Couple of ?'s

[moonraker]

I ascended one of my fighters to a Paladin then went and joined the cleric's guild and got the quest again to give the potion Mekdawa. I think I gave him the potion before I prayed to the statue but anyway when I went back to the temple Onabe told me I hadn't given Mekdawa the potion. Any ideas???

Kerielle (woman by the windmill) asked me to get her friends necklace out of the crypt. Big surprise here I can't find it. Although I didn't go down to the lower crypt area(where Scabban was). Any hints here would be much appreciated.

[Packrat]

Check your inventory for the potion and see if you still have it. When you give it to Mekdawa, make sure you click on the USE/GIVE icon and select 'GIVE'. Scroll down till you see the potion and click on Mekdawa. When you click on him, he should say " Mekdawa need this, Toads need this. You are Ukabu."
If you don't have it. You might have to re-load or maybe Wyv can hack one for you.

As for the neckless, it's in a chest, at the begining of the crypt. In the locked room on the left, in the first hallway...IMHO..I wear the neckless..AC + 1, Protect Poison 50%.. I forgot to use the potion she trades for it, but had no problem killing Elyssia without it.

[moonraker]

I checked my inventory its not there. Oh well I guess my paladin just won't get past level 1 in the cleric guild because I'm not going that far back in my game. I did have that necklace in my inventory just hadn't been able to identify it yet. So I had Smitty do it for me.

[Packrat]

Your paladin will not have access to all the higher level skills if they stay at level 1.

.. ..There is a cheat for gaining guild levels, I don't know if it works if your playing with the patch. Look for the post titled Level 7 on page 3. It actually works on All of the quests in the game.

[Wyvern]

You'll still be able to gain levels in the Cleric's Guild - just not in Valeia. There are advantages to gaining the levels too, so you might want to consider reloading or (since you aren't so far into the game) resetting the adventures and starting over with the group you already have and all equipment except for quest items. Resetting adventures is a great way to build your party's strength.

I don't believe you can sell the potion meant for Mekdawa but on the chance that you can - you might check the shops. Anything you have sold them will be in their inventory.

Wyv

[Radek]

Moonraker, you are a victim of a nasty bug in the game most probably. The bug consists in the following:
If you take a quest in A, then you take a quest in B, complete the quest from B and take next qest in B, then the quest from A gets lost if it isn't already completed. Examples:
1. If you take the Medakwa quest in the Temple and the Bounty quest in the Town Hall, and then return with some skulls in the Town Hall, the Bounty quest is completed (well, you can bring next skulls later) and you are given the Juba Thobbers quest. At this moment, the Medakwa quest is lost.
2. If you take the Mon the Sculz quest in the Armory and the Medakwa quest in the Temple, finish the Medakwa quest and take the Bring 500 Gold quest in the Temple then the Mon the Sculz quest is lost.
And so on. I guess something like that happened to you. It took it a while until I understood this mechanism of losing quests. Until then, I lost my quests sometimes, too. Moreover, the "unfinished" quest blocks subsequent quests so that they are lost, too. RRRAUGHHHH!

What to do if we don't want lose quests this way? Never change "quest level" until you finish all pending quests from the current "quest level". Examples:
1. Take the Medakwa and Mon The Sculz quests and finish both of them. Only then take another quests from the Armory or the Temple.
2. Take the Medakwa quest. Finish it. Take the Bring 500 Gold quest. Finish it. Take the Mon the Sculz quest. This is OK. The Mon the Sculz quest will not be stretched over "finish a quest and take next quest" event so that it will work.
3. Take the Medakwa quest. Finish it. Take both Mon the Sculz and Bring 500 Gold quests. This is OK and you can finish these quests in any order as long as you do not take subsequent quests in the Armory or in the Temple.
4. Take the Bounty quest in the Town Hall and bring some skulls first. This completes the Bounty quest and gives you the Juba Thobbers quest. Now take other quests. NEVER take the Bounty quest while you have some unfinished quests from elsewhere! Bringing skulls to the Town Hall will give you next quest automatically!

Another mechanism of losing quests consists in an interferring fight. Example:
When you find Medakwa, he begins his lenghtly speech about Ukabu. At this moment, you can be attacked by some monsters. You have to kill the monsters, otherwise, you'll be unable to give the potion to Medakwa. Okay, kill the monsters while Medakwa is trying to explain you what is Ukabu. Give Medakwa the potion. Everything seems to be OK but it is only a hallucination. The interferring fight can cause that the guy in the temple overlooks somehow that you have finished the quest. It can or it can not. When it can and when it can not is a mystery to me.
Rule: Always save game after getting a quest involving a conversation (Medakwa, Thorin, etc.). Try to finish such quests ASAP.

As far as your problem is concerned. Another bug in the game allows your paladin to regain temple levels: The Jathil quest from Ishad N'Ha is buggy. When you finish the quest, then, everytime you enter the temple in Ishad N'Ha, the quest will be "completed" again and you'll be given a promotion to next temple level and XP again. Until you finish the Jathil quest, your paladin will lose 2 temple levels because he cannot get any temple quests in Valeia.