How NOT to romance Shani? HELP!

[Cookie]

Greetings! I do not want to do it. I've ended up at a dialogue options "I go with her" and "I prefer you". I do not like either of them. I kinda love Yennefer. So how do I avoid this? Thanks!

[Gabriel Angelos]

Originally posted by Cookie:

Greetings! I do not want to do it. I've ended up at a dialogue options "I go with her" and "I prefer you". I do not like either of them. I kinda love Yennefer. So how do I avoid this? Thanks!

Seriously how can you be so cruel. The girl is depressed with her current lot in life and needs some comforting. Step up and help her out so to speak.

[Soz Alface]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

I'm rereading The Last Wish again, and I cannot fathom how people fail to notice it. He's distrustful of sorceresses. He has felt that way all of his life. In fact, all witchers are wary of sorceresses.

She casts a spell on him when she claimed she intended to summon the djinn and wanted to use Dandelion as bait. She then tells him that as payment for helping Dandelion, he's going to clear her debts all over Rinde so that she can leave.

"She grabbed his hair with both hands adn kissed him violently on the lips, sinking her teeth into them like a vampire. The medallion ho his neck quivered and it felt to Geralt as if the chain was shrinking and strangling him. Something blazed in his head whle a terrible humming filled his ears. He stopped seeing the sorceress' violet eyes and fell into darkness."

Truly, the stuff that real love is made of.

That was the spell I was talking about.
When he wakes up in the prison cell, the spell was already over. And he knew all that happened because the elf told him exactly everything that happened.
Plus, this was done when they were nothing but tools to each other. They were not a couple, not in a relationship of any kind.

Geralt only wanted her to save Dandelion, Yen only wanted the Djinn.

And read the books instead of wikis or other stuff.

He knew all that happened, and did not care about it. And no, this action is not fuelled by the spell because it was already over. Like it is said on Thanned, witchers can´t be under a spell for long. A few hours at the most.

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Then he's on his knees and she's speaking to him as if he were he loyal, well-trained pet. After doing her dirty work, getting caught and punished for it, she manages to trap the djinn after he grants Dandelion his last wish. Geralt feels compelled to rush to Yen's aid, who is fighting a losing battle with the djinn who is pretty much destroying half of Rinde.

His compulsion is fueled by the Yen's scent of Lilac and Gooseberries, what she first used to control and dominate him.

First, she told him several times to get away because he would kill them both. Several times.
She never ordered or asked him to try to save her.
Read the books before writting stuff like this.

And she never captured or trapped the Djinn. Never. It couldn´t be done without the last wish being granted to his master. Another thing you got wrong. Read the books.

Second, Geralt is compelled to go save her despite everything because he was already in love with her. It was no spell. The dialogue with the elf (that I can´t remember his name) that was also in love with her:

Geralt: I am sorry, but I have to do this. I can´t explain it, but I have to do this.
Elf: I know Geralt. I know exactly what you are feeling.
Geralt: How could you? Even I don´t know what I am feeling. I can´t explain it.
Elf: That´s precicely it Geralt. Precicely it.

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

They physically fought like hell as he tried to rescue her from the djinn. That's when it comes to light that the djinn was really fulfilling Geralt's wishes and not Dandelion's since he was the one holding the djinn's seal.

He has to make his last wish so Yen can try to capture it. That's when he realizes that she was a hunchback and also realizes that if she reads his mind, she'd never forgive him. And so he makes his wish, binding their fates together. But it's pretty clear that he's still under the influence of her scent.

No. He simply isn´t. The spell lasted a few hours and when he was in the prison cell it was already over. He wouldn´t have talked to the elf about not remembering exactly what happened for him to be there if the spell wasn´t already over.

Also, if the spell effect wasn´t over yet, Yen would simply ordered him to either step away or whatever she wanted him to do and he would have done it like a mindless robot, intead of acting on his own volition.

With the spell active, he would simply do everything she would tell him and not act like he did, doing pretty much the exact opposite she was telling him.

It is actually pretty clear that he was not under the spell.
Read the books, not wikis.


An this is the difference. He knew about that spell and didn´t care, still risked his life for her.
And the spell was to make him repay his debt. Which he refused after she saved Dandelions life.
With Triss, the spell was to have a non-consensual sexual relationship, that he never knew he was under a spell. He still thinks it was a moment of weakness from him. He calls it a mistake like it was him pursuing it.

See the difference?

[Persephona]

During the part where you're supposed to go back and cheer her up, walk out the main gate instead. You'll fail the quest but you won't even kiss her.

[v0]

Originally posted by markdb92:

Yen wont mind you had sex with her. Yen only cares if you did it with triss as they are rivals/friends.

she doesnt even care about that. all women in tw3 care about Three Big Words and nothing else.

[coolnini]

Originally posted by Cookie:

Greetings! I do not want to do it. I've ended up at a dialogue options "I go with her" and "I prefer you". I do not like either of them. I kinda love Yennefer. So how do I avoid this? Thanks!

I'm very late to the party, but I thought I might as well reply because this really resonated with me. Firstly, THANK YOU just for feeling this way, I'm very invested in Geralt and Triss's relationship and did NOT want to romance Shani in any way at all. The key is to intentionally fail the "Midnight Clearing" quest. So at the point when you're supposed to find a "gift" for Shani, just leave the venue, and fast travel somewhere else. It automatically fails the quest, and you aren't forced into interacting romantically with Shani any more than you have to! :)