Um...there's a dead bloke in the Smithy...

[Elethiomel]

Anyone know who it is? (It's the Thunderhammer Smithy in Beregost)
He wasn't there the first time I went in, I got back from clearing the Firewine and he was just lying there by himself - the next time I went in the smith was there, ignoring the dead bloke.
I seem to be playing the game one step ahead of myself - according to my journal I met a "strange man again - although now he calls himself Elminster" but I've never met the bloke before. Bits of the story seem to be happening before they're meant to - I anticipated something like this, but not events which are clearly meant to happen after others happening before...

Um..anyone got any similar happenings?

Ele

[tiger]

ok,

never seen the dead bloke in the smithy before, you didn't remove a corpse from your party in there did you ? cos if you did, that's the source of the body, otherwise I'm stumped.

As for Elminster, remember way back when just after Gorion is killed and you go to the map midway between the Friendly Arm Inn (to the north) and Beregost (to the south), you should have been accosted by some bloke on the left hand edge where you appear on the map, he asks you some stupid question etc, that was the first time you met the "strange old man" http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif

I take it you've recently done the nashkel mines bit, cos that's when elminster appears for the second time, or rather, this is the first time since clearing the nashkel mines you've been to the smithy ?

hope that explains a these odd occurences

tigs

[Elethiomel]

Definitely not one of my party Tigs - none of 'em have died (well, Minsc is currently dead for tax reasons, but I'll be resurrecting him when I've found Bassilus/killed some bandits and taken their scalps to officer Vai/got the bounty for these two Emeralds...or whatever else I can think of as a way of rasing money.

I remember the strange old man now - that's the problem with not being able to play every night. It's over a week since I did that bit http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/frown.gif.

Anyone else found that this game replaced their old favourite (in my case, multiplayer Quake) as the game you thought about playing on your way home from work?

Ele

[tiger]

"Anyone else found that this game replaced their old favourite (in my case, multiplayer Quake) as the game you thought about playing on your way home from work?"


yep http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif

tigs

[VELVET]

Um - I had great problems with small green circles appearing every time I blinked etc - that answer the question??? http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/stare.gif

With regard the game seeming weird it could be down to you not following the story as much as they'd expected you too... For the first two chapters the story is fairly rigid - unless you choose to wander off... This probably explaing things happening in a funny order, but I wouldn't stop doing it - exploring is the best!!!

No idea about the dead body either, although its nice to know that people in Baldur's Gate can just die in a smithy without signs of attack from giant spiders / jelly / centipides etc etc etc http://www.wireplay.co.uk/ubb/smile.gif

Keep on wand'rin man!!!

Neal

[Braindead]

Fraid I don't think about BG myself.
Whenever I walk home the only games on my mind are Unreal and Sin. I think of all those people online playing it.

Then I go very quiet for a long time trying to figure out why.