Find Rodge timed quest is stupid

[emitfudd]

There was a specific yellow area on the map after talking to people to find out where he might be. I placed a marker there and went to that area. I have gone all over the place looking for him an he is nowhere to be found. Now it says no destination. Now I see the quest is timed. That's just dumb. Why bother giving a quest if you remove the marker and he is nowhere in sight?

[glenn3e]

Its a painful quest, and forced upon you when you reach checkpoint town. Google the location of putrid cave. He’s a slight distance further. The stupid moonglows don’t really lead you there.

[phane]

I gave in and looked it up online, I couldn't find any clues at that point and went straight to the cave.

[Knavenformed]

There's a guard that tells you the specific location you're looking for
I also just did the "flowerbed" lead and he got eaten

Worry not, game is built around NG+ there will be a lot more you'll miss or screw up the first time at the game, rewards are not even usually that bad for a "mid" outcome

[Detaz]

Originally posted by glenn3e:

Its a painful quest, and forced upon you when you reach checkpoint town. Google the location of putrid cave. He’s a slight distance further. The stupid moonglows don’t really lead you there.

They literally lead you right to the doorstep. Not the games fault you can't follow literal glowing breadcrumbs. RIP Rodger

[Balm]

you're supposed to follow the trail of glowing blue flowers he was supposedly picking
anyways the premise of the quest is painfully dumb, a child doesn't get 'abducted' by wolves, a child gets attacked, killed, and eaten by wolves on the spot

[Fractured]

I searched the town 3 times over, and finally a woman appeared and talked to my of her own volition. I was furious cause she wasn't there before.

I'm all for "not having giant exclamation points over their head". But give us verbal clues at least, not just "talk to every person in town".

At least go "there was a woman in a white workers dress who knew about him".

This is just lazy writing imo.

[emitfudd]

Originally posted by Detaz:

Originally posted by glenn3e:

Its a painful quest, and forced upon you when you reach checkpoint town. Google the location of putrid cave. He’s a slight distance further. The stupid moonglows don’t really lead you there.

They literally lead you right to the doorstep. Not the games fault you can't follow literal glowing breadcrumbs. RIP Rodger

I went to the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ area marked on the map in yellow. Why would they place that marker so far away from the cave? Like I said, stupid. I feel like just letting the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ get eaten by wolves.

[emitfudd]

I slept at the campfire after defeating whatever the flying monster was, so Rodge is probably dead by now anyways.

[Deckire]

You should have read the dialogue a bit. one of the person who you talk to really put heavy emphasis on the Moonglow Flowers. Hard to see in the day, but you would notice at night that their is patches of those glowing flowers are going away from the flower field leaving a large glowing trail.

Just follow the trail and it will lead to the kid.

[WastingSanity]

Yeah I had to look this one up and I had already ran out of time. Silly guard at the entrance.

[Valant]

The issue for me is that there's a path near that location that also has the flowers. It just leads to frustration when you loop back on yourself and think the game bugged out.

[Issiah Freeman]

He's said to be collecting flowers, but the NPCs you ask say he was seen being carried away by wolves whilst holding a bundle of GRASS. One with a brain and the ability to think would be able to discern that maybe he was carrying flower but the petals fell of while he was being dragged away be the wolves. Go at night to follow the blue petals to find the cave to be able to save him.

TL;DR
Listen to NPCs and use your brain. He was collecting flowers but was taken by wolves. Follow the flower petal piles

[1CMF]

Yeah there are a lot of clues giving by the NPCs, as others mentioned. East towards the "cenotaph" I had to go look up what that meant, but helped a lot. Also the bundle of flowers in his hand as he felt so proud before the wolves got him. The last clue was that there were special blue flowers that glowed at night.

So if you wait till night and run east to the grave yard area, you will see a trail of flowers leading you there. I almost panicked and thought I wouldn't figure it out until I was wandering around looking at the grave yard area and it turned dark and the petals started to glow.

Also, if you have a pawn with Priority Quest knowledge with that quest selected, they may lead you right to him...possibly. I don't know if the AI would take you to the clue finding area or the boy. That would have to be tested.

[SadPlatty©]

Originally posted by emitfudd:

I slept at the campfire after defeating whatever the flying monster was, so Rodge is probably dead by now anyways.

Nah - the "timed" aspect is fortunately not that restricted; is more like "do this quest and no other one now" (at least for me - I slept like 2 times). Went in the first time (late afternoon) and found the initial flower area after the cave/bandit harpy hallway, and spent the rest of the day looking.

At night, a Wight spawned, so I fought that, then went back to town to rest. Went back, and checked the rest of the area out (down to where the graves are), and then fought an Ogre. Then I went back/rest/returned and kept going and he was alive still. Believe I also spent a whole day just double checking both paths before going to the other side of the broken bridge to look there, fought some random skeletons or whatever, then headed back to sleep.

Once your close though - they start to attack him, so that's when your screwed over for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around.

[Kacho]

Follow the glowing pedals a night. Have fun.