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Hello hello hello.

Now, this is my first playthrough of Witcher 2 and I'm loving it. But back to what's important.

Now I want to get my grubby hands on that Caerme Sword in Chapter 3, but to do so I need to complete the Gargoyle Contract.

Problem:

The Quest is broken. Atleast I think it is.

I've bought the 4 rune books, I already had the Gargoyle book from Ch1. Now upon spamming 'read' on all of the 4 rune books in my inventory.

I then am told to find these 3 areas and do that rune disabling business. Which I do. I head on over to one of the 3 areas with the gargoyles, clear it out of enemies, go below ground and then I have ensured I do the correct sequence.

Yes, I am very well aware that there is a specific sequence to follow and there are Six different ways for it to be done. So far I have 2, 5 and 6 or something. The problem is, even though I extinguish the runes in the correct order I get zapped as if I'm doing it wrong.

What the hell?! What's going on?!

I became so damn frustrated that for the heck of it and to double check that I was not making errors I actually tried all the six encrypted rune combinations twice in each area and I am damn well sure I am doing the right combination of extinguishing runes but... but... it won't work. I keep getting zapped! It refuses to work for me!

Is... am I stumped? I'm running Witcher 2 (Latest Patch... which is 2.1 right?) and... well this is driving me insane. Any help would be appreciated. Danke.

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First encrypted rune combination - animal, sky, art, time
Second encrypted rune combination - animal, art, time, sky
Third encrypted rune combination - animal, time, art, sky
Fourth encrypted rune combination - sky, animal, time, art
Fifth encrypted rune combination - art, sky, animal, time
Sixth encrypted rune combination - sky, art, animal, time


Those are the combinations. I did each of them. Twice. In all 3 areas. I keep getting zapped/injured as if I am doing it incorrectly. The only active quests I have now is "Where is Triss Merigold", " For a Higher Cause!", "Assassins of Kings" & "Gargoyle Contract".
Post edited February 26, 2012 by Merchant2006
This question / problem has been solved by cjrgreenimage
Since there are no reported bugs of the kind you describe for this quest, I would be more likely to believe that you are in fact doing it wrong, rather than that there is a bug.

First, are you running any mods? A number of mods have obscure quest-breaking side effects.

Second, have you correctly identified the runes?

Animal
Sky
Art (sometimes Death)
Time

There are 24 possible orders, so misidentifying any of the runes will cause your attempts to fail.
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cjrgreen: Since there are no reported bugs of the kind you describe for this quest, I would be more likely to believe that you are in fact doing it wrong, rather than that there is a bug.

First, are you running any mods? A number of mods have obscure quest-breaking side effects.

Second, have you correctly identified the runes?

Animal
Sky
Art (sometimes Death)
Time

There are 24 possible orders, so misidentifying any of the runes will cause your attempts to fail.
Excuse me while I repeatedly smash my face in with a hammer.

I can't believe I got the goddamn Animal & Sky runes mixed up... I just... I don't even... I...

*lowers head in shame* Let me load up Witcher 2 and... and... do this... *sighs*

Updated: Yes. It worked. I did the quest and I'm on my way to the 3rd location. I feel like such a fool but thank you for your help ^^. (Just to show that it worked). :D
Post edited February 27, 2012 by Merchant2006