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A Tome Entombed

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Geralt decided to promote the advancement of knowledge and help the scholar open the sarcophagus. Instead of the expected withered skeleton, inside lay a fully fleshy vampire. He was not hostile at first and merely asked for a bit of peace and quiet while he finished his rest. The scholar, however, had no intention of respecting this wish. Geralt could not stop him and... the vampire lost his temper and attacked Geralt and the bothersome professor. Whether he wanted to or not, Geralt now had to end its life.

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 (4)

Gates the quest checks

4 facts
Opened once
mq3037_opened_once
== 1

Gates: Sleeping Vampire

Sarcofagus closed
mq3037_sarcofagus_closed
== 1

Gates: Sleeping Vampire

Sarcofagus opened
mq3037_sarcofagus_opened
== 1

Gates: Sleeping Vampire

Saw empty tomb
mq3037_saw_empty_tomb
== 1

Gates: Sleeping Vampire

Objectives

  1. 1.Return to Professor Vairmont if you want to help him with the sarcophagus.
  2. 2.Kill the vampire.

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