Trouble on the cape (WTF!!??)

[SΘULLΞSS]

So I decided to walk to Checkpoint Rest Town, in order to get exp and explore. I came across Harve Village and I stumble on the quest Trouble on the cape. I finish the quest and as a result Fyoran gets banished!! So I Google and see that there should be some sort of quest before this one with a NPC called Ulrika. I have not encountered this NPC, so why the F*ck did this quest get triggered and as a result a bad ending/outcome!?!? WTF!!??

Has this happened to anyone else and is there a way to get the good ending/outcome?

[Balm]

the outcome doesn't matter in any actual way, it's totally trivial pointless literal actual peasant sht it doesnt open up some actually interesting quest to you, it doesn't cut you off from amazing special loot
it
doesn't
matter
so don't worry about it
you've been tricked by itsuno into briefly caring about pointless nobody npcs with pointless nothing conflicts with pointless trivial nothing mobs
you see, your reaction as a game is that you must be missing something if you got the bad outcome....but you didn't
you don't get anything for a good outcome either, because that is Itsuno's message in these games

"Nothing you do actually matters, the cycle will repeat no matter what"

and when you finally realize that's what he is trying to hammer home, you can see all these pointless filler side quests and encounters for what they are

[SΘULLΞSS]

Originally posted by Balm:

"Nothing you do actually matters, the cycle will repeat no matter what"

Actually kinda makes sense! Thanks!

[Balm]

well yeah, so basically enjoy the game how you want and if you do happen to care about an npc along the way, you can try to resolve things differently in your next cycle, if you still care by then

[Miso Ramen]

Originally posted by SΘULLΞSS:

So I decided to walk to Checkpoint Rest Town, in order to get exp and explore. I came across Harve Village and I stumble on the quest Trouble on the cape. I finish the quest and as a result Fyoran gets banished!! So I Google and see that there should be some sort of quest before this one with a NPC called Ulrika. I have not encountered this NPC, so why the F*ck did this quest get triggered and as a result a bad ending/outcome!?!? WTF!!??

Has this happened to anyone else and is there a way to get the good ending/outcome?

You definitely encountered Ulrika; she healed you after the Dragon fight at the beginning of the game. This is a required cutscene that everyone encounters. Basically, if you do her questline (after Brant tells you to go to Melve to check on them), she goes to Harve village to live.

If she's there, the outcome is different, because she deposes the current chief. So, yes, the things you do /did/ matter, it's just that it's not all directly in front of you and easy to spot.

[Percopius]

On my second playthrough, and I got your version fist play, now I got the version where Ulrika is there. The quests, or a least a number of them, are context sensitive; depending on what you do / did you get different steps and outcomes. I spent around 70 hours on the whole first playthrough, I did that for just Vernworth this time. There was so much I missed first time, and this time I am going very slow; feels way bigger now that I go really slow and try to get to areas I thought I could not, and revisiting places with quest NPC to see if anything changes.

[Cutlass Jack]

Originally posted by SΘULLΞSS:

So I Google and see that there should be some sort of quest before this one with a NPC called Ulrika. I have not encountered this NPC, so why the F*ck did this quest get triggered and as a result a bad ending/outcome!?!? WTF!!??

Um Ulrika is the girl you saved from the dragon and lost your heart over. Also the one who shot your griffin. Trust me. You've met.

[Netsa]

It's easy to forget about Ulrika since, despite having her face in the splash art and showing her face as the first thing you see upon waking up from full-body dragonburns, she has no story significance whatsoever, and relies on backtracking to fulfill her questline.

I forgot she was even in the game by the time I got to Battahl. It's not the best storytelling, since a character that has that much camera focus is implied to be more important. Nope.

[phadin]

Originally posted by Netsa:

It's easy to forget about Ulrika since, despite having her face in the splash art and showing her face as the first thing you see upon waking up from full-body dragonburns, she has no story significance whatsoever, and relies on backtracking to fulfill her questline.

I forgot she was even in the game by the time I got to Battahl. It's not the best storytelling, since a character that has that much camera focus is implied to be more important. Nope.

Par for the course in a Dragon's Dogma I'm afraid. Quina was much the same way in the first game. she was important enough to focus on in the opening cutscene before the dragon pulls your heart out, and one of the first people you meet after waking up. After that, you could never see her again the rest of the game unless you go out of your way to do so. Her quest line has a very short availability, requiring you to to reverse course from where the main story is sending you to engage with it.

[Mazurka]

Probably doesn't matter, since this is from March 27th - but, in case anyone else encounters this situation:
i did this same thing and that cat dude got banished. But, i ended up finding Ulrika later on in Melve - Ulrika ended up getting driven out of Melve, making her way over to Harve.
When i talked to her there, she informs me that she talked with that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ mayor dude and convinced him to allow the cat dude and other cat folk were able to return.

Not certain of what impact or missed opportunities resulted from how the events occurred.