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Originally posted by Butterfingers:
I have been thinking a great deal about Yoshimo.
And I think the game designers botched what could have been a much better aspect of the game.
I think it would have been far more interesting through conversation options to find out that Yoshimo was under a Geas and then try and find a way to save him before Spellhold. Perhaps put it on a timer, once you figured it out and confronted him, as a Geas usually has a way of causing people to self distruct.
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I lean towards leaving Yoshimo as is. He's one of the most interesting NPC's because of his betrayal - when it first happened to me (maybe my 3rd or 4th game I actually kept him with me - til then I always wondered why he *poofed* in the Copper Coronet after Spellhold) I was totally floored. That was a really memorable moment in the game for me.
You are given a few, very minor, hints which are really only apparent in retrospect (i.e. after keeping him in the party while knowing what's going to happen), so I'm in favor of keeping the "surprise factor" that's built in. Adding more hints, particularly adding enough to know about it & prevent it, would ruin what is, IMO, one of the best WTF?, shock-value moments in the game.
- Imrahil