Eileen, The Crow - Your Complete Guide to A Quest Most Glitched

Apr. 25, 2015

Eileen, The Crow – Your Complete Guide to A Quest Most Glitched

Greetings, fellow Hunters

The Night has been long for yours truly and during my myriad ventures there is still one mystery that eludes both myself and most of you Good Hunters.

This mystery is none other than the appearance ofEileen, The Crow in the Cathedral Ward. After the fight with the lost Father Gascoigne we enter the inner part of the Cathedral Grounds, open the main gate and then rush off to meet her. Only, sometimes, she is nowhere to be found, no matter how hard we look…

After experimenting via use of secret Blood Rituals and countless hours of taking notes and comparing them with others’, I think I might be getting close to cracking the puzzle… suffice to say my research goes in two directions:i) There is actually a hint of “luck”, or lack thereof, tangled in the yarn of her actions. She might or might NOT actually appear on a whim. That, in layman’s terms my brethren, is a bug. Or a glitch, if one can cause it to trigger consistently.

ii) The other idea I am getting – like many of you – is that there is some sort of secret trigger involved, some criteria we know nothing about as of yet. This one, hopefully, is the truth and we will learn to follow the correct steps in due time. But, for now, I highly doubt this is the case.

So, following my first thought process I shall present to you a formula, one that I have used multiple times and met with successful results, allowing me to reach the conclusion of her story. Please, take note: The steps beyond this point are the results of testing, trial and error. I cannot by any means, with a clear conscience, tell you that the method is 100% foolproof. But, as it stands, it surely is better than most.

Enjoy the read then, Hunters and I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Piece of advice: Backup your entire save file in a FAT32 Flash Stick before returning to Oedon in step 4. After this point it can all go south so you can load your back-up and try again.

STEPS:

2. Kill the Cleric Beast and take Gascoigne out of his misery. Save the Echoes to purchase required key item from the Messengers (Hunter Chief Emblem). Light the Oedon Lamp and teleport to the Hunter’s Dream.

3. Quit the game and load OFFLINE. This is very important and seems to help in most cases. FROM released 1.3 today and supposedly fixed this but I’m not ready to bet my Echoes on this yet.

4. Purchase the 10K key from the Messengers (Hunter Chief Emblem) BEFORE heading back into the Cathedral Ward via Oedon Lamp.

5. Light the Cathedral Ward Lamp, trek the dungeon until you unlock the gate by using the aforementioned key. Then, go left and wander in the back alleys until you reach the rooftops.VERY IMPORTANT:DoNOTopen the first shortcut leading to the two giant Executioners there. This might glitch your whole attempt. Instead, keep going until you reach the shortcut that leads to theWooden Plank Shield. Pull the lever, cross your fingers and run straight down.

6i)Spot Eileen to the left of the Cathedral Ward main path (right behind the cart as you are facing going down the stairs) and rejoice! Exhaust her dialogue.

COMBAT SCENARIO:Run straight to the Oedon Lamp to confront Henryk.DO NOT RETURN TO THE DREAM PRIOR TO THIS.In this combat scenario it isIMPERATIVEyou keep Henryk’s aggro on you since he can easily kill both you and Eileen, in which case the quest is over win or lose. Gank him up and kill him with precision. Be very careful: If you overdamage Eileen she will turn hostile and the quest will be over nonetheless. After the battle you talk to Eileen, go through ALL her lines and use the Lamp to leave the area. At this point you are pretty much done. Keep playing until after you defeat Rom, the Vacuous Spider. Then go back to the Grand Cathedral, Red Moon looming high, talk to her until you get the “Wait” gesture, confront her last mark solo and upon victory talk her again outside to reap your rewards. Among them is the Oath Rune “Hunter” that allows you to join theHunter of Hunters Covenant.

6ii) Eileen is not there. Reload your backup because at this point it’s 80% de facto that you missed progressing the quest. Some people have triggered her to spawn by killing the Blood Starved Beast or even Amelia but I would not waste 45′ – 90′ minutes of my life just to linger on this hopes. Reloading is your best bet of saving time and spawning her.

