How to get gnome off of stopped windmill?

[HawlEffect]

Hey, I fought off the goblins, stopped the windmill with the bake lever, but he just sits there at the bottom yelling "help! stop this thing!" and the windmill keeps making noise as if it's turning (even though it's not, everything's stopped).
there's no option to talk to him. no cinematic. he's red and when I mouse over him there's no option to do anything.
how do I finish this? (i could launch him with the other lever, but wanted to save him).
it won't even let me shoot him with an arrow. ;-) "invalid target"

[Dragon Master]

Go inside. There are two levers. One is a break so he stops spinning, the other speeds it up so you can punt him over the horizon.

[HawlEffect]

Did you read my post at all? As I said, I already pulled the brake so it stopped spinning, and I'm aware of what the other lever does.
Question is how do you rescue him after he's stopped. I've seen a cinematic with dialog where other people can get him down, but my game doesn't run that.

[Rusted Metal]

If you can't just talk to him, it's a bug.

[wtiger27]

Must be a bug then. if you can not go around the base of the windmill and talk to him. I have had no issue doing that on 3 different runs. Load a earlier save.

[cobb.311]

I had to click the rope.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Sounds like you need to upgrade your gnome!

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by cobb.311:

I had to click the rope.

Ahh yes. you have to attack the rope I think or click on it. Forgot that part.

[HawlEffect]

Must be a bug then. Because it won't allow me to attack the rope. Either nothing happens, or it says "invalid Target".
it does seem as if the game state failed to update when I stopped the windmill -- the windmill is still making noise as if it's moving.

[ExcaliburV]

Originally posted by HawlEffect:

Must be a bug then. Because it won't allow me to attack the rope. Either nothing happens, or it says "invalid Target".
it does seem as if the game state failed to update when I stopped the windmill -- the windmill is still making noise as if it's moving.

Hmm. I vaguely remember getting this bug once. This might sound dumb, but have you tried flipping the brake lever a couple more times?

[HawlEffect]

Yep. A bunch of times. Also tried reloading from a save a few times. He just sits there yelling.
I'm gonna launch him. ;-)

[Corridian]

launching the gnome is the best answer, because, he is short.