1. Go back into the Beet Hoven, save your game, and then quit the game.

2. Find the location of the game files, and in the folder called "minisaves" use Windows Explorer to delete all the files in there that start with "sturmfordcity"

3. Load the game again, restore your position, and continue playing. You should find that now everything works.

What you have done is to force Sturmford City to respawn, and this generates a fresh non-corrupt location. (As a bonus, you will even find that the two shamrocks that give skill point bonuses have regenerated. )

Thanks a lot for your input here, your suggestion worked like a charm , I will keep an eye on that other situation you mentioned might cause the same problem to appear. I guess a lot of Savegames in this game is simply a must.

Also, two of the promotion quests, those to Priest and Lich, cannot be completed unless you actually promote characters to those ranks.

My two preferred parties for this game are the mixed party of gladiator, assassin, priest, and lich, and the pure magic party of druid, priest, mage, and lich. The pure magic party is a little weak in ranged combat (although the priest can use the best bow, and a lich can reach Master in thrown weapons), but a fully developed druid with GM in Unarmed and Dodge is IMO the best half-and-half character in the game. He has decent spells, and he's a very bonny melée fighter.

The party I'm playing is Gladiator, Paladin, Priest and Lich. Or at least that's the direction towards which i'm going. This is the party formation that i have been playing since M&M 6, just instead of the Gladiator there was a Knight i think. And it's always showed up to be a good choice. Let's see how we'll do here . It's a good balance of brutes and magical characters. I didn't want to go for a pure magical party because at some point you might miss the brute force of fighters, and so the party i chose gives you a nice balance to enjoy all that.

However, as you said the were a bunch of short-sighted suits. You may be right, they probably were, but they surely had talented people, because if they didn't then MM6-8 would not be such a great successes! MM6 is in my own humble opinion one of the most epic RPGs i ever played, and i did like 3 times already. When the game makes you want to come to it and replay it again, now that's a success. MM7 and MM8 were a little weaker than the sixth one, but still amazing games, i loved them.

"Gladiator is the tank. You can armour him very heavily, or he can do huge damage when armed with a spear/sword combo. Gladiator is pretty good, but the real butcher is the Assassin. Get him tooled up with Black's Heart and another good dagger (I'm using Integris at present) as melée weapons, and Trolleri as a throwing dagger, and he does horrendous damage. When you push his blade skill way up, he has so many attacks that he does damage consistently - you're less at the mercy of bad dice rolls.

Priest has the advantage that apart from the Ranger, only he can use the best bow in the game, Everstrike, albeit only at a normal level. He has massive healing powers and some good combat spells, including access to Poison Cloud at a moderate level. When armed with Spencer's Obedience, he also does a fair amount of combat damage. Lastly, you cannot gain the XP for the priest promo quest without actually promoting a character to that rank.

Druid is probably the best compromise between a fighter and a magic user. He can GM the Unarmed and Dodge skills, and if you get his Unarmed skills up beyond the GM level, he gets an extra attack for every 3 extra skill levels, which makes him very effective in melée. He also has a bonny range of spells, although these don't include Poison Cloud. Biggest weakness is liable to be ranged attacks, because you're liable to want to give the other artifact bow (Kraftig Bage) to somebody else, and he doesn't have good inherent skills.

Lich and Mage are very similar, but IMO Lich is slightly better. The Dark magic spells are more attuned towards combat damage, and he has access to Pain Reflection, which the Mage lacks. His top spell (Souldrinker) is better than the Mage's Eye of the Storm, and he can master the Thrown Weapon skill (arm him with the throwing axe Tillhygge) whereas the Mage can only gain expert in it. Finally, like the priest, you cannot gain the XP for the lich promo quest without actually promoting a character to that rank.

Paladin and Ranger are both IMO a waste of space - use these only if you want to set yourself an extra challenge. A Ranger's only advantage over a lich in melée skills is his ability to use a wider range of weapons. Neither can get above expert in anything. OK, he's the only one who can GM in Bow and he can GM Dodge, but that's just about it; his magic skills are picayune. The druid, with GM in Unarmed and Dodge, is a far better melée fighter, and his magic skills are incomparably superior. The Paladin is better. At least he can GM armour, Blade & Cudgel, but his fighting ability is still greatly inferior to the Assassin and Gladiator. Also, his magic skills are simply ineffective, particularly later in the game when your high-level party meets higher-level monsters. You just try healing a badly damaged fully developed character with a Paladin's spells; it'll take forever, and use up most if not all of his mana - the Lich is actually a better healer than the Paladin."

And then when somebody asked "BTW Who said Paladins and Rangers are underpowered in this game?" I replied:

"I did. They are underpowered. OK, a Ranger can GM bow. Big deal. The assassin can GM thrown weapons, which is every bit as good as the bow, and in melée, the assassin's GM blade with two daggers does awesome damage. In contrast, the ranger can get only get to expert in any melée weapon. In fact, the Druid with GM in unarmed is a better fighter close in than the Ranger, and his magic skills are incomparably better. The only other things the Ranger can GM are Dodge, ID Monster (which is broken) and Perception. Like I say, big deal.

I have just finished that quest where i was supposed to get the second part of the Lich Instructions parchment. Cleansed the whole Chasm of the Dead, those darn mummies in the last room required some strategy . In my experience, M&M RPG series were a lot about strategy in most cases . But it's all done now, Chasm is toast, and as you said, this is actually not the end of the quest. Gotta actually find a way how to become a Lich. Which is good because it's just another challenge, i can't wait for it though . I don't know how to Lichify my character at the moment, but I will eventually find out . See these kinds of things I like because some of the quests are not that easy.

Thing is that i already have the Thjorad . I took it way before i even completed the Lich quest. I had it in the inventory all this time. So the problem is not with the bells etc, all that has been done when i got Thjorad in the first place, and everything was fine, everybody behaved as if nothing happened.