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Posted September 11, 2015
Hello,

I entered the Planar Sphere and got to Lavok's room. He was shown as blue. To be cunning, I got my F/M/T into position and backstabbed then hit him repeatedly. He eventually turned red and was quickly shown as "near death". He did manage to say something along the lines of "You are the people that have moved the Planar Sphere" at the start of the combat.

Problem is I've now completed everything in the sphere and can get out into the main city again but cannot do anything with Lavok to finish the Planar Sphere section. I was hoping to use the Planar Sphere as my stronghold. He is still showing as red and near death.

Can anyone advise whether I can still complete the Planar Sphere?

Thank you.
Posted September 11, 2015
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jspl: Hello,

I entered the Planar Sphere and got to Lavok's room. He was shown as blue. To be cunning, I got my F/M/T into position and backstabbed then hit him repeatedly. He eventually turned red and was quickly shown as "near death". He did manage to say something along the lines of "You are the people that have moved the Planar Sphere" at the start of the combat.

Problem is I've now completed everything in the sphere and can get out into the main city again but cannot do anything with Lavok to finish the Planar Sphere section. I was hoping to use the Planar Sphere as my stronghold. He is still showing as red and near death.

Can anyone advise whether I can still complete the Planar Sphere?

Thank you.
The problem is that you have made him an enemy before the quest has had time to set the necessary variables. You cannot kill Lavok. He has an item equipped that give him a guaranteed minimum 1 HP, much like Imoen in the Irenicus' dungeon. You cannot even set variables to progress the quest -- without resetting his allegiance -- because he is hostile, and hostile creatures will not interact. Unless you know how to use Near Infinity to edit saved games you will have to reload from a save prior to attacking him.
Posted September 11, 2015
Thank you.

Is Near Infinity relatively straightforward? I have saves after leaving the sphere. As I can return, if I edit the save would this then allow me to complete the quest?

Also, would it be possible to charm him to make him friendly? If I did that, could I then speak to him?
Post edited September 11, 2015 by jspl
Posted September 11, 2015
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jspl: Also, would it be possible to charm him to make him friendly? If I did that, could I then speak to him?
I believe Baldur's Gate 2 doesn't let you speak with charmed characters, so this would unfortunately not work. If this were Baldur's Gate 1, on the other hand, I believe your idea would work there. (Does it work in the Enhanced Edition of 1?)
Posted September 11, 2015
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jspl: Is Near Infinity relatively straightforward? I have saves after leaving the sphere. As I can return, if I edit the save would this then allow me to complete the quest?

Also, would it be possible to charm him to make him friendly? If I did that, could I then speak to him?
No, I would not say Near Infinity is straightforward, but then I don't know your level of skill in such matters. Even if you managed to alter his allegiance back to neutral you would still need to reset many variables for the dialog to kick in and progress sensibly. You would be much better off owning your mistake and reloading from a prior save.

As noted, you cannot interact with charmed characters, and Charm is a hostile spell, in BG1 and 2. He would turn hostile again when it wore off.
Post edited September 11, 2015 by Hickory
Posted September 11, 2015
Sadly I don't have a save pre Lavok encounter. Oh well!
Posted September 11, 2015
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jspl: Sadly I don't have a save pre Lavok encounter. Oh well!
There's a lesson to be learned, at least: always make an explicit save (NOT quicksave) before interacting with named characters, or other major events.
Posted September 12, 2015
Something to look forward to on your next play through. I've never played BG and felt I needed a storage houses. I dump or sell if Im not using it. Thats pretty much how I live my real life too. All I need is this laptop and a good sized dumpster with a lid in case it rains. death to materialism!

playing through nwn1 now and I think I met that Lovak in the past when the creator races were building a vault. He was a leader of the slaves and gave me a ring. It was ugly so I tossed it. OP would want a hi-tech space ship house to keep it.
Posted September 12, 2015
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vsommers12: playing through nwn1 now and I think I met that Lovak in the past when the creator races were building a vault. He was a leader of the slaves and gave me a ring. It was ugly so I tossed it. OP would want a hi-tech space ship house to keep it.
No that was Lokar, but clearly your have enough charisma to influence his fellow slaves, without his ring.
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