Defel

I ran through this battle a few times and here's what I found:

It's all about Zeela. I CTRL-Y insta-killed the rest of their party and it still crashes in the same spot.

I know nothing about modding BG2 so I'm going to talk in my layman's terms. It's as if there's a script that fires for an NPC after a spell is successfully cast and Zeela's is corrupt. If Zeela is incapacitated between the time the screen says "Zeela casts Hold Person" or "Zeela casts Command" and when the spell actually hits its targets, it does not crash. If I pause and CTRL-Y her right after her spell is complete and when the spell begins to animate, it does not crash.

Once I managed to cast Hold Person on her at the same time she casted on my group. Since she was held before her spell hit my group, it did not crash when it did hit my group a millisecond later. Do NPCs have a script that runs after a spell is successfully cast?...I guess if someone wanted an NPC to say, "Boo ya! I totally got you with my spell" or something. If so, logically, I would say the problem is there.

I'm done looking at this though. I'm just going to CTRL-Y her.

Divine Remix isn't the problem as I didn't install it because of this thread, but I have this problem as well. The crash always occurs when Zeela casts a spell and the animation is in the middle of playing out. I've seen it happen with Command, but mostly Hold Person. This doesn't make much sense to me since I had just fought Mullahey and he used Hold Person w/o any issues.

Is it possible to remove it from her spellbook with NI? It doesn't seem to work for me. After I modify someone's memorized spells and save, I can't get back into the CRE.