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Cult of the Eyeless: Possible programming glitch (solved!)

FredNFredN Member Posts: 586
edited June 11 in Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition
.....OK, we went down into the rift, waded through Ghoul Town, whacked all the various Beholders and other vermin we encountered. and got to the final room. Grabbed the second piece of the rift device, and the Eyeless One appeared on schedule. As it happens, prior to this I had Hexxat place a number of traps on the path leading to the final room. Mr Eyeless was actually killed by her traps; we didnt use the rift device at all. Mission accomplished, right? Wrong!
.....Here's the problem. There was still a charge left on the rift device, since it hadn't been used to kill the big boss. When I went back to the Temple to speak to the Avatar to report our success, he was nowhere to be found. Was this because the game assumed that the objective hadn't been accomplished since the device was unused? I seriously hope that I don't have to repeat the entire quest from the very start. Ick.

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  • FredNFredN Member Posts: 586
    OK, the problem wasn't that we didn't use the device to kill the big baddy, it was that the device simply hadn't been used at all and still had a charge on it. I used it to whack the first piece of trash random monster we came across, and once the device's charge had been used, Lo and Behold! The Avatar was once again present in the temple, and rewarded us. Doh! Rather silly. :D
  • jmerryjmerry Member Posts: 4,123
    The avatar isn't who you need to talk to. That's actually the Diseased One in front of the temple. Talk to him, a cutscene starts, and that's what summons the avatar back - the avatar despawns when you put the device together.

    Fun fact: unlike other unkillable creatures in BG2 that use min-HP immortality items, the avatar merely has huge HP and 100% resistances - the method used by BG1 creatures that you're not supposed to kill. Lower the magic resistance, and he dies instantly to a Cloudkill. (Reward for doing so: absolutely nothing)
  • FredNFredN Member Posts: 586
    edited June 11
    "The avatar isn't who you need to talk to. That's actually the Diseased One in front of the temple.<
    OK, this is just dumb. I did speak to that dieased guy, but only because I was expecting him to say how grateful he was at being freed. So, if I had not ... totally by accident ... spoken to him, the Avatar would not have manifested, despite our having killed the Eyeless One, and the quest would never have been finished? That's ridiculous! :#
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