The Drunken Lizard Pub

I've got two questions about the lever puzzle in Lorewitch Level 1. First off, when I first go into the tower, there's a portcullis which appears to be open, but I'm unable to actually go through it:



Given the nature of the solution to this puzzle, perhaps that's supposed to be intentional, but it's a little weird - if it is intentional, it'd be nice to have some kind of message pop up about how "you can't seem to go forward through the gate" or something.

Secondly, and perhaps this is just related to how I solved that puzzle, but I had solved it via liberal use of the Portal spell, went through the rest of the tower, to find that I had gotten there too "early" for the game, and had to come back later once there was an actually-related quest that I needed to have in my journal... Because of the way I solved the puzzle, though, when I got back into the tower, I found all initial gates closed, and I could no longer get to any of the levers! (I had since reassigned all the Portal locations I had used previously.) It'd be nice if there were some method of "resetting" the gates to their initial state, so that I'd be able to proceed through there without resorting to the old deleting-the-relevant-map-file-from-the-savegame-slot method.

(Then again, perhaps that too is intentional.)

actually i had the same problem too and apparently it is a bug. the gates are actually down. although the graphics clearly shows it open, you will need to pull a lever to bring it up, in fact when you find the right lever, you can then see the gate down if you pull lever twice.

if you plan on going through, i hope you come prepared.

jluk wrote:
if you plan on going through, i hope you come prepared.

What IS that thing in there anyway
I wandered in there a little early in the game and was promptly killed by whatever that was.

Mortikus is a beholder for those that play AD&D. Also called an eye tyrant or for those that play Avernum the gazer and eyebeast.

Don't you just like how it's grinning at you.

Randomizer wrote:Mortikus is a beholder for those that play AD&D. Also called an eye tyrant or for those that play Avernum the gazer and eyebeast.

Don't you just like how it's grinning at you.

Didn't get much chance to admire the large round creature before I was gazing into the star field enjoying the great here-after.

Like one of you, I too went in to Lorewitch a bit early. Got past one part of the puzzle on the first floor, but got stuck coming back down from the second. I'm now stuck (quite literally) in a room with three portcullis' (portculli?) and no way on earth to pop out. I could use the portal spell, but unfortunately, it's set to the room I'm currently in ... not much help there.

Query: Exactly how screwed am I?

Edited: Screenshot now attached. Sorry 'bout that.
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New to the world and still learning Thaermore.

I'm coming into this thread a bit late. This does seem like a bug. How exactly do you recreate this "invisible portcullis" bug?

[edit] Nevermind. It was a barrier error on the original map. I fixed it for 1.04.

Still, I don't see how this could become a problem for someone...

BasiliskWrangler wrote:I'm coming into this thread a bit late. This does seem like a bug. How exactly do you recreate this "invisible portcullis" bug?

[edit] Nevermind. It was a barrier error on the original map. I fixed it for 1.04.

Still, I don't see how this could become a problem for someone...

It wasn't - it was a minor bug that didn't effect any outcomes. It was just odd to have an "open" square that you couldn't walk through the first time, but then later could walk through the second time (after flipping a few more switches).

But I think people were reporting on this bug going back to the previous version or two, so it's cool that you found it and fixed it.

1Ozone wrote:Like one of you, I too went in to Lorewitch a bit early. Got past one part of the puzzle on the first floor, but got stuck coming back down from the second. I'm now stuck (quite literally) in a room with three portcullis' (portculli?) and no way on earth to pop out. I could use the portal spell, but unfortunately, it's set to the room I'm currently in ... not much help there.

Query: Exactly how screwed am I?

Can you post up a screenshot? It's hard to know exactly where you are and what's advice we've got to give without a screenie to look at...

I came to the forums to see how to get out of this pickle and I see that other have the same issue. Of course, I may be missing something quite obvious, but I believe I am stuck. Cant teleport out, and unfortunately I have been using my quick save the last 10 hours of play.

I have version 1.03 on Steam.

You will need to use the editor to move your position.

See this topic:
http://www.basiliskgames.com/forums/vie ... =12&t=3856

Someone else had a similar problem:
http://www.basiliskgames.com/forums/vie ... =12&t=4082

Thanks Randomizer, worked like a charm!