BUG? Cherchez La Femme

[Isha]

I completed this quest to the point where you wait for morning to see Lord Divish with Hannekin Hare, but when time passes he's nowhere to be found. Is this a bugged quest or am I supposed to meet him somewhere other than the castle?

[Twinstar]

same. Also if you still manage to proceed, after the cutscenes game would be in eternal loading

[共匪]

yes it`s totally bugged

[Wolfenbach]

Yup ran into the same problem here today, but from what I can understand on their forums they are getting it fixed.

[Isha]

Ah, good to know. I won't waste any more time searching for him then. I'll get it next playthrough after they patch it.

[Nothing]

For me everything goes smoothly you meet with Divish but it says "quest failed" and then you're stuck on a never ending loading screen

[Eanwin]

Same here.

[Nothing]

So I "solved" it by instead of knocking his wife out and carrying her all the way there, I went there the next day and talked to her, that way you can persuade her to follow you without having to knock her out and after that I had no problems with the quest.

[Baron01]

This is another of many broken quests in this game.

Btw you can find Hare walking around woods near the cave, just listen to a horn sound and follow it. You will find Hare wandering around but he will have same dialogue options and never follow through on his suggestion to meet with Sir Divish.

I have spent whole yesterday trying to solve Hare Hunt and this quest and when I realized I can not finish this quest I decided to reload save before I took Hare Hunt quest. Lost good 4 or 5 hours of play time but I want to do these quests once they are fixed.

[Tryust]

Originally posted by Baron01:

This is another of many broken quests in this game.

Btw you can find Hare walking around woods near the cave, just listen to a horn sound and follow it. You will find Hare wandering around but he will have same dialogue options and never follow through on his suggestion to meet with Sir Divish.

I have spent whole yesterday trying to solve Hare Hunt and this quest and when I realized I can not finish this quest I decided to reload save before I took Hare Hunt quest. Lost good 4 or 5 hours of play time but I want to do these quests once they are fixed.

The worst part is that if you want to finish the game while waiting for this quest to get patched you're ♥♥♥♥♥♥ since the quest will be uncompletable if you keep going in the main story

[Reyno]

I have waited for the horn which was blown at 10 not really dawn then tried different approaches on Margret knocking her out and talking to her. Both attempts result in old nicholas marching back and forth in front of his house for days. no sleeping, no eating just back and forth with the only option in dialogue to recieve training, so far there is no way to continue the quest for me.

[haha123123]

