Nalixor

Even when I use 'setstage tg01 200' to complete the quest, I still get the same result. I'm always flagged as trespassing in the cistern and I don't get the next quest in the line. :/

So, during a dragon fight in Solitude I decided to summon my Spectral Assassin from The Dark Brotherhood (It's a summon which stays around until defeated). It gives you a buff with 23,000+ hours on it. However, my Spectral Assassin disappeared somewhere. He's nowhere in Solitude, or anywhere else. Because of this, and because he has no "home" to go to, I can't get any other followers at all, they all say 'It looks like you've already got someone with you.' I found a way to dispel the 23,000+ hour buff (I tried advancing the timescale to like 20,000 - but that didn't work, the buff seems to be in real life hours) using "player.dispel <buff code>" but while that got rid of the buff, it didn't get rid of the follower I guess, since every companion still says 'It looks like you have someone with you'. Things I've tried: Dispelling the Buff (didn't work). Summoning another Spectral Assassin and killing that one (didn't work). Using player.placeatme <spectral assassin code> and killing it (didn't work). Finding the damn summon (can't find him anywhere). Fast travelling / resting repeatedly in case he somehow found his way back to me (nope). Does anyone know of any console hackery that can make him go away while he's not present? Or some way of placing MY version of him at me (not just spawning another one)? Or some way of listing all NPCs in the area, or the game, with their codes so maybe I can place him that way? This is frustrating me. I need companions to for various purposes (Boethia's Shrine, for one) and I can't get any to follow me. :/

It's still happening to me as well. And it's way past the point where I could reload before starting the thieves guild quests. I've been doing some research, and I know how to force the quest to complete via the console using the setstage command, but I have no idea how to give myself/start the next quest in the line. I also checked to see if the game thought I was trespassing when I entered the cistern using player.istrespassing and it returned a value of 1, meaning that I was. I'm pretty sure that's not meant to happen. From reading the wiki, I'm supposed to complete, follow Brynjolf to the Cistern, and then get the next quest from the main Thieves Guild dude at the table with the map. But instead I am flagged as trespassing and the guys in the tavern act as if I didn't complete Taking Care of Business at all. The lady who was meant to give me my uniform doesn't, and they keep saying things like "Come talk to me after you've finished with Brynjolf" and stuff. Does anyone know how to give yourself a quest via the console? I know the quest ID for the second quest (TG02). So maybe if I can give myself that quest things might be able to continue as planned. I also tried changing my faction rank via the console for various thieves guild factions (the game uses factions for everything). And that didn't help either. And I have no idea how to use the GetFactionReation command, since it's obviously looking for some kind of parameter I am not aware of. It could be that it's not a PC command. :/ I've been trying to find out how to get this to work for days to no avail. Player.questreset TG01 doesn't do anything either. In fact, questreset doesn't seem to do anything at all as far as I can tell. And I always load after my experiements just in case the commands do something that isn't immediately obvious to screw up my game.

I don't usually bump topics, but this is removing a large portion of enjoyment out of my game. :( Can anyone help?

SPOILERS AHEAD. Hey guys. I think I've run into a very large, very annoying bug. But I am also entertaining the possibility that I am doing something wrong. So I've done the steal ring/reverse pickpocket ring bit for Brind-whatshisname, he gave me a quest to get money from three shopkeepers. I did all of that without brawling/killing any of them (found out about the lizard's family, stole the statue from the other chick, and stood near the dwemer vase), and got their money. I went back to Brind-whatshisname and I handed the quest in, we talk a bit, and the last thing he says is along the lines of "why don't you follow me so I can show you what we're really all about". He gets up, walks out the back to the Ratway Cistern and I follow him in there. But once I get in there I am tresspassing and the thieves all attack me and I die, and even when I fight back two are unkillable. If Brind-whatshisface leaves into the Cistern, and I don't follow, none of the thieves in the tavern will talk to me. Vex won't give me my Thieves Guild uniform, or anything. Did I do something wrong, or is this some really annoying bug? Reloading didn't help. I think I just about tried everything I could think of. I made a Khajiit for the express purpose of joining the Thieves Guild, and I have something like 30 hours played over the last two days before I came to the Thieves Guild stuff, I really don't want to restart. I'm playing the PC version too, in case someone knows some kind of console hackery to fix this. If it's a bug. :/

Hey guys. I think I've run into a very large, very annoying bug. But I am also entertaining the possibility that I am doing something wrong. So I've done the steal ring/reverse pickpocket ring bit for Brind-whatshisname, he gave me a quest to get money from three shopkeepers. I did all of that without brawling/killing any of them (found out about the lizard's family, stole the statue from the other chick, and stood near the dwemer vase), and got their money. I went back to Brind-whatshisname and I handed the quest in, we talk a bit, and the last thing he says is along the lines of "why don't you follow me so I can show you what we're really all about". He gets up, walks out the back to the Ratway Cistern and I follow him in there. But once I get in there I am tresspassing and the thieves all attack me and I die, and even when I fight back two are unkillable. If Brind-whatshisface leaves into the Cistern, and I don't follow, none of the thieves in the tavern will talk to me. Vex won't give me my Thieves Guild uniform, or anything. Did I do something wrong, or is this some really annoying bug? Reloading didn't help. I think I just about tried everything I could think of. I made a Khajiit for the express purpose of joining the Thieves Guild, and I have something like 30 hours played over the last two days before I came to the Thieves Guild stuff, I really don't want to restart. I'm playing the PC version too, in case someone knows some kind of console hackery to fix this. If it's a bug. :/