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I'm on my way to Eldergleam Sanctuary with Maurice Jondrelle, and there's a dragon hanging out there. So I tried to kill it (with my "OMG, run away and hide behind a rock!" sort of strategy - I'm only at level 6). But this guy (not Maurice - some dude hanging out there) keeps popping up and engaging me in dialogue while the dragon is trying to fry me. I would dearly, dearly love to get rid of Maurice, but I fear that I'm going to be stuck with him until I level up and get a little better at not dying. Is there any way to get into the sanctuary without attracting the dragon's attention? *Edit: Figured it out. I'll come back for that dragon. Is there a way to delete this?

I was really hoping that would work, but no. I'm going to keep trying stuff. If it worked once, it has to work again! Update: With a clean data folder, I got Oblivion to load the character creation screen and save a character, but only with these mods installed: CM Partners.esm DLCShiveringIsles.esp DLCHorseArmor.esp DLCOrrery.esp DLCSpellTomes.esp Slof's Horses Base.esp Slof's Extra Horses.esp BlissfulDreams. esp (non Cobl version) DLC Frostdrag.esp Knights.esp Shadowcrest_Vineyard.esp (non Cobl version) Millstone_Farm.esp (non Cobl version) CM Partners. esp and the extra CM partner NPC files These were working, but I wanted a better elf character, so I added Elves of Lineage II, and that was okay. I'd like more mods (especially NPC faces), but I'm afraid to add anything at this point. I did not make a bashed patch for these.

This is my first post on this forum. I have the GOTY version of Oblivion on disc. I was playing Oblivion fine for 25 hours with a bunch of mods, then decided to add Roberts and BAB body replacers. I ran all my mods through BOSS and Wrye Bash and rebuilt the Bashed Patch. I updated the masters for the saved games. Thereafter, my saved games would crash, even after removing the new mods and running Wrye Bash again. So I completely de-installed Oblivion, including the user/my games/Oblivion folder, and ran Registry Reviver. I did a clean boot (no background tasks) and reinstalled Oblivion from the discs. Without any mods, a new game would load, and I could create a character. But since I had played it with some mods with no issues, I wanted to try putting the non-crashing mods back in. So I backed up the clean data folder and installed the mods I had used before. However, when I start a new game, the game crashes immediately upon reaching the character creation screen. I removed the mods one by one, but I can't find the culprit. I have enabled >2 GB memory for the exe, run exe as Administrator, and done the suggested graphics tweaks in the ini file. This is my system: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Intel® Core i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.2GHz 6144MB RAM DirectX 11 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 with 1 GB memory, driver version 260.99 Oblivion graphics settings on medium, no Vsync, no HDR, no Bloom, No Distant Landscape, no antialiasing Mods in load order: Oblivion.esm Cobl Main.esm CM Partners.esm Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp DLCShiveringIsles.esp Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp Cyrodilic Brandy.esp Inebriation.esp SoT_Holiday.esp DLCHorseArmor.esp DLCOrrery.esp DLCSpellTomes.esp CapesandClaoks.esp CM_Better Wine.esp Slof's Horses Base.esp Slof's Extra Horses.esp Cobl Glue.esp Cobl Si.esp Cobl Tweaks.esp (merged) BlissfulDreamsCOBL.esp DLCFrostdrag.esp Knights.esp Shadowcrest_VineyardCOBL.esp xulAncientYews.esp Millstone_FarmCOBL.esp MillstoneCOBL_UL_Patch.esp Salmo the Baker.Cobl.esp MidasSpells.esp Item interchange - Placement.esp (merged) Item interchange - Placement for Frostcrag.esp (merged) CM Partners.esp CM Partners Special NPCs.esp CM Partners NPC.esp CM Partners More NPCs.esp CM Partners Marker NPCs.esp CM Partners Extra NPCs.esp Cobl Races.esp Cobl Races - Balanced.esp Cobl Silent Equip Misc.esp Bashed Patch.0.esp In addition, I installed Natural Faces textures and Enayla's faces overtop that, along with the ArchiveInvalidation.TXT that came with Natural Faces. I also installed the Cobl Cosmetics for use with Cobl Races. These mods all worked before the disaster, and I am stumped as to why they are causing a CTD on a clean installation. I would appreciate any ideas on what to try, or if some of these mods are known to conflict (I looked through the readmes, but didn't find conflicts). I did merge the graphics and so on when rebuilding Bashed Patch. They all show green or blue in Wrye. I did take them out one by one as groups depending on masters, but to no avail. I know that Salmo the Baker is supposed to be buggy, but taking it out didn't help (and it was ok before). I know people are running many more mods than this with no issues, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.

I turned down Ignacio the first time I played, and I would really like to be able to do those quests with my first character. Is there any way to reset him, so I can talk to him again?