Neera bugged, her quest won't start in ToB

[Cheshire Kate]

I played through the first half of SoA with Neera, but swapped her out for Imoen in Chapter 4 and ended up finishing the game with her.

When I started ToB I decided to swap Neera in during chapter 8 so I could do her "Destroying the Order of the Eight Staves" companion quest, but when I spoke to the Fate Spirit, she wasn't available as an option to summon. This is despite the fact that she was still alive and well, and I was still able to visit her refuge and re-recruit her during chapter 6. The only way I found that it was possible to get her back in my party after starting ToB was to use the console MoveArea command to move to Neera's refuge and re-recruit her there, then use the console to move back to the pocket plane.

Up to this point, I've done a fair bit of chapter 8 with Neera in my party. I've tried visiting the North Forest multiple times, got Yaga-Shura's heart and brought it back to Nyalee, then went back to the North Forest again after to sell my loot to the merchant there. Jerome has yet to show up, so I've been unable to start the next part of Neera's quest line (yes, the SoA part of it has already been completed).

One forum post I came across suggested setting the OHN_TOB_PLOT and OHN_BIRD_TALK variables to 0. Neither of these variables existed, so I tried setting them to 0, then also tried setting OHN_BIRD_TALK to 0 as a local variable on Neera, and walked around in the north forest, visited another area, came back, returned to the pocket plane, then back to the north forest again, wandered around some more, still no Jerome.

I tried spawning Jerome using the CreateCreature command. I wasn't sure what the correct code was, but OHNJEROME caused a bird to spawn. Unfortunately it wasn't possible for me to initiate conversation with it.

I'm guessing all of this is because I didn't happen to have Neera in my party already when ToB started, so any ToB-specific variables for her never got initialized when I started ToB, and there's one that needs to exist in order for Jerome to show up, but that variable currently isn't set.

Can anyone help me figure this out so I can kill some red wizards?

[Cheshire Kate]

bump

[Kamuizin]

Deleted because the answer isn't what you questioned. My mistake.

[Lord Squirrel!]

I have a hunch as to what is causing this. I will return momentarily with a possible solution.

[Lord Squirrel!]

I suspect, due to the way you went to get Neera from a SoA area, she still has her SoA script and not her ToB script as she should. Try using the following console code to change her script to what it should be (just copy/paste it into the console).

C:Eval("ActionOverride(\"Neera\",ChangeAIScript(\"neer25\",OVERRIDE))")

[Cheshire Kate]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Lord Squirrel!:

I suspect, due to the way you went to get Neera from a SoA area, she still has her SoA script and not her ToB script as she should. Try using the following console code to change her script to what it should be (just copy/paste it into the console).

C:Eval("ActionOverride(\"Neera\",ChangeAIScript(\"neer25\",OVERRIDE))")

Thank you so much! That worked! I can finally continue my ToB playthrough now :)

[chrisjduwe]

Ok I am curious who is Neera? I don't see her in SoA and that is what I am currently playing.

[philos3]

Neera is a wild mage who was added by Beamdog for the EE of both BG1 and BG2. You will encounter her in BG2 in the Bridge District of Athkatla. It is a cut scene intro. When you leave the Bridge District after viewing the cut scene you will have a "random" encounter in an alley (like when the slavers ambush you). After talking with her there (you cannot recruit her at this point) she will head for the wild forest and ask you to visit. When you arrive there, you can recruit her.

[chrisjduwe]

Oprindeligt skrevet af philos3:

Neera is a wild mage who was added by Beamdog for the EE of both BG1 and BG2. You will encounter her in BG2 in the Bridge District of Athkatla. It is a cut scene intro. When you leave the Bridge District after viewing the cut scene you will have a "random" encounter in an alley (like when the slavers ambush you). After talking with her there (you cannot recruit her at this point) she will head for the wild forest and ask you to visit. When you arrive there, you can recruit her.

ok cool