OK, I'm boned!

Getting stuck on a lot of the quests, currently the "pain"in Brasshorn has me just pissed! Equipped with agony and hitting the pillars, nothing happens, and when two of the snow dragons show up, it's instant death, over and over and over, this is at level 13, And the wispering maze, the teleporter doesn;t come on, and the witch doesn't have the cloak of invibislity, over and over. And now I hear about a fairy, where is she? Never seen her, although the dyes quest is stalled because i can't get to the fairy ring blue weed. Just stuck, and the questions/answers here have helped a lot, but not on these three (before I go to the next 12 or so...)