#genuine quedtions btw if youre wondering

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I have entered the shadow cursed lands.

On the click to enter I got the voice line "better not be cursed" ahahahahahaha my guy.

Ok my main thing rn is, is thisnspider guide the samr spider guy from under the blighted village whos various journals I have? I bet.

Also very conflicted bc I want to explore but my familiar died real quick and as Ive been running round tying up loose ends and selling shit for q while, I do want to get some story progress. And theres no teleport point where I came in. So im nervous.

Also how did they know to wait for me thats super suspicious.

And also. Is this the beginning of act 2? Because I frel like act one ended with saving halsin and the tiefling party. And then theres been all of the underdark and grymforge and all of the monqstery and creche and the blood of lathander. But I havent seen qnyone call the towers act 3 ,that seems to he most of act 2.....where am I up to? How much time is qctually spent in Baldurs Gate the city? I wanna explore a city!