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Oh that beatch! After you and Serana defeat Harkon at Vokihar cathedral, you have this conversation with Serana about getting cured of the vampirism. The fact that she gives you an argument right a way gives you an inkling of insight that something just may be amiss here. So anyway, you convince her to get "cured" and she takes off for a few days to go and see Fallion the wizard in Morthal. When she re-appears in your life, she is cured of her vampirism. But wait, why are her eyes yellow? A lot of folks like to believe that it's just a texture fix they can correct in CK or with a mod. But the truth of the matter is that Serana is not cured at all. Yes, she is loyal follower, but she does things that are contradictory to her so called 'cured' state. Even though she assists you in killing numerous vampires, it is a false association. Look at these facts: She STILL uses the drain life spell on all her enemies. She is always blocking doorways and corridors in order to hinder your progress. She needlessly attacks other NPCs without a valid reason thereby thwarting your best efforts. She defies you and refuses to follow your instructions. These factors make Serana a less than desirable follower (in my opinion anyway). But what really made me cut her loose was what happened when I once took her to visit Valerica at Volkihar and left her there for a couple of days. When I came back, Valerica was walking around normally, but I couldn't find Serana anywhere. After searching for her, and going back to Fort Dawnguard a couple of times, I had given up. Back in Volkihar, I followed Valerica to a room where there was half a dozen gargolyes. Valerica was hovering around this open coffin like she was trying to decide whether or not to take a dirt nap. Right next to it was a closed coffin. I approached it and the caption said 'Sleep Coffin', so I clicked it just for curiosity. The lid opened and lo and behold, there was Serana sleeping the dead person she is! Well, that clinched it for me. Serana was NOT cured and she never will be. I left her with her mother. I really have no use for her anymore. I think it's quite hypocritical to go around killing your own people and then do exactly what they do. Anyone else feel that way? :mad:

Ok, found her this way. Thanks again, you are awesome! :cool:

