Issues with There Stands the Grass Quest

[TheCorpulent1]

I've got a lot of mods running and I guess one of them had a bug somewhere that randomly set the "There Stands the Grass" quest to the final stage, where I'm supposed to report back to Keely that I ignited the gas and destroyed the spores. That was weird, but I figured it would work itself out when I went to actually do the quest. So I played for a bunch more hours and tonight I finally decided to do "There Stands the Grass." I went to Hildern and got the mission properly, which just added the earlier stage about finding Vault 22 and downloading the data into the quest's objectives list above the later stage that was randomly activated earlier. But then Angela Williams came in and, instead of giving me the side mission to rescue Keely, she said Keely had just called in and everything was fine, as if I'd already completed the quest. I figured I could still be fine and just go get the data anyway, since the two parts of the quest aren't especially intertwined or anything. But then I walked through Angela's part of the office to go out the door and my HUD vanished and my character froze. The game seemed fine--I could look around, Angela and Hildern were going about their routines, and my companions were doing their idle animations--but my character just couldn't move.

 

So all of that convinced me I need to find some way to reset the quest, effectively erasing the game's recognition that I'd completed the gas ignition stage when in fact I hadn't. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any way to do that. I tried using the resetquest command, which cleared the quest out of my quest list, but when I get the quest again from Hildern, Angela still treats me as if I've finished it and I still freeze. I tried getting the quest from Hildern and using setstage to make the game think I'm at the first stage of the quest, but the later stage remains in the quest's objective list and Angela still treats me like I'm at that stage, and I still freeze. I looked around online and found that the freeze issue is well-known and documented in the Fallout Wiki, but there's no mention of a solution to it. I also can't seem to find anything that actually turns back the clock on a quest, so to speak, to make a triggered quest stage reverse itself and go completely back to the beginning of the quest. I don't really know what else to try.

[TheCorpulent1]

Finally managed to solve this on my own by going to Vault 22, retrieving the data, and only then talking to Hildern afterward. I got the data, went back to McCarran, talked to Hildern, got the quest activated, ended the conversation, let Angela rush in and start her dialogue, which closed up the Keely bit, and then immediately talked to Hildern again to tell him I had the data. Once all of that was done, the quest was marked as complete and I left the office without the freeze glitch. I never actually got to meet Keely in the game this time, but I still completed the quest and got the XP for the Keely bit after Angela talked to me, which is "fixed" enough for me to move on with the game. Huzzah!

Edited November 17, 2013 by TheCorpulent1