Possible quest bug in Act 2: Lift the Shadow Curse [SPOILERS]

[shmoople]

One of the first things I did when entering the Shadow-Cursed lands was play hide and seek with Oliver. The first round of hide and seek I had no problems, but the second time there were enemies looking around while I searched for him. I could see Oliver and stood right in front of him, but I couldn't click or interact with him. I decided to kill the enemies and take out Oliver with non-lethal attacks, but after the fight was finished, I still couldn't interact with him in any way. I just left the area and went on to do other things.

Fast forward to the end of Act 2, I killed Ketheric Thorn and did every quest I could find in the area except for this one. I did everything with Halsin regarding Thaniel up to the point where I have to seek Thaniel's shadow, where the quest marker points me towards the House of Deep Shadows, where I played hide and seek with Oliver. However, Oliver is not there, and I am not able to do anything in the area. Talking to Halsin only has him saying the same line about finding Oliver. It seems I am left with no choice but to go to Wyrm's Crossing without lifting the curse and have Halsin leave the camp because I cannot finish the quest.

Has anyone had similar issues, and if so, are there any solutions?

[zagnaphian]

Same problem here, hoping someone has a fix.

[Brutzelkurt]

just leave the area to baldurs gate and the event will trigger.

[Makaala]

I was able to do it... I saw the kid standing after telling Halsin i killed the Oliver.. what i did was i attacked it.. CS happened and now a portal apeared

[RIEHLE]

I have the same issue. I have spoken with Halsin but I never get the option to tell him that Oliver is dead. All I get is the same dialogue until I chose the only response I have then he says he will join me. I tried that I go back to the house and Oliver is dead he is D E A D and nothing I do will resolve this. I hope that the Devs see this and fix this in the next patch.

[B0$$_2O9]

It tells me To Kill thorm, I already did.

[Ozius]

I have the exact same issue. I used non-lethal attack to knock out Oliver after following him through the portal.

I also used silence on Oliver during the fight to stop his casting which may have prevented him from triggering the final dialogue (was unaware there was one at the time).

Now he is nowhere to be found and I can't tell Halsin I've killed him (as I haven't) and if I add Halsin to the party, he repeats the same line about finding Oliver, I have no dialogue options except "Leave" and am unable to remove Halsin from my party.

The quest marker for "Lift the shadow curse" is at Oliver's house but he isn't there, just his portal which takes me to the final fight location with him being absent.

I have also completed everything else in Act 2.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Makaala:

I was able to do it... I saw the kid standing after telling Halsin i killed the Oliver.. what i did was i attacked it.. CS happened and now a portal apeared

This is a different bug as the option to tell Halsin I've killed him doesn't show as I knocked Oliver out instead of killing him, same as OP did.

[Martin]

Originally posted by shmoople:

One of the first things I did when entering the Shadow-Cursed lands was play hide and seek with Oliver. The first round of hide and seek I had no problems, but the second time there were enemies looking around while I searched for him. I could see Oliver and stood right in front of him, but I couldn't click or interact with him. I decided to kill the enemies and take out Oliver with non-lethal attacks, but after the fight was finished, I still couldn't interact with him in any way. I just left the area and went on to do other things.

Fast forward to the end of Act 2, I killed Ketheric Thorn and did every quest I could find in the area except for this one. I did everything with Halsin regarding Thaniel up to the point where I have to seek Thaniel's shadow, where the quest marker points me towards the House of Deep Shadows, where I played hide and seek with Oliver. However, Oliver is not there, and I am not able to do anything in the area. Talking to Halsin only has him saying the same line about finding Oliver. It seems I am left with no choice but to go to Wyrm's Crossing without lifting the curse and have Halsin leave the camp because I cannot finish the quest.

Has anyone had similar issues, and if so, are there any solutions?

You knocked him out... no wonder you can't finish quest, he needs to be not knocked out.. you essentially killed olly. At end of fight he runs off and hides, after you do the rescue part he is hiding in the general vicinity. You then go to a different area via portal to finish the quest.

You can also do this quest when the guy in the bed is dead. Saves some time, but it can be abit buggy with halsin not showing up on the lakeside until after you do a long rest.

[Ozius]

Originally posted by Martin:

Originally posted by shmoople:

One of the first things I did when entering the Shadow-Cursed lands was play hide and seek with Oliver. The first round of hide and seek I had no problems, but the second time there were enemies looking around while I searched for him. I could see Oliver and stood right in front of him, but I couldn't click or interact with him. I decided to kill the enemies and take out Oliver with non-lethal attacks, but after the fight was finished, I still couldn't interact with him in any way. I just left the area and went on to do other things.

