BUG - Quest "Rescue the gnomes from the Grymforge"

[Maverick]

Hey.

It appears there is a bug... After me killing "Nere", the NPC which holds the gnomes captive, the quest tells me to speak with the gnomes, but they arent there anymore, all of them vanished (and no, they werent killed!)

Restarting the game doesnt help, reloading as well doesnt help..

Some1 else encountered this bug? Pls help =)

Greetings

[Martin]

They are there.. they're all dead and when you return she won't speak to you, the quest will be listed as completed. Not sure if you get any xp. You're referring to the gnome girl in the myconoid camp?

[Maverick]

No, the quest is not completed... The gnome girl in the myconoid camp just tell me i should free them... :(

And i think they are not dead because there are no corpses... so :/

[Nordil(Hun)]

Actually it is the duergar who keep the gnomes captive.
Nere merely hired the duergars. (That is why he has 1000 gold on him:P)
So if you kill Nere while the duergar are not involved in the fight, and the duergar remain alive, then basicly you made sure they have no reason to stay, and thus take their slaves with them.

If you want to save the gnomes, you either kill Nere and the Duergar, or kill the duergar and then nere.
Be sure not to leave it out the two duergar with a single gnome captive!

[Maverick]

i killed both nere and the duergars (since they attacked me together with nere)...

[Maverick]

the quest should at least be failed... but its open and tells me to speak with the gnomes

[kannibal25]

As dumb as this might sound, I did find they occasionally ran under the archway to the right where Nere was trapped and you can occasionally find them there.

I've been through that fight about 6x in the past few days as it's *tough* and the gnomes aren't targeted by the duregar during the fight and I made sure to kill Nere in the first round.

If you use a waypoint to travel away/back to Grymforge after the fight, do they show up?