Missing Characters & BW installing problem (Spoilers likely)

[Kitteridge]

Hello everyone!

(POSSIBLE AMREN SPOILER)

I've completed DS2, at least as much as I can -- and there's my problem.

I didn't want Amren in my party, so every time we hit those mushrooms I just ran back to the inn, disbanded someone and loaded him on, then went back and put him in the inn again. The problem is when we found the fourth set of mushrooms, he was nowhere to be found -- not in any of the inns or anywhere else. Deru also vanished, but I'd already completed her quest, so that was fine.

(DEFINITE LORE OF ARANNA/EASTER EGG SPOILER)

But the problem is without Amren, you can't finish his quest -- or Lore of Aranna (the last book is in the last chamber) and if you can't finish Lore you can't get the last Easter Egg to do the Easter Egg quest and this kind of sucks at this point.

Does anyone have any idea of how to get Amren back? Or is this an unfixable bug?

NUMBER TWO

I can't get Broken World to install. If I put it in the DVD slot I get the splash screen asking if I want to install, but the links aren't "live" and if I click on the Install one all I hear is the spinning of the DVD drive. The disk looks unmarked. Since DS2 installed and played just fine on my computer, I find it hard to believe it's the computer. I had no other programs up at the time I was trying to install so ... what do you think the problem is? has anyone else had this issue?

Thanks in advance, hope I wasn't too wordy!

--Kitt

[swcarter]

I can't get Broken World to install. If I put it in the DVD slot I get the splash screen asking if I want to install, but the links aren't "live" and if I click on the Install one all I hear is the spinning of the DVD drive. The disk looks unmarked.

One thing you could try here is to go to "My Computer," right click on the BW CD and select "Explore," and then find a program called "Setup" and double click on it (that's how it would work on XP; no idea about Vista). Setup should run the installer.

SWC

[Kitteridge]

I will give that a shot on the installation. Many thanks!