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SoU: Stuck after 1 minute

Discussion in 'Neverwinter Nights (Classic)' started by Harbourboy, Jun 11, 2005.

  1. Harbourboy

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    [​IMG] Um, this might sound really dumb but I've been playing Shadows of Undrentide for about a minute and I'm already stuck. I went down into Drogan's lab and answered all the riddles and got given some stuff but I'm still trapped in the magic ward and can't move. And that familiar keeps laughing at me and saying that he knows how to get out but I don't. What do I do?
     
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    Tried talking to it about it?

    I don't remember being trapped in that room... and I've checked a couple of walkthroughs and they all just mention the riddles.
     
    Taluntain, Jun 11, 2005
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    Stuck *in* the room?

    You can never go completely in the room, but I've never heard of anyone being stuck in it. Once you answer the riddles and the familiar gives you the crystals, you're done with that area.
     
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    I've checked the walkthroughs to and they say nothing about this. I walked towards the impy guy and these flashing lights went off and a magical noise keeps repeating. He comes over to me, asks me the riddles, then goes and gets some crystals for me. Then he just floats around laughing at me for being stuck when he knows he to escape the ward. The other thing that has happened is that my Dexterity is reduced to 3. I can't move, and if I try and use the magic ring, or do just about anything else, I get a message saying 'you can't do that whilst in that state'.

    This has happened three times now after I've reloaded to try again.
     
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    You're not meant to be able to get past the ward at all... :confused:

    The faerie dragon's meant to taunt you about not being able to get into the room, but does he actually have specific taunts for not being able to get *out* of the room?

    What usually happens is that you walk into the ward, get pushed back, and the dragon walks over to you and initiates the conversation. You ought to back in a normal state by this time. If you're stuck completely, you may be justified in using console commands:

    Press ` and enter DebugMode 1
    Then use the dm_jumptopoint command. If it doesn't get you back to the start enter some numbers afterwards, i.e.
    dm_jumptopoint 50,50
    Enter DebugMode (without the 1) again to turn off debug mode.
     
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    I reloaded for the 6th time and must have done something different because I didn't get stuck this time and have been able to carry on.

    But something was definitely wrong before because there were all sorts of flashing lights and my dexterity went to 3. Surely I'm not the only person who has had this happen to them!
     
    Harbourboy, Jun 13, 2005
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    Well, it's never happened to me, and I've done that room 5 times, at least (I was testing something).

    But such random glitches in NWN do happen... at some point in one of the expansions there was some lightning riddle where you had to turn stone gargoyles around to focus the beam (you'll know it when you see it), and I solved the riddle correctly but the door never opened... I had to reload and do it all over again. Which made an already tedious riddle even more annoying.

    So making savegames regularly is a must.
     
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    Ok, my guess is that when you go over the encounter trigger (the ward) the game puts a quick "hold person" spell on you to keep you from moving any farther, then slides you back to the position outside the ward. The game (unsurprisingly) probably forgot to take the effect off after you were relocated. Your dex goes to 3 when you're hit by a hold spell or paralyzed.

    Best bet is to just start over again, the other thing is, you don't have to do that room, aside from a handful of xp, you don't actually need anything the familiar gives you.
     
    ArtEChoke, Jun 13, 2005
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