords SAY ~Oh please, Bhaalspawn. You've been listening to a few too many Druids. I'm sure the fish-folk will bounce back, with or without our contribution. Though I understand why they haven't got much mating done in the past few years. I wouldn't touch one of those beasts with a barge pole.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#Ninderebel_speechless SAY ~Oh please, It's not as though I'll cause a mutiny. This company of half-wits couldn't organise a bedding in a brothel.~ IF ~~ EXIT IF ~Global("LK#NindeFriendshipActive","GLOBAL",1)~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeFriendshipActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT IF ~OR(2) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",1) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#Ninderebel_impetuous SAY ~Well aren't you the little drama queen. I'll know to keep myself to myself in the future.~ IF ~~ EXIT IF ~Global("LK#NindeFriendshipActive","GLOBAL",1)~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeFriendshipActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT IF ~OR(2) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",1) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END // After Underdark transformation IF ~Global("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",2)~ LK#NindeUD_begin SAY ~Magnificent. I really do feel quite the changed woman. Almost as changed as that dreadful incident with the chicken during my school days. I never should've been paired with that ghastly Scintilla Fairweather. Her transmutation was so utterly off; I ended up spending three memorable days as a hen.~ = ~A rather stylish Ornamental Moonshae Bantam, but a hen nonetheless. This Drow business will take a similar amount of getting used to, but it's preferable to poultrydom.~ ++ ~A hen? A bundle of feathery, squawking irritation. That sounds about right.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_aboutright ++ ~Such incompetence we are forced to endure.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_main1 ++ ~A chicken? Hah! Hopefully that reigned your ego in a little.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_egoin ++ ~I'm not used to being this short and spiky. Truth be told, I'm just looking forward to getting this over with and getting my old body back.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_bodback ++ ~I'm enjoying myself terrifically, actually! I haven't quite got the natural-Drow-grace sorted out, but other then the constant bumping into things, the Underdark is funner than a barrel of monkeys!~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_barrelo + ~OR(2) Class(Player1,MAGE_ALL) Class(Player1,DRUID_ALL)~ + ~I've transmuted myself into a fair few things in my time, but never a chicken.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_transformation","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeUD_nevchick END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_aboutright SAY ~I'm sure you wouldn't stop squawking, either, if you were constantly forced to compromise your abilities by aligning yourself with ditsy school-girls and amateurish adventuring-types.~ IF ~~ + LK#NindeUD_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_main1 SAY ~Other people, I have discovered, have a tendency to rather cock things up--if you'll excuse the pun.~ ++ ~If that's how you feel, then why are you travelling with us now?~ + LK#NindeUD_travwith ++ ~I'm sure you've made a fair few mistakes in your time, as well.~ + LK#NindeUD_fairmist ++ ~Quite right. One needs to look out for one's self, and the rest be damned.~ + LK#NindeUD_baydamnd END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_egoin SAY ~Does it seem like it reigned in my ego, ? Quite the opposite. It simply proved to me that I can only rely upon myself.~ IF ~~ + LK#NindeUD_main1 END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_bodback SAY ~Hmm...and you're probably not used to being so handsome, either, honeybunch. Red eyes suit very few, but they suit you. Yet I appreciate your point. That silver beast appears to have significantly downsized some of my more...infamous...appendages.~ = ~Same thing happen to you, honeybunch? Want me to...take a look, hmm?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_barrelo SAY ~For once I agree with you, darling. The journey has taken a most exciting turn. I'd still rather be curled up somewhere warm, but failing that--this isn't so terribly awful.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_nevchick SAY ~You are most fortunate, then. Fortunately I have noticed very few side effects, except an over-fondness for chewing sunflower seeds. Not awful, I concede, but still difficult to explain to strangers.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_travwith SAY ~Operating alone was enjoyable, but was also a challenge. Young women want to be challenged, but I am no longer so very young. But oh, it has its advantages.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_fairmist SAY ~Most certainly. And that is why other people making mistakes is so very unpalatable to me.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeUD_baydamnd SAY ~All for one, and everything for me.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // Ninde Drunk IF ~Global("LK#NindeDrunk","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NindeDrunk SAY ~Ha-loo, Bhaalspawn! Bhaal...spawn. Ah! Are you Bhaal's...spawn, or Bhaal's pawn! That's what I want to know!~ = ~(Ninde lurches toward you and gives you a sharp tap in the shoulder, like an irritable librarian, her expression comically inquisitive and wide-eyed. A slight tang of whisky hangs on her breath.)~ ++ ~Oh, Ninde. Have you been at the dwarven stout again?~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeDrunk","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeDrunk_dwarso ++ ~Er, well...I'd like an answer to that, too.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeDrunk","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeDrunk_natooz ++ ~It's beginning to look as though I'm both.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeDrunk","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeDrunk_imboof ++ ~I am nobody's pawn!~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeDrunk","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeDrunk_natooz END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_dwarso SAY ~(Ninde wrinkles her nose and flops back into her chair.)~ = ~It's none of your bees...beeswax what I have and haven't been (hic) at. I could've been at the coronation of the King of--the King of...of--where's that place with the thing again?~ ++ ~Ladies and gentleman, I give you Ninde, the graceful, the eloquent, spellcaster extraordinaire!~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~The place with the thing? You couldn't elucidate slightly?~ + LK#NindeDrunk_lucidate ++ ~Riiight. Er, Ninde, I think you're ever-so-slightly drunk. Perhaps we should think about taking you off to bed, mm? How's that sound? Nice warm bed?~ + LK#NindeDrunk_wanbed END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_natooz SAY ~(Ninde sniffs with dissatisfaction and flops back into her chair, before leaning across and giving your knee a re-assuring squeeze.)~ = ~Well I am (hic) Ni--Ninde and I think you're a lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely . Yes. Yes I do. I think you are almost as lovely as the--the man with--the man with the...the--who's that man with that thing again?~ ++ ~Ladies and gentleman, I give you Ninde, the graceful, the eloquent, spellcaster extraordinaire!~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~The place with the thing? You couldn't elucidate slightly?~ + LK#NindeDrunk_lucidate ++ ~Riiight. Er, Ninde, I think you're ever-so-slightly drunk. Perhaps we should think about taking you off to bed, mm? How's that sound? Nice warm bed?~ + LK#NindeDrunk_wanbed END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_imboof SAY ~(Ninde grasps your shoulders and gives you a little shake which you can only assume was intended as re-assurance, before falling back into her chair.)~ = ~You are ever so...ever such a (hic) silly. Always being all dark and broody like a big and...and a big--dark...dark broody thing. Shar, is it me or is this room slightly on a slope? I feel...~ ++ ~Like a big drunken ninny? Because that's how I'd feel if I were you.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~If this sentence ends with 'like I'm going to be sick', I'll be very upset.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~Ladies and gentleman, I give you Ninde, the graceful, the eloquent, spellcaster extraordinaire!~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~Riiight. Er, Ninde, I think you're ever-so-slightly drunk. Perhaps we should think about taking you off to bed, mm? How's that sound? Nice warm bed?~ + LK#NindeDrunk_wanbed END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_extraire SAY ~Don't be cheeky, you little wastrel, or I'll give you a right...a--a right good seeing to!~ ++ ~Oh, and now she's threatening me. Great.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_greathr ++ ~Ninde, you're drunk as a fish.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_asafeesh ++ ~I'd like to see you try!~ + LK#NindeDrunk_cyatri END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_lucidate SAY ~You know, Bhaalspawn, the funny thing is...I can't because I can't, you know, remember. Hm. I think I may be a tad drunk.~ ++ ~Oh, re-e-e-ally? I hadn't noticed.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_extraire ++ ~Nonsense! You're not drunk until you can't stand up straight. Here, I'll pour you another!~ + LK#NindeDrunk_anuvvsa ++ ~Rather. I think maybe you should go and have a lie down.~ + LK#NindeDrunk_lighdon END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_wanbed SAY ~Mm...not bad...if I could just grasp your arm for a tiny short moment, this Inn seems to have been built on a slope...~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_greathr SAY ~Pfft...threatening. You go on your little way, little Bhaalspawn, I've more to drink!~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_asafeesh SAY ~(Ninde puts a delicate hand to her mouth and giggles.)~ = ~Prettier than a fish, though.~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_cyatri SAY ~Oh, don't get so (hic) shirty. You go on your little way, little Bhaalspawn, I've more to drink!~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_anuvvsa SAY ~Oh, Bhaalspawn, I'm not sure that's the best idea.... but--oh, go on then! How could I say know to that face?~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeDrunk_lighdon SAY ~Hmm...that may just be the most (hic) intelligent thing I've ever heard you say. If I could just grasp your arm for a tiny short moment, this Inn seems to have been built on a slope...~ IF ~~ DO ~RestParty()~ EXIT END END // Haer'Dalis romance conflict dialogue APPEND HAERDAJ IF ~Global("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",2)~ nh.1 SAY ~Between ourselves, my raven, what think you of our new she-mage? She has the eyes of a fox, does she not? Yellow. Or of a falcon. But no. No birds for her, I don't think.~ ++ ~I think she is a good mage, and a worthy companion. What else is there?~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.WATXELX ++ ~Why?~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.EYEUWHY ++ ~A bit too mouthy for my tastes. I prefer my women a little more submissive. Or at the very least, good-humoured.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.GEWDHUME ++ ~Phwoar. What *don't* I think of her? There can't be a finer looking thing outside of the Calishite's harems.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.CALISHARES ++ ~She's interesting. Good to talk to. I like her.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.ILYGEWD ++ ~She's completely and utterly terrifying, quite frankly. I only keep her around because I'm scared of what she'll do if I try to get rid of her.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.GEWDHUME ++ ~There's something about her I don't trust.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.SUMFINGBOO ++ ~Nothing in particular. She's a fairly bland creature.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeHaerConflict","GLOBAL",1)~ + nh.FARBLAND END IF ~~ nh.WATXELX SAY ~So much else, my raven. She is more fascinating than most women of the Prime--and the more I speak to her, the less I know of her. Hmm. Perhaps she has enfeebled me, somehow.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.EYEUWHY SAY ~I wish to know if it is only I who has been...enfeebled by her. But you answer my question with a question, which is answer enough.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.GEWDHUME SAY ~Ahh. 'So happy she that most assured doth rest, but he most happy who such one loves best.'~ = ~You ought to remember that, my raven.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.CALISHARES SAY ~A tempting form, a testing temper. But what bewitching eyes she has! If I had no sense for these things, I would say she was half demon. She is most certainly all woman.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.ILYGEWD SAY ~A tempting form and a testing temper, yet she is still good company. But what bewitching eyes she has! If I had no sense for these things, I would say she was half demon. She is most certainly all woman.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.SUMFINGBOO SAY ~Join the legions, my raven. And yet I cannot help but like her! It must be those bewitching eyes of hers. If I had no sense for these things, I would say she was half demon. She is most certainly all woman.