I haven’t been able to repeat the effect yet. It is rather complicated.
Inventory:
Starting gear
6 of each ingredient
8 gold
I started the Alchemy quest as usual. Found out the ingredients and was happily on my way to make some money to do the archery mini game.
Then I got the stuck at the table glitch. Couldn’t read the book couldn’t get away, couldn’t put water, or any other liquid, in the pot.
I was using an Xbox controller so I thought I would try and escape by hitting buttons for a bit. Found the trigger controls activated the bellows and hourglass. Nothing happened besides the usual flipping the hour glass and getting the reset the table message. So I was about to give up, and was just absentmindedly strumming the A B Y X Button when the animation for the hour glass started, (I assume I hit the trigger) he reached out flipped it over and then took it back with him. Then the came crashed. Gave a little warning box that said the program and ended unexpectedly.
I haven’t tried to hard to repeat it yet but I can if you’d like.
I was playing in windowed mode, with only steam running.