Antinomia: FF6

Part 1 (of 3) of the Leo re-recruitment is done!  This covers just finding him initially and then being assigned a chore (which will be part 2 of the event).  But, since this is a fairly long event, I wanted to post my progress to prove I'm still actually working on it.


Now that Albrook is no longer the starting town and the stuff that the NPCs tell you is revealed elsewhere, they can all be repurposed to drop hints about a new quest.


Quest 1 (on my part): Event-based map update code to delete the ship from the Albrook dock.


Several NPCs mention that a ship comes at night, or when they're asleep, so hopefully that's enough of a clue of what to do to initiate the event that gets it to spawn.


Because the new Terra event tried my sanity with conditional statements, how about some more?!  Leo has 14 different possible reactions upon meeting the party depending on who the party leader is.


Leo survives whether you leave him behind on the Floating Continent or not, so this event is available either way.  However, some lines of dialogue, like this one, are different depending on whether he made it to the airship or not.  Part 3 of this event is where things will go in a more noteworthy different direction depending on whether or not you waited.


Celes gives Leo her standard pitch, but he's not buying what she's selling.


So she tries a different tactic: Emotional blackmail! If Gestahl and Kefka can take advantage of his bleeding heart to get him to fall in line, so can she.


Works like a charm.


And this initiates part 2: a barter event.  Where you're going to need to make a sequence of trades of either inventory items or key items in order to get the items you need to proceed.  To do this I had to modify the code for general event $81, since the original code just removed one item from your inventory without giving any feedback as to whether it was successful or not, and $81 is never actually used in the game code itself.  So, I had to modify it to behave like $85 (take X gil from party) to set an event flag in the case where you don't have the item in your inventory.

So you know what that means?  BRING ON THE STACKED CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS AGAIN, WOO!