Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Aleroth Catacombs & Thelyron (possible spoilers)

Okay, so I'm in the catacombs on level 5, and I'm at the stage where you resurrect Thelyron. Now, one of the GameFAQs guides mentions that when he's resurrected and you kill him, you battle your way out of the room. If you kill all the monsters yourself, you get a bonus of 2,000 XP and an extra reputation point.

Now, I've killed everything in the room (no sweat <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />) but when I leave the room to get to Mardaneus and his portal, there are obviously other monsters still alive outside the room that I can't fight. I cleared out the entire level before going to Thelyron, so I know these monsters only appeared when I killed the necromancer. Because I can't reach them, (exiting the door kills them automatically) I only get the normal 11,000 XP and 2 reputation points.

So... Is the guide in fact correct, CAN you get an extra rep point or extra XP? If so, how can I reach those monsters I need to kill in order to get the bonus? I can't use the teleportation pyramids of course, so that's not an option sadly... If the guide is wrong, well of course the question becomes moot. But does anyone know for sure?

Monsters in the vicinity of Mardaneus will be killed when you leave, but there were a couple a little farther away that I took out after talking to him, but before taking the portal out.

You get experience for completing the quest, which is dependent on your level (at higher levels you get more experience).
Kiya's Reputation-list-spoiler doesn't mention this extra bonus, but Mardaneus took out a couple skeletons I could not reach from inside the room, so possibly we both missed it. Have you tried a bow, or a spell such as Lightning or Hell Spikes?

Unfortunately I can't hit any of them with my bow or with any offensive spells. They're all on the other side of the wall, so even though I can sometimes see them I can't fire anything through it. And many times I can't see the monsters at all, I can only see their red dots on my minimap. When I leave the room and Mardaneus kills everything, I can walk around and find their bones.

It's a pity, but I have to wonder if the FAQ is even correct. Has anyone here ever gotten that bonus? I wonder if the guy was mistaken.

I know of no bonus but in earlier versions I could kill the monnsters near Mardaneus, don't recall from which version on he had done the job. And I'm not even sure it was 1.0029 - maybe 1.0026 (only for the German version then)
Kiya

so, maybe this FAQ was referring to a very early one?