Quayle has called for Aerie - bug?
Peldin
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So a messenger came to tell Aerie that Quayle wants to talk to her.
I got the following journal quest - Quayle has called for Aerie
My journal says "After receiving a message from Quayle asking for our help, Aerie has asked that we go and see him in the promenade circus tent as soon as possible."
I pretty much went immediately to Quayle. I can't remember but I may have rested for 16 hours first to get back hp. I was right outside the Copper Coronet when the messenger came. I think I went in to the Copper Coronet, rested/healed, and then went to the Circus. However, when I go to talk to Quayle, my only options are to ask him about The Cowled Wizards or the Shadow Thieves. I tried to have Aerie talk to him but all he says is "It is good to see you again my dear. It does these old bones good to see you out of this circus and seeing the world. I knew I couldn't keep you here forever."
I really doubt it's a time delay thing as I'm to go see him "as soon as possible." So I'm assuming my game has been bugged somehow. What can I do to fix it?
I got the following journal quest - Quayle has called for Aerie
My journal says "After receiving a message from Quayle asking for our help, Aerie has asked that we go and see him in the promenade circus tent as soon as possible."
I pretty much went immediately to Quayle. I can't remember but I may have rested for 16 hours first to get back hp. I was right outside the Copper Coronet when the messenger came. I think I went in to the Copper Coronet, rested/healed, and then went to the Circus. However, when I go to talk to Quayle, my only options are to ask him about The Cowled Wizards or the Shadow Thieves. I tried to have Aerie talk to him but all he says is "It is good to see you again my dear. It does these old bones good to see you out of this circus and seeing the world. I knew I couldn't keep you here forever."
I really doubt it's a time delay thing as I'm to go see him "as soon as possible." So I'm assuming my game has been bugged somehow. What can I do to fix it?
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Fortunately, Quayle's message (even when it does work) is merely directing you to talk to a certain quest-giver elsewhere. The quest-giver will still give you the quest even if you haven't talked to Quayle first, so the conversation with Quayle doesn't actually matter very much.
That could still happen I would think?
So that may trigger Quale to speak to you, although you now know what he says and can do the quest.
I'll wait a few days and see if Aerie reminds me. Thanks for that little tip!
Got the messenger from Quayle, but first went to see Cromwell to get new armour made. After that I went straight to see Quayle, but when I got there, there is no dialogue between him and Aerie. Just the same old questions about Cowled Wizards and Shadow Thieves.
I replayed both vanilla BG2 and the EE several times, but never had this bug before. Thou this is the first time I'm playing v2.3, so perhaps something in the 2.3 patch caused this?
Sometimes.. they just don't trigger right for no good reason.
I have a couple of suggestions:
1. Roll back to a previous save now, if this matters to you.. and save yourself the trouble.
2. Wait until Aerie reminds you of visiting Quayle, do one or two Strongholds and you should have taken more than long enough for this to trigger and see if this helps triggering the dialogue from Quayle.
Clue: If this reminder does not trigger, see point 1 - something is irreparably broken.
(By irreparably, i mean that even if you could fix this, it would be by using console and ee keeper to find and fix globals, quest strings and what have you.. not worth it imo)
3. Keep calm and carry on, be prepared to lose Aerie and break a potential romance.. or with some luck, nothing comes of this and the entire string of events never progress beyond this point.
(You can do the Haer'Dalis quests regardless)
I also did some Googling and found an old forum, where somebody had the exact same bug as me and Peldin, while playing the old version of BG2, so apparently this bug has been around since the very early days of vanilla BG2, but it's extremely rare.
Which is probably why neither Bioware nor Beamdog ever fixed it. One of the old unofficial patches from modders actually fixes it, but it's not compatible with the EE.
Well, I'll keep playing and hopefully it won't make me loose Aerie. I'm not romancing her, so no idea if it causes problems with the romance.
Still funny thing thou. I've been playing this game since it was first released and I'm still finding new bugs with each of my playthroughs
As Gallowglass noted above, talking to Quayle points you to
Tried to download some fixes but they didn't work, so finally I installed EE Keeper. Run it and load any of your saves involving Aerie in your party, then edit the "Local Variables" tab, specifically the "QUAYLEMESSENGERSPAWN" and "QUAYLEMESSENGER". Set them both to 0 value.
Once you load that game, the messenger will spawn again, thus restarting the quest. It worked for me the second time.