Lyssak Bug

[Oxytocin]

Alright, so I went into Lyssak's spire, and killed one of the versions of him. I saw the conversation between the remaining two about his death. Then, a few turns later, I kill both remaining Lyssaks at the same time with an AOE spell. I get the little conversation window that I should see when killing the second one, but after that, nothing. No acknowledgment that I just killed Lyssak. I go back to town and try to talk to the mayor, but it appears that no one knows that I killed him. So my question is, is there a file I can edit to give me the necessary trigger to complete this quest? Otherwise, I'm fairly screwed.

[Redstart]

I'd recommend contacting Jeff directly with this as he doesn't visit the boards that often. Send him an email (using the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the page) and explain your situation.

[Randomizer]

I sent this to Jeff last night since it's a once in a million chance of getting this rare bug. It'll probably happen in latter games since Jeff seems to like splitting up monsters with dialog responses.

 

 

Problem Fixing from Stategy Central -

 

This post is devoted to systematically fixing problems by means of editing the game scripts. It contains a few spoilers.

 

In the absence of a BoA style Character Editor there is still something you can do to correct all of those problems. Find a town script and alter its Init State as shown below. (A good choice would be a town script like "z17Tblackcr.txt", the script for the starting town.) Then enter the town, the desired changes should occur immediately.

 

Note: once you have altered the progress of the game, remove the bits you added to the relevant Init State. Also, if you have a script file open while playing Avernum 5 you will crash the game should A5 try to access that script.

 

Init State: called only when party enters this zone.

Start State: called every minute that the party remains in the zone.

Exit State: called only when party leaves this zone.

 

You need this information to claim the quest and get the reward:

sf(8,24,3);

sf(8,1,1);

award_party_xp(400,16);

reward_give(374);

[Oxytocin]

Okay, that will give me the XP and the gold from the quest, but will it allow me to continue the storyline that has been broken?

[Ephesos]

If the fix works like Randomizer described, then yes. The flags set in that chunk of code should catch the storyline up with you.

[Spidweb]

This is definitely an actual bug. I'll release an update to fix it soon. In the meantime, I included a cheat code in the game that will fix it fairly quickly.

 

1. Load the saved game.

2. Type Shift-D.

3. Enter the following:

 

sdf 8 1 1

 

4. Press return.

 

You will be able to go to Harkin's Landing, get the reward for killing Lysstak, and continue in the game.

 

I'm surprised that it had gone this long without this bug going public. Though, considering how many tries it took to kill the last two Lysstaks with one blow, maybe I'm not so surprised. Anyway, thanks for bringing it to my attention and sorry for the trouble.

 

- Jeff Vogel

[Oxytocin]

Jeff, I bow to your customer support. Hopefully I wont need to come back to the forums for help anytime in the near future

[Spidweb]

Thanks, though I'd feel much better if my dumb mistake hadn't caused you these problems. Please let me know if you have trouble applying the fix.

 

- Jeff Vogel

[Oxytocin]

Worked fine. I just entered it, and talked to the mayor, and that was that.