[BUG] serious problem with first encounter of Aldeth Sashenstar

[trotos]

I entered the first cloackwood area, I clean it up, then I enter the cabin, loot it and finally I get out. Aldeth Sashenstar does not iniciate a converstation, I have to go and talk to him. I'm talking to Aldeth Sashenstar, agree to kill the druids, I'm killing them and when I talk again to Aldeth Sashenstar...
Nothing
he just says that I need to kill the monsters.
I killed all 4 druids...
this is a serious bug, since I will not be able to be a part of the mrchants list and no continuation of the story-line

[ÄmJii]

Have you tried reloading?

I recall having to do that once, but otherwise that quest has worked as intended on my playthroughs.

[trotos]

I tried reloading, sleeping...almost everything. The only thing that helped was loading an autosave and go directly to the aldeth.
I believe that the bug is trigert by first entering the cabin.

[John]

Bump! I have the same problem right now. I have killed all the savages but Aldeth says there still more. I tried looking through the ENTIRE MAP and didn't find another single savage. What do I do??

[trotos]

reload a previous save one that you haven't entered the cabin near Aldeth, one that you haven't done anything in the map.
Speak directly to Aldeth do as he says, nothing else, try to talk to him once more.
I believe that there is an action that ignites the bug

[N. Gallagher]

It is a bug which can be overcome by proceeding in the following manner after picking up the quest:

1) on 2nd floor talk to Brandilar and he agrees to help
2) get documents and give them to Aldeth (not Brandilar who takes them)
3) go talk to Brandilar ... which takes you and all the doppelgangers to the 3rd floor
4) after killing them all talk to Brandilar (no need to go search on other floors)
5) talk to Aldeth for quest completion

Optional:
6) kill Adelth now (for good crossbow later)