I am coming back to the game after losing patience with NWN... And have a question
Of I'm going to bring Imoen back A.S.A.P will it affect party memmber who haven't finisht their's tasks? Will anybody leave me before coming back?
ESP. Keldorn And Walygar
Ronen

[ August 07, 2003, 12:52: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

You can't go to Spellhold and come back ASAP, you have to go through Sahuagin City
and the Underdark first. I believe you can finish other quests when you get back (except for any that have a time limit). And as long as you have room in your party for Imoen, you can keep everybody else (except Yoshimo).

Actually, I don't think you do have to go through to Sahuagin city... I think you can go directly to the Underdark.

What I think is meant by this post is "if you go, say, and get Nalia, who will leave you after X days if you do not do her quest, then go and get Imoen back, will people bail on you when you're in the middle of the underdark?"

I would suggest not. Lots of plotlines are held up when in the Underdark. I can't confirm that NONE of them will progress in the Underdark, but it's a pretty common occurance for me to exit the Underdark and have to deal with a litany of dialogues that seem to have banked up while I was away from the light.

One peculiar thing I've noticed... romances seem to be held up in the underdark (except for some event triggered portions), but they seem to progress, very occasionally, when entering the lair of Adalon. Has anyone else noticed this? Does it actually have something to do with this area, or is it just flukey timing on my part?

Actually, I don't think you do have to go through to Sahuagin city... I think you can go directly to the Underdark. If you don't mind missing out on a lot of cool items you don't have to go through Sahaugin City...

I think that was what he meant by quickly going to Spellhold and back. It's possible to skip the Sahuagin city, and if you enter the Drow city, you can go to the temple, kill everyone inside, get the eggs, and leave.

Of course that would take away all the fun of the game, but at least you'll have your "quick trip".

@ Judas; I've had Viconia's romance progress when I was outside of spellhold, so Adalon's lair isn't the only place.

Romances will continue in Brynnlaw (after Spellhold), Adalon's Lair, and Ust'Natha. Those areas are not termed as dungeons by the game so they won't hold up romances. You'll get the same effect if you do Firk's dungeon in the middle of a romance. As soon as you enter his lair, you should get a lovetalk.

To get back to the original topic, most quests are held up in Chapters 4 and 5. I would do Nalia's, simply because there's lots of good items there, and you need the cash anyway to complete Chapter 2. Nalia is the only one I've ever had leave my party because I didn't do her quest quick enough. Everyone else justs complains, but they don't do anything about it.

Thanks for the answers.
I bever tried that, because i've usually finished the others quests before.
Will I be able to finish the Drow city part with a relatively low-level party?

[ August 08, 2003, 19:44: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

Yes you will. Although there may be some reloading hassle.

I have the bard stronghold and if I don't come after a short time of when I'm send for, the play will suffer.

I don't want that, but I'm almost out of quests (only big one left is the unseeing eye, which I don't really want to do right now). So I wanted to advance in the game and stuff, but I don't want the play to suffer.

Are you guys saying that the play (and other stuff) will be delayed while I'm doing chapter 3-5?

O and by the way, I've done almost all quests, but my characters only have like 1,4M exp each (sorcerer level 13). Isn't this very little? I thought I should have much more by now...

Are you guys saying that the play (and other stuff) will be delayed while I'm doing chapter 3-5?
I don't know specifically about the play as the only time I played as a bard I finished the play before going to Spellhold. However, I have lost my thieves' guild several times for failure to pay my dues while I was away doing Spellhold so I wouldn't count on the stronghold quests being postponed.

I'm not playing a bard, I just have a multi-stronghold mod.

But you're saying I'll lose my thief stronghold?
:'(

Yes, you will lose the guild when you do the Spellhold/Underdark (possibly if you are quick enough this won't happen but it always did for me).

One time when I lost the guild I did get a second chance but I don't remember the exact circumstances. I think I may have just went to see Renal Bloodscalp and he relented on the closure of the guild but I can't say for sure.

Generally I didn't bother as the thieves stronghold is nothing but a money source after the third week or so and it gets annoying having to run back to pay the dues.

if you are worried about stronghold quests let me make a suggestion for the underdark.

as soon as you get here head over to the beholer lair get the eyestalk immediately (which is in the enterance of the lair) then go do the avalon egg quest. you can come back down afterwards to do all but the Ust Nasta and sahugin city quests. itll save you some time and you might be able to save your stronghold plus be able to come back down and get your good items from the illithid lair, kuo-tao lair and side quest such as the imprisoned mage quest.

I was sure that all strongholds and romances were OFF when you are in the Underdark. And if the son of that play director doesn't talk to you the play will not suffer.

CLUAConsole:AdvanceRealTime("GLOBALS",x). The command is something like that (I'll see if I can remember the exact command tonight) where x is a number. It'll advance the game time so that you can finish your stronghold before doing the Underdark.

You can also start Chapter 3 and continue your stronghold there.