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ nh.FARBLAND SAY ~I cannot help but suspect we are speaking of different women, my raven. Still, if you don't appreciate those bewitching eyes, all the better for me...~ IF ~~ EXIT END END // Aran interjection, chapter 3 EXTEND_BOTTOM ARAN 27 IF ~InParty("Ninde") !Dead("Ninde")~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran END CHAIN ARAN LK#NinAran ~Ninde? , what do you do, bringing her here?~ == LK#NINDJ ~Well someone is pleased to see me. Nice little set up you have here, Linny.~ == ARAN ~, if you have accepted her as a companion, I strongly urge you to reconsider. She is not known for her loyalty--and she herself played a part in the abduction of Imoen.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Pish. Imoen? What is an Imoen? It's you and your hatchet-faced patsies who can't let sleeping hounds lie. You cause trouble. You have caused more trouble for than I.~ END ++ ~Who I choose to accompany me is my own business, Aran.~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran_OWNBIZZ ++ ~I have thought carefully about whether or not to trust Ninde, and I think that for now, I shall. Worry not, Aran--I'll be keeping a close eye on her.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NinAran_IYONHER ++ ~She's got a point, you know. If your lot didn't poke their daggers in everything, I wouldn't be in this mess.~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran_INZEESME ++ ~Come to think of it, you may be right. Perhaps it would be for the best if you took her prisoner, or do whatever you wish to do with her.~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran_WATSWISH CHAIN ARAN LK#NinAran_OWNBIZZ ~You are right, of course. I was merely offering my advice. I simply don't think it's wise to allow a woman so strongly connected to your enemy as Ninde is-~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NinAran_next CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NinAran_IYONHER ~Ooh, Aran, you make me feel like a naughty schoolgirl.~ == ARAN ~You are in no position for such impudence, Ninde. I could have you-~ == LK#NINDJ ~It's awful good fun, though. Impudence, I mean.~ == ARAN ~Play nice, Ninde, or suffer the consequences.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I can't take threats seriously from a man in electric green britches.~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran_end CHAIN ARAN LK#NinAran_INZEESME ~Yes, but it is us providing you with a path to Imoen, as well.~ == LK#NINDJ ~You haven't done it yet, Linny.~ == ARAN ~Silence, Ninde. You are -~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NinAran_next CHAIN ARAN LK#NinAran_WATSWISH ~A wise decision . Perhaps we shall see how she fairs in the torture chambers...and if she's still in one piece after that, I'm sure some of the more boisterous new recruits could find a use for her.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Poor move, . And poor judgement, Aran, to think I will be kept here.~ == ARAN ~We'll see, won't we.~ DO ~ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("lk#nict4")~ EXIT CHAIN LK#NINDJ LK#NinAran_next ~Lady Amblecrown, to you.~ == ARAN ~Oh, well if I haven't forgotten my manners. You'll forgive me for not kissing your hand.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Certainly. I'd rather you kiss my boot.~ == ARAN ~You really are in no position for such impudence. I could have you-~ == LK#NINDJ ~It's awful good fun, though.~ EXTERN ARAN LK#NinAran_end CHAIN ARAN LK#NinAran_end ~Yes, well. , you have succeeded in the task assigned you. It must have been a bloody affair indeed.~ END ++ ~It was. I destroyed many of her followers, but she herself eluded me.~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 28 ++ ~It was, though I am more interested in what she had to say.~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 29 ++ ~You still keep secrets! Bodhi said it was you that attacked Irenicus in the first place!~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 31 APPEND ARAN IF ~Global("LK#NindeGivenAran","GLOBAL",1)~ LK#NinAran_end1 SAY ~Yes, well. , you have succeeded in the task assigned you. It must have been a bloody affair indeed.~ ++ ~It was. I destroyed many of her followers, but she herself eluded me.~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 28 ++ ~It was, though I am more interested in what she had to say.~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 29 ++ ~You still keep secrets! Bodhi said it was you that attacked Irenicus in the first place!~ DO ~AddXPObject(Player1,50000) AddXPObject(Player2,50000) AddXPObject(Player3,50000) AddXPObject(Player4,50000) AddXPObject(Player5,50000) AddXPObject(Player6,50000) ActionOverride("Aran",SetGlobal("spokeTrip","LOCALS",1))~ + 31 END END // Elhan interjection, chapter 6 EXTEND_BOTTOM C6ELHAN2 53 IF ~InParty("Ninde") !Dead("Ninde")~ EXTERN C6WARSA1 LK#NinElhan END CHAIN C6WARSA1 LK#NinElhan ~Wait! You, Ar'Tel'Quessir...something is missing. There is no...no substance...~ == C6WARSA2 ~She is--she is as The Exile!~ == C6ELHAN2 ~Explain yourself, Ar'Tel'Quessir!~ == C6WARSA1 ~Corellon protect me...there is such...such darkness...~ == LK#NINDJ ~Keep your ears on, fae-boy, it's not contagious. I'm not here to explain anything to you, I'm here because you're slightly better than your snarky red-eyed counterparts. But I'm starting to re-consider that. At least they didn't subject me to a cryptic inquisition.~ == C6ELHAN2 ~Very well, if you will not co-operate. Examine her.~ == LK#NINDJ ~*What* me, darling?~ == C6WARSA2 ~Such darkness...such darkness I see.~ == C6WARSA1 ~But also...the ruins of love. Cold stone.~ = ~It was through an act of selflessness she became as she is, Elhan. Through an act of love.~ == C6ELHAN2 ~Is this true, Ar'Tel'Quessir?~ == LK#NINDJ ~Well, yes--I suppose.~ == C6ELHAN2 ~Then...then I am sorry, my Lady. It must have been a great love for you to sacrifice-~ == LK#NINDJ ~I was a fool. If you are done with your interrogation, then leave me be.~ END IF ~~ EXTERN C6ELHAN2 LK#NinElhan_1 IF ~!Dead("VICONIA") InParty("Viconia") See("Viconia") !StateCheck("Viconia",STATE_SLEEPING)~ EXTERN C6ELHAN2 55 APPEND C6ELHAN2 IF ~~ LK#NinElhan_1 SAY ~As you wish. We are done here.~ IF ~~ + 54 END END // --------------------------------------------- // Ninde Interjections // --------------------------------------------- // Lassal ADD_TRANS_TRIGGER LASSAL02 7 ~OR(2) !InParty("Ninde") Dead("Ninde")~ EXTEND_BOTTOM LASSAL02 7 IF ~InParty("Ninde") !Dead("Ninde")~ EXTERN LASSAL02 LK#Ninde_Lassal END CHAIN LASSAL02 LK#Ninde_Lassal ~Wait...ahh.~ = ~Ninde, sweet creature, do you remember me? Remember him who you once called master? It has been an amusing show, certainly, watching you put back on your daylight robes, dusting off your wings as though about to fly into a sunrise...when you know it is in the shadow you belong. Abandon this pretence Ninde. You always were a consummate actress.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Is your memory as rotten as your face, 'master'? Your guile never did work on me. I suggest we finish this wretch quickly, Bhaalspawn.~ == LASSAL02 ~But can you Ninde? Can you add the death throe of yet another –~ == LK#NINDJ ~It is finished, Lassal. Watch as your little kingdom falls down around you.~ == LASSAL02 ~Fool girl! You think you are the victor in this, while even now all that was yours--all that was *you* - slips from your grasp! Remember how I took it! I remember; that night in Waterdeep, during the Time of Troubles. It had rained, and I mistook the damp for the dew of childhood...still on you. You gave it away, and all for him, that Re-~ == LK#NINDJ ~Do not speak his name! I am not your lap dog, though I've bitten enough heels for you. I'll kill you quickly, if that's any mercy, so I might roll over your body all the sooner and never need see your face again!~ == LASSAL02 ~Thankless witch! Bodhi was right...I should've drunk you dry twenty years ago. No matter, perhaps like a fine wine, you have matured. Tonight I will savour every sweet drop.~ DO ~ActionOverride("LASSAL02",Enemy())~ EXIT // Salvanas CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~InParty("Ninde") See("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) Global("LK#Ninde_salvanas","GLOBAL",0) IsGabber("Ninde")~ THEN SALVANAS LK#Ninde_salvanas ~Fondest greetings to you, my sweet nymph...forgive me if I stare, but I am quite in raptures at your beauty. You are quite enough to make the succubi themselves weep with envy, dearest.~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_salvanas","GLOBAL",1)~ == LK#NINDJ ~Were I you, I'd be careful not to use that line on someone with the power to summon a couple of them. Then we will see who is weeping.~ == SALVANAS ~Ha! A sweet face so often comes with a sour temper! I so rarely encounter one of my own kind these days that your arrival is doubly as miraculous, dear elfin angel. But you need not disguise your attraction to me, my lovely fey...~ == LK#NINDJ ~Believe me, I abhor disguise of all kinds. Well, that was a lie. I actually thrive on deception, but as Shar is my witness, I'm telling the complete unhindered truth when I say that if you don't remove your hand from there this very instant, you'll regret the very day you developed a libido. Let us just say your not my...'type'.~ == SALVANAS ~Oh come now, sugarkitten...is there any way I can prove my intentions honourable? I am quite enchanted by you, moon elf...the very thought of my hands upon your supple...er, shoulders...drives me insane with desi-~ == LK#NINDJ ~Ooh...well, if you put it *that* way. Although I suppose I should warn you, it takes a very special kind of man to satisfy my appetites...~ == SALVANAS ~And so it should be! So few men are worthy of such beauty as yours...Pray tell, my love, of your 'special' appetites...~ == LK#NINDJ ~(whispers)~ == SALVANAS ~Aghh...erm. (gulp) I think I, ah, hear ...something...Farewell!~ == LK#NINDJ ~Toodles, Pip!~ DO ~ActionOverride("Salvanas",MoveToPoint([1063.1366]))~ EXIT // Belmin the Elf Hater CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~InParty("Ninde") See("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) RandomNum(2,1) Global("LK#Ninde_belmin","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN BELMIN LK#Ninde_belmin ~You! The sheer self-satisfaction of your manner tells me all. Another of the vile elven ilk dares walk abroad!~ == LK#NINDJ ~Why, aren't you a quaint little xenophobe! Despite the noise, you add such color to the locality.~ == BELMIN ~Am I nothing more than a joke to you, rank sylvan, as you befoul the promenade so?~ == LK#NINDJ ~Befouling...hmm. Come, aren't there things you'd rather be doing to me than yelling abuse? I know this marvelous little Inn near-~ == BELMIN ~Vile fornicatress! To think I would be dissuaded even a moment by such an offer. Fiend! You shall burn.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I'm afraid I have heard all this before, duckling. You ought to take your queer little self away before my casting hand start to itch.~ EXIT // Hendak CHAIN IF WEIGHT #-1 ~InParty("Ninde") See("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) OR(2) Global("HendakReleased","AR0406",3) Global("HendakReleased","AR0406",4) Global("LK#Ninde_hendak","GLOBAL",0)~ THEN HENDAK LK#Ninde_hendak ~Ah, , it seems an age since I last saw you. Ah, and I see you have new companions? Greetings, my lady.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#Ninde_hendak","GLOBAL",1)~ == LK#NINDJ ~You will address me as Lady Amblecrown, Illuskan. I like what you've done with the place; I hear putrid and dank are in this season. I'm sure all the finest Inn's in Arabel will be following suit with such delightful decor.~ == HENDAK ~Yes, well...it is always nice to see a new patron.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I am not new, dear. I used to visit often before the change in management. You looked far better bloodied in the fighting pit then you do affecting civility behind that bar.~ == HENDAK ~As you might've looked more at ease amidst the drabs of Madame Nin then swanning about and calling yourself a lady.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Jumped-up barbarian.~ EXIT // Ginia (Brynnlaw) I_C_T PIRCOR02 13 LK#Ninde_ginia == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Are we really to spend our time and gold sending this trollop back home? Really, whoring is not so bad. And pickpocketing! If you ask me, these children are learning trades they can ply in any city in the realms. This island is a veritable academy.~ END // Adalon (end of Underdark) I_C_T2 UDSILVER 57 LK#Ninde_adalon == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Adalon, your human form makes you look fat. Take note.~ END // Sahuagin Rebel Prince INTERJECT SAHPR2 12 LK#Ninde_rebelprince == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~Phheww.~ == SAHPR2 ~Why do you make such noises, pink and puny one?~ == LK#NINDJ ~Oh, no reason. Just--I didn't know a fish could have garlic breath. Or that anything could be uglier than that two-headed Goblin I saw at the circus; but you've proved me oh-so-very wrong. Today has been a day of discovery!~ == SAHPR2 ~Hmph. I will ignore you, pointy-eared one, and instead talk to your leader, for he seems far more clever. , let us return to the matter at hand; help ensure our species survives and-~ == LK#NINDJ ~What on Faerun makes you think we'd want to do that? Your species is ugly, smelly, spiky, and probably somehow offensive to the other two senses aswell. Unless you're some sort of exotic delicacy? Though somehow I doubt it, tuna-boy.