Almateria's Restoration Project

File Name: Almateria's Restoration Project
File Submitter: Almateria
File Submitted: 20 Mar 2013
File Category: Miscellaneous Released Mods

Almateria's Restoration Project
Version 6.4
13 July, 2014
By: Almateria



I. GENERAL BULLSHIT


The Restoration Project is a mod for Baldur's Gate aiming to restore literally all unused sounds, as well as some minor cut characters or locations. In recent iterations it evolved into the younger, brasher sidekick of Unfinished Business.


II. WHAT THE MOD DOES

A. Restored Locations
This component adds, restores content to or tweaks some locations that didn't make it to the released version or had any missing content.

• A tent in Trademeet
  
  
• A bedroom in Kiser Jhaeri's house, in Saradush, accessible by clicking the wall on the right
  
• You can now open the front door to Yaga-Shura's crib, if you're strong enough
  
• Some cloaks in Aran Linvail's cloakroom. (Those are jokes and remnants of the mod's very first release called Realistic Cloakroom.)
  
• The Summoning Book in the second level of Spellhold gets an extra page, just like planned. It's an adamantine golem.
  
• The Sahuagin trap in the Planar Sphere now functions like intended, locking you in the room for the duration of the fight.
  
• You now get hints on the 4th level of Watcher's Keep. Look for new regions on the floor. I know it stumbled me when I was playing the first time.
  
• When you get to the Spellhold with Desharik's help, you are greeted with a new text screen with original narration! The picture isn't quite right, but I'm not graphic artist and that one was set as default.
  
• In the extremely unlikely event of giving Nizdramanii'yt everything you've got for the goblet of life, you are treated with a description of his leave.

B. Restored Characters and dialogues


This component restores a few cut characters. Most of them don't have any real role, but serve as flavor.

• A drow cook in the Ust'Natha tavern.
  
• Becky and Diane, a family living in the tent added by the previous component (synergy!).
  
• An Amnish privateer and his execution on Brynnlaw.
  
• An additional grieving nobleman on Nalia's father's funeral.
  
• A vampire in the Mind Flayers' dungeon in the Underdark.
  
• Two Cowled Enforcerers in the Council of Six building. One of them has something to say about Tolgerias's quest.
  
• More people now join the final Bodhi crypt crawl! Kalden and Levin Rayn come to help from the Order of the Most Radiant Heart. And from the Shadow Thieves, there's Natas and Alyra.
  
• Petr the dwarf is now encounterable during the Metrich Quest.
  
• In Suldanesselar, a rakshasa by the name of Ziyaad is waiting in the Rillifane Lockbox house. He's hostile.
  
• Two D'Aerthe guards now guard Jarlaxle's headquarters. You're probably not gonna interact much with them if you're not killing Jarlaxle, though.
  
• Two new demons to be met during the Planar Sphere quest. One is Mane, to be met when on an excursion for the demon heart, and the second sneaks inside the sphere during that.
  
• Falik now exists for more than cannon fodder. You can talk to him, and discover that wolfweres are pretty moronic.
  
• There's a new encounter in Windspear Hills, consisting of two hobgoblin bandits ganging up on some merchants.
  
• Daleson comes back to the Fighter's Stronghold and gives out comments depending on how great/horrible you are.
  
• A Tax Collector can be found between the manors of Deril and Jysstevs.

Additionally, since version 5 the component also restores quite a few dialog options.

• Deirex now talks to you after you come back to his house.
  
• You can tell off Pelanna in one more way. Can be screwy if the Pause All Dialogues component from BG2Tweaks is installed.
  
• General Sovalidaas can now Sovali-diss Viconia when you talk to him while controlling her.
  
• Sir Donalus gets new dialog options depending on your standing with the Order.
  
• You can now resign from doing the job for Alibakkars or Lurraxols and pick the other family.
  
• If you've heard of Valygar's cabin from getting his tax notice, you can ask Umar villagers about it.
  
• Viconia gets a brand new banter in which she asks you whether Irenicus is such a big deal if at all.
  
• Lea'liyl's previously unseen dialogue now fires off properly. He's a demon in the Abyss.
  
