The beast's gland does not seem to be working the last few times I have used it, which causes you to be effectively stuck, as the conversation does not appear.

Please fix :(

There is another way. Not to be too specific, but its there. I didn't even know the gland did anything.

I believe it only works for druids.

It works for non druids.

Not to spoil anything, but without this conversation it basically ruins the point of travelling to this place.

As far as I know it is an intermittent bug. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not.

It is not working right, but there definately is another way.

As Oro said, I didn't even know the gland did anything, and have never been stuck.

Just don't get stuck..

There's quite a bit to this spoiler-thing, and I somewhat suspect people are missing out on a lot of it, but just to make sure there's no bugginess if you're having issues catch me on IRC.