~ == SAHPR2 ~Tuna boy?! What is this, small one?! Do you mock me? I am Prince-~ == LK#NINDJ ~Prince Gogotixylixfifideluxe, or something? Shar, 'tis a wonder you manage to remember such names, considering what they say about fishes' brains...~ == SAHPR2 ~Gragh! I will not take this from a puny landling!~ EXTERN SAHPR4 11 // Trademeet Gypsy EXTEND_BOTTOM TRGYP02 2 IF ~!InPartySlot(LastTalkedToBy,0) Name("Ninde",LastTalkedToBy)~ EXTERN TRGYP02 LK#NindeGypsy_0 END APPEND TRGYP02 IF ~~ LK#NindeGypsy_0 SAY ~You have a generous spirit, dear woman, but do not let your past losses cloud your vision. Let the strength within you come forth, and do not fall to the temptation to wait for the next sunrise.~ IF ~~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeGypsy_1 END END APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NindeGypsy_1 SAY ~I appreciate the advice, dear, but there is no danger of that.~ IF ~~ EXIT END END // Brats CHAIN IF ~See("Ninde") InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) RandomNum(5,1) Global("LK#Ninde_brat","AR0700",0)~ THEN BRAT1 LK#Ninde_brat1 ~Missus, you're real pretty! Are you a princess?~ == LK#NINDJ ~No. I'm not a princess. I'm a witch. An evil, evil witch.~ == BRAT1 ~A w-witch?~ == LK#NINDJ ~That's what I said. And there's a great tradition of witches eating small, irritating children. I thought it a little barbaric, but perhaps there's something to be said for the old ways. Boil a pot and pass me the carving knife!~ == BRAT1 ~Mummy!~ EXIT CHAIN IF ~See("Ninde") InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) RandomNum(5,1) Global("LK#Ninde_brat","AR0700",0)~ THEN BRAT2 LK#Ninde_brat1 ~Missus, you're real pretty! Are you a princess?~ == LK#NINDJ ~No. I'm not a princess. I'm a witch. An evil, evil witch.~ == BRAT2 ~A w-witch?~ == LK#NINDJ ~That's what I said. And there's a great tradition of witches eating small, irritating children. I thought it a little barbaric, but perhaps there's something to be said for the old ways. Boil a pot and pass me the carving knife!~ == BRAT2 ~Mummy!~ EXIT CHAIN IF ~See("Ninde") InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) RandomNum(5,1) Global("LK#Ninde_brat","AR0700",0)~ THEN BRAT1 LK#Ninde_brat3 ~Missus, you're real pretty! Are you a princess?~ == LK#NINDJ ~No. I'm not a princess. I'm a witch. An evil, evil witch.~ == BRAT3 ~A w-witch?~ == LK#NINDJ ~That's what I said. And there's a great tradition of witches eating small, irritating children. I thought it a little barbaric, but perhaps there's something to be said for the old ways. Boil a pot and pass me the carving knife!~ == BRAT3 ~Mummy!~ EXIT // In Hell I_C_T3 PLAYER1 25 LK#Ninde_Hell == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) !Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN ~It couldn't have just been easy. He couldn't have just died. Once again, life unfolds with tedious inevitability.~ == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) !Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN ~If I didn't know better I'd think I just got very, very drunk last night. Oh well. Let's get this over with, , and find a way out of here before all these hot breezes wreak further havoc on my split ends.~ == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ THEN ~So you really *do* end up here if you go round kissing all the boys.~ END // Irenicus in Hell I_C_T HELLJON 7 LK#Nep_Iren == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~They say it seems the stars have stooped downward to watch this age unfold...and I think we are about to see why. I am with you, . I am with you.~ END I_C_T HELLJON 8 LK#Nep_Iren1 == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~They say it seems the stars have stooped downward to watch this age unfold...and I think we are about to see why. I am with you, . I am with you.~ END I_C_T HELLJON 9 LK#Nep_Iren2 == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~They say it seems the stars have stooped downward to watch this age unfold...and I think we are about to see why. I am with you, . I am with you.~ END I_C_T HELLJON 10 LK#Nep_Iren3 == LK#NINDJ IF ~InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID)~ THEN ~They say it seems the stars have stooped downward to watch this age unfold...and I think we are about to see why. I am with you, . I am with you.~ END // Tree of Life EXTEND_BOTTOM PLAYER1 33 IF ~InParty("Ninde") InMyArea("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) Global("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",0) !Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ EXTERN PLAYER1 LK#NindeToL IF ~InParty("Ninde") InMyArea("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) Global("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",0) Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ EXTERN PLAYER1 LK#NindeToL1 END CHAIN PLAYER1 LK#NindeToL ~Whatever reservations you may have had about the wordy, wry and flirtatious Ninde, she has proved a steadfast companion thus far. Despite her bleak exterior, you know she has a longing for both life and for love.~ END ++ ~This is my battle, Ninde. It's too dangerous--I won't risk your life to avenge what was taken from me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL_1 ++ ~You don't need to come with me, Ninde. You've done more than enough already.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL_1 ++ ~Are you with me, Ninde? I'll need all the help I can get to defeat Irenicus.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL_1 APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NindeToL_1 SAY ~I've thought long and hard about this moment, dear. Wondered which way I was to turn when my fate stared me in the face - and I have decided. I might leave now and wither away in some quiet corner of Faerun, but that wouldn't be very me, would it? No, if there is any excitement left to be had before the oncoming oblivion, I will be there to have it! ~ COPY_TRANS PLAYER1 33 END END CHAIN PLAYER1 LK#NindeToL1 ~Whatever reservations you may have had about the wordy, wry and flirtatious Ninde, she has proved a steadfast companion thus far. Despite her bleak exterior, you know she has a longing for both life and for love.~ END ++ ~This is my battle, Ninde. It's too dangerous--I won't risk your life to avenge what was taken from me.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL1_1 ++ ~You don't need to come with me, Ninde.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL1_1 ++ ~Are you with me, Ninde? I'll need all the help I can get to defeat Irenicus.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeTreeofLife","GLOBAL",1)~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeToL1_1 APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NindeToL1_1 SAY ~Perhaps not, but I have come this far. Do not think I fight for you--I simply know that a raucous defeat is better than a quiet expiration.~ COPY_TRANS PLAYER1 33 END END // Bodhi abduction ADD_TRANS_TRIGGER BODHIAMB 5 ~OR(2) !InParty("Ninde") !Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2)~ DO 0 INTERJECT BODHIAMB 5 LK#NindeBodhiAbduct == BODHIAMB IF ~Global("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",2) InParty("Ninde")~ THEN ~You follow in the hopes of retrieving something dear to you. I say that the longer you keep this up, the more you will lose.~ END IF ~OR(2) !InPartyAllowDead("Ninde") Dead("Ninde")~ EXTERN BODHIAMB 6 IF ~InPartyAllowDead("Ninde") !Dead("Ninde")~ EXTERN BODHIAMB LK#NindeBodhiAbduct_1 CHAIN BODHIAMB LK#NindeBodhiAbduct_1 ~As for you, Ninde, perhaps it is time for you to rejoin us, your night-walking cousins.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I really don't think you can be serious, fangface. You hate my guts.~ == BODHIAMB ~Perhaps a little undeath would improve you. Actually, never mind the 'un' part--let's get straight to the death.~ == LK#NINDJ ~I think you're forgetting something, darling.~ == BODHIAMB ~The Ankh. The thing has some...sentimental worth, I suppose.~ == LK#NINDJ ~It recognises my blood. The thing's like a desperate lover, can't get it off me.~ == BODHIAMB ~It recognises your blood? Well, that shan't be a problem when you don't have any left.~ == LK#NINDJ ~Don't you remember why Lassal gave the bauble to me in the first place? Not a single one of you is coming anywhere near my gorgeous neck. Lassal did, upon occasion, do things right.~ == BODHIAMB ~Though you are walking evidence otherwise. Your continued existence galls me. But how to end it with suitable pain?~ = ~Very well. You will come with us...I need a little more time to think about what to do with you.~ EXTERN LK#NINDJ LK#NindeBodhiAbduct_2 APPEND LK#NINDJ IF ~~ LK#NindeBodhiAbduct_2 SAY ~I'm sure it will be just like the old days.~ IF ~~ DO ~LeaveParty() ClearAllActions() StartCutSceneMode() StartCutScene("lk#nict5")~ UNSOLVED_JOURNAL ~The Final Battle with Bodhi. Bodhi appeared in an ambush shortly before I reached her haven, warning me that she was aware of my pursuit and attempting to steal from me the one person that is dearest to my heart: Ninde. Of course, Ninde would not be so easily taken; apparently the Ankh she wears protects her from being vampirised. Nonetheless, she has been taken from me. Before Bodhi vanished and unleashed more of her undead creations upon me, she threatened Ninde's life. I cannot give up on the Rhynn Lanthorn...but now the life and immortal soul of the one I love is at stake. I must save her before it becomes too late.~ EXIT END END ADD_TRANS_TRIGGER C6BODHI 21 ~!Global("LK#NindeBodhiAbduct","GLOBAL",1)~ DO 0 INTERJECT C6BODHI 21 LK#NindeBodhiAb2 == C6BODHI IF ~Global("LK#NindeBodhiAbduct","GLOBAL",1)~ THEN ~But...no, I have already prepared much for this meeting, . I did warn you that you would suffer great loss if you continued your push towards me. I did not lie.~ END ++ ~You have taken too much already! You will return both Imoen's soul and Ninde!~ EXTERN C6BODHI LK#NindeBodhiAb2_1 ++ ~And you have delivered on that promise. Return Ninde and perhaps I will be merciful.~ EXTERN C6BODHI LK#NindeBodhiAb2_1 ++ ~I would have hunted you for your theft of Ninde alone. She is very important to me.~ EXTERN C6BODHI LK#NindeBodhiAb2_1 ++ ~You place too much confidence in sentiment. The theft of Ninde will not save you.~ EXTERN C6BODHI LK#NindeBodhiAb2_2 APPEND C6BODHI IF ~~ LK#NindeBodhiAb2_1 SAY ~Oh, she has not been harmed. Yet.~ IF ~~ + 22 END IF ~~ LK#NindeBodhiAb2_2 SAY ~An interesting ploy, though I am sure what she has in store will still serve as an example, whether you wish her back or not.~ IF ~~ + 22 END END // ------------------------------------- // Ninde Player Initiated Dialogue // ------------------------------------- APPEND LK#NINDJ // Clicky-click IF ~IsGabber(Player1) CombatCounter(0) InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",9) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",5)~ LK#NindePID1 SAY ~(You approach Ninde with a sense of trepidation--one can never be sure what the lusty sun elf will do next.)~ ++ ~(Ask Ninde a question)~ + LK#NindeChat ++ ~(Flirt with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~IsGabber(Player1) CombatCounter(0) InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) OR(2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",17) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",9) OR(2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",8) GlobalGT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",4)~ LK#NindePID2 SAY ~(Although the mean-spirited lady appears to be tolerating you a little more these days, you can't suppress a nervous smile as her yellow gaze shifts up to your face.)~ ++ ~(Ask Ninde a question)~ + LK#NindeChat ++ ~(Flirt with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~IsGabber(Player1) CombatCounter(0) InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) OR(2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",27) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",13) OR(2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",16) GlobalGT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",8)~ LK#NindePID3 SAY ~(It is not unusual for Ninde to look bored, and neither is it unusual for her to seek your company when she is so. Seeing her maudlin expression as she picks at her manicured nails, you decide to seize the opportunity.)~ ++ ~(Ask Ninde a question)~ + LK#NindeChat ++ ~(Flirt with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~IsGabber(Player1) CombatCounter(0) InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) OR(2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",31) GlobalGT("LK#NindeFriendTalks","GLOBAL",12) OR(2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",26)~ LK#NindePID4 SAY ~(As you approach Ninde, she throws you one of her rare, languid smiles.)~ ++ ~(Ask Ninde a question)~ + LK#NindeChat ++ ~(Flirt with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~IsGabber(Player1) CombatCounter(0) InParty("Ninde") !StateCheck("Ninde",CD_STATE_NOTVALID) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",30)~ LK#NindePID5 SAY ~(As you approach Ninde, she throws you one of her rare, languid smiles.)~ ++ ~(Ask Ninde a question)~ + LK#NindeChat ++ ~(Flirt with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat SAY ~Out with it then, Bhaalspawn, I haven't all day, you know.~ ++ ~Ninde, what is your favourite colour?~ + LK#NindeChat_colour ++ ~Ninde, what is your favourite flower?~ + LK#NindeChat_flower ++ ~Have you ever...been with a man?~ + LK#NindeChat_man ++ ~Have you ever been in love?~ + LK#NindeChat_love ++ ~What's your favourite place?