Through a series of PM's with Hendryk, the following dialogue between the PC and Sola was arrived at. It's basically Sola wanting to know how Phaere reacted when the PC arrived with his cloak.
Forgive the coding, it's rough, but I wanted to show where it will differ with whether the PC is male or female. I'll fix it in the final. Thoughts, comments, suggestions, please?
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IF ~~ !StateCheck(Player1,STATE_SLEEPING)
~ THEN BEGIN solaph
SAY ~[CHARNAME], I apologize if my question…intrudes…but I am curious. When you returned my piwawfi cloak to Phaere, how did she react?~
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~In a word? Gleeful. Or maybe gloating. They're hard to tell apart.~ GOTO solaph1
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Well, you had challenged her publicly…happy and…relieved, I think.~ GOTO solaph2
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~She just muttered something about the folly of love and hung it up with her other trophies.~ GOTO solaph3
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Not much reaction at all, as I remember. She seemed far more concerned about the future than the past.~ GOTO solaph4
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph1
SAY ~The distinction is unimportant…to me.~
IF ~~ THEN GOTO solaph5
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph2
SAY ~I see. The…usual drow reaction in such cases.~
IF ~~ THEN GOTO solaph5
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph3
SAY ~So. She had not forgotten…but was ashamed.~
IF ~~ THEN GOTO solaph5
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph4
SAY ~Just another…obstacle…removed. And that was all.~
IF ~~ THEN GOTO solaph5
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph5
SAY ~Then, if you do not mind, how did she behave towards you at that time?~
IF ~Gender(Player1,Male)
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Why does that matter?~ GOTO solaph6
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I do mind. It's none of your business.~ GOTO solaph7
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~She just ordered me to the temple to meet her matron mother, why?~ GOTO solaph6
IF ~Gender(Player1,Female)
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~She just ordered me to the temple to meet her matron mother, why?~ GOTO GOTO solaph8
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph6
SAY ~Females of Phaere's station are accustomed to…expressing their feelings upon messengers. For my own conscience, I would know what those feelings might have been.~
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Well, she turned friendly…very friendly, if you catch my drift.~ GOTO solaph9
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~ Uh…I think…she'd have had me on the rack. If she'd had more time.~ GOTO solaph10
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I *really* don't appreciate this cross-examination!~ GOTO solaph11
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Ah, shut up!~ GOTO solaph7
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph7
SAY ~I believe that answer tells me all I wish to know. I will not trouble you a second time, [CHARNAME].~ // end romance?
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph8
SAY ~And no more? Very well. Thank you, [CHARNAME].~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph9
SAY ~I should be extremely cautious in estimating the degree of 'friendship' involved…but we are no longer under her thumb, so that hardly matters. I thank you, [CHARNAME]. I am saddened by what Phaere had become but also relieved; that I was not mistaken in my judgment of her.~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph10
SAY ~Hmmm. Extremely disquieting…if you are certain of this. Your voice lacks its normal confident timbre, [CHARNAME].~
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Hah! Caught me there! The news turned her red hot in fact. And me too, in due course, I must say.~ GOTO solaph12
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Well, actually she seemed…aroused by it all. Embarrassingly so, in fact.~ GOTO solaph13
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~You weren't there, right? That's my story and I'm sticking to it.~ GOTO solaph14
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~Stuff it in a sack and drop in the river to drown, will you?~ GOTO solaph7
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph11
SAY ~I believe that answer tells me all I wish to know. I will not trouble you a second time, [CHARNAME].~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph12
SAY ~Then you are fortunate…extremely fortunate…to be alive. Your lack of even rudimentary training in the drow arts of love ought to have betrayed you…she must have been utterly distracted by her future plans. That is chill comfort but better than nothing.~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph13
SAY ~And yet, obviously, you survived this perilous emergency.~
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I couldn't see where I had any choice, really.~ GOTO solaph15
IF ~~ THEN REPLY ~I managed to lie my way through it ok. The situation wasn't really…inviting, you know?~ GOTO solaph16
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph14
SAY ~Famously, it was a female who doth "protest too much". I shall not press you further, [CHARNAME].~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph15
SAY ~Had you realized how little choice you *did* have, fear might have unmanned you entirely. It is gratifying that you emerged…intact.~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END
IF ~~ THEN BEGIN solaph16
SAY ~Ha! Ever resourceful, [CHARNAME]. Still, you were most fortunate. Phaere must have been very distracted by her plans for the immediate future, else she would not have halted at any obstacle that you could have raised.~
IF ~~ THEN EXIT
END