Special Delivery Problem with Jack Cabot? [Solved]

[Jurassic Fart 3]

I rescued him and managed to speak to him twice (I discovered that he can swim, too!), but he keeps walking away after he asked me to "take a seat so we can talk." He walks so slowly! Please tell me he's not headed to the Cabot House. I have very recently engaged Deegan and some guy in a lab coat there.

[Bored Peon]

That is all kinda of messed up.

Did you encounter Jack and Edward on a random encounter WHILE on the Cabot House quest?

You need to go try to do the Cabot House quest chain and see if anything is broke. Then come back for console command help.

[Jurassic Fart 3]

What happened was I was mistaken as to which mission was active, and the marker was inside Cabot House. After one speech failure, I was allowed in by Deegan. Some guy in a lab coat that I thought was Jack Cabot and Deegan immediately turned hostile and engaged me. I started searching the house for the painting in Special Delivery and kept attacking them into submission. Then I looked at my missions in my Pip-Boy, realizing my error.

I corrected the active mission marker and found Jack not far away. Now he seems to be leading me back to Cabot House, so I anticipate a problem, since seventy-two hours hasn't passed.

I'm going to look online and see if I can find a console command to make three days pass.

[Bored Peon]

Speech failure to get inside? If you had the quest from Edward you dont need to pass a speech check.

[Jurassic Fart 3]

Then why did the marker appear over the squawk box? Why did Deegan tell me to ♥iss off the first time I asked to be let in?

I thought I was doing Pickman's Gift, but I was really doing Special Delivery…so the real question is…oh. Wait. I know what happened:

Deegan and Jack followed me outside to fight. I teleported to another place once out of sight. Jack then tangled with a mirelurk or two. I came back and kiiled the mirelurk that was after him. He was no longer hostile. So, everything's okay, because we're going back to his place. Let's hope Deegan is friendly again.

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Jurassic Fart 3:

Deegan and Jack followed me outside to fight.

Huh?

How does that go in Nukaworld?

I aint drunk enough or high enough to talk to you.

You have some REALLY weird ♥♥♥♥ going on. Like how do you get into combat while in the middle of the conversation? LOL

[Jurassic Fart 3]

You are drunk enough. I'm not—that'll come later tonight. Recap & elaboration:

Thinking I was on the Pickman's Gift mission, but was actually on Special Delivery, I approached Cabot House, where the marker was over the squawk box. I activated it, and Deegan told me to ♥iss off. I activated it again, and he let me in.

Before a conversation even started…

…Jack and Deegan opened fire. I ran through the house stealing things while searching for the painting that was actually in a different house. I'd fight both men into temporary submission, using the time to steal and search.

When I realized I was in the wrong building, on the wrong mission, I deactivated Special Delivery and re-activated Pickman's Gift, then fled the building. Jack and Deegan followed me outside, still on the offensive. I ran away so that I could teleport once out of their sight.

Shortly after my flight, Jack, still outside, became embroiled in a battle with mirelurks about three blocks northwest of Cabot House, across a bridge. When I returned to Jack, he was still engaged with one creature. I killed it, and when it blew up, he was thrown into a small but deep body of water. I went to loot the mirelurk carcass, and Jack's marker showed him submerged.

I dove into the water, immediately sinking to the bottom, only to see him swimming away and clambering out of the flooded depression. I climbed out after him, and was able to make two verbal exchanges with him, and then he asked me to take a seat so we could talk, he began ignoring me as he SLO-O-O-O-OWLY walked back to his house.

He entered first, and I followed. As soon as the map loaded, I could immediately see that all the things I'd stolen on my last visit has respawned. That's never happened to me before in this game. Crap is SLOW to respawn in this game, if it ever does.

Anyway, we talked, and then I completed that part of the mission.

So, the only real question remains: Why did the two men open fire upon me the moment I entered the house the first time?

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by Jurassic Fart 3:

So, the only real question remains: Why did the two men open fire upon me the moment I entered the house the first time?

In the three years I been on these forums I have never seen anyone ever have that issue, lol.

[Jurassic Fart 3]

Gremlinkurst is my most common username, has been since I started studying Computer Science in 1984, Gremlin-Cursed being insufficiently unique. Before I started teaching computer science, I learned how to code on and administer a VAX VMS-11 mainframe and its workstations. There was ALWAYS something going wrong, inexplicably wrong.

In BASIC, before there was such a thing as Visual Basic, there were twelve different expressions to cause the printer to "print" an empty line, to cause the print head to advance two rows and then begin printing¹.Some of these commands I learned through experimentation, and the rest I got out of the VAX system manual. I was forced to learn all twelve because my programs kept malfunctioning unpredictably. PrintLine (not the real code; this is pseudocode) stopped working. Then Print_Line worked. Then it stopped working, and so on, ad nauseum.

