Suldanessellar unreachable

[boris]

hello,
i am now playing bg 2 a second time, this time i'm planning to play
tob as well. i know have a great party: archer, minsc, keldorn, jaheira, imoen
aerie. it's a great party, and now i've run into a problem.
in chapter 6, suldanessellar, i entered the paleis, where irenicus is. but then i decided to go back and finish off the several mission left. i finished of watchers tower, and my stronghold missions in umar hills.
then i wanted to go back and finish off the game, and continue tob. but it says that suldanessellar is unreachable. my saved games don't go
that far back. therefore i am completely stuck, this really sux because my party is 21 level and above. and at those high levels
i got a lot of goodies, which i don't want to lose.
i installed all patches after i found out of thos problems, not very
smart.
there is one more thing which makes me suspect it is a bug because if i go and talk to elhan, at the shadow thieves hq, and then the whole sequence begins over, and i can head to the strong hold with the boot. it's obvious this is a bug, but how do i get rid of it?
i could import these characters to tob, and continue playing, but that
spoiling a great deal of fun, killing irenicus.
does anyone have any idea to what i should do?
thanks
boris

[TheGodThatFailed]

Hmm, to answer the question 'Does anyone have any idea what i should do' Well, No i don't. You could start ToB with those characters, yes. One last thing. Welcome to the IronWorks, boris

[Seraph]

IIRC you have to enter Suldanessellar from a different area. The entrence is in one of the four wildernes areas that become avaible in Chapter 6 (I think it is the North Forest, but am not 100% sure). Try lookin in those areas for a doorway.

[TheGodThatFailed]

The doorway trough a tree IIRC, and i think you're right, Seraph, I just completly forgot about those

[Aragorn1]

You have to enter through there the first time, like exiting the city through the gates when you first want to leave the city.

[SixOfSpades]

The others are correct--the way back into Suldanessellar is through the Forest of Tethir.

Originally posted by boris: there is one more thing which makes me suspect it is a bug because if i go and talk to elhan, at the shadow thieves hq, and then the whole sequence begins over, and i can head to the strong hold with the boot. it's obvious this is a bug, but how do i get rid of it?

I assume you mean Aran, not Elhan. You are most likely playing without first installing the BaldurDash patch, which fixes a lot of bugs, including a well-known one of Aran Linvail not knowing what chapter it is, and therefore speaking to him in Chapter 6 could send the entire party back to Spellhold again.

Make sure to install the official patch and BaldurDash before you begin your next game. If you have questions, just ask.

[Rockstar]

i hope it fixes itself for you boris. I feel for you because i encountered a stupid game bug in the underdark and i was annoyed at that. but what has happened to you is much worse.

You 'could' start TOB with the same characters... but that is lame... SOA is such a long game, for it to stuff up at the end is criminal....

i think that anybody who starts TOB without going through ATLEAST SOA before hand is lame. I agree with those that say the true gaming experience comes from completing the child of Bhaal saga start to finish... not just cutting in the last few stages with TOB...

[Dace De'Briago]

But ToB is the most boring, overpowered hackfest imaginable.

Zzz /me dreams of BG 1 wilderness areas with Xvarts and rabbits and real live Orcses to play with \ Zzz

TBH. I can't say that I like ToB at all. God knows I've played it enough, but I prefer the start of the story to the end.

[Kestrel Daystar]

Boris, if you have the 'Debug Mode=1' working then you can always warp areas to Suldanesselar using CLUAConsole:MoveToArea("2800"). But thats if you dont mind 'cheating'

--Kestrel--