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cooljeanius / The_Earths_Gut

The Earth's Gut (TEG) is a Wesnoth add-on campaign; originally by @anonymissimus
https://forums.wesnoth.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=26800
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S8 Lost, you don't know Krolock's name at first #40

Open Konrad22 opened 1 year ago

Konrad22 commented 1 year ago

Make Krolocks name into '???' and make the objectives and the defeat condition refer to 'the troll whelp' instead. Change it back to make it refer to Krolock after you free him from his cage and make him introduce himself.

cooljeanius commented 1 year ago

So, I thought that since something similar is done at the beginning of S19 ("Prison"), it'd be easy to just copy from that, but apparently it's easy to change the dwarf's name there since it happens in an event where he's auto-stored, but in Krolock's case that's not the case, so it might be a bit trickier... and also, here, his name is going to have to persist after the scenario in question, so that's another thing that makes it trickier... I think persistence requires an object and an effect, but I don't know if you can actually change names that way?

Konrad22 commented 1 year ago

Sadly I don't know, I just know it would be cool. Perhaps replace him when you reveal his name? I mean, there has to be some way, they did it in mainline with Jessene too, right? (Unless that happened off screen.)

cooljeanius commented 1 year ago

Oh good point, I'll have to check how they do that there...

cooljeanius commented 1 year ago

oh actually I don't even need to look into a separate scenario, I can just see how it's done with Dulatus himself at the beginning of this same scenario Edit: looks like the narrator just speaks for him instead there...

cooljeanius commented 1 year ago

Giving this another look, but I dunno, there are just too many contingencies to consider here... You already saw how this cutscene can get screwed up in #41 (which I still haven't figured out yet...)