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Works In Progress => King Strohm's Tomb => Surayah => Topic started by: arithar on April 05, 2004, 10:45:50 PM
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The question's above. I want this mod too.
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The question's above. I want this mod too.
Gotta catch them all!
Okay, maybe not funny.
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So...when is it going to be finished?
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I don't know. I've been working on Keto and other forum tasks since the start of PPG. When Keto is done, my Keto modding time will revert to its original Surayah modding time form.
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Will Keto be done soon and you'll be doing Surayah? I mean, I like Keto heaps too but I want Surayah too! :)
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Will Keto be done soon and you'll be doing Surayah? I mean, I like Keto heaps too but I want Surayah too! :)
That's the plan! :)
Keto writing is done and we're wrapping up her coding, so we hope that mod will be done soon. Then I will return all my modding attention to Surayah(which also includes expanding Hessa the One-Day NPC), and Jason will continue working on the De Arnise Romance.
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So...is there a planned release date yet?
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Tuesday.
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Tuesday.
Cute, Ice, cute. Only someone might actually believe it.
No planned release date, because if I gave one, it would be a lie. I really have no idea how long the remainder of the mod will take.
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Well, I didn't say *which* Tuesday. :)
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Well, I didn't say *which* Tuesday. :)
Fat Tuesday?
*slips Bons a fiver to make sure the release lands on a Thursday*
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I really feel bad taking BriBribes, since I know good and well I'll get around to it on a Sunday. ;D
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I'll be waiting then...and checking which day it's out. And being sure to letting some people know. =D
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I am so sad to see not much going on here. :(
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Me, too. :'(
On the bright side, Keto is in beta, meaning I'm very close to getting back to working on this project. Hooray! :D
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Yay! Almost time to rejoice.
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So now that Keto has finally been released.....
Can we get back to checking on Surayah's progress? ;D
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So now that Keto has finally been released.....
Can we get back to checking on Surayah's progress? ;D
Please???
*is waiting eagerly for the mod.
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Strangely enough, I did some work on Surayah last night. This is why I am currently semi-conscious.
But, no, we aren't there yet. When we are close to being there, a.k.a. beta testing, I will announce it. Until then, asking me if I'm done just makes me fret over my list of things left to do, and it's kind of frustrating.
But I'm glad you're waiting eagerly for the mod. :D
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Not wanting to make you fret--I realize this takes time :)
Really, mostly I just wanted to let you know that I'm very much looking forward to having Surayah in my group :)
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Not wanting to make you fret--I realize this takes time :)
Really, mostly I just wanted to let you know that I'm very much looking forward to having Surayah in my group :)
Same here. Take all the time you need. At least all these curious and interested comments shows you're not working on Surayah for nothing, eh?
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How is it going? *Applauds your progress*
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HAVE MORE CONTENT THAN LAST WEEK. STOP. STILL NOT DONE. STOP.
LOTS, LOTS MORE TO DO. STOP. SEND COFFEE. STOP. AND SOME SESAME
NOODLES. STOP. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE TASTY ABOUT NOW. STOP.
LOVE AND IF-THEN BLOCKS,
BONNIE
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HAVE MORE CONTENT THAN LAST WEEK. STOP. STILL NOT DONE. STOP.
LOTS, LOTS MORE TO DO. STOP. SEND COFFEE. STOP. AND SOME SESAME
NOODLES. STOP. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE TASTY ABOUT NOW. STOP.
LOVE AND IF-THEN BLOCKS,
BONNIE
Here you go, watch out the coffee's still pipin' hot ;D
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While I was waiting for the coffee to cool, I got some more needed work done on the Stronghold Quest dungeon. So yay!
(But, no, we are not there yet. I have lots of stuff to do.)
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Are we there yet, or near? ;D
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Nah, not until I reach a real beta stage. When I get to that point, I'll make it clear, so people will know to theoretically be excited, sharpen their pitchforks, etc.
I still have lots to do, but, rest assured, I am foresaking sleep on a regular basis so that I have the time to make progress on this mod.
