Luculla Mines - Am I screwed? [Necromancer Totem]

So I went into Luccula Mines before finding the white witch. I blew up the necromancer's bone totem with a fireball and it went down in a single shot. Unfortunately, my characters did not react to the totem going down at all and the miners are still enthralled. Problem is, this happened a while ago and I did not think much of it at the time. Fifteen or so hours later, I free the witch and she wants me to investigate the mines. Except I can't get the password for the door now because the miners are still enthralled despite no totem. Am I screwed, or is there another way to get past that door?

*Bump* I'm also having this issue. Really bummed at the prospect of having to ditch 15 hours of gameplay.

Has anyone got a solution?

unlock it

Fairly sure there's another way to get past that door. Look at the table to the left of the door.

You definitly need the code word for the door afaik. The miners, the conduit :> and the foreman i think know the word. I didnt found a paper or book which tells you the word, i got it from the miners.

SO yeah, MAYBE if you totem got bugged and the miners are still thralled you might be screwed. I didnt found another way yet.

We have a fix for this one and it'll be included in one of the upcoming patches - there is an alternative solution which involves killing all the skeletons.

Thank you for the pointers on killing the skeletons.

So how do I recover now from an already broken savegame with the newest GOG version?

edit: Skeletons still don't talk. In one of my oldest quicksaves, the group near the gate is still alive, but they have no dialogue option to give me the password

edit: Talking to the second group changes some stuff in the journal and get me to the "found totem" branch, but the totem is already destroyed

still stuck

hah, i just got there but i talked to the cultists and made them friendly.

didnt destroy the totem, until i snoop more.
wisely done heh.

Originally Posted by Selakah

So I went into Luccula Mines before finding the white witch. I blew up the necromancer's bone totem with a fireball and it went down in a single shot. Unfortunately, my characters did not react to the totem going down at all and the miners are still enthralled. Problem is, this happened a while ago and I did not think much of it at the time. Fifteen or so hours later, I free the witch and she wants me to investigate the mines. Except I can't get the password for the door now because the miners are still enthralled despite no totem. Am I screwed, or is there another way to get past that door?

Lockpick!!.....I tried it because f*** it, why the f*** not and it worked. I later reloaded an older save because I didn't feel like dealing with that bit right then but that works. Put some lockpick boosting accessories(which are quite common, by lvl 10 I had lie six of them) and boom....progress ongoing!!