#go through the Sharran chapel thing again

[invinciblerodent]

I was so close to submitting a bug report to Larian, but apparently, it was one of the THREE VERY MINOR, MOSTLY COSMETIC MODS I have installed that fucking BROKE Astarion's personal quest.

after talking to- and accepting Raphael's deal to kill the orthon (with Astarion in the party ofc), the game apparently decided to update the "The Pale Elf" quest to say that Raphael refused to reveal anything, and that we were going to have to get the details from Cazador.

.....Which I obviously didn't notice right away (because I thought I knew what it said, why would I have checked, you know), so I went off to fuck around and level up before I would have gone into the mausoleum.

Four hours later we were all level 8, so I decided to go and kill the orthon, and get the ball rolling before I would have gone to Moonrise later tonight. Only Astarion didn't want to talk afterwards (no "that was very nice" dialogue), and Raphael never showed, even after two long rests in a row.

Good thing I did a hard save right before speaking to Raphael, because even after reloading right there and reattempting that conversation in any way I could think of, I got the same result. Bugged quest. I removed all companions from the party besides Astarion ("maybe Karlach's extended dialogue overwrites something"), I tried all possible dialogue options ("maybe I rejected him by accident somehow"), did that conversation another four bloody times, nothin'.

Only tried disabling the mods as a last ditch effort (should've tried earlier, my b), and it fucking worked.

Why "purchaseable camp clothes", "gold weight zero", or one measely hair pack I'm not even actively using would break the game in such a profound way and waste my life like this is beyond me.........

........................... but I am a little bit miffed now.