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Gothic (2001)

Duration: 4:21

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The regular way to enter chapter 2 is to join one of the three camps and go to the Swamp Camp. There Lester talks to you and tells you about the search for the focus and chapter 2 starts.
What is happening behind the scenes is that this condition is checked, when you talk to Lester:

(Npc_GetTrueGuild(hero) != GIL_NONE)
&& (YBerion_BringFocus != LOG_RUNNING)
&& (YBerion_BringFocus != LOG_SUCCESS)

So the only real condition is that your guild is not "GIL_NONE". And if you use an animal transformation, you have that animal's "guild". For example if you transform into a meatbug, your status screen will show "guild: meatbug".
However there is another problem: You can't talk to Lester, when you are in animal form. He will always say "Not now!", if you try to talk to him directly, and he will also not talk to you by itself. The developers thought about the possibility that the player could be in animal form or that the player could have used a control spell on another human and put checks in the relevant functions, that prevent NPCs from talking to you.
But at some instances they forgot to put these checks.

But in "ZS_FollowPC" there is also another instance without checks:
if (Npc_CheckInfo(self,1))
{
PrintDebugNpc (PD_TA_CHECK, "...wichtige Info zu vergeben!");
hero.aivar [AIV_IMPORTANT] = TRUE; // Dialog KOMMT aufgrund einer Important-Info zustande
B_FullStop (other);
B_FullStop (self);
AI_StartState (self, ZS_Talk, 0, "");
return;
};

So all we need is to have Lester follow us and transform into an animal and he will talk to us!
There is only one instance in the game, where Lester follows us and that is, when we meet him in front of the mountain fort for the focus search.

The condition for that is as follows:

( Npc_GetDistToWp (hero,"LOCATION_19_01") smaller than 400 )
&& ( Npc_GetDistToNpc (hero,PC_PSIONIC) smaller than 400)

So we only need to get us and Lester near the place, where he would wait for us in chapter 3, and transform into an animal to start chapter 2!

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