Difficulty progressing in cursed lands

[Bonemiel]

I'm playing multiplayer and we started off in the cursed lands with an escort by the Drider, thinking we would just pretend to play along with the bad guys, so we missed our opportunity to get the first moon lantern.

Once we reached the moonrise tower, we got the only other moonlantern from balthazaar's room, but being that we are controlling our characters separately, it's kind of ridiculous that we have to coordinate slow walking together through much of the map because even selune's blessing doesn't protect from the major curse.

Every time we try to play together now, it's a frequent problem to have to stop and go repeatedly because 2 seconds outside of the small radius of the one moonlantern will cause loss of control of your character...

Should we just start over or does the curse go away soon in the story here ...? It's made the gameplay experience really bad lately and to the point where I end up parking my character in town while the other gets to explore because it's just too much of a pain in the a$$. How would this even work for 3 or 4 player groups?

[Rabbit]

There's a semi-permanent (possibly permanent) blessing that works similar to the moonlantern that doesn't require a lantern. The easiest way is probably inspect the moonlantern and release the pixie

[Sofu]

If you don't follow bad man lantern and kill him instead and free the pixie inside his lamp you can ask her to bless everyone and then you no longer need the lanterns to free explore the area.

[Bonemiel]

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

There's a semi-permanent (possibly permanent) blessing that works similar to the moonlantern that doesn't require a lantern. The easiest way is probably inspect the moonlantern and release the pixie

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately for us the moonlantern that you get from balthazaars room isn't interactable, and doesn't contain a pixie

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by Bonemiel:

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

There's a semi-permanent (possibly permanent) blessing that works similar to the moonlantern that doesn't require a lantern. The easiest way is probably inspect the moonlantern and release the pixie

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately for us the moonlantern that you get from balthazaars room isn't interactable, and doesn't contain a pixie

It doesn't give the ability 'inspect moonlantern'? For some reason it's a castable item ability rather than right click examining the item

[Bonemiel]

Originally posted by Actually Sofu:

If you don't follow bad man lantern and kill him instead and free the pixie inside his lamp you can ask her to bless everyone and then you no longer need the lanterns to free explore the area.

Right on that, but we made the mistake of playing on for several hours after already siding with the Drider so the only one we have now is the one from balthazaars room! :(

[Sofu]

Originally posted by Bonemiel:

Originally posted by Actually Sofu:

If you don't follow bad man lantern and kill him instead and free the pixie inside his lamp you can ask her to bless everyone and then you no longer need the lanterns to free explore the area.

Right on that, but we made the mistake of playing on for several hours after already siding with the Drider so the only one we have now is the one from balthazaars room! :(

I believe you can still kill him and take the lamp but that may cause issues in the tower. That area def sucks without a lamp

[yhibiki]

Having the same issue now, it's extremely irritating.

[Estevan Valladares]

It is sure an oversight that it is stated ALL lanterns are pixies being tortured, but the only one you can have her freed is the one with the Driader, which you cant have unless you kill him and then, if you are with the HArpers, you have to kill them too, because some options will have them take the moonlantern away.

But the best way to solve this, for future reference, is to kill everyone before calling the driader, and having the lyre, you call the driader alone and kill him.

Or helping him kill the harpers, and then using the ilithid wisdom to make them give you the lantern and leading them to the dark alone.

Fun fact, you should kill the driader also because otherwise he will be there to fight you with Ketheric if you dont.

[Vecv]

Originally posted by Bonemiel:

I'm playing multiplayer and we started off in the cursed lands with an escort by the Drider, thinking we would just pretend to play along with the bad guys, so we missed our opportunity to get the first moon lantern.

Once we reached the moonrise tower, we got the only other moonlantern from balthazaar's room, but being that we are controlling our characters separately, it's kind of ridiculous that we have to coordinate slow walking together through much of the map because even selune's blessing doesn't protect from the major curse.

Every time we try to play together now, it's a frequent problem to have to stop and go repeatedly because 2 seconds outside of the small radius of the one moonlantern will cause loss of control of your character...

Should we just start over or does the curse go away soon in the story here ...? It's made the gameplay experience really bad lately and to the point where I end up parking my character in town while the other gets to explore because it's just too much of a pain in the a$$. How would this even work for 3 or 4 player groups?

If you all don't want to stick together, the only way is to get the pixie's blessing. You can go and kill the drider who is at the top with Ketheric and get his moon lantern, but the pixie will already be dead by then. Even then, if everyone in your group wants to split, you will only have 2 working moon lanterns.

If you have a save before following the drider, it's best to start on that save and kill the drider before he gets to moonrise.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Did you try turning up your Gamma?

[yhibiki]

Originally posted by Estevan Valladares:

It is sure an oversight that it is stated ALL lanterns are pixies being tortured, but the only one you can have her freed is the one with the Driader, which you cant have unless you kill him and then, if you are with the HArpers, you have to kill them too, because some options will have them take the moonlantern away.

But the best way to solve this, for future reference, is to kill everyone before calling the driader, and having the lyre, you call the driader alone and kill him.

Or helping him kill the harpers, and then using the ilithid wisdom to make them give you the lantern and leading them to the dark alone.

Fun fact, you should kill the driader also because otherwise he will be there to fight you with Ketheric if you dont.

Not that I disagree with you in terms of efficiency, but I just like Kar'niss and want to see him live a little longer 😢

EDIT: also, everybody saying to just go kill the drider... that happened ages ago, and it's an MP game where we only play once a week. undoing an entire play session's worth of progress is just not really on the table for us.

[jennireneex]

The lantern in Moonrise does not have the free pixie option.

The drider lantern (I know when I did it as well) gives the option to inspect it to free the pixie, but apparently does not work if you let him lead you to Moonrise and then get it (or it bugged for me).

Pretty much have to kill him and take it and free the pixie right away.

[NzFox]

others have talked about how its just the driders one that gives the pixie interaction, but if you go to the harper inn you can get a buff that will help. It does not completely get rid of it like the pixie one but it lets you get most places without a problem