Joining thieves guild quest bugged

[DOTANOOOOOOOB]

"may the best thief win"bugged Amusei doesn't show up just like the old version game. any solutions?

[Raï 𓆣]

I think you'd best try to do a reload - away from the cell preferably - and try again. I was able to do the quest myself. I don't fast travel (if that matters). Sometimes fast travel does weird stuff with radiant AI iirc.

[HeLeX]

Same here. I am 14 hours in, and decided to start thieves guild quest. Even when I do a teleport command to him, it takes me to him but he doesn't exist in the game. He is missing when waiting at Midnight at the garden.

[Raï 𓆣]

There's something I found on the wiki:

"A serious bug involving Amusei can prevent you from ever joining the Thieves Guild and destroy the entire questline. If you visit Castle Leyawiin and pick the lock of the last cell in the Dungeon before having joined the Guild, Amusei will relocate to the dungeon and be forever stuck, preventing you from starting the May the Best Thief Win quest. If you pick the lock later on (e.g if you feel sorry for him during Ahdarji's Heirloom), the bug will not destroy the questline but will ruin Amusei's entire schedule, as he will travel back to the dungeon in sneak mode every time he finishes his involvement in the many quests, at times causing problems when he is supposed to deliver messages from the Gray Fox. The reason behind this is that Amusei's script relocates him to the prison when the door is unlocked without checking to see if you have started or finished Ahdarji's Heirloom.??

Perhaps this is what happened to you?

Here is the wiki: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Amusei

[Seferoth]

Fixed decades ago by Unofficial Patches. Spam Bethesda in Discord to release these patches as Official Patches. Enough people raise voices they will take an arrow to the knee and bend.

[MD]

i'm at the quest The Elven Maiden and after planting the bust Armand just doesnt want to make his way to the meet up location lol

[DOTANOOOOOOOB]

thing is i already lvled up a bit and finished the skeleton key quest. i dont want 2 restart from scratch

[Davo]

I've started the 'May the best thief win' quest, I didn't get to Amantus' diary first but I managed to steal it from Methredhel while she was asleep. The quest says to take it to Armand at midnight, but when I do he doesn't have any speech interactions to continue the quest, he just keeps asking me "are you confused?", and Yes, I AM. I've tried maxing out his disposition and still nothing works. I don't want to restart the campaign, is there a way to fix this?

[MD]

Originally posted by Davo:

I've started the 'May the best thief win' quest, I didn't get to Amantus' diary first but I managed to steal it from Methredhel while she was asleep. The quest says to take it to Armand at midnight, but when I do he doesn't have any speech interactions to continue the quest, he just keeps asking me "are you confused?", and Yes, I AM. I've tried maxing out his disposition and still nothing works. I don't want to restart the campaign, is there a way to fix this?

il play other quests in the meantime i guess. i hope i can salvage my save file too

[yotixify]

Originally posted by MD:

i'm at the quest The Elven Maiden and after planting the bust Armand just doesnt want to make his way to the meet up location lol

Did this ever resolve for you? I ran into the same issue

[Scarlet Shadow]

Amusei doesn't show up for me either, and im pretty sure I didn't lockpick anything in Leyawin at that point. I tried to use the console to advance the quest, but the quest line name has changed (used to be TG01) so until we know the new name, we cannot use the console to advance it...

[Trvor]

anyone having issues can always progress the journal/quest entry to force the quest to progress to the next stage by using console commands.

[𝒟𝒶𝓇𝓀𝑜𝓃𝑒259]

I found the thieves guild has been the most buggy for me with lil bits like this causing me to reload and wait to get around them, wait until you get to later quests where a lot more of the buggyness occurs, damn I miss the unofficial patch, reloading, waiting in a different cell, also check the wiki for common bugs as all of them still occur rip

[Tütenklotz]

fix: For those where Amusai doesn't appear: teleport to him; he'll be stuck in some house. Then load an old save and visit the house. He'll give you the Grey Fox's message. You can still get the achievements by loading an old save.