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I was doing a new run through and when I got to the goblin camp, I split Asterion and had him stationed / hiding by the beer ready to poison it. I talked to the cub and it got my smell and I told it about my camp. When everyone was running to watch the race, I poisoned the beer and 1/2 died and the race never started. Right after everyone died the cub ran around the camp and escaped but has never shown up in my camp. Not sure if the quest line was broken due the race not being run but I thought the cub should come after it ran out of the camp.
Not sure if anyone else has tried nor seen this but I'm going to complete this run minus owlbear.

The flags are broken, but it has potentially nothing to do with your actions. I've also been unable to recruit it, no matter what I do. For me, the flags broke much earlier. It never gets kidnapped. Spare the mother or kill her and have it chew on the corpse forever, doesn't matter.

UPDATe - Im in the middle of act 2 and have taken a long rest and lo and behold guess who comes into the camp! So i guess it just takes longer after you poison the goblins. I also wiped the camp

Similar issue in my most recent. In this case I sided with Minthara and raided the Grove before doing the Owlbear cave. Brynna and Andric still had the same reactions. I fought the Owlbear, saved the cub, sent them to go about their business. Then the owlbear is at at the Goblin camp, but Krolla and everyone else is already poisoned, cause I wiped out the Goblin camp too as soon as Minthara left. Instead when it was all over, we got the new Merchant left behind by Minthara (pretty much Grat in a helmet hehe.) I think maybe I might need to kill him too as the last Goblin in camp? Not sure there, but I guess it makes sense. I did the Creche already, took the boat to Grymforge. I'm at Moonrise now. I had left Grat's doppelganger alive, cause he was like the only merchant left standing for a good long stretch there, on account of Durge not resisting many urges, but I guess his time might be up now, if that's what's stalling it.

Here I used the Minthara silence trick to go back and check on him hehe.



If fast travelling in the bubble the silence will stick, so you gotta jump through a couple hoops there. Here's the same using Astarion instead just in case. Owlbear cub makes his same circuit, though all the other gobbos are toast except for the new guy.