Problem at the twisted rune.

[wise grimwald]

I've just killed Shangalar whilst he is still on the table. His allies haven't turned up and I can't get to his goodies. I suspect that I need to go back to the autosave. Is that correct?

[Silvanerian]

In short - yes, you need to reload. Basically, the twisted rune (incl your key out) spawns when Shangalar has teleported to his 'position'.

[anarchistica]

Don't worry, you can still abuse traps, just place them back a bit more.

[wise grimwald]

Thanks for the reply. I like to know why things go wrong, so that I can avoid them in future. You assumed wrongly, I used death fog and firestorm, having been wiped out on my first try. After my overkill, I used death fog only. This severely injured him without killing. I was the able to move forward to trigger the sequence and I was able to deal with them. Four members of my party still died however. Still I managed to keep Jaheira alive, the most important one as I am in romance with her. A good job that I have two rods of resurrection!