Ya, here ya go. As you can see, most of my mods are quests and adventures and not so much about followers and other NPCs. I suspect ApachiiHair might have something to do with my issue, but I can't verify it. I installed it to work with CBBE, and I don't know if it's affected by other body types. And no, I'm not using Bijin Warmaidens. 0 0 Skyrim.esm 1 1 Update.esm 2 2 Dawnguard.esm 3 3 HearthFires.esm 4 4 Dragonborn.esm 5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp 6 6 EFFCore.esm 7 7 arnima.esm 8 8 ApachiiHair.esm 9 9 Helgen.esp 10 a armorebonyranger.esp 11 b HlaaluRetreat.esp 12 c Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp 13 d guard dialogue overhaul.esp 14 e War With The Aldmeri Dominion - Invasion of Solstheim.esp 15 f cheat ring.esp 16 10 ogUnconditionalSleepHearthfire.esp 17 11 SkyUI.esp 18 12 ogDiverseDragons.esp 19 13 better honeyside.esp 20 14 theevilmansionde.esp 21 15 CultofAgnar.esp 22 16 TheVarangianCompany.esp 23 17 HammetDungeons.esp 24 18 sk_hubdungeon - copy.esp 25 19 morthalslegacy.esp 26 1a Volundr.esp 27 1b taleoffalcoe.esp 28 1c thedomain.esp 29 1d SolemnKeep.esp 30 1e hsfstockade.esp 31 1f ShadowOfTheDragonGod01.esp 32 20 Rebellion&Retribution.esp 33 21 immersive patrols ii.esp 34 22 EFFDialogue.esp 35 23 Serana Dialogue Edit.esp 36 24 ApachiiHairStyles.esp 37 25 Camomile.esp 38 26 tos_laintardale_hf.esp 39 27 sunkentemple.esp 40 28 Marriable Serana.esp 41 29 Avil.esp 42 2a visageofmzund.esp 43 2b tos_amber_guard.esp 44 2c orvarstomb2.esp 45 2d MODColdwaterCave.esp 46 2e tos_granitehall.esp 47 2f zach's dwemer cairn.esp 48 30 DragonUnderWhiterun.esp 49 31 PortalToHellFullVersion.esp 50 32 jorrvaskrmarker.esp 51 33 ApachiiHairStylesELVES.esp 52 34 AlikrDesert.esp 53 35 grylumstomb.esp 54 36 Talos Vos.esp 55 37 Fresh Faces - USLEEP.esp 56 38 Injustice by M7 001 2017.esp 57 39 tomb of garok.esp 58 3a ApotheosisDemo.esp 59 3b EasierRidersDungeonPack.esp 60 3c The Forgotten Island.esp 61 3d invasion_mummy001m7.esp 62 3e sk_threekingdoms.esp 63 3f The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp 64 40 better skuldafn (by lyrielle2003).esp 65 41 gifts of the outsider.esp 66 42 Rigmor.esp 67 43 hrongar's_rest.esp 68 44 AnfangrumsPit.esp 69 45 Forgotten Crypt.esp 70 46 Sulfuras The Reclaimed Hand - Johnskyrim.esp 71 47 AuroranLagrieArmory.esp 72 48 konahrik, the priest.esp 73 49 gersonia.esp 74 4a crimsonquest2.esp 75 4b daedriseeker.esp 76 4c Rayg_NoBYOHAttacks.esp 77 4d UIExtensions.esp 78 4e calyps-bosmer.esp 79 4f samuraiarmor.esp 80 50 ebonyheartclan.esp 81 51 anyonefollows2.esp 82 52 bosmer jenessa.esp 83 53 moveitLWT.esp 84 54 Dragonborn - Dorethi.esp 85 55 MainMenuReplacerShroud.esp 86 56 OpenFaceGuardHelmets.esp 87 57 SuperUnrelentingForce.esp 88 58 PiyarzNetherScaleArmor.esp 89 59 Nightingale Maskless.esp 90 5a FNIS.esp 91 5b FasterCraftableCrossbowsStandAlone.esp 92 5c towConversation.esp 93 5d IngunMarry.esp 94 5e Serana.esp 95 5f Black Tower Island SSE.esp 96 60 the quickening HL 001M7.esp 97 61 ThadDLCAdditionsLakeview.esp 98 62 Suldorn.esp 99 63 pp_engelmannrest.esp100 64 losttomb.esp Well, this seems to have worked for most NPCs but not all. However, the ones it doesn't work on are characters I don't play anyway. Thanks much for your time and help. :cool:

If you make the NPC essential, potions aren't necessary.

The Companions questline is a buggy mess in the first place. Do not destroy your laptop! It's not the machine dude. I assume you are referring to the Totems of Hercine questline. Have you retrieved all three totems and placed them in the underforge? You also may not get the quests for Vilkas and Farkas to Ysgramor's tomb for the cleansing ritual. This happened to me twice and is very frustrating. Start over from your last save (I'm assuming you've probably already done that anyway). Sometimes that is enough to trigger the next sequence and continue normally. If not, you may have to force the quest stages to advance. If you do this, do them one at a time, because if you do all of them at once you can screw up the sequence order for the quest you are trying to complete. This is easy enough to do, but as with any console commands you must use caution as not to break your game. First, go to the Wiki.UESP site and find the Companions questline. It will list all the stages of each quest in the order they are presented in-game. Print or download the pages so you have them handy and then open your game, pull up the console and type in the commands. This will complete your quests. NOTE: Although you may complete all the quests this way, the Companions questline may still be buggy and glitchy. The Companions may no longer give you radiant quests and they may not follow you. It is frustrating cuz all they do is say stuff like "Hey there" and "Nice to see you", or "You're someone who gets things done. I like that." Oh, and Skjor is not really dead. He'll be back. You cannot fix this. Move on to something less annoying. :confused:

Does anyone know who or what she is I can't find any info on her at all. I found her in the Temple of Mara in Riften. She was attending my wedding and just looked like someone I would want as a follower. Good choice cuz she fights like a tiger. But I know nothing about her, what race she is or weather she is a magic type. She was wearing fur armor, but when I took it off she is wearing a Nocturnal type dress that I can't remove. I put her in ebony ranger armor and she wears that ok with no problem. She is not a mod that I can see so I'm wondering if maybe she is left over from the Thieves Guild, but I don't remember her. Click on the pic and check out her eyes and the green streaks. That's what's throwing me off.

