lol ... so easy the explanation.
Many thanks for the small mod-patch of yours - works like a charm.
Started a new run yesterday, this time with Tav the Dark Urge, wanting to see the story with the real protagonist (of course with my usual alter ego Human Male Fighter/Wizard/Rogue char I came to love, since I got my hand on the 3.0 PHP the first time, almost 25 years ago).
Normally I don't use hirelings - I consider the heroes to be Tav/Durge and his six companions.
The point that I have hirelings is just for class-combination tests ... and using Maddala as Bardlock creates a bug the moment meeting the first steelwatchter at the Rivington checkpoint.
Whenever I take Maddala into the party afterwards it automatically unlocks the "Down with the Steel Oppressors! (Deafat a Steel Watcher)", even retroactively, even if no Steelwatcher was even defeated.
But the game seems to put a counter here, and when this Inspiration gets unlocked it seems to block or lock-out "Kicking the Rust Bucket (Destroy a Steel Watcher)" for Lae'zel.
Same in case the first Steelwatcher is removed (combat, by telekinesis or Roaring Thunder Arrow into the next Chasm) in Rivington and not in Lower City - the Construct counts as defeated, but Lae'zels Inspiration seems tied to Lower City, and destrying the first watcher there (usually in the basement of Baldur's Mouth) does not give the inspiration anymore.
Well, so much, time for bed.
I bid you farewell, and great many thanks.
