Hi everyone,
I recently returned to PoE2 after a hiatus, and ran into a sequence issue. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and how they resolved it.
Anyway, it started when I returned to The Gullet in Neketaka, after deciding I needed to level up a bit for the main quest (all my characters are lvl 7 right now). I already had the All Aboard quest, and decided to finish it. I needed to find Botaro, who went down to Old City. So I took the lift from The Gullet to Old City Lookout. I knew that the lift wouldn't stay there forever, but after finding Botaro's body, I forgot about the time limit, and decided to clear the dungeon. When I returned to the lift, it was gone, and I was stuck.
I eventually found the secret passage to The Undercroft, but it does not appear that the game expected me to come from this direction. If I approach the Brawler, I can either trigger combat, or start the dialogue with Mad Morena (I have Bluff 4). One of my options with Morena is to tell her that somebody killed Ulög, and while I do have the Food for Thought quest, I never encounted Ulög and don't know what happened to him. So I either have to kill the pirates, or start the Goods and Services quest prematurely.
I can also enter Delver's Row and advance the Harsh Medecine quest, but again, it doesn't appear the game expected me to come from this direction. Right now, my only lead about Delver's Row is that someone in the tavern might know something.
I did some Google searching, and fortunately found a reasonable solution: There is a boat to the east of The Undercroft that will take the party back to Queen's Berth. It's possible to sneak through the pirates' hideout without triggering aggro or the Mad Morena encounter. Just send the rogue -- you don't need the rest of the party to use the boat.
But I'd like to know what I missed here. How are you supposed to get out of Old City if you miss the lift? What is the intended sequence of events? (without too many spoilers)