Firebead gave me money

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I started up my multiplayer game and had my CN thief run around and do her thing. Her personality is on the flaky side, meaning she does things just to do them and talks to random people until they attack her (kind of like Noober in Nashkel).

She went to Firebead to get the scroll quest. The party decided to go get it immediately, but she wanted to keep talking to him. After a while 25 tries or so, Firebead forks over 300 gold. WTF? I never got that in my other BG games. Was it because I had someone talk to him repeatedly? Was it due to her CN alignment?

 

If you talk to him enough times he hands over 300 gold

 

Well that's new information to me.

 

Note to Self: Harrass Firebeard until he bribes me to leave him alone.

 

Did you rename your thief to Noober (or Neeber)? Perhaps Naaber?

Howdy, Naaber.

Won't you be, please won't you be, my Naaber....

Dress the thief in a red sweater.

 

Wow keumper - that's devotion. I read of that trick on this very site, but you really have to click on him a lot. I'd say probably as many times as you talk to Noober. I'm surprised that you kept clicking on him that many times without knowing what the end result would be. I guess that's very faithful RPing.

 

It's cool, 300 gold is a lot at the start of the game

 

30 tries, 300 gold. A good return on your time so early in the game. Going to have to remember that for future games.

 

I wanted my thief to be a looney thief, the kind who peeks in medicine cabinets and talks to complete strangers.

Are you guys sure you just talk to him so many times? I tried again (after saving) with my NG ranger and nothing happened. Though I do have so hard to find decent folk nowadays stuck in my head for eternity.

 

Very weird, it's a class script called GG300:

Code:

IF
	NumTimesTalkedTo(30)
THEN
	RESPONSE #100
		SetNumTimesTalkedTo(31)
		GiveGoldForce(300)
END

It's small enough for reuse, so it might be applied on more than just one character.

"Now kuemper leads. Words for everyone!."

 

Nah, that's just being very VERY bored.

Code:

IF
	NumTimesTalkedTo(30)
THEN
	RESPONSE #100
		SetNumTimesTalkedTo(31)
		GiveGoldForce(300)
END

Holy , people program with that? Looks like somebody needs a good whacking with assembler.

 

@Morgoth:
I'm not sure I understand. That script was pulled directly from my unmodded game (using Infinity Explorer). Besides, IF THEN statements are part of the backbone of programming.

 

It's just ugly code, it is Basic or something? Master Dijkstra said that people who program with Basic are mutilated beyond any hope of regeneration

 

It's based on programming language called LUA http://www.lua.org/

 

It appears that GG300.bcs is only assigned to one other creature--Firebeard in Beregost. So you might be able to ring him up for another 300.

 

Hey. at the beginning of the game 300 golds is 300 gold. You can buy yourself nice equipment. buy a few things for Imoen and still have money left over.

 

So I can hit him up in Beregost still...

 

It depends. Are, from a program point of view, the two Firebeards separate entities or are they the same object (person) but on another map? If it's the same object, the number of times you talked to him should stay unchanged, meaning you can do it only once. But if it's two different chars, then you should be able to get the 300 from both.

 

I couldn't get Firebead to give me more money in Beregost.

 

It is two different characters (FIREBE.CRE & FIREB1.CRE), so you should be able to get it twice unless the script gets stored or something. The one in Beregost only has 91 gold, but that shouldn't matter to a GiveGoldForce, should it?