Stuck at this entrance of the body

[yeuse]

Hello

I need some help ^^
I never found Li but the door of the sunken city was open..
So i defeat the boss and now i'm stuck by a big plant in the abyss, i can enter the body
I ve looking everywhere in the veil to found li but .. impossible..

I dont know what to do know ..

thanks

[yeuse]

if i come back in the sunken city boss, the children dont want the stones (3) i bring back to him, so the boss never appears and i'm stuck again.. : )

[Chibi]

Wow ... the Time Paradox Bug has returned (albeit in a different form)! You broke your game - do you have saves before the incident? Also, Li is a diver swimming around the left side of the Veil with a brown helmet covering his head. You have to corral him into the cave to the east and bind his helmet. Do you remember what you did from entering the Abyss to entering the Sunken City?

Alec definitely should know about this before he releases the next patch ... good find, yeuse! 

[silverflagon]

Do you mean that you lost him and couldn't find him, Or that you found and then lost him yeuse?

Well what you should do before you enter the body is go and find him or you won't be able to make a use of what you earn in the Body. So first go the the Veil or Naija's home and sing Li's song near his helmet or click on it, (sorry I am not sure which because I haven't had this problem myself?)

Or if you have never found him go to the Veil and swim around untill you find him some place to the East of one of the areas, he might be in a cave, (not the one that you need to be small to enter, another one) then use the bind song to remove his helmet..

Now the other problem. I had this problem at first and what you need to do is place the rocks close and in front of the boy then he should carve the shape as each rock is placed, and then be ready to use beast power ups and fight like crazy.

[yeuse]

Well, finally i found Li
I was wery happy so i returned to the sunken city door.
In fact before li the door was not open but i could pass trhought without problem...
I swimm to the boss and had the same problem with the stones and the children (im gonna try your solution silverflagon right now)

SO i get back the sunken city and look at a way to enter the body and i'm still stuck in front of the plant blooking the acces.
Is this something to do with my bug or maybe i miss something to kill/destroy the pink plant ?

thanks for ur help

[Chibi]

That's a little strange - did you defeat the boss with Li at your side? If not, then the door won't be open.

[yeuse]

no when i defeat the boss i was alone
and now im with li but the boy dont wanna carve the rock !

[Align]

How did you fight the boss if the boy didn't carve the rocks?

[yeuse]

the first time he did !
but i was alone

and now i'm with li but the boy just cry.. and dont wanna take my rocks

[yeuse]

i have to precise : in the sunken city the 3 boys to the left are still here and have not been transformed in monsters.

[Alphasoldier]

Hmm, I think you have 4 options.

1. Look at Alec real nicely and send him your savegame, asking him to fix it.

2. IF you have it, use an earlier savegame where you didn't enter the Lost City yet, AKA, didn't get past the door.

3. Find another way to fix it, maybe backtrack everything you did already, from the Lost City I mean.

4. Start a new game.

I think this is all you can do.

Either way, could you explain to us what you have exactly done and what the sequence is of what forms you have obtained. Maybe someone can replicate it.

(Also, please edit previous posts if you have somehing to add, double posts are not that welcome.)

[Chibi]

I think there is something really wrong with your game, yeuse - like Alpha said, list everything you did clearly.

[yeuse]

Ok sorry for double post.
I try to explain what i did.
I started the abyss with shield, bind, energy, fish, nature, beast, spirit and sun form.
But at this moment i had not discovered li.
after a moment i was in front of the sunken city door. The door was closed but i could go trought (first bug)
I defeat the boss and read the little story about the 2 body escaping from the boss's body. But nothing else. I was very surprise because i expected to receive something after this hard boss...
so i returned in the abysses, I explored all the places. And the only place i have not explore is the body because a big pink plant is bloking the passage.

I decided to find li and after thaht came back to kill (again) sunken city boss.
But the little boy is crying and dont have any reactions when i bring him the rocks.

That's all.
I have no others savegames :\

Thanks
Yeuse

[silverflagon]

i have to precise : in the sunken city the 3 boys to the left are still here and have not been transformed in monsters.

You are with those 3 boys! They are suposed to transform so you might have a problem but you can't have the boy build the monster untill you have defeated those boys so it seems that you might indeed have a bug so try asking for help in suport and I'm sure that Alec will do his best if he isn't snowed under right now

And perhaps it might be best if you save pretty regular next time. I know that it feels good to go through a game fast without saving but when you realise that sending a save file to the writer can help him spot the problem, then you must see that saving is a good idea

Oh and you can't get into the body until you have defeated the Golem as you will soon find out when you play a bug free game In your shoes I would be tempted to start again though I would need a few days to get myself in the mood to do it all again 

[Alphasoldier]

Yeah, you only have 2 options now.
Start a new game or mail Alec, or just hope he will see this topic. I'd send a mail either way, with a link to this topic too.

Seeing the 3 boys are down there and the boy is crying in the end boss room AND the body is still closed, you can't really progress there.

I must say however, playing Aquaria twice in a short time is easier for sure, so starting a new game shouldn't be.. THAT much of a trouble, if you enjoyed it. Seeing I have NO clue when Alec would respond to this.

Either way, you should post your savegame on here. It's in the Aquaria game folder and then to the folder save. (c:/Program Files/Aquaria/save or something.)
If you have multiple save games in the folder, you should know that the files start counting with zero and the save games in the game start counting with one. So you should add 1 to the files to find the right one.

Then archive (zip or rar) the two files, one being the screen file and the other being the save file. And host it on WillHostForFood or something.

I hope you understand what I just said and that you will succeed, I would love to look at this, and as so Alec can already access your save file, if needed.