Test Of Courage Problem

[Gunther1987]

When I enter the Test Of Courage through the portal and unlock that door, there are no skeletons or headless trying to attack nor is that wizard there trying to sacrifice a baby (the baby is lying there on that small altar).

I also have to add that I used Mark & Recall to get back to the Castle and that that blind mage wasn't there until I left the castle to check where he was and when I came back he just sat down on his chair.

Hack Mover isn't on.

[Dominus]

Can you provide a savegame? Maybe several, one when you recall, the other before courage test or right after stepping through the portal...

[Gunther1987]

Before entering the portal:

https://www.mediafire.com/?hd01wsapvz0adv8

And this one is from last night when I was going to get the Hoe Of Destruction:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/y5o1c ... lt42bg.sav

[Dominus]

ok, this is curios, somehow it seems as if nothing works there anymore. Can you backtrack and see when things got screwy? When you left the island and returned?
A new game works fine there, so something must have caused this... And this is without the keyting mod, right?

[Gunther1987]

Yes, it's the normal one (haven't even started the Keyring mod, yet).

One Moment, I have a total of 43 savefiles, so. I'll check.

[Dominus]

if you got some bandwidth, you could just zip them all for me to try things out as well

[Dominus]

also, for testing, you can just teleport to the moongate that brings you there and step through.

[Gunther1987]

That's even better, here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/48frp ... efiles.rar

[Dominus]

hmm, the problem begins after your test of love savegame. What did you do in between?

[Gunther1987]

I casted the "Mark" Spell on the white virtue stone, then casted "Recall" on the orange virtue stone which was already marked in Britain.

[Dominus]

where did you cast mark? on the test of love? or after you finished that and returend to the room with the statues?

[Dominus]

nevermind, the recalling is causing this to happen.
I have no idea why.

(also just cheat teleporting away and back causes this, too)

Edit: seems to happen with all my snapshots dating back to May 2010, no idea if this always broke...

[Gunther1987]

Not sure if it helps, but I always presumed that if you used "Recall" on a virtue stone that hasn't been used, that the spell would fail. When I forgot which virtue stone was used for the "Mark" casting, I used it on the green one. And it teleported me to a shrine.

Guess where I ended up knowing that there's a virtue dedicated to that colour.

Also, the same thing happened when I accidentally used it on the Red Stone.

[Dominus]

in what resolution are you playing?

[Gunther1987]

http://i60.tinypic.com/118m6fk.png

This is just the printscreen, it doesn't look like that on my monitor.

My monitor is 1680x1050 & 60Hz (not sure if you need it but in case you guys would be thinking that it's a problem on my screen...).

I tweaked with it, just like you told me months ago and this was the best resolution that came out.

[Dominus]

sorry, turned out it's not a problem with that. My guess is it's a weird cache out dataloss bug.

I was able to reproduce the problem with a new game by doing the following "easy" steps

Started a new game and did the following:
- cheat-teleported to Britain Museum and got two virtue stones
- cheat-teleported to Castle Britain and got the spell book
- marked the yellow virute stone in the castle yard (Archwizard mode)
- cheat-teleported to the flying carpet
- flew to the east to the isle of fire
- flew around the test of courage begin (south-east tip with the tower)
- landed outside the castle
- stepped in and marked the white stone (Archwizard mode)
- saved this savegame

(now stepped through the test of courage moongate and made sure the mage is still there and reloaded)

To trigger now:
- cast recall on yellow stone
- instantly cast recall on white stone
- walk to the test of courage moongate and step through
- walk south

the mage should be gone now.

[Gunther1987]

Since you have all my savefiles, could you test out something else? You see, I was in Dungeon Wrong just now and got insta-killed by that liche and when I reappeared in the fellowship shelter in Paws. I was lying UNDER the bed instead of in it.