sciron524

I had a similar problem with one of my characters. I was able to fix it with several console commands. The commands are documented in this thread.

I had the same glitch with one of my characters. After digging around in the Creation Kit for a few hours, I found some console commands which allowed me to finish the Dark Brotherhood questline. Before attempting any of these commands, save your game just in case they make things worse. If the courier never shows up with the Dark Brotherhood note and you don't get kidnapped while sleeping after completing "Innocence Lost", open the console and type: setstage DBEntranceQuest 20 The courier should now show up and you should now be kidnapped while sleeping. If, after completing the first 3 contracts for Nazir, Cicero never shows up and Astrid does not give you the quest "Mourning Never Comes", first, exit the sanctuary, then open the console and type in the following commands. I had to enter them one at a time; running them in a batchfile would not work for me. prid 0001E64A enable prid 0001E648 enable prid 0001BDE8 moveto 0001E64C prid 0001E64A moveto 0001E64B prid 0001BDE7 moveto 0002EE3D prid 0001D4BB moveto 0002EE3E prid 0001C3AE moveto 0008D294 prid 0001BDEB moveto 0001D23E prid 0001D4BC moveto 0008D295 prid 00015CF4 enable setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroArrive_var 1 Then, enter the sanctuary and the Cicero arrival scene should play out and Astrid should give you the quest "Mourning Never Comes". Before talking to Astrid after completing "Mourning Never Comes", open the console and type: setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroTalk1_var 2 This should make the scene where you spy on Cicero play correctly. After the scene where you spy on Cicero, I didn't need to use the console again to finish the Dark Brotherhood questline. The only other anomaly I noticed is that volumes 1-4 of Cicero's journal didn't show up in the sanctuary. They are not critical to the main Dark Brotherhood quest, but if you really want to read them, you can add them to your inventory using the following console commands: player.additem 0009DABE 1 player.additem 0009DAC1 1 player.additem 0009DAC4 1 player.additem 0009DAC5 1 Good luck!