Scarf for Christina Popa.

[Atom.Little]

Journalist Darby told me Christina Popa had lost a scarf and if only he could find it and give it back to her the two might have a chance of getting back together.

So I went and found the scarf, planning to give it to Darby so her could give it back to her, but guess what?...

I can ONLY give it back to Christina Popa!!....Not to Clayton Darby!

Why??

I can see a hint is unlocked on both characters, and my guess is that it will unlock once Darby gives her back the scarf whereas only her hint will unlock if YOU give it back to her. So why can't I give the scarf to Darby and let him give it back to her?

I've gone through a few guides and they all say I should give the scarf to FDarby, so obviously that obtion should be there, but for some reason it isn't. - If anybody has the answer and will enlightern me, I would very much like to know why.

Thanks in advance.

[Daliena]

I haven't done that investigation, but I do recall hearing that if you start it, quit the game and then come back, it'll break it and you can't give the scarf to Darby, so you need to finish it from getting the investigation to returning the scarf to him, all in one sitting.

[Placidusax's Ruin]

There is a bug around this quest. After you trigger the scene, you should talk to Cristina then Darby in the following order--ask Darby if he think cristina steal the wallet-->tell him about cristina's brother-->ask him their relationship. If you ask their relationship before two other dialogue, you can't give scarf to Darby even he told you he wants it.(Also recommend find the scarf first)

[Atom.Little]

Originally posted by Daliena:

I haven't done that investigation, but I do recall hearing that if you start it, quit the game and then come back, it'll break it and you can't give the scarf to Darby, so you need to finish it from getting the investigation to returning the scarf to him, all in one sitting.

You can't quit the game and also complete the quest in one sitting. You have to one or the other.

Anyway, I did it all in one sitting, yet I had no other option than the one I described.

Originally posted by Xsmir:

There is a bug around this quest.

Okay, that explains it, then.

Originally posted by Xsmir:

If you ask their relationship before two other dialogue, you can't give scarf to Darby even he told you he wants it.(Also recommend find the scarf first)

I see. I'm tempted to just keep the scarf and to H*** with completing the quest. It just annoys me to do everything I can to get things right and then find I did it all for almost nothing. - I may give it to 'him' after all, but it'll be some time later in the game when I've done all the other quests in the area because right now I'm just really pi*sed.

For now the scarf stays in my inventory. Hrmpfh!....lol. - Thanks for your responses, guys, you helped me figure out what's been wrong with this quest. Maybe the devs will fix it for players in the future - we can always hope. :)

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P.S.
I know it seems like I'm over reacting, and maybe I am (I do have a temper, although thankfully, when i boils over it is short lived) but that's because other things are trying my patience at the moment by continually refusing to go wrong. Grrrh!

[mmmtoast]

You apparently also can't skip through any dialogue. I did everything you're supposed to do, EXCEPT I skipped through Clayton's dialogue because I was in a hurry and now I can only turn into Christina. I found a guide online that said that this was apparently part of the bug.

I get your frustration. I really only have time to play through a game once unless I just really really enjoy it so not being able to do get a hint and have no work around without starting over is annoying.