Harpers are screwing me

[Lord Luds]

I got passed the point where Jaheira renounces the harpers, then not much happened until I returned to the elf town with the needed lantern. Before I could give it to the head elf to end that quest, a harper shows up yells at us, turns red and attacks. Not a problem really, except that the whole town turns red and starts to attack and as soon as you kill one, the screen goes to the main character dead screen. I have tried to dump Jaheira, tried "sneaking" in to talk to the head guy to no avail. I can't get passed this point to finish the game, so please help me!

[Kevin Dorner]

'tis a bug, one of the most common game-killers at one point, but I ruined all the fun by going and fixing it. Visit Baldurdash and download/install the Improved Jaheira Romance/Harper Plot from the Bugfixes page. Then you'll be OK. You'll notice the Jaheira romance isn't so pokey anymore either. Don't save the game with the elves hostile or you'll never finish (legit. at least.)

[Lord Luds]

thanks a lot, I'll give it a go.

[Manveru]

Originally posted by Kevin Dorner:
'tis a bug, one of the most common game-killers at one point, but I ruined all the fun by going and fixing it. Visit Baldurdash and download/install the Improved Jaheira Romance/Harper Plot from the Bugfixes page. Then you'll be OK. You'll notice the Jaheira romance isn't so pokey anymore either. Don't save the game with the elves hostile or you'll never finish (legit. at least.)

Kevin,
I would like to ask you if there is possibility to eliminate 52 lovetalk bug without using CLUAConsole (I want to play legit). I'm interested in this matter because I noticed that even if we leave the loop by changing lovetalk there are still some problems. I called it Aerie's test - there is a loop when we have Aerie in the party, she is killed and ressurected (or she has less than 10 hp).Jaheira should talk to her about healings or something like that but she simply repeats the last lovetalk dialogue every few seconds. The same problem occurs in case of edwin's quest or when J. has less than 15 hp and we have Keldorn in the party).

After loading the savegame where I had lovetalk=51, I forced the next dialogue ("How did last battle make you feel?") then Dermin appeared the second time. Lt has changed to 53. Everything was right (when Aerie had less than 10 hp J. was talking with her about healing etc.) After sleeping J. disappeared and I had to go to Harper HQ to rejoin with her.

And here is the main thing : When I had found Jaheira (Lt=54) ,Aerie's test failed (J. was constantly repeating the next dialogue ("Is..is this an inconvenient time for us to speak?").I don't know the normal conditions for this dialogue, but I belive it changes Lt from 54 to 55 ("dawning our day" 55 --> 57). The failed Aerie's test suggests that romance is looped at this stage and its conclusion
could be forced only using CLUAConsole (but the problem isn't solved - when Lt rating is 70 and we make Aerie's test, we could always have "good morning" dialogue as well as infinite number
of Terminsels on the screen with Harper pins and 100000 XP.)

I admit that I've installed your patch (I checked it also in game without patch - the same result)

I would be grateful for any advice.

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Manveru Telkontar, a Proud Member of the Brotherhood of the Woods.

Elen sila Lumenn' Omentielvo

[Kevin Dorner]

When I ran through the romance I didn't encounter this problem. It may have to do with the dialog file rather than the script, but it's more likely the script interpreter. I don't feel like hex-editing a 50 tree dialog (400 hexadecimal pointers to change) yet at least. When I have run out of other bugs, I will have another look at he fragile Jaheira romance.

[Manveru]

I'm glad that there is at least one person that will do something with this matter.

Anyway I thank you for your work - the playing is much more convenient without so many bugs. I'm just curious if Bioware plans to release patch in this century ? or maybe it is as Romans used to say - ad calendas grecas ?

[Kevin Dorner]

Thanks. And they seemed to have let slip yesterday that they will be releasing another patch concurrent with the release of the T.O.B. expansion.