[SPOILERish] The Secret of Cabot House BUG [SOLVEDish]

[Fisherman Joe]

So after completing the quest and Originally allowing Lorenzo to live, and then killing him at the manor with Jack and friends... No one died except Lorenzo and the quest was completed with everyone alive.

Now there is a Misc. Objective to: "Talk to Jack Cabot about the artifact"

HOWEVER, Jack Cabot appears to have dissapeared from the world entirely. I've attempted teleporting him via ref and base id's, and all I did was move the 'quest' target. Which isn't recognized as a quest because it is a Misc. Objective.

Original location was slightly east of the "National Guard Training Yard" in the middle of nowhere with Jack nowhere to be found. I've searched the manor and insane asylum multiple times and he's still MIA.

Edit:

Originally posted by Palpurntin:

Found Jack Cabot....

I was at "Saugus Ironworks" killing raiders for a settlement, and he was just there helping me shoot raiders.

And he would not talk to me about the artifact. He was just really mad at me for whatever reason.
The 'quest' is still bugged.

What's going on? Has anyone else encountered this or have any ideas?

Edit 2:
SOLUTION?
User Japh' has a solution which works.

Originally posted by Japh':

Okey i found half of a fix by myself xD
-> open console
completeallobjectives MS09MiscJackReward

You won't get the reward but the quest will validate, works for me...

vid is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lo8oNcEyw

Edit 3:
Reward?
User Myrmex found a command which should give you the reward you would normally earn from completing this stage. I haven't tested it myself so be sure to save (as always)

Originally posted by Myrmex:

(Trimming original message)
If you came late like me (and last save was decades ago), you may type "sqs ms09miscjackreward 100" which is equal to talking with Jack, so you get the gun and complete quest, but npcs will stay that way.

There's a number of other workarounds some cool dudes have discovered, just check out the responses. They all involve Console Commands

[KiiraHeart]

I am also having this issue. I performed the same sequence of actions you described. The entire Cabot family is missing. Based on online videos and screenshots he should be located in his house.

[Exterminator]

Originally posted by KiiraHeart:

I am also having this issue. I performed the same sequence of actions you described. The entier Cabot family is missing. Based on online videos and screenshots he should be located in his house.

Wasn't the case for me. He was still hanging around inside the asylum. Try there.

[Fisherman Joe]

I'll do another search of the Asylum tommorow and report back my 'findings' tommorow.

[Fisherman Joe]

Found Jack Cabot....

I was at "Saugus Ironworks" killing raiders for a settlement, and he was just there helping me shoot raiders.

And he would not talk to me about the artifact. He was just really mad at me for whatever reason.
The 'quest' is still bugged.

[DovydasAL]

Also suffering from this.

[Japh']

Exact same problem x_X fml

[Japh']

Okey i found half of a fix by myself xD
-> open console
completeallobjectives MS09MiscJackReward

You won't get the reward but the quest will validate, works for me...

vid is here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1Lo8oNcEyw

[Fisherman Joe]

Good find man, I found you could complete quests but I didn't know how to find Misc. quests to complete in console.

Works for me and my completionist autism with games.

[nicovreeland]

To add a bit: this quest also glitched out for me. I freed Lorenzo and then killed him in the room, then went back to Cabot house, and they told me to wait a week. I came back to find jack old, and his mother dead. Jack wouldn't have a conversation with me, he blamed me for his mother's death.

I think the issue was that I didn't give them the serum from Lorenzo, so they had to go cold turkey, and aged all that time that they'd missed. I was able to loot the house and get the zeta gun, but jack followed me silently from room to room. It was kind of an interesting development, just too bad there wasn't a conclusion to that contingency.

[Ludus Aurea]

I can't even get to lorenzo without tcling and cheating. Jack pauses in his office to examine the floor and then never ever ever ever goes to the next stage. Reloads, waited, tried everything. I would like to actually DO the quest and see Lorenzo...

[Myrmex]

I ftd to the mansion 3 days after recieving notification just to check what's up and whole family was there, sleeping. I talked to Jack and he gladly presented me the gun, so I loaded back and decided to visit them in the morning (for some reason). When I entered the house for second time - he and his sister were freaking old and angry. No artifact of course. I guess there's some timer and you better meet Jack RIGHT AFTER a week passes, otherwise quest gets impossible to complete without "~".
If you came late like me (and last save was decades ago), you may type "sqs ms09miscjackreward 100" which is equal to talking with Jack, so you get the gun and complete quest, but npcs will stay that way.

Japh, if you are still here, where did you find that ID? If "MS" stays for mysterious serum, then "09" sounds like quest stage. Could you please write the name for previous one?

[Larnuk]

Originally posted by Myrmex:

I ftd to the mansion 3 days after recieving notification just to check what's up and whole family was there, sleeping. I talked to Jack and he gladly presented me the gun, so I loaded back and decided to visit them in the morning (for some reason). When I entered the house for second time - he and his sister were freaking old and angry. No artifact of course. I guess there's some timer and you better meet Jack RIGHT AFTER a week passes, otherwise quest gets impossible to complete without "~".
If you came late like me (and last save was decades ago), you may type "sqs ms09miscjackreward 100" which is equal to talking with Jack, so you get the gun and complete quest, but npcs will stay that way.

Japh, if you are still here, where did you find that ID? If "MS" stays for mysterious serum, then "09" sounds like quest stage. Could you please write the name for previous one?

The console command to finish the quest would be "setstage MS09MiscJackReward 100."

sqs is used to get the quest stages.

[ǸıκoÐeᴜs]

Not work.

[bobyewjr]

In my case, I save Lorenzo in the lab and I kill him in the Cabot house ... and I forgot to speak to jack for a while so he disapears of the world . I found his locator above water near asylium but no trace of him...damned ...but ...I find the way:

1- go near the Asylum (everywhere you want but not in the water ;) )
2- in the console type :
prid 00047ec2
moveto player
3- you don't see jack but the locator will be above you. move to see it
4- type in the console:
enable
jack will be re-enable in front of you and give you the weapon and the quest will be completed.

[GaryC0l3man]

Originally posted by bobyewjr:

In my case, I save Lorenzo in the lab and I kill him in the Cabot house ... and I forgot to speak to jack for a while so he disapears of the world . I found his locator above water near asylium but no trace of him...damned ...but ...I find the way:

1- go near the Asylum (everywhere you want but not in the water ;) )
2- in the console type :
prid 00047ec2
moveto player
3- you don't see jack but the locator will be above you. move to see it
4- type in the console:
enable
jack will be re-enable in front of you and give you the weapon and the quest will be completed.

My marker was at the Asylum. I entered the console commands as you see in the quote and Jack appeared, gave me the weapon, and the quest completed. Thanks for the great information!