Ya, here ya go. As you can see, most of my mods are quests and adventures and not so much about followers and other NPCs. I suspect ApachiiHair might have something to do with my issue, but I can't verify it. I installed it to work with CBBE, and I don't know if it's affected by other body types. And no, I'm not using Bijin Warmaidens. 0 0 Skyrim.esm 1 1 Update.esm 2 2 Dawnguard.esm 3 3 HearthFires.esm 4 4 Dragonborn.esm 5 5 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch.esp 6 6 EFFCore.esm 7 7 arnima.esm 8 8 ApachiiHair.esm 9 9 Helgen.esp 10 a armorebonyranger.esp 11 b HlaaluRetreat.esp 12 c Relationship Dialogue Overhaul.esp 13 d guard dialogue overhaul.esp 14 e War With The Aldmeri Dominion - Invasion of Solstheim.esp 15 f cheat ring.esp 16 10 ogUnconditionalSleepHearthfire.esp 17 11 SkyUI.esp 18 12 ogDiverseDragons.esp 19 13 better honeyside.esp 20 14 theevilmansionde.esp 21 15 CultofAgnar.esp 22 16 TheVarangianCompany.esp 23 17 HammetDungeons.esp 24 18 sk_hubdungeon - copy.esp 25 19 morthalslegacy.esp 26 1a Volundr.esp 27 1b taleoffalcoe.esp 28 1c thedomain.esp 29 1d SolemnKeep.esp 30 1e hsfstockade.esp 31 1f ShadowOfTheDragonGod01.esp 32 20 Rebellion&Retribution.esp 33 21 immersive patrols ii.esp 34 22 EFFDialogue.esp 35 23 Serana Dialogue Edit.esp 36 24 ApachiiHairStyles.esp 37 25 Camomile.esp 38 26 tos_laintardale_hf.esp 39 27 sunkentemple.esp 40 28 Marriable Serana.esp 41 29 Avil.esp 42 2a visageofmzund.esp 43 2b tos_amber_guard.esp 44 2c orvarstomb2.esp 45 2d MODColdwaterCave.esp 46 2e tos_granitehall.esp 47 2f zach's dwemer cairn.esp 48 30 DragonUnderWhiterun.esp 49 31 PortalToHellFullVersion.esp 50 32 jorrvaskrmarker.esp 51 33 ApachiiHairStylesELVES.esp 52 34 AlikrDesert.esp 53 35 grylumstomb.esp 54 36 Talos Vos.esp 55 37 Fresh Faces - USLEEP.esp 56 38 Injustice by M7 001 2017.esp 57 39 tomb of garok.esp 58 3a ApotheosisDemo.esp 59 3b EasierRidersDungeonPack.esp 60 3c The Forgotten Island.esp 61 3d invasion_mummy001m7.esp 62 3e sk_threekingdoms.esp 63 3f The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp 64 40 better skuldafn (by lyrielle2003).esp 65 41 gifts of the outsider.esp 66 42 Rigmor.esp 67 43 hrongar's_rest.esp 68 44 AnfangrumsPit.esp 69 45 Forgotten Crypt.esp 70 46 Sulfuras The Reclaimed Hand - Johnskyrim.esp 71 47 AuroranLagrieArmory.esp 72 48 konahrik, the priest.esp 73 49 gersonia.esp 74 4a crimsonquest2.esp 75 4b daedriseeker.esp 76 4c Rayg_NoBYOHAttacks.esp 77 4d UIExtensions.esp 78 4e calyps-bosmer.esp 79 4f samuraiarmor.esp 80 50 ebonyheartclan.esp 81 51 anyonefollows2.esp 82 52 bosmer jenessa.esp 83 53 moveitLWT.esp 84 54 Dragonborn - Dorethi.esp 85 55 MainMenuReplacerShroud.esp 86 56 OpenFaceGuardHelmets.esp 87 57 SuperUnrelentingForce.esp 88 58 PiyarzNetherScaleArmor.esp 89 59 Nightingale Maskless.esp 90 5a FNIS.esp 91 5b FasterCraftableCrossbowsStandAlone.esp 92 5c towConversation.esp 93 5d IngunMarry.esp 94 5e Serana.esp 95 5f Black Tower Island SSE.esp 96 60 the quickening HL 001M7.esp 97 61 ThadDLCAdditionsLakeview.esp 98 62 Suldorn.esp 99 63 pp_engelmannrest.esp100 64 losttomb.esp

