Mogrim wrote:
Upon this, I have not been able to ever see the scouts again. Deleting and re-adding quest did not work, uninstalling and re-downloading Beta did not work. Whatever made the scouts disappear upon getting as far into the quest as I did has prevented me from ever seeing them again, even though I was not able to complete the quest.
They were dead - probably due to someone's paladin merc killing them =( I fixed that issue, but it has to be patched in (hopefully with this most recent update).
As for the locking issue, I identified the NPC that was doing this and updated him, though you will need to wait for the next patch for that fix. In the meantime, you have to make sure you kill the Orafic hovering over Scout Copperhair shortly before you start the escort with Mortimer. That's the NPC that is becoming locked.