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Fantastic work!

A full set of what I did, in case it helps with finding the cause.

Talked with King and received the quest.

Bought Net 3 and fished up a bottle

Broke bottle without talking to the king again, which ended up with a dialogue option of "I got the bottle open" without an interim "I got the bottle" or something similar.

Tried like 15 different words and shelved the quest

fished for an extended period of time (15 minutes or so) and obtained 3 additional bottles.

Thank you for the hint!  When I completed the quest and reloaded, all the additional notes had cleared from my inventory.

Really enjoying the game so far, but I ran into a bit of an issue.  I got the king's note, but I can't figure out the password.  I'm fine being stuck on a puzzle, but I keep fishing up more notes in a bottle.  They're slowly taking over my inventory and I can't get rid of them because I haven't finished the quest yet.

I'm drowning in paper.