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Hello,

I sort of "failed" the quest "entertaining the masses" (or something like that) by losing rock, paper scissors against the guy who is pretending to like the head that is telling lame stories. "No big deal" I thought, but just now I came to a point of the story (i.e. the quest with the heads body) that made me realize I may be kind of stuck here.

Is there any way to get to talk to the head without being able to direct the whole audience to the other entertainer?
Help would be appreciated. I hate being stuck in quests but don't really want to start all over again since I already sunk 24 hours into this beautiful game.

Thx,
Zirys

Yeah, club the guy over the head with a big stick.

Try teleporting the promoter away from witnesses and killing him. You might not be able to get the head without killing everyone in the immediate vicinity. Save before trying this; it has been awhile since I've seen anyone mention getting the head that way.

If you do kill everyone, chances are your reputation will drop.

If you got a party of 4, you can split them up and have two do all the butchering while the other two are some where else in town. Keep the two main characters out of the area until your ready to take the head.

Thanks for the help. I just realized I only tried teleporting him with the character I also intended to talk to the head with. I will try now to port him, distract two of the audiences with two of my chars and then try to talk to the head with my 4th char. Maybe this will work.


btw, is there a steam-achievement linked to this quest or are there any quest that depend on this particular quest being completed?

Don't think there is an achievement (they are skillies anyway) and this question is a short one. It doesn't trigger anything. I like your idea, tell me how it works out.

Ok, my idea did not work but I managed to complete the quest anyhow.
Here is what I did:

I ported the guy twice, which killed him out of sight of the guards. The guards now keep on saying how good the show is but they don't keep me from talking to the head (which they did when I ported the guy out of sight without killing him).

So, I could complete the quest normally. Just the guy who ran the show is dead. Since I think he is not important for any other quest, I'm ok with this.

Apparently you broke the quest to complete it. Guess the guards are programmed to react to the "crowd warmer".