I've discovered a quest bug

[Mattee]

When you arrive in Velen for the first time there is a quest you can run into on the way to meet Hendrik at the inn from a priest called Funeral Pyres or something like that. When you complete the objectives of this quest you need to return to the priest who will be at a blockade or a checkpoint of sorts where people are trying to enter Novigrad.

On the way to this area where the priest is supposed to be you can run into some people trying to tidy up a battlefield and one of them will have a quest to protect these people from monster attacks. There is another quest at the bridge crossing called Thou Shall Not Pass in which you need to get your hands on a pass to cross the bridge. If you fail to protect the guy helping you with the monster attack quest and he dies, the Thou Shall Not Pass quest becomes bugged, but in a beneficial way.

For Thou Shall Not Pass you're required to find a pass, and to do this you need to backtrack over the bridge and talk to a shady merchant and he has a pass to sell you. You can either buy the pass from him or you can ask him if there is anything you can do for him in exchange for one. His job involves the previous quest where you need to protect the peasants as they clean the battlefield, but if you've already done this quest and let the guy die then this merchant will flip out and not give you the pass, he won't even let you buy one either.

The bug is that no matter what, you get a pass from him regardless. Even if the guy dies and the merchant gets mad and refuses to sell you one anymore, the quest objective still becomes "use the pass the cross the pontar" and you can just simply walk back to the guard and show him a pass which you technically do not have. RIP.

[RottenApache]

I ended up with a pass and have then idea how got it, then i spoke to that guy selling them who said that he will give me a cut price if i did a job for him, when i said yes there was no job and just got the pass off him for a 100 bucks just to get the marker off my map

[Mattee]

Yeh you can just buy it. But there is no need to since the quest is broken and you get it either way.

[Narquois]

I encountered three different way of obtaining a pass.