I ratted out Zherron for spying before collecting the reward for the "Cave Crawling" quest (eliminating the kinrath matriarch.) Now I get no dialog options with him, the quest lingers as unfinished, and I was seriously cheated out of the credits and xp just because I talked to the @*%# characters in the wrong order. I'd like these two games much more as crpgs if they weren't so full of bs like this (*cough* airspeeder *cough*) that punishes a nonlinear approach, which is my natural way of playing.

I made a copy of that current save and completed just that "Cave Crawling" quest from an earlier save to se what the reward for it was. Them I used the savegame editor on that duplicate current save to set the quest to completed and adjust my credits and xp/party xp appropriately. As silly and compulsive as this might seem, I think it may have saved me hours of redundant playthrough, which can become quite frustrating.

My question to experienced players is this: If I continue from the unmodified save, will I have an opportunity upon returning to Dantooine to talk to Zherron or in some way get this quest off the books or will it just linger there incomplete?

I have TSLRCM 1.8.3b, M4-78, and Extended Enclave mods installed.

Thanks in advance.

Well, Zherron eventually is restored to his post as head of the militia, so I assume at this point I could have claimed the reward for "Cave Crawling." Now I'm just wondering when I can complete the "Battle Circle" quest on Dxun, since those folks have vanished.