CORAN'S ROMANCE

• Author of the Texts

Domi

• Coder:

Domi

• General Notes:

Coran, oh, Seldarine, Coran. His romance is as complicated as they come, and probably qualifies as a gamer’s worst nightmare. If you simplify it, it boils down to three big decisions your Charname needs to make: firstly, to sleep or not to sleep with Coran and when; secondly, what to do about Brielbara and Namara; thirdly to have or not to have Safana in the party. On top of it, no matter what you do, there is randomness added to the romance. If he promised you to return riding an eagle’s back, he won’t. But he just might be waiting for you there when he goes back to seek Brielbara out. Or not. If you still take the mad woman who wrote this romance seriously, my advice is: coast him till he promises Charname the moon from the sky and convince him to abandon Namara. While not quite so sweet, the path without the child and eventual enlightenment of our womanizer, it has a more realistic feel to it. And, it can randomly have a happy ending. Or not. This romance includes core love-talks, both sequential and reactive to events in the game and flirt-packs, both PC and NPC-initiated.

Coran’s Romance uses (Good path): Recercada Tercera by Diego Ortiz , (Baby Path): Dulce Memoria by Hernando de Cabezon , (Neutral/Bored Path): Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens and Les beautéés du Diable by François Dompierre as the romance musical themes.

• Romance Requirements:

Charisma: 13 or above
Alignments: All, except for Lawful Evil
Races: Humans, Elves and Half-Elves
Reputation: Has to be 11 or above for romance to initiate and continue

Special: Coran will not romance Player1, if Safana is in the party

• Conflicts with Other NPCs:

With Ajantis and Xan

• List of Conditions for Each Talk:
  • No Conditions, sequential: LT1, LT2, LT4, LT6, LT9, LT10, LT11, LT12, LT16, LT21, LT26
  • At Rest: LT5, LT7, LT13, LT14, LT18, LT20, LT22, LT28
  • At Rest, in an INN: LT8, LT24, LT29, LT34
  • At Waking: LT3, LT15, LT25 (a,b)
  • In an INN: LT17, LT23
  • In the MORNING: LT19, LT27
  • Coran Has Namara: LT30, LT31
  • Coran is at the Sturgeon: LT33

• First Lines and Talk Numbering Scheme:
  • Path 1 (Core Talks)
  • LT1: Sweetling, you look in need of a cheering up.
  • LT2: There is perfection in every woman, yet no woman is perfection. Alas.
  • LT3: Wake up, beautiful... My, did I startle you? I am Coran, your companion and... oh! The flowers, right?
  • LT4: Do not be afraid of my love, <CHARNAME>. It is not such a fearful thing. I love tenderly, gently...
  • LT5: There is emptiness about. It is hanging in the air and is going round and round, sneaking up on us. Look, it’s already in your bedroll!
  • LT6: Sweetling, the way things are turning out... I have a feeling that someone’s hand guides you. I do not like it, for it smells like a trap.
  • LT7: My love-
  • LT8: *A plump serving wench giggles over something Coran is whispering to her… etc.*
  • LT9: Old Echtelion back in the Forest of Tethir used to cast an enchantment at the very first flower that opened in his garden in the spring.
  • LT10: You wanted to hear about Tethyr, <CHARNAME>
  • LT11: *smile* Sweetling... there has yet to be a woman who can quell the desire to push a man’s hair out of his eyes. You cannot resist it; there is something fatalistic and poignant about it.
  • LT12: My dearest, the heavenly curve of your neck makes me think about kissing it. *sigh* Alas, it’s not a good time… etc
  • LT13: Sweetling, ever since I told you of my misadventure with the lute, I fear that your heart has cooled toward me. I have reasoned a way to ease your doubts and display my prowess...
  • LT14: I am lovesick, <CHARNAME> . I should have been smarter, I should not have let it take me over so completely, but I recognize the symptoms all too well... etc
  • LT15: *You wake up in Coran’s embrace… etc.*
  • LT16: A rogue’s life is not a long one.
  • Path 2: (He is bored)
  • LT17: *whistles quietly* Now, that’s a pretty girl! I do so like grand dames, but sometimes a tavern maid... etc
  • LT18: I yearn for you, beautiful. *Coran moves hair away from your neck and kisses it.*
  • LT19: Look, <CHARNAME>, the sun is rising again. Is that not a wonderful sight to behold? The new day has begun, and novel dreams are stirring in my heart.
  • LT20: You know how I live, sweetling? I live in haste and try to savor as many pleasures as I can get to.
  • Path 3: (He is Chaotic-neutral)
  • LT21: The most amusing thing it was that Briel actually believed that I would have her back the moment she presented me with her babe. *sighs* Some people just cannot let go.
  • LT22: I am growing tired of the reprobating glances. My merry girl, you alone are my consolation.
  • LT23: *whistles quietly* Now, that’s a pretty girl! I do so like grand dames, but sometimes a tavern maid... etc
  • LT24: I am feverish, <CHARNAME>, and my delusional dreams are of you. Do me a kindness, and put your cool narrow hand on my forehead.
  • LT25a: My healer... my gentle healer... come, sit closer and I shall whisper into your ear all the dreams I had about you in my fever. I think we should try to have one or two to come to life...
  • LT25b: So, where is my beautiful fiancée? By the way, I would like to appoint the date.. etc.
  • LT26: Another day, another slaughter. Do you not find it tedious? Would that I be loved by a woman for every man I kill nowadays and every monster too. What a game it would be!
  • Path 4: (CN, and grew bored:)
  • LT27: Look, <CHARNAME>, the sun is rising again. Is that not a wonderful sight to behold? The new day has begun, and novel dreams are stirring in my heart.
  • LT28: You know how I live, sweetling? I live in haste and try to savor as many pleasures as I can get to.
  • Path 5: (CN did not grow bored)
  • LT29: I remembered just now how it happened when I first loved you. It was a small gesture you made, a twirl of your wrist, no more, that you did inadvertently, and that attracted my attention... etc
  • Path 6: (CG, Has the baby)
  • LT30: Luck be a Lady, <CHARNAME> and it seems to me that you are both my lady and my luck.
  • LT31: <CHARNAME> you have never asked, but... do you want to know about Briel?
  • LT32: I received a message from Brielbara, <CHARNAME>. Her affairs are settled, and she’d like to take Namara back.
  • LT33: A'maelamin <CHARNAME>, cormamin lindua ele lle...
  • LT34: <CHARNAME>? *Coran wraps his hands around you and presses his forehead against your neck.* I feel a bit odd without Namara.

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