need help with touching the sky

[assassinryan]

i used tcl to fly past the ice wall and kill him but i could not kill him so i can not do the quest becthse he will not talk to me. and i dont have any old saves

Edited October 14, 2014 by assassinryan

[Hyacathusarullistad]

By "him" I assume you mean Vyrthur? Why did you use the console to get to him before you were supposed to? That's why your quest progress is all buggered now -- you're not supposed to confront him until after defeating all his minions. He'll get frustrated, try to pull the ceiling down on top of you, and when that doesn't kill you he goes on a super-villain rant that reveals the truth about the prophecy Harkon is chasing. Then you get to kill him.

 

The first thing I'd try would be to reset the NPC in the hopes that he ignores the fact that he's at bleedout health and continues the quest as normal. First click on his ice wall and type disable into the console (because while it's visually transparent, it's still an object blocking the NPC from the console). Then select Vyrthur himself and use resurrect, then resetai. If that doesn't work, try disable, close the console without deselecting him, then reopen the console and use enable. If he still just stands there, try resetai one more time.

 

Failing that, I don't know if resetting the current quest stage with the console would help or not. Try the command setstage DLC1VQ07 100. If that doesn't work you can try setstage DLC1VQ07 120. That would likely set him to hostile and allow you to enter combat, but I have no idea if the remainder of Touching the Sky can function properly with the chantry's Inner Sanctum in that state - as I said, Vyrthur is supposed to pull the ceiling down and reveal the rest of the chamber, which is both where Gelebor arrives from and where you're meant to return to Skyrim from.

 

In the future, I recommend saving more in different slots, and/or activating the game's auto-save feature.

Edited October 14, 2014 by Hyacathusarullistad