Everyone inside Moonrise Towers is Hostile?!?!

[onlylobster]

This is my first play through. When my party approaches Moonrise Towers, Disciple Z'rell and followers are standing outside the doors and they are immediately hostile. I get no option for dialogue. I of course am casting spells to take them out. I don't loot or touch anything outlined in red after the battle.

Then once I'm inside I'm met with another combat immediately- again without any chance to talk- and I see some non-aggressive small humanoids off to the side having a discussion about loot. The second the scrying eye turns up I magic missile it to death. It never gets a chance to call for reinforcements. Still, before long everyone is hostile. My party is 8th level. I doubt I could take out all of Moonrise in one single fight. Please help. Am I doing something wrong on approach or is it possible some decision I made in game in a previous area has set me up for failure here?

[Lani]

Yeah, you did something to turn them hostile.
The most obvious one would be releasing the Nightsong first while managing to not recruit the Harpers /Fists.

[onlylobster]

Yeah that's what I was afraid of. In the fight with Balthazar my Tav character was killed. Shadowheart could not be stopped killing the nightsong and everyone at the Last Light Inn was turned so would not be reinforcements. Bugger.

[Lani]

Then it's not a bug but results of your progression path.

[onlylobster]

Yeah I had a feeling it was. I'm enjoying that my mistakes are having devastating consequences. If it were a real D&D campaign I'd expect them to be on to who my party is and be hostile. It makes sense. It's just an impossible battle.

[triplesicks]

ok lemme tell you. this is exactly what happened to me. so if you go on the left side-through the kitchen- keep going around. initate a fight and blast aoe/cc while kiting these guys back. i almost at the front of the tower again but i won the fight. its a loooooong process and it suckkkked

[Sabamonster]

This is an aside but - On my Honor Mode run I went in to talk to Z'rell (With no intention of going aggro on her at first) and went through the first part (Won't spoil it incase you haven't redone it.) Went and talked with her upstairs after the fact and decided that my character didn't like the way she was talking and aggrod her. In that fight are a bunch of reinforcement bots. Couldn't get to two of them because they were downstairs so they continued calling reinforcements for what felt like 25 turns. Finally went down to deal with them and then everyone else in the downstairs, outside, etc aggroed on me too, lol.

Fought them ALL off, went through the majority of the towers, decided to go back to temple with Nightsong first, went back to moonrise and basically didn't have anyone to deal with for the climax. As in - what little there was left hadn't caught on that I violently explained to everyone I was the bane of their existence and I was on neutral terms with them. It was pretty awesome to be honest and I had no intention of doing it that way, or knowledge that it WOULD turn out that way given the choices I made.

After putting in 500+ hours this game continues to surprise the ♥♥♥♥ out of me, lmao.

Edit: Spelling/Grammar