Talk:Gain the services of Sir Sarles for the temple/@comment-98.110.73.7-20170221172921/@comment-84.61.175.4-20180806202434

Thank you :).

I was talking about Simyaz, he is from the quest with the mindflayers in the underdark, so he is optional. After doing this quest he and his men are just standing around somewhere in the underdark. He doesn't initiate dialogue either, so I tried pickpocketing him before talking to him, and got nothing. After giving him the blade he turned hostile, so I charmed him and pickpocketed him again, but got nothing. Then I added him to my party and looked into his inventory. He only has a bastard sword and no invisible weapons or anything. So I killed him and removed him from my party and he only has that bastard sword and some gp on his body. The silver blade just vanishes (well, the text says "the party has lost an item", but it doesn't say who gained it :)). Since I don't have a save before Kruin, I can't test it with him (but as far as I remember, he vanishes too fast to do anything, doesn't he?).

So Sarles remains a mystery to me, since he drops the ore when dying, so it doesn't simply vanish when removed from my inventory (or from Minsc's to be exact :)). I also looked at his inventory with shadowkeeper and there ist absolutely nothing. Nonetheless I get the "magical weapon in use" line (ingame) and his inventory weighs exact 200 pounds. Also, he can move around when he should be encumbered, shouldn't he? It is shown in red and he can carry only 50 pounds regularly. Well, probably the game developers intended to keep their players from cheating, or rather they wanted us to stick to the decision (temple art or better weapon), but why did they not just handle it as with Simyaz and the silver blade and let the ore vanish completely? Maybe it was intended as a possible way for evil players? I can't get myself to play evil, the one time I tried I had 18 reputation in no time and was alone, because all my evil party members had left me... :).

Sorry I wrote quite the novel here :). That was it for my last day of holiday, so best wishes and have fun! When I stumble about something like this again I'll be sure to come back :).