Talk:Scouting Mission/@comment-71.13.33.55-20150115064050

Okay so, this page is sending me mixed messages. The quest appears on the notice board as soon as Off With Its Head is completed, but disappears shortly after. Okay. But as far as I can tell from my experience it doesn't appear at all unless you raise Mercedes's affinity at the Encampment first. I've never seen it show up without doing so, and I actually haven't seen it show up even after doing so either, though admittedly I've never fully maxed her affinity that early.

Then the last bullet in the notes says that you can get it to show up by raising her affinity after Come to Court, but before Pride Before a Fall is offered (so I assume before completing Giffin's Bane or the other one). Great. But that isn't working either. With her affinity high enough to blush it doesn't appear. With it maxed out it doesn't appear. Sleeping for a few days doesn't make it appear, confirmed that her affinity was still maxed after checking.

Given how all other escorts appear immediately, as this one is supposed to after Off With Its Head, I'm not sure what's going on. It won't appear for me immediately after Off With Its Head and I can't get it to show up after raising her affinity in the castle before doing either of the first quests from Aldous. I assume that last note wouldn't be there unless someone at least experienced the escort popping up in that time frame, so... do I just have an incredibly specific, incredibly obscure bug or is that last note a lie and the escort window ends before Come to Court?