Can't Access Islands of Freedom

[Janerl]

I'm not optimistic about there being a solution for this, but I thought it couldn't hurt to ask since I haven't worked up the resolve to start the game over.

In addition to clicking dialogue choices, dialogue windows can also be closed by an "x" in the top-right hand corner. After receiving the king's quest to go talk to Kitano to go to the Islands of Freedom, I talked to him about going to the islands and he agreed to take me. However, when I got the point when it seemed like he was about to set out, I closed the dialogue with the "x" because I realized I might not be strong enough yet to take on whatever was there. I then spent the next couple hours cleaning up miscellaneous quests around Darion. Since I've only been using quicksaves, I don't have any saves from before I talked to him.

I go back to Kitano, who still has the lit up quest marker above him showing that he should be talked to as the next part of some quest. However he no longer has any quest related dialogue. The king just says "Talk to Kitano."

Am I stuck unless I start over? Is there any way I can force the transport to trigger using the cheat console or anything similar? Or even a way to trigger a restart of this quest or something? I've been enjoying the game a lot so far, but I don't really want to start over again already...