Lifting Shadow-curse

[anni5754]

SPOILERS

I found this boy Thaniel, which supposed to help to lift the shadow curse. I get into the battle with him, everything is fine. Dialogue scene appears where he supposed to wait for us in camp, he leaves and then my party just keep dying from shadow curse without opportunity to fast travel. I played this battle several times just for my characters to die right after. (The map is new to me, because for this battle i had to travel through portal to unknown location. Before travelling to this new location, my characters are not affected by this curse). Am i doing something wrong?

[⛧Kairos⛧]

Originally posted by MarsMortis:

Originally posted by GiselaRed:

So. I woke the guy up, kept the portal open, and did the hide&seek/fight with Oliver, but he takes off. Is this what everyone experienced? It seems to be the natural progression since none of the dialogue seems to lead elsewhere. Thoughts?

How did you wake up Art?

I did it by finding his lute and playing it while he was unconscious and it woke him up.

[TrunkMonkey]

Hi everyone, spoilers ahead so I managed to wrap up the quest like this, found art in the inn, spoke with Halpin in camp to get him to move to the inn, a successful perception check on art reveals a note in his pocket, couldn't pick it up off the bed nor pickpocket art for it, however I had my character cast darkness in the area which caused art to stand up off the bed allowing me to pick up the letter, the letter says art went to the house of healing, told Halsin and he says go there and check it out. Go to the big room on the north end of the building, que cutscene, multiple ways to deal with boss so I wont spoil them, loot the lute off the corpse, travel back to the inn, New option on art is to perform with the lute, art wars up, explains what's going on. Now Halsin will do the portal to get the boy, combat against the shadows ensues. Wrap up that and then enjoy the dialog and can talk to halsin back in camp to add him to the party.. hope this helps

[frederika bern]

Originally posted by Gold_Magistrate:

Whatever you do - don't be like me and kill Oliver before you realize he's important to any further content because he's annoying :(

I screwed my save with the quest marker pointing at the house with nothing further to interact with.

Have you progressed further yet? Does the quest get stuck forever? Or have you decided to do everything all over again

[HogRider]

Originally posted by TrunkMonkey:

Hi everyone, spoilers ahead so I managed to wrap up the quest like this, found art in the inn, spoke with Halpin in camp to get him to move to the inn, a successful perception check on art reveals a note in his pocket, couldn't pick it up off the bed nor pickpocket art for it, however I had my character cast darkness in the area which caused art to stand up off the bed allowing me to pick up the letter, the letter says art went to the house of healing, told Halsin and he says go there and check it out. Go to the big room on the north end of the building, que cutscene, multiple ways to deal with boss so I wont spoil them, loot the lute off the corpse, travel back to the inn, New option on art is to perform with the lute, art wars up, explains what's going on. Now Halsin will do the portal to get the boy, combat against the shadows ensues. Wrap up that and then enjoy the dialog and can talk to halsin back in camp to add him to the party.. hope this helps

I am right at this part but I do not have a working moon lantern, I missed my chance to ambush the spider guy. Now if I go to that area the shadows kill me.

[Radiant Is The Baboon Heart]

Originally posted by Gold_Magistrate:

Whatever you do - don't be like me and kill Oliver before you realize he's important to any further content because he's annoying :(

I screwed my save with the quest marker pointing at the house with nothing further to interact with.

I am in exactly the same quest state, but I got there differently:

1. Woke up Art
2. Art and Halsin gave me an idea of where to find the house where Oliver is
3. Refused to play any games with "Oliver", fought his "family"
4. Oliver got pissed and disappeared

Still a circle objective at the broken-down house. I've been all over the area, searched inside of everything. Even made one of the dead Gith talk. I even have Oliver's journal.

No idea what I'm supposed to do next. The objective says to seek Thaniel's shadow, has a circle over most of the broken-down house where we found "Oliver".

If there is supposed to be a portal to take me somewhere to speak to "Oliver", it's not there.

[TrunkMonkey]

Originally posted by Radiant Is The Baboon Heart:

Originally posted by Gold_Magistrate:

Whatever you do - don't be like me and kill Oliver before you realize he's important to any further content because he's annoying :(

I screwed my save with the quest marker pointing at the house with nothing further to interact with.

I am in exactly the same quest state, but I got there differently:

1. Woke up Art
2. Art and Halsin gave me an idea of where to find the house where Oliver is
3. Refused to play any games with "Oliver", fought his "family"
4. Oliver got pissed and disappeared

Still a circle objective at the broken-down house. I've been all over the area, searched inside of everything. Even made one of the dead Gith talk. I even have Oliver's journal.

