I'm afraid that I appear to be out of luck.
Yes, I did get the zombie helper, and he is long gone.
The orcs are all stuck along the southern wall, East of where they need to be with the exception of two crossbowmen. When I give the large orc Slasher, he walks very near one of the crossbowmen, but never turns and thwacks him with it. The quest, for me, is broken.
And there appears to be no way to "bring" them across the green line helpfully drawn in one of the replies above. Because there is no way to make them move, or even to attack them, not that you could complete the quest that way.
No, it seems like I must either re-do it all, or leave it behind. Redoing it means every quest up until George's murder/leaving town. That's a fair amount of time in my book.
I am sure getting the additional XP would be nice, but no certain it's worth re-doing everything just for that.
My only other thought was that some kind of telekinesis power, and I think mages have one, could do it. And the only way I could get that is to cheat.
Would it be possible to cheat just to fix this, and then revert back? Is it possible to cheat just to give myself the XP I would have earned? How much is it? I don't like cheating, as I believe it ruins the game, but that would be only fair. In any case, the overall impact on the game is probably quite low.
Thanks for all the help thus far.
- ELB