Coven child escort bug (q0c00y03) [RESOLVED]

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MaxiM
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Coven child escort bug (q0c00y03) [RESOLVED]

Post by MaxiM »

The <coven> actually could use thy assistance in a most absurd and yet serious matter..."

This quest is unresolvable. Once i pick it up, the "child" avatar appears on my screen, then I go to the child's house (seems like it's always Blackley Commons, also always the same building) to drop it there, child thanks me, avatar disappears, I go back to the coven and then...

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Blood for the Blood God.

  • The log entry doesn't change
  • Warriors, archers, etc keep attacking me while I try to sleep/fast travel until I kill 40 of them
  • Quest giver won't speak with me, unmutequestnpcs doesn't fix that.
  • Then I wait until the quest expires, get a message that the child escapes (the same child I already dropped off).
  • Quest fails, I can speak to the bledam again
Mildly funny and profitable (loot from 40 enemies) but not exactly desired ;)
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BansheeXYZ
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Re: Coven child escort bug

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I'll add that:
-DFU apparently hasn't implemented child escorts. The faces it's supposed to use for this are in KIDS00I0.CIF.
-DFU is having trouble with the %g3 macro here. "her people" shows up as "hers people". I don't know if classic's macro system resolves this his/his her/hers english quirk in every instance. But in this quest window, it does and %g3 correctly uses "her".
-This quest has some problems in classic. The 1012 message should fire when the first enemy spawns, but they instead fire the moment you accept the quest, when no enemy is around. In DFU, they don't seem to fire at all.

Edit: researched that macro:

%g = he/she (item he/she has)
%g1 = he/she (item he/she has) - dunno what the difference is here from %g. only used in N0B20Y05
%g2 = him/her (we found him/her)
%g3 = his/her (it is his/her item)

There is no macro for his/hers. You can't just type %g3s because then "his" would become "hiss". Looks like we need a new macro:
%g4 = his/hers (the item is his/hers)

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Re: Coven child escort bug (q0c00y03)

Post by Jay_H »

Thanks for the report :) This quest was bugged as written, but I tested it a couple weeks ago and made a fix. It'll be uploaded when the classic quest bugs are in, For the sake of documenting it:

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_S.01_ task:
	say 1011 
	drop _child_ face
	start task _S.07_
--added start task S.07. 07 was turning off when S.01 deactivated.

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variable _S.07_
--changed S.07 to empty variable instead of "when S.01"
S.07 depended on S.01, but S.01 would deactivate once you left the child's home. I've made S.07 activate permanently once you start S.01. I'm not sure why this deviates from classic since it shouldn't work in classic to begin with.

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Re: Coven child escort bug (q0c00y03)

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Child escort images are now selected in live code, and Jay has a pending fix for this quest. Closing report as resolved.

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