The Staff BOA readme

Dedicated to a certain spongy-ones 10th anniversary (which it was when I originally completed the scenario!).

The Staff puts you in an adventure to restore a regions protective staff, restoring peace and prosperity.  Do you quit, do you keep it or do you give it back?  It's really up to you.

The goal is to find seven staff pieces, determine how to put it together, then...

You might (should) be able to complete the scenario with a fresh level 1 party, but you probably should start with some experience and gold (lots).  I did make it with a new default party and was able to make it through the final battle, with a couple of deaths, but needed to add gold.  You do need at a minimum, at least 1200 coins.  Part of the mainline quest will require that amount and there are not a lot of places to sell things at.  You'll also need money to get access to training and there's only one place available for that.  In addition, you might want to start with lock picks since you'll need to get behind at least one locked door, potentially early in the game.  To aid in this, I did add a set of lock picks in the Sage hut to pick up if needed and your party doesn't already have a set.

I did add an 'enable_add_chars(TRUE);' call to Philippi so you can add new party members if you like there (added after some thought on a SW forums message by Ephesos).

Images were snatched from The Louvre and Google photo search along with some images custom created/modified.  

Issues:
 - In some cases where terrain was swapped (mainly ran into in the outdoor sections), the terrain didn't seem to change (i.e., replacing a cliff wall with a secret door cliff wall).  I believe I fixed all of these by scripting the block, but left others that didn't seem to be issues.  Just let me know if any others fail.

Hints:
 - 'Look' around, some things you need to search to find...
 - 'BOB' is your uncle.
 - If low level, only go into the large house in the southwest of Ephesus.

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For hints or other comments, drop me a line (remove lines and spaces).

  Mike Slack (slack _ @ _ attglobal _ . _ net)

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Changes:
 v1.0.0 - Started Nov 2008, finished late Apr (26thish) 2009.
