@Jsjscat oh nope I've just literally never come across that string of encounter quests 😳 to be honest I've been pretty bad with doing non core missions until this most recent play-through and only just now getting to the point in said playthrough where it seems the butcher creek mission chain can come up 🤣
It seems I was a little hasty with the excitement over seemingly discovering a fix to a thing, it resets some time later when the enemies respawn, I had only tested it with the game saved at the place -_- dunno how I didn't see the issue there
In a random camp encounter in the area a woman audibly shivering asks to rest at your fire before talking about butchers creek being cursed, they're immediately downstream from Elysian pool and their meat must be mangy
Feels like this is worth noting as a connection to this place, I really wish there was someone we could talk to/something we could do, ever the incomplete game ofc -_-
So I've been confused by the locked door here for ages, and noted that you can just break a window and climb in
Then just so happened to save the game inside the building and finished playing for the day and close the game, when I reloaded I loaded in just outside the ranch and ran back in to find the door is unlocked!
Cue spending an hour an a half going through Chapter 1 in a new save to demonstrate the whole thing for a tiktok but managed it and the video can be found here;