No idea what I'm supposed to do next. The objective says to seek Thaniel's shadow, has a circle over most of the broken-down house where we found "Oliver".

If there is supposed to be a portal to take me somewhere to speak to "Oliver", it's not there.

Oliver has the ability to turn invisible, be sure you have some way to see invisibility, hope that helps

[TrunkMonkey]

Originally posted by EdgeLord:

Originally posted by TrunkMonkey:

Hi everyone, spoilers ahead so I managed to wrap up the quest like this, found art in the inn, spoke with Halpin in camp to get him to move to the inn, a successful perception check on art reveals a note in his pocket, couldn't pick it up off the bed nor pickpocket art for it, however I had my character cast darkness in the area which caused art to stand up off the bed allowing me to pick up the letter, the letter says art went to the house of healing, told Halsin and he says go there and check it out. Go to the big room on the north end of the building, que cutscene, multiple ways to deal with boss so I wont spoil them, loot the lute off the corpse, travel back to the inn, New option on art is to perform with the lute, art wars up, explains what's going on. Now Halsin will do the portal to get the boy, combat against the shadows ensues. Wrap up that and then enjoy the dialog and can talk to halsin back in camp to add him to the party.. hope this helps

I am right at this part but I do not have a working moon lantern, I missed my chance to ambush the spider guy. Now if I go to that area the shadows kill me.

I've seen a few discussions that says there ware ways to fix a broken moon lantern.. don't know the process right off but I know you can get broken moon lanterns in a few places as I have one as well as the working one I looted off the spider guy.

[Radiant Is The Baboon Heart]

Originally posted by TrunkMonkey:

Oliver has the ability to turn invisible, be sure you have some way to see invisibility, hope that helps

I do! Up to 9m! The circle is barely that big across.

[Gold_Magistrate]

I legit have an interactive Oliver corpse. I saw other playthroughs where he disappears in a puff of smoke if you zero him. I'm hoping there's some console command coming soon so I can do an NPC revive and unbork this questline.

[Kelset]

I just did everything properly, fought thaniel's shadow and after i convice him to go back to his other half i get back control of my party and they die because of the curse, no way to avoid it, the curse doesn't get lifted, my lights are no use and I'm jsut stuck there dying on repeat.

I mean the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ druid could have said something to not go after him even if he's saying he's gonna lift the shadow curse once we reunite the 2 kids because it doesn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lift the curse once you defeat him and you get to a hard block where you need to reload a previous save (and i started saving every 5 seconds thanks god).
That's not the right way to propose a quest.

He's just "oh yea go get him it's imperative we find him" we go and the game breaks.

[crusty pie]

ok, after testing everything i think ive figured it out
thaniel disappeared after i killed him in combat, but i shouldve just broken his shield and killed his goons cause after i did that i was instantly transferred into a conversation with him.
If you killed him then long rest a few times and use the portal again, in my case he "respawned"

[Hinzilla]

Originally posted by Kelset:

I just did everything properly, fought thaniel's shadow and after i convice him to go back to his other half i get back control of my party and they die because of the curse, no way to avoid it, the curse doesn't get lifted, my lights are no use and I'm jsut stuck there dying on repeat.

I mean the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ druid could have said something to not go after him even if he's saying he's gonna lift the shadow curse once we reunite the 2 kids because it doesn't ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lift the curse once you defeat him and you get to a hard block where you need to reload a previous save (and i started saving every 5 seconds thanks god).
That's not the right way to propose a quest.

He's just "oh yea go get him it's imperative we find him" we go and the game breaks.

Same thing here. Does a fixed moon lantern lantern stop this from happening maybe?

[Tingly]

I also refused to do hide-and-seek with Oliver and he vanished, this was before I advanced the quest and now have to talk to him. The quest marker points at the house but he's gone. Halsin seemed to suggest we could still find something there but there's nothing. Alas.

[heathermarshall01]

When I went back to the Last Light Inn to cast speak with dead on Art Cullagh (having made the “mistake” of speaking to Isobel before going to the House of Healing), I was attacked by and had to kill a shadow-cursed undead Halsin in the inn which naturally made the quest impossible to complete. Has this happened to anyone else? Feels like a bug because of the lack of reactions from the party and the journal didn’t reflect his death.

[CaoLex]

I straight up sunbeamed Oliver for claiming I only have second place in Hide and Seek. Damn, good thing I have manual save right after winning.
Still couple of hours wasted.