Want to restore Bates' & Appleby's friendship?

Discussion in 'Arcanum Discussion' started by Sinbad, Sep 4, 2004.

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Should Bates offer a quest to convince Appleby to become his friend again?

  1. Sure

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  2. No way!

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  3. Only if your Persuasion is extremely high.

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  4. You must be joking! Leave things alone and don't tamper with them!

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  1. Sinbad

    Sinbad New Member

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    In the thread "Question concerning bates." http://www.terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/post ... e&p=118409, the question of whether you can restore Bates' and Appleby's friendship arose. As the game is currently set up, this is not really possible. Bates seems to regret the loss of his friend and their current state of animosity. I just wondered how many people thought it would be a cool idea to make this a possible quest for Bates to give as an alternate way to eliminate Appleby's threats?

    Please vote in the poll and let me know what you think.
     
  2. Vorak

    Vorak Administrator Staff Member

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    Basically, it would benefit both, Bates would get a friend and Appelby could work for a decent company, so all in all it would be a win win situation for them both
     
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    There's a good reason why they can not be friends in the game - because their prototypes will never be friends in real life. :)

    But, for the game's sake - yeah, I think you should be able to make them friends again.
     
  4. Womble

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    That is a brilliant idea Sinbad! I always thought that this story begged for a decent ending.
     
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    Sleek_Jeek New Member

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    I think there should be a long ass series of quests where you and appleby blackmail Gates into transfering ownership of Bates' company over to Appleby.
     
  6. Dark Elf

    Dark Elf Administrator Staff Member

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    I like the idea of Bates wanting to retain friendship with Appleby - it's one of those quests I've been looking for but not been able to find.
     
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    Well,it would be cool...but,as far as i know,it's not possible:(
     
  8. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Sinbad could probably MAKE it possible...
     
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    well,i will like to see those two guys working together:)
     
  10. Sinbad

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    I see that xzbyte has seen the purpose of my poll. :) I am still working on my own mod for Arcanum to add a lot of new features, quests, and most notably new playable races and playable females of some existing races. I thought that this might be a fun thing to add if I got enough response from people showing an interest in it. Looks like it's worth doing, so I'll definitely have to take a crack at it, but I don't see why it couldn't be done. Just don't expect it to show up for just any character because there will be definite prerequisites before that quest will become available.
     
  11. Xz

    Xz Monkey Admin Staff Member

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    Any non-newbie to these forums should be able to see the purpose of the poll...
     
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