Hexxat quest

[cwayne59]

So, took Hexxat into the crypt. Hunted around. Kicked a hornet's nest. A hornet's nest full of Mind Flayers and a Lich! They are immune to everything! Suggesting on how to get past these bums? Anybody?

[red255]

the mind flayers aren't really a big deal, its a crypt animate some dead, you have a cleric or a mage right? where is the lich? I don't recall a lich until the final tomb.

potions of clarity, chaotic commands, these deal with mind flayers.

[Godsarm]

Arrows and Bolts of Biting, those Mindflayers are vulnerable to poison and they don't have a lot of HP. As for the Lich, Sunray's work wonders, two will usually bring a garden variety Lich down.

[cwayne59]

Oh, I dont have a Sunray spell yet. Or that fancy sword from the city gates district. I DO lhave a protect form evil scroll so I can go get it. Have to get poison to the Flayers. Hmm. Ive got acid arrows. Dont know about bolts of biting. got Bolt+1. Maybe I should go check all those things in the D'arnise keep I didnt bother with.

Gee, I've forgotten a lot about this game since I last played it around Y2K or so.

I may have to restart anyway. Jahiera is about to leave my party because Dorn. She doesn't seem to mind Hexxat.(But Anomen minded big-time.) I thought she would put up with him because she is supposed to like "keeping the balance" and we do have an 11 or 12 reputation.

I at least need to reload from the Graveyard so I can double memorize some skeleton spells and maybe go grab some items. But I thought I was decently equipped after the Keep and Tradesmeet.

If I dismiss Dorn from the party, where can I find him to get him back?

[red255]

I think Dorn returns to the place you found him outside the paladin hall. otherwise the copper coronet. I generally use him until I get his helmet and sword, then discard him, the helmet can be worn by Jahiera.

never really had any issue with Dorn aside from with paladins like Keldorn and amonen. maybe mazzy would have an issue.

main issue with Dorn is you want to do the temple quest first cuz... some important people might die.

paladin types also had an issue with Hexxat. ring of human influence can generally talk them out of it. Hexxat questline requires 2 weeks or so, so you can't just rush thru it.

[cwayne59]

Originally posted by red255:

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never really had any issue with Dorn aside from with paladins like Keldorn and amonen. maybe mazzy would have an issue.

main issue with Dorn is you want to do the temple quest first cuz... some important people might die.

paladin types also had an issue with Hexxat. ring of human influence can generally talk them out of it. Hexxat questline requires 2 weeks or so, so you can't just rush thru it.

And I had a ring. Maybe I didnt have it on at the time because "fighting monsters." Maybe I'll put it on now.

Guess I wont be doing the Temple quest. Someone died I'm pretty sure. But w/o Anomen, so what? I' not discarding Hexxat because I dont want to kill the romance. Besides, Hexxat is a "good" vampire. Kinda like Thomas Raith.

[cwayne59]

That darn Dorn! I dropped him so I could get Nalia and have her kidnapped. Now the chump won't rejoin my party. Maybe my reputation is too high (16) for him to want to join up. Now I need another fighter that will put up with the love of my life Hexxat! One I can stomach too! I'd like Keldorn, but after he killed Viconia in another game I'm a little wary of him. He'd be good against Vampires (yeah but that is the problem). Guess that only leaves that crazy dwarf Korgan. I don't like Korgan, but I need a fighter to stand alongside Minsc.

Dorn was immune to confusion and level drain too. Damn. Wish I had dropped Jahiera instead.

[red255]

well, if its a rep thing which I doubt it is, slay some innocents and he'll join up.

its likely chosing the wrong dialog options though, try the other ones.

[red255]

so I just did this, party was around 1.5 million XP Didn't find it too difficult.

Dealt with the mind flayers, with 5 animate deads + chant +bless +haste charged in, killed everything minsc got stunned, but everything died, the ghost killed some.

second area with the greater mummies, think you need a +3 to hit here. you pick up a +3 dagger here probably for Jahiera... yeah I hate clubs. she was using a pixie prick from god knows where earlier than that point. Minsc had the IMOD+5 and kundane at this point.

Final area, I chose to kill the 6 summons, even though killing the priest might be 'easier' better loot an all. easier would be to skip the mummies and kill the priest for the key.

but again 5 level 11 animate deads, chant, bless, haste. maybe strength of one. problem seemed solved easily enough.

Party was
Beserker 13/Cleric 9
Minsc
Jahiera
Aerie
Hexxat
Nalia.

got 4 CHA and nobody's been bothering me too much about the vampire, just had to pay an extra 2500 gold to aran linvail the rest of the party isnt upset. only had her in the party like a week.

I don't know where you are getting the lich from? does the first group of ghost have a lich in it? I just was mildly civil with them and helped them attack the mind flayers, very easy.

are you talking about the alhoon or whatever?

[cwayne59]

Had some issues with Hexxat quitting my party. It turned out to be my rep was too high. I killed a couple of minor shopkeepers and I'm ok now. I can probably get Dorn back, but I've invested alot in Rasaad now. I don't really like Rasaad as a monk. I liked my regular monk PC (from decades ago) better. Maybe I should use his sunbeam stuff more.