jaheira romance questline

[Ulthuan]

sorry to make another thread so soon, but jaheira's romance quest hasn't progressed since I met dermin. is there anything I can do?

[philos3]

Be patient. There is a long gap in progress after meeting Dermin the 1st time.

[red255]

yes. pause the game,, go to work and come back, its gotta run for real time hours. I tihnk.

game has some stupid triggers, I think its like 30 minutes to an hour but you also gotta sleep in forests and other idiocy. but I would pause the game wait an hour see if she talks. in some outdoors area. if not take a nap.

[philos3]

Originally posted by red255:

yes. pause the game,, go to work and come back, its gotta run for real time hours. I tihnk.

game has some stupid triggers, I think its like 30 minutes to an hour but you also gotta sleep in forests and other idiocy. but I would pause the game wait an hour see if she talks. in some outdoors area. if not take a nap.

Yes, there is a real time trigger, I cannot recall how long either. And there is an event that will only occur when you camp in the outdoors. Good advice.

[New Moon On Monday]

Her quest does seem to have been sped up in the latest version of EE. I don't know if the actual timers have changed, but now it seems that the Harpers will ambush you anywhere and not just outdoors. In my last game, I've had the Harper ambushes happen in places like Waukeen's Promenade when my group was coming out of the Mithrest Inn (and the Harpers were scattered all over the place because there's no room for them there).

While it isn't mentioned in the Wiki, I seem to recall that the final event in the quest is on a real-time timer, and not an in-game timer. (All the previous steps are in-game timers- you can use the time-stamps in the Journal entries to predict the next Harper ambush.) I don't remember how long the last timer is supposed to be. But it isn't too terribly long- in my last game, the final event of the quest came up while I was still in Chapter 2 with a couple of stronghold quests left to do.

[philos3]

Originally posted by New Moon On Monday:

Her quest does seem to have been sped up in the latest version of EE. I don't know if the actual timers have changed, but now it seems that the Harpers will ambush you anywhere and not just outdoors. In my last game, I've had the Harper ambushes happen in places like Waukeen's Promenade when my group was coming out of the Mithrest Inn (and the Harpers were scattered all over the place because there's no room for them there).

While it isn't mentioned in the Wiki, I seem to recall that the final event in the quest is on a real-time timer, and not an in-game timer. (All the previous steps are in-game timers- you can use the time-stamps in the Journal entries to predict the next Harper ambush.) I don't remember how long the last timer is supposed to be. But it isn't too terribly long- in my last game, the final event of the quest came up while I was still in Chapter 2 with a couple of stronghold quests left to do.

Yes, the Harper ambushes do and not necessarily after resting. The event I was referring too (which seems to further the romance) is an ambush by mercenaries who hold Jaheira at knife point, when you rest outdoors But that is good advice on the Harpers.

[LukanGamer]

If worried and or really want too skip to the next stage

Save then Google the console command to skip the time and then most likely leave a map area and enter a new 1 and wait a moment.

[Hamish]

The Jeheira Romance is a mine field. There are time you need to sleep out doors to progress it. I strongly suggest using a guide, the Game FAQ's one is the best as far as I can tell (at least for me)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/258273-baldurs-gate-ii-shadows-of-amn/faqs/12164

Personally, I think it is the best in the whole series by a long shot however.

[Ulthuan]

So I found out my lovetalk stat was at 11. is there any way to raise it or is it just random?

[6h0$t942]

If you can look up your stat im assuming you have access to the console. This comes from
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/32143/jaheira-romance-messed-up

I removed a couple spoiler-y things. The main command you should use is the one i put *** on. Save scumming for debugging is the way my brothers, Boo said so.


CLUAConsole:GetGlobal("JaheiraRomanceActive","GLOBAL") – to find out what value it has. In BG2:EE you should type C:GetGlobal("JaheiraRomanceActive","GLOBAL")

This major romance variable shows the current romance state and you should always check it if things seem to be going wrong.

Possible values of this variable (XX) are:
0 – romance was never started,
1 – romance is progressing,
2 – romance lives, NPC is finally in love with you,
3 – romance is dead for good.

If you have 0 or 3, you can type

CLUAConsole:SetGlobal("JaheiraRomanceActive","GLOBAL",XX) – to manually set the value. In BG2:EE you should type C:SetGlobal("JaheiraRomanceActive","GLOBAL",XX)

Another important variable for managing a romance is LoveTalk. It shows how far the romance has progressed.

There are two commands you should use to access the variable:

1) CLUAConsole:GetGlobal("LoveTalk","LOCALS") while holding the mouse pointer over the Jaheira's portrait. Press return and the console will show you her romance rating. In BG2:EE you should type C instead of CLUAConsole.

2) CLUAConsole:SetGlobal(“LoveTalk”,”LOCALS”,XX) which sets your love talk to a given rating, where XX is a number. (So if you have a bug you might be able to get things moving again. In BG2:EE you should type C instead of CLUAConsole.

The final target for Jaheira is 70. You can set the stage of romance dialog to the variant needed for you.

*****Issuing a command like this: CLUAConsole:SetGlobal(“JaheiraRomance”,”GLOBAL”,1) - In BG2:EE you should type C instead of CLUAConsole - will trigger the next dialog providing all other conditions (location meeting characters etc) have been met. If nothing happens, simply type this command twice.******

Also, romance related quests (spawns) wouldn't take place in chapters 4, 5 and 7. This means that if you haven’t finished with Terminsel’s second appearing in chapter 6, romance with Jaheira will never get to its proper ending.