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Novigrad Hospitality

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Tracking down the bards posed no difficulty. Geralt quickly caught up with them and recovered his things. Had I been in his shoes, I'd undoubtedly have broken their lutes as well, for there is no place for such as they in the noble world of itinerant musicians.

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 (3)

Set these to advance

3 facts

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

Drunk effect
mq3016_drunk_effect
== 1

In phase: Wandering Bards

Not so much
mq3016_not_so_much
== 1

In phase: Wandering Bards

Stop drunk
mq3016_stop_drunk
== 1

In phase: Wandering Bards

Objectives

  1. 1.Track down the bards using your Witcher Senses and recover your equipment.

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