[PeeWee]

Hi,

I've had BGII for almost a week now and I play a half ogre bounty hunter. Yes, I've done it all wrong so it seems now. I've already spent tons of hours playing and have only made it into chapter two. I dread redoing it all.

Here, I've saved many times to try out the various npc's in my group. Just recently, I've read one walk through. It seems that there are just way too many sub quests and "guild" quests here. I wanted to do it right but am not sure which is the best thing to do. I've read that from certain actions you take, you could lose an npc for good.

Aerie and Nalia were in my core group for the most part until Nalia stayed for too long and her strong hold was under seige and she left. Can anyone tell me if I will get her back later on or if this is something that was my mistake in not finishing up during a certain given time.

I've mainly spent time rescuing the prisoners to get Hendak to be the inn's keeper. I've done the sewer quest for the talking sword.
I talked to Renal Bloodscalp at the thieve's hall but haven't yet initiated that quest for my guild(for the rogue).

I ventured into the inn at the docks to find out some guy hates Jaheira and poisoned her for yet another quest. I reloaded this to not have her go into that inn. I left her outside and took all my others to fight the mercenaries/thieves in the secret room for the goods. This is where I lost Nalia from spending too much time exploring.

After that, I tried to get to her upkeep to see if I could handle the situation there. Fighting there was too tough and it didn't follow with some of the information in the spoilers. BTW, not much was said from what I read so far from the sites. I don't want to ruin the game by knowing ALL the things to do, but I also don't want to create all dead ends down the road in a game that seems to give you that choice if you aren't very careful.

SO, I let Nalia go back to her upkeep and just got Anomen to tag along with my party. Went to try and do the Aerie's uncle quest. Then another subquest pops up and yet another. That's not to mention that I've had about 5 imcomplete so far. ONE of the things I'm asking here is are most of them based on a time limit?

I need to finish the harper house quest with finding out what happened to the thief inside. I'm almost finished with that one. Then I know I need to find the actor for the bard quest. Then the skinner's quest. Then sooo many others just by people confronting me.

Also, I decided to run thru the bridge district to find this door I picked. WAS NASTY! Elemental Lich I believe it was gave me the best fight I've had so far. He left and left me with a pit fighter to go against and an efreeti.

How the hell do you quickly dispatch an efreeti? That fight took me about an hour to do. In the end, I lost my ranger from a disintegrate. POOF, he was gone. Does anyone have information on this as to what quest it is for and if I will get him back? I did obtain a golden rib cage from the crypt. Any ideas on it?

I ran an alternate path for the saves for this part. I'm thinking of not even going this route yet. The ranger Minsc was my best fighter. I already lost Nalia which proved VERY useful with her AOE spell cloud kill.

To sum it up, I'm asking for any information related to what happened to Minsc when I fought the elemental lich and what is the golden rib for. Is Nalia able to rejoin later on? And basically what is pertinent to do before I leave chapter two? I'm going to do the ployter/poison solving quest, the skinner, harpers/thief, rogue GUILD, maybe the graveyard/book one, visit nalia's place for exp, and explore more of the area.

I've done the circus, slaves, quest with riddle for talking sword, taken the poisoned guy back to harper house at docks, bought my magic license, and so far made sure anomen hasnt visited the merchants house that will stop him from receiving knighthood. I also know to successfully get the book keldorn wants from the graveyard, I will need Edwin.

Thanks for the time reading this. Any information will be helpful.

PeeWee