Softlocked my save, help! [spoilers inside] [FIXED]

Captain_Sicarius

It's the normal version of the game. Sigh, I don't even know where to start... So, I sided with the thieves guild I mean I was going to, and I played for over 30 hours doing stuff on chapter 2! Then I saw this and did it In chapter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXD-vCNl2NQ

So I feeblemind everyone in the second floor of the guild's lobby and killed Renal Bloodscalp for his boots of speed, no Arkanis Gath at all, I left and this is it, a couple hours of gameplay later I ditched Bodhi and payed the 15000gp into chapter 3, but when I went to the first floor surprise everybody was hostile, AG spawns as usual to kill everyone and I have no extra saves or whatever...

I did manage to make him get stuck on the second floor, but the entire guild is hostile. I even managed to do the first quest in the docks where Mook dies with Aran Linvail red since he just comes to talk to you the moment you see him. I ran away from him and avoided killing anyone inside and finished the quest, but for the second part he will attack straight away, no conversation since I have to pretty much click on him in this one, thus making it impossible for me to get out of chapter 3.

This is so frustrating

Is there any way to make them friendly again on ShadowKeeper or in Clua? Skip quests, jumps the chapter, anything really, I have no idea what to do, and I'm very thankful for any help I can get.

sarevok57

what you might be able to do is summon in aran linvail via cheat console, and just start the chapter 3 quest all over again, ( and when you summon him, summon him up somewhere like ribald's shop or something - so then you can remember where he is) and every time you finish one of his quests, just keep going back to the aran that you summoned in with the cheat console, and hopefully everything should progress as normal

Captain_Sicarius

I'm having a hard time finding his summon code, would anyone know it already? I tried killing Gath with protection from magic and shapeshifting into a mindflayer, and I also killed the mindfeebled npcs so they are not some kind of trigger and then deleting "ATTACKEDTHIEVES" or changing it to 0 or 1 and "ARANJOB" (ARANJOB is on 1, from the Mook quest I assume) from the ShadowKeeper.

Some combinations like AG dead and "ARKANISCOMES 0" will crash the game. some will either resummon him or crash, and they will still be red anyway, there might be some other stuff that needs changing but I will never figured it out since I can't tell by the name or it's a combination of a bunch of stuff...

The best I could do was respawn at Brynnlaw with the xp I would get from the quests.

If I were 10 years younger I would have started a new game a long time ago... Thanks for trying to help man.

sarevok57

apparently I don't have EE keeper here on my laptop, so what I would do if I were you is get EE keeper ( which can be found on this site) download, install, all that good jazz, and when you look at the bg2 creatures, find aran linvail, and then somewhere on there, there will be a resource line that says something like : aranlin03 or some such, if you can see the creature code, you can use the console to summon him in

I remember back in the day when windows 2000 causes dialogue glitches I had to summon him in around 10 times just to finish chapter 3,

Captain_Sicarius

CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("ARAN") worked for me man, the npc is not an enemy and I can do the quests without a problem, I have no Idea why I didn't tried "ARAN" yesterday (found out because of EEkeeper like you suggested) guess I was tired and trying to find complicated fixes...

Thanks man, you just saved me from multiple headaches.