nope, there was no key and he was as dead as he can get. i went back several times looking. i always use alt when looking for something but thanks for the sugestion. this happened just once. i'm hoping it was a fluke. maybe it dropped in a wall or something, but it wasnt there. oh, in response to killing him again, how am i suposed to do that without a saved game to fall back on? by the time i realised i absolutly had to have the scroll, i had saved over it several times, lol.
I agree, that is one of the nasty bugs in the game, when an item falls under a wall there is no way you can get it but you can see that it is there. Another very strange possibility but quite probable, is that the key fell right into your inventory if you were engaged with him in battle and standing right next to him. Since you never tried to open the locked chest then you would never have known that you had the right key with you all time. Later on in the game you may wonder about some extra keys you have. This is yet another suggestion we made Larian Studios as to tag the keys to make them make more sense.
Cheers.
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