I've just had this buggy incident that
seems to have worked itself out, but I might report it officially and thought I'd see if anyone else has seen something similar.
We were rescuing
Volo from the mob by the Steel Watch foundry
. One of us cast Crown of Madness on one of them, which to my limited surprise added two civilians and a steel watcher to initiative. The civilians ran
towards him first (I suppose that should be bug 0), and he killed them. We won the battle, but immediately afterwards the narrator told us that the watcher was angry and wanted to take us to prison, which we refused. My plan was to run away and hide, which Astarion and Durge managed, but Shadowheart and Minthara were knocked out.
When combat finished, Shadowheart and Minthara were in Heapside Prison, which I'd never heard of before. The two men went looking around for any potential prison to try and talk our way in to at least see where it was, and when we went down to Heapside Strand,
the Saughin attacked and knocked Durge out
. So we went back to the Elfsong to rest. As we ended the day:
Bug 1 The cutscene for Shadowheart rescuing her parents played, despite Shadowheart not actually being there
And then Astarion and Durge went to sleep.
Bug 2? But Shadowheart and Minthara couldn't sleep because they're in prison - so they had to break out with the handful of spell slots they had left. And I couldn't undo the others being asleep, or wait until the morning when they recovered. It's reasonable game design to say you can't fully rest in prison, but this way felt really awkward.
Now, I don't know if prisons in the game are always like this because I rarely go to prison, but
Bug 3 Nobody minded us breaking out of the cell by moving the pile of crates away and wandering round. Even when one of the guards opened the door to that adjacent cell, they were fine with us being there - but as soon as we stepped out, they chucked us back into our cell (but helpfully left the other door open).
Then, when I traded with the merchant and also when I picked up our gear (Cloak of Shadows and Take All button!)...
Bug 4 It turns out we still had access to the inventories of the two people back at the inn, so we could have used any of our gear to break out. If part of the party are in prison, you shouldn't be able to trade anything with them - only between the people who are in prison.
They were once again fine with us smashing the prison wall with the Blood of Lathander, until the chap behind it got angry, and we escaped to the latrine thanks to Minthara's illithid flight and Shadowheart's shadow teleport. Then,
Bug 5 We couldn't fast travel, presumably because two party members were sleeping.
So we walked back to the Elfsong, and entered the rooms, where Astarion and Durge were sleeping. But
Bug 6 There are only 2 clickable beds, so Shadowheart (who I was now playing as) couldn't sleep.
I walked Shadowheart all round the rooms, checking for any other beds, and then came to
. I had her speak to
, and then as soon as that finished it cut to her sleeping; and then everyone in the party woke up. Everything looks normal, but I'll be keeping an eye on it for the next couple of days. I wanted to document what happened before I forget, if nothing else.
