Siege of Kavatch -- runed portal

[lcormell]

I'm stuck and could use a spoiler. I've talked to Martin, Savlian matius, rescued one of the guards, climbed the Sigil tower, talked to a guard in a cage, got the Sigil Keep Key and have climbed to a platform called a Runed Portal.

I assume that the portal lifts you to the next level in the tower. But... Every time i try to activate it, my character falls to his death in the fire below.

What have I missed? I'm desparate. I have tried to get passed this many times. My character is now 9'th level and still can't proceed.

[Claudius]

It should be like a circular surface about say 4 ft in diameter at the top of one of those things where the staircases are winding up and you have to fight dremora guy.

I think you just scroll your view to where the name of the portal is highlighted (appears) then hit the space bar like the same button to open a door (spacebar right??I don't know if you xbox etc what not)

Try that.

[lcormell]

Originally Posted by Claudius

It should be like a circular surface about say 4 ft in diameter at the top of one of those things where the staircases are winding up and you have to fight dremora guy.

I think you just scroll your view to where the name of the portal is highlighted (appears) then hit the space bar like the same button to open a door (spacebar right??I don't know if you xbox etc what not)

Try that.

That's correct it's a circular surface surronded by spikes. It can be activated by pressing the space bar on a PC keyboard. That doesn't work. I have killed the daedra/dremora in this area on several occassions and several asttempts. (The area respawns after some time). I have walked onto the platform, jumped on it, walked on backwards, etc. It doesn't matter whether I activate it before I get on, as I'm jumping in the air, whatever.

When i activate the poratal, my character simply crashes to his demise below. I can see what I imagine to be the "landing platform" above, but the portal just doesn't go there. It goes only one way -- down to the pit of flames.

There must be a trigger action that I have missed. Can anyone help????

[Lemmus]

If I'm misunderstanding your situation I apologise, but it sounds like you're not in the right tower. Are you trying to activate something in the tower where you got the key ? If so, leave that tower and go back into the main area. The key opens a door called Citadel Hall Door, which leads to an area called Blood Feast, which leads to a bunch of ramps with a Dremora guard at the top. The item that you need to collect should display the text "Sigil Stone" or something similar. Once you activate it/ use it/ pick it up, the level ends, so do that after looting the area.

Hope this helps. Note that I took this information directly out of the walkthrough on this site. It's really very well done.

[Claudius]

I think you are on the corpse masher (spikes). That is not the right thing. Make the closing the oblivion gate your active quest. A red arrow will appear on the door you have to go through.

The right thing is as small as your characters feet and has no spikes.