What's up with Virgil?

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  1. midnite_matinee

    midnite_matinee New Member

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    yah so i've beaten the game twice already and i've never really figured out why Virgil left and what was up with his brother?

    Can some one tell me whats up with him?
     
  2. Bunny

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    First, did you notice that Virgil left you when you entered the Caladon cemetery? Check your diary for an entry related to that. Did you look into the name he mentioned?
    You have to go to the Hall of Records and Lawrence's name will appear on your list of people to find.
    Did Virgil leave you after Tsen Ang? If so, did you find him afterwards?
    When you find him at the Sobbing Onion he's supposed to tell you his whole story.
     
  3. midnite_matinee

    midnite_matinee New Member

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    oh so thats where you find him after Tsen Ang. Thanks
     
  4. midnite_matinee

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    yah i went to the
    Sobbing Onion
    and he wasn't there

    Do i have to get the Vendingroth device first or what? :-?
     
  5. RagingCalm

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    While we're on the topic of Virgil, there's something that has been bugging me. When (and if) he leaves your party after T'sen Ang and turns up later, why is he always level 25? The first time I did it, he left when he was level 32 and when I found him later, he lost a hell of a lot of levels, which didn't make me too happy at all. Is there a mod or hack that "fixes" this dilemma?
     
  6. Vorak

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    midnite_matinee, this is what you do:

    Go into the back room with the pool table, look in the corner, see the trap door?
     
  7. Bunny

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    Go to the backroom, where the fence guy is, but don't talk to him. Go through the trap door, wait for 10 seconds and be prepared to fight against a couple of bandits. Check the chests in the room.

    Why is he lvl 25? No idea, but he comes back with his skills changed and other colleges of magic learnt.
    It has happened to me once or twice that he has kept the items he had when he left, but as far as I know, this is not supposed to happen; he's supposed to lose them.
     
  8. Vorak

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    He is only lv25 in the unpatched game, in which Virgil is replaced with 'Zen-Virgil' however with the patch Virgil is teleported from Tsen-Ang to Caladon and has his auto-leveling scheme changed. The old lv 25 way resulted in a follower many levels behind you who had lost his inventory, needless to say the fans weren't happy, so Troika fixed it.
     
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    I have the patch and it still happens that way. Do I have to download something else?
     
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    The English Patch 1074 from the downloads section of this website.
     
  12. Vorak

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    How very odd, it must be a bug of some type. I'm running Arcanum with the patch from this site and I just did the Virgil quest about 2 days ago and I got Virgil back just as he was when he left, lv38 complete with inventory.
     
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    I just thought of something. I'm using the level 127 mod, do I need to download the patch again for the modded game? It was recommended that I create two separate folders (one for the mod, one for the normal game), so I'm wondering if that is the cause.
     
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    Possibly, I haven't the 127 hack in a very long time, so I can't be sure.
     
  15. midnite_matinee

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    you no he doesnt have to leave you, just do the quest for min gorad were you have to slay every one in stillwater, you meet joachim in caladon and show him whats what, and virgil stays as is. and he doesnt care when you do evil stuff either, which is good.
     
  17. Vorak

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    You mean to say that in the 5 years that this game has existed we havn't figured that out?
     
  18. Grossenschwamm

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    Wow...you just torched his ass! :lol:
    I can't really add much to that, except, "Really?" Yeah, I'm done now.
     
  19. Batmantis56

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    Yea well the guy asking the queations didnt seem to.
     
  20. Vorak

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    He may not have, but the answer you gave was completely unrelated, he wanted to know WHERE he went when he left, not a way to get around it.
     
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