I'd like to mention that I too ran into this issue last night. Like Epsynus, I was playing Co-Op, everyone in the party was alive, dismissing party members did nothing, and every time I talked to Zixzax we got the first conversation.
Events that may or may not have influenced it... [I have absolutely no idea, but I'm listing what I can think of that might be related]
-- We discovered three waypoints (Initial, Docks, and North Cyseal)
-- We retreated from battle before we'd discovered Zixzax, re-appearing at a waypoint (I don't recall which one)
-- We utilized waypoint travel a few times
-- We came across two special stones before running into Zixzax -- each time we came across a stone, only one party member was on the scene [not sure if this would affect anything]
-- I discovered that if you enter Cecil's living area it gives you exploration XP, and if you have your henchmen stealth as well and they follow you into/out of the room every time they enter the party gets another set of exploration XP ((I doubt this has anything to do with it, but it is also a bug)) -> We did not take the teleportation pyramid, but we did see it in the other room.
-- After failing to utilize the waypoint, I tried using Phoenix Dive to get on the other side of the waypoint in case it was an issue with facing, but given that the majority appear to have no issue, and it didn't help, I don't think that was the problem.
-- We had not used up all of our points from leveling up.
When we first spoke with Zixzax, one party member was elsewhere in town. He said to find the other one before he could teleport us, and the other player was the one who spoke to him the second time. Upon entering, however, he continued the conversation with the player that first spoke with him.
He disappeared and after we spoke with the Weaver, looted the Hall of Heroes of all of its golden tableware, and examined the rest of the main lobby, we went to the Observatory to meet with Zixzax and leave. We spoke to him again, he said the same things he'd said when we first entered, and then tried to use the waypoint... Nothing happened.
That was when I tried phoenix diving to the other side, saving and reloading, as well as saving, having my co-op partner quit, reloading, and trying to leave in single-player. I tried dismissing my party members, killing eachother, attacking Zixzax [didn't go well]... Nothing worked.
We called it a night, and I intend to start a fresh game today, but in singleplayer, and rush through to the Sheltered Plane, make sure it lets me leave in that game, and then invite my friend to join afterwards.
Hopefully something I said will help. If more detail is needed on certain points I can try to elaborate.
shiverczar
