[Gothic 1] How To Enter Chapter 2 Guildless

The regular way to enter chapter 2 is to join one of the three camps and go to the Swamp Camp. There Lester talks to you and tells you about the search for the focus and chapter 2 starts.
What is happening behind the scenes is that this condition is checked, when you talk to Lester:
(Npc_GetTrueGuild(hero) != GIL_NONE)
&& (YBerion_BringFocus != LOG_RUNNING)
&& (YBerion_BringFocus != LOG_SUCCESS)
So the only real condition is that your guild is not "GIL_NONE". And if you use an animal transformation, you have that animal's "guild". For example if you transform into a meatbug, your status screen will show "guild: meatbug".
However there is another problem: You can't talk to Lester, when you are in animal form. He will always say "Not now!", if you try to talk to him directly, and he will also not talk to you by itself. The developers thought about the possibility that the player could be in animal form or that the player could have used a control spell on another human and put checks in the relevant functions, that prevent NPCs from talking to you.
But at some instances they forgot to put these checks.
But in "ZS_FollowPC" there is also another instance without checks:
if (Npc_CheckInfo(self,1))
{
PrintDebugNpc (PD_TA_CHECK, "...wichtige Info zu vergeben!");
hero.aivar [AIV_IMPORTANT] = TRUE; // Dialog KOMMT aufgrund einer Important-Info zustande
B_FullStop (other);
B_FullStop (self);
AI_StartState (self, ZS_Talk, 0, "");
return;
};
So all we need is to have Lester follow us and transform into an animal and he will talk to us!
There is only one instance in the game, where Lester follows us and that is, when we meet him in front of the mountain fort for the focus search.
The condition for that is as follows:
( Npc_GetDistToWp (hero,"LOCATION_19_01") smaller than 400 )
&& ( Npc_GetDistToNpc (hero,PC_PSIONIC) smaller than 400)
So we only need to get us and Lester near the place, where he would wait for us in chapter 3, and transform into an animal to start chapter 2!

[@KISSbestfan]

"Oh hi meatbug. You know, our tribe is preparing for an important thing"

[@kameleonek8036]

Lester got flashback xd

[@hmksensei]

so.. guildless + all chapters run is possible

[@meatbug8611]

Nice

[@Quetzelcoatlus]

That's one of the coolest useless piece of information. Nice one Is this some preparation for new (speed)runs?

[@blueicewolf9131]

Yes, new all chapters route is theorized.

[@GothicTheSlayer]

Omg its genious!!!

[@GaricG]

As usual, great find!

[@inSaNe_44]

Lol, great job man as usual! 💪 🍻 🎊 🇷🇴

[@ravixzczteroroga4977]

To niezły Lester

[@meerqureshi-ld4kg]

That was oldest and newest in channel :O

[@TheBezixx]

When you started luring him away, my thoughts were "probably going to make him stand in the spot near the fortress and then use a transformation to have a guild so Lester starts chapter 2". Good to know I was not wrong. Also thumbnail gives it away.

[@kacpru5895]

mnie ciagle zastanawia co on musiał robić, żeby dojść do takiej sytuacji i to odkryć XD

[@TheHardSuZ]

jebany znajduje cały czas cos nowego w tak starej grze

[@kubinka0505]

wow

[@misticsword7561]

I have a problem with this method: everytime I speak with Y'Berion after the first "i know you face. What do you want?" i can no longer talk to him to get the mission for the stone. I only have the "End" option to exit dialogue.

[@LordSaradoc]

I didn't check that, but you are right. You can give Cor Kalom 3 minecrawler eggs (for example using animal transformation through the door behind Asghan) to skip it.

[@MakoTenseii]

But if you dont have a guild assigned to you, how do you even progress the plot?

[@raikitsunagi]

As soon as possible I think, that's what speedrunners do

[@camillo3887]

is this gonna be used in speedruns?

[@ioannischristou6468]

Oh yeah baby

[@permissionBRICK]

ok

[@Edek_Zgredek800]

Czekam, aż wymyślicie jakąś sztuczkę, żeby ominąć sprawdzanie gildii u Hagena w G2NK.

[@datsync]

To już ogarnięte. Wystarczy zmienić się w owcę przed porozmawianiem z nim pierwszy raz :)

[@Edek_Zgredek800]

dziękuję@@datsync

[@raikitsunagi]

@@datsynca czy Hagen też mówi "cześć yyy... owco"?

[@datsync]

@@raikitsunagi niestety nie jest aż taki zabawny 😂

[@FnScar13]

xd

[@blueicewolf9131]

Nice