Time4Tea: Hi, I'm currently playing through ToEE with the Circle of Eight mod. It's a game I really like and I've played it before, but never finished the main quest. I have a handful of questions and I'm wondering if anyone can help?:

1) On Dungeon level 1 of the temple, there is a room that you go into and a bunch of harpies appear. However, soon after the combat starts, a heavy gate falls down across the door. I attempted it just now and the gate fell down while my party were still in the corridor. I took out the enemies I could see through the gate with spells and ranged weapons; however, there were some enemies out of sight that I couldn't get to, due to the gate. They didn't approach me on their turn and I couldn't find any way of lifting the gate, so I got into an unresolvable situation where I couldn't finish the combat. Am I missing something here? How can I resolve this?

2) Is it possible to flee combat? I haven't figured out a way to do it and I get the impression that it's not. Which can be a pain in combination with the fact that the game seems to love springing sudden ambushes with large numbers of enemies.

3) Ok, I admit that I have set it to give maximum hit points on level up. I had planned to just use it for the first 3-4 levels, to give my party a fighting chance. I would like to turn it off again now, but I believe that setting was in the Co8 settings. I am a bit concerned that if I change it now, it might screw up my saved games. Is that a valid concern?

Thanks in advance!