I played Bloodmoon for a solid six or seven hours last night and already feel I'm getting close to the end. I can't say I'm much impressed with it really, but there's more exploration to be found than in Tribunal it seems.
Some spoilers in this bug description!
After completing the Ristaag quest, I was sent to investigate the death of all the horkers near Castle Karstaag, which I'd already walked past before in my travels, noticing that it was impossible to enter at the time. Entering the caverns to the north from the water, I came to the surface and saw in the distance what I thought to be a Rickling. I picked it off with my Daedric longbow but saw that in fact, it was a character named "Krish". However, I didn't receive the notorious "Yellow Box" to tell me that I'd killed an important character, so I continued on oblivious.
I went on to clear out the area of its deadly grahl and found an entrance to the 'banquet hall' of the castle. Problem is, I can't enter! The game tells me I need some kind of 'permission' from its master in order to do so. Sounds dubious if its master is inside. So I left, did a full circle of the castle (and found out that I can't enter through the front door anyway after killing a horde of ricklings)
I then tried levitating into the tower (finding a nice bit of daedric armour in the process) but left after discovering only one room. In annoyance, I went back to the Skaal, then came back to the caverns to try the banquet room entrance again. This time, I can hit the space bar to my hearts content but nothing happens!
Thus the question is - how do I get into the castle from here?
Or is this bug going to force me to reload way back before the Ristaag?
I hope there is another solution, as I should be able to enter here regardless of one minor character which is logically by the game, 'killable'.
My quick searchings on gamebanshee have revealed that this Krish character is in fact 'semi-important' and provides a quest to rid the caverns of the deadly grahl as well as leading on to another character.
Its a shame he was made to look like a rickling!
After killing so many of the little sods that charge at you, I feel quite justified in shooting one on sight.
[ 04-15-2005, 08:24 AM: Message edited by: CerebroDragon ]