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Baldur's Gate II Chapter 2 is the second part of Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn.  In this chapter you will have to collect 20,000 gp (later reduced to 15,000) and make an important decision that will decide every action you need to take in Baldur's Gate II Chapter 3.

You will find yourself outside Gaelan Bayle's house. His nephew, Brus, will direct you to a place where you can find work related to your character's class. You need to raise money to fund the rescue of Imoen. To get this money you will need to sell, raid and complete sub-quests.

There are many interesting guild war encounters that can happen at least in Promenade, Slum, Dock, Bridge and Government District at night in this chapter, depending on what area you are at this time of the day. Encounters take time to appear, you might not have 2 encounters at one night. Some scenes show how vampires fighting oder luring shadow thieves, at least 3 vampire vs. thieves (all blue) skirmishes, 3 party vs vampires, some are just night thugs. You will meet the vampires in a certain order: Hareishan, Salia, Del, Parisa and Tanova. Defeated, they usually use their cloud form to escape and you will meet them again later in the game.

Also try to travel between every two districts to trigger all scripted travel encounters (usually ambushes), which only occur when leaving a certain district for the first time or from a specific district to another and provide you with nice loot for this stage of the game. After the scripted ones there will be random ones with only little loot.

Once you have 15,000gp in hand and being in the city anywhere but City Gate or Graveyard, a mysterious woman named Valen will appear and will urge you to meet her mistress in the Graveyard District. Right after you finish talking with Valen, Brus will arrive with a message from his uncle Gaelan Bayle, who will sweeten the deal for you to 15,000 gp if you meet him.

You now have a choice. You must choose whether to side with the vampires led by Bodhi or the Shadow Thieves led by Aran Linvail. If you give 15,000 gold pieces to Bodhi, you will have to attack the Shadow Thieves to get the help for rescuing Imoen. If you give 15,000 gp to Gaelan, you will have to attack the vampires to get the help for rescuing Imoen. When you have made you choice go to either Bodhi or Gaelan. If you go to Gaelan, he will give you a key so that you can get to Aran Linvail in his secret hideout that's accessible from the Shadow Thief Guildhall. If you're a thief, however, Bodhi states that "there may be no honor among thieves, but [she] cannot trust you to abandon your thief brethren". So your only choice will be to side with the Shadow Thieves to progress the main quest.


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