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Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:20 pm**

As you may know, my LP has recently came back to live. To celebrate, we challenged Twisted Rune encounter with SCSII and my very own "finishing touches" to lich scripting (Sometimes i do stuff right!)

The result is a very short video, only a minute and 20 seconds (with paused moments cut out, and time stop moments reduced to essentials)

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnQC8BcnxdY&hd=1"]I present to You : A minute with Twister Rune.[/url]

Now, a LOT is happening on the screen, so here is a "short" breakdown of the combat. (Spoiler. Read only if you care.)

Spoiler

0:00 (Aka : Prebuff)
Stworca, the Sorcerer, has Stoneskin, Spell Shield, GoI and a Trigger with Spell Shield, PFMW and PFMEnergy.
Alaya, the Fighter/Mage has Stoneskin, Mirror Image and a Trigger with Spell Shield, PFMW and Protection from Fire.
Sleep-O the Anti-Paladin was buffed with Improved Haste and potions of : Magic Shielding, Protection and Regeneration.
Brunch the Inquisitor has drunk Potion of Shielding. He also has True Sight ticking and a 2-skins Stoneskin from boots of Gargoyle.
Gaeus - Barb - is under the effect of Enrage (or was it Berserk?) and oil of speed.
Our newly acquired character (Thankfully Xaio reconsidered his WS / Cleric and it's an Archer/Druid.. weird combo as well) has Ironskins, Death Ward and Magic Resistance.

Sleep-O is about to activate his own True Sight
There is also a Mordenkeinen Sword floating around.

Brunch and Stworca are immune to level drain.

0:04 Xaio started casting protection from fire.
0:05 Sleep-O finished activating True Sight. Shangalar's Protections go live :
- Protection from Fire, Acid, Magic Energy. Minute Meteors. Immunity : Abjuration, Stoneskin, PFMW and a Horrid Willing centered on himself. Only Sleep-O and the Sword are in the Area. Sleep-O shrugs it off, Sword is destroyed.
0:06 All other enemies spawn. Layene turns invisible (Staff), Vaxall activates Spell Trap (pre-buff), Stworca casts Ruby Ray towards Layene. A bit too soon perhaps. Gaeus and Alaya attack Vaxall. Sleep-O goes for Revanek. Brunch (MoD+2) hunts Shyressa
0:07 Ruby Ray scores and Layene protections trigger a nano-second after it does (A shame..) Including ; Protection From Fire, Acid, Magic Energy. Immunity : Divination, Stoneskin, Mislead, Spell Turning, She insantly turns back invisible.
0:08 Xaio Finished casting protection from fire, he attacks Vaxall.
0:09 Shangalar casts Wish (Yes, WIsh)
0:11 Shangalar wishes that all our protections are dispelled. Vaxall dies. Shyressa outruns Brunch, heading towards Alaya..
0:12 Revanek dies. Our Stoneskins die.
0:13 Alaya used Sunray (Daystar), Shyressa is greatly damaged. Stworca already recasted Stoneskin.
0:14-0:19 Time Stop #1 by Layene. She casts GoI and Breach on Sleep-O
0:21 Gaeus uses another Rage,. Sleep-O uses dispel magic, a bit too close, our stoneskins are GONE once again. Shyressa tries her Cloud of Bats at Stworca (Insect Swarm) but GoI makes us laugh at it.
0:22-0:28 Time Stop #2 by Layene. Greater Malison on our party. Symbol fear on the party and Absolute Immunity on Herself.
0:28 Shangalar finished casting Remove magic on us
0:29 Shangalar PFMW-contingency fired. Gaeus goes for Shangalar to hopefully make him use Imprisonment.
0:30 Remove Magic hits.. Effin Hell.. Xaio is under the effects of Symbol Fear.
0:31 Shangalar Spell Sequencer(i must have accidentally cut out half a second here) : Improved Invisibility and Double Fire Shields.
0:32 Layene uses the same Spell Sequencer. Alaya's Spell Trigger goes live.
0:34 Shyressa died.
0:35 Gaeus uses Horn of Blasting. It does minimal damage to Layene, but moves both mages away. Sadly it also stunned Stworca.
0:37 Sleep-O turns invisible (Ring of Gaxx) hopefully to force Layene or Shangalar to waste a spell in order to get rid of it.
0:38 Brunch casts another True sight. Feared Xaio runs right into the fire.
0:43 Layene casts energy blades.
0:44 Sleep-O casts dispel magic
0:45 Xaio is no longer feared.. I have him cast Magic Resistance on himself.
0:46-0:49 Time stop #3, Shangalar #1. Shangalar attacks Xaio once, to interrupt his casting. He then casts spell turning and Breach on Alaya. (i just got this trigger running, you douche!)
0:50 Minute Meteor used by Shangalar interrupts Xaio's casting. Yay! (Yay for successfull scripting )
0:51 Alaya casts Mirror Image (at that time it seemed the best move) Stworca casts ruby ray on Shangalar.
0:52-0:54 Time Stop #4, Shangalar #2. Summon Fiend, Cloudkill on Xaio, PFMW.
0:55 Gaeus was re-casting Enrage, but it was interrupted by Cloudkill. Shangalar's cloud damages Layene as well. She runs away from it. We are waiting for that.
0:57 I move Xaio out of the cloud.
0:59-1;00 Cornugon (summoned) teleports right to Xaio, Sleep-O runs after him. Brunch uses Dispel magic on the lich. Layene casts PFMW. Stworca uses ruby ray on Layene. Check.
1:01 Alaya casts Pierce Shield from Wand of Striking : On Layene.
1:02 Cornugon died to Xaio and Sleep-O
1:03 Shangalar uses breach on.. Gaeus.. Strange. He also attacks Alaya. She is protected with Images though.
1:05 Stworca uses his own wand, and another Pierce Shield flies towards Layene. Sleep-O goes after Layene.
1:08 Layene casts Stoneskin.
1:11 Gaeus casts another rage.
1:13 Alaya finished casting Breach. Target : Layene. Lich casts Symbol of Death, a rather poor choice, sadly.
1:15 Layene is dead. Stworca casts ruby Ray on Shangalar. Xaio casts dispel magic on Shangalar.
1:18 Shangalar has no PFMW active. I send Brunch in.
1:20 Shangalar is destroyed by Mace of Disruption.. It annoyed me to no end, because i didn't want to kill him in such a cheesy way..

