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+title: "How to get away with crime (in Baldurs Gate 3)"
+date: 2025-01-27
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+tags:
+- Baldurs Gate 3
+- Modding
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+In Act 2, there's a battle with a big group of enemies and you fight alongside a group of allies. Said allies are infamously known for walking and dying to your own attacks (like a big stinky cloud). If an ally dies in your stink cloud, it's considered murdering a guard and they'll throw you in prison once the battle is over. There's apparently no way to get out of this situation in the vanilla game (as of Patch #7.) Your Tav is marked with an "Enemy of Justice" debuff which seems permanent:
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+![The status effect in-game.](status.jpg)
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+To get rid of this crime and others we can use [Script Extender](https://github.com/Norbyte/bg3se). You'll need to install it, and then enable the console with `CreateConsole`. This is outside the purview of this guide, I assume you'll have it all setup already. Load into the save you need to fix, and then go into the "BG3 Script Extender Debug Console" window.
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+![The script extender console.](console.png)
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+You need to press enter/return once to enable input, which we need to use to run some commands. First, we clear all of our crimes:
+
+```lua
+Osi.CrimeClearAll()
+```
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+And also remove the status from your Tav (if you're trying to clear murder.) This status is called `GB_GUARDKILLER`:
+
+```lua
+RemoveStatus(GetHostCharacter(), "GB_GUARDKILLER")
+```
+
+And that's it! You can now walk back up to guards, and your character isn't stuck with the guilt. I hope this helps any other people stuck in this non-desirable game state. 
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+Side-tangent: The actual solution to getting rid of the "Enemy of Justice" status is becoming lost knowledge.. for some reason. [This Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/168v4ct/fix_for_enemy_of_justic) inspired my solution (it uses more commands, mine just uses the `CrimeClearAll` function. The original post content is lost to time, not even the Internet Archive has it.
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+There's a couple of mods too, for example ["Ring of No Justice"](https://www.nexusmods.com/baldursgate3/mods/7067) (this mod is deleted) and ["Enemy of Justice"](https://mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/enemy-of-justice) (this mod doesn't work.)