Dorchadas Plays Baldur's Gate II, Part IX: Shouldn't the City Guard Be Handling This?

Back in Athkatla, I head for the slums and stroll into the Copper Coronet to talk to Gorje and...he's not there. Unger Hilldark starts what's obviously supposed to be the first line of an argument with his brother, and then with his brother not there, the quest breaks in half. Unger refuses to talk to me, no ore is available, and the temples will never get their statues. At least, that's what would have happened in the old days. Poking around the internet, I find that several people have had the same problem and I find the code to spawn Gorje into the world. Talking to him just leads to a snapped order to talk to his brother, and his brother won't talk to me, but when I reload the game to before I talked to anyone, spawn Gorje in, and then talk to Unger, the dialogue proceeds properly. Back on the railroad!( Read more... )

Fifty Weeks, Fifty Curries: Week Forty: Matira Curry

This is undoubtedly the weirdest curry in the entirety of 50 Great Curries of India. schoolpsychnerd and I have spent months occasionally mentioning it, wondering how it qualifies as curry, why the author picked it to include in the book, how it could possibly taste any good, and why we were even making it. The last question was the only one we could really answer--because this isn't "Fifty Curries except for that one that looks weird--though the author seems to imply in her curry intro that she included this because it was so strange. And yeah, it was definitely strange.
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