Or you could delete the scripts for those mods. c:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps\common\skyrim\data\scripts Find the scripts for those mods and delete them. No more references, no more CTDs. Works 90% of the time.

If you are currently married, you must "divorce" your spouse and reset the marriage quest. You must also take off the bond of matrimony ring and acquire an Amulet of Mara. From your description it sounds like maybe you have already done this, but I'll post what I know about resetting the marriage questline. I don't know if it is the same for Kahjiit characters, but it should be. Open the console and type the following: removefac 51596 player.removefac c6472 resetquest 74793 resetquest 21382 setstage 74793 10 This will divorce you from your current spouse and rest the courting questline. Now you must don the Amulet of Mara to trigger the marriage dialogs. If you want force an NPC to be available for marriage, then target the NPC and type the following in the console: setrelationshiprank player 4 addfac 19809 1 This should open the dialog option of "Interested in me, are you?" If it doesn't trigger right away, go away and come back in 24 hours and approach the character again. This may not work on some NPCs, but should work on most and will get you married. If you want to have interesting conversations with your spouse, you will most certainly need a mod for that. As you know, Skyrim marriages are a joke at best, and suck the big one. :down:

The vanilla/DLC files are packed away in the BSA files, so any loose files you have come from mods. Even if you delete the entire textures and meshes directories, it won't affect your vanilla files. Also, deleting all of the FaceGen data won't always work, unless you disable the ESPs that are trying to use that data. The FaceGen data has to correspond to the ESP that comes with it. Also, the FaceGen files are all named according to their BaseID. For example, Serana's BaseID is xx002B6C (where xx is the load order), so her mesh is found at: meshes\character\FaceGenData\FaceGeom\Dawnguard.esm\00002B6C.nif. You can look up vanilla NPC BaseIDs at UESP.net or Wikia.com. Since you say it's all of your vanilla NPCs, are you using a mod that overhauls all NPCs, like WSCO/WICO?Are you using NMM or MO?If you're using NMM, then is your VirtualInstall folder on the same drive as your Skyrim main files? 1) No 2) NMM 3) Yes, C:\ I might mention also that this condition does not affect custom characters like Rigmor for example, because she is a standalone and not associated with any DLCs. I use Seranaholic and she was affected by the shade difference, but I was able to reset her npc weight and it locked in. But I am not so lucky with the other NPCs like Jordis, Jenassa, Aela, and Mjoll. Their faces are all a shade darker than their bodies. Can't seem to correct it. If I was confident enough to use the CK I could probably fix it, but I'm not real sure what I'm doing in there and I don't want to kill my game altogether.

