# Quest assignment fails when NPC is underground

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/quest-assignment-fails-when-npc-is-underground/472>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [March 14, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/quest-assignment-fails-when-npc-is-underground/472 "2013-03-14T02:55:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/quest-assignment-fails-when-npc-is-underground/472/1 "2013-03-14T02:55:32Z")

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A NPC followed me into the basement, I asked for a quest, and it gave me the USB one. I got the debug message:

“C:\cygwin\home\Kyratzes\Cataclysm-DDA\overmap.cpp[827]: overmap::random\_house\_in\_city(-1) (max -1)”

And the quest now points to -1 -1 in the ‘M’ screen. And the quest is obviously broken now.