Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Enhanced Edition Can't open all Homestead portals. Bug or my error?

Hi all

CAUTION:
Possible spoilers. If you’re not far into the game then reading this may tell you more than you wish to know. But unless you’re advanced enough for the information NOT to be a spoiler, then you are unlikely to know the answer anyway. So please only read on if you’re fairly well advanced in the game, or finished. Thanks

I'm currently stopped by the door with the face, soon after the entry to the Source Temple. It keeps telling me that I’m not quite ready to enter yet. The implication is that I need to discover more of my backstory before I’m allowed to proceed. The problem is that I’m unable to get anything more to trigger.

I’m playing the Enhanced Edition which I downloaded a couple of weeks ago from Steam (I've owned the original game right back from the days when it was being tested with only the Cyseal area unlocked). It seems to be running offline as I don't have to start Steam for it to run. Version 2.0.119.430 on a Mac. If any of that matters...

SPOILERS:

I have read that you need to collect around twelve stones and that they can be either the spent variety (grey inert stones) or still unused bloodstones (pinkish red). These are also used to get the imp to open the portals in the Homestead area. Is that correct?

I now have a total of 16 stones in the inventory of one of the main characters - 9 grey inert stones and 7 red bloodstones. But only nine portals have opened in the Homestead. Four are still inactive and the imp won’t talk about them or move out of his chair. I’ve seen 3 videos that reveal the past. I’ve also read numerous old diaries and letters in the portal rooms and talked to all the occupants, including Astarte and a blue/black demon dude named The Trife.

This doesn’t seem to be enough to satisfy the door.

These are the portals now open:

Observatory
Hall of Heroes
Inner Chamber

Frost
Stone
Flames

Hall of Secrets
Armoury
Hall of Darkness

I’ve tried dropping the stones and re-adding them to inventory and also swapping the stones to the other main character. But no luck getting the remaining portals to open, more video(s) to run, or the rest of the tapestry to clear.

Have I missed a step, or is this a bug?

Any assistance or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks. Chris C.

Use 3 of the blood stones (double click, or right click and use); just having them in your inventory doesn't do anything (outside of a couple quests where you can use one from a dialogue). The Forbidden Zone portal site can not be activated; activating the other 3 will get the door to let you into the Source Temple.

Excellent! Thanks very much indeed for the reply Raze. Good to know that it was something I hadn’t done rather than a bug! I’d found a few threads about game stopping bugs with the Imp, along similar lines, with the original edition of the game, so it’s a relief to know I’m not locked out.

My big mistake was taking Zixzax literally when he keeps saying “I see you’ve found another star stone” each time he opens new portals

After reading your advice I went back and completed a quest I’d forgotten about - healing Alfie. I’d orginally healed him to full health using the first aid skill (which doesn’t hurt him like magic healing does) but he still didn’t move on. I intended to go back and use a bloodstone once I’d collected a few more, but I forgot (one of the perks of reaching age 70 is that you get to plead the Senility Defence…. ).

That opened a new portal room, where I met Astarte again and she gave me a much clearer explanation that indicated I had to use some more stones, rather than just find them. If only she'd told me that earlier... But they do say that Experience is the attribute that you tend to get just after you need it...

And I also discovered that keeping them in inventory is unnecessary. I could leave them on the ground and still get the result.

So close…. so close…. but no cigar for me this time…

Thanks again for such prompt and accurate guidance Raze.


Cheers,

Chris C

So the forbidden zone cant be opened?

No; it's for 'party animals' only.

Lol my first decision for a forum name was going to be party animal! I wonder if the animals should have envited the void dragon maybe then he wouldnt be such a douch?