question about Phaere

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I received the quest to rescue the Matron's Daughter while ago. I killed the master brain and received his blood, and returned to Solaufein. But instead of doing something, he just sais something like "I have no time for idle chatter". What should I do now? I haven't met any phaere and the matron mother yet, and walkthroughs don't help either.

[ May 20, 2004, 19:27: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

You don't have to kill the elder brain in order to rescue Phaere; that's another quest entirely. You might have to reload to a point before you receive the quest from Solaufein, because I think there's a time limit to do it.

To rescue Phaere, you have to meet Solaufein near the entrance of the southern tunnels in the underdark main map. He then will "pull" Phaere out of the astral plane (or something along those lines) along with a few mind flayers and umber hulks. Kill them (and keep Phaere alive) and enjoy what is, in my opinion, one of the most fun part of the game!

 

Thanks for the help, but...

Reloading might be a problem. The earliest save I have is when I have just entered the 'mind flayer cave'. And I can't just exit there. At this point I already have accepted the quest.

Another weird thing is : before entering the cave I have talked to Solaufein, but no monsters were spawned. Is it possible that I said the wrong thing to him?

And is there an other possibility to leave the underdark, without having to restart all over? Btw : I wouldn't want to leave as a drow, so where can I find the dragon eggs withhout doing all those quests.

Oh and another small question. Is it possible to us the console to return to a previous state in the game. I've read something about using this console, and then I coul be able to do the previous quest again... Or am I wrong?

 

Are you sure you don't have an autosave just before entering the mind flayer caves?

Do you remember what Sola said when you talked to him outside? If there's indeed a timer on that quest, it's possible you simply waited too long before meeting him. I have no idea what to do then since I never had that problem.

As for using the console, I've never used it much myself so I won't venture into that territory. I hope someone else will chip in with more useful help.

 

Do you mean that you entered the MF caves or are waiting by Sola? Wait by Sola and cast buffing spells - talk to him again - if he appears to be casting don't disturb him.

And install the patch if you haven't already - IIRC that fixes stuff like this

 

I can't believe it took me until now to realize Sola is short for Solaufein.

You can't say the wrong thing to Solaufein. I think you need to wait a bit after talking to him before the monsters and Phaere come out. In fact they might even be there already, but you went into the mindflayer cave instead.

As for reloading to be within the time limits: I'm not even sure if the time limit is still there. I mean, you did talk to Solaufein to trigger the next part of the quest within the time limit. So it's not like you are late to meet Solaufein. It just appears to the game that the combat to free Phaere is taking extra long. But don't take my word for this, I could be wrong.

 

I don't have a good autosave anymore, because when leaving the mind flayer cave, I started walking around to see if there were people in the drow city I had to talk to... So the autosave has been overwritten a few times.

I don't think I waited too long before meeting Solaufein. I don't remember having slept or having done something else. So I think I walked straight to him. I don't quite remember what he said to me though when I talked to him.

I also have the patch installed, so that's not the problem either. I don't kknow if it'll do anything, but I'll try waiting a few minutes with Solaufein...

Anyway thanks for all the help. And I'll let you know when it works. In the meantime, if someone knows anything about some console magic, feel free to drop a line.