Lost and Confused - Act 2

[Rayne_Bows]

So I’ve been playing a while, and I have at least gone through Act 2. I went through Shar, freed Nightsong, and teamed up with Last Light Inn people to take down Moonrise Towers.

Well I decided I wanted to completely restart my whole campaign and made it back to Act 2. I went through Shar, freed Nightsong, but there’s nobody but like 4 NPCs in Last Light Inn; to be clearer, there is no dead NPCs anywhere in there.

So I tried just going to Moonrise Towers which somehow ended up behind it coming up the rear. There’s no where on my map that allows the way to go to the front end. Anywho, I go through the back, take out the prison. There’s no one in the cells whatsoever.

Start fighting my way up because I had no choice. End up in the main room area just to see Jaheira and all her crew there dead. I’m just really lost on what I ended up doing to have no ability to recruit the crew to get through it.

Has anyone ended up not being able to recruit them whatsoever? If so what caused it so I can try to go back and fix it. Only sad thing is this play through I’ve learned a lot more areas and done more quests than I did in my first attempt to play.

Appreciate any assistance. :)

[Sistalis]

Unless it's a bug, I think you took to long to get to Moonrise and the defenders won. The 4 Thieflings left behing are just non-combatans you rescued earlier.

I guess all there is left to do is go up the stairs, fight Ketheric and proceed as normal (with less people)

[nzmitzi]

Shar should be the last thing you do in that area - but you can do that next time?

[Cthulhu]

entering in the shadowfell close the act 2 and will trigger the moonrise tower assault so all locations/quests/npc will be no more aviable or are forced to another conclusion

[SirKingJof]

^ this is correct, you get the warning pop up before continuing the Shar quest for this very reason, it tells you that continuing on will close out the other quests in the region.

There isn't any way to fix that unless you have a save before the point of no return.

[Moonbane]

You are actually meant to visit Moonrise prior to the gauntlet of Shar

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Rayne_Bows:

So I’ve been playing a while, and I have at least gone through Act 2. I went through Shar, freed Nightsong, and teamed up with Last Light Inn people to take down Moonrise Towers.

You are not supposed to do the Temple of Shah, let alone free Nightsong, until you've done the first part of Moonrise Towers. It completely screws up the narrative and your journal.

Of course you like as not come across the Temple of Shah before you ever get to Moonrise Towers as it's on the way, I certainly did to my cost, and there is nothing to warn you about there being a problem with this.

You're best bet is to reload back before you entered the Shah temple and head directly to Moonrise Towers instead. The whole thing will make much more sense and play out properly if you do.

[Thorba]

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

Originally posted by Rayne_Bows:

So I’ve been playing a while, and I have at least gone through Act 2. I went through Shar, freed Nightsong, and teamed up with Last Light Inn people to take down Moonrise Towers.

You are not supposed to do the Temple of Shah, let alone free Nightsong, until you've done the first part of Moonrise Towers. It completely screws up the narrative and your journal.

Of course you like as not come across the Temple of Shah before you ever get to Moonrise Towers as it's on the way, I certainly did to my cost, and there is nothing to warn you about there being a problem with this.

You're best bet is to reload back before you entered the Shah temple and head directly to Moonrise Towers instead. The whole thing will make much more sense and play out properly if you do.

i started the shar quest and was never at moonrise towers before, i am only halfway through the trials. I stoped now and go to the towers but hope it dosent come to problems (i killed the necro boss already who was searching the artifact).

[The 13th Ghost Bunny]

Originally posted by Thorba:

Originally posted by Gregorovitch:

You are not supposed to do the Temple of Shah, let alone free Nightsong, until you've done the first part of Moonrise Towers. It completely screws up the narrative and your journal.

Of course you like as not come across the Temple of Shah before you ever get to Moonrise Towers as it's on the way, I certainly did to my cost, and there is nothing to warn you about there being a problem with this.

You're best bet is to reload back before you entered the Shah temple and head directly to Moonrise Towers instead. The whole thing will make much more sense and play out properly if you do.

i started the shar quest and was never at moonrise towers before, i am only halfway through the trials. I stoped now and go to the towers but hope it dosent come to problems (i killed the necro boss already who was searching the artifact).

Shouldn't do. You can complete the trials too, just don't enter the Shadowfell. You should get a warning if you try to.

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Thorba:

i started the shar quest and was never at moonrise towers before, i am only halfway through the trials. I stoped now and go to the towers but hope it dosent come to problems (i killed the necro boss already who was searching the artifact).

You should be fine. The only thing is that your journal may read a bit strange depending on exactly how far you've got in the Temple of Shah thus far, You should make sure to thoroughly explore Moonrise Towers now until you can't find anything more to do there. Couple of spoilerish hints if you want them:


1. Moonrise Towers occupants should not be hostile to you unless you transgress rules since they believe you yourself are a follower of the Absolute.

2. It is possible to kill pockets of Moonrise Towers occupants in batches without turning everybody else hostile. You can get away with this so long the others don't see you do it. In fact it's very advantageous to do it.

Good luck Sir!

[Rayne_Bows]

Thanks all! I could have sworn I was doing the same steps but now that I think of it, the first time I believe I attempted Shar and got out of it and ran Moonrise.

I appreciate all the help 🖤

[Thorba]

Thx to everyone for the advises, this will save me some trouble and i will go straight to the towers now:)