Weird things in my game

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I decided to go Asylum very early, which was something I have never done before. So my lvl 12-13 party managed to enter Spellhold, and captured, and Bodhi took us to the maze.

When she talked, near the end of her dilaogue, 'NO Valid Replies or Links' appeared and dialogue ended prematurely, and Bodhi stood still there. (she was supposed to fly away) This has never happened before.

I suspected Unfinished Bussiness was to blame, as it has a component to alter Bodhi in spell hold, cat and mouse game.

So I reinstalled the UB. Which also reinstalled %80 of my mods as UB was one of my first. I waited.

Then when it was about to install the last mod I had, new version of Quest Pack, it gave a program error and closed down. Curses.

I reloaded my game, teleported near Bodhi via CTRL+J to initiate the dialgue, to my suprise everything was in order, she finished her speech, turned bat and ran away.

Then I reinstalled the last parts of QP, and I think it was OK.

Why did this happen? My dialogue file was corrupted? How? And why? It was all normal last time I played.

Anyway, I continued playing. Playing Improved Asylum with low level party was FUN. I killed two liches and two pit fiends all together huddled in the library. (it was a majestic strategic battle and I am quite proud!)

Then I challenged Royal Umber Hulks. Man, they are tough! And numerous! They killed my Immy and Shapeshifter so fast it was not funny.
Kelsey blocked them via PfMW (this spell is really a life saver) for 16 rounds, my spell casters (My wild mage, Jaheira, and Kelsey) hurled all nasty spells we had, GM, slows, confusions, chaos, glitterdust, emotion, domination, charm monsters etc. And managed to kill them off in time! I was suprised! Enchantment spells are truly useful, once I dominated two of them, and emotion dropped three, the rest of the battle was easy enough.

Those two mages, The cursed one and other were, annoying. They are immune to spell disruption! They were Insect Plagued twice and managed to cast their spells. Two Prismatic Sprays, but we were out of the range. Then one dominated my Immy, I continued and killed them, then somehting weird happened.

Immy was dominated permanently. I waited, the domination icon was gone but she still had a red circle! I even CTRL+Red her, dispelled her, to no avail. I reloaded. Why?

Anyway, then Bodhi came to taunt us (which shows UB was installed correctly this time) my Wild Mage casted a PWM and headed to absorb vampire bites, but I forgot that there was also Grimward archers with normal arrows, ne shot me, and I was killed. Instantly. Now, my WM is a weakling with 49 HP, but he had a Ioun Stone, so he was immune to critical hits. I was also playing on core. So, how did that archer kill me in a single shot? Do they have vorpal effect ranged weapons?

Reloaded, Bohdi came again, she casted a Wail of the Banshee. My WM and Immy grimaced their teeth, and rolled 20 and 14 on their saves with a super human effort. Bodhi could not. I know it is wrong in so many levels, her being the undead, supposed to be unkillable in this stage, and it was she who casted the WoB, but she fell instantly afterwards. It even said 'Bodhi-death.' This was scary, I reloaded. Again. This time a Sunray from Daystar, courtesy of Immy, killed her cadre and she was forced to flee as she should (even though she suffered 1000+ dmg from the ray)

All in all, I finished the Asylum, (stayed away from Imp. Asylum party, but Immy managed to pick pocket a very spiffy ring from them, nevertheless. ) and it was really fun.

Can you explain this weird things? It was strange, but still fun though.

 

I didn't have problems with UB when I used it last. My first guess is Improved Asylum. Check their forum for troubleshooting?

 

Funny thing is, I had both UB and IA together and these sort of things never happened before, so I am rather clueless.

 

Unfortunately, all the evidence in the "no valid links" case would look to point to Quest Pack. I'll definitely check this.

 

^That's what I thought too, as Quest Pack's new version is the last mod I had, and there was no such error before it, AFAIK. But why, and how, I can not answer.