Xentropy

This might be intended, given the nature of Curst, but it could also be a typo so I thought I'd report it:

While errand-running for the fourth piece of the key from Dallan, if you run back and forth and get each of An'Izius and Siabha to maximize their offers to turn the other in, they claim to both be matching the other's offer. However, if you turn Siabha in, An'Izius gives you 3000 copper, while if you turn An'Izius in, Siabha gives you 300 copper. An order of magnitude difference. It *seems* more like a typo (someone typed an extra 0, or missed one) than a double-cross, since the amount you're getting is never even directly referenced.

It also seems a little odd to me, but I can just kill them both, pick the copper up from their corpses, THEN go turn them both in for the 2x XP reward, and doing so doesn't make anyone hostile, doesn't make you any less lawful good, doesn't really seem to do anything different from turning them both in anyway, other than getting a free 3300 copper and a couple bronze bracelets.

One more minor thing, after helping Roberta "handle" Carl, she still continues to stand there spouting floating blue text, "Has anyone seen Carl?" I suppose one could argue that this is intended, and she could just be covering for herself, but it'd make a little more sense to me if she'd just walk off after the deed is done and stop spawning, like Kiri does.

I'm having a hard time duplicating this issue where you can only ask him that question on your first try.  What is it that Ratbone says to you when you have that question available, and when you don't?  It seems to me that, after asking any question, you are sent back to Ratbone saying "Go on then, ask yer questions." at which point you should always have that option.

Nevermind, seems to be there, I guess my issue is a mental block against asking yet another person to tell me about the Hive. Seems more logical to get a quest to give him rat tails by asking him about the rats, not the Hive. Oh well.

If I used the book to teleport, then no, the world map doesn't appear, if you exit the Lower Ward on the east side you skip the world map and appear directly in the Clerk's Ward, and the mage talks.

If you get to the Lower Ward normally (via pregnant alley) then exiting on the east side still gives you the world map. You basically always get the world map on every map transition after getting sent to the Lower Ward via the normal course of the storyline. If this breaks scripts, that could be pretty big, since it means breaking them for a large portion of the game.

For now a simple enough workaround is to enter and leave a house after zoning into any area from the world map screen, since that loads the area "normally". I see the Drunken Mage talk after doing this.

Okay, here's the actual guide to getting Ratbone's rat tail quest:

Hmm, I see it now. I swear I couldn't find that path before, but I may've just been blind. Now I have to find some rat tails again since I already turned them all in at the vermin figuring that quest was gone forever. Thank you!

Edit: Yeah, it's definitely a harder dialogue path to find than you'd think. If you ask him anything other than to tell you about the area in general first, you can pretty much never get back there without leaving conversation altogether and starting from scratch. Perhaps a way to reach the quest from asking him about what he's doing there (like you thought it was at first) would be nicer. Not a lot of people are going to ask for information about the Hive in general for the 50th time (as most would have learned plenty by the time they reach this guy).

Is there a way to get Ratbone into a state where he won't offer you the quest? I have very few dialogue options with him going back there now, and I know in my current saves I've had conversations in the past, so I must have said something wrong to bar the quest from this incarnation forever. (Last I remember him doing was telling me to stay OUT of his rat-catching business and find another line of work, because there aren't enough rats to go around!)

As for the karach blade, is there any chance to change that so it will change forms immediately when/if his morale changes? I know enough about the game to have talked to him pretty early and unlocked the circles, but I'd imagine someone not doing so until Dak'kon was already level 10 being pretty angry that they're stuck with a Chained Blade forever. I know the game's all about choices, but not having done something yet isn't exactly a conscious choice if you don't know it's there to BE done. One of the things I love about this game is you can go back later and nearly always do something after the fact. Losing an upgrade forever because of not finding it until a character had already gained too much XP doesn't sit right with me.

BTW, I edited my previous post with a response to your request. No floating text on the Drunken Mage for my game.

I'm playing through Torment for the first time in years using the latest versions of these fixes/unfinished business/tweaks and I'm loving it! I happen to have just reached the Lower Ward, and have hopefully useful information regarding Hailcii'n and strangeness here.

I have never killed a gith, but Hailcii'n attacked me on sight UNTIL I helped Ana'zi die. After helping Ana'zi die, apparently making Hailcii'n friendly is one of the changes that occurs, along with making the githyanki willing to talk to you to "help recover your memories".

I don't know *why* he wants to kill you before you help Ana'zi die, but this is what happened to me. After helping Ana'zi, he was quite jovial and we had a lovely time chatting.

A couple of other things that have annoyed me in my game, and I don't know if it's something I did wrong or the result of bug(s):

1) I'm not able to start the restored Pendant of Yemeth quest. At all. I talk to Ratbone and have no option to give him rat tails to begin the quest (which is how I understand it is supposed to begin?), despite having plenty in my inventory. I tried saves and reloads and every possible conversational path and just can't find any of note. The only clue I have to the quest's existance at all is the guy wanting to duel me north of the Smouldering Corpse.

2) Hovering over Dak'kon's alignment icon I see he has a morale of 20. But his blade is the "Chained Blade", not the "Streaming Blade", as I understand it is supposed to have upgraded to. I have upgraded Dak'kon himself, and he is currently in the lowest of the three level ranges, so it has the correct stats for Chained at that level, but should be Streaming, no?

Again, great work. I'll post here if I run into anything else. I hate that I know I've seen a couple of other things I found inconsistent (and one simple typo), but didn't think to write them down so you might fix them! D'oh.

Edit: I just headed over to the Clerk's Ward and stared at the drunken mage and bartender for about 5 minutes. No floating text, other than a random townie walking by and saying "Hmm, how curious", and Able Pander-Thought going on and on (and on) about random nonsense. Nothing from the Drunken Mage or Bartender whatsoever.