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What happens to Weston programming-wise after you get him out of his cell? If I try to teleport to him, I end up at the edge of the mountains north of Britain, but there isn't anybody there! He doesn't go the the "House of the Dead" either. I can remember that I once met Weston around Empath Abbey after freeing him. I couldn't talk to him unless I modified him with the cheat menu, and when I did talk to him, he told me that Lord British had gotten him work doing menial jobs around the Abbey, and thanked me. His portrait still showed him looking through the bars, though...

I don't know where he went. It was always one of those mysteries. I never saw him again.

I've never once encountered him after freeing him.

His wife, Alina, (in the Fellowship shelter in Paws) says she is waiting for him to return from Britain if you talk to her after freeing Weston. She says LB gave him a job.

Looking at the F2 cheat screen, it says his coords are (4090, 4090, 05) after freeing him.. Is that a legal location? Is there any way to get there?

That's supposed to be the location deleted NPCs appear at in Exult (i think). So he is nowhere.

He might have been better off if you left him in jail.

So, by freeing him we've actually caused him to cease to exist???

Oops. Better not tell his wife.

There is actually a reason why that happens. When Ultima 7 was made, they couldn't do dynamic updates to the schedules. Weston's schedule would have him constantly being in the cell. Once you got him released, the usecoders couldn't make him have a new schedule, so they just delete him.

The Serpent Isle programmers of course fixed this problem.

Exult, since it supports Serpent Isle, also gives Black Gate support for dynamic schedules. However, as far as I know, we haven't added the dynamic schedule intrinsics into the Black Gate, so people writing usecode can't actually change schedules yet. You can change them in the cheat menu, but that's not much use.

-Colourless Dragon

They couldn't do dynamic updates to the schedules, so couldn't they create a new NPC with a new schedule, make him look the same and call him Weston?

I remember in the original BG he went to the Room of the Dead by Cove, but now he just vanishes.....

Exult doesn't have a Room of the Dead.

Edit by Dominus: froze this thread as it attracted spam ;(