AnneAardvark
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I got stuck because of a bug and had to restore.
I entered the Patronage as one does,
I waited out the dialog and attempted to follow the departing 'patron' but I was a couple of squares out, however as the other patrons were moving out of the way and moving back again they created a gap, I followed in this gap down into the next screen. There was no path to my horror, I was trapped amongst a bunch of patrons, or so I thought, most were just ghosts and you could just walk through them. After a bit of experimenting I discovered this is by design as right clicking the patrons revealed the 'real' solid patrons that can't be walked through are just one or two rows deep, the rest are just 'floor' tiles that look like patrons.
The problem was, although I could walk between three screens I could not get back onto the legit path as no further people came through the entrance to create a gap.
I restored to the entrance of the entrance and followed the departing patron via the proper path and got the full 'Patronage speech' and the propper exit path.
I don't know what this whole patronage buisness is about yet, everything is wierd down here.

BTW, there was no benifit to this bypassing the normal path, the game didn't play out as I wasn't on the correct path.

mrimer
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AnneAardvark wrote:
I got stuck because of a bug and had to restore.
I entered the Patronage as one does,
I waited out the dialog and attempted to follow the departing 'patron' but I was a couple of squares out, however as the other patrons were moving out of the way and moving back again they created a gap, I followed in this gap down into the next screen. There was no path to my horror, I was trapped amongst a bunch of patrons, or so I thought, most were just ghosts and you could just walk through them. After a bit of experimenting I discovered this is by design as right clicking the patrons revealed the 'real' solid patrons that can't be walked through are just one or two rows deep, the rest are just 'floor' tiles that look like patrons.
The problem was, although I could walk between three screens I could not get back onto the legit path as no further people came through the entrance to create a gap.
I restored to the entrance of the entrance and followed the departing patron via the proper path and got the full 'Patronage speech' and the propper exit path.
I don't know what this whole patronage buisness is about yet, everything is wierd down here.

BTW, there was no benifit to this bypassing the normal path, the game didn't play out as I wasn't on the correct path.

Not a bug -- if you don't follow the guy promptly, you won't have a way to pursue him along the temporary path. Although you shouldn't be able to get off to the edge of the room like that...

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Jatopian
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I remember doing that. I thought I'd found a secret. I'm not sure how one would fix it.

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mrimer
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Bump.

This is probably still an issue.

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averagemoe
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Didn't I already report this? And then they fixed it with some force arrows?

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Schik
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Yes, you already posted it, almost 8 years after AnneAardvark reported it.

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mrimer
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Ah! Good memory. Better than mine apparently

Thanks for the link to the other topic. Good to know it's fixed in the 5.0 version; I'd forgotten that. I can't recall whether the 1E issue reported in the other thread is fixed, but it's not serious or urgent.

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Gandalf? Yes... That's what they used to call me.
Gandalf the Grey. That was my name.
I am Gandalf the White.
And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.

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