Skipped Thieves Guild quests

[batesmotel34]

My latest character has been active in the fighter's guild (as well as Morag Tong and House Hlaalu, and the Bloodfang Tong from the "Suran Underworld" mod.

 

In doing quests for Gentleman Jim Stacey, I started out with the normal missing messenger quest, but seem to have all of a sudden gone directly gone on the quest to kill the head of the fighter's guild and have skipped the other fighter's guild related quests like the Bitter Cup and makign contact with reliable leaders in the fighter's Guild who are't tainted by the Camona Tong. (I don't remember the exact quests since it's been a while since I ran through the Thieves Guild quests.)

 

So, does anyone have any idea what might have caused me to skip the intervening quests? Is it something likely to be due to the Suran Underworld or another mod? (I have the Twin Lamps faction mod loaded as well but haven't done much with that.)

 

What triggers Gentleman Jim to decide that it's now time to kill the leader of the Fighter's Guild? (I haven't looked into the scripts for his NPC.)

[Malchik]

I do not know for certain why you skipped but it happens quite often in the thieves' guild that quests are jumped if you do something too early. I suspect it is because you are in the Morag Tong and probably despatched the brothers Ienith as a writ.

 

This is the order for GJS

 

Find Brother Nads

Speak with Percius

Hrundi's Lover

The Bitter Cup

The Brothers Ienith

Kill Hard-Heart

 

So by carrying out the writ you jump to the end. If you are playing on PC you can add the topics to his dialogue box enabling you to complete the three missing quests. I am not sure what the precise wording should be but I'm sure others will know.