Some bugs in the Temple Ruins - SPOILERS

[Cerek]

I am taking my solo bard through the Temple Ruins. I've installed the Unfinished Business Mod and it added an extra element to this particular quest. When I insisted on getting the pure Illithium for the church's sculpture from the ore merchant, she sent me to discuss this with her "source" - the quiet dwarf at the front table in the Copper Coronet. After grumbling about having his identity revealed, the dwarf told me his brother had gone to the mine where they get the illithium, but had not been heard from since...and he asked if I would go rescue the brother.

Once I got to the Temple, I fought through most of the undead and got to the level with the fire pit, liches and other assorted baddies. A Pit Fiend was also included in the group, and it ended up killing ALL my enemies except for the lich itself (which was nice in one way, but it sucked losing all that experience).

Anyway, I defeated the first lich, then crossed the fire pit to the area where I meet the two spirits waiting for the Amauna's bones that I found in the first room. I give them the bones, freeing them to seek their eternal rest. I also speak to the spirit of Amauna herself and she supposedly gives me the wardstone to get past the Shadow Dragon.

After defeating the next lich down the hall from this area, I went across the "chessboard floor" and found the missing brother - who was none too happy about his brother revealing his identity and location (must be a "duergar thing" :rollseyes: ). He left and I went into the next room, where I usually have to fight a Shadow. He wasn't there, but I did recover another piece of the Sunstone Symbol needed to open the door to the Shadow Dragon's lair.

But once I tried to go after the dragon, I realzied that I only had TWO of the THREE pieces needed to form the Sunstone Symbol. I backtracked through the entire dungeon area, searching every possible area. Then I finally checked out a "Walkthrough" on another site and realized that the two spirits were supposed to give me the second piece of the Sunstone Symbol, but they never did. I searched that room from top to bottom, but there was NO Symbol part to be found there (and my inventory was not full, so I didn't accidentally "drop" any items. Anyway, I finally gave up and just used SK to get the Symbol needed to open the door.

I went downstairs to the dragon's lair using all possible stealth, only to have the Shadow Dragon start yelling that he was going to "feast on my heart"!!! He started attacking right away. So obviously, Amauna's spirit did NOT give me the wardstone I needed either. That's not so bad, since I was naturally planning to fight the dragon anyway, but it would have been nice to get a few pre-buffs up BEFORE the dragon went off on me.

I was Searching through old threads to see how others defeated the Shadow Dragon, and saw that at least 1 or 2 other members encountered the very same problem - they never got the second piece of the symbol from the two spirits in the room right after the fire pit.

Any ideas what causes this bug and what can be done to fix it (other than Reload)?

[Link]

Well it's not that big of deal now is it? As a fervent roleplayer, I'd say you were unexpectedly dumped into a new situation.. deal with it! There's plenty of room to hide in the Shadow Dragon's lair after all.

[ 11-29-2004, 05:55 PM: Message edited by: Link ]

[Riftmaker]

Might be a problem with any one of the mods you have installed, but I doubt it.

The easiest thing to do would be to give yourself the item needed with CLUA or SK. I believe Six could come up with the needed item number.

[Feral]

Were you turning undead? Apparently, it's possible to turn those spirits quickly enough that you don't get what you need from them. That's just a rumour, though.

[SixOfSpades]

Hmmm....the fact that there was no Shadow Dragon Wardstone is certainly a bug, but I also notice that you made no mention of the Symbol piece you get from the talking Statue.

I'll be back with the CLUA code unless someone beats me to it, or you Reload and the game works correctly this time.

P.S.: You mean Gorje was in the room with the Bone Golem? Is the Golem still there?

[Dace De'Briago]

I had this problem when I was using a Protection from Undead scroll activated at this point:

[I also speak to the spirit of Amauna herself and she supposedly gives me the wardstone to get past the Shadow Dragon.]

Thats what I narrowed it down to.

[Q'alooaith]

I think the code would be CLUA console Insert item misc6p

though I've never been too fond of adding item's this way.

[Cerek]

Link - LOL! I'm trying that right now and getting my head handed to me in very short order. I had hoped to have a few rounds to try a couple of indirect attacks - such as using my Harp of Dischord to try to Confuse the beast. You're right that there is a lot of extra space in the Shadow Dragon's Lair. I've been Wing Buffeted into several of them already. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

Riftmaker - I may use SK to get the wardstone if my luck doesn't improve against the dragon. I used SK to get the Symbol to open the door, but I'm trying to beat the thing without adding any other items to my inventory.

Feral - Nope. I'm playing a solo bard (Skald kit). I don't have any way to Turn Undead.

SixofSpades - I did get the Symbol piece from the statue. That actually presented me with another "bug" (or maybe not). When I pressed the TAB key, the left eye of the statue turns blue - indicating it has treasure inside. But when I try to put the cursor on it, the large circle appears around the statue's head and I can NOT get just the eye to highlight. Then again, maybe the Symbol piece IS the "treasure" hidden behind the eye.

Thanks for the offer of the CLUA code, but I don't need it. If I decide to go that route, I will just use ShadowKeeper.


Dace - That IS a possibility. I crossed the fire pit while waiting for the liches buff spells to wear off - so I definitely had my Protection from Undead in effect during the encounter with the spirits and Amuana.

Q - Thanks for the code, but I'll use SK if I decide to add the wardstone to my inventory. It's just easier.

[Riftmaker]

Well it wouldn't be just adding another item, it would be correcting an unfortunate bug that occurred.

[JayS]

Originally posted by Cerek: SixofSpades - I did get the Symbol piece from the statue. That actually presented me with another "bug" (or maybe not). When I pressed the TAB key, the left eye of the statue turns blue - indicating it has treasure inside. But when I try to put the cursor on it, the large circle appears around the statue's head and I can NOT get just the eye to highlight. Then again, maybe the Symbol piece IS the "treasure" hidden behind the eye.

IIRC there is a star sapphire in that container. You have to go offscreen so that you can mouse over the container without triggering the talking head.