I misallocated a couple of abilities during character creation, so I wasn't entirely sorry about junking the position. This time, when I got back to Thronheim, I spoke to the dockmaster before speaking to the Honkies, and I had no trouble at all.One strange thing did happen, though. I went to Guberland to get the Coalition Quests from Markel the Great. I only did the one about Ivan the Smart, though, I left the other one until my party was tougher. When I eventually came back to do it, it wasn't in my quest list, and there was no sign of any dialogue leading to it from either Markel or the Dook. So I left Guberland City, deleted the minisaves, went to talk to Markel again, and lo and behold, up popped the dialogue giving me the Dook quest again. Wonders will never cease!
I've had a couple of missing teachers, too. The blade teacher mysteriously vanished from Sturmford, and Atli the Quick went awol from Drangheim Tavern. The blade teacher might have wandered off somewhere - there are a lot of people wandering around in Sturmford and one won't stay put while you check the others, so I could have missed him - but I really looked for Atli,and he was nowhere to be found. In each case, deleting the minisaves got them back again.
