the pontifeks possible spoiler

DarkAngel · Post by **DarkAngel** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:16 am

i heard talk about a yellow dragon or something called the pontifeks in "the demogorgon is runing free" tread... i haven't faced him when i completed bg2 tob... i was wondering if you can only face him when downloading a mod or something and if yes where to download that mod?

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 5:16 am

[QUOTE=DarkAngel]i heard talk about a yellow dragon or something called the pontifeks in "the demogorgon is runing free" tread... i haven't faced him when i completed bg2 tob... i was wondering if you can only face him when downloading a mod or something and if yes where to download that mod?

[/QUOTE]The Pontifex is a NPC in the Ritual quest, which is part of the Tactics mod. Tougher than Draconis, but you don't have to fight him.

DarkAngel · Post by **DarkAngel** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:15 am

but how do you download tactics mode?
is there a bg2tob site that has all the mods?

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:38 am

http://www.weidu.org

Koveras · Post by **Koveras** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 7:14 pm

spoiler:

While we're on the topic, is there a "correct" way to go through the mod? The only thing I have done in the past is to kill everyone, pontifex included...

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:05 pm

Kill everyone except the priestess, but disrupt her casting.

Mr.Waesel · Post by **Mr.Waesel** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:15 am

[QUOTE=Phantom Lord]Kill everyone except the priestess, but disrupt her casting.[/QUOTE]

Which noone besides Weimer knows how to do

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:57 am

[QUOTE=Mr.Waesel]Which noone besides Weimer knows how to do

[/QUOTE]OK, since this thread is labeled SPOILER anyway:

Mind Flayer Circlets work on the priestess, so use one, lead her away, kill the golems, report to the Pontifex. You'll get the reward (6 amulets and the armor), a truckload of XP and you don't have to fight the Pontifex.

The following types of spells could work too on the priestes: Maze; Imprisonment / Freedom; all sorts of stun / sleep / nauseating / fear effects. The problem with the ritual is that you can't rest once you've accepted the quest, so there's not much room for experiments and as a consequence there are only few documented ways to solve the quest.

DarkAngel · Post by **DarkAngel** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 4:41 pm

tanks all...
but veidu don't you need a spessial program to open veidu files?
is that on that site too?

tanks for all your help
darkangel

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Mon Jul 11, 2005 10:30 pm

Just install.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:56 pm

[QUOTE=Phantom Lord]OK, since this thread is labeled SPOILER anyway:

Mind Flayer Circlets work on the priestess, so use one, lead her away, kill the golems, report to the Pontifex. You'll get the reward (6 amulets and the armor), a truckload of XP and you don't have to fight the Pontifex.[/QUOTE]

If I'm not mistaken, he betrays you no matter what you do. At least, he made that very clear to me when I spoke to him.

Phantom Lord · Post by **Phantom Lord** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:04 pm

If you solve his quest properly (which is difficult) he doesn't betray you. He says something like "I'm really surprised to see you managed this and now I'm gonna look after the priestess before the angels get there first", hands you the reward and teleports away.

His introduction dialogue is great though and leaves you with the feeling that this is just another quest where you're a puppet on a string.

Sytze · Post by **Sytze** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:11 am

It's been ages since I last fought him (I somehow can't finish SoA; I always want a different party or a different character), so perhaps a newer version fixed it, or I'm simply quite wrong. I prefer to fight him, though. He gives me such an interesting battle.