Help with Dueling the Rat King in Aarbyville Gang Quest

[SoftKitnz]

I am doing the Gangs from Aarbyville quest and I chose to have my Spy duel the Rat King but I keep dueling him over and over again and winning but I the quest wont finish.  I've tried different stances in the duel and all I can guess is that I got to make him drop his stamina but it never drops at all.   The Rat King goes down before his stamina falls even when i try to make the fight last a long time with different fighting tactics.    This is the last thing I need to do before i complete this quest.    I've tried this quest before with a different way of doing it (the seduce one) and couldn't complete that one either cause my character was already married.   This is frustrating and it's like this particular quest hates me (lol).  Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks a bunch.

[samoht04]

Loads of people are saying this is bugged, I have not done it myself by Schipperke just said that hers was not working either on another thread.

[Schipperke]

Loads of people are saying this is bugged, I have not done it myself by Schipperke just said that hers was not working either on another thread.

That's right, Samoht.  My monarch duelled with the Rat Queen repeatedly and the poor old Rat Queen was in pretty poor shape, but as SoftKitnz said, the quest just wouldn't end.  I checked at the official EA forum and found a thread there about it, so it seems a lot of people have been having this problem.  It appears the only thing to do is quit the quest and sacrifice the quest points.

[SoftKitnz]

Thank you for letting me know.   What's annoying is this was the last step of a quest that took a while.    It's like I'm almost at the top of the mountain then end up sliding back down.  You get no credit for being 99% complete.   That sucks .   Oh well I get to try something else now.   Again thanks for letting me know so I don't keep at it all day.

[Zetshia]

I just did this quest and you aren't supposed to duel the Rat King, you're supposed to execute him. The quest goes that your spy makes the stabby poison, the monarch and spy put the poison on their swords, then one kills the queen of heart and one kills the rat king by using the "execute by sword" interaction. I don't remember who kills who but it should say on the quest tasks on the left side of the screen. Then the pirate queen of Aarbyville  challenges you and you decide if the monarch or the spy will duel her.

If the execute by sword option isn't coming up it could be that you put the poison on the wrong sword (if you have more than one in  your inventory) or the poison wore off because dueled instead of executing. Try having the spy make another batch of poison and reapplying it.

[Schipperke]

Zetshia, you're right - I got the rat king and the pirate king mixed up.  First the spy and monarch execute the rat king and the queen of hearts, then whichever one you've chosen, the spy or monarch, has to duel the pirate king.  In my game, the executions went just fine - the problem came when the monarch had to duel the pirate king and win, which he did - repeatedly - but the game didn't seem to recognize that the duel had been completed.

[HtFde]

Zetshia, you're right - I got the rat king and the pirate king mixed up.  First the spy and monarch execute the rat king and the queen of hearts, then whichever one you've chosen, the spy or monarch, has to duel the pirate king.  In my game, the executions went just fine - the problem came when the monarch had to duel the pirate king and win, which he did - repeatedly - but the game didn't seem to recognize that the duel had been completed.

Did you spar or duel? I made the mistake once of choosing spar instead of issuing a formal duel challenge and a won sparring doe snot register as a won duel, strangely.

[Schipperke]

Did you spar or duel? I made the mistake once of choosing spar instead of issuing a formal duel challenge and a won sparring doe snot register as a won duel, strangely.

Duel, definitely duel.  Several times.  It just wouldn't register as being done.  I'd really like to know if anyone else has actually managed to complete this version of the quest successfully.  I know the quest can be completed by having the bard seduce the pirate king/queen, but my bard is already at level 10 and doesn't need the experience - I was trying to get the spy to a higher level.

[HtFde]

Well, I did it with Spy and Monarch, killed the other two then had my monarch duel the Pirate Queen - worked flawlessly. But I'm on a Mac and we haven't had a 2nd patch yet so the game engines might differ.