Message in a Bottle quest problem

[voltagebinary]

Hi,

Love the game.

Having a problem with the Message in a Bottle quest.. As a ranged rogue, I tend to fight kinda erratically, using maps borders and terrain to gain the strategic upper hand for my ranged attacks.

Spoiler

When I found myself ambushed by 5 or so strong enemies, I tried to fight but had to retreat to another map and rest for 12 hrs at a Tavern in New Garand. As I came back to the camp of the "fisherman", they were gone. Quest is stuck now because the next step is to kill them.

In my mind, they should've rubber-banded back to their camp and been aggro at that point. But they're just gone now and both my saves are after this took place.

Is there a way to get them to spawn again?

Thanks =)

***UPDATE***

Spoiler

I went to the chest and saw there was a 'force open' option. I still don't get to kill the fishermen, but I'm okay with accepting that consequence for running away.

Quest is now complete =)

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[feldon]

This is the case with a few encounter based quests (I had a similar exp. w Smugglers in the Night). You can still complete these quests, you just lose out on the enemy drops or receive a lesser form of reward.

Will lock thread.