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Our contest has reached the crucial stage of creating an adventure, i.e. making a quest and dialogues. You face a difficult task, just as your mod is starting to gel! With this stage completed, the adventure actually should be finished, there will only be one more stage for tests and final cuts. Below, you'll find the precise requirements you will have to meet in the course of quest implementation.

We will grade:

1. Writing the plot out in quest stages (in the form of a document, preferably a graphic one, these can be drawings, graphs, anything that shows logical connections between particular stages of a quest).

I suggest beginning the task by creating such a document, this will make quests much easier to implement in D'jinni.

2. Creating the quest structure, i.e. implementation of the quest in D'jinni. This must include:

logical connections between stages
proper conditions
attached dialogues
short and long descriptions of each of the stages
attached scripts
OnPhaseFinished actions
waypoints written in (following a quest on a map)
NPC stage changes
Spawn set activation and deactivation
transferring of plot items, awards for a player etc.

3. Dialogues – final dialogues should be written and they ought to include:

plot lines (if necessary)
non-met lines (i.e. first welcoming dialogue which shall be displayed only once)
proper dialogue flags
gameplay lines (e.g. gift, dice poker), scripts etc.
each NPC should also have a neutral dialogue which is not a part of the quest
commoners (i.e. background characters) should have a few one-liners which are drawn out when entering a location or the moment player clicks on them.

4. Scripts and location elements (e.g. triggers) – at this stage, the adventure should be fully scripted:

triggers with scripts should be set-up and positioned
scripts must be attached to decorations (if they are necessary for the plot), generics (like houses) and the main location
if you want to equip Geralt with some skills at the beginning, a proper script should be executed upon initializing the module
at the end of your module (i.e. the moment the adventure is complete), a script should present the player with the main game menu
ready scripts in quests and dialogues.

5. Journal entries – you also must think about journal entries concerning characters, places etc. (for that, you'll need scripts, entries in the journal.2da array and dialogue files with the contents of those entries).

6. Others – if your adventure requires some other additional elements, they must be created at this stage. We will grade on the basis of your plot and dialogues comparing them to the scenario you described in your original proposal.

Good luck!

Deadline for this stage is 4th of September.