Mercedes Sheldon offered as contact but cannot be selected

[Metatheory]

Jill Pastor's first contact introduction offered me only Kong Bao and Mercedes Sheldon.

 

I'm level 15 so Kong Bao seems correct, even though the wiki does not mention him under 'introduces' - I assume hcwiki is incorrect as he is a 15-19 contact.

 

Mercedes Sheldon a) has no description, and b) cannot be selected as her minimum level is 20.

 

[srmalloy]

She can be selected, you just don't get her as a contact. I suspect that she gets put into the 'possible contacts' list if your character does the Night Ward exploration badge trick to get access to the Midnighter Club early, without doing Montague Castaneda's arc, because you don't seem to get offered her as a contact if you don't have access to the Midnighter Club.

[SuggestorK]

Well u can have midnighter access at lvl 10 when u do the Montague arc,  possibly be lvl 11 after but heck therefore are xp, not really a trick necessary to have the access on a lvl 15 char.

[Kai Moon]

Verified this still occurs. This is the Pocket D version of Mercedes Sheldon, who has a red jacket, no missions, and no introduction text. She can be selected by clicking around her portrait, but this is a useless "dead end" in the introduction chain. When I use GM commands on a local test server, it appears Pocket D Mercedes Sheldon is probably on the peer introduction lists for all 15 original blueside contacts of this tier but I didn't check them all. She should be removed from the level 10-14 peer contact introduction lists. This bug was present in 2012 IIRC so it's not just Homecoming.

 

Screenshot: Athena Currie (10-14) offers two peer introductions to a level 10 character. Alfonse Rubel (also 10-14) is normal, Pocket D Mercedes Sheldon (no missions) is a dead-end.

 

Edited July 1 by Kai Moon

[Cobalt Arachne]

Fixed this, her Pocket D contact was missing flags to exclude her from introductions.
Will go out in a future patch.

Thanks for the report!