Midwinter

I'm currently playing Planescape for the first time and loving it so far. I've progressed steadily through Sigil and everything went great, but now I'm stuck in the wards. I don't like to turn to FAQs and walkthroughs every time I run into a problem, but after completing almost all quests I could find in both areas, frustration got the the better of me and now I suspect there's a bug at work. According to all the guides, Morte was supposed to get kidnapped by wererats when I first entered the lower ward. He wasn't. I can see some wererats standing near the entrance, but when I click on them, nothing happens.

Does anyone know if this is a bug or am I simply forgetting something? I'm playing with the latest patch.

Hello there, I have a question for the IWD experts. I'd like to play this game on a LAN, but we only have three players. The most logical solution would be to let everyone have two characters, but I was wondering if it's possible to play the game with a party of three. After all, experience is spread over the entire party, so a smaller party would level faster.

Still, this is only theory. I never played an IE-game with a party smaller than six, so my question is if this would work out. Or should we just go with two characters each?