Happy Hunting, and let the silent treatment begin!

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:02 am**

Fantastic work as usual! (I left a comment on Youtube with a question

) What's going to be next?

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:14 am**

Bodhi.

I will use only 4 characters, and add Solaufein to Bodhi (or at least try) to simulate a party that had a bioware Romance + Solaufein.
Insanity, SCSII.. bla bla.. The usual.

Perhaps i'll make a requirement of killing Solaufein before Bodhi.

Edit : Yours was the comment about script block?

It was either a state check, or a global "casting" check. 'twas a long time ago, but i do remember finding it by accident

(honestly, is there a place where all / some / ANY scripts are listed? My source of knowledge are already made mob scripts. Tactics, SCSII and so on.)

Should i re-record the fight with pauses and (possibly) commentary? Thoughts? (Since You're my only GB viewer that also mastered the art of making posts

)
Hopefully the lich will - this time - wish for double time stop + aura cleanse.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:33 pm**

Heh, I'm a devoted fan of Stworca, that's right!

Awww... Bodhi? Can you make a separate save for later? I made a nice battle during chapter 6, and I want you to be the first tester! You know how to handle death fog... I just looked into solavamp's scirpting, and my reaction was, 'this is it?' One big script block and a dozen of small ones? Well, he *does* cast a lot of protections, but like Breu, he has some uncharacteristically helpful items - lich's "rings" and "gloves". I call that cheating!

Anyways, yeah, it was mine. I'm into scripting, too! But, I', afraid, I didn't find anything similar. Aaaaand... [url="http://iesdp.gibberlings3.net/index.htm"]IESDP[/url] is your friend.

Yes, more commentary videos, since I like hearing what kind of tactics you're using - of course, I can read them too from your annotations, but that's entirely different. :laugh:

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:44 pm**

Tactics scripts sure are unimpressive, and it's their immunities that make the fight difficult. See : Ira'Kiou'Dneg, Kuroisan and others. Still i remember someone complaining about undead Sola, so i'll try to toss him in.

My BG2 installation is - to put it LIGHTLY - a fustercluck (no, no typ0s) but i have a second PC and another Laptop ready to host your mod, so let's see it

If you could say anything about it, i'd be grateful. Unless lack of knowledge is part of the challenge?

I have separate saves for "about to go into Ust Natha" and "Yay, we won" at all times, so it won't be a problem.

IESDP? I shall give it a try! Having to copy / paste different strings of other mods, and sacrifice a goat on a steel altar, hoping that the infinity engine gods will make my own scripts work is getting annoying!

