Hey folks!

Grew up on MM7 (my grandpa had MM6 which is apparently actually everyone's favorite? Still haven't given it a spin whoops).

Anyway!

I admit I'm a quicksave whore, and have not made a proper backup save in ages. Way too long. So I have no backup to revert to that doesn't entirely make me want to quit.

I was in Ta'Sar Academy and saved/quit the game while there. Restarted it, completed the dungeon, got the macguffin. Head to the exit and... nothing. It doesn't take me outside. Town Portal just fizzles since if there's a portal point in Lindisfarne, I haven't discovered it yet. I think I'm stuck. Is there an alternative exit, or maybe a known bug with leaving dungeons if you save/reload while in them? I'm super confused and it's enough to make me want to bite my desk. I tried resting, waiting (in-game) for a week, applying the 1.3a TELP patch, and even un/reinstalling, replacing my save files. I have the modified cshell.dll to fix the menu/loading issue.

Suggestions appreciated.

So it wasn't an optimal solution but it worked.

My town portal guy was only an expert-level elementalist, which meant I couldn't pick my portal location. I knew if I could get him to master I could get out. So I get ahold of a trainer app. It requires the game to be running to live-edit, okay fine cool. Except it sees the game running but doesn't see the active session to live edit.

So what I did

-Install VMWare Player (free)
-Download Windows XP ISO
-Set up XP VM
-Install MM9
-Apply cshell
-Transfer saves from main PC to VM
-Load stuck save
-Load trainer
-It works yay
-Edit elemental skill to 7-Master
-TP out
-Save
-Move save file back to main PC
-Problem solved

Check, if your danger indicator is yellow (or red). At expert level Town Portal teleports your to nearest cleaned altar (even if it’s in completely another area – means this way it can send you from Lindinsfarn to Guberland, if it’s your only cleaned altar). It does not teleport you if danger is nearby.