Hello, I dont speedrun this game and I wasnt trying to but I wanted to set something here to make sure people could recreate it if they wanted to.

party members: baron, barbarian lady, valerie, linzi, ekundayo + wolf, kalikke. When i was in the first screen of womb of lamashtu, after rescueing the capital i cleared all i could from left to right, top to bottom, making me end up very close to where the final battle takes place. I ordered all party members to go to the next floor, the door on the map so I could go get some water. When I came back I was in combat and very confused as there shouldnt have been any more enemies. I looked around and noticed Ekun had glitched underneath the boss battle map and after just letting it played out proceeded to solo the entire map state (hes level 10 with a savage bow but still that was impressive) this gave me the option to burn the flower and then in the journal it said I was able to hold council because i destroyed the flower.

I dont know how consistent this is and I dont know whether or not you get soft locked later on. I'll save here to check softlock (one of the quest parts is not marked as done) if you go straight back to the capital.

oh lol just checked the run you are already using the fact that its right there so my glitch wont help anybody :D But im leaving it here, maybe it can be used for other glitches

without actually seeing what happened it is difficult to say exactly how the glitch occured, but my initial thought is that ekun clipped through the wall beneath the dropdown that you use to leave the boss arena. I assume you werent recording or anything like that? Regarding potential softlocks, I don't think it will cause any problems since I skip far more in the speedrun without issue.