I've been busy trying to troubleshoot your issue and was about to hit reply when I took one last look at your attachment. Talk about changing everything. How the heck do you have a level 3 lockpicking set already? That's impossible, given where you are in the game. You can't even get to the mansion until after Alina's final quest, which will make her girl number 5 based on your quest log, and the mansion is where you'll purchase the level 3 lockpicking set. If you've somehow already acquired the mansion, then your save is toast. Gee, it already is, even if you haven't, because you won't be able to complete Alina's final quest with that lockpicking set in your
Key Items.
On a save (unedited, obviously), I have thrown everything at this game I know of at this point, and
The Curious Cat quest triggers every single time. The only thing I haven't done is a clean playthrough of 0.5.2/0.5.3. I'm seeing Granny with an exclamation point above her head once you go to her house and notice that Alina's sprite is missing. The quest pops up, shows up in the questlog, and the well now has the orb. See the thumbnails for what should be occurring when you visit Granny's. I had something else I had written, but seeing your attachment makes it mute at this point until I get an answer to my question.
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