Never Dark Again - Give Arabella Komira's Locket (And Other Act 2 Tweaks)

Made for Patch 8 - Hotfix 36, and the BG3 July Modathon 2026!

Act 2 Spoilers Ahead!

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Fun fact: this is the first dialog mod I ever tried to make! Or, at least, some parts of it are.

I've wanted to be able to give Arabella her mother's locket forever, and I've also wanted to bring back some very cute cut dialog with her and Withers as a camp intro forever, too. Trying to add these to the game was one of the reasons why I started dialog modding in the first place, back in 2024. (Wyll of course being the other big reason I started reverse engineering the dialog system 💗✨) Time is fake, and I am currently experiencing a small amount of existential dread over the concept of it, but this mod is finally done!

So, go give Arabella her mom's locket, and bring some light through the darkness.

You can see a demo of some of the dialog from this mod here!:

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What this mod does:

This mod makes quite a few changes to Arabella's dialog in Act 2:

New Camp Intro and Cut Dialog:

There's some cut dialog in the file where Withers comforts Arabella about her parents' death, that's completely inaccessible in the vanilla game. It includes some very cute lines where she first starts calling Withers 'Bone Man,' compares him to her granddad, and asks if he can make his teeth chatter. It's adorable!

This mod brings back those lines, in the form of a new introduction scene when you first talk to Arabella in camp. It doesn't restore the whole scene, but it does bring back parts of it. This new camp intro is its own cutscene, made essentially by frankensteining the cut version of the scene with her normal camp dialog.

Some other differences between the cut version of the scene and my version:

Most of the dialog options from Arabella's normal camp dialog have been brought into the new intro.

Withers will prevent you from leaving if you know Arabella's parents are dead, and has unique dialog for doing so, but he won't prevent you from leaving if you don't know her parents are dead yet.

I fixed a couple shots for the cut lines where Withers was hidden from view when picking certain dialog options. (This was caused by him being hidden by the effect component TLShowVisual to make the preceding shot cleaner, and he was just, never unhidden for some options. This is fixed in the new camp intro.)

The new intro does not take you into the rest of the scene where Withers comforts Arabella about her parents. Instead, if you tell her about her parents in this scene, she has the same reaction as she does when you tell her about them in her normal c