What am I missing?? I've cleared the place out, I have a phoenix egg, and I'm pretty sure I've talked to every major and a bunch of non-major mages in Avernum (Erika, Solberg, Thompson, Ostoth [I've already gotten his key and been to his room in the Tower of Magi], Elna, Linda, X, even the vanahtai, among others) multiple times, and I still don't have the option to use the phoenix egg to rescue the crystal soul. It's the only one I don't have. I'm completely stumped after a couple hours of wandering around...

I know Jeff has said he's getting close to retiring, won't release another new game series after Queen's Quest, and will only being doing remasters after Queen's Quest 3 (I think the plan is for three of those, but I don't know if that's actually confirmed anywhere) until he calls it a career. Since his attention seems to be only on Geneforge remakes and Queen's Quest at this point, and it would take him I guess 5-10 years to get Geneforge 2-5 done while also doing QQ3 at some point, is there any hope he'...

So due to my certain OCD of exploring everything, I cleared out the bandits below the fort. Went to the commander there and got the quest to do so only to find out I can't progress since it's registering as they haven't been dealt with. I'm having a small deja vu feeling this happened to me in the previous games. Are there any work arounds or fixes? :/...

Or are they not that related?

okay, well, I am playing hard mode, so that could be why, but I'm going around capturing strong monsters in my spirit prism. monsters that kick my butt, like vahnatai warriors and revenants and stuff. but then when i summon them with simulacrum , t...