Calling Dr.Grout quest bug. (Spoilers)

[Dogtor]

Hello,
So I am running the latest patch provided by Wesp5 (Patch 9.4)
I have entered Dr. Grout's mansion and I am on level 3. However, when I enter the room with the skeleton nothing happens. I have looked through some walkthroughs and it appears that there should be some cutscene that triggers a character and the mansion is on fire. Nothing really happens no matter if I reload or not. I'm just stuck in the room.
Any help?
I could always noclip but I don't know whether I need to hear out the man that burns down the mansion to trigger the quest to be moved on or not :/
Thanks in advance.

[Touch of Oblivion]

That is strange. Normally you walk into Grout's room, the camera initiates a small cutscene where it shows you the skeleton then the cutscene ends and you walk over to it and interact with it and then you get the next cutscene...or maybe it's you go to leave the room and it happens.

[Dogtor]

Originally posted by Obtenebris:

That is strange. Normally you walk into Grout's room, the camera initiates a small cutscene where it shows you the skeleton then the cutscene ends and you walk over to it and interact with it and then you get the next cutscene...or maybe it's you go to leave the room and it happens.

After restarting I got the first cutscene however I noticed that on the right side of the room there were no items and in other people's walthrough there are indeed numerous objects. I also can't interact with the skeleton either.

[Dogtor]

Originally posted by Obtenebris:

That is strange. Normally you walk into Grout's room, the camera initiates a small cutscene where it shows you the skeleton then the cutscene ends and you walk over to it and interact with it and then you get the next cutscene...or maybe it's you go to leave the room and it happens.

Anoter thing I should mention, when I do successfully noclip my way around and try to leave the area the game crashes.
Any ideas?

[Dogtor]

did some tweaking
reinstaled the game
added the patch
everything worked smoothly
replayed through the quest
all cutscenes have been triggered
but when i leave the area the game still crashes...
help!

[Jaw a Batata Feliz]

I'm having the same problem. I have the camarilla edition instaled, maybe that was the issue, but then reinstalled the game but keept the save file, but, didnt work. This game is amazing! I want to keep playing him :C

[Wesp5]

Originally posted by Jaw A Batata Feliz:

I'm having the same problem. I have the camarilla edition instaled, maybe that was the issue, but then reinstalled the game but keept the save file, but, didnt work.

The Camarilla Edition is not compatible with the latest patch, keeping the save keeps the problem. Start over new or try noclipping through the door...

[Lady Korine]

I'm having this problem too. No other mods installed, just plus patch. Running on a clean install of 9.4 with no changes to patch level since starting the game. The cutscene fires but I cannot interact with the skeleton on the bed. The other side of the room is missing all the misc clutter that should be there in the default game. Noclipping through the door does not give you the trigger you need to complete the quest. My game is now impossible to complete.

EDIT (FIX):
I reinstalled the patch with just the base level patch (no plus), then installed plus patch again. Was able to click on the corpse, and all the junk on the other side of the room reappeared. Hope this helps anyone who's stuck here. I noticed this fixed a few other bugs I had been having, so it's possible I had a bad install the first time or something.