Because I talked to some random guy in the market, I’ve somehow agreed to carry a barrel with his wife’s ashes into the city’s burial grounds. I don’t remember why he couldn’t do it himself, and I might have stopped listening as to the reason why in the middle of his woe-is-me story. Point is, there’s EXP at the end of this tunnel and possibly some silver, so of course I’m going to do it.  Sidequests, AMIRITE"
Once I reached the burial grounds, I set the barrel down where the handy quest marker shows me. However, there’s no ding to suggest I’ve completed this task. Nothing pops up on-screen, and in fact, the quest is still marked needing to bring the barrel to the burial grounds. Well, I’m at a complete loss. I try pushing the barrel, hitting the barrel, and I even attempt to set it on fire (I’m a fire mage, after all, this is what we do). Nothing. I tried switching to the Devourer demon in the Shadowrealm to see if he had any advice. He has a special Shadowrealm-only chest to open, but that’s it. In an attempt to exhaust all options, I switch to my archer, the soul puppet I recently acquired. He fires an arrow at the barrel, and it falls down in to the pit below. Huzzah, the sidequest is now complete! It was right in that moment that I realized I had stumbled onto something special with Shadows: Awakening. What I first thought was yet another Diablo III-esque action-RPG for me to review sudden...