Waking Nightmare problem (not the save one)

[Meandmine]

I'm having a problem with Waking Nightmare, and it is not the usual saving ctd. I saved periodically throughout with no problems, but once I reach Veren and his crony then the problems begin. If I kill either one, I get a 'Defeat Veren and <whatever> Failed' message, and looking at my journal, every objective has the red x on it afterwards. If I let Casimir/Erandur kill them both, then we can progress to the Skull. vaermina starts her little spiel about how he'll betray me, and then it's error central:

1) If I kill him before I get the objective, as Vaermina says kill him, nothing happens. He's dead, can't activate the Skull, no new quest dialogue.

2) If I wait to kill him after the ritual has begun, I get a 'Murder Erandur Failed' note, or, if I don't sneak kill him in one hit, he begins to fight and somewhere along the battle I get the same message.

3) If I kill him before Vaermina starts talking I get a 'Wait for Erandur to Dispel the Barrier Failed' note.

 

I am at a total loss here, I have a good many mods, but most are armor/texture mods, and all I've used with this quest previously and it's been fine.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Edit: I've also tried SetObjectiveCompleted and SetStage, and neither seems to have any affect whatsoever.

Edited June 20, 2013 by Meandmine

[Pinkushitsu]

Hi there!

You are the only one I have found with the EXACT same problem as me. But I think I managed to fix it. Here's what I did:

 

1: When Vaermina tells you to kill Erandur and you get the quest to choose to kill him or not, open the console and target Erandur. His targeted ID is 00024280, then kill him using the following command:

kill

When he's dead the quest will do nothing, won't fail, won't complete or anything, but atleast he's dead.

It will feel more right that way since he's supposed to be dead.

 

2: Now in the console, type the following:

player.setObjectiveCompleted DA16 170 1

(Don't miss the 1 in the end. This will complete the Murder Erandur stage, but won't progress to the next stage.)

 

3: I tried to activate the next stage (190) But didn't manage, so I took the easy way out.

With him dead and all, I simply used this command:

player.CompleteQuest DA16
This will ultimately mark the whole quest as completed.

 

But you can't pick up the Skull of Corruption, since that is a quest-stage aswell.

 

Simply do the following:

player.additem 00035066 1

 

 

Regards Pearl