Ok, first off let me tell you that Baldur's Gate is the first RPG that I have played since "Bard's Tale" back in the late 80's. I talked to my nephew about what kind of game I WANTED to play and he got me addicted to Baldur's Gate.

Having said that, what is the deal with the freaking Tanner guy in the bridge district. I have killed everyone in his shop, I have the flesh armour, and he keeps chasing me around the bridge district and I can't kill him, even though I just surround him and have everyone wale all heck on him FOREVER. Did I miss something?

I was going to go looking around for the "guy in red" who buried someone alive, but have to keep the tanner at bay anytime I enter the bridge district now. sheesh. DIE ALREADY!

Nalora
would like to romance Minsc, too.

Bard Tales. hmmm That is a name I haven't heard in a long time. To poke to peculiarity I started playing Champions of Krynn, moved on to Bards Tale and well, ended Here. Enough rambling.

You are in trouble indeed. You have to both get the elephant hide from the beggar and then talk to Rose. She tells you of a certain smell. Ask the fat merchant for some smelly stuff and go back to rose and let her test it. Go back to the Fat merchant and ask him to analyze your info. Basicly talk a lot to the merchant. Then and only then you should enter and accuse the Tanner. He will run away, and you can go to the head of the guards and claim that you have solved the case. I hope you have a savegame before all this, since I think you have entered a deadlock. Which happens from time to time in Computer roleplaying games.

Hope it helped :)

[This message has been edited by Nobleman (edited October 14, 2001).]

Well, I did get the "Elephant Skin" and had Rose smell the bark stuff, etc. Then I went in and accused the Tanner. I fought him on all sides and trapped him and waled heck on him til I realized that DESPITE the fact that I was wailing on him he wasn't going to die (even though his status said near death, he never actually dies at all) so I ran down stairs, killed everyone down there while continuing to keep him at bay...

Then while he was chasing me down the street (I had done everything I knew to do in his slimey little house) I went and talked to the guard at the gate (all the while my whole party is keeping the tanner at bay right in front of the guard.

I haven't reentered the district after sleeping yet, so I was going to try that before a reload, but decided to go over to the Temple Sewers again and try to kill the thing with three eyes (the One Eye Quest thing, after the Time Life Bridge) Still can't figure out how to get past him to get the silly rod thing...sigh.

I did save before, but will have to do the whole Rose Smell this thing again....double sigh.

Do you know how to kill the 3 eye thing down in Blind as a Bat hell hole?

Nalora
(thanks for the quick reply and God I loved Bard's tale! there is a great site online that still has all the original pics and stuff, quite a trip down memory road...but I digress.)

That is weird indeed :) You're not supposed to kill the tanner right there and then. There's another quest related to him later on. So he doesn't die hehe. He should've run away instead, when you confront him with your evidence. Yep reload...

btw, my favorite amongst the old ad&d games is the death knights of krynn.

Okie doke. I am back to where I was before I made the tanner a berzerker. Funny thing was, in the glitch, the freaking boat took off without him!

So....I am wandering around, wondering what I will do (I solved the Man in Red quest since I could now get back to the bridge...at least in part, since apparently the ransom guy is going to be hanging outside the favorite local bar after dark...sheesh, doesn't ANYONE do anything in the daytime!!)

Thanks for all your help. BTW I am playing the game as my imported Ranger from the first game. Sure wish I could snuggle up with Minsc. I have a fondness for him for a couple reasons beyond the obvious. Back in the paper and pencil days of AD&D I had a small mouse/shapshifter as my familiar. The way he talks to Boo is the way I used to talk to my mouse. Also, my 8 year old sumo-chihuahua's nickname is Boo. Although his real name is Spike, I have called him boo (cooing at him in that sickly lovey dovey stuff with a greek accent) for years. Strange coincidence....

but again I digress.

NaLora
me and Minsc, we be buds.