Rogue Knight Quest Problem - Advice Please!

[Draxxia]

I have just returned the Breastplate to Osric and he has suggested that I speak to Wenan.

 

When I tell Wenan that "I am looking for work" he tells me "Afraid I don't have any for a lackey of the Crucible Knights".

 

My reputation with The Dozen and Crucible Knights is the same, Ally (Faintly Good).

 

I have tried reducing my reputation with the Crucible Knights (by slaughtering them all) but Wenan still refers to me as their lackey even though my Crucible Knights rep is now rock bottom.

 

I have completed the (Crucible Knights) Built to Last quest and the first step of Winds of Steel is in my journal but I haven't yet travelled to Anslogs Compass.

 

Unfortunately I no longer have a save game prior to Built to Last. Am I completely screwed? Is there any way I can persuade Wenan to give me The Bronze Beneath The Lake quest?

 

Thanks for any help & advice.

[Tigranes]

With Knights, Doemenel and Dozens, they each have a point where they say to you, flat out, "if you accept this quest, you will be choosing us". They communicate to you in dialogue a point of no return. 

 

I haven't played the Knights path in a while but it seems you had already passed that point, and now the other factions will give you some quests but won't go to bed with you. 

 

Sorry I don't have an answer for the most important bit, which is how you can still continue and get into the animancy hearings. You killed everybody there?

[omgFIREBALLS]

If you're just concerned about accessing Lle a Rhemen, that will unlock in act 3 anyway. Ironically you have kind of locked yourself out of progressing to act 3 and getting there, by killing the only guys willing to get you into the hearing so you could get to act 3, in the hopes that that would let you get there now.

 

(This counts as irony, right?)

Edited April 25, 2015 by omgFIREBALLS

[Draxxia]

Thank you for the speedy responses

 

Fortunately I have a saved game prior to slaughtering the Crucible Knights (I only tried this as an experimental tactic to see if it might rescue my rep with The Dozens).

 

Even though my preferred choice is with The Dozens it is starting to look as though I might have to cozy up to the Crucible Knights in order to proceed.

 

Incidentally, this is my first play through and so I unwittingly ended up in this tangle rather than as a result deliberate, considered choices. I simply hadn't realised it would be possible to get yourself locked in like this!

 

Thanks again for taking the time to post. I will report back later.

[Kaigen42]

I haven't tried this myself, but isn't there an option to have Lady Webb get you into the animancy hearings instead of going through one of the factions? I seem to remember someone talking about that as a failsafe in another thread.

[rnarchlord]

If you accept the second task of any of the factions your are automatically locked into that faction even if you don't complete the quest.  Lady Webb encourages you to join one of the factions because it will give more credence to your words than going as a representative of hers.