Dark Talisman Quest not working

[Fleefer]

I'm having some issues with triggering the cutscene for the Dark Talisman quest.
Granted, I haven't played this savefile in a while so technically I could've already triggered it and just forgot, however I have no current quest for it so that seems unlikely.
I'm already in year 3, finished the Community Center, have full hearts with the wizard and tried entering the railroads at multiple different times but nothing happened.
I also already talked to Krobus and recovered the Dark Talisman, though it didn't show up in my inventory or wallet afterwards. The Chest is gone now.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or how I could fix this?

[HeartClock]

It's strange that you managed to recover the Dark Talisman before triggering the cutscene at the Railroads. Normally, you have to initiate the quest first before being able to ask Krobus about it.

Did you try to interact with the seal at the cave's entrance to see if the talisman works anyway?

[Stardustfire]

i can remember wrong, but isnt it enove to go to the seal again after you aquired the talisman.
even simpler question: what does your questlog say about it? when you have the quest and havnt finished it, it shoud be there. if not just say you use mods in the first place, so we dont need to guess in the dark....

[Fleefer]

Originally posted by HeartClock:

It's strange that you managed to recover the Dark Talisman before triggering the cutscene at the Railroads. Normally, you have to initiate the quest first before being able to ask Krobus about it.

Did you try to interact with the seal at the cave's entrance to see if the talisman works anyway?

I tried interacting with it but nothing changed. Like I said, I could've possible had the cutscene when I last played this save but I'm assuming it would show the quest then?

[Fleefer]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

i can remember wrong, but isnt it enove to go to the seal again after you aquired the talisman.
even simpler question: what does your questlog say about it? when you have the quest and havnt finished it, it shoud be there. if not just say you use mods in the first place, so we dont need to guess in the dark....

Pretty sure that's how its supposed to go but unfortunately nothing happens when I interact with the seal.
With questlog do you mean the window in game where you can view your quests? Because like I said the quest is not listed there.
I've also never downloaded a mod so that can't be the problem either.

[Stardustfire]

ok to sum up:
no mods used
the quest is not listed
but you where already in the mutant cave and got the talisman (this step alone is more than fishy with no quest you cant get into the cave in the first place)
the cave entrace to the topright at the railroad is still blocked

is by chance the book already there in the wizard tower, or is the telport circle active and you can reach the witches house that way?

[Fleefer]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

is by chance the book already there in the wizard tower, or is the telport circle active and you can reach the witches house that way?

no, neither is the book there nor does the circle work...

[BCD]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

but you where already in the mutant cave and got the talisman (this step alone is more than fishy with no quest you cant get into the cave in the first place)

That's the really weird bit, it's supposed to be impossible to get to the cave before getting the quest. My guess is that you somehow broke the sequence and triggered an unfortunate bug of some description (e.g you can interact with the chest but you won't get the talisman without having the quest active and now you're softlocked). How the hell did you manage to get into the cave without taking the quest???

[Herr Quezt]

Could always try backing up your save and editing the hasDarkTalisman line to true. Don't know if it will break the quest chain but it's worth a try.

[Fleefer]

Okay so I thought I'd let you all know that somehow I got it working again. I honestly have no clue what the issue was but I revisited the cave and the chest was closed again, managed to get the talisman again and actually have it show in my wallet. The seal left when I interacted with it this time.
No idea what happened but it seems to have fixed itself.

[HeartClock]

Originally posted by Mairenn:

Okay so I thought I'd let you all know that somehow I got it working again. I honestly have no clue what the issue was but I revisited the cave and the chest was closed again, managed to get the talisman again and actually have it show in my wallet. The seal left when I interacted with it this time.
No idea what happened but it seems to have fixed itself.

Glad it worked for you in the end! ^^