Niggling little glitch in Vivec... - by Anarkos
Anarkos on 6/7/2002 at 01:31
There is a quest you get from a woman in St Olms to relocate her husband. Go down into the Underworks and you encounter a Corprus Zombie. Kill it and you find a ring belonging to the husband.
You are supposed to then get a topic/journal entry [to talk to the woman about to tell her her husband's a dead zombie...]. I've done it once, and it has worked, but i was then killed in the nearby Daedric shrine.
I re-did it, I'd saved just before going down, but I later realised my journal hadn't updated, so I cannot return the ring.
I need to know the topic for this, so I can use AddTopic in the console, can anyone tell me it or find it out?
Secondly, can anyone tell me of a console command to update your journal? To add one thing?
Anarkos on 6/7/2002 at 05:12
Top. My problems are more important than yours, mortals! Ha!
:p
Forsythe on 6/7/2002 at 05:18
Hrm... here's how it's supposed to work out...
1) You get this as a rumor in the St. Olms canton, which sets EB_DeadMen to 10
2) If EB_DeadMen is 10, in her greeting she laments and gives the topic 'gone missing'
3) If you use 'gone missing', it sets EB_DeadMen to 20
4) If you agree to help, it sets EB_DeadMen to 30 and enables the corprus stalker, who until that time is disabled (ie: the game engine pretends he's not there)
5) If/when you kill the corprus stalker, it sets EB_DeadMen to 50
6) If you have the ring and EB_DeadMen is set to 50, she'll accept the ring from you.
Now, I've no idea how you were able to kill the corprus stalker and not get the journal entry, not to mention even find it without talking to her 1st, but if you truly do have the ring from the stalker and you don't have any journal entries from her, then your best bet is to set up the 1st entry like so:
Journal EB_DeadMen 10
and then talk to her. The rest oughta sort itself out.
Edit: Yeah, yeah, just for that I've introduced a flaw in the above... or not; you decide... j/k ;)
Anarkos on 6/7/2002 at 06:01
Ah, you misunderstood me. I've got the quest from her, but when I killed the corprus stalker the journal did not update.
It looks like all I need to do is set "EB_DeadMen" to 50, thus telling the game that he is dead...
Sweet, no more useless ring lyring around :)
Forsythe on 6/7/2002 at 08:07
Ahh, cool; I'd kind've assumed that you got impatient and just spawned the stalker or something, but I'm glad you were able to make it work.
As to the source of the issue, I've noticed more than a few people reporting glitches on these 'OnDeath' scripts. Sounds like it may not be an absolutely perfect manner to capture something's death.
