tikli<p>Saving prisoners is <a href="https://blorbo.social/tags/BG3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BG3</span></a> just such a pain in the ass. The NPCs do what NPCs do, which is make stupid decisions and run into the wrong direction.</p><p>Because I'm playing solo with <a href="https://blorbo.social/tags/BG3MyLittlePaladinRun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BG3MyLittlePaladinRun</span></a>, my options were a bit limited when it came to organising the prison break. Often I just sneak behind the cells and break the back wall of both cells at the same time, using two different characters, and then I have couple of characters in front of the cells, to stop the guards when they turn hostile.</p><p>First I tried to let Wulbren do the wall-breaking and I stayed in front of the cells. Too bad I can't stop the guards when they aren't hostile against ME without breaking my oath (okay so maybe if I had used only non-lethal attacks, it would have worked).</p><p>My next approach was to break the back wall of the gnomes' cell, let them go break the wall of the tieflings' cell while I go back to the prison through the gnomes' cell and at this point the guards are attacking me too, so I can fight them.</p><p>Good plan, except the tieflings didn't stay put and wait for the gnomes to break the wall. The moment the guards opened the cell doors, the tieflings ran out of their cell. Luckily they were clever enough to head to the gnomes's cell and run through the hole in the back wall and head to the boat.</p><p>At this point though, the gnomes' plan was abandoned and instead of breaking the wall of the tiefling cell, they ran back to their own cell because they wanted to take part in the fight, too. By some miracle I managed to finish the fight without any of the prisoners getting killed. Didn't even break my oath.</p><p>The thing that happened next was the one that almost made me want to reload and leave the prisoners to rot in their cells. I had to witness the tieflings (who had already gotten to the boat) calmly walk back through the gnomes' cell, past the empty cells, and walk into their own cell. There they waited until the gnomes broke the back wall of the cell, and only then did they "escape" and run to the boat for good. This was very "Roger Rabbit pulling his hand out of the handcuffs so that he can keep the table steady when Eddie tries to saw the handcuffs off" moment.</p><p><a href="https://blorbo.social/tags/BaldursGate3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BaldursGate3</span></a></p>