Obviously the people who gave you good reviews overlooked the fact that a companion can override and destroy the game. This is exactly what happened to me as well. Thanks for wasting hours of my life while I tried in vain to find a way to handle this BS ore... Terrible game design. All my characters are contaminated I assumed that further down the story they might be healed. And I'd be able to handle the stuff. Nope. I'm stuck waiting for a book to give to one character... Brilliant guys!