Pls help me bro
Apologies; this conversation fell through the cracks.
Unfortunately, based on what you're describing, it seems that the quest is simply glitched, or maybe it's
not a quest that stays active forever. I can't possibly begin to guess what the actual cause may be. My theory is that it might be a failsafe in the engine itself to avoid any sort of loops or crashes in the system. (Similar to how successful quests might suddenly become "Failed" later in the game. That seems to be something that was introduced during the 1.1x patches.) When you have a game that tries to be as open-ended as possible while also remaining
interconnected and
cohesive, problems like this are pretty easy to run into. There's just no way of accounting for the literally millions upon millions of potential playthrough scenarios. While the quest might work fine for 10,000,000 people, eventually, a player will find the one or two scenarios that break it. Murphy's Law.
If it still doesn't work after all this time, I'd say it's probably not going to for this playthrough.