~ + LK#NindeChat_place ++ ~Do you have a favourite food?~ + LK#NindeChat_food ++ ~Have you ever kissed a woman?~ + LK#NindeChat_kissedgirl ++ ~What do you think of me?~ + LK#NindeChat_opinion ++ ~How long have you been a mage for, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_mage ++ ~What were your parents like?~ + LK#NindeChat_parents ++ ~Do you have any siblings?~ + LK#NindeChat_siblings ++ ~Where did you grow up?~ + LK#NindeChat_growup ++ ~Why is it that you're evil, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_evil ++ ~If you could be an animal, what would you be?~ + LK#NindeChat_animal ++ ~What does your name mean?~ + LK#NindeChat_name + ~RandomNum(2,1)~ + ~Ninde, what do you look for in a man?~ + LK#NindeChat_lookfor1 + ~RandomNum(2,2)~ + ~Ninde, what do you look for in a man?~ + LK#NindeChat_lookfor2 + ~OR(6) AreaCheck("AR1500") AreaCheck("AR1512") AreaCheck("AR1513") AreaCheck("AR1514") AreaCheck("AR1515") AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advicespellhold + ~OR(2) AreaCheck("AR2100") AreaCheck("AR2200")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_adviceunderdark + ~RandomNum(4,1) GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5)~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advicech6 + ~RandomNum(4,2) GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice1 + ~RandomNum(4,3) GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice2 + ~RandomNum(4,4) GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice3 + ~RandomNum(3,1) !GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice1 + ~RandomNum(3,2) !GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice2 + ~RandomNum(3,3) !GlobalGT("Chapter","GLOBAL",5) !AreaCheck("AR2100") !AreaCheck("AR2200") !AreaCheck("AR1500") !AreaCheck("AR1512") !AreaCheck("AR1513") !AreaCheck("AR1514") !AreaCheck("AR1515") !AreaCheck("AR1516")~ + ~Have you any advice for me, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_advice3 ++ ~What were you like as a child?~ + LK#NindeChat_child ++ ~Do you have a favourite word, Ninde?~ + LK#NindeChat_word ++ ~What, in your opinion, is the best thing to be discovered by men and gods?~ + LK#NindeChat_best + ~RandomNum(6,1)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty1 + ~RandomNum(6,2)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty2 + ~RandomNum(6,3)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty3 + ~RandomNum(6,4)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty4 + ~RandomNum(6,5)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty5 + ~RandomNum(6,6)~ + ~Ninde, you're very beautiful.~ + LK#NindeChat_pretty6 + ~Global("LK#NindeFlirtsOff","GLOBAL",0)~ + ~Ninde, I don't think we should distract each other with flirtation, as delightful as it is.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeFlirtsOff","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeChat_flirtingoff + ~Global("LK#NindeFlirtsOff","GLOBAL",1)~ + ~Ninde, I know I said flirting was a distraction, but upon further consideration I find I simply can't do without it. What do you say?~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeFlirtsOff","GLOBAL",0)~ + LK#NindeChat_flirtingon ++ ~Er, Ninde - I think you may have the wrong idea about us. I'd rather we remained friends. If you have friends.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ + LK#NindeChat_justfriends ++ ~Ninde, I'm not sure quite how to put this. You seem to think I'm interested in you...romantically. And I am quite simply not. It's nothing personal, it's just...I'm not like that. I play for the other team. Drink from the other side of the goblet. Play the pink oboe. I...well. I like men.~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3) SetGlobal("LK#Ninde_pcisgay","GLOBAL",1)~ + LK#NindeChat_gay ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt SAY ~What is it?~ + ~RandomNum(12,1)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch1 + ~RandomNum(12,2)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch2 + ~RandomNum(12,3)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch3 + ~RandomNum(12,4)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch4 + ~RandomNum(12,5)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch5 + ~RandomNum(12,6)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch6 + ~RandomNum(12,7)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch7 + ~RandomNum(12,8)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch8 + ~RandomNum(12,9)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch9 + ~RandomNum(12,10)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch10 + ~RandomNum(12,11)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch11 + ~RandomNum(12,12)~ + ~(Watch Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_watch12 + ~RandomNum(4,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair1 + ~RandomNum(4,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair2 + ~RandomNum(4,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair4 + ~RandomNum(4,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair7 + ~RandomNum(7,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair1 + ~RandomNum(7,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair2 + ~RandomNum(7,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair3 + ~RandomNum(7,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair4 + ~RandomNum(7,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair5 + ~RandomNum(7,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair6 + ~RandomNum(7,7) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Play with Ninde's hair)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hair7 + ~RandomNum(7,1) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance1 + ~RandomNum(7,2) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance2 + ~RandomNum(7,3) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance3 + ~RandomNum(7,4) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance4 + ~RandomNum(7,5) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance5 + ~RandomNum(7,6) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance6 + ~RandomNum(7,7) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance7 + ~RandomNum(3,1) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance4 + ~RandomNum(3,2) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance5 + ~RandomNum(3,3) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(4) Race(Player1,HUMAN) Race(Player1,ELF) Race(Player1,HALF_ELF) Race(Player1,HALFORC) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance6 + ~RandomNum(8,1) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance21 + ~RandomNum(8,2) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance22 + ~RandomNum(8,3) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance23 + ~RandomNum(8,4) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance24 + ~RandomNum(8,5) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance25 + ~RandomNum(8,6) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance26 + ~RandomNum(8,7) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance27 + ~RandomNum(8,8) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance28 + ~RandomNum(6,1) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance21 + ~RandomNum(6,2) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance22 + ~RandomNum(6,3) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance23 + ~RandomNum(6,4) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance24 + ~RandomNum(6,5) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance25 + ~RandomNum(6,6) OR(11) AreaCheck("AR0021") AreaCheck("AR0313") AreaCheck("AR0406") AreaCheck("AR0509") AreaCheck("AR0513") AreaCheck("AR0522") AreaCheck("AR0704") AreaCheck("AR0709") AreaCheck("AR1105") AreaCheck("AR1602") AreaCheck("AR2010") CheckStatGT(Player1,8,DEX) OR(3) Race(Player1,HALFLING) Race(Player1,GNOME) Race(Player1,DWARF) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Dance with Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_dance26 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile5 + ~RandomNum(13,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile1 + ~RandomNum(13,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile2 + ~RandomNum(13,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile3 + ~RandomNum(13,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile4 + ~RandomNum(13,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile5 + ~RandomNum(13,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile6 + ~RandomNum(13,7) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile7 + ~RandomNum(13,8) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile8 + ~RandomNum(13,9) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile9 + ~RandomNum(13,10) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile10 + ~RandomNum(13,11) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile11 + ~RandomNum(13,12) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile12 + ~RandomNum(13,13) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Smile at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_smile13 + ~RandomNum(4,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",4)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug1 + ~RandomNum(4,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",4)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug2 + ~RandomNum(4,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",4)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug3 + ~RandomNum(4,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19) GlobalLT("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",4)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug4 + ~Global("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hugno + ~Global("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",5) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",19)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#NindeFlirt_hugs","LOCALS",1)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_final + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",18)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug5 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",18)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug6 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",18)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug7 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",18)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug8 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",18)~ + ~(Hug Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hug9 + ~RandomNum(6,1) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle1 + ~RandomNum(6,2) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle2 + ~RandomNum(6,3) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle3 + ~RandomNum(6,4) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle4 + ~RandomNum(6,5) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle5 + ~RandomNum(6,6) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle6 + ~RandomNum(7,1) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle1 + ~RandomNum(7,2) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle2 + ~RandomNum(7,3) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle3 + ~RandomNum(7,4) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle4 + ~RandomNum(7,5) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle5 + ~RandomNum(7,6) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle6 + ~RandomNum(7,7) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle7 + ~RandomNum(7,1) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle1 + ~RandomNum(7,2) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle2 + ~RandomNum(7,3) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle3 + ~RandomNum(7,4) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle4 + ~RandomNum(7,5) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle5 + ~RandomNum(7,6) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle6 + ~RandomNum(7,7) CheckStatGT(Player1,12,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle8 + ~RandomNum(8,1) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle1 + ~RandomNum(8,2) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle2 + ~RandomNum(8,3) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle3 + ~RandomNum(8,4) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle4 + ~RandomNum(8,5) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle5 + ~RandomNum(8,6) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle6 + ~RandomNum(8,7) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle7 + ~RandomNum(8,7) CheckStatLT(Player1,13,DEX) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Tickle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_tickle8 + ~RandomNum(4,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat1 + ~RandomNum(4,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat2 + ~RandomNum(4,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat3 + ~RandomNum(4,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat4 + ~RandomNum(4,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat5 + ~RandomNum(4,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat6 + ~RandomNum(4,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat7 + ~RandomNum(4,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Pat Ninde's behind)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_pat8 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle5 + ~RandomNum(10,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle1 + ~RandomNum(10,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle2 + ~RandomNum(10,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle3 + ~RandomNum(10,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle4 + ~RandomNum(10,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle5 + ~RandomNum(10,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle6 + ~RandomNum(10,7) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle7 + ~RandomNum(10,8) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle8 + ~RandomNum(10,9) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle9 + ~RandomNum(10,10) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Ogle Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_ogle10 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink5 + ~RandomNum(10,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink1 + ~RandomNum(10,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink2 + ~RandomNum(10,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink3 + ~RandomNum(10,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink4 + ~RandomNum(10,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink5 + ~RandomNum(10,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink6 + ~RandomNum(10,7) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink7 + ~RandomNum(10,8) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink8 + ~RandomNum(10,9) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink9 + ~RandomNum(10,10) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Wink at Ninde)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_wink10 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Hold Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hold1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Hold Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hold2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Hold Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hold3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Hold Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hold4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Hold Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hold5 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",21)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage5 + ~RandomNum(6,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage1 + ~RandomNum(6,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage2 + ~RandomNum(6,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage3 + ~RandomNum(6,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage4 + ~RandomNum(6,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage5 + ~RandomNum(6,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",20)~ + ~(Offer Ninde a massage)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_massage6 + ~RandomNum(5,1) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand1 + ~RandomNum(5,2) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand2 + ~RandomNum(5,3) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand3 + ~RandomNum(5,4) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand4 + ~RandomNum(5,5) GlobalLT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",15)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand5 + ~RandomNum(10,1) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand1 + ~RandomNum(10,2) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand2 + ~RandomNum(10,3) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand3 + ~RandomNum(10,4) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand4 + ~RandomNum(10,5) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand5 + ~RandomNum(10,6) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand6 + ~RandomNum(10,7) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand7 + ~RandomNum(10,8) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand8 + ~RandomNum(10,9) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand9 + ~RandomNum(10,10) GlobalGT("LK#NindeLoveTalks","GLOBAL",14)~ + ~(Kiss Ninde's hand)~ + LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand10 ++ ~(Leave Ninde alone)~ EXIT END // Utility options IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_flirtingoff SAY ~(Smile) Flirtation? Don't flatter yourself, ! I mean really. As though *I* would flirt with you.~ = ~Well...perhaps I was. Just a little. But your wish, dear Bhaalspawn, is my command.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_flirtingon SAY ~(Ninde smiles triumphantly and gives you an affectionate chuck under the chin.)~ = ~I knew the boy would come to his senses.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_justfriends SAY ~(Ninde's lips turn up into a smile, but her eyes remain devoid of any good humor. She is composed as she turns toward you.)~ = ~Ninde does not have friends, she has sycophants. And there is always room for more of those, dear.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_gay SAY ~ (Ninde looks momentarily suprised, before grinning at you companionably.)~ = ~Well, call me Godwin and send me to the Vilhon Reach! That's something of a suprise. But honestly darling, I sympathise; I've a fair few taboo proclivities of my own, in the bed chamber. We'll have to speak a little more on this. But thank you for telling me - t'would have left more than one red face, had you not.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // Question answers IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_colour SAY ~Black, I suppose. Imagine the stains if I wore, say, yellow, in my line of work.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_flower SAY ~Fly Traps, darling. There's something delightfully predatory about them, don't you think?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_man SAY ~Ooh...More then you can count on your toes and fingers, Bhaalspawn. Possibly even more than the hairs on your back!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_love SAY ~Enough to know that love is very frightful and powerful thing, and not to be bandied about.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_place SAY ~I suppose it would have been my...my home in Waterdeep, although it was burnt to the ground during the Time of Troubles. There used to be this beautiful silver birch in the courtyard. When I was a child I would make holes in the leaves and stare through them up at the sun.~ = ~And it just smelt so...so clean. With the lemon grass and the pines in the gardens. But Shar, I'm being sentimental again.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_food SAY ~Sugared pears, liquorice mice, gingerbread, pancakes in syrup. I do have quite the sweet tooth, although it is difficult to indulge in such luxuries whilst traveling.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_kissedgirl SAY ~That would be one fit of debauchery too many. Apologies if I've just dashed any dreams of yours.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_opinion SAY ~I think you're sufficiently wealthy and attractive to maintain my interest, and isn't that all that matters, Bhaalspawn?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_mage SAY ~I was very young when I began spell casting, ten perhaps. It was one of the only pursuits, simpering aside, thought suitable for a girl of my wealth. Suitably hygienic, pleasingly weapon-free, and I couldn't abide the thought of sitting around embroidering cushions or some such.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_parents SAY ~They were evidently moon gazing fey who misplaced one of their children during a Drow attack, if you mean my blood parents. My adoptive father was a Waterdhavian merchant of some repute.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_siblings SAY ~Not of my knowledge, although I may have a few long-eared brothers and sisters knocking about Evereska. I...I did have a human brother, growing up, although he's long since dead. Poor Respen never could tell the nice girls from the ones who were going to steal his money and slit his throat, the dear boy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_growup SAY ~Waterdeep, the jewel of the north. A beauty of a place, a city of contrast and surprises at every turn. I always felt slightly out of place there, however, amidst the preening human nobles. My heritage always caused me to be curiosity of sorts to them.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_evil SAY ~Me? Evil? I'm positively scandalized, . I may be a little on the naughty side from time to time but I feel that generally I'm an upstanding young citizen. (Ninde smiles and places her hand over her heart in mock civic pride, but with a luxuriant little sigh, seems to become distracted by the bulk of her left breast beneath her robe.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_animal SAY ~One of those irritating little yappy dogs that wealthy old women like to keep in their wizened laps. A life of little pink ribbons and biting at footmen for Ninde!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_name SAY ~Something very ugly and very well-suited to me.~ = ~But I shan't tell.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_lookfor1 SAY ~A hefty purse and the muscle to lift it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_lookfor2 SAY ~Wealthy and infamy. Or at least, the ambition to possess both.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_advicespellhold SAY ~Riddles give you headaches, gemstones give you monsters and monsters give you a hard time.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_adviceunderdark SAY ~Generally speaking, the funnier something looks, the more it likes eating brains.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_advicech6 SAY ~Never trust a man whose brows meet in the middle. Or is called Saemon.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_advice1 SAY ~Never wear purple and orange together.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_advice2 SAY ~It's not the size of your weapon, it's what you do with it, darling.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_advice3 SAY ~All that glitters is not gold, but we still might be able to foist it off on some scatter-brained merchant when we're next in town.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_child SAY ~Your usual precocious little brat who wore her hair in messy braids and wanted to be a unicorn tamer.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_word SAY ~'Fecund'.~ = ~Hmm...either that, or 'morsel'. Both just roll off the tongue, don't you think?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_best SAY ~My heaving bosom. No, honestly, just look at them! I rather think it's the chance to catch me unlacing my bodice that keeps Helm so famously vigilant.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty1 SAY ~Oh, Bhaalspawn, I bet you say that to all the Necromancers.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty2 SAY ~Yes, well. Stop going on about it and create some sort of lasting tribute. A sculpture or epic poem ought to do it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty3 SAY ~You're not so very bad yourself.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty4 SAY ~Almost too beautiful, in fact.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty5 SAY ~A sweet face and a mean spell is a winning combination, I suppose.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeChat_pretty6 SAY ~Oh...But it is what's inside that counts, Bhaalspawn...~ = ~Ha! You thought me serious for a moment, there.~ IF ~~ EXIT END // Flirt responses IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch1 SAY ~(You find that this time, it is Ninde's face that arrests your attention. She isn't conventionally pretty, not at all, yet the daring unsymmetrical has an unspeakable appeal. Perhaps it is the way her rude scarlet mouth always looks slightly, childishly petulant. Perhaps it is the gentle tilt of her eyes, at once lively and appraising. Either way, the sensuality of the sun elf's character is ever at play in her features.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch2 SAY ~(Although you begin admiring Ninde's figure, you soon notice her gait; and you could swear, she is the proud possessor of the most arrogant walk you have ever seen on a woman. Abandoning the sensual swing she usually adopts when the party is at leisure, while marching, she canters boldly forward. It isn't the usual adventurer's trudge, or the walk of a woman aware of her insignificance. No. Ninde's walk is the walk of a woman on her way to a very good time, and fully aware of how much she deserves it.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch3 SAY ~(As occasionally happens during the toil of the day, you find a brief moment to steal a glance at Ninde. When she bends down to reach for a waterskin, you find yourself studying the wild, racehorse look her slender body gives her. Built a little more solidly than many of her race, you watch as she rolls up the sleeves of her robe. Her forearms, ridged by not the smallest of scars, look like they would be soft to the touch, if you dared to touch them.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch4 SAY ~(There is a suspiciously hard look in Ninde's face, today, and you surmise that to approach her could be more then a little hazardous. You can still watch from afar, however, as annoyance sparks behind her eyes, like a chunk of yellow amber catching the sunlight. The button nose crinkles at every hold-up, every small annoyance, and her red mouth twitches more impetuously than ever.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch5 SAY ~(Walking behind Ninde is more of a pleasure than you dare admit. Whether she is aware of your gaze or not, she trots in front of you with the most practiced sway of the hips, demonstrating precisely how very aware she is of the mesmeric qualities of the curvaceous female form. Your scrutiny is prematurely curtailed, however, as you decide you best shift your attention before Ninde becomes aware of it. You know you'll never hear the end of it, if she does.