My cleric Ikiju is in the spellguard associates but does not get the free resting, blake told me that it was buggy, but if there anything that can be done?

You need to catch a DM in-game to wand you to the faction. I was under the impression that signing the contract wanded you, but I don't think it does.

I thought it did too, but every associate I've signed up has had the same problem. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?!

Do both the Contract and Contract Copy items have the ability to target PCs? You might have to hit them with both. Otherwise, I'll need to take a look at the badge system again.

The copy contract has the option to use it while the original contract has no such option, if that helps.

Found the bug. Should be fixed as of v1016 (not up yet!)

Is this still an issue?

Ikiju now gets a seperate option "I am an associate and would like to stay here for free"

She still has the option to pay 20 gold though.

That "I'd like to pay" option is useful; no reason to remove just because you have the option of staying free.