Guild Wars 2

My roommate and I (who both use the Mac version of the game, if that’s relevant) were playing our Sylvari level 30 storylines together. She’d play her instance, then I’d play mine, and we’d make different choice so we’d get to see all the outcomes.

She had just played Secrets in the Earth, and I had just finished The Blossom of Youth when we went back to the grove to report to the Pale Tree and complete the chapter. We were doing her story first, so I followed her into the Omphalos Chamber for the last part of the Secrets of Earth. When we’d get there she’d speak to Iowerth, and the dialogue box would seem to glitch, like load and then load again, when it popped up. After talking to him the cinematic with the Pale Tree would play, but the green star over Iowerth’s head would never disappear. Even after choosing an Order’s plan, the green star over Iowerth wouldn’t go away, and she was not allowed to progress.

I thought maybe it had something to do with my being at the same level of the story and having an instance in the same room, so after three failed attempts with me joining her (we tried adjusting various things and approaching it different ways), I had her go without me and the story progressed, so it was definitely my presence and our concurrent-but-not-totally-same stories messing things up.