Hi, everyone! First time here. I've read a lot of the UESP and other FAQs and getting-started info for Daggerfall, as well as known bug lists and such, but I'm still stumped about what's going on.
I understand that it can be hard to find quest objects, and even harder to be sure you've searched all tentacles -- er, corners -- of a dungeon. But I'm on about my third quest where I've gone to a dungeon, spent (admittedly enjoyable) minutes or hours scouring the place, and never actually found anything to solve the quest. In fact, I have yet to successfully complete a dungeon quest. (Granted, I'm still 2nd level.)
Right now it's happening to me on a Defamation quest. I'm sure I'm in the right dungeon (Hold of Gaerham, not that it matters), and I'm sure I've been to all the quest-object locations because I finally broke down and went into cheat mode. Turns out I'd already been to them all legitimately, and there was no lover in any of them.
The first time this happened to me (trying to kill an escaped imp for the Mage's Guild), I thought maybe I'd accidentally let the quest expire or something, and just moved on. It happened again with another quest; now this is the third time, and I'm really starting to wonder. To test the expiration theory, I went back to a save from right after I was told to go the dungeon, went straight there, and immediately paged through the locations in cheat mode; no luck.
I'm on plain-vanilla GOG fall.exe, which I've read might have quest bugs, but nothing like this seems to be listed on the patch pages. Am I missing something?
Thanks for any insights you can provide!