Have you killed the wolf nearby?

I killed everything on the map, yes. And I did kill any creatures nearby before meeting Melicamp and turning back, then came back later after clearing the map.

You have not killed the wolf for whatever reason, maybe it didn't spawn or whatever but what you are getting is what happens if you talk to him before you kill the wolf.

I never got far on Check the Bodies.   The whole thing with hijacking your game to make you perform junk like milking cows and getting stuck because it's not always clear what you are supposed to do is not what I call fun before you can even get to the joy of irenicus dungeon.   And since I played BGT I was kinda attached to the bhaalspawn powers I would have and didn't want them taken away and replaced by the buggy ones the mod gives you.

I've tried all the different mods that are listed in the BWP as the Big BG1 and BG2 mods.   I've reinstalled several times each time I find myself removing more and more of them because they either cause crashes, don't at all fit into the "Child of Bhaal" storyline.  Oftentimes the areas are purely recycled so seeing Nalias' Castle again with a different name isn't all that exciting to go through again.   I really WANT to like NEJ because it's IWD but the added extra stuff on top of IWD like the deathtraps if you don't have Hrothgar are just ridiculous as is the level of difficulty for a party just starting out in Irenicus' dungeon particularly in the Vale of Souls.

I like Secret of Bonehill because it's well done and doesn't break anything and is optional and added areas are mostly original and well thought out.

Anyway I just wanted to throw this out there and see what you all thought as well.

was the game paused?

It looks like bards still have it, but thieves do not

revised hla list from refinements
http://refinements.s...evised_HLAs.txt

Isn't the "you have cast multiple contingencies" message above a generic error message and looking it up isn't going to necessarily tell you what caused it?