Yeah but none of my scripts go through that path. It's a world change, you aren't crazy!
You can just hunt only 1 of the caves. I made it this way so I could make the tasker for both caves.
Also, it got stuck there because it jumped the location checker for any unknown reason. And... if you got stuck with the nomad, your map was blocked previously. I make your char kill that nomad on the bridge exactly to avoid getting stuck.