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I smell llamaburgers.
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Why is my rump always getting roasted? :D
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im really looking forward to this .mod
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Hopefully Bons will make it .ogg instead. .Mod is so passé.
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I am always looking forward to new mods, specially with interesting characters. Surayah might be just the addition my party needs, maybe I will sacrifice Aerie and Valygar for her and Jaheira?
(And get her before Anomen does, of course)
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Well whats the status gladus....Umm I mean Bons ;D ;) ???
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So, are we there yet? ;D
Obviously not, just looking for a heart-beat. :)
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Since your sig has amused me, I'm in a good enough mood to muster a reply.
Yes, there's a heartbeat. I'm always working on some part of this project. What varies is whether I'm giving it my full attention, or juggling it with three other mods. For better or worse, I am highly distractable.
I realize it would encourage visitors to this forum and raise enthusiasm for the mod if I made regular "developer's diary" sort of posts whenever I did something, but I tend to be wordy, so my blathering takes a nice chunk of time away from getting actual work done. Plus, I'm not sure anyone would be heartened when I report things like "Today I cut three Haer'Dalis banters because they suck." Well, maybe Sim, Corvis and Ghreyfain would be heartened by that sort of progress.
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Yes, there's a heartbeat. I'm always working on some part of this project. What varies is whether I'm giving it my full attention, or juggling it with three other mods. For better or worse, I am highly distractable.
I know what you mean by being distractable. Good to see some progress.
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Happy Holidays everyone, and Happy upcoming New Year! So, how's it coming?
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I wouldn't want you to rush this project, but it would be nice to see updates! ;)
I'll tell you, this is the one mod i'm most excited about!
All i can say for now, is keep up the good work!
PS i enjoyed the Hessa mod by the way!
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poke......poke.............nudge.............nudge.............. ??? anything new to update? ?
Are we there yet? ?
Are we there yet? ? ;D
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I'm mainly working on my duties forThe Broken Hourglass (http://www.planewalkergames.com) when I have spare time, though I do sneak in writing for Surayah/Hessa here and there. One new thing related to Surayah is I just acquired some new tools which should improve my ability to score and perform compositions with orchestral instruments. I've yet to be happy with my temple theme song attempts or Surayah's romance themes done from my loop library and Alesis, so I'm excited about experimenting with these new toys and maybe getting the noises in my head recorded more accurately. :)
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Here's to amusing sigs, The Broken Hourglass, and the sounds in your head being shared with us! ;D
I continue to look forward to the products of your musings.
Cheers!
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Think I'm going to like this mod.
And I can well imagine that these things take time. Believe me.
And there is no wrong answer to the following question:
Is this "on hold" or "in development"?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Also, will it be possible to access Surayah if Anomen chooses the LG path and is prevented by the PC from killing Saerk? Might be interesting if Anomen had to choose between Surayah and PC, for example, or if he tried to woo Surayah behind PC's back!
The one thing I've missed in the PC's relationship with Anomen is the opportunity to be truly naughty. That might be a factor if, for example, she were trying to prove that you didn't need to be raised in a harem to know how to please a man.
Oh, the things I'll type after a glass of chilled pinot grigio....
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Is this "on hold" or "in development"?
It's in development. It just gets a small percentage of my total available time because of my TBH commitments and exceptional distractability.
Also, will it be possible to access Surayah if Anomen chooses the LG path and is prevented by the PC from killing Saerk?
Yes.
Might be interesting if Anomen had to choose between Surayah and PC, for example, or if he tried to woo Surayah behind PC's back!
This is not something I am keen on implementing. The romance is already a complicated affair with the varying Anomen scenarios, and I prefer to give the PC/Anomen romance priority unless the PC ends it as already coded in the game. There will be some different talks between the two if AnomenRomanceActive=3 as opposed to no PC romance at all. I'm just not willing to take too much responsibility in the setting of AnomenRomanceActive=3, lest the AnoFans riot over some Calishite tart bouncing in the middle of their action.
