I got an amazingly quick fix from a fellow in my Steam friends who was playing Skryim at the time. enableplayercontrols It seems so damn obvious now. That fixed that problem. But, of course, it's Skyrim with mods, so there's a slew of other things I need to sort out. Animations we mentioned, and surprise surprise, Netches have no animations at all. Just hover around, even when dead. Same with.. I forget the name of them at the moment, they're like crickets. They just slide around. They can't attack. But that's a different problem! And someone already posted the solution, hopefully. So, I don't want to be that guy who fixes it and says 'I fixed it' and isn't heard from again. If this happens to anyone else, open console enableplayercontrols edit: the boat is there now. I don't know when it arrived, but I spotted it - and spoke to the crew - after running around lost in the ash for a while. edit2: So I may have run into another problem when trying to fix the animations