Getting Kelsey into my party

[Sphinx]

I looked forward to have Kelsey join a party of mine for the first time. I found him in the Government District, I talked to him, but in the end when I click something like "Did you see the guy..." (In german it's: Hast du den Kerl gesehen, der ein halbes Dutzend Verhüllte Magier in die Luft gejagt hat..." it always says: No valid replies or links
So he stays "blue". What do I have to do?
(I've the Kelsey SoA 2.1 and ToB 2.2 with the german translation installed)

SPHINX

[jcompton]

That's quite strange, not at all a normal problem. Have you tried running Setup-Kelsey.exe and selecting Reinstall?

[Sphinx]

  I tried reinstalling it, but it stays the same.
kelseys last line is "I have heard about it..."
Strange thing is that the button to klick down there is named "I have heard about it..." too; should be something like "end of dicussion", shouldn't it?

[jcompton]

Yes, when the button text changes it means there's something very wrong. My best guess at this point is that you've installed a mod or patch out of order. What did you install, and in what order?

[Sphinx]

I am seriously confused. Just now I did a totally plain installation: Just BG2-SoA and KelseyNPCv21.exe, but the problem stayed the same, even with the buttons. Any idea, what's wrong?

SPHINX

[jcompton]

Did you install the official patch before Kelsey?

Also, when you uninstalled the game, did you manually delete weidu.log and the override directory before reinstalling? It's a good idea to do so before reinstalling the game.

About the only other thing I can think to do is to have you:

- Make a copy of setup-kelsey.exe and name it weidu.exe
- Open a DOS window and go into your BG2 directory (check Kismet's DOS tutorial on the tutorials board if you are unsure how to do this) and execute
weidu j#klsy.dlg

This creates a file named j#klsy.d in your main BG2 directory.

- Send that to me at jcompton@pocketplane.net.

- Include your weidu.log file, also found in your main BG2 directory.

[Sphinx]

OK, I uninstalled and deleted almost everything I found, especially those files you mentioned; I installed BG2-SoA, BG2-ToB, patch 2tob_26498_eur.exe, KelseyNPCv21.exe and KelseyTOBv22.exe, and... again same problems.
I'll try this DOS thing you mentioned and send the files to you.

Thanks SPHINX

[jcompton]

Okay.

I know what your problem is... but I cannot for the life of me explain it, except that maybe you've done something very strange in character creation.

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IF ~~ THEN BEGIN 5 // from: 4.3
  SAY #74380 /* ~Ich habe darüber gehört, ja... tja, niemand sieht ganz so gefährlich aus, wenn du einen verlässlichen Gefährten im Rücken hast. Ich bin dabei.~ */
  IF ~Gender(Player1,FEMALE)
OR(4)
Race(Player1,HUMAN)
Race(Player1,ELF)
Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)
Race(Player1,HALFLING)
~ THEN DO ~JoinParty()
~ EXIT
  IF ~Gender(Player1,FEMALE)
!Race(Player1,HUMAN)
!Race(Player1,ELF)
!Race(Player1,HALF_ELF)
!Race(Player1,HALFLING)
~ THEN DO ~JoinParty()
~ EXIT
  IF ~Gender(Player1,MALE)
~ THEN DO ~JoinParty()
~ EXIT
END

So, you are playing a PC who is neither male nor female. Don't do that.

[SPHINX]

You're right, I am playing a gay male character. With Anomen it worked quite well, I think. It's a pity, you designed Kelsey for heterophil relationship only, but OK that's your decision.
Sorry, I created so much trouble for you, and thanks for helping.
You think this "strange button" problem is connected to playing "both male&female"?

SPHINX

[jcompton]

You're right, I am playing a gay male character. With Anomen it worked quite well, I think. It's a pity, you designed Kelsey for heterophil relationship only, but OK that's your decision.

Sorry, I created so much trouble for you, and thanks for helping.
You think this "strange button" problem is connected to playing "both male&female"?

It's a result of however you're hacking your PC, yes.

[jcompton]

It's also worth pointing out that while it sounds like you've done... whatever it is you've done to the gender of your PC in the past, it's not at all unlikely that this sort of error could crop up elsewhere in the game.