I know its necro or whatever you wanna call it, but I too just got this issue aswell. There was also other issues, like the white phial(the store would remain locked at all times, even if I had a quest to enter there) I could lockpick and enter, the npc's would do they're banter about the old mans health, then nothing. "you must leave" got repeated, I tried to talk to them, but nothing happend when interacting. I think the 1st scene though is the "trigger" for the rest of windhelm or most of it. - able to do complete "blood on ice" with optimal result - able to join stormcloaks - able to do argonian quests outside. I have had multiple playthroughs over the last year(s) without much hassle. now this. (not to mention they're ripe for vicious vampire attacks being stuck there) I have a "suspicion" on what mod however broke this event "repair after civil war" I think if you have this active prior to the civil war being finished it will break certain things.(pure speculation and this is the one thing I'm going to test now) hitting them wont fix it, just adds bounty for me. doing things in mod "startscene" didnt fix it. kill/ressurect/enable/disable/resetai etc nothing. they will just stand there looking stupid. Kind of weird since I did manage to fight the nord for money 1st time. and reply to the dunmer that I wasnt a biggot. I can still give money to the beggar, but thats the only one I get a dialouge option from the trio. anyway going to plow through too whiterun and take the ride up there without the mod I mentioned and see what happends then give feedback here. Cheers -- After testing again, the mod I thought didnt do it. I even disabled all mods and kept only the vanilla, and alas same thing happends. Thing is I can interact with the npc's the first time as I arrive inside, but they're triggered scene of battering the dunmer isnt showing this time. I could have swore it did last time. I could do the brawl, I could give the beggar money -> then nothing. I could repeat giveing the beggar money, but thats it. I suppose I shall dig further into it, and see if I cant figure away to force the scene to start or something (although the command I read somewhere else didnt work, they just stood there still)