Bugged Dialogue/Freezing in Vale Bandit Lair Quest

[Boom]

[Steam Workshop v9.4 with WSE2]
When I solicit one of the lords of the Vale for a task, if I receive the quest to destroy a bandit hideout/lair, the game text is bugged (it says "Player" instead of identifying the group of bandits to be destroyed, presumably Hill Tribes or Moon Brothers) and cannot be advanced. Though there is a prompt to left-click to continue, the dialogue cannot be advanced and the game is stuck with the erroneous text. This forces me to force-quit the application and reload my last save from a new instance of the game.

To reproduce this error, talk to one of the lords of the Vale that own a town (Lord Grafton in Gulltown or Lord Sunderland in Sisterton) and receive the quest to destroy a bandit lair, which they should offer if a bandit lair is in the proximity of their town. I have duplicated this issue across playthroughs.

I have screenshots of the issue that I cannot upload due to their size (despite numerous compressions) and the limitations of this forum. Regardless, this should be an easy issue to duplicate and see for yourself with the cheat menu, as I have found it presents itself on day 1 of any playthrough (using the cheat menu to teleport to the appropriate lord). I can upload the screenshots to the AWOIF Discord at your request

[tos1]

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