The ones that take me away after I become a statue? Game crawled through and then halted at that part of the video, so I need to re-do the last few minutes talking to that medusa witch after a reboot and see if that makes a difference. I think it started having issues reading the dvd, because the next time I tried to load the game it asked me to insert the game disk, so might need to clean that.

I just went through the portal that killed my char's teacher/master Drogan, and wandered through that very Petra inspired desert section with all the statues to the temple thing she's waiting for me at.