• Imoen now helps you locate the switch for the lightning machine. It's useful if you're playing for the first time, and don't know how to equip weapons, and then you die to the seemingly infinite mephits!
  
• Firkraag now taunts you when you enter his dungeon. He also does it when you escape upstairs from the fight. It's class-dependent, so he'll be even more of a dick towards paladins!
  
• Olma, you cook, has now an extra dialogue for non-main characters.
  
• Chatting with Volo now adds a journal entry.
  
• The laborer in the government district had his timed triggers simplified, and can now say an additional line.

C. Restored Sounds


The biggest and the most important component, it restores proper damaged, dying and morale break sounds to over 1600 characters. A few of them also have additional unused sounds for other occasions.

D. Restored Items
This component restores some items not added by any other mods.

• Blessed bolts (one each in every good-aligned god's temple)
  
• Purple and red potions (in the tent added by the first component. yess)
  
• Horn of Kazgaroth (Deril has it)
  
• Boots of Phasing (In Viekang's possession, both in ToB and Soa)
  
• Boots of Lightning Speed (Habib has them. That's why throws the sword, btw)
  
• The illusion-covered paladins at Windspear Hills now carry a letter from Firkraag, designed to make you way more angry.
  
• Am-Si now keeps a key to the kidnapper's hideout, if for some reason you kill him without talking to him.

E. Restored Wish Options


This component restores two cut Wish options, them being:

• Globe of Blades on caster (For casters with WIS > 18)
  
• Party gains 10,000 GP (For casters with WIS < 9)

F. Restored XP tables in ToB


This component restores XP rewards for doing minor things in ToB, for example:

• Talking to the heads in the Forest of Tethyr
  
• Putting together the Big Metal Unit
  
• Also freeing Ehlastra gave an incorrect XP value.

G. Restored random encounters


This component restores random encounters both in SoA and ToB.

• A singular ogre that could attack you in the wilderness after all set encounters take place
  
• A band of noble brigands that will attack you somewhere between Amkethran, Abazigal's Lair and Sendai's Enclave
  
• A party of evil bounty hunters after your head. Yeah you've seen some of those names before. Same place.

H. Deril Lich (Or, Cernd's quest getting some closure)


If you obtained Cernd's son peacefully, Deril will come back as a lich after three days, if Cernd is still in the party. After a short battle he'll run back to his house, where you can dispose of him permanently.

I. Minor restorations
This component now restored various data, mainly forgotten/replaced icons.

• Saradush gets a new icon after being sacked by Yaga-Shura.
  
  
• Berserker's Enrage now has a new, restored icon. It really suits him more, and allows all three enrage states to have differing icons.
  
• Ranger's Tracking now gets the more sensible, scrapped line when tracking with no monsters present.

J. Restored Irenicus's Plane of Earth


The location everyone visited at least once and wondered what the hell was going on with it, finally back in the game. Contains three rudimentary quests, you get there by clicking on the floor in the plane of air.

K. Better Item Import
With this addition, the Plane of Air djinn, also known as Malaaq, will hand you one additional weapon. What it will be depends entirely on what you carried with you when you imported the game. It could be a Flame Tongue, Bali's Axe, Longtooth dagger, Kiel's morgenstern, Root of the Problem, or something else!

L. Final Slayer Dream
Previous version of this mod kept the Slayer Test Area as a minor quest area with a dumbass requirement. It was pretty bad. With this component installed, the STA is finally a fully-fledged area, with a dream introduction and everything, just like Our Bioware In Heaven intended. Just sleep a few times after the dream in which Ellesime talks to you, and it will all be revealed.

M. Alternate Slayer change
Originally, the Slayer change was supposed to drain the party of their vital forces and cause horror in everyone witnessing it, until the player masters the Slayer in the Ancient Grove. This component restores this ability. It's optional, since some people could actually dislike this change.


III. INSTALLATION/UNINSTALLATION
To install, extract the contents of arpvX.zip to your main BG2 directory (on Windows) or Baldur's Gate 2.app/drive_c/[further path] (WINE-compatible macs), then double-click the setup-arestorationp.exe file, or setup-arestorationp.command if your computer is a Mac and follow the instructions on screen.
To uninstall, do the same.


