Guild Wars 2

I just did Taimi’s Game. I entered the portal and went into the loading screen for Ember Bay. Loading seemed to take unusually long. I then DCed from the game and had to log back in. When I did on my toon which had completed Taimi’s Game, I found him in Rata Sum instead. I received then and there the rewards for that story part. When I checked my World Map, I couldn’t access the 1st WP of Ember Bay. I submitted a bug report.

This seems to have happened to at least one other player who posted about it on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/53ofbb/i_just_locked_one_of_my_characters_out_of_the/

I later did Taimi’s Game on my other two toons and they completed it and got to Ember Bay without any problems.

Yes, there’s another thread about this happening here, as well.

Luckily, you can purchase a portal scroll or use a Teleport to a Friend for the affected character.

While waiting for the Devs to fix this ‘bug’, you can contact the CS Team for assistance, if you so desire.

Good luck.

Another option is to join someone else who is doing the story for the first time and piggy back through the portal.

I decided to just use a Teleport to Friend. What’s interesting is that:
1) on the World Map of my toon, the Ring of Fire Islands was still completely blurred out, but
2) in the loading screen of Ember Bay my toon’s map completion was listed as 1/4 Waypoints, as if I’d successfully gotten there at the end of Taimi’s Game.
Just some added info to help ANet fix this bug.