In that vein, Surayah is not going to bicker about anyone the PC romances except Viconia. It's still love, after all, and love is lovely. :-*
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Might be interesting if Anomen had to choose between Surayah and PC, for example, or if he tried to woo Surayah behind PC's back!
This is not something I am keen on implementing. The romance is already a complicated affair with the varying Anomen scenarios, and I prefer to give the PC/Anomen romance priority unless the PC ends it as already coded in the game. There will be some different talks between the two if AnomenRomanceActive=3 as opposed to no PC romance at all. I'm just not willing to take too much responsibility in the setting of AnomenRomanceActive=3, lest the AnoFans riot over some Calishite tart bouncing in the middle of their action.
In that vein, Surayah is not going to bicker about anyone the PC romances except Viconia. It's still love, after all, and love is lovely. :-*
That's OK, too. I would probably be among the AnoFans, but not in the rioting part! But you are of course correct. His character is complicated enough, and there are just so many different variables to work out. But, since I do like Anomen so much, I was just greedily seeking additional game content for him. But I do like your thought that there would be additional content if AnomenRomanceActive=3.
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But you are of course correct. His character is complicated enough, and there are just so many different variables to work out. But, since I do like Anomen so much, I was just greedily seeking additional game content for him. But I do like your thought that there would be additional content if AnomenRomanceActive=3.
I think it's safe to say that Anomen content is a big time-consumer in working on this mod. If Surayah didn't spawn from Anomen's quest, I would probably been done a long time ago. At the same time, it's how Surayah spawns from Anomen's quest that makes working on this project a challenge to me. If I hadn't found it such an interesting muddle, I wouldn't have gotten involved in modding beyond playing them, and I likely would have never piped up on any modding forums. (There's another reason for people to appreciate or despise Anomen, I guess!)
There's more than one direction I could have gone with the differing AnomenRomanceActive=3 content, like Anomen being petulant because the PC has rejected him, but I prefer to have a period where Anomen is longing after the PC from afar because he was genuinely smitten. Not that the goal is to make everyone like Anomen (that would be too much for even my overachieving streak!), but to provide material where both lovers and haters are going to be content, and, where possible, put emphasis on the PC's importance. I also think the latter puts Surayah in a more interesting position. ;)
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Ok, so the broken hourglass is now a popular apology ?
Actually, it is a good one! (for an apology)
I always whined for real mods, and tbh cannot be greater :)
Maybe this is the wrong place to ask, but i have to.
Is it possible to, hmm, save some of the unfinished mod content and port it to tbh?
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As much as I really love Hessa (bunnies! trees!), I'm pretty leery about anybody dropping content specifically designed for another story into TBH.
Hessa is part of Surayah's story, who is in turn part of Anomen's story, who is in turn part of BG2 <CHARNAME>'s story. Yes, you can play "Well, What If Hessa were a marauding mercenary in Tolmira instead of Amn?" but as a joinable NPC she doesn't fit our plans. Surayah even less so because of the strong Anomen story dependency.
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Exactly. All my unfinished mod material--banters, talks, character profiles, and areas (even some of the original songs!)--relies on BG2, the Forgotten Realms and the IE. I would have to completely rewrite all the content for it to port to the different setting, and why would I want to strip and rework content meant for another world and engine when I could create something that's actually appropriate for the TBH world and engine from scratch?
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Well, i didn't exactly mean the bare dialogue.
Even if there is no other artistic content (which i doubt, there must be at least portraits), the NPC concepts maybe could be saved.
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And, of course i didn't mean only Surayah/Hessa, but all other finished/unfinished mods whose authors TBH project sucked up.
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TBH will eventually be completed. TBH will eventually reach the point where the autors can focus less on creation and more on fixes, tweaks, and improvements. When such a thing happens, maybe they will have more free time.
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And with more free time, they will return to unfinished projects that they yet wish to finish. Such is the way of things, and the sooner one resigns themself to that, the sooner one can cease to agonize over it.
