hello,
i am now playing bg 2 a second time, this time i'm planning to play
tob as well. i know have a great party: archer, minsc, keldorn, jaheira, imoen
aerie. it's a great party, and now i've run into a problem.
in chapter 6, suldanessellar, i entered the paleis, where irenicus is. but then i decided to go back and finish off the several mission left. i finished of watchers tower, and my stronghold missions in umar hills.
then i wanted to go back and finish off the game, and continue tob. but it says that suldanessellar is unreachable. my saved games don't go
that far back. therefore i am completely stuck, this really sux because my party is 21 level and above. and at those high levels
i got a lot of goodies, which i don't want to lose.
i installed all patches after i found out of thos problems, not very
smart.
there is one more thing which makes me suspect it is a bug because if i go and talk to elhan, at the shadow thieves hq, and then the whole sequence begins over, and i can head to the strong hold with the boot. it's obvious this is a bug, but how do i get rid of it?
i could import these characters to tob, and continue playing, but that
spoiling a great deal of fun, killing irenicus.
does anyone have any idea to what i should do?
thanks
boris

Hmm, to answer the question 'Does anyone have any idea what i should do' Well, No i don't. You could start ToB with those characters, yes. One last thing. Welcome to the IronWorks, boris :D

IIRC you have to enter Suldanessellar from a different area. The entrence is in one of the four wildernes areas that become avaible in Chapter 6 (I think it is the North Forest, but am not 100% sure). Try lookin in those areas for a doorway.

The doorway trough a tree IIRC, and i think you're right, Seraph, I just completly forgot about those :D

You have to enter through there the first time, like exiting the city through the gates when you first want to leave the city.

The others are correct--the way back into Suldanessellar is through the Forest of Tethir.

I assume you mean Aran, not Elhan. You are most likely playing without first installing the BaldurDash patch, which fixes a lot of bugs, including a well-known one of Aran Linvail not knowing what chapter it is, and therefore speaking to him in Chapter 6 could send the entire party back to Spellhold again.

Make sure to install the official patch and BaldurDash before you begin your next game. If you have questions, just ask.

i hope it fixes itself for you boris. I feel for you because i encountered a stupid game bug in the underdark and i was annoyed at that. but what has happened to you is much worse.

You 'could' start TOB with the same characters... but that is lame... SOA is such a long game, for it to stuff up at the end is criminal....

i think that anybody who starts TOB without going through ATLEAST SOA before hand is lame. I agree with those that say the true gaming experience comes from completing the child of Bhaal saga start to finish... not just cutting in the last few stages with TOB...

But ToB is the most boring, overpowered hackfest imaginable.

Zzz /me dreams of BG 1 wilderness areas with Xvarts and rabbits and real live Orcses to play with \ Zzz

TBH. I can't say that I like ToB at all. God knows I've played it enough, but I prefer the start of the story to the end.

Boris, if you have the 'Debug Mode=1' working then you can always warp areas to Suldanesselar using CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("2800"). But thats if you dont mind 'cheating'

--Kestrel--