Dark Dealings in the Black Pits

[Damn Dirty Ape]

I'm currently stuck on this mission. I am at the docks, in the boat house where the 3 Black Ring prisoners are being held.
I killed all the captors, looted everything, searched around but... I still can not interact with the prisoners(speak to them)

Anyone have an idea what I'm missing?

I completed the fight by first teleporting the majority of the bad guys far away before I initiated battle. Could that have some how bugged the mission?

Also, I have no killed the shriekers on the docks, I don't have a way to do it. Is this the reason?

Any help is much welcomed, thank you!

Edit: I should mention that my war owl is not working...

[LaserGuy]

I've never had the prisoners survive the fight. They always died due to the mass shackles of pain. Could be you need to kill them and talk to their ghosts?

Have you read all of the books/letters that you found in the boat house?

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Thank you for the response. I have found 2 more magisters I need to kill who I teleported onto a spot they couldn't move from(last played a couple weeks ago). I'm sure once I defeat them the mission will allow me to advance.

[Chaoslink]

Yeah, it’s either those other magisters, or possibly a note to find on the bodies in the other room. Either way, one of those options should allow you to use the whistle and progress the quest.

By this point, you should have your second source point at least and should have the skill needed to kill the shriekers.

[Damn Dirty Ape]

It was indeed the other magisters. However I do not have the other source point yet, and fights have been out of my league if i don't cheese.
I do everything I can for XP, complete every mission, kill every non important NPC etc....

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by SpaceApe:

It was indeed the other magisters. However I do not have the other source point yet, and fights have been out of my league if i don't cheese.
I do everything I can for XP, complete every mission, kill every non important NPC etc....

Sounds like you missed stuff. Generally speaking act two goes as follows:
-Fights on the coast and saving the bridgekeeper.
-Driftwood and the quests within
-Wreckers cave leading up to Mordus, followed by exploring his house again
-Graveyard
-Paladin bridgehead and surrounding fields
-Blackpits and the cave there
-Lumbermill and the elf camp
-Cloisterwood and the various bosses there
-Paradise Downs
-Bloodmoon.

This is a rough idea anyway. While you don't have to do everything in exact order, straying too much leads to issues being underleveled.