Dear god... that sounded far too much like Haer'Dalis.
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My attitude with incomplete mods is to be pleasantly surprised whenever something does get released. No point pestering the modders, and no point getting all bent out of shape if a project gets dropped.
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A good strategy. Me, I'll go for my own targets. One day, be it a year or two, I'm gonna get Surayah, and make sure Anomen agonizes over it, if possible. Heh-heh-heh. Looking forward to this mod, release date doesn't really matter. :pirate
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is this project abandoned?
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If it was abandoned, it would not be on this forum.
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Hear, hear. :-P Now let's go back to TBH. Chop, chop.
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sorry, sorry! just cant wait till this project is completed! really lookinf forward to it ;D
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sorry, sorry! just cant wait till this project is completed! really lookinf forward to it ;D
Oh yeah, I am too.
I'll still be here, regardless of when this releases. Waiting. Watching. Making popcorn. Watching some more. And perhaps reading my evil overlord book somewhere in the middle.
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*Points to Riviera's post.
What she said!
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*sigh* Just looking.
I know why this isn't done, I know how to be patient, and I certainly have plenty to do in the meantime, but I'm looking forward to this, when it gets here.
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me too. really waiting for it to get released! Im dying to try out this
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Anything new to report... ???
I know TBH and PW's is taking some time to work Surayah but just figured maybee there's something new to report ;D
;D D ;D
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Patiently waiting as well. Mods like Surayah keep BGII from ever hitting the shelf, even if they are works in progress. Hope all is well with the project.
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any progress?? ???
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Yes and no. I've done some work on Hessa.
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still waiting patiently... :)
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Still busy with PW? ?
or is there something new to report? ;D
hope for the best I guess
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no report? ><
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no report? ><
I guess not I sometimes wonder the same thing but after all Cailean's "final push" was many months ago and makes me think these will never be completed. :'(
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hmm still nothing :(
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Is there any chance that the Surayah mod will be done soon ? I'm drooling at the thought of a Sunite temple and a Heartwarmer kit.
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"Heartwarmer?" I think that Bons had considered creating a heartwarder kit, but opted to go with chorister, instead.
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Aw...I prefer heartwarmer! Not that I know what that means but it sure sounds good. ;D
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Anything new to report ???
ever waiting for Bons' perfection
Duroth
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I know this mod isnt abandoned and I know she is working on broken hourglass... but I really hope there will be more progress report! I'm dying to play surayah.
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WOW been hush hush for a long time ???
Hunting wabbits with Hessa Hrmmmm ???
*pokes bons*
;D
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it's been 7 months since Bons posted here... :<
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it's been 7 months since Bons posted here... :<
Does anyone know Bons well enough to contact her and have the right bribe for her to give us an update ?
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I think this "work in progress" has caved in, and reading the FAQ's and such, I think it might have been because they bit off more than they could chew.
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well the forum is still here and since bons said that as long as it is she havent given up on surayah so lets hope she will keep her words.. still waiting for this mod to be released.
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This mod isn't dead, is it? Isn't it also on hold until TBH is finished?
I'm trying not to be pessimistic, but I won't let my hopes run high, either.
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What' s happen with this mod? She is workimg on it or Surayah died second times?
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If this mod isn't dead, it's the closest thing to it. From what I understand, Bons has been missing/extremely busy for quite some time. Given how long even the forums have been inactive--and how long the mod has been "in progress"--I'd give up waiting for this one. Apparently the author's last post was April 2007--don't hold your breath for this mod.
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Does anyone can tell me if I can contact to creator of this mod? I love the idea and I think I can help her.
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You can always try dropping her an email - you can find her addy in the readme of her mods (e.g. Finch). Not sure if it's still in use, of course. Time is scary.
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Thank you! I've conctacted to her lately and here is my report: She stopped worked on Surayah because she've lost her materials quite a long time ago.
Yes, this mod is dead but I believe once some one else will creted their own version of Surayah because this NPC already was in game.