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Obviously I continue working on and off on a mod for BG3. Less so right now since it is very, very, hot in here, and having my PC on doing renders - it doesn't help. But I will likely wait until the fan toolkits are officially released for patch 8 before really diving in to it. Reuniting Minsc with Aerie is obviously something that's actually been waited over 20 years for, and right now there are in fact several drafts and many, many ideas. I would probably in fact leave any quizzing about her past until she's in camp, but I do think she will need a bad ass entrance or at least something that makes it clear this isn't the same fretful kid from the start of BG2. Obviously it is a bit of a different challenge to writing Minsc or Jaheira; Aerie in BG2 is a very young character (for an elf at any rate), kind of literally taking her first steps into the world with lots of growth still left after Throne of Bhaal. So it's about taking her core traits - curiosity, compassion, courage - thinking about the ways she's been influenced by her friends and companions and filling in a hundred years of history. Then probably adding some extra trauma on top of everything else because as a writer I love torturing my favorite characters.

(As for AI voices and the like; I played with it for a few minutes and had about as much as I ever could with it. Even if it sounded decent, you still want real actors. Think about some of the most often quoted scenes and lines in movies and how much of it is really just down to the choices the actor made. So I doubt I will bother with any of that. As a Sci-Fi fan it just makes me sad that the name 'AI' has been co-opted to market a pretty crappy technology).