Computer Science experts will tell you this is impossible. I can't tell you how many times I'd get an error I didn't know how to fix—an error mysteriously generated by correctly-written code—and asking the lab tech how to fix it.

"That's impossible," he'd say when I explained what the computer was doing. "Computers don't do that."

(heavy sigh, having been through this a billion times before) "Follow me." At my workstation, he watched as I checked the code, compiled the program, and reproduced the error.

The response was universally predictable from my position: (stunned amazement and goggling eyes) "I don't understand; this isn't supposed to happen."

I can wear only Casio watches. I can wear the damned things forever, until they die from physical trauma. I've tried watches you had to manually wind. I've tried autowinding watches. I've tried digital watches. The analog watches' innards become magnetized to the point they stop functioning. I leave them alone for two weeks to a month and they become demagnetized, and I'd give it to a friend.

Digital watches work fine for a couple of weeks. Then, they either stop working at all, or they race madly like they're in a time machine. They get gifted.

The electromagnetic field that my body generates is abnormally strong. Computers do impossible things around me because of it. I can't tell you how many times I've cursed the fact that Casio doesn't make computers. Casio is the only calculator and watch manufacturer I can buy from and not be wasting my money. I'm pretty sure I have a world record for how many watches I've bought because the last one stopped working.

I have an invisble cloud of gremlins ever on my tail, but I refuse to submit. I will not quit using computers. I'd rather chop off my grapes.

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¹ 99.99% of computer science students find it necessary to learn less than three ways to do this.

[xNothing]

Originally posted by Jurassic Fart 3:

Gremlinkurst is my most common username, has been since I started studying Computer Science in 1984, Gremlin-Cursed being insufficiently unique. Before I started teaching computer science, I learned how to code on and administer a VAX VMS-11 mainframe and its workstations. There was ALWAYS something going wrong, inexplicably wrong.

In BASIC, before there was such a thing as Visual Basic, there were twelve different expressions to cause the printer to "print" an empty line, to cause the print head to advance two rows and then begin printing.Some of these commands I learned through experimentation, and the rest I got out of the VAX system manual. I was forced to learn all twelve because my programs kept malfunctioning unpredictably. PrintLine (not the real code; this is pseudocode) stopped working. Then Print_Line worked. Then it stopped working, and so on, ad nauseum.

Computer Science experts will tell you this is impossible. I can't tell you how many times I'd get an error I didn't know how to fix—an error mysteriously generated by correctly-written code—and asking the lab tech how to fix it.

"That's impossible," he'd say when I explained what the computer was doing. "Computers don't do that."

(heavy sigh, having been through this a billion times before) "Follow me." At my workstation, he watched as I checked the code, compiled the program, and reproduced the error.

The response was universally predictable from my position: (stunned amazement and goggling eyes) "I don't understand; this isn't supposed to happen."

I can wear only Casio watches. I can wear the damned things forever, until they die from physical trauma. I've tried watches you had to manually wind. I've tried autowinding watches. I've tried digital watches. The analog watches' innards become magnetized to the point they stop functioning. I leave them alone for two weeks to a month and they become demagnetized, and I'd give it to a friend.

Digital watches work fine for a couple of weeks. Then, they either stop working at all, or they race madly like they're in a time machine. They get gifted.

The electromagnetic field that my body generates is abnormally strong. Computers do impossible things around me because of it. I can't tell you how many times I've cursed the fact that Casio doesn't make computers. Casio is the only calculator and watch manufacturer I can buy from and not be wasting my money. I'm pretty sure I have a world record for how many watches I've bought bnecause the last one stopped working.

I have an invisble cloud of gremlins ever on my tail, but I refuse to submit. I will not quit using compters. I'd rather chop off my grapes.

Kids mother has same "watch" issue as you, due to high iron in her blood, something in your diet is causing this, she cut out red meat and the problem disappeared... funny huh

[Jurassic Fart 3]

Nope. Not my problem. Why and how do I know? Three things:

1. I have persistent anemia, have had since I was a child, caused by silent ulcers.
2. Kirlian photography on me looks WEIRD and wild, not like what it does on a normal human.
3. I already cut out red meat years ago, not for this reason, but because it's healthier to eat fish, poultry, and pork—and I don't eat much pork, either.

[Jurassic Fart 3]

Here's my most recent electronics snafu: For three days the two keys to the immediate left of my Right Shift key have been malfunctioning. Every time I tried making a period, it would yield a period followed by a forward slash, and when I tried to make a question mark, I got a forward slash followed by a question mark. It suddenly started working properly this morning. It was making passwords impossible.