Zaxis Sister Bug

I found her letter in the Temple, and met Zaxis (the wandering bard); While I had expected some dialog option to allow me to tell him about the letter (I was carrying around in my inventory for that purpose), nothing appeared, just the normal ToEE dialog options.

 

Is there actually a resolution to the Zaxis sister storyline? I didn't think there was. Certainly could use it though. Just a shame Zaxis is voiced.

 

There is definitely a dialog resolution for the Zaxis / sister situation. (Not really a quest, I guess.) I have always had a dialog option show up if I run into Zaxis after picking up the letter.

Kurt-

You said you didn't get any options when you talked to him - did you talk to him with the character who had the letter in his/her inventory? I once had that issue, but eventually figured out the letter was on someone else, or in the ethereal chest or something. Once I put the letter in my faceman's inventory, the resolution dialog came up properly.

 

Thanks erkper. Learnt something new today.

 

I don't recall for sure, but it is possible it wasn't the same character; I didn't pay attention who was carrying it at that time, since (AFAIK) ToEE usually checks all PCs inventories for quest triggers.

I guess that was the problem.
Oh well.

 

Will fix next time I play with the ToEE .py and .dlg files. Really easy to fix too as I think it is definitely a bug and that no matter who has the letter, the dialogue option should appear.

 

There is a dialogue option for finding the letter and, then - later in the game, meeting Zaxis and announcing having found the letter to Zaxis. If you meet Zaxis before finding the letter, once you find the letter, you have to go <spoiler removed by krunch>.

 

Thanks, Krunch. I didn't know that's where Zaxis went if you didn't take him into the party.

And don't listen to Ted. He used to self-medicate. He probably didn't even know what he was sayin'. :smoke:

 

Hmmm. Not done it yet because I was thinking through implications Ted. We probably need to have a community discussion on how to handle this kind of thing. Especially as we need to decide on whether the 'group leader' idea is something which should be carried through as that is often the only way to script certain things.

What do you reckon? Anything posted in the CMF does not necessarily have to be accepted into the next full release and we do definitely need to find out how the community wants to move forward with some things.

KotB is a totally different thing from ToEE in this regard. You and the KotB team write the rules and we play them

 

thanx crunch.
i would sometimes reload the game if i didn't have the letter with me when i passed up zaxis.
I thought that was it for him, but he goes to the whore house.

heh heh.

 

Oh I know that's how it works I'm just saying that we're hitting a point where we have to make some decisions about modding ToEE. They're quite big decisions and although I take Gaear's point on the problems of decisions via committee, we are a community driven mod. I actually agree with Ted's point that items should be put on the PC initiating dialogue in order to trigger it. But others may not do so, and argue that to do this in ToEE turns it into more of a chore. *shrug* Not sure where Gaear and you are coming from on this one to be honest, I was just asking whether or not the community should be allowed to decide whether an item carried by the group should be sufficient to trigger quest dialogue in ToEE, or whether the community were content and aware of the role of the group leader and/or person initiating dialogue. I prefer the latter because it fits in with the role of the face character but I'm happy to be outvoted.

It seems perhaps there has been a misunderstanding. But if not, I very much strongly disagree that modders have the right to make major changes to gameplay without informing and getting the community's agreement. I'm not certain that's what is meant but it does read like that to me.