FoolWhoCantCount Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 You know when an NPC forces you to talk to him/her because it's part of a quest, for example when you walk up to the College of Winterhold and the Elf outside automatically talks to you once your in range? Or when you first meet the Greybeards, or when you report back to the Jarl of Whiterun after killing the dragon. Well that has suddenly stop happening for me and I have no idea why. Now don't get me wrong I don't find it a gamebreaking issue, in fact I sort of liked it when it first happened. But now I am in the College of Winterhold and at the point where the old mage asks the player what they should do next after there is some debate between him and the rest of the apprentices. But it never happens, and I can't talk to him because he's "busy". I can get around this first part by healing him, which activates the first part of dialogue for some reason; and then attacking him, which after everyone calms down activates the second where he gives me the ward spell and tells me to "stand over there". But after this nothing happens, even if I activate the ward, he just stands there like a potato. I would love it if someone had a fix for this that didn't include commands to skip that part of the quest because this affects the whole game and I don't want to run into it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyZ0G Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 I found that I had to be in a very specific place when casting the ward for him to cast the fire spell at me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoolWhoCantCount Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 I found that I had to be in a very specific place when casting the ward for him to cast the fire spell at me Yes I have tried a lot of different spots, it's this bug that is stopping it for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MightyZ0G Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 out of curiosity, have you started the helm of winterhold quest? for some reason that quest can bug other quests and some interaction with NPCs also, what mods are you running? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoolWhoCantCount Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 out of curiosity, have you started the helm of winterhold quest? for some reason that quest can bug other quests and some interaction with NPCs also, what mods are you running? No I haven't started that quest because I know of the problems it can cause. I am running a lot of mods, but 99% of them I had before this problem started. I have uninstalled mods I thought might be causing a problem but to no luck. I am currently reinstalling Skyrim fresh with no mods to see if the bug persists, if it does then I will be out of ideas. Hence why I have made this post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoolWhoCantCount Posted June 7, 2012 Author Share Posted June 7, 2012 I have installed a fresh Skyrim but the bug persists, any suggestions would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDimitrijSquirrel Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 (edited) bump edit: nvm, i had a dragon mask on -.- Edited September 30, 2012 by TheDimitrijSquirrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoolWhoCantCount Posted September 30, 2012 Author Share Posted September 30, 2012 I solved this ages ago by just deleting my save, it was corrupt unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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