Hi all,

It's my first time playing through BG1 and I've installed Tutu as some people have suggested.

I'm running into some rather weird bugs though. I think some triggers are getting screwed up and things are happening out of order. For example, the moment I walked into the Gnoll Fortress to rescue Dynaheir the party screen popped up and I was forced to choose someone to remove from my party (I already had six entering the area). I removed Dynaheir since I hadn't stripped the character that I was going to ditch yet, and then when I did find Dynaheir in the fortress she just walked up to me and said the typical "I'm leaving, Minsc come with" stuff. Immediately after that, I talked to them and had them join and figured things were fine.

But now Minsc just gave his "you're running out of time" thing for the sidequest, which I'm guessing means some flag didn't trigger due to the weird way the Dynaheir quest was handled. I really don't want to have to ditch Minsc due to this bug, but I dunno what I can do. Any ideas?

Edit: After doing more Googling, I came across this...
http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/baldurs_gate_tales_of_the_sword_coast/b49050/20094183/p1/

So it looks like it won't actually break the game, but I'll have weird dialog popping up. I guess I can live with this. Just gotta get through BG1 to experience BG2 anyway. =P

Well, uh, the post I linked to is wrong. At the end of the timer Minsc IS trying to kill me now so this is rather problematic. =|

Anyone know any way to cheat the flag to avoid this issue? It's quite... frustrating.

It sounds like you ran into a bug, but basically, you have to have Dynaheir to have Minsc. But when you refused her outright, it sounds like the flag in Minsc's coding wasn't clicked. And in BG1, if you turn down an NPC you never get another chance to recruit them.

So Dynaheir's walked off for good, and Minsc thinks you're wasting time and turns hostile.

I don't know any cheats, but you may just have to revert saves, or kill Minsc.

Did you try and just set the Global Variable HELPMINSC to 2 ?