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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?

[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_animal.png]Animal[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_sky.png]Sky[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_death.png]Art (sometimes Death)[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_time.png]Time[/url]

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?

[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_animal.png]Animal[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_sky.png]Sky[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_death.png]Art (sometimes Death)[/url]
[url=http://witcher.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tw2_rune_time.png]Time[/url]

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