SPOILER WARNING!
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Chapter 3 spoilers abound (again), as well as a few from Chapter 4 and 6
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And NPC and PC quests too...you have been warned.
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Originally posted by SixOfSpades:
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By that, do you mean "I don't want to be right in the middle of something when a Messenger comes up and steals one of my party members?" Don't worry, because that can't happen: Messenger-type events can only occur in Outdoor areas, not in the middle of major quests. (It'd be rather odd for Sir Ryan Trawl to pay a quick visit to the Lair of the Unseeing Eye just to deliver a message!)
Considering the other strange, bizzare stuff that's been going on, I wouldn't be surprised if he did. I was fighting Baron Ployer when the messenger from Quayle came into the house, and thanks to a screwed-up save I had the extra task of protecting the messenger so he wouldn't turn hostile so I could still get the message. (Meaning no helpful AoE spells. Also ran into the same problem in Suldanessellar.)
I was also on the baron/farmer paladin quest when Anomen decides to hit me up for a crucial romance dialogue right after the baron went hostile. What could I tell him? "Um, Anomen, I'll give you the ego boost you want right after we kill these bad guys, okay?" This is starting to become normal behavior for him. At first I thought he was a little odd wanting to talk about Moira when Vellin Dahn and the Rune Assassins were trying to chop us up, and babbling about his upcoming knight trials right in front of Mae'var and crew was a little disconcerning, but after the Umar Hills business, I figured out that Anomen just doesn't understand romance. He's getting coy with me when we're sleeping in the sewers. Nuff said.
That depends on where you want Imoen to be, in relation to Nalia. If you haul ass and grab some gold as fast as you can, you can make a rush to Chapter 4 and get Imoen back when she's only half a Mage level behind Nalia. It sounds like you're already past that point, so you may be stuck with an Imoen that falls far behind as a Mage.
In my first game, when I was in Spamhold and got Imoen back, I had 4 scroll cases chock full of spells, with a couple mind focusing and genius potions. Immie leveled on the learning alone, split among 6 party members. (Bumped her up to party leader for max exp.)
[/qb] Go ahead and play as much in Chapters 1-3 as you like, but remember that if you're doing Yoshimo->Imoen, every point of EXP that Yoshimo gets is a point stolen from Imoen.[/qb]
I play this situation as, I don't know what's going to happen with Yoshimo, and I figure I'll keep him in the party. (The whole betrayal thing is like the Twisted Rune--a lot of things refer to it, but it's never clearly defined. Maybe a few more PC/Yoshi dialogues...)
Alternatively, you can take advantage of the fact that the NPC quests are mostly based on time:
I remember somebody posting something about how they were at Sharkfest 2003 and Anomen got more of his NPC quest. This is precisely the situation I wish to avoid.