How to escape area after Oliver fight

[alexanderw.burdick+*****]

I didn't play hide and seek with oliver so I had to fight him instead. After the fight I'm stuck in the shadow curse and immediately die.

I watched a playthrough where someone defeated oliver and then just fast traveled out of Reithwin. I tried to fast travel out of it, but taking environmental damage counts as being in a fight, and the game won't let you fast travel.

How do you get out of this? As far as I can tell you have to lift the shadow curse in order to get through Reithwin so I basically can't go forward at all.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by alexanderw.burdick+*****:

How to escape area after Oliver fight
I didn't play hide and seek with oliver so I had to fight him instead. After the fight I'm stuck in the shadow curse and immediately die.

I watched a playthrough where someone defeated oliver and then just fast traveled out of Reithwin. I tried to fast travel out of it, but taking environmental damage counts as being in a fight, and the game won't let you fast travel.

How do you get out of this? As far as I can tell you have to lift the shadow curse in order to get through Reithwin so I basically can't go forward at all.

How did you get there in the first place without understanding how the shadow curse works?

[Aerohank]

Does a torch not protect you? In not, then you need something better than a torch.

There are 2 'levels' of the shadow curse. One where a torch is enough to protect you (outside of town) and one where you need special protection.

What might be happening is that you aren't using the special protection. Olivers portal transports you to the townsquare, where the shadows are strongest.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Aerohank:

Does a torch not protect you? In not, then you need something better than a torch.

There are 2 'levels' of the shadow curse. One where a torch is enough to protect you (outside of town) and one where you need special protection.

What might be happening is that you aren't using the special protection. Olivers portal transports you to the townsquare, where the shadows are strongest.

Ah, I see. Well, in that case: Run, Forrest, run

[seandeven]

Transports you there because Art needs the lute from the House of Healing but you need a lantern or A blessing for that curse level.

You have 3 options:
Run to Moon Rise there is a lantern upstairs
Kill and loot the spider Drider
or
Run to Isobel

[ghostie.bc]

I know, my reply comes a bit late, but I wanted to write it, in case there are more people struggling with this as I did. As mentioned in a comment earlier this area is “infected” with a stronger shadow curse, which the selunites blessing from Isobel (you were blessed in the last light inn), does not protect you from.

If you have defeated Oliver, your party will start taking loads of damage from the shadow curse. To avoid this it is important to enter turn-based-mode.
If you don’t have one of those Moonlanterns/it’s still broken, there is only one realistic way to get out of this situation; running to Moon Rise. To do that, you must run into the direction where Oliver was with his little shield during the fight (the fountain looking thing). If you look behind the fountain, you can see that at the end of a path, the shadow curse ends. Run there.
As stated before, it is crucial to stay in turn based mode, using dash and misty step to get to the Moon Rise. Remember, it is also important to heal. There is also a waypoint next to Moon Rise. When you get there you will be able to fast travel again.

SPOILER

Now if you want to go back into that area with the strong shadow curse, you need a working moonlantern. If you don’t have one, you can get one by entering Moon Rise, playing your cards right, so that the other true souls trust you (enough) and you get a mission by Z’rell to obtain an artifact Balthazar was supposed to find. She’ll give you a key to his chambers, where you can find a moonlantern.