Fast forward to the end of Act 2, I killed Ketheric Thorn and did every quest I could find in the area except for this one. I did everything with Halsin regarding Thaniel up to the point where I have to seek Thaniel's shadow, where the quest marker points me towards the House of Deep Shadows, where I played hide and seek with Oliver. However, Oliver is not there, and I am not able to do anything in the area. Talking to Halsin only has him saying the same line about finding Oliver. It seems I am left with no choice but to go to Wyrm's Crossing without lifting the curse and have Halsin leave the camp because I cannot finish the quest.

Has anyone had similar issues, and if so, are there any solutions?

You knocked him out... no wonder you can't finish quest, he needs to be not knocked out.. you essentially killed olly. At end of fight he runs off and hides, after you do the rescue part he is hiding in the general vicinity. You then go to a different area via portal to finish the quest.

You can also do this quest when the guy in the bed is dead. Saves some time, but it can be abit buggy with halsin not showing up on the lakeside until after you do a long rest.

I knocked him out after he fled through the portal from his house.

Seemed like a reasonable thing to do as I'm a Paladin and didn't want him dead, especially as Halsin implied I had to save/convince him.

[Efeezie]

My issue is I saved Isobla from Marcus and freed the pixie but the curse won’t lift to let me in the toll house. I’m new to this style of game what am I missing

[Chronos]

Originally posted by Ozius:

I have the exact same issue. I used non-lethal attack to knock out Oliver after following him through the portal.

I also used silence on Oliver during the fight to stop his casting which may have prevented him from triggering the final dialogue (was unaware there was one at the time).

Now he is nowhere to be found and I can't tell Halsin I've killed him (as I haven't) and if I add Halsin to the party, he repeats the same line about finding Oliver, I have no dialogue options except "Leave" and am unable to remove Halsin from my party.

The quest marker for "Lift the shadow curse" is at Oliver's house but he isn't there, just his portal which takes me to the final fight location with him being absent.

I have also completed everything else in Act 2.

That's exactly what I did, word for word. Oliver was silenced, I knocked him out because there wasn't any dialogue after breaking the dome. Did a long rest, now the portal is still in the house but Oliver is nowhere to be seen. Thaniel is still in camp and unresponsive.

Only difference is that I'm not stuck with Halsin in my party.

Anyone found a way to fix this? I did this a while ago so I'm a solid 20 hours ahead of it so resetting to that save is not an option... :(

[Neraf_Starr]

For me, I killed his bad half, after I hit him accidentally with an arrow at the second hide and seek game and now that the h&a is done by killing the shadows, he just tells me that "he won fair and square blablabla" no portal appeared and I can't get to Oliver 🤦😞

[Pagerduty Alert]

Originally posted by Chronos:

Originally posted by Ozius:

I have the exact same issue. I used non-lethal attack to knock out Oliver after following him through the portal.

I also used silence on Oliver during the fight to stop his casting which may have prevented him from triggering the final dialogue (was unaware there was one at the time).

Now he is nowhere to be found and I can't tell Halsin I've killed him (as I haven't) and if I add Halsin to the party, he repeats the same line about finding Oliver, I have no dialogue options except "Leave" and am unable to remove Halsin from my party.

The quest marker for "Lift the shadow curse" is at Oliver's house but he isn't there, just his portal which takes me to the final fight location with him being absent.

I have also completed everything else in Act 2.

That's exactly what I did, word for word. Oliver was silenced, I knocked him out because there wasn't any dialogue after breaking the dome. Did a long rest, now the portal is still in the house but Oliver is nowhere to be seen. Thaniel is still in camp and unresponsive.

Only difference is that I'm not stuck with Halsin in my party.

Anyone found a way to fix this? I did this a while ago so I'm a solid 20 hours ahead of it so resetting to that save is not an option... :(

Same situation as you, except instead of knocking him out I just killed him. The quest is stuck in the exact same way >.<

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Each One:

Originally posted by Chronos:

That's exactly what I did, word for word. Oliver was silenced, I knocked him out because there wasn't any dialogue after breaking the dome. Did a long rest, now the portal is still in the house but Oliver is nowhere to be seen. Thaniel is still in camp and unresponsive.

Only difference is that I'm not stuck with Halsin in my party.

Anyone found a way to fix this? I did this a while ago so I'm a solid 20 hours ahead of it so resetting to that save is not an option... :(

Same situation as you, except instead of knocking him out I just killed him. The quest is stuck in the exact same way >.<

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