Thanks for the tip, Mal'akh!
I almost didn't release him at all, I thought he'd jump down on his own since I "picked up" and not "captured". I would have brought home a hog-tied Ilmenskie Jones! lol X)
Sorry you had to repeat the process over again. :: hugs ::
I released him near the Tool Vendor in the Deeps and he was still there when I checked yesterday. I had to do the quest again, but it was funny to see him there. If anyone has an extra "object" of him from the quest bugging out I'd love to trade for him so I could put him in my house.
Unfortunately you can't give him to friends or sell him (yup, I tried). I would reccommend trying to donate him though! It won't work but I laughed like crazy at the giants' reactions!
I took him to my home and he also just went into a puff of pink smoke but even so the quest was done...Any way to keep him for sure?? Ive bumped into him in various places all over and you can never pick him up again...
@Ar:
When you meet the Quest requirements the Magic Rock will give you a link to follow, with full instructions to rescue him. Not 'capture' him :-) It's just that you have to pick him to make the rescue
Warrender's picture is possible because the quest is completed by releasing him, so putting him in the cabinet won't affect it. When the game sees that ilmenskie a) isn't in your inventory and b) you haven't completed the quest by releasing, it assumes you haven't gone to get him yet, so you can go get him again.
Hehe I'm in a logic mood.
I was planning to release him in Plexus but I made a detour to Winter Wingding and released him there. Unfortunately nobody managed to get a picture of the celebrity guest before he went poof..
I tried using my alt to drop him in my house so that I will also have a resident Ilmenskie Jones, but he went poof. So now my alt's house has Ilmenskie Jones as a guest, but mine doesn't.