So I have the quest, went exploring on my own for while did some other things of which one led to Lawrence's death as part of another quest...problem is the current Goblin Trouble quest requires me to speak to him but I cannot.
Is there console commands for this game or way to force completion of an active bugged quest? OR is there another way to complete the quest even though he is dead, the last thing I have in the quest log is the mining operation is ended because of my actions and how Lawrence won't be pleased about that. Well he will be less displeased by that than the fact he's dead already...
There's nothing that can be done about it unfortunately. The quest will be carried around by you until the End of Time. It's definitely something Larian needs to fix though. Hopefully future patches will solve this problem.
I am hopeful that finding the corpse of Lawrence, which is supposedly in north Cyseal, somewhere near the burning forest, will fix this. If not, there is always the save editor, to flag it as completed :P