[HM] Left the Inquisitor’s room before entering the prism
TL;DR:
We killed the Inquisitor before talking to him, triggered Vlaakith, then accidentally left the room before entering the Astral Prism.
Lae’zel is at camp and now wants to talk. Are we cooked?
Should we talk to her first or enter the Prism?
My girlfriend and I are doing an Honour Mode run in local co-op. We’ve reached Crèche K’liir with a party consisting of my Tav and Shadowheart (both controlled by me), and her Tav and Karlach (controlled by my girlfriend). We deliberately left Lae’zel at camp to avoid her interactions during the scene with the Inquisitor.
First, we killed all the githyanki in the area to clear our escape route, and then we went to deal with the Inquisitor. We did everything extremely stealthily — we didn’t aggro any enemies, and nobody became hostile.
Finally, we surprised the Inquisitor by attacking him from outside the doorway, BEFORE ever interacting with him.
After killing him, the cutscene with Vlaakith triggered, where she tells us to enter the Astral Prism and kill the Dream Guardian.
Now here’s the problem: after Vlaakith’s cutscene, but before entering the prism, we started looting the bodies. My girlfriend accidentally took one step past the doorway of the room, and immediately a journal update appeared saying something along the lines of:
“You left the room before entering the Astral Prism, disobeying Vlaakith. Lae’zel wishes to speak with you at camp.”
What the hell do we do?
In over 1,000 hours of playing this game, we have NEVER encountered this situation. Normally, we know that if Lae’zel is in the party, you absolutely must not leave the room before entering the Astral Prism, otherwise she becomes hostile. But we had no idea that the same thing could happen when she isn’t even in the party.
ChatGPT is telling me that we should immediately go back to camp and talk to Lae’zel ASAP, and absolutely NOT enter the Astral Prism before speaking with her at camp.
Personally, though, from a purely logical standpoint, I would have thought it would be better to enter the prism first, find out the truth about Vlaakith, and only then talk to Lae’zel.
Another option we’re considering is going back to camp, killing Lae’zel, and then resurrecting her, since that sometimes seems to reset companion AI/state.
What should we do? Has anyone encountered this specific situation?
Please help us — we are desperate. My girlfriend is also romancing Lae’zel, so she is absolutely devastated by what just happened. 😭