Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios

When I was originally planning out the full Divergent Paths, I realized that there were 2 problems:
1. The game had no storyline changes until the dinner with Gesthal 10 hours in, so players might get bored and give up before making it that far.
2. In order to make Banon's death more of a gut punch, the player just needed to spend more time with him. The place where he is in your party was during the 3 scenarios, so I started looking into that section of the game.

From there, it was just a way of maximizing the story potential. Edgar wouldn't be reunited with his brother, and then just let him wash away in a river. Sabin, the character thrown furthest off-course, has no bearing on the story. He doesn't NEED to get to Narshe. So, having Edgar go with Sabin makes it so that the visit to Doma and getting back to Narshe are both mission-critical. Having Terra and Banon (the 2 most important characters at that point in the story) end up on the Veldt makes it into a big deal that they find their way back. From there, pieces just started falling into place. It made sense that Terra would bring along the orphaned Gau, foreshadowing her character in the WoR. It made sense to have the technophobic Cyan traveling with Edgar. It even made more sense to have Locke take the back-entrance into Narshe in order to smuggle Celes in. Shadow was the only wildcard, and I am really happy with how he turned out.

Changes like that are present in the full Divergent Paths hack too. I think I'll have v0.8 ready to go within the next few weeks, which will include everything up through re-recruiting the characters in the WoR.