Soft Lock in Shadow Cursed Lands

[BestJames Bond]

Hi all, I think I found a soft lock in shadow cursed lands while playing Durge.

If you head there and aide the harpers killing spiderman, they take the lantern and give it to Isobel.

Should you choose to kill Isobel, as encouraged via Dark Urge character, then no matter how you choose to kill her, her body is carried off via the winged horror's (I reloaded save numerous times to try and kill her where her body stays behind to no avail.)

You can still make it to Moonrise fine, but nothing in Moonrise allows you to traverse the stronger areas of darkness such that you can get to Shar's temple to continue main story.

You might think, but why not have Gale create the extra moon lantern in Balthazar's study?
Well... Should you durge him the moment he sticks his lovely hand outside of the wall, then that's not an option either.....................................

Gonna talk to withers to bring up a hireling wizard to see if they can have the Int required to solve the Balthazar puzzle and make a moon lantern for me. Otherwise about to reload save to before I killed Isobel to try and pickpocket her I guess... Now that I think about it though, when you walk into her, she automatically starts dialogue, so i guess i'll have to go allllllllllllllll the way back to when I first allied with the harpers to kill spiderman ffs.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by BestJames Bond:

Hi all, I think I found a soft lock in shadow cursed lands while playing Durge.

If you head there and aide the harpers killing spiderman, they take the lantern and give it to Isobel.

Should you choose to kill Isobel, as encouraged via Dark Urge character, then no matter how you choose to kill her, her body is carried off via the winged horror's (I reloaded save numerous times to try and kill her where her body stays behind to no avail.)

You can still make it to Moonrise fine, but nothing in Moonrise allows you to traverse the stronger areas of darkness such that you can get to Shar's temple to continue main story.

You might think, but why not have Gale create the extra moon lantern in Balthazar's study?
Well... Should you durge him the moment he sticks his lovely hand outside of the wall, then that's not an option either.....................................

Gonna talk to withers to bring up a hireling wizard to see if they can have the Int required to solve the Balthazar puzzle and make a moon lantern for me. Otherwise about to reload save to before I killed Isobel to try and pickpocket her I guess... Now that I think about it though, when you walk into her, she automatically starts dialogue, so i guess i'll have to go allllllllllllllll the way back to when I first allied with the harpers to kill spiderman ffs.

Only Gale can make the lantern in the tower but that lantern is a -Shadow- lantern. The moon lantern is just in the main room of the lab and not the secret room.

If you are unable to get the moon lantern in the main area of the tower, and you also made those other choices as you say, then yes you may want to consider that a soft lock/game over not unlike blowing up gale in act 2 would do or ticking off Vlaakith by asking her to prove she's so powerful after questioning her as to why she doesnt do the dirty work herself.

As the other poster said, you'll have to make different choices per a previous save to fix that issue.

[Calculus]

Well, if you have shadowheart you can also try to unlock portal at the gauntlet of shar with her, she is immune to the curse.
If not... stock up on health pots and try to run there and i think it was necrotic damage, so potion of necrotic resistance will also help.

Basically there should be solutions, still, if game gave you option to amputee your leg, you wouldn't be surprised why it's so bad.

[DracoMint]

If you got to Moonrise and to Balthazar's study, there should be a moonlantern right there in the room, picking up that lantern is the only reason you're allowed to enter his study, there is no making a moonlantern, just picking one up.

[Flan]

You can just make a shadow latern in Balth's secret room, didn't need gale for it.

[BestJames Bond]

My dumbass found the Moon Lantern literally sitting right beside Balthazar's desk like 2 minutes after I posted this.

So yeah anybody having a similar problem. Just haul ass to Moonrise tower and head up to Balthazar's room and find the one there.

I leave this post up here as a token of my shame in not seeing the thing right in front of me...

[BestJames Bond]

Originally posted by Maronchan:

There's a way to fix that, if you have a save before going to Last Light: you go to the ambush spot without the harpers. I released the pixie and got her bell without problems by doing that.
Works for every type of character, even durge. You don't need the harpers to trigger the ambush.

I do have a save there, but I also don't want to reload a couple hours of gameplay lol

Also found the extra lantern in Moonrise so all is well in the world and i was wrong about the softlock

[BestJames Bond]

Originally posted by Calculus:

Well, if you have shadowheart you can also try to unlock portal at the gauntlet of shar with her, she is immune to the curse.
If not... stock up on health pots and try to run there and i think it was necrotic damage, so potion of necrotic resistance will also help.

Basically there should be solutions, still, if game gave you option to amputee your leg, you wouldn't be surprised why it's so bad.

Problem with this is, I can't physically make it to the gauntlet, the curse kills everybody (including Shart) within like ~3-4 turn

I guess I could have spam healed and maybe gotten Astarion there with his 3 dashes, but as I mentioned in other posts, found the extra moon lantern in Balthazar's chamber and have now made it to the Guantlet no probs, no reload required :D

[Echsrick]

could you not have saved the fairy inside the lantern to become immune?