How do you get to the othyer side of the Mind Flayer Colony in ActII?

[noisyturtle]

I know there is another side of the Oubliette, but I can only reach the side reachable from Moonrise prison. How do you get to the other side? I've done everything else in A2 up to the end of Gauntlet, and it's the only place I haven't been.

[Grumpy]

Part of the main story, just progress it.

[noisyturtle]

I am about to enter Act3, I have progressed the story as far as it goes. There is nothing left to do in Act 2, I just can't find the entrance to the other side of the nest.

[Estevan Valladares]

Speedrunners will bug the game to reach there, but as far as gameplay goes, only in the end of act 2 you get a tunnel to fall at the other side.

As the question itself suggest it is a spoiler, I consider people who visited here warned already:

https://youtu.be/iOxhi-odubE?t=172

[retsam1]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

I am about to enter Act3, I have progressed the story as far as it goes. There is nothing left to do in Act 2, I just can't find the entrance to the other side of the nest.

When you go to the top of moonrise tower and do the first defeat of Ketheric, you will be required to jump down into the actual proper area of the colony from the top of the tower.

This is what they meant by progressing the story.

If you're "about to enter act 3" that would mean you've jumped down into the colony, dont all the stuff there and had the final major battle with ketheric and defeated him.

Other wise, no. You still have things to do down there....

[noisyturtle]

Originally posted by retsam1:

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

I am about to enter Act3, I have progressed the story as far as it goes. There is nothing left to do in Act 2, I just can't find the entrance to the other side of the nest.

When you go to the top of moonrise tower and do the first defeat of Ketheric, you will be required to jump down into the actual proper area of the colony from the top of the tower.

This is what they meant by progressing the story.

If you're "about to enter act 3" that would mean you've jumped down into the colony, dont all the stuff there and had the final major battle with ketheric and defeated him.

Other wise, no. You still have things to do down there....

You are supposed to fight him? I killed all the adds, but wasn't doing any damage to him and my companions kept saying this is pointless, so I just stole the chest and scroll and left. The rest of Moonrise is not aggressive to me, the only group I killed was the lady guarding the door to the roof and no one noticed. How tf do you fight him? What did I miss??

[Grumpy]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

Originally posted by retsam1:

When you go to the top of moonrise tower and do the first defeat of Ketheric, you will be required to jump down into the actual proper area of the colony from the top of the tower.

This is what they meant by progressing the story.

If you're "about to enter act 3" that would mean you've jumped down into the colony, dont all the stuff there and had the final major battle with ketheric and defeated him.

Other wise, no. You still have things to do down there....

You are supposed to fight him? I killed all the adds, but wasn't doing any damage to him and my companions kept saying this is pointless, so I just stole the chest and scroll and left. The rest of Moonrise is not aggressive to me, the only group I killed was the lady guarding the door to the roof and no one noticed. How tf do you fight him? What did I miss??

... eh?

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

Originally posted by retsam1:

When you go to the top of moonrise tower and do the first defeat of Ketheric, you will be required to jump down into the actual proper area of the colony from the top of the tower.

This is what they meant by progressing the story.

If you're "about to enter act 3" that would mean you've jumped down into the colony, dont all the stuff there and had the final major battle with ketheric and defeated him.

Other wise, no. You still have things to do down there....

You are supposed to fight him? I killed all the adds, but wasn't doing any damage to him and my companions kept saying this is pointless, so I just stole the chest and scroll and left. The rest of Moonrise is not aggressive to me, the only group I killed was the lady guarding the door to the roof and no one noticed. How tf do you fight him? What did I miss??

In that case you haven't even come remotely close to doing all there is in Act 2. You haven't even done the minimum requirements to progress.

[retsam1]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

Originally posted by retsam1:

When you go to the top of moonrise tower and do the first defeat of Ketheric, you will be required to jump down into the actual proper area of the colony from the top of the tower.

This is what they meant by progressing the story.

If you're "about to enter act 3" that would mean you've jumped down into the colony, dont all the stuff there and had the final major battle with ketheric and defeated him.

Other wise, no. You still have things to do down there....

You are supposed to fight him? I killed all the adds, but wasn't doing any damage to him and my companions kept saying this is pointless, so I just stole the chest and scroll and left. The rest of Moonrise is not aggressive to me, the only group I killed was the lady guarding the door to the roof and no one noticed. How tf do you fight him? What did I miss??

You didnt do the gauntlet of shar on the other size of the zone and either free or kill the nightsong. That's like a fourth of the zone's progress and progression of shadowhearts quests as well.

[noisyturtle]

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

You are supposed to fight him? I killed all the adds, but wasn't doing any damage to him and my companions kept saying this is pointless, so I just stole the chest and scroll and left. The rest of Moonrise is not aggressive to me, the only group I killed was the lady guarding the door to the roof and no one noticed. How tf do you fight him? What did I miss??

In that case you haven't even come remotely close to doing all there is in Act 2. You haven't even done the minimum requirements to progress.

At the end of Gauntlet it says you are going into Act 3 and make sure you did everything

[retsam1]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

In that case you haven't even come remotely close to doing all there is in Act 2. You haven't even done the minimum requirements to progress.

At the end of Gauntlet it says you are going into Act 3 and make sure you did everything

The warning of the entering that area is to ensure you've done all other quests in the Act/zones because once you do so, you're cut off from act 1 stuff, and the moonrise tower(if not cleared earlier) becomes automatically aggressive to you.

You are not yet transitioning to act 3. You only transition to act 3 -after- you've finally defeated Ketheric for the second time at the very bottom of the illithid colony area.

The reason(if you were paying attention to the story and cutscenes and more) that you couldnt kill ketheric at the top of the tower is that he's drawing immortality from the nightsong who is imprisoned in the pocket area of Shar's domain. Once freed or killed, his access to that immortality is cut off and he can be defeated at the top of the tower and then later down in the bottom of the illithid colony after he turns into his chosen of Myrkyl giant skeletal boss form.

[Kafik]

Originally posted by noisyturtle:

Originally posted by Boon: Safeword:

In that case you haven't even come remotely close to doing all there is in Act 2. You haven't even done the minimum requirements to progress.

At the end of Gauntlet it says you are going into Act 3 and make sure you did everything

No, act 3 is when you take the road to Baldur's Gate. When you go into the final fight at the temple you are going to irrevocably change the remainder of act 2.