"Revealing the Unseen" Bug.

[falterfox]

Hello,

 

I have seen countless bug descriptions for this damned questline but I can't seem to find how to solve my issue.

So I'm on "Revealing the Unseen". My journal goal right now is "find the ruins of Mzulft". I go to the ruins and enter through the main door, like the quest marker tells me to, but then after I enter, when I turn around I can't leave. The door I seem to have entered through is locked and requires a key, (even though I just came from there?) and now the quest marker is just hovering in the lower left corner of the door frame, so I have no clue where to go. I've seen that apparently there's supposed to be a dying mage who you get a key from, but he's nowhere to be found, and that doesn't explain why the main entrance door is locked and my quest marker is pointing at the bottom of it.

Is it possible that I've somehow spawned at the end of the ruin when I entered, instead of just being on the other side of the main entrance door? Please help, I can't do anything else in this quest line until I figure this out.

 

Thanks in advance

I would upload pictures but the file size limit on this site is ridiculously small and I can't even upload one single compressed version of one screenshot.

 

UPDATE: I used console commands to unlock the door that SHOULD HAVE been the entrance door, only to find that I spawned INSIDE the locked door after the entrance already, past the mage who I'm supposed to get the key from. making it impossible to progress because my quest marker wouldn't update. Instead of putting me on the other side of the entrance door, ya know, like doors are supposed to work, it skipped that door entirely and put me right through the next one.

Edited November 3, 2019 by falterfox