Unfinished Business--mystery items

[Tancred]

Wyvern heads can be got from the dead wyverns found in the North Forest.

[Dadams1]

But are they actually used for anything?

[Nerull]

Originally posted by Dadams1: But are they actually used for anything?

In BG1, if you added Coran to the party, you needed to kill a wyvern and take its head to turn in for a reward. Wyverns still drop their heads in BG2 (just like winter wolves still drop their pelts), but they have no function in BG2 that I have ever seen (same with winger wolf pelts).

[slicer15]

Originally posted by Tancred: Wyvern heads can be got from the dead wyverns found in the North Forest.

Or if you summon one and it gets killed...

[Dadams1]

just like winter wolves still drop their pelts

But you can sell them for 150 gp, which is nice [img]smile.gif[/img] .

[SixOfSpades]

Actually, none of the Wyverns in my game (Summoned or pre-existing) have ever dropped a Head, which makes me think I'm playing a different version. They did in BG1, but not in BG2.

The Symbol of Amaunator is indeed required in the Temple Ruins. It opens the door to the Shadow Dragon's Lair--the second Sun Gem dispels the wall of shadows in front of the door. In Weimer's Item Upgrade MOD, it is a component in upgrading a Buckler+1.

The Empty Potion Bottles were (and therefore, still are) indeed a mistake. It would make more sense to find them in a potion-makers shop....although now that I think about it, the Improved Guarded Compound is pre-buffed, so the Empty Potion Bottles would fit nicely with the roleplay idea of Koshi and Maferan having chugged their Potions of Heroism just before you came upstairs.

Festule the Alchemist's Potion comes into play in Mazzy's (bugged) Ogre quest. As soon as I remember what the Half-Ogre's name was, I'll make a note of it in the "Unfinished Business" thread.

The Winter Wolf Pelt has always been useless in my game, but some people report that you can store things in it. Whatever.

My official stance on the "useless" items: Just because they don't have an apparent purpose doesn't mean they should be deleted from the game. Some actually serve a contructive purpose: The Winter Wolf Pelt, for example, gave me part of an idea for what looks like a good Druid kit. If the item isn't actually causing any problems or confusion, I'd just as soon leave it in.

[BlackPeter]

odd looking key was in north forest in the grave stone the efreet and djinn were guading along with soem other stuff, but i do have a few mods installed and i never saw anythign there until i installed them. so i guess no one knows what to do with it?

[Moon-Child_Lman]

HOLY THREAD NECROMANCY!!! You bumped a 1 year old thread!? Did you read the rules and regulations before posting anything???

[BlackPeter]

yeah i did, but it was a few months ago... did i do somethign against the rules? i just found this key and was trying to figure out what to di wth it so i searched the forum and this is the only one that popped up with odd looking key. sorry if its against the law just hoping to find a answer.

[SixOfSpades]

Given that it's his very first post, I'm willing to grant BlackPeter a little leeway on this issue. Still, resurrecting a year-old thread is still a dumb thing to do.

BlackPeter: If nobody has touched the thread for a week or more, it's safe to assume that the issue is dead. The person who asked for help has been aided, the person who wanted to announce something cool is satisfied, the person who wanted to ramble about life has forgotten about the whole thing. Therefore, not to sound demeaning, but nobody needs your input any more. Which, indeed, is the case in this specific issue: Almost everyone on the forum knows that the Odd Looking Key is a ToSC item that is not found in regular BG2 at all--but is re-incorporated into the game in the "Improved North Forest" component of the Tactics mod. Before you announce what you know, make sure that there's at least one person who doesn't, know it, and indeed wants to.

End of supercilious rant. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[ 10-08-2004, 02:35 AM: Message edited by: SixOfSpades ]