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A Bard's Beloved

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It turned out the bard's "beloved" was a hideous water hag. No wonder the thought of her caress made him shake in fear and revulsion. Geralt dealt with her as he usually deals with monsters.

Fixing a softlock

Enable the debug console, then look for a fact under Gates the quest checks — one the quest is actively waiting on. If that flag never got written, addfact it to the value shown and the gate clears.

Setting a Set these to advance fact only marks a step done — it won't run the step or skip the quest forward, and it can't fix a softlock caused by a scene that never played or an NPC that didn't spawn (reload an earlier save for those). Save before forcing any fact.

Quest facts (1)

Set these to advance

1 fact

Completion flags this step writes — they record a step as done but won't run it or skip the quest forward on their own.

Fdb quest taken
mq2009_fdb_quest_taken
== 1

In phase: Water Hag

Objectives

  1. 1.Find the troubadour's "beloved".
  2. 2.Defeat the water hag.

Objectives a quest can show, in roughly the order they appear; some are optional or mutually exclusive branches.