Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios

Great premise for a hack, and well done planning it all out! I like that it's not so overwhelming where it sounds like it will actually get finished! And then who knows, you could add on from there other changes like Thamasa etc. Anyways I'm looking forward to this as well, nice work!

That's the plan. I plan to release this hack as a standalone, then build my other hack on top of it.

it might be interesting if Beyond Chaos would work with this one

I'm limiting my edits to maps and events, with no rom expansion and minimal code jumping, in hopes that this will be compatible with most other hacks out there. 

As an example, the Military Camp sequence uses $31 (Party Character 0) in all of its animations, just in case you had Shadow, but I wanted Sabin and Edgar to crouch down next to each other to banter back and forth. I did this in the following way: The initial event can be triggered by walking down, left, or right, and is triplicated in the code. I removed the 2nd and 3rd instance by making a map edit that forced you to walk over a single tile. Then, in place of the 2nd/3rd instance, I created 2 subroutines that I used 3 times each: (1) The lead character does the surprised animation. Then Sabin and Edgar run back one and right 3, splitting apart on the last step and crouching down. (2) Sabin and Edgar rejoin, and party character 0 is set as the lead character. Just by doing this, I actually reduced the size of the event code by 20-30 bytes, meaning that all of the events in the hack are self-contained, and shouldn't interfere elsewhere.