

During this questline I dropped NPC in water, bard proceeded to swim across lake and now won't talk to me. He seems to settled into a life of labor in the monastery next to river. I've tried going to a new sync point, switching quests and fast traveling, restarting game, uninstalling and reinstalling game... after 55 hours of gameplay am I just stuck with a completely broken game?
Please help me figure out what I'm supposed to do... starting a new game is absolutely not the answer/fix I'm looking to hear.