7. After a successful loading of you backup follow the steps down from “5” until the Henryk encounter and take it from there.

THINGS NOT TO DO:

1)Do not kill Gascoigne BEFORE the Cleric Beast.This might glitch your whole effort.

2. Don’t forget to talk to her before encountering EITHER Central Yharnam Boss. That is, exhaust her dialogue before triggering their fog gates.

3. Avoid dying on your run towards the Chief Hunter Gate. Sometimes this might cause the glitch to appear.

4. Granted you reach the Henryk encounter avoid using wide-swinging weapons like the Axe’s trick form or the Cleaver’s trick form. Stay at medium distance, attempt to parry but don’t over-extend. He hits really hard and has a ton of health so you should take it easy with your attacks to avoid hitting Eileen in the process.

Hope this helps fellow Hunters. The following video is a work of my own, created during the first week of the game’s release. It pretty much is a step by step guide showing how you can trigger her to appear.

So, this is the fruit of my labours whilst trying to understand the mystery of Eileen’s appearance. Hope I was able to assist in some way. Also feel free to check my YouTube channel for more guides and gameplay related to Bloodborne and other titles (Witcher 3 footage/guides/gameplay imminent).

Until next time Good Hunters be well, stay frosty and always strive for Perfection

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the “bug” which everyone is suffering is simple and not really a bug:dont progress past cathedral ward before you killed henry if you want to finish the questline. you can move around freely in the cathedral ward area but once you leave to the next areas like old yharnam or the areas left/right to the grand cathedral the questline is disrupted because you didnt helped eileen before you moved on.

If everyone who DID make it without trouble just comments “I didn’t have any trouble” or explains what’s supposed to be done – the logical process – in one post each we will be creating an encyclopedia of our own right here.

The guide is a glitch chance elimination. If you are having no problems great! That’s even better. But some people DO have problems and the guide is for them.

Cheers!

wierd; never had her glitched out. i did miss the shh gesture in first character but was able to finish quest. and on 4 other characters i completed the quest with no issues. What i do:1.talk to eileen in central yharnam and exhaust dialogue2. beat/skip cleric beast; beat father G. light all lamps like normal3.buy chief emblem and open all 3 gates and she should spawn near the overlook right outside odeon chapel.4. talk to her about her “mark”/ exhaust dialogue then travel to where you fought father G5. beat henryk without doing too much attacks on eileen. (Friend hit her too much and she stopped talking to him and bc his enemy later) also (she may glitched out and trys walking to tomb of odoen sewer part) same dialogue but wont progress.6. after rom beat the cainhurst hunter and get all the goodies from eileen.Make contact

You’ve been lucky then. For MANY people out there she never appears in Cathedral Ward.

I don’t understand. What’s the glitch? It’s a pretty straightforward questline. I didn’t even pay much attention to it and it was fine for me.

Nah, both of those are tested, as stated above, and trigger no glitch. I’ve tested that in at least three playthroughs.

I think the trigger of glitch or bug is lighting lamp of Cathedral Ward Or tomb lamp .

Greetings friend!

The idea behind the guide is to eliminate as many chances as possible for the “glitch” to trigger. In my very first playthrough ever I spawned her and I didn’t even know how I did it.

We are trying, on a community level, to figure this out. It’s still, sadly, a very hit-or-miss thing.

Using the above method will increase your chances dramatically though.

For me she not appearing in the Cathedral Ward 2nd encounter on my NG++(made new character first do experiment on) it what i did is light central yhanrnam lamp only not talk to any NPC except Eileen kill the cleric beast first by help of father Gascoigne and did not light any lamp or talk to any one defeat father Gascoigne return to dream hunter buy key open all shortcut walahh! it was there standing . Note : ( if Eileen was in Cathedral Ward you dont need to talk to her in order to fight Henryk’s because he appear at the same time she dose but for gesture i recommended to talk to her )This image before talk to Eileen .