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Mad Mary and factions
« on: November 25, 2015, 08:45:19 AM »
This appears to be a minor issue, only apparently affecting animals that flee or fly away, but I haven't explored it enough to make sure there's no suddenly-dangerous NPCs that aren't affected.

Where: Village of Barovia - Mad Mary's House

When: After following through the dialogue, and prompting Mad Mary to attack the player character.

What: Many of the neutral animals around Barovia, including ravens, and vista chiri, appear to be instantly hostile to my character. I'm guessing that the dialogue with Mad Mary changes a faction reaction, and she's in the same faction as these animals? I don't really know how reactions work in NWN. This persists until a server reset, I've had it happen multiple times- I can confidently say every single time I've gone through the dialogue with Mary.

It really is little issue for ravens and birds, but if a non-wildlife NPC is causing it, I can see it being in the realm of reason that it might affect other, actually problematic NPCs. It would be awful to find out that Horatiu in the ML temple suddenly hates me, because of my conversation with Mary, to give an entirely false example.

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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2015, 09:05:26 AM »
[raises hand] WHo is Mad Mary? of the time I've played on the server never seen or heard of her

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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2015, 11:18:05 AM »
Old, classic Ravenloftian ghost story...  Ask me in game if you want the spoiler.
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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2015, 01:02:51 PM »
Odd. It may have to do with birds and other small animals having a new faction setting that didn't exist at the time Mad Mary's dialogue and attack script were written. I'll ask our scripters to look at her attack script.

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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2015, 02:47:02 PM »
OH wait... Is it that one lady err... ghost in the house in the village with a bloody hand print on the front?!

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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2015, 04:50:55 PM »
OH wait... Is it that one lady err... ghost in the house in the village with a bloody hand print on the front?!
Yes.

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Re: Mad Mary and factions
« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2018, 02:13:18 AM »
Will be fixed in the next update.