Vampire Tales

Autor : Dark Raven

GENERAL OVERVIEW :

Vampire Tales("VT") is a WeiDU-based mod for Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal. It adds a new encounter, improves the Unseeing Eye and Harpers encounter which are slightly harder! As usual, Vampire Tales should be compatible with most other WeiDu-based mods, and should be installed after all official patches and preferably the Baldurdash Fixpack. Vampire Tales requires the Throne of Bhaal expansion pack.

Listed below is an explanation of some of the mod's additions:

A. Magical Upgrade Store

This adds a new store in the Morninglord Temple. She sells magical items and scrolls. If you have the right item she may be able to "enhance" or upgrade them.

B. The Kali Cult

A new encounter with the members of the Kali Cult. They are in the dungeon of Firkraag's Lair. Make sure you have a high level party that is mixed with both ranged and melee. They are hard to beat trust me. *evil grin*

C. Improved Cult of the Unseeing Eye

Makes some of the encounters of the Cult of the Unseeing Eye harder.

D. Improved Harpers

When you have Jaheira in your party and you are summoned to the Harper Hold I made it so Galvery and his goons are harder to fight. They were too easy to kill in my opinion and I wanted to make them more challenging.

E. My first store mod

My very first mod! I included it in here so you would not have to download it seperately to play it. Do NOT install it if you already have it. Strange things might happen if you do.

Install:

BG2EE or BGII: Throne of Bhaal is required.

EET : Install this mod in your BG2EE game AFTER EET !

Installing is simple. Double-click the vampiretales.exe file and install to your main BG2 / BG2EE directory Once the install program has finished, it will launce the WeiDU installer program. Simply follow the on-screen instructions in the new DOS window.

Though this mod is made using the WeiDU standard, and should be compatible with all other WeiDU-based mods, there is always the possibility for conflicts. We suggest you install this mod AFTER the official patches, Baldurdash, and TeamBG mods. If you encounter any problems installing the mod, please our forums.

Uninstalling is simple. Double-click the setup-vampiretales.exe file and enter the given commands for Uninstallation. Afterwards, you may delete the following files:

vampiretales.exe
vampiretales.tp2
vampiretales.debug
and the contents of the "vampiretales" subfolder

Compatibility :

This mod should work without significant issues, but it is still a work in progress.

FAQS

Q: What do I need to use this MOD? A: Vampire Tales will require Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Throne of Bhaal with the latest Bioware/Interplay patches. We also strongly encourage the installation of the Baldurdash Fixpack as well.

Q: What does this mod do? A: This mod introduces a vampire thief npc named Miriam. She's existed for a few hundred years and is quite insane. She joins your group because she is bored and needs some excitement in her unlife. This mod also has a store clerk who will upgrade items if you have the right combination. It also improves the encounters with the Unseeing Eye and the Harpers.

Q: Will this MOD add new quests or encounters to the Throne of Bhaal expansion? A: No there are no new quests or encounters yet. There may be in a future release.

Q: Why did you decide to develop this MOD? A: Originally this mod was Dark Ritual and Miriam as seperate mods. I combined the two mods because Dark Ritual had the Cult of Kali, a vampire cult and Miriam being a vampire, well these two had to come together.

VERSION HISTORY

Version 1.07 (May, 2024)

CHANGES
- Comstore componant fully independant
- Some WRITE_SHORT to WRITE_LONG
Version 1.06 (October, 2023)

CHANGES
- InfinityAutoPackager
- Metadata and Labels
- Improved Cult of the Unseeing Eye and Improved Harper Fight don't overwrite files anymore
- Corrections for items
- BG2EE / EET compatibility
- Use some files of BG2EE version by Com_Solaufein (GCMDWAR1.cre, CGAVATAR.baf, CMGMIRI.baf, MIRIAMH 1 à 6 .itm)
- Handle Charset and iconV for keep oBG2 compatibility
- gw_functions.tpa (update description for EE) from Freddy_Gwendo for keep oBG2 compatibility
- Move files and folder tra in language folder / Portraits to EE or Vanilla folders
- Change to tp2
- Add Readme.md
- Up Readme.html
BUGFIXES
Using last BG2EE version of files
Version 1.04 / 1.05 (October 16, 2016) / (August 30, 2014)

CHANGES
Added French translation thanks to Shaywen and Zooloo (of the d'Oghmatiques)

BUGFIXES
Fixed some grammar errors. Miriam's claws were droppable, which they are not suppose to be. Fixed.
Version 1.03 (December 22, 2012)

CHANGES
None

BUGFIXES
GCMRI01.itm
- Used to SET your damage to 15% (the item tries to implement a bonus to cold damage that isn't possible in vanilla BGII-ToB) Now provides a flat +15% damage... ALL DAMAGE
- Doubled level 2 spells and QUADRUPLED level 1 spells. Now only doubles
Version 1.02 (April 30, 2011)

CHANGES
Added Italian translation.

BUGFIXES
Removed the Large Cold Shield due to it being bugged.
Version 1.01 (April 10, 2010)

CHANGES
Added Spanish translation.

BUGFIXES
None.
Version 1.00 (January 7, 2010)

CHANGES
Merged the Miriam NPC mod with Dark Ritual. Add dialogs between Miriam and the Kali Cultist.

BUGFIXES
Fixed the Argent Shield for not having a description image. Asgrim had a script and death variable that was not his. Removed the "temple" portion of Asgrim's store. Its suppose to be a store not a temple. Gabrielle's Gauntlets and Battle Axe +3 the Stunner had Unidentified Text that was gibberish. Fixed.

FORMER MIRIAM VERSION HISTORY

Version 102 12/03/07

CHANGES  
None.
BUGFIXES    
Removed the issue command script in her file since it didn't work properly.

Version 101 11/19/07

CHANGES  
None.
BUGFIXES    
Some dialogs errors were fixed. The interjections were not going off like they should.

Version 100 11/16/07

CHANGES  
First Release
BUGFIXES    
First Release

FORMER DARK RITUAL VERSION HISTORY

Version 1.03 (January 7, 2009)

CHANGES  
Fixed some text errors.
Updated the TP2 file and readme to include up to date links.
BUGFIXES    
Fixed the Large Cold Shield.

Version 1.02 (December 29, 2007)

CHANGES  
Made a few CHANGES   to the script files.
Updated the TP2 file and readme to include up to date links.
BUGFIXES    
None

Version 1.01

CHANGES  
N/A
BUGFIXES    
Fixed the Cult of Kali going hostile on you before they even talk to you.
Fixed a problem with Ratava dialogue that had the wrong item code for the Blade of Roses.
Fixed a few spelling errors.

Version 1.00

CHANGES  
N/A
BUGFIXES    
N/A

Version .91 ()

CHANGES  
N/A
BUGFIXES    
Fixed the corrupted creature file cmgstor1. Caused a hard crash to the game.

Version .90 BETA