If you're going to cheat that way, make it easier on yourself and just edit either your reputation or the global variables using SK.
Another thing you could do is resurrect a character that gets chunked (and their portrait disappears) by creating them and getting them to rejoin your party. This also works for NPCs who for one reason or another are left behind in the underdark.
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Memnoch - Custodian of the Order of the Holy Flame 