A Rat Problem Quest, Stuck... Options

[Spook Tooth]

Hello all, I've been stuck on the 'A Rat Problem' quest. Basically I'm trying to protect this lady's basement rats from being eaten by mountain lions...

This quest takes place in Anvil and I'm told I need to follow Quill-Weave's nocturnal movements around her neighbour's place, presumably so I can gather damning evidence that she is to blame for encouraging lions into the victim's cellar.

What happens is I follow her round and round, sneaking as quietly and stealthily as possible keeping my distance and all that, but the only thing I found after leaving the mission run for a while was meat had been set outside the neighbour's cellar but try as I might, I could not a) catch Quill-Weave laying it out or b] pick it up and see her set it again or c) wait for her to go back and call lions in or whatever so...

I'm screwed and fed up so if you can help put me out of my misery I'd be grateful for advice!

Thanks and nice forum btw



PS - I searched the forum for answers before posting: forgive me if it's been answered before since I couldn't find anything relevant myself.

This post has been edited by Spook Tooth: Apr 24 2006, 10:00 PM

[Spook Tooth]

I'm on another follow the NPC mission, this time following an apparent 'paranoid schizophrenic'. This is an odd mission and I'm not sure what I'm meant to be doing since the quest isn't being updated in any meaningful way I can tell.

Having scripted quests means you've got to try guess the game designers own logic for how you're going to trigger quest update events. Though there's a lot of leverage for completing missions your own way, at the end of the day there's only one result - mission completed - and that can depend on a bit of luck if you're not thinking the way Bethesda envisaged.

Otherwise it'll either take you forever to get the quest done or you just ask someone here! Cheers again guys.