I've only seen one comment mention this issue and no resolutions. When I get back home after escaping the goblin caves and enter free-roam I can select Elle and she has a 'Talk' option, but it just boots me back out; nothing happens. Elle effectively doesn't exist. I've tried resting and interacting with her at different times of day, but nothing works. I even tried taking the patch file out, but to no avail. This game seems so good, but if one of the main characters is phased out of existence then there's no point in playing further. Can anyone help? The only things left I can think to try is not taking Mol with me initially, or do a clean install without the patch instead of just removing the patch file (which is what I tried). I doubt either of those will fix the issue though...