(Spoiler) Quill

[Kelrycor]

SPOILER - If you didn't finished the game once, stop reading and come back later.

On your way through the plant you will see a scene in which Quill is getting destilled because he was caught red handed faking Ether Bridge tickets.

True, when the Enforcer first meet Quill in the train she can send him to the plants for faking tickets. But whatever decision was made, Quill is ending up at the rebel HQ in the sewers helping you with the disguise for Crate Boxton and teaming up with you and Fig trying to distract Bulb so that Fig can actually steal the Arca.

Quill will get caught by Bulb for sniffing around too much, yes, but somehow turning Qill in looks rather harsh to me. Espescially Quill knows to much to just be sent to the plants by Bulb. It rather looks like a story bug - like the devs wanted that Quill won't be at the rebel HQ if the Enforcer send him to the plant (maybe he is replaced by another forgotling at the HQ then), but missed to implement this, and also missed to prevent this scene happening when the Enforcer didn't send Quill to the plant at all.

I am a little confused by this.

What do you think of that? Does anyone has more informations on that?

[[ZSU] Dave247]

It's a plot hole for sure. I sent him to the plant but later when you find him at he hideout he said he escaped, and all of a sudden he was captured a second time yet the guard doesn't mention that? It didn't make sense and it's too large to have been an oversight, so I'm thinking more something they ran of time to fully implement (like the game having more options the different scenes could play out).

[Graylag]

It is hard to say what authors actually intended, but in my opinion this is not a plot hole. Just a piece of story that was not told. Consider following:

First of all, Quill is not that much into rebellion as he is more of an independent rogue. Sure, he can get to Rebel HQ and he may help them from time to time, but I don't think he associates with them that much. Actual Rebel would not have much reason to distribute forged documents among people. And in fact he would help Rebels to have much better forged validation stickers than one found in railway station.
As a rogue, Quill had no problem escaping the train regardless of your actions, most likely utilizing chaos there. Later into story, being a rogue and angering Bulb, he most likely fled Rebel HQ and tried to disappear into city, until heat dissipates.
What happened after that is mystery, but my version is that while in city, his luck finally run out and he was captured by police. Possibly because either Bulb's men were after him, or perhaps because of tightening security in streets. Given that Quill was probably circulating forged documents for quite some time, it is only logical authorities were after him despite being small fry and once captured, they decided to send him to the plant.
At this point it is important to remember, that although you are the Enforcer, you are definitelly not the only force keeping order in the city. We do not know if police force is only the three forgotlings we see and rest is handled by validated forgotlings or if police has many other officers we don't see, but that is irelevant here.
Back to the point, Quill, once captured and sent to the plant may have intentionaly wanted to stay there. Keep in mind he needed to lay low until heat dissipates and only then try to escape. This explains why we see him separate from other prisoners, trying to convince guard for better job. (As a side note, it is also possible Quill surrendered to authorities wilingly, thinking the plant is better than being subjected to Bulb's wrath). Unfortunately for Quill, there his luck run out second time.

Now aside from story, when you think about it, authors needed to kill in front of you some character you have relation to, to provoke your emotional reaction. They needed someone with criminal background so you do not think Bonku started killing regular forgotlings (yet). And it had to be somone non essential for the rest of the story. This pretty much means that unless you want to create completely separate character (for which you need to create separate story etc.), you can pretty much only use Quill or perhaps Jinx.