Unable to start Totems of Hircine quest, Retrieval quest looping

[Krevil]

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I posted this on Reddit's /r/skyrimmods yesterday but received no responses, thread located here. I would really appreciate if someone could help with this as I'm completely out of ideas.

 

So, the problem is that after completing Glory of the Dead I can talk to Aela and she will only give me Retrieval over and over which I've already completed. Stopping that quest with stopquest cr11 will allow me to receive Animal Extermination and Pelt Collection from Cutting Room Floor but still not Totems of Hircine (CR12). Attempting to setstage CR12 to any value or startquest CR12 does nothing and using sqs CR12 I can see that all stages are at 0. I've tried every soloution to those with similar problems I can find but most rely on being able to manipulate CR12 with setstage and I'm unable to do that for whatever reason.

I went back to before I started Retrieval and did everything over again in case I messed something up there but yet again I'm in Ysgramor's Tomb and I can't progress.

 

I've not seen anyone else with this problem unfortunately and at this point I really hope someone knows what to do with it as I'm super stumped. I had previously assumed that it was an issue with how I progressed through the questline as I never bothered to speak to Aela before starting Kodlak's quest to kill the Hagravens however I restarted my save from before I did any of those quests and actually managed to get the "Something has changed in the moons" dialogue from Aela. It didn't help though as I still have the same issue as last time and nothing I do makes any difference. It's like that old jerk quest Blood on the Ice which would never start on half of my saves.

 

EDIT: After hours and hours of googling and trying random crap I managed to get it working. Here's how I did it if anyone out there found this after googling for ages like I did

 

First I opened up Fallrim Tools ReSaver and searched for anything related to CR12 in my saves and deleted the scripts (not the strings, I dunno what those do and didn't want to break anything). Then I loaded up my save, setstage CR11 20 and handed it in to Aela. When I spoke to her again I finally had the option to start The Totems of Hircine.