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch6 SAY ~(Ninde has lowered her hood, and is re-arranging her hair, drawing its silky black mass back into a neat braid. Her profile is more delicate than her face when viewed from the front, perhaps because of the spidery lashes, the daintily projecting lips.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch7 SAY ~(To your surprise, you find Ninde reciprocating your gaze. At first she looks suspicious, but then her hard mouth breaks into an easy, devil-may-care smile, drawing her black-gold eyes across your shoulders, your jaw. She gives you an insouciant wink, before turning away.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch8 SAY ~(Ninde's skin is tan, though not the same shade as a field labourer in the summer; more honey and cinnamon than coarse bronze. She strolls up beside you, and you notice how even in the dimmest settings her cheekbones gleam, and in the brightest light, she glows as though she has been rolling in gold dust.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch9 SAY ~You take advantage of a break in marching to watch Ninde. She stands opposite you, examining your surrounding with faint interest, before leaning forward to remove something from her pack. As she does so, her silk robe, loose as a whisper about her shoulders, slips forward, giving you an admirable view of her cleavage.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch10 SAY ~(As you turn to take a glance at Ninde, you find she is one step ahead; her curved eyes, sickle sharp, meet yours. The light touches their lower rims, highlighting flecks of almost-green. Her eyes are not yellow. They are not black. They are not hazel. They are the colour of an old statue, left in a woodland glen, gold abandoned to decay.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch11 SAY ~(Today, Ninde looks self-satisfied. Like a cat that got the cream. As you reflect on the old adage, you notice their is something very leonine about the elf's features, with its wide, high cheekbones, button nose and turned-up mouth. You suspect that if you drew a hand across her naked shoulders, she'd purr. You suspect that if you tried to hold her, she'd claw. Perhaps she is more lion than domesticated feline.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_watch12 SAY ~(As you take a break, Ninde sits, radiating indolence and a carefree disinterest in everything but her own hands, which she modestly folds on her knees. Gazing around a little, her eyes meet yours, and with a sudden change of expression, she sticks her tongue out at you and giggles.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair1 SAY ~(Ninde's hood is lowered, but her hair is twisted into a neat braid. This school-madam style seems oddly incongruous with the rest of Ninde, who brims, walks, speaks, breathes a naughty sensuality. You reach across a hand, and gently smooth an errant strand of dark hair back behind her hear. Ninde does not react, however, frowning and twitching her ear, as though a fly had alighted there, and not your hand.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair2 SAY ~(Ninde's hair is loose and falls sweet and soft across her shoulders, and half of her face. As you reach forward to touch a black tumble of it, the elf tosses her head in a practiced manner and turns to look at you.)~ = ~Beautiful, isn't it? Put every satin gown I owned to shame.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair3 SAY ~(For some reason Ninde stands with her eyes closed, as though in some kind of trance. You take the opportunity to run a hand through her dark hair. As you do so, Ninde murmurs as though gently awoken, and a smile spreads across her lips.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair4 SAY ~(Ninde is re-arranging her hair, drawing it into a neat plait at the back of her head. With some idea of offering assistance, you reach forward, only to find your fingers slapped away by the tortoiseshell comb she efficaciously brandishes.)~ = ~Tsk! One doesn't interfere with Ninde's hair, dear.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair5 SAY ~(When Ninde leans forward, her hair falls, a dark curtain, behind her elegant profile. You reach to draw it back behind her shoulder. To your suprise, she seems to momentarily press the side of her face against your hand, a movement at once cat-like and vulnerable. A moment later, and she withdraws.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair6 SAY ~(Ninde is still, her features perched above her spell book with a studious frown. Her hair obscures half her face, and she seems not to notice as you begin to run your fingers through it's smoky waves. She is still unmoved from her studies as you begin to inexpertly braid small sections of it, and the pair of you sit undisturbed for quite a while. Ninde, absorbed in the runic wonders of her art, and you in the carbon glory of her tresses.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hair7 SAY ~(As you gently brush your fingertips against a few fly away strands of the sun elf's hair, you find your attentions met with a harsh glare.)~ = ~I'm an archmage, darling, not a pony. Kindly leave off the stroking.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance1 SAY ~(Ninde is sitting at the edge of the group, observing the crowd and practising her characteristic cat-like indolence. You decide she could do with a little cheering up, so you offer her a dance.)~ = ~(As you speak, Ninde's scornful expression is replaced by an almost bashful smile.)~ = ~You're a brave man, . Didn't you see my contempt-face? (She giggles again, before taking your offered hand. The dancefloor is crowded, and a fast-paced, jostling song is played. You place your hand on Ninde's waist, and her nut-brown arms encircle your shoulders. The dance is not especially romantic, neither is it graceful, but it is companionable.)~ = ~(You talk throughout, and as the song draws to a close, you comment on the lacklustre vocal stylings of the Bard involved, and Ninde laughs, her head lingering on your shoulder for a few moments, before you return to the rest of the party.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance2 SAY ~(Ninde looks pensive, her body particularly rigid at your table, and so, as a jolly tune is struck up, you think a dance might perhaps enliven her.)~ = ~(Ninde looks at your proffered hand, then up into your face, then takes it without a second word. As you lead her to the floor, a Bard begins to sing a ballad you remember from your childhood--a song about a gold dragon whose elven lover is killed. Ninde fixes her arms around you, and you begin to dance, slowly, swaying.)~ = ~(The elf's grace, though not otherworldly, is obvious, and she moves as though herself caught in ecstasies of sorrow. As the last notes of the love song drip from the harp, you are held close together, Ninde's eyes closed, her expression soft and dreamlike. As she releases you, she sighs.)~ = ~I haven't heard that song...in so long.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance3 SAY ~Very well. If you step on my toes, however, I shall break you in ways you never imagined.~ = ~(Despite these discouraging words, the pair of you proceed. To your dismay, a formal court dance is played--and one Ninde knows all the steps too. You manage to keep up well enough though, and you notice a coy smile playing about Ninde's lips as your arm encircles her waist for the final turn.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance4 SAY ~Dance? With you? I think not. I'd rather marry a jolly, jolly peatbog farmer from the Moonshaes and spend the rest of my days lolling about in a straw hat and clogs.~ = ~Clogs do nothing for my posture. So that would be a no.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance5 SAY ~(Ninde looks down at your hand, and apparently disregarding your question, pulls a face.)~ = ~When was the last time you scrubbed beneath your nails? I think there's dirt under there that pre-dates The Simbul and breadcrumbs that could be considered antique.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance6 SAY ~(As you ask her to dance, Ninde sighs, and restlessly gazes about her.)~ = ~My apologies, . I am not in the mood this evening.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance7 SAY ~(Ninde purses her lips for a moment, before grinning.)~ = ~Why, how could I resist taking the Bhaalspawn for a song?~ = ~(With a gracious, somewhat ironic curtsy, she takes your hand and the pair of you join the other couples as a quaint, bouncing piece begins. Ninde seems cheerful enough, and dances charmingly, her dark skirts flowing, her hand barely touching yours. As the tune ends, she laughs, and grasps your arms, quite out of breath.)~ = ~Not bad at all, .~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance21 SAY ~You dance? Perhaps you may be willing to provide the locals with a little amusement, but I would take little pleasure in such humiliation.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance22 SAY ~Shoot up a couple more feet and perhaps I'll consider it. I don't dance with people who's head's are more or less parallel to my midriff.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance23 SAY ~Dance? With you? I think not. I'd rather marry a jolly, jolly peatbog farmer from the Moonshaes and spend the rest of my days lolling about in a straw hat and clogs.~ = ~Clogs do nothing for my posture. So that would be a no.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance24 SAY ~(Ninde looks down at your hand, and apparently disregarding your question, pulls a face.)~ = ~When was the last time you scrubbed beneath your nails? I think there's dirt under there that pre-dates The Simbul and breadcrumbs that could be considered antique.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance25 SAY ~(As you ask her to dance, Ninde sighs, and restlessly gazes about her.)~ = ~My apologies, . I am not in the mood this evening.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance26 SAY ~(Ninde looks pensive, her body particularly rigid at your table, and so, as a jolly tune is struck up, you think a dance might perhaps enliven her.)~ = ~(Ninde looks at your proffered hand, then down into your face, then takes it without a second word. As you lead her to the floor, a Bard begins to sing a ballad you remember from your childhood--a song about a gold dragon whose elven lover is killed. Ninde fixes her arms around you, and you begin to dance, slowly, swaying.)~ = ~(The elf's grace, though not otherworldly, is obvious, and she moves as though herself caught in ecstasies of sorrow. As the last notes of the love song drip from the harp, she holds you closer to her, almost protectively.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance27 SAY ~(Ninde smiles with quiet amusement as you offer her your hand, but not cruelly.)~ = ~I'm not sure I quite feel up to for dancing these eve. Sit and talk with me, instead?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_dance28 SAY ~(Ninde purses her lips for a moment, before grinning.)~ = ~Why, how could I resist taking the Bhaalspawn for a song?~ = ~(With a gracious, somewhat ironic curtsy, she takes your hand and the pair of you join the other couples as a quaint, bouncing piece begins. Ninde seems cheerful enough, and dances charmingly, her dark skirts flowing, her hand barely touching yours. As the tune ends, she laughs, and grasps your hands, quite out of breath.)~ = ~Not bad at all, . Not bad at all.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile1 SAY ~(You smile with camaraderie, but in response she quirks a brow and gazes at you with weary disgust.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile2 SAY ~Why the idiot grin, ? It doesn't endear you to me at all.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile3 SAY ~(To your surprise, Ninde leans forward and closer to your face as you grin at her. You think for a brief, uncertain moment that she is about to kiss you. The illusion is predictably shattered as a high, apalled little cry issues from her.)~ = ~Broccoli! You have broccoli in your teeth. How freakish you look!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile4 SAY ~Why does the young Bhaalspawn look so pleased? Has he finally figured out how to button his tunic without Gorion helping him? Hm?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile5 SAY ~If you smiled any harder, your face would split in half. I've seen it happen actually, very horrible sort of magical accident, that.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile6 SAY ~(Ninde notices your smile and returns the gesture, gazing coyly at you from under her black lashes.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile7 SAY ~(Ninde's gaze is curious as you fix her with your best boyish grin. After a moment she smiles back at you, though cautiously. Her two front teeth are just visible between her lips, the silky mouth red and enticing.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile8 SAY ~(You smile at Ninde and she laughs breezily, skipping ahead of you a few steps, before looking over her shoulder at you. A loose tendril of hair grazes her golden cheek as she offers you her own subtle smile, and the sight is a pleasing one.