Flind Evolved

This mod allows the Dark Urge to add the Flind encountered in act 1 to the party as a summon.

The Flind is chaotic, reckless, unpredictable, and just as confused as the Dark Urge is about the whole tadpole situation.

As of v2. 0, Barnabus, Timothy, Tomelia, and the scared hyena can now also be recruited if the Flind was recruited.This uses the same foundation that the rest of the Evolved Series mods use. For more information about everything added in an Evolved mod, visit: https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/c/evolved-series

Receiving The Spell

As of v1. 1, the Flind will now prefer to start dialog with the Dark Urge regardless of which player is closest to her as long as the Dark Urge is within 30m and not sneaking. She'll ignore opportunity attacks while she's moving to start dialog. Moreover, she will no longer run out of movement speed if she's moving to speak with a player. In vanilla, if she was moving to start dialog with a player and ran out of movement speed, the chance for the dialog would go away. This would then require sneaking up to the Flind so she had enough movement to reach you. This is no longer necessary. If the Dark Urge makes any ability checks in dialog with the Flind, they are done with advantage.

After the Flind defeats the other gnolls (after she's persuaded to do so), she returns to the player and starts dialog again. Normally, you'd either convince her to feast on herself, convince her to leave, or fight her; however, the Dark Urge now gets unique dialog that allows recruiting her instead (no roll needed):

You've but one chance. Join me, or die.

The narrator then says:

the gnoll's tadpole squirms, responding to your intense focus. It draws strength from you; it will protect you.

The Flind then howls, dialog ends, she's immediately added to the party as Durge's summon, Durge receives the spell to summon her, and you get a tadpole from the Absolute as a reward. This is to compensate for the missed tadpole that you would have looted from the Flind's corpse.

If the Zhents are still alive, they'll act like the Flind left and the quest continues as usual.

Recruiting the Moonrise Gnolls

Speak to the gnoll master as usual with Durge, pass the checks that lead to Barnabus getting freed, then you'll see an option similar to the following when he talks to you after the encounter:

(Lord|Lady|Holy one)? Interesting. Follow my scent and report to my Flind at once. You gnolls are to form a new pack under her command.If you already recruited the hyena, you'll instead see:

(Lord|Lady|Holy one)? Interesting. Follow my scent and report to my Flind at once. She recently formed a pack with a hyena. You gnolls are to join it under her command.Recruiting the SCL Hyena

Speak to him with Speak with Animal