[Spoilers] Dawnguard - 'Touching The Sky' possible bug; Fix

[Rattlesnark]

For those of you having problems with either...

A) Getting the boss battle with the Arch-Curate to progress properly.

B) Getting the subsequent quest 'Kindred Judgement' to begin after picking up Auriel's Bow.

... here's how I solved these problems on my end, worth a shot to see if it helps you out.

 

A - The boss battle might fail to progress properly, if the frozen minions don't unfreeze or if the Arch-Curate doesn't bring down debris from the ceiling as expected. Try reloading a save location prior to the battle, or the autosave itself from the 'Inner Sanctum -> Auriel's Chapel (boss arena)' area transition and re-attempt the battle. The point at which the game ceases to progress randomizes for me each time I restart the battle, and I ended up being able to finish the whole thing.

 

Reference: http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/750776-dawnguard-arch-curate-vyrthur-boss-fight-problems/

 

B - I had this issue with the subsequent quest 'Kindred Judgement' not starting right after I picked up Auriel's Bow, and neither Serana nor Gelebor had proper dialogue options. The issue at hand is the final 'Retrieve Auriel's Bow' objective not properly being marked as completed despite the message signifying the quest's completion popping up (COMPLETED: Touching The Sky). A solution which worked for me is simply by using the 'setstage DLC1VQ07 200' console command to mark the objective's completion properly, and the quests progressed as they should after that.

 

Reference: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Touching_the_Sky

 

Just thought I put this up to help anyone else in need. Please don't send me death threats if any of the above end up worsening the situation for you.

Edited August 12, 2012 by Rattlesnark

[XepherXV]

Kindred jugment still did not work after attempting B i have no auto save left from before and i fast traveled to frt dwngrd hoping to find a quest starter

[Eilando]

A) Getting the boss battle with the Arch-Curate to progress properly.

Not worked for me. Tried every step, but the game is stucked in unfrozing only Chaurus.

[xibx]

First of all, sorry for my bad English.

 

Guys, I figured this out. I've got the same problem, Arch-Curate Vyrthius just sits there and doing nothing. Not only that, my saves are all bloated. I've tried reloading countless times as suggested but it didn't help.

 

So here's what I did:

 

> deleted these mods (I forgot the exact name for each): SoS Wild, Birds of Skyrim, Shooting Stars, Animated Prostitution.

 

> deleted all the scripts in Skyrim Data folder (make sure you backup those files).

 

> I've waited 30 days before I enter the boss area (small cave in Inner Sanctum that leads straight to Forgotten Vale where Vyrthius waited) to fix my bloating issue.

 

Back to game, I entered the room and the Arch-Curate is gone but the enemy waves are spawning until the part where Vyrthius supposed to collapse the building, because he's not there to do it.

So I've loaded my save just before I waited 30 days and back to Arch-Curate. He's there and spawn waves of chaurus and frozen falmer, then he collapsed the ceiling. But something's still not right. No more enemy spawns, he just hurling stones.

 

I've loaded my save again, just before the battle and 'Set Timescale To 20' (the default timescale, because before that I've set the timescale to 16). And voila, everything's normal. Enemy spawns are normal, building collapsed, he ran away, and finally dead. The other Snow Elf came, got the bow, no more bloated save files, and everything's okay.

 

But I still got that annoying pause every 20-30 seconds, never happened to me before I installed Dawnguard. If anyone knows how to fix this let me know.

Edited November 18, 2012 by xibx