I was able to get it to work without issue and here is exactly what i did. I felt it was important to mention the prior quest hunting hare cause what i did there may impact somehow?
(1) Get the quest from the master huntsman
(2) Go to the Inn Glade and talk to the inn keeper (Alex?)
note: Keep In mind I only cared about this quest because i wanted to become a huntsman so I never did any parts of hunting hare quest.
(3) Do the quest to win his cup back (I did via archery) from a stable hand in neuhof
(4) Meet with the contact (name was black something?) and go get the deer antlers
(5) I tried to wait for night time to steal the huntsmans horn but I ended up going through the house and around back. I saw him standing in front of the fire pot so i just knocked him out and stole the horn.
(6) Give the Horn to the contact (name was black something?)
(7) I waited till 5am just so there was light and met at up with the other poachers
(8) Sided with Hare and met them at the hideout.
note: FYI do not shoot any hares or deer, it might be tempting cause they walk slow, but it will cause Hare and company to attack you
(9) I talked to someone in the camp (black something?) he asks you to get his stash from his house !!! IMPORTANT: I DID NOT complete his quest
Note: I didn't because I thought bugs might come from that. In hindsight this was a valid concern because this 'get stash' quest fails when you complete Cherchez la femme.
(10) After that I talked to Hare and he gave me the quest to kidnap the huntsmans wife
(10b) idk if it matter but i exhaust all the dialogue options before I accept the quest
(11) I wait till around 4am while still in the forest. Then run over (on foot) to the huntsmans house
(12) I ran up and down the road (the stretch of road walking from the inn up to the huntsmans house) until it was about 5.
(13) I see a guard at the house so I walk around and I knocked him out without killing him.
(14) I heard no horn so then I ran around the road until 6.
(15) IMPORTANT: I DID NOT hear horn but went up to the house around 6 anyways
(15b) I read online about someone going in with waiting for the horn, apparently he just went in to the house, so that is why I assumed i was too far to hear the horn)
(16) I lock pick the door.
(17) The wife is sleeping but when I walk up to her (private room I guess) she woke up and warned me to get out of there
(18) When the wife stands up I talk to her.
(19) I used speech check to convince her, the one where I say that her husband has walked right into Hare's trap.
(19b) I exhaust all dialogue options here as well.
(20) I believe there was a cutscene right after convincing her where you end up in Hare's camp again? ( I am pretty sure there was )
(21) In dialogue, I answered "I don't think about it, what's next". Hare tells you about the confession.
Note: Again I try to exhaust dialogue so if there were any I would have done so
(22) I find the huntsman walking in the woods and when I talk to him he asks about wife
(23) My dialogue options were something along the lines of "Hare has your wife" "I am the one who kidnapped her". In speech check I selected the "honor" option where it says something along the lines of "you almost had an innocent man killed over a woman and after all the years it is coming back to haunt you ... Man up ... exchange your name for a happy life with wife ... Hare will let you have a head start." Huntsman say "what choice do I have".
NOTE: I DID NOTE fight him or anything the huntsman just signed the confession.
(24) I talk to Hare and he says something like "really he signed it? no bloodshed? I'm glad."
(25) IMPORTANT: For me right afterward talking to Hare, there was a cutscene that has me and Hare walking to talmburg and meeting with Sir Divish.
(26) IMPORTANT: In the cutscene Sir Divish says that you will have to talk to the chamberlain (aka the scribe) to get the master huntsman job.
(27) I talk to the scribe and it triggers a quest for me to get venision for Sir Divish. I will update once I find out if I actually have the house or not.

NOTE: I DID NOT save while doing the Cherchez la femme quest. I DID save while doing the Hunting Hare portion of this quest chain (quite alot actually 5+ times)

Note: If you don't have high speech you can drink a potion that gives you like +5 speech. I did drink a speech potion as a precaution.

[Isha]

Originally posted by haha123123:

