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[7.7] ROMANCE
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OVERVIEW
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Apart from gathering riches and tracking down villains, a significant part of
your fame points and happiness come from romance. Your ultimate objective here
is to get close enough to one of the many governor's daughters in the
Caribbean to win her hand in marriage. More points are earned for charming a
more beautiful daughter (looks really do count in the 17th century, it
appears). A maximum of 10 fame points can be earned for marrying a beautiful
daughter.
You need to go through a couple of steps to marry a daughter, and here they
are:
- First, you need to get introduced. This requires you to at least be a
Captain for a plain looking daughter, a Colonel for an attractive one or a
Baron for a beautiful one. The latter two requirements can be bypassed if you
have either or both of the fashion items (French Chapeau / Ostrich Feather
Hat). Once you are introduced, you must accept the daughter's invitation to
dance with her at that night's ball, and you must dance at least moderately and
not make a fool of yourself. More info on dancing in paragraph 6.4.
- On a subsequent visit, the daughter will remark she would really like to
have a Ruby Ring or a Diamond Necklace. Subtle. She will keep repeating this
on next visits until you actually give her one. Obtain them from the mysterious
traveller in the tavern, or occasionally as a bribe from a fugitive criminal.
- The next time you visit town after giving the governor's daughter a gift, it
turns out she has a fiance who is now less than pleased with you. In fact, he
will challenge you to a duel. You fight this duel the next time you visit
*after* this (you can immediately revisit the governor in this instance to get
it over with). You'll need to win it for the romance subplot to continue.
- On a subsequent visit, you may have to dance a second time, but this doesn't
always happen. Strangely, the game will make it sound like you are meeting her
for the first time again. If it happens, as before, you need to dance properly.
- The next time you visit, the governor will tell you his daughter has been
kidnapped by the evil Colonel Mendoza. You need to track down his ship (a Fast
Galleon) and defeat him in battle to rescue the daughter. Tracking him down
works in exactly the same way as Raymondo and Montalban, and the battle is
slightly easier. The next time you return to the city the daughter will be
reunited with the governor.
- On your next visit to the port, you have the option of asking for the
daughter's hand in marriage. If you do not, you don't get another chance and
will have to go for another daughter. If she is beautiful, go ahead and do it;
if she is less so, it's up to you if you're okay with ending up short of the
maximum fame score.
- After marriage, subsequent visits to the city give you a chance to dance
with your wife and gain more rewards; messing up the dance now causes no
permanent harm, but yields no rewards either. You can still flirt with any
other governor's daughters you desire, playing the romance subquest right up
until marriage, but you can only marry once.
Once you retire, your wife will move to whichever city you settle down in. You
don't have to stop your career in her home city.
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REWARDS
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You get a reward in fame points based on the best romance result you've had so
far. You could be running a dozen romance subplots in different cities at the
same time, and whichever one is worth most based on the daughter's beauty and
how far you have advanced the plot is the one that determines your fame
points. The rewards are as follows:
SUBPLOT PLAIN ATTRACTIVE BEAUTIFUL
Completing the first dance 2 3 4
Giving her a gift 3 4 5
Hearing that fiance is jealous 4 5 6
Beating the fiance in a duel 5 6 7
Completing the second dance 6 7 8
Rescuing daughter from Mendoza 7 8 9
Marriage 8 9 10
In addition, you can get two grades of reward from a daughter whenever you
advance the plot. Which reward you get depends on how well you've handled
this particular part of it, and once again, on how beautiful the daughter is.
For the purposes of the table below, good/perfect handling means the following:
- For dancing: good handling means a moderate dance where you end up kissing
her hand. Perfect handling means a near-perfect dance which ends in an
embrace.
- For gifts: a Ruby Ring is good handling; a Diamond Necklace equals perfect
handling.
- For defeating the fiance: beating him without taking any hits is perfect
handling. If you do take at least one hit, it is merely good handling.
- When you rescue a daughter from Mendoza, she always gives you a lost city map
piece regardless of her beauty.
After handling a part of the subplot, your rewards can be:
- Information on a fugitive criminal (see paragraph 7.1);
- A free item (see paragraph 8.4);
- Information on the location of Baron Raymondo (see paragraph 7.4);
- Information on the location of Marquis Montalban (see paragraph 7.6);
- A lost city map piece (see paragraph 7.5).
The following table describes which reward you get under which circumstances:
BEAUTY GOOD HANDLING PERFECT HANDLING
Plain Criminal Item
Attractive Item Raymondo
Beautiful Raymondo Montalban
If you already have all items you can get from governor's daughters, you will
get information on a criminal instead. Similarly, if you already rescued all
family members and no longer need to chase Raymondo, you'll get information on
a criminal. If you already know where Montalban is or you have vanquished him,
you get a lost city map piece instead. If you've cleared Montalban *and* found
all Lost Cities, you get information on a criminal. (Basically, at that point,
charming daughters has stopped being worth it.)
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