Saemons ship teleportation!?!? [SPOILERS]

[Mystique]

Hello. I am in the Asylum after doing Bhodis little "game" and freeing the inmates. And now, you have 2 choices. Either you go through the portal, and goes directly to the underdark. Or you can go with Saemon on his ship, and go to the water city before the underdark. I want to go on the ship. So i went and talked to him on the inmate level of the asylum, and agreed to go with him on his ship. And he sayd: Very well then. I shall teleport us to the surface and the sun. And he dimension doors himsels. And i dont teleport! Im stuck in the Asylum, and i dont want to take the portal directly to the underdark. And the reason i want to go with saeon is go aquire a certain blade with a certain chance to instantly kill a target, and is founf within a certain race. So now i can either do three things. Using CLUA to get myself out of the Asylum, go through the portal, or wait here for help. If there is something that im too stupid too see, etc etc. I need help!

[T-D-C]

IIRC You have to meet him down in Brynlaw. There are a few more things you need to do for him to get off the island.

I think you may need to meet him in the Sea Monkey Tavern. Check your logs and im sure your meeting place will be in there.

Cheers!

[Mystique]

Thats not my problem. The problem is, i can not get out of the asylum because he didnt not teleport me!

[LennonCook]

Have you tried again?
If the problem is reproducable, are you fully patched, and what mods do you have installed?

[Mystique]

I have tried again and it doesent work.

Lets see.. i have The TOB patch installed
Improved thief stronghold.
Dungeon-Be-Gone
Unfinished buissness
Bonus CD merchants
Keep all items from BG1

And i think that is about all. Not in that order though. Is there any way to spawn the Saemon who gives you the rynn lanthorn quest etc etc. OR use the CLUA to teleport directly to his ship.

[Dundee Slaytern]

? Have you tried the front door?

[Mystique]

Yeah, all i get is a Question mark saying that the wards are too powerfull etc etc. Now, ive tried to CLUA myself to the outside of the asylum (AR1500) And going to the Vulgar Monkey. But Saemon isnt there. How should it be? Is he supposed to Dimension Door Himself AND you outside? I played it long ago and i think it was like that. And then comes all the crap about the Rynn lanthorn blah blah etc.

[Black Baron]

He is supposed to teleport you outside of the asylum (building). You will be still on the asylum compound grounds however, so you will ahve to walk away from it via the bridge.

I suggest-reload and try again.

[Mystique]

I have tried, but it doesent work. Anyone knows ths CLUA code for Saemons Ship?

[SixOfSpades]

I'll deal with the general bug-issues first, then get to the specifics.

When dealing with possible bugs, the first rule is to play it safe. If you encounter something that may be a bug, DO NOT SAVE. Instead, keep playing (to see if it's really a bug, and not just something bad/weird that's actually supposed to happen), but do *NOT* leave the area in which you first noticed the bug. If it really is a problem, Reload your Autosave and see if the bug is present there as well. If so, Reload your next oldest Save, and so on.
If all of your Save files are corrupted in this manner, the congratulations, you're screwed. Your only options are to
1) Restart the game from scratch, or
2) Crack open Shadowkeeper and pray you know what you're doing.


Saemon telling you that he was going to teleport you out to the surface and sun, but clearly not doing so, is a definite bug, and you were right to try to use cheats to circumvent it, but you forgot to do two things:
1) Make a new Savegame (NEVER overwrite your old Saves in a case like this) with a name that states the game has a bug.
2) Alt-Tab out of the game, and similarly rename your existing Autosave file to carry a similar warning label. Doing this will allow the game to continually make new Autosaves without overwriting the (hopefully) uncorrupted one....the way your game did the instant you entered the Vulgar Monkey.

So, now you're at the "Damage Control" section of bugfixing. Go though your Savegame files and try to find one before you spoke to Saemon, and if you don't have one, your best bet is to Save your game (always Save before playing with fire), and keep trying area codes (starting with AR1514) until you find Saemon's ship. Then, Reload and send your party to the correct area. You'll miss out on a little bit of EXP, but so what.

Or, in point of fact, you actually could just try the portal.