CaptainRC Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 (edited) I seem to have a rare bug for the Discerning the Transmundane quest. After returning the Runed Lexicon back to Septimus, he immediately read it and gave me the Essence Extractor to get blood from elves, rather than sending me away to wait until he deciphered it. The reason for that is most likely because I was already past Level 15. Now, that's not the problem. The problem is when I get to an elf bandit and kill him, the option to "Harvest Blood" doesn't come up when I search him. It's worked before, but doesn't now. I've Googled this bug, and it seems that only a few have had it, but it has happened to others. Is there a fix for this? Edited May 15, 2012 by CaptainRC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubjectProphet Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Did you already have the blood of that type of elf? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRC Posted May 15, 2012 Author Share Posted May 15, 2012 Did you already have the blood of that type of elf? No, I don't have the blood of ANY elves, yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyZ0G Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 same happened to me.I used the console to advance through the quest player.setstage DA04 41 through to player.setstage DA04 45 then went back to Septimus and the quest continued as normal I figured that I had killed plenty of elves throughout the game to collect the blood if the game was working properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyMilla Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 I seem to have a rare bug for the Discerning the Transmundane quest. After returning the Runed Lexicon back to Septimus, he immediately read it and gave me the Essence Extractor to get blood from elves, rather than sending me away to wait until he deciphered it. The reason for that is most likely because I was already past Level 15. Now, that's not the problem. The problem is when I get to an elf bandit and kill him, the option to "Harvest Blood" doesn't come up when I search him. It's worked before, but doesn't now. I've Googled this bug, and it seems that only a few have had it, but it has happened to others. Is there a fix for this? I wonder how difficult it is to miss a topic with an all caps title " !!!DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN THIS SECTION!!!!" in the General Skyrim Discussion forum.This time I moved the topic to the correct forum. Next time you ignore the warning, your topic will be removed and your account too.-LM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRC Posted May 17, 2012 Author Share Posted May 17, 2012 I seem to have a rare bug for the Discerning the Transmundane quest. After returning the Runed Lexicon back to Septimus, he immediately read it and gave me the Essence Extractor to get blood from elves, rather than sending me away to wait until he deciphered it. The reason for that is most likely because I was already past Level 15. Now, that's not the problem. The problem is when I get to an elf bandit and kill him, the option to "Harvest Blood" doesn't come up when I search him. It's worked before, but doesn't now. I've Googled this bug, and it seems that only a few have had it, but it has happened to others. Is there a fix for this? I wonder how difficult it is to miss a topic with an all caps title " !!!DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN THIS SECTION!!!!" in the General Skyrim Discussion forum.This time I moved the topic to the correct forum. Next time you ignore the warning, your topic will be removed and your account too.-LM Sorry. Sheesh! I'm only human and make mistakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landy8 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 I seem to have a rare bug for the Discerning the Transmundane quest. After returning the Runed Lexicon back to Septimus, he immediately read it and gave me the Essence Extractor to get blood from elves, rather than sending me away to wait until he deciphered it. The reason for that is most likely because I was already past Level 15. Now, that's not the problem. The problem is when I get to an elf bandit and kill him, the option to "Harvest Blood" doesn't come up when I search him. It's worked before, but doesn't now. I've Googled this bug, and it seems that only a few have had it, but it has happened to others. Is there a fix for this? Was there a Vampire Dust in his inventory? You can't harvest the blood of elven vampires. I usually get this quest rather late (after level 20), then simply carry the Extractor and harvest the blood each time I loot some poor guy's corpse. Sometimes I can't even see their faces, so when I see the "Harvest blood" option, I think "oh, that guy was an elf?" Have you tried to harvest the blood of another elf of the same race (another Bosmer if he was a Bosmer, for example)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRC Posted May 24, 2012 Author Share Posted May 24, 2012 I seem to have a rare bug for the Discerning the Transmundane quest. After returning the Runed Lexicon back to Septimus, he immediately read it and gave me the Essence Extractor to get blood from elves, rather than sending me away to wait until he deciphered it. The reason for that is most likely because I was already past Level 15. Now, that's not the problem. The problem is when I get to an elf bandit and kill him, the option to "Harvest Blood" doesn't come up when I search him. It's worked before, but doesn't now. I've Googled this bug, and it seems that only a few have had it, but it has happened to others. Is there a fix for this? Was there a Vampire Dust in his inventory? You can't harvest the blood of elven vampires. I usually get this quest rather late (after level 20), then simply carry the Extractor and harvest the blood each time I loot some poor guy's corpse. Sometimes I can't even see their faces, so when I see the "Harvest blood" option, I think "oh, that guy was an elf?" Have you tried to harvest the blood of another elf of the same race (another Bosmer if he was a Bosmer, for example)? No, there wasn't. And I tried that. No dice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landy8 Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) Then I'm sorry to admit, but it seems you have no other choice but to follow the mighty zog's advice: same happened to me.I used the console to advance through the quest player.setstage DA04 41 through to player.setstage DA04 45 then went back to Septimus and the quest continued as normal Edited May 24, 2012 by landy8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainRC Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 I've got it working fine now. It seems that this particular quest doesn't like it if you use skill level accelerating mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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