Hm, I guess you play a patch version prior to 1.0034? Taking the meat out of his cellar was a quest breaker if you didn't have the quest at that time. But he's still there? One gamer had the problem that he disappeared suddenly.
If I understand you correctly, you're in his cellar, it's empty, no meat there and your char says nothing? If so, I fear this quest is not able to solve. Killing won't help. Dorian is supposed to give you the option to talk to farmer Tom and give him away or keep silent and get XP + reputation. Have you tried to talk to the farmer who gave you this quest? Maybe you can solve it the other way around? You'll still miss reputation, but you might get a bit XP at least.
Kiya
And I don't know if patching will help in this case - because you've already got the "hooked" story line in there.
Last edited by kiya; 28/09/03 11:32 AM.