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile9 SAY ~(You begin to think you have upset Ninde, as in stead of returning your casual smirk in kind, she frowns. She steps towards you, and raises her hand. Almost instinctively you draw away from it, but then she touches your lips softly, and gazes at them with an almost dream-like sensuality. A moment later she clears her throat and leaves you again.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile10 SAY ~(Ninde returns your smile, though with no particular intensity. She seem distracted as she turns away from you, gazing downward.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile11 SAY ~(The sun elf's smile is confident and youthful. You imagine roughly the same smile she used to insinuate her and her deep gold eyes into dozens of young Waterdhavian hearts around forty years previously. You can see why it was so effective in inspiring attraction, as she offers you a final eyelash flutter.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile12 SAY ~(Ninde is very rarely quiet, and yet, as she smiles at you, you wonder why she is so attached to words when she is able to communicate so much through mouth and eyes alone. Her face, though not kind, inspires some strange confidence - which has no doubt contributed to her continued survival.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_smile13 SAY ~(Nothing about Ninde seems fresh or new or clean but the smile she offers you, now. Casually teasing her hair out of her face, holding the tie between her lips, she twitches her nose and winks at you before turning away.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug1 SAY ~(You make to wrap your arms around Ninde, but she pushes you away with a snarl.)~ = ~Can I make it any clearer, Bhaalspawn? I am not interested.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug2 SAY ~(As you move toward her, Ninde stamps petulantly on your foot and storms off.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug3 SAY ~(It seems to take Ninde a moment to realise what you have done as she is crushed to your chest, but once she does she wriggles so violently you release her. You are confronted with her almost comically vicious smile as she huffs and folds her arms across her chest, marching away from you.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug4 SAY ~(You fold Ninde in your arms, and for a few moments everything is serene, her black hair fragrant as it rustles against the collar of your tunic. Her hand ests on your neck, light as a spring leaf, and you sigh with contentment - just before you begin feel her manicured nails sink into the flesh of your throat.)~ = ~(Ninde grins as you back away, rubbing your neck. This lady clearly doesn't like to be hugged.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hugno SAY ~Bhaalspawn, for the last time, would you desist?! I'd rather get up close and personal with a mangy Bugbear than feel your clammy hands anywhere on, or near my immaculate person.~ ++ ~I apologise. I did not realise you were so averse to it, and certainly won't attempt to embrace you again.~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_GOOAPOL ++ ~Psh, lighten up, Ninde. It's not as though I meant anything by it.~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_MEANSCE ++ ~I will hug who I choose, and no sun elf can stop me!~ + LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_STORMEY END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_GOOAPOL SAY ~I should hope not! There should be nothing to communicate to me that can't be communicated perfectly well through the medium of speech. Or presents. Presents are acceptable, I think.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_MEANSCE SAY ~I shan't 'lighten up' until you agree to keep your sticky hands to yourself. There is nothing you could wish to communicate to me outside the medium of speech, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_STORMEY SAY ~You are a wilful young Bhaalspawn, though you ought to try and let something other than your loins do the thinking for once. We wouldn't get into half as many scrapes.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hugno_final SAY ~ (As you stretch your arms out to Ninde, being the very definition of amicability, she lets out a startling cry, and seems to wobble with aggravation, pushing you hard away.)~ = ~I don't want you, I have no interest in you! There, will you leave me alone now, Bhaalspawn?~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#NindeRomanceActive","GLOBAL",3)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug5 SAY ~(You hold out your arms to Ninde, but gently brushing your arms aside, she shakes her head.)~ = ~I don't think so, . For your sake as much as mine.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug6 SAY ~(Ninde allows you to embrace her, but her small body sits awkwardly against your chest, her arms oddly angled. It seems she is attempting to maintain a good distance between you even during this affectionate act.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug7 SAY ~(Ninde allows you to hold her, but seemingly on the condition that you don't object to how utterly bored she looks while you do it. As she separates from you, you notice she was examining her cuticles over your shoulder.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug8 SAY ~(You place your arms about Ninde's waist, and to your surprise, she squirms with delight, pressing herself up against your chest. She is warm, her waist the sort that asks for an arm to be slung about it, and as she rests her dark head on your shoulder, you can't help but think this might all work out.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hug9 SAY ~(You pull Ninde close, and with a little hiccough of surprise, she settles easily into you, her hand wandering up and down your chest, an idle smile teasing at her lips.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle1 SAY ~(You creep towards Ninde with the idea of tickling her, but as you reach for the spot just above her waist, she hops away, turning to glare at you.)~ = ~Keep your hands to yourself, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle2 SAY ~(You reach across and run your fingers down her sides, but Ninde simply tuts and brushes them away. She seems to regard you as little more than a nuisance.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle3 SAY ~(With impressive dexterity you reach out to grasp Ninde's wrist and teasingly run your fingers from her wrist to her elbow in a light, brushing movement. She giggles, but then pulls away, her expression turning to one of aggravation.)~ = ~Next time you tickle me, I shall tickle you back--with my knife.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle4 SAY ~ (Taking great care to go unnoticed, you reach out, and caress the tender area just behind the sun elf's long ear. She lets out a sweet burst of laughter, before slapping away your hand. She turns, and clearing her throat, attempts to re-gain her composure before chastising you.)~ = ~We're adventurers, , and must always be aware of our environment, our surroundings...or something. Either way, next time you do that, I may just mistake your finger for the tentacle of a displacer beast, and then you might just find yourself on the wrong end of a magic missile.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle5 SAY ~(You give Ninde a sly tickle on the shoulder, but she doesn't move, or seem to react at all. A moment later she turns to you, her eyes insolent and dark.)~ = ~I'm not ticklish, ...well, maybe in just one little place...~ = ~(You watch as she lifts a smooth leg and pulls back the folds of her robe to her mid-thigh. Her calves are shapely and there is a dark violet bruise is splashed across her knee, no doubt from a recent battle. Your attention is drawn away from this imperfection, however, as she runs a finger seductively up the back of her bare leg, just where a stocking seam would be.)~ = ~Here...I am ticklish *just* here.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle6 SAY ~(You feel more than a little triumphant as you manage to grab Ninde, and assail her with small tickling motions. She seems distinctly unimpressed however, dryly pushing you away after a few moments.)~ = ~I am not ticklish, . Give up while you still can.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle7 SAY ~(You attempt tickle Ninde ferociously, and she responds in kind, by pushing you over, and placing a booted foot on the center of your chest, an imperious glow about her features.)~ = ~There. And I'm not letting you get up until you promise to desist.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_tickle8 SAY ~(With a sudden decisive movement, you catch Ninde off guard and bombard her with tickling. The elf squirms with mirth, and in between gasps of laughter, tries to wriggle from your arms. She eventually succeeds, giving you a little mock-chastisement in the form of a slap on the wrist and girlish little scowl.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat1 SAY ~(Seeing Ninde in front of you, her body swaying gently as she walks, you reach out and give her cherry-ripe posterior a playful pinch. Ninde, suddenly stopping, turns to you with an expression of profound disgust.)~ = ~What are you? An in-bred parnsip farmer? Because you behave like one.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat2 SAY ~As you reach across to deliver a little slap to Ninde's shapely rear, she catches your wrist with surprising dexterity, and turns to look you in the eye, her eyes yellow and hateful as she squeezes your wrist.)~ = ~You don't want to know where the last man who tried to do that to me is. You don't, darling.~ = ~(She hisses these words, and feel a strange prickling on your arm, where Ninde is touching you. Then the tang of singed flesh. You pull away just as she releases you, your wrist only slightly blackened and stinging. Ninde seems to think she has got her point across, as she rolls her yellow eyes from you, bored, angry, repelled.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat3 SAY ~You seem to be laboring in the belief that I find you attractive. I do not. I find you offensive to every sense I posses, so not desire your company, Bhaalspawn.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat4 SAY ~(You brush your hand along the tempting curve of Ninde's behind and she jumps away, surprised and evidently irritated. You expect her to issue her customary verbal reprimand, or put down, but instead, she slaps you hard across your face.)~ IF ~~ DO ~ApplyDamage(Player1,10,CRUSHING)~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat5 SAY ~! One ought to show respect to a Lady; particularly one of my high standing.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat6 SAY ~(As you place your hand against the soft roundness of Ninde's posterior, she does not react with anger or violence, or seem to resist in any particular way, but sighs deeply.)~ = ~Lady Ninde Amblecrown - fallen from the shining heights of the Waterdhavian elite, desired and admired by all, to being physically accosted by a rough northern killer with breath like a fireball and arms like a wolfwere. Joy.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat7 SAY ~(With a playful chuckle, you draw up beside Ninde and run your hand down across the small of her back, across the pleasing, full curves of her rear. Having had somewhat unpleasant experiences when attempting such intimacy with Ninde before, you brace yourself for cross words, or even a blow, but none come. Ninde is looking sidelong into your face, her expression curious.)~ = ~(A moment later you feel her hand running down your back to your thigh.)~ = ~So, can receive as he gives?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_pat8 SAY ~If I'm completely honest, sugarbunch, there are other things I'd prefer you to touch...but by no means is that an invitation. At least, not yet.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle1 SAY ~(Noticing your leer, Ninde fixes you with the stoniest of expressions.)~ = ~Pick your jaw up off the floor, lest I wallop you in it.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle2 SAY ~(Looking at you blankly, Ninde quirks a brow.)~ = ~Careful, Bhaalspawn, or your eyeballs will fall out. And then I'd have to use them for spell components.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle3 SAY ~(Ninde doesn't seem particularly pleased to be attracting your lusty gaze, and fixes you with the fiercest glare you've seen since Gorion caught Imoen putting fire ants in Winthrop's underwear draw.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle4 SAY ~Oh, Bhaalspawn...well, I suppose it only natural that you should stare.~ = ~(Allowing herself a triumphant smile, Ninde turns away from you with a practiced toss of her glossy black hair.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle5 SAY ~Really, Bhaalspawn, must you rubberneck at me like a sailor on leave? There are more becoming postures.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle6 SAY ~(Ninde is leafing through the pages of her spellbook, and as she looks up, you fix her with an admiring gaze. She does not respond, but neither does she glare at you. A breeze teases a few tendrils of dark hair against her warm brown cheek as she closes up the book.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle7 SAY ~Seeing that your gaze is fixed on her, Ninde's buttercup eyes glint deviously. She stretches as she walks, seemingly conscious of your appraisal of her long, slender arms, short, graceful torso and of course, the brown, inevitable legs.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle8 SAY ~(As you ogle her, Ninde begins to giggle.)~ = ~Oh , it's hopeless, you know. I'm never going to like you.