Gale leaves my party at the end of act 2, why?

[Zazzy]

As the title says, Gale leaves my party after the fight against act 2 final boss, he states that his condition are worsend and he can't recover.
I can't figure why though, i gave him the items every time he asked me for so I would like to figure why he leaves. This is my third playthorugh and never met this situation.

[Dr.Fumetastic]

You didn't talk to Elminster or bypassed him somehow.

[Tax evasion]

Giving him three items isn't enough. This is spoiler territory, (obviously).
You need to find Elminster and let him inform Gale about using the Orb as a nuke against the Elder Brain. Once Elminster stabilizes Gale's Orb, that's when he's safe to progress to act 3.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Dr.Fumetastic:

You didn't talk to Elminster or bypassed him somehow.

^ that

normally there is no way to miss Elminster, as far as I recall. His vessel appears on both paths from Act 1 to Act 2

[HunterAnubis]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Dr.Fumetastic:

You didn't talk to Elminster or bypassed him somehow.

^ that

normally there is no way to miss Elminster, as far as I recall. His vessel appears on both paths from Act 1 to Act 2

oh? he does show up even by the elevator from underdark? I never took that path to the shadowlands before

[Zazzy]

Ah i see, I did "miss" big E, too bad i guess I'll have an excuse for my fourth playthrough now, I still have to see the end of Gale questline.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by HunterAnubis:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

^ that

normally there is no way to miss Elminster, as far as I recall. His vessel appears on both paths from Act 1 to Act 2

oh? he does show up even by the elevator from underdark? I never took that path to the shadowlands before

Yeah. The first time I saw him I prepared for combat because it was a weird looking guy and here and there were cultist corpses. In the dim light he surely looked suspicious. But since I knew Elminster like I know Volo from the D&D lore I was quite surprised to see them.

It is also a nice nod towards the lore that Elminster is so lazy, he never ever bothered to visit Gale personally, but instead sent an artificial vessel. Who knows on which plane he is drinking tea at the moment while pretending to be a senile old guy who can casually level mountains.

[Dr.Fumetastic]

Originally posted by HunterAnubis:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

^ that

normally there is no way to miss Elminster, as far as I recall. His vessel appears on both paths from Act 1 to Act 2

oh? he does show up even by the elevator from underdark? I never took that path to the shadowlands before

He shows up in the actual Shadowlands in that case. The elevator is inside a building with a small foyer. That's where Elminster waits.