IV. COMPATIBILITY
Quest Pack should preferably be installed after installing component G. Apart from that, ARP is fully compatible with every single mod, thanks to the magic of SmartCoding.


V. VERSION HISTORY
V1 (20 March 2013)
Initial release.
V1.1 (21 March 2013)
Fixed a bug that prevented the Restored Sounds component from being installed in English language due to a misplaced REQUIRE_PREDICATE.
V1.2 (27 March 2013)
The jokecloaks are now added in a way that doesn't break the drop tables for BGT users.
V1.3 (28 March 2013)
Kiser doesn't clone himself anymore.
Becky and Diane actually appear. (Those two bugs were linked in the most stupid way possible)
Added a German translation by Gast.
V2 (3 April 2013)
Restored three new encounters.
Restored two Wish options.
Restored blessed bolts.
V3 (18 April 2013)
Restored:
Two new minor characters.
Two random encounters.
One large area.
The ending to Cernd's quest.
Fixed XP rewards for things in ToB.
V3.1 (4 May 2013)
Deril might not die so easily during the first meeting.
Added a small reward for killing Deril.
You don't need to have the Fixpack installed (but why wouldn't you)
V3.2 (12 May 2013)
Wisp wrote some code that will make the mod less able to destroy absolutely everything. Thank you, Wisp!
V3.3 (22 June 2013)
The ogre actually spawns this time.
Conversely, Deril doesn't spawn in the druid grove and murder everyone anymore.
V3.4 (11 October 2013)
Prescribed testosterone to the Fanatic trying to burn Viconia.
Changed something so that Rielev's lines won't be in Polish all the time. Seriously Weidu can be the worst
V3.4.1 (17 November 2013)
Added BG2EE compatibility.
V3.4.2 (2 March 2014)
The guy at Nalia's dad's funeral actually says his lines!
V3.5 (12 April 2014)
Added the destroyed Saradush map icon.
Tweaked some dumb stuff.
V4 (22 April 2014)
Added the Plane of Earth to Chateau Irenicus.
Restored two random encounters.
Restored two items.
Restored eight minor characters in total.
Tweaked encounter probability.
V4.1 (16 May 2014)
Added the item import fix.
Nerfed the boots of lightning speed even more.
Fixed UB compatibility by removing the AG encounter.
Removed the German translation.
V4.2 (18 May 2014)
Added a new way to the second level of Yaga-Shura's house.
V5 (28 May 2014)
Added an alternate version of Slayer Change.
Retooled the Slayer Test Area to be triggered by a dream.
Restored two items of plot value.
Restored one banter and eight dialogue options of varying value.
V5.1 (28 May 2014, too)
Added two new demon encounters during the Planar Sphere quest.
Added a new dialogue to one of the other demons. Thanks for the info, Argent77!
V5.1.1 (1 June 2014)
Forked installs into regular and BG2EE version.
Made all new components work on BG2EE.
V6 (3 June 2014)
Remerged the installs and recoded the tp2 with code stolen from UB.
Restored a text screen appearing when sent to Spellhold by Desharik.
Restored the original Berserker's Enrage icon.
Restored Firkraag's taunts.
Restored a trap in Planar Sphere.
Restored a page in the Spellhold Spellbook.
Restored the possibility to speak with Falik.
Restored two hints in the game.
Restored an encounter in Windspear Hills.
V6.1 (13 June 2014)
Retooled the code to fit absolutely every combination.
Added a failsafe for the most buggy components.
Restored two dialogues and one new-old character.
V6.2 (19 June 2014)
Added a text description for Nizdramanii'yt's disappearance.
Added a journal entry for meeting with Volo.
Fixed the viconia banter numbered responses bug.
V6.3 (11 July 2014)
Added new ToB Tracking lines.
Fixed the bug with missing ambients, maybe.
Fixed the bug with repeating Viconia banter.
V6.4 (13 July 2014)
Added a new line for the government worker.
Added a tax collector in the Government District.

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