The Game Is Afoot

Made for Patch 6 - Hotfix 25, Working with Patch 7

And now for my silliest mod to-date, also made for the Baldur's Gate 3 July Modathon. I really hope I'm not too late to participate in Week 1, because this whole entire mod was based on the idea of both mystery and magic, and I'm not quite sure about timezones for everything 😅 It's still the 7th for me, though!

... Or, at least, I thought this was a silly mod at first, but turns out it's an actual genuine new sidequest! It's not marked in your journal (yet!), but it's essentially a sidequest nonetheless. (Thank you very much to Aether for advocating for this mod to get put in a new Quests category!!!! It's a little lonely right now, so I hope other people start making their own new sidequests soon too 😊!!!)

Also, congrats! You've unlocked my secret special interest! And now you'll be able to experience a little bit of mystery for yourself, because this mod will send you on a little scavenger hunt.

The game is afoot! 🔎🕵️‍♂️

... And here's how to play!

This mod adds 6 books to the game:

One is added to your camp chest via AV Item Shipment Framework on first loading a save with it, and will give you a hint to finding the first part of my favorite Sherlock Holmes story (one of the original 1800s ones! ... Most adaptations cause me pain,) It's the one where Holmes says rich people exploiting others to get richer is worse than murder, and then they break into a guy's house holding hands. Good stuff!

(... If you're using the tutorial chest version, you'll find the first book in the tutorial chest instead!)

The following four books are the story itself! Portioned out into four (relatively) bite-sized chunks. The story itself is a short story, and a little over 6,500 words. At the end of each of these books is a clue towards finding the next one!

You'll find these books in the inventories of 4 specific merchants across the game. Only these merchants will have them! And the clues at the end of each respective book will give you a hint as to which merchant has the next one you're looking for.

(I did want to avoid merchant inventory clogging, but it was the easiest way to put the books in the game, unfortunately. I am planning on going back and doing some level editing for the places you find the merchants in to change that, though! That's in the works for a future update.)

The 6th book is a complete version of the story, in case you'd like to read it from start to finish, without being interrupted by the breaks I added to create this little scavenger hunt 😅 You can also read it in full for free on Project Gutenberg here, if you'd like! Along with every other Sherlock H