Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Help/Tips/Tricks Saving Penumbra

I've started a new game of Divinity and am trying to save Penumbra.

I have read that you are meant to talk to the Guard and go west.
But the guard won't go!

Keep talking to the guard and go through all the conversation options, then head into the room to the south. As you leave the area, the guard will also leave (to the west, IIRC), allowing you to head back to free Penumbra (in the cell north of where the guard was).

The only problem being that the guard won't move!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />

Even after you talked to him repeatedly, and then left yourself?

I've gone throught all the talk options, including the threatening one a few times, and then left to the South or to the West.
After a while, I go back in, but the guard is still there!

Leaving the area after talking to the guard repeatedly should trigger a cutscene where the guard makes a comment and then leaves. Did you try heading to the east, rather than south?

You could always try killing the guard with Poison Cloud (cast near but not directly on him, so he will not turn hostile and attack, and you do not loose any reputation points).

I haven't tried exiting through the East yet, I cannot unlock the foor, (I'm lvl 2 at lockpicking). DO you know what lvl I need to be to open that door?

I just checked and going through the east door triggered the guard to leave. I think leaving south got him to leave last time I played, but it didn't this time (I also didn't talk to him as much this time).

You need level 4 Lockpick to open the door to the east. If you accepted the lockpicking bet when you entered the guild, you can get another level of Lockpick by talking to the guy again and conceding defeat.

Well, thanks for your help.

It'll take me a while to Lockpick lvl 4 locks, I'm onlt a lvl 8 mage. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mage.gif" alt="" />