Basically got the same problem, except all my vanilla NPCs faces are a shade darker than their bodies. When I open the console and type "setnpcweight 0" the face color corrects to the body, but when I leave the NPC it reverts back to the the way it was. I'm thinking this is not an individual character problem, but a problem with the facegen files 'somewhere' in the system. I read somewhere once that you could go into the facegen files and delete them as they exist, but how do you know which ones to delete? I suppose I could make a backup copy of all the mesh and texture folders and just delete the facegens and see what happens. But, I'm thinkin' if I do this, I could really screw the DLCs up somehow, so I'm very reluctant to mess with it. Like you , I am seeking more expertise than I myself possess at this time. :confused:

Ya, Gisli and a lot of other people in Solitude are simply useless characters. Guess the creators decided that since Solitude was the seat of government in Skyrim, it needed the lion's hare of assholes. Y'know like D.C, London, and Moscow. :happy:

Ya, strange. I went back and tried to reset the color. No soap. Reckon I'll just have to live with it. :dry:

When I found out I could kill Serana at will. Every time she got in my way or did something incredibly stupid to blow a battle or knock me off a cliff, I killed her. But then I'd relent after a while and resurrect her until her next bonehead performance. I still have her and use her. Been married to her (No big deal there either). When you finally realize that she is still an ancient vampire even though she is "cured" (she isn't y'know), it's fun to just bump her off once in a while to clear your frustration cache. Satisfies the bjesis outta me anyway. :devil:

In the center of the page, you know there is a list of attributes for the character. To the right of that there is a little square box that shows selected color options. When I highlight the lips the little box shows the color assigned to it. It is customizable.

Ok. I did as you suggested and re-downloaded the file. I made sure the red lips were back. Went into the CK again and changed the hair, being very careful not to touch anything else. Once again, red lips are gone. I don't get it. It is and old file, vanilla textures from 2012, so maybe I'm missing something from that era of CK. I dunno. It's probably something stupid and obvious. Stuff like that gets by me a lot. :sick:

I don't know about UFO, but AFT and EFF both give optional configs on friendly hits. I have mine set to 20 for each friendly so they don't attack me if I happen to hit them. Sounds like a bit much, but I have a mod where I have encounters with random military factions, and that can get crazy sometimes. As for the guards, I usually just kill them, then use the "paycrimegold" command and then resurrect them. They just get up and walk away. But they are usually more than one so you might have to kill a bunch. At times I have been able to use the command while they are attacking, and they will stop and walk away. This doesn't always work though. Still, I find this easier than using yet another mod to control the behavior of NPCs.

Ya, what happened is when I changed her hair, the lip color when bye bye. I checked the list and when I selected the lips, the little box was blank, so I tried to duplicate it. Do you think that screwed me?

Didn't I? I thought I did. Did the link not show up, cuz I got it on my screen here. Yes I used the CTRL+F4 for the export. The rest of her is complete, and she has the ponytail. She also functions like normal. Only the lip color is gone. I appreciate you taking the time to check her out for me. Maybe I'll just reload her original file and say the hell with it for now.

This should get you there. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/discussions/93231907 . If not, just go to Steam and search Workshop files for Aetia. She should pop right up.

She is. I believe she is a vanilla Breton preset with a custom Nord face. She is not using any fancy stuff like Apachii Hair or CBBE and the like. Strictly vanilla. All that was with her files was an .esp and a .bsa and no extra folders. Just thought I could get away with changing her hair style. Live and learn I guess.

I don't see her specifically in any custom files for her alone. Just a .bsa and .esp loaded into data folder. I don't have the tools to open the .bsa to see what's in there.

I have decided to take the noble walk thru the venerable door to the CK. My first attempt, however, has of course failed. I took a modded character, named Aetia, and attempted to change her hair style from that godawful straight Nord mess to a ponytail. Anyone who has ever played Aetia knows she is just flat out gorgeous, and the best feature that makes her that way is those wonderful, full, dark red lips. Well, of course I managed to bork that. She is still very attractive without them, but she ain't gorgeous now, if ya know what I'm sayin'. I tried re-configuring her lips in CK. I got no error messages and it saved ok. But, in the game those beautiful red lips are gone. I tried disabling/enabling her in game to no avail. I want those lips back. Can I get any help on this? Pleeze! Thanks in advance. (I'm probably too old to be doing this anyways.) I apologize if I have incorrectly posted this in the wrong place.

The game has limits on how far an enemy will pursue you. And if you fast travel, they don't follow you. I don't know if there is a mod out there for that or not. But, frankly, I don't see the point. :cool: