A Spellhold Studios mod for Baldur's Gate II
The Luxley Family introduces two joinable NPCs, Sebastian and Andrei Luxley, to your game. Sebastian is a Chaotic Neutral playwright with a rather idiosyncratic sense of humour who appears to take great delight in showing his cousin Andrei the world outside their family home. Andrei is a polite, Lawful Neutral young monk with a strong sense of self who has led a rather sheltered life until now. Throughout your journey with them, you will discover that their family is not all that meets the eye. You may have to make some tough decisions—and the path you choose will have repercussions.
Though you do not need to start a new game to have them join your party, it is advisable to have them join early in order that their story arc is completed. Both banter with all the Bioware party NPCs and they comment on many of the quests in the game.
Sebastian and Andrei both have detailed talk tracks with the PC; they also banter with each other extensively throughout the game.
Note that there is adult content in this mod, but all of it is voluntary on the part of the player—nothing that you feel uncomfortable with is forced on you.
Please check the complete Readme to learn more about this mod before installation.
- A custom playwright kit for Sebastian giving him an additional spell per level but also combat penalties
- A special ability for Andrei giving him a damage bonus with a THAC0 penalty and wisdom drain
- A brand-new area, as well as a set edited from the original game areas, along with new non-joinable NPCs
- A three-stage quest with different paths for each segment
- A track of up to 9 interactions between the protagonist and both characters
- A talk track of up to 10 conversations between Sebastian and Andrei
- Extensive player-initiated dialogue for both characters that changes depending on how much they like the protagonist
- Custom portraits for Sebastian and Andrei, and optional portraits for various non-party NPCs
- Extensive voice acting, including voices for eleven non-party NPCs
- 2-4 banters with the Bioware NPCs in your party
- Interjections about the player's conversations with non-party NPCs, and interactions with non-party NPCs
- Tree of Life dialogue with different options depending on the paths you have chosen
- String fixers (K) in case of reinstallation mixing up Andrei and Sebastian's name strings
- Custom items, some of which are more useful than others
| Ability | Score |
|---|---|
| STR | 15 |
| DEX | 17 |
| CON | 16 |
| INT | 12 |
| WIS | 9 |
| CHR | 11 |
Andrei smiles when you ask him about himself. Though he is willing to talk about his relatives and is forthright about his beliefs, he is politely evasive on some subjects. He is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, a skill he developed at a young age, and was trained by an older member of his family. Despite his combat expertise, Andrei has only just left the family estate and seems a little naive about certain aspects of everyday life that you, perhaps, take for granted. Nevertheless, he comes across as quietly confident and it is rare to see him stray from a path he has chosen.
| Ability | Score |
|---|---|
| STR | 10 |
| DEX | 12 |
| CON | 15 |
| INT | 16 |
| WIS | 15 |
| CHR | 17 |
It is fair to say that whenever you question Sebastian about himself he is maddeningly elusive. He is a playwright by trade—or so he says, though he is secretive about his work and claims that a great deal of what he writes would go over your head. He has a keen sense of frivolity and seems to take little in life with any seriousness. Nevertheless, on occasion it appears that there is something else going on with him, and it would be unwise to underestimate his intelligence.
Authors
- Miss Sakaki (Hannah Powell-Smith)
- Feuille (Fay Ikin)
Contributors
- Gwendolyne – coding and maintenance (version 2.0)
- skellytz – maintenance (version 2.1)
Translators
- Russian: Austin
Special Acknowledgements
- Spellhold Studios team for hosting the mod.
- Chosen of Mystra for hosting when the mod was at the early development stage.
- Artwork: Rabain (areas) and Sir-Kill (Mietta BAM).
- Voice actors: James Taylor (Andrei) and Ross Cloney (Sebastian).
- Non-joinable NPC actors: Lizy Cooper (Alexandra), Richard Courcy (Durydil), Hannah Powell-Smith (Genevieve), Mary Hamilton (Josefyne), Fay Ikin (Lealia), Fred Groves (Lucas), Tim Morgan (Lyel), Eleanor Hingle (Rosanna), Dan Mitrovic (Samuel), Charlie Meigh (Simeon), and Andrew Kitchener (Xavier).
- Beta testers: Berelinde, Clarion, CrazEeFan, K'aeloree, Kitana, Suspiria, toby_fowl, SteveThaiBinh.
- Zyraen for his assistance with dialogue scripting.
- K'aeloree for major moral support and the roof over our heads.
- CamDawg for letting us "borrow" pieces of code from the Fixpack.
- Our wonderful beta testers, both for helping to find bugs and dialogue inconsistencies, and their feedback and suggestions.
- On the technical angle, we'd like to thank Westley Weimer (creation of WeiDU), the bigg (maintaining and adding to WeiDU), igi (maintaining IESDP), Jason Compton and Jesse Myers (player-initiated dialogue technology), Avenger (DLTCEP), Simding0, Ghreyfain, Blue, Rastor and CamDawg (tutorials), and everyone at the Q&A forums who helped out when we were having difficulties.