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle9 SAY ~(You provocatively raise a brow at Ninde as she walks by you, seemingly engrossed in the state of her nails, which she makes a habit of meticulously cleaning every morning. Her eyes flicker up as she passes by you, however, and noticing your expression, she smiles bashfully, and looking downward, smooths a dark tress behind her long ear.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_ogle10 SAY ~(Ninde laughs breezily as run your eyes across the smooth skin of her throat and décolletage.)~ = ~Mm...If you like that, ...you ought to see me without this...~ = ~(The elf provocatively runs a hand along the inner seam of the tight silk bodice that compresses her breasts.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink1 SAY ~What on Toril is the matter with your eye, Bhaalspawn? You have a nervous twitch? How comical.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink2 SAY ~(Ninde rolls her sullen dark gold eyes, and her voice is laden with sarcasm when she speaks.)~ = ~Clearly, Bhaalspawn, you are a master of seduction.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink3 SAY ~(A devious smile spreads across Ninde's pillowy mouth, swiftly followed by an expression of tender sympathy.)~ = ~Oh, Bhaalspawn...excessive ocular irritation is a symptom of Thayvian Rot, you know.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink4 SAY ~(As you wink at her, Ninde pulls a face like a displeased child, wrinkling her button nose and narrowing her eyes.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink5 SAY ~Oh Bhaalspawn, you can't be serious, can you?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink6 SAY ~(Ninde smiles tentatively, fixing you with a sly wink of her own.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink7 SAY ~(The sun elf seems pleased enough by your attentions, and tilts her pretty head in acknowledgment of your wink, a wave of dark hair falling across her smiling lips.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink8 SAY ~(The normally querulous woman giggles, and takes a playful swat at you.)~ = ~Why , you positive cad!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink9 SAY ~(Ninde is looking particularly stormy, when in an effort to break her heavy frown, you bestow on her a disastrously exaggerated wink. At first, her expression remains stony, and she quirks a brow with elegant contempt. Thankfully, a moment later she snorts with laughter, and grins girlishly at you. You appear to have cheered her up.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_wink10 SAY ~(The elf bristles with delight at your wink, and strolls ahead of you with a womanly sway in her step.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hold1 SAY ~(Ninde throws your hand away from you, like something repulsive.)~ = ~What on Toril are you trying to do, ? I mean, really.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hold2 SAY ~(As your fingers brush hers, Ninde stops abruptly, and stares you in the face with something like disgust. With a deep breath she composes herself, and a smile, pale and condescending, twitches on the corners of her mouth.)~ = ~Do...do I seem like the handholding type, darling?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hold3 SAY ~(Ninde's face is gorgeously melancholic and tilted downward. As you draw up beside her she looks at you, a grey lethargy settled in her usually vivid eyes. She looks tired, you think, and decide to giver her hand a re-assuring little squeeze.)~ = ~(Her fingers lie warm in yours for just a few seconds, before she wordlessly pulls her hand away.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hold4 SAY ~(You stroll confidently to Ninde's side, and reach across to clasp her balletic hand in your own. She does not pull away from you - quite to the contrary. With an alluring sideways look at you, she slowly draws your hand to her mouth. You assume she is going to press it against her lips, before remembering that a kiss on the hand is probably a little too conventional for Ninde.)~ = ~(Sure enough, she parts her lips at the last moment, and bites down on your thumb, gently and provocatively. The hot silk of her mouth sends a wave of pleasure down your spine, and Ninde drops your hand with a pretty, reckless laugh, cantering away from you.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_hold5 SAY ~(You press your hand into the sun elf's, and she lets out a tremulous sigh and casts her eyes down. Flattening out your palm like a piece of sheet music, she runs her fingers across its light, meandering indents, before nodding studiously.)~ = ~It is as I thought. You've an artist's hands. And by Shar...I'm familiar with those...~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage1 SAY ~A massage? And that would involve having those slimy sweat-sticky things on the end of your arms touching my body? I'd rather have my mouth lacerated.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage2 SAY ~(As you speak, Ninde's eyes run down your body, mellifluous, appraising. Eventually, she condescends to give you a regal smile.)~ = ~Mm...so the Bhaalspawn is sensitive to the desires of his party members, after all.~ = ~(The woman seats herself and turns her back to you, unclasping her cloak so that her shoulders and smooth throat are naked. She throws her black hair to one side, and casts a beckoning look across to you. Running your hands across her collar, you notice the unnatural warmth of her skin, almost feverish, and the fine hairs that down the nape of her neck, so fine they are disturbed by the movement of the air as you stoop to rub the mage's upper arms. Ninde groans luxuriantly as you press against her neck, just below her ears, and allows you to continue for some time, before shrugging you off and drawing her cloak back up.)~ = ~That wasn't at all unsatisfactory, Bhaalspawn...you have Lady Amblecrown's seal of approval.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage3 SAY ~(Ninde claps her hands, and smiles.)~ = ~What a delightful suggestion, dear Bhaalspawn.~ = ~(To your suprise, Ninde throws herself down and tugs off her leather boots, seeming to relish the inelegance of it all as she wriggles her newly-liberated pink toes. Her feet are comically small - doll like - and precisely manicured, and a feathered serpent with an ugly head is inked coiling around her left ankle. A little thrown by the prospect of giving a foot massage, you hesitate, and only decide you has best go ahead when Ninde clears her throat imperiously. She does, you remind yourself, have very pretty feet, despite the grotesque body art.)~ = ~(Kneeling before her, you begin by running your thumbs firmly across the soles of her feet, and she wriggles with pleasure as you do so. It is soon clear that the elf's feet are almost as sensitive as her ears, and her body quivers at every subtle touch. She seems to be enjoying it, however, and as you finish, you cannot help gently tickling the base of her toes. Ninde yelps and giggles, kicking her feet until you release her, before swiftly pulling her boots back on.)~ = ~Hmm, Bhaalspawn...I'll have to remember not to place myself before you in such a position of...naked vulnerability again. Unless you ask *very* nicely, that is...~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage4 SAY ~(Ninde laughs musically, and places a hand on your chest.)~ = ~I suppose you could try, my dear Bhaalspawn...but you'll be competing with a multitude of limber Mulhorandi serving boys, with decades of training in such arts, who have offered me precisely the same thing before.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage5 SAY ~Current circumstances force me to decline, Bhaalspawn. That said...I adore a man skilled with his hands...~ = ~(Ninde brushes her hand across your chest, her eyes bright. She is, after all, a good part pixie.)~ = ~...especially when he is liberal in their use.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage6 SAY ~(Ninde bites her lip and gazes darkly at you.)~ = ~Very well. When we next rest at an Inn, you shall have the pleasure.~ IF ~~ DO ~SetGlobal("LK#Ninde_massageflirt","GLOBAL",1)~ EXIT END IF WEIGHT #-1 ~Global("LK#Ninde_massageflirt","GLOBAL",2)~ LK#NindeFlirt_massage6.2 SAY ~I hope you have not forgotten your promise of a massage, ? Here...follow me...~ = ~(Ninde leads you through the rigmarole of the Inn, to her room, the air thick and candlelit, the sounds of dancing and drinking barely audible through the soft chalky walls. Coiling her dark hair up, Ninde asks you to turn your back for a moment, and you do, listening with delight to the unmistakable hiss of skin ridding itself of silk, and then the creak of the mahogany tester bed in the center of the room.)~ = ~Come here, .~ = ~(You turn to face her, your throat dry, vaguely drunk on the idea of her undressing, and the sight you are confronted with does not dissapoint. Ninde, apparently naked, is lying face down in bed, the heavy covers resting just past the small of her back, her arms folded under her head, the swell of her full breasts tempting, pressed down against the crisp sheets, her black hair coiled at the nape of her neck. Her face, host to an expectant smile, is placid and gentle. One gold eye flickers open, and you are reminded of a languorous cat caught dozing.)~ = ~Well, ...?~ = ~(Ninde motions to you to continue, and you do so, approaching the bed, and laying your hands on the brown skin of her back, enjoying its heat, its strange exotic gleam. You begin to rhythmically rub from her shoulders to the base of her spine, encouraged by her soft, even breathing, the way she settles more deeply into her feather pillows, the smile of casual contentment just visible at the corner of her mouth. You are not sure how long you are there, your hands resting on Ninde, immersed in her heat, her unspeakable softness. Gradually, the noise from downstairs dies, and Ninde yawns.)~ = ~Mmm...very wonderful, ...~ = ~(You realise that Ninde is half asleep, and cannot suppress a smile. The elf makes a few snuffling sounds as you draw the blankets up about her shoulders, and make your way to your own room.)~ IF ~~ DO ~IncrementGlobal("LK#Ninde_massageflirt","GLOBAL",1) RestParty()~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand1 SAY ~(With a gentlemanly flourish, you take Ninde's hand and lift it to your lips, feeling the cold metal of her jewelery against your mouth. Astoundingly, Ninde does not seem to mind. In fact, she smiles with dignified pleasure.)~ = ~'Tis nice to see there are still a few gentlemen left.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand2 SAY ~(You pause opposite Ninde, and hastily catch her fingers up in your hand. Sweeping it to your mouth, you pause, as you notice an expression of intense mortification has made its way on to the elf's face.)~ = ~What are you doing, Bhaalspawn? Noticed a few crumbs left from breakfast? Frankly, I'd expect more decorum even from you.~ = ~(Ninde pulls her hand away, seeming to take priggish pleasure in her cruelty as she sweeps away.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand3 SAY ~(Your hand has barely enfolded Ninde's when she brushes you away with a practiced efficacy and restraint.)~ = ~Tsk, no touching.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand4 SAY ~(You hold Ninde's soft hand to your lips, and as you let it fall, you look up to find yourself confronted by one of the elf's condescending smiles.)~ = ~How sweet. The hedge-born northerner has gentlemanly pretensions!~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand5 SAY ~(Ninde tugs her hand away from you quite sharply.)~ = ~A little bit of finishing school wisdom for you, Bhaalspawn; there are hands for stirring ladles, and there are hands for touching Ladies. A man has one, or the other. Guess where you fall?~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand6 SAY ~(Ninde stops as you touch her fingers to your mouth, and you look up, still holding her hand in yours. The elf is looking at you, yes, with a gamine smile illuminating her round face. She giggles. You smirk.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand7 SAY ~ Oh , the way you carry on, you'd think there was a masked ball to invite me to.~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand8 SAY ~(As you stoop to grace it with a kiss, the sun elf retrieves her hand from your grasp, and lays a balletic finger under your chin. Coaxingly tilting your face upward to meet her gaze, she looks at you appraisingly, although this was a Thayvian slave market, and she was thinking of buying you.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand9 SAY ~(You take Ninde's hand in your own, but before you have had time to move it toward your face, she has pulled you toward her and pressed your palm against her substantial, silk-clad left breast.)~ = ~(You are only able to appreciate it's warmth and weight for a moment, however, as Ninde draws your touch down across her narrow waist, and limber thigh. It all seems to be over in a matter of seconds as she once more displays her capricious nature, and presses you away like an unwanted suitor, self-satisfied smile playing in the gold loop of her eye.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END IF ~~ LK#NindeFlirt_kisshand10 SAY ~(Strangely, Ninde allows you to kiss her hand without comment, observing you, dumb and prettily compliant as a Nixie. The lack of reaction is somewhat disconcerting, until you notice, as she draws away from you, she has touched the hand you kissed to her neck, and does not lower it for quite some time.)~ IF ~~ EXIT END END