Free the Artist HELP

[Ghoul Ben]

I have just entered Lady Janath's estate to continue the Free The Artist quest and it has driven me to my wits end.
I'm a save-scummer and I have never encountered a quest so annoying to cheaters and non-cheaters alike, to the point where I assume I MUST be missing something obvious; I have freed Oskar in Act 1 and successfully knocked him unconscious in the Janath estate (using everyone but my actual character due to having Volo's special eye and not wanting to fight through every single poltergeist in the mansion) and I have finally made it to Oskars Atelier.

Online guides say "combine Oskar's painting with the easel" but which is Oskar's painting?? Is this something I should have kept from Act 1 when I found him?? Nothing in the room seems to fit the description? I am the type who wants to complete every side quest possible and this single task has driven me to the point of not even wanting to finish an otherwise brilliant game. What seems to be a straightforward side-quest is so annoying it is killing my enjoyment entirely.

Any help or advice would be appreciated, thank you.

[Crashtest]

Huh, I just did that quest last night and one of the paintings in the atelier was litteraly called "Oskar's Painting" or something. It was on the left side of the room when I entered it from the staircase if that's any help.

[KittHaven]

Not sure why online guides are saying that you need to combine something, you should be able to find a note that mentions Mystic Carrion somewhere, then you have the option to ask Lady J about him and she asks you to go and see him. You then need to do a quest for MC and you eventually either get or loot an item depending on your choices with that quest (some sort of staff I think, can't remember) that you can use to burn the haunted painting. Gave me a ton of trouble too, definitely my least favourite, especially as I didn't realise you could remove the stupid skulls with remove curse until way too late lmao

[guppy]

You put one painting on the empty easel ( think I did a drag & drop ) - the unlocks a new area, with a different painting. Attack it to trigger a journal update ( and a new ghost that you have to kill ).

It's quite an annoying quest chain, and the game spamming the "burning" condition on every candle in the house kills the frame rate making it a slideshow :X

[guppy]

Originally posted by KittHaven:

[...] especially as I didn't realise you could remove the stupid skulls with remove curse until way too late lmao

Oh.. well they no longer have any furniture, as the only way I had to deal with them was AoE fire spells xD

[KittHaven]

Originally posted by guppy:

Originally posted by KittHaven:

[...] especially as I didn't realise you could remove the stupid skulls with remove curse until way too late lmao

Oh.. well they no longer have any furniture, as the only way I had to deal with them was AoE fire spells xD

Lol that's one way to deal with it for sure, super annoying getting constantly kicked over the railing and down the stairs though haha. Though to remove with remove curse I had to use another character to trigger their blast and take the hit, then swap into turn based mode to get Gale close enough to touch them. If I didn't use another character first Gale would get blasted even in turn based mode so it seemed really inconsistent lol

[Pieshaman]

the painting litteraly in the same room as the easel.

[Pieshaman]

what I didnt figure out is what comes next if you fail roll, you get fight.
I failed the fight because she untargetable and I dont know what to do.
Then when all dead I retry. but I saved before the conversation and this time succeed the rolls and not got the fight.,
So I still curious what the solution to the possesion of party member is.

[PrincxssMars]

I am having an issue where I grab the painting of Oskar and try to combine it with the empty easel and it literally says not enough resources and interrupted with a red x....

This seems to be a bug as I know after reading several forums that I am doing it correctly. Not sure why it won't let me proceed, but this is extremely annoying for a side quest. I quite literally am unsure how to proceed and would rather complete it than just revert to an old save since I'm already at like the last part of the task/quest.

[LordNibbler]

Another night of the necros, I see. First question would be - as always - if you use mods, as they quite often break something.

However, the goal is simply to open the hidden door that is opposite of that easel. I don't know exactly if you *need* to have a successful perception roll, as I always did, but that hidden door can simply be opened via lockpicking. This allows you then to continue with the quest. GL!