ToB Anomen is squire but talks as if he has failed the test

[jastey]

Starting a new ToB game, I called Anomen with the fate spirits. He is the WIS 12 Anomen stating in his BIO he is a squire for the Order one then.

 

In a banter with Imoen, though, he praises himself to be "escaped the Order just in time", i.e. he is using the dialogue that failed Anomen would do. This is because the check goes for the LG alignment he would have after the test. It seems a check for IsNotKnight would be more appropriate, since the "Order" answer fits both knight and squire Anomen.

 

In Bimoen25.dlg:

IF ~InParty("Anomen")

See("Anomen")

!StateCheck("Anomen",STATE_SLEEPING)

Global("ExpBImoen3","LOCALS",0)~ THEN BEGIN 14 // from:

SAY #68437 /* ~So. You're part of that Order of the Radiant Heart, right, Anomen? The paladins and clerics that run around Amn getting outraged at everything?~ [iMOE2504] */

IF ~Alignment("Anomen",LAWFUL_GOOD)~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("ExpBImoen3","LOCALS",1)~ EXTERN ~BANOME25~ 45

IF ~!Alignment("Anomen",LAWFUL_GOOD)~ THEN DO ~SetGlobal("ExpBImoen3","LOCALS",1)~ EXTERN ~BANOME25~ 46

END

 

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 15 // from:

SAY #68445 /* ~Well, a full hundred of them marched all solemn-like up to Candlekeep about ten years ago, all to donate a single book to the monks. Did you know about that?~ */

IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BANOME25~ 47

END

 

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 16 // from:

SAY #68449 /* ~It was a big book, as I recall. I stole into the archive to look at it... did you know it had all sorts of pictures of naked men and women? Total filth! I'm surprised the Order even had something like that.~ */

IF ~Alignment("Anomen",LAWFUL_GOOD)~ THEN EXTERN ~BANOME25~ 48

IF ~!Alignment("Anomen",LAWFUL_GOOD)~ THEN EXTERN ~BANOME25~ 49

END

 

I didn't scan the other NPC's banter files, but it could well be there is more wrong triggers.

[berelinde]

Well, without the PC's intervention, Anomen would have failed his test, so this might not be a bug.

 

Here's the relevant bit of BANOME25:

 

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 45 // from:
 SAY #68441 /* ~I find your description bordering on insult, girl... but, yes, I am a member of the Order.  Why?~ [ANOM2521] */
 IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BIMOEN25~ 15
END

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 46 // from:
 SAY #68443 /* ~Hah!  An apt description of those blowhards, if ever I have heard one.  No, dear girl... I am no member of the Order, although I was once a novice.  Why do you ask?~ [ANOM2522] */
 IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BIMOEN25~ 15
END

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 47 // from:
 SAY #68447 /* ~No, but it sounds like something the Order might do, depending on the book.~ */
 IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BIMOEN25~ 16
END

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 48 // from:
 SAY #68451 /* ~No doubt it was a book of great evil.  Perhaps the Order gave it over to the care of your monks so it would not be used by those of impure intentions.~ */
 IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BIMOEN25~ 17
END

IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 49 // from:
 SAY #68453 /* ~You don't say?  Well perhaps the Prelate was finished with it and gave it to the head of your monks as something of a present?  Those paladins are quite the repressed lot of stuffed shirts, you know.~ */
 IF ~~ THEN EXTERN ~BIMOEN25~ 18
END

 

Looking at ANOME25A, though, they're using an alignment check for CN to determine his order status, so maybe it should be consistent, even if illogical.

[devSin]

Yeah, unless he's CN, he probably shouldn't be talking shit about the Order.

[jastey]

It's OK with me to assume he failed his test (well, it would be consistent, not that I want CN Anomen in ToB ), but then the BIO would have to be adapted. Both together is contradictory.

 

I would vote for him being squire, though.