How do you get into the Shivering Isles?

[Rabbit1251]

I'm at the Gates of Madness after following the Redguard and Wood Elf up and we are awaiting the Gatekeeper to show. I've been there for a couple of game days now and haven't seen him yet. I've talked to nearly everyone except an old person in a butterfly room that someone had mentioned, but I haven't run across them yet. I'm running a female Tabaxi so could it be racial? Need I show more patience? Any help in this would be most appreciated. Thank you.

 

 

Rabbit

[Siojo]

In all honestly if your strong enough you can take the gatekeeper without any help, I've done it on the xbox version. But if you wanna do the actual quest you gotta take to the person the Nord thats crazy for bones, or maybe it was one of the women in the inn, I think the apprentice maybe?

[David Brasher]

Your game has glitched. It should not be working this way. The Gatekeeper is something you could not possibly avoid seeing. Go near the gates and he will kill you. He should be there in the act of slaughtering a band of adventurers in steel armor right when you follow the Redguard and WoodElf up the hill.

 

I suggest that you load an earlier savegame from before you entered the Shivering Isles, and try again. You really don't want to use console commands to skip the gatekeeper. It would be really sad to do that.

 

It also sounds like you missed Haskill in the butterfly room. How did you do that? How did you get to the Fringe? It sounds like your game has bugged unbelievably bad. I am surprised it hasn't crashed.

[Rabbit1251]

Thank you Siojo, Mr. Brasher; I did talk to Haskill, but I didn't relate him to the "butterfly room". I must have missed that. And, no, the Gate Keeper did not appear upon my approaching the dias. All of the fighters are standing around doing nothing at this point. It looks like an earlier save is my best bet. At least, thanks to you two, I wont be waiting around for something that isn't going to happen in my game. Thanks again for the help.

 

 

Rabbit

 

 

Edit: Still won't let me in. I follow the Redgard and the Wood Elf up and there is a Nord Adventurer and an Orc Captain fighting. I can't seem to hurt the Orc or even anger him. No one who might be the Gatekeeper shows up regardless of where I go on the field or up to the doors. I'm running a Tabaxi with an Enfant follower, but I'm not certain that that may not be the problem.

[Pronam]

I can't remember that the Unofficial SI Patch could fix that, but it may be worth a try. If you already have it, could you tell what your load order is. Or is it just those two mods?

[Rabbit1251]

One official load order coming up. It's somewhat ecclectic, but up until now it has worked for me. I plan to clean it up after I move to a new machine in the next couple of weeks (sounds like I'm appologising for the condition of my apartment, doesn't it?).

 

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Slof's Sexy Anims.esp

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Lyre's Imperial City Bab Boutique.esp

UFF Gypsy Market.esp

Slof's Male Clothing.esp

Slof's Horses Base.esp

EyelashesVannilaRaces.esp

Slof's Boners! v5.esp

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Jeans For Robert Male & Female.esp

DFSLChina.esp

ANBWearableEars.esp

UFF Boots Collection.esp

CTAddPose_Le01.esp

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CTAddPose_OTPair.esp

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CTAddPose_Le02.esp

Slof's Bracelet Collection.esp

77_Umpa_Arts.esp

RefScope.esp

Azure_Palace.esp

DS Flaming Arrows.esp

Valus Cottage.esp

Sexual_Minotaur-Only_male.esp

77_Umpa_Animation.esp

compat1.esp

It's A Wig!.esp

Cant Wear Broken Armor.esp

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CyrodillRestaurantMod.esp

CTAddPose_SPB_01.esp

Sexual_ogre.esp

Jedi LightSabers with Sound.esp

Creature Diversity.esp

77_Umpa_Disco.esp

HungrySlaughterfish.esp

Chain it!.esp

Ramy Enfant.esp

Benirus Manor.esp

CuteElf11.esp

P1DkeyChain.esp

Darloken's Waterfront House.esp

 

 

Rabbit

[David Brasher]

The Gatekeeper is too good to miss. He is quite a sight to behold. Maybe the easiest thing to do would be to disable almost every one of your mods while you play Shivering Isles, and then when you get back to Cyrodiil, turn them back on. It seems to me that most mods are designed for base Oblivion, and not necessarily designed for, and play-tested in the Shivering Isles.

 

There is probably a way to get your mod list and load-order just right so that you have a Gatekeeper, but that might take weeks of play-testing, and it is more fun to just play the game without mods and have it work right the first time.

[Sharkull]

It might not be mod related...

From the wiki ( http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:Through...inge_of_Madness ):

If the first time you enter Shivering Isles the path through the forest/trees is not taken and the player instead jumps over the ditch, the Gatekeeper might not appear and kill the adventurers, freezing the main quest. The only fix is to load an earlier save.

[Rabbit1251]

I'm sorry about being so sloth getting back to everyone, but the years sometimes sit heavy on these narrow bunny shoulders of mine and I can't get to my typing machine to follow the normal polite conventions as I would like. I hope that you will all forgive me.

 

Mr. Brasher, I disabled as many of my mods as I dared and I still cannot get in. I'm beginning to think that the Gatekeeper just doesn't like girls. Or maybe cat-girls or something like that. My character is still Tabaxi-non-gratis as far as he is concerned. I might try again with a fresh character, one who doesn't have so much "baggage" as this one does.

 

Pronam, I saw on the Wiki a suggestion for the Unofficial Patch, but as the Nexus is still down in some areas I had to find it elsewhere. And, no, it does not seem to change things. I intend to continue experimenting around with it until I can find a way to slip past the blockage whatever that might be.

 

Sharkull, Thank you so very much for the link to the Shivering Ilse's Wiki. There are a lot of useful tips that I can try out to get through this problem. So far, no, but it does leave me with a lot more to experiment with.

 

Siojo, I would like to see how my two girls would fare against the said individual, but I just can't get the dear boy to come out and play. Maybe he's shy. His loss I would have to say.

 

Once again thank you one and all for your input and help. I don't know whether I will get through this or not, but your assistance does not go unappreciated.

 

 

The Rabbit

[skull1463]

. No one who might be the Gatekeeper shows up regardless of where I go on the field or up to the doors.

 

Just a note the gatkeepers a giant ass fat thing thats about quadruple your size... if not more...