Possible glitch in Witcher Contract: Bastion

[rzn6jw]

I'm supposed to pick up and bury the boy's remains and burn them to bring peace to the spirits. I've climbed the Battlements and found a skeleton with some swords through it but cannot pick it up.

My HUD tracker shows a trail to the center of the Bastion and I see a skeleton under some burnt beams but, even using Keirs's lamp, cannot find anything.

Earlier in the quest I used the lamp to view four trials of the boy but now the lamp won't work on the glittering light areas.

I'm apparently missing something but what?

[sirgreybeard]

climb up to the top, and follow the rampart, the boy was killed with a pitchfork, pick up the body and carry it back down, follow the trail, it will show you were to bury/burn the boy (just got done with that quest about 20 minutes ago)

[rzn6jw]

Yeah, I found the skeleton (up two flights of ladders) but I can't pick it up.

[sirgreybeard]

it should have a E to interact with, over the body, if not, don;t know what to tell you

[rzn6jw]

I seem to remember coming across the skeleton and it had an 'E' over it, so I selected it but it did not appear in my inventory. Whenever I approach it now, there's no 'E'. I'm now in the Battle for Kaer Morhen so it's a moot point to reload a long-ago save and try to start the quest over. Thanks, tho.

[sirgreybeard]

yea, that is a pain, some of the quests tie into each too much, and you don't know that this or that, isnt part of what you were doing, I dont really remember the reward being worth much or better then what you should already have, so just some exp and part of the story, and you already got the rest of the story, just missing him putting him to rest, good luck on the battle, I am getting it set up

[Wodin]

FWIW, I am playing through and have the same problem. I need to pick up the remains but I can't interact with it. I have tried reinstalling a few times and even dropped other loot and that I can pick up fine. The boy's remains aren't something I can pick up though. Odd.

Edit: The body never was in my inventory, but I was able to go to the next step, despite not having picked them up. Quest completed.

[Crisy]

I've had the same issue today when playing this quest, but I've found a workaround (I had to reload to the previous checkpoint), maybe it'll work for others in the future too: after finishing the 3 ghost dialogs, before starting to walk up the walls to find the body, use the lamp again; you'll see the little boys ghost climbing the ladder up the walls. Maybe the quest needs this specific point to continue.

[HealthyGamer255]

same issue but i was stilll able to bury the remains. I just went to the next step without picking up the body or the pitchfork or whatever. I went to the one corner in the bastion and i burried the body without ever picking it up so try that i guess.

[envoy168]

yeh it wouldnt let me interact and asked me to take remains but i knew i already had, i think the glitch is in thinking you didnt pick it up

[DerpyNerd]

It happened to me, I picked up the remains before watching the ghost scene with the lamp.
As healthygamer suggest, the burial site is behind the door in the southwest corner next to a pile of sand with two swords in it