Hi all, so I'm playing multiplayer with my gf, and we've got to the point where we headed back to town at the end of chapter 1 after the goblin fortress. Got the money reward, and Ulbrec told us to go see Oswald the airship owner for transport.

Problem is, Oswald's not there. He was there earlier in the game before we left town, but now we're back, he's nowhere to be found. The northern gate guard in the same area is gone too. Unfortunately the autosave is too recent, my most recent manual save is also too recent (he's still gone), and my older saves are hours of gameplay back from there.

I've tried looking around the savefile in Dale Keeper 2 for any obvious Global Variables that might help, but couldn't see anything, though I don't know exactly what I might be looking for.

Is there any save game editing, console commands or anything that I could possibly do to get us unstuck? Our old saves are just so far back we'll probably just abandon the game if we can't find a fix.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: I realise I wrote Oswin in the topic title... I meant Oswald, oops. I can't seem to change it, but maybe a moderator could?

Did you go to Lord Ulbrec to receive your next mission before going to Oswald?

Yep, Got the journal update and everything. It seems both Oswald, the northern gate guard, and the guy down south near the wooden path are all gone. Weird thing is, Their random shout outs (text above their head as you walk around) are still happening.

I've got Near Infinity and have been looking arounf my save file in there (a backup of the save to be safe), and I just can't figure out what's wrong, I don't know what variables to look for.

It is almost definitely not a variable at fault, it's more likely to be either script or map related, probably the latter. That's far more difficult to track down. Let me give you a tip: when you start a session, save the game in a new slot (NOT quicksave) and save regularly. You don't want to be redoing hours of gameplay if/when something goes wrong. Get into the habit of saving in discreet slots.

Yeah, I know I should save in different slots. Sometimes I forget, and... well, I didn't expect any game-breaking bugs like this.

Strange thing though, there's supposed to be 4 Npc's in Northern Targos, outside (AR1100). Swift Thomas, Ghille-Laider, Lumbar Grundwall, and Oswald Fiddlebender. Out of those, only Swift Thomas is actually there. The others are all gone, but the middle two in my list there both have random callouts as if they were.

Going to see if I can figure out what script or anything is different between Thomas and the rest, maybe that will help narrow down what's wrong.

Well, I couldn't figure out what to change in Near Infinity. I got around the problem by using the cheat console to move us to Oswald's airship. Hopefully I don't run into the same bug.

I'll leave this open in case someone else wants to look into it, or finds something useful here.