Lost my mind in the Underdark HELP!!!!

[Alendor]

hi, well i do not know what is realy going on but i am in the drows place in the underdark and my character cannot initiate dialog with anyone when i try to talk he has says strange things like he is somewhere else. and when i try to talk to him with my other npc's it says that "A mind controlled creature cannot talk to you of his own free will" blah blah blah...help whats going on???

Are you quite sure that you're not under the influences of any spell/effect? If not, you might want to download this file and install it over the original NPCSound.bif file in your Shadows of Amn/data directory, because the file could be damaged.

[banzai]

But first press the *R* key and in the character screen check all characters if they are mind-controlled in one way or the other.
The same happened to me once and in my case there was a mind-controlled character in my group. He was controlled by an enemy killed quite a while ago by me and trotted along with the group. But I was not able to give her any instructions. After a decent Dispel Magic everything was ok again.

I think there´s a bug in the game when the controller of a mind-controlled character gets killed under certain circumstances.

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I have had this exact problem in the past. When Jaheira left my party and went to the harpers, I chased her (as you are supposed to do). When I found her, it would not allow me to talk to her. It said mind-controlled characters cannot initiate dialogue. As it turns out, I reloaded to a previous save game, she left, I followed and then she spoke to me.

It seems to be a bug in the game. I hope this helps.

Aviendha.

[Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs]

did your person get dominated, etc? if you used charm or something to regain control of him/her (or worse, Illithid control circlets, b/c they have thousands of hours duration) then it might mess up. download the official BG2:SoA patch and it should be fixed. Baldurdash also has several patches dealing with this.