I'll share the lich scripting as soon as i fix a problem that ruined my entire save (Most NPC's are hostile, enemies have ridiculous names and so on).
How bad is it? Well, i found only one way around Elhan and his "Instant-death" guards : [url="http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/5271/bgmain2011100800475459.jpg"]and it ruined the save even further! Horay![/url]
Amnish guards are forcecasting chain contingencies.. I have no idea how the hell did i manage to ruin it all, but 'tis not over!

Back to the matter at hand : Your piece of infinity engine goodness!

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 12:58 pm**

There is a Global for casting. Which activates casting animation on people. All regular spells have SetGlobal("Casting",#) - perhaps with additional line "Local" - aside from effects, without it the spell would go off without casting animation.

I used this animation as "IF" part of the script, With !when melee weapon is equipped and !on creatures in his own party. This much i remember!
It's normally used for the enemy to not interrupt his own casting to do an action (SCSII scripting) but it's also possible to get global for other creatures.

For the rest you'll have to wait a bit, for me to recreate it! :laugh:

Although doing it this way makes the lich try to interrupt scrolls and item castings, as They too have animations (some at least) :S

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:11 pm**

Heh, it'd be better if you just posted a script block, Stw.

Okay, here are some details (you're first I'm going to share them with, so I'm pretty much ashamed, lol

):

The first and foremost (boy, I sound like Aran Linvail now, but meh), I have *slight* problems of writing it into TP2 file, so you couldn't just install like any other weidu mod, sorry. Plus, the insane gibberish when write to compile a dlg... so pretty much a scripting, with IEEP added custom names and items aaaand, that's pretty much it. So the only way for you to play it, is to install manually, just like I did, with Near Infinity.

The battle itself: well, since I'm a hardcored Edwin fangirl (that's why I commented so eh... deeply on your last Ust Natha video

), so I tried to enhance the battle, where Bodhi abducts PC's love interest. Using his romance mod, I actually made it happen, because, you have to face it - the vanilla battles were... awful and uninteresting.

So now, we have a level 35 vampire Edwin in my character bank. Here some (hopefully) interesting info: about 18 (???) spells per level, a total -6 to casting time, negative saving throws, over 100 HP, 18/18/16 stats, negative armor class, negative THAC0, tripled in strength vampire touch and LOTS of allies (since: 1. he's a freaking conjurer, 2. the game doesn't have a 5 limit summon for enemies) including custom-made celestial and a pit fiend and over 5000 lines of pure, hard scripting. BUT. Despite the afore-mentioned facts, he is not overpowered. He does not force over 9000 spells in a single second (yes, I'm looking at you Drusilla!) and does not spam healing. Celestial does.

Plus, custom portraits for everyone! *wink wink*

Interested?

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:20 pm**

You've added him to Bodhi's lair? I'd have to make a full re-install in that case, but : Yes, i am interested.

You will have to guide me through the installation process though, as i grew lazy over time and.. what was i saying? Probably pondering about pie.

I assume it will be a long and eye-gouging, soap-picking, ball-breaking process, and it MAY require usage of MSN for better coordination? My own MSN is very easy to guess, as i managed to grab my own nickname with no numbers or anything.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:28 pm**

Yeah, a simple CreateCreature and global actions.

Well, I 'installed' it with relative ease, since I have his romance mod installed. Oh, that makes me remember - you'll need to install Edwin romance, if you'd like to fight(or you could not, but it'll make the 'installation' much harder). No worries, it'll be just fine...

Mmmm... pie. Since, he owned my ass... how many times? Nine, at least. In a row. And I consider myself an adept in BG tactics. Shaaaaame.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:41 pm**

Edwin Romance? Died 9 times? Pies? I assume i'll have to play as You're Not So Tough once again?

I have some work to do now, and we will need to discuss these in great detail at another time (4 hours from now?). But i urge you to get MSN as soon as possible, unless you wish to use the private message system 'ere. Eventually e-mail is fine, i guess.

Ahoy!

Edited the hell out of my e-mail! YAY!

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:46 pm**

Here, done. Carved on a rock, which is notepad. I'm going to have a MSN right away then.

Posted: **Sun Oct 09, 2011 1:59 pm**

Well, he does have HLAs and other nasties, you'll find for yourself (if we get that far, that it). It seems I have some problems in creating a MSN, so why won't we use private messagers?

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:33 am**

Good Job being active modder to BG2!!

The best RPG ever.

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