I can make a grapple animation fairly easily and have done so for the 3R version of male_basic then taken it over to the 3R version of female basic and a 3R version of female_longhair (my desktop can only export for 3R at this time) so I don't know if the animation can be skoped between FF1 and FF2 meshes or not. If not, I can eventually do a grapple for FF1 on my laptop. Please test it out - try skoping it, use it in game and leave feedback via PM.
I have included the bip and the animation notes for nocapeman/male_basic.
(http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/yell0w_lantern/grapple.jpg)
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