Stuck in University District HOTU

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I looked inside the magic telescope in the shop outside the Yawning Portal. Instead of being treated to a viewing of battle, I (minus Deekin) was transported to the University District in person. I've killed all the Drow and Duergar (for some mysterious reason each one had literally thousands of hp), except for two duergar that are green shaded as allies. There is a portal present but I don't know how to activate it. There are no other exits from the district and I'm not permitted to enter any buildings.

That shadow plane artifact might allow me to leave, but I'd rather not spend a 7000+gp rogue stone if I can help it. Can anyone tell me how to get back to the inn, and how to get Deekin back? Bioware's walkthrough was singularly unhelpful, as it doesn't mention anything except the possibility of viewing a battle.

 

Heh, that is rather cool, I'd say And I don't think you have to use a rogue stone to get out. As far as I remember, you can teleport to the gateway free of charge; you need to use a rogue stone only if you want to set a waypoint where you can teleport later.

Of course, it may be safer to reload, as Tal mentioned.

(and from the gateway you can teleport directly to the room you started in, by using the door in front of the pool)

 

I just reloaded this game that I had saved inside the cutscene, and the game seemed to fix itself. Instead of a normal screen, the cutscene replayed and at the conclusion I was returned to a normal screen inside the shop.

I think I know what might have happened. When the cutscene first played I must have been clicking on some key or mouse button and caused it to halt, and that somehow thrust me in. The full cutscene didn't play the first time around. I appeared inside the scene at the point where the drow is about to open the gates and rush up the stairs. In my game, once I make my appearance, the drow never opens the gates...he just stands around while everyone else is fighting.

None of the Guard or the Drow reacted to my presence initially. They were fighting one another and were all neutrally blue shaded. I decided to start whaling away at the drow next to the gates, and he turned hostile but didn't attempt to fight back. I estimate that I spent about 10 minutes inflicting over a thousand pts of dmg on him. When he finally fell, I was awarded about 2500xp (I only received 750 for an unweakened Klaus).... ditto for the other drow and duergar, except for 1 or 2 that the guards managed to kill. I earned over 12000xp during the cutscene, and the best part is I got to keep all of it when I reloaded the saved game and found myself somehow back in the shop.

Anyway, I'll keep playing this game, but if other weird stuff starts happening or the game crashes I'll reload for the reasons that have been pointed out to me.

 

Maybe this is some sort of Easter Egg It does seem improbable that you would get inside a cutscene, and affect what's going on, too, unless the possibility for such a thing was already built in.

 

I have the 1.66 patch downloaded. But the character was not standard. Some mod (Tales of Arterra I think) had added to his ability scores and regeneration.

 

The way NWN does cut scenes is it actually puts your character into the scene but your character is invisible. So your character is kind of the camera zooming around the area while things happen all around you.

Sometimes this gets bugged and you can actually see your self standing there.

The original poster clearly just hit a major bug and should have simply loaded a save game, which it sounds like he's done. Still, the bit about "the walkthrough says nothing about this" was kinda funny.