Yoshimo ?

[Jordoo]

I want to take Yoshimo with me to Spellhold even though to this point I dumped him after escaping Irenicus' underground prison in the very beggining. I haven't initiated anything with the shadow theives even though they are the group I will chose. Here's the question, do I need to take Yoshimo through all of the Shadow Theif stuff for his part to play out correctly or can I just grab him right before I get on the boat?

[Crenshinibon]

You don't need Yoshimo, or any other character, for any of the mandatory and most side quests in the game.

[Jordoo]

I understand that I don't have to take him with me anywhere. But I have been using an open party spot to do alot of the NPC specific quests even though I'm not interested in keeping the NPC's. My question was in reference to a certain incident involving Yoshimo that can lead to a very large experiance pay off down the road. I wanted to play this part of the game but I was trying to avoid dragging Yoshimo around while doing the various quests that the Shadow Theives make you perform before they ship you out. Ideally I would just like to add him to the party right before sailing.

[Crenshinibon]

That event will trigger as long as you have him in your party before the dialog that leads up to everything takes place.

[Jordoo]

Thanks Chrenshinibon, that will work nicely for me.

[Jordoo]

Thanks again, all went well, added Yoshimo right before sailing and it didn;t end up costing the others in the group much XP at all especially considering the XP payout I'll get later on.