MidbossVyers Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 So I took on the Imperial Corruption quest, but being the freelance assassin that my character is (she "quit" the Dark Brotherhood), after finding the name of the watchman and confirming that he is non-essential, Audens Avidius was sent to Sithis. However, there was no message saying that Audens had died nor a general message that that a quest character had died. No message showed up. Am I supposed to precede normally with the quest and do things as if he's still alive? What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted November 10, 2011 Author Share Posted November 10, 2011 So there's no way to complete this quest if you kill Audens before convicting him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naktis Posted November 12, 2011 Share Posted November 12, 2011 Maybe you can resurrect him or use console command player. placeatme? :mellow: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted November 12, 2011 Author Share Posted November 12, 2011 Well, technically, you don't need any interactions with Audens in order to complete the quest. You actually have to talk to Itius Hayn. However, upon killing Audens, there is no longer a quest marker pointing to Itius and even if you do find him, there is no Corrupt Watchman topic. So it's not whether or not Audens is alive, but as soon as you kill him something script-related happens. Unfortunately, Bethesda didn't seem to complete that script, and we're stuck with an incomplete quest. I think that the quest should be like Conscience and Corruption, like if you choose to kill Ulrich Leland rather than convict him, but it isn't, apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 If you look at the Journal Entries section at the bottom of the UESP Wiki page for Imperial Corruption you'll see that when you killed Audens Avidius you advanced the quest script to stage 119. As far as I know there's no way to turn script stages back without reverting to an earlier save, in your case to one from before you introduced Audens to Sithis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted November 13, 2011 Author Share Posted November 13, 2011 But that's just it. If the quest completed at 119, it would be fine, but right now, it's in my active quest list at 20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 I'm guessing you killed Audens Avidius before you started this quest by talking to either Luronk gro-Glurzog or Ruslan. All I can suggest is to use the console (the tilde key (~) on standard keyboards, found right below the Esc key opens and closes the console). With the console open do the following (all done without including the quote marks used for emphasis): 1) type 'prid 00026d9e' and hit enter2) type 'enable' and hit enter3) type 'resurrect 1' and hit enter (note that that is a number one following the resurrect command) I would suggest going to another cell outside the Imperial City and wait for 72 hours plus a bit, then return to the IC and see if Audens is following his normal routines. If doing this from the save you have where you have started the quest isn't working you'll need to revert to a save from before you talked to either Luronk or Ruslan and then try the console commands, which I realize may not be possible as you may have first spoken to them about the quest early in your game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidbossVyers Posted November 14, 2011 Author Share Posted November 14, 2011 (edited) Actually, I killed him immediately after getting his name from Jensine. That would be after starting this quest. My point is that this quest does not seem to have an "important character died" quest finish, even though all relevant characters are never essential. Edited November 14, 2011 by MidbossVyers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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