Seconis

My party is currently coming out of the Sphere in the Slums. I had just finished the Sphere quest and brought Lavok out to see the sky before he dies and it autosaved. I also did a quick-save, because that's simply what I do most of the time. I entered the Sphere again to talk to the Knights of Solomon and I talked to the leader of the three. Upon concluding that conversation, I wanted to talk to the other two Knights, but they started walking away. So, I reloaded from the autosave so that I could talk to the other two Knights first. Unfortunately, for some reason, when I reloaded the game it showed the grayed out version of the screen that comes about when your main character dies. It then brought me to the Load or Quit screen. I thought that was odd, so I reloaded from the Quick Save. The same thing happened. Now, I'm wondering why.

I had no obvious ailments or status effects on. Everyone in my party was low on health, around 10-20 health left from each, but no one was poisoned or dying. This happened earlier in the Sphere when I reloaded from a quick save immediately after fighting the halfings in the furnace area. Fortunately, my main game save was only a few moments before that point in time. But now, my main game save was made 40-45 minutes ago or so and I was rather pleased with how everything worked out and it would be irritating to have to do it all over again.

Any advice or solutions would be welcome.

Thank you.