I'm stompin' back through with a TeamBG demi-god, just to find any quirks I missed the first time through, and I've been collecting NPC's and dropping them off at the Friendly Arm. The common room is stacked with everyone from Safana to Edwin. The problem is that Khalid and Jaheira seem to have dissappeared. I checked all the rooms (in case they were off being naughty) and can't find them. I figured I'd cheat them in, but whenever I do that the game crashes when I travel to a new area. Any ideas from the BG brain trust?

Well, its pretty weird (the same as for your hobby, why drop off npc's at the FAI ?), but I throw it on the GVB (Global Variabl Bug). Its a bug wich causes NPC's to dissapear, monsters to respawn and all this kind of shit. You can solve it by downloading the latest patch for BG (bg_ed143_full) at http://www.interplay.com/ .

greets Azreall

Well, Azreall is a Global Variable Bug (whatever it is) fanatic, so I wouldn´t trust him so much . The answer I can give you is that I think (I´m not sure) that Kahlid and Jaheira dissapear when you complete the Nashkell mines quest. Have you done it ?

It isn't that weird if you think about it. My guy is a TeamBG hack moving at about 8X normal speed. I want to do ALL of the NPC sub-plots, so as I run across a new NPC, I drop them at one convenient place (It slows me down too much to keep them with me & I'm too lazy to hack them into my peer group). I picked FAI besause the shopkeeper there will buy almost any loot I'm unloading. It works pretty well, except for K & J's dissappearance. The reason I'm looking for them is that I thought I remembered reading about a Harper sub-plot somewhere in the city. I don't think it's the Global Variable bug, as I have the latest patch. Anyway, I think I can conjure them back up with a little import/export magic and folder swapping between single/mp savegame folders. Thanks a lot for the help to all who responded. Oh, and I'm @ cloakwood (Ch 4 i think?)

KHELL:

The scripting for Mr and Mrs Khalid the Highly Unnerving makes them disappear under the following conditions:

a) You've been to Nashkell without ever talking to them and you've agreed to help Berrun Ghastkill.
b) You've completed the Nashkell Mines without the Infernal Duo.

You only get Jaheira + hubby to stay in your party if you talk to them in chapter I and take them all the way along through the Mines.

PS: if you change the Jay's alignment to neutral good, she'll stop nagging.

About the SUB PLOT: (NON-SPOIL):

there's more than just the Harpers. Try Cloakwood, for example. And you get all of them when Jaheira's in your party. (In case Khalid's had one of his funny little accidents)

PPS: it's NOT the GVB!