Oh dear. I think I've boobed pretty badly all thru this game ... I must have killed the rat (tho I remember the '1...' answer from the Imp somewhere, so maybe I did talk to him OK but not enough).
Anyway, as I said, I suddenly found I'd rifted to Rivelon, finally rid myself of the chain gang, and that was that.
Maybe, when I can summon up the partience, I'll go thru the whole lot again a little wiser ... and maybe next time I'll wait for a walkthru first so I can see where I went wrong in so many places (I read on this board you can blow up an area in Act 1 ... I never did that either. I did finish with a character Lvl of 33 though - repeated pumping in the BFs. Anyway I could load him in for the next run through? That'd save a lot of effort! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ROFL.gif" alt="" />