Zhentarim Hideout is hostile ? Maybe spoiler

[Jan]

Hey,

I saved the guys in the cave by killing all gnolls. Am I not allowed to open the chest with the bottle? I opened chest and bottle, killed the monster inside. Few hours later I found the hideout. Got in using the secret password and the guard said I can go in because I saved one of them. After the short cutscene, a fight starts when I go a deeper into the cave. Are they mad because of the chest? Do I miss much by killing them?

[Emilius]

Yes im almost sure the chest is a problem. There was info not to open it. I dont do that and they like me. And you dont miss a lot. For now. Maybe they will be at later stage of game :)

[BeJust]

The same happened to me and I even didn't open the chest. Kinda bummed about not being able to trade, to be honest.

[Jan]

Yep, repeated this part. Did not requested the chest as payment. Everything is fine now. Trader in the hideout had some good stuff after talking to the leader.

I also recommend to enter the gnoll ambush cave from the front, do not use the backdoor tunnel. You might miss an interesting conversation with the goll leader.

Now that the hideout is friendly...I want to get rid of them because I want to loot the two locked rooms. No chance to sneak in. May wait for now, pretty sure the group will be important later.

[EruWan]

I killed them, was too far in the game and didnt want to make gnoll fight again to not open THA BOX. What is in THE BOX??? Next playthrough will give them closed chest. Now I have a spectator flask

[Maraxus]

You can certainly open the chest (but not the flask) without causing problems, I did and was threatened by the Zhents in the hideout but was able to talk my way out of it, with a promise to deliver the goods

[WuffWabbit]

Originally posted by Emilius:

Yes im almost sure the chest is a problem. There was info not to open it. I dont do that and they like me. And you dont miss a lot. For now. Maybe they will be at later stage of game :)

No info to not open it? The dude in the caravan + a note found there tells you it cannot be opened or else it's worthless. Are you kidding?

[Dre G Writer]

After the fight with the gnolls, I talked to the guys, they seemed happy to see me. Talked for a bit and asked a question dude didnt give me a straight answer for. Saw the dialog option to read his mind, so I did, failed dice roll. He's mad now. Starts combat. GOT DAMMIT

Kill the guys. Saw chest open it up, fglowing flask with evil face, what the hell is this!?

Use illusion change race spell, then use talk to the dead, ask them about the cargo, they said not to open it, dangerous inside, uuhhh.....whoops.

Dead told me the location of hideout. Also got password from guys when they were alive talking to me.

Go to hideout location. Everything on fire. Saved important lady. Searched place for hideout, fought a cow, and finally found hideout. gave password, got inside, gave password again, they disabled traps and let me in.

Convince trader to give me the slave for free. Slave said he will repay me in city. nice.

talk to hideout boss lady, she ask why im here, told her im here to drop off cargo, since other guys are dead. they are happy about this. I gave them the cargo, boss lady no longer happy.
her:"YOU OPENED THE CARGO!?" me: "uuhh, yea" her:"YOUVE KILLED US ALL! GUARDS!! ATTACK!!"

combat starts, so yea, they are all dead now. Guess I got a glowing flask now.

[Sevatar]

I gave her the chest and she gave me a magic cross bow reward. After taking the item, all went hostile. Is this a bug? the chest was not opened, but I killed accidently the 2 guys in the gnoll cave.

[Yare Yare]

Originally posted by Maraxus:

You can certainly open the chest (but not the flask) without causing problems, I did and was threatened by the Zhents in the hideout but was able to talk my way out of it, with a promise to deliver the goods

Failing to deliver the chest unonpened will cause you to loose access to multiple good blue items including a bow that scales with str and a medium chest piece for the lightning set.

[Elven supremacist]

Having a summon can also aggro them. For me the problem was my imp. When I reloaded and dismissed the imp before talking to them, everything was fine.

[LordNibbler]

Originally posted by Yare Yare:

Failing to deliver the chest unonpened will cause you to loose access to multiple good blue items including a bow that scales with str and a medium chest piece for the lightning set.

That is not quite correct, in my experience:

• I saved the 2 guys, let them have their chest and they told me the password.
  
• Then I stole the chest (but was too nosy, so I opened it).
  
• In the hideout they were all cool with me and thanked me for saving the guys (although they beat/killed them because they did lose the chest).
  
• I did not say anything about the flask.
  
• And this gave me a bit gold from Zarys & gave me access to the trader's special items. ...I might have robbed him blind (well, all items) but they still liked me.

The other guys in the 2nd part of the cave were however just aggro on me, so I killed them (had to, of course), however after visiting the "other connected place" & returning they were still friendly with me. Quest also says "Pleased, Zarys rewarded us for defending her agents. We kept quiet about the shipment."... so they are pleased!

But! - now I returned again and they are all aggro, no matter what (put all summons away). This seems indeed buggy (or they really miss their stupid crate and went mad).

[DancingOmelette]

Originally posted by WuffWabbit:

Originally posted by Emilius:

Yes im almost sure the chest is a problem. There was info not to open it. I dont do that and they like me. And you dont miss a lot. For now. Maybe they will be at later stage of game :)

No info to not open it? The dude in the caravan + a note found there tells you it cannot be opened or else it's worthless. Are you kidding?

The person you're quoting said "There was info not to open it", but also,
that's not what he said. He didn't say it'd be worthless if you opened it. He said he couldn't open it, so don't bother trying. But I could open it. So why wouldn't I?

[JaJoDo]

Originally posted by LordNibbler:

Originally posted by Yare Yare:

Failing to deliver the chest unonpened will cause you to loose access to multiple good blue items including a bow that scales with str and a medium chest piece for the lightning set.

That is not quite correct, in my experience:

• I saved the 2 guys, let them have their chest and they told me the password.
  
• Then I stole the chest (but was too nosy, so I opened it).
  
• In the hideout they were all cool with me and thanked me for saving the guys (although they beat/killed them because they did lose the chest).
  
• I did not say anything about the flask.
  
• And this gave me a bit gold from Zarys & gave me access to the trader's special items. ...I might have robbed him blind (well, all items) but they still liked me.

The other guys in the 2nd part of the cave were however just aggro on me, so I killed them (had to, of course), however after visiting the "other connected place" & returning they were still friendly with me. Quest also says "Pleased, Zarys rewarded us for defending her agents. We kept quiet about the shipment."... so they are pleased!

But! - now I returned again and they are all aggro, no matter what (put all summons away). This seems indeed buggy (or they really miss their stupid crate and went mad).

Same here

[Astral Projection]

Those Zhenatarim scum are in a pretty vile plot. Good riddance fighting them.

[howwarrd]

Originally posted by Elven supremacist:

Having a summon can also aggro them. For me the problem was my imp. When I reloaded and dismissed the imp before talking to them, everything was fine.

Thank you! This was my issue!