I was able to get it to work without issue and here is exactly what i did. I felt it was important to mention the prior quest hunting hare cause what i did there may impact somehow?
(1) Get the quest from the master huntsman
(2) Go to the Inn Glade and talk to the inn keeper (Alex?)
note: Keep In mind I only cared about this quest because i wanted to become a huntsman so I never did any parts of hunting hare quest.
(3) Do the quest to win his cup back (I did via archery) from a stable hand in neuhof
(4) Meet with the contact (name was black something?) and go get the deer antlers
(5) I tried to wait for night time to steal the huntsmans horn but I ended up going through the house and around back. I saw him standing in front of the fire pot so i just knocked him out and stole the horn.
(6) Give the Horn to the contact (name was black something?)
(7) I waited till 5am just so there was light and met at up with the other poachers
(8) Sided with Hare and met them at the hideout.
note: FYI do not shoot any hares or deer, it might be tempting cause they walk slow, but it will cause Hare and company to attack you
(9) I talked to someone in the camp (black something?) he asks you to get his stash from his house !!! IMPORTANT: I DID NOT complete his quest
Note: I didn't because I thought bugs might come from that. In hindsight this was a valid concern because this 'get stash' quest fails when you complete Cherchez la femme.
(10) After that I talked to Hare and he gave me the quest to kidnap the huntsmans wife
(10b) idk if it matter but i exhaust all the dialogue options before I accept the quest
(11) I wait till around 4am while still in the forest. Then run over (on foot) to the huntsmans house
(12) I ran up and down the road (the stretch of road walking from the inn up to the huntsmans house) until it was about 5.
(13) I see a guard at the house so I walk around and I knocked him out without killing him.
(14) I heard no horn so then I ran around the road until 6.
(15) IMPORTANT: I DID NOT hear horn but went up to the house around 6 anyways
(15b) I read online about someone going in with waiting for the horn, apparently he just went in to the house, so that is why I assumed i was too far to hear the horn)
(16) I lock pick the door.
(17) The wife is sleeping but when I walk up to her (private room I guess) she woke up and warned me to get out of there
(18) When the wife stands up I talk to her.
(19) I used speech check to convince her, the one where I say that her husband has walked right into Hare's trap.
(19b) I exhaust all dialogue options here as well.
(20) I believe there was a cutscene right after convincing her where you end up in Hare's camp again? ( I am pretty sure there was )
(21) In dialogue, I answered "I don't think about it, what's next". Hare tells you about the confession.
Note: Again I try to exhaust dialogue so if there were any I would have done so
(22) I find the huntsman walking in the woods and when I talk to him he asks about wife
(23) My dialogue options were something along the lines of "Hare has your wife" "I am the one who kidnapped her". In speech check I selected the "honor" option where it says something along the lines of "you almost had an innocent man killed over a woman and after all the years it is coming back to haunt you ... Man up ... exchange your name for a happy life with wife ... Hare will let you have a head start." Huntsman say "what choice do I have".
NOTE: I DID NOTE fight him or anything the huntsman just signed the confession.
(24) I talk to Hare and he says something like "really he signed it? no bloodshed? I'm glad."
(25) IMPORTANT: For me right afterward talking to Hare, there was a cutscene that has me and Hare walking to talmburg and meeting with Sir Divish.
(26) IMPORTANT: In the cutscene Sir Divish says that you will have to talk to the chamberlain (aka the scribe) to get the master huntsman job.
(27) I talk to the scribe and it triggers a quest for me to get venision for Sir Divish. I will update once I find out if I actually have the house or not.

NOTE: I DID NOT save while doing the Cherchez la femme quest. I DID save while doing the Hunting Hare portion of this quest chain (quite alot actually 5+ times)

Note: If you don't have high speech you can drink a potion that gives you like +5 speech. I did drink a speech potion as a precaution.

I don't know if that's the right answer, but it's an answer.

[rumpelstiltskin]

Originally posted by Jason:

I completed this quest to the point where you wait for morning to see Lord Divish with Hannekin Hare, but when time passes he's nowhere to be found. Is this a bugged quest or am I supposed to meet him somewhere other than the castle?

it's still bugged in 1.3.1. apparently it was bugged in different ways for different people, but i had exactly the same problem, and i think i found a way to solve it. basically that happens if you bring Margaret and then the confession too early. Hare suggests to skip time till morning, but at 4 am he'll still go south to the road and will start blowing the horn there (about 5am). i waited till then and only gave him the confession afterwards, which triggered the final cutscene.

[[Delta4o]]

Originally posted by rumpelstiltskin:

Originally posted by Jason:

I completed this quest to the point where you wait for morning to see Lord Divish with Hannekin Hare, but when time passes he's nowhere to be found. Is this a bugged quest or am I supposed to meet him somewhere other than the castle?

it's still bugged in 1.3.1. apparently it was bugged in different ways for different people, but i had exactly the same problem, and i think i found a way to solve it. basically that happens if you bring Margaret and then the confession too early. Hare suggests to skip time till morning, but at 4 am he'll still go north to the road and will start blowing the horn there (about 5am). i waited till then and only gave him the confession afterwards, which triggered the final cutscene.

Thank you so much! waiting uintil he's in the woods blowing that horn was the key!

[Beast_Gaming_Pie]

Originally posted by Twinstar:

same. Also if you still manage to proceed, after the cutscenes game would be in eternal loading

Any fix for this?