Need Help, "ill met by moonlight" bugged out

[Hand]

I am stuck on the quest Ill met by moonlight. I have done all the objectives and went to the cave after getting the cursed ring and was told to hunt Sinding. When I got to the cave however there was no wounded Khajit hunter or no sign of Sinding, just a quest marker on top of the rock where he should be.

I cleared out the cave of all the bears and other creatures but nothing has happened just the quest marker taking me to the empty rock. I tried some console commands including setting different stages but when I did Sinding was just gone from Falkreath prison. And when I got tired and tried to just CompleteQuest it worked but I was stuck with Hircines cursed ring.

I do have some mods installed but none conflict with the quest as I have dont it before on another playthrough. Thanks in advance.

[Daemon]

Ill Met by Moonlight
Talk to Sinding and place the Cursed Ring of Hircine in a chest in Bloated Man's Grotto or give it to a follower. Exit the Grotto, and receive the ring from the Aspect of Hircine. Go back, kill Sinding and take the skin from his body to receive the Savior's Hide.

1. Speak to the father of the slain child.
2. Talk to Sinding.
3. Hunt White Stag.
4. Face Sinding inside
5. Speak with Hircine

Go to an oldes Savegame if you saved before if not try to do a savegame before starting a quest chain :) hopes it will help you ^^

[Victor]

Originally posted by The Screaming Turtle:

I am stuck on the quest Ill met by moonlight. I have done all the objectives and went to the cave after getting the cursed ring and was told to hunt Sinding. When I got to the cave however there was no wounded Khajit hunter or no sign of Sinding, just a quest marker on top of the rock where he should be.

I cleared out the cave of all the bears and other creatures but nothing has happened just the quest marker taking me to the empty rock. I tried some console commands including setting different stages but when I did Sinding was just gone from Falkreath prison. And when I got tired and tried to just CompleteQuest it worked but I was stuck with Hircines cursed ring.

I do have some mods installed but none conflict with the quest as I have dont it before on another playthrough. Thanks in advance.

+1 - I have this exact same problem. Did you acquire any solutions to this bug?

[Nabinkemper]

Please review the bug section in the following link:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ill_Met_By_Moonlight

You received the ring after speaking with Sinding in the Falkreath jail. Did he transform into a werewolf and climb out of the cell? Did you kill the white stag just outside of Falreath and speak to Hircine; who instructed you to go to Bloated Man's Grotto?

Based on the fact the Grotto didn't transition to the hunt portion of the quest, something didn't complete properly as stated above.

[Audetos]

I have the same issue. All quest walk through done correctly. That is not the issue. Once at the grotto, all quest NPCs do not appear. No quest altering Mods. I even used my console to move to Sindar or move Sindar to me, the quest beacon moves with these commands; however, on both cases; Sindar is still not present.

This bug is not listed in the wiki site.

[Xabaras]

So the problem is that there seems to be another version of the grotto that is overwriting the correct cell for the quest. I'm not sure what mod is doing it but the way to fix it I found is to use movetoqt da05 in the console after speaking with the spirit of the hunt (white stag ghost) in order to warp into the correct cell with all the right npcs. I was able to talk to the khajit, and sinding, though he instantly died as soon as I finished speaking, so you can either resurrect him with the console or just skin him there and I think it should work out either way.

[Chaos]

If anyone is still struggling with this particular issue, I just ran into the same problem and there are no documented fixes that i could find, here is what worked for me.
I did everything in the quest as suggested above and got to the grotto and there were no hunters and no Sinding, just an objective on the rock. When I went back to the Falkreath jail the objective marker moved to the ground inside his cell with no Sinding.

I went to a quiet spot and used console:

prid 0002abbd
disable
enable
moveto player

to make werewolf Sinding appear. I couldn't get him to spawn without the disable and enable step, and it wasn't because he was dead.
Then I talked to him and told him I was going to kill him (because if you try to opt to kill the hunters... there are no hunters to kill = dead end)
For some reason even though my quest was to kill him I couldn't, he would just be stunned and get up like an essential NPC.
console setessential only turned up errors on him. So in the skyrim.ini file add:

[GAMEPLAY]
bEssentialTakeNoDamage=0

This makes ALL NPC's non essential so be very careful if you fight him with companions that they don't die.

After that you can skin him, talk to Hircine, finish the quest and go and remove the 2 lines from the ini file. I hope this helps somebody :)

[incrediboytom]

To acquire the ring instead:

prid 0002abbd
disable
enable
moveto player

I used this in the grotto to tell Sinding I would spare him then used -

setstage da05 80

This should "kill" the hunters. Then speak to Sinding and the quest completes as normal. Hircine fixes the ring once you leave the grotto. Hope this helps someone.

[Doc Hammer]

So I encountered this same issue and a search for a fix led me here. I was able to reload a save before talking Sinding and starting the quest which solved my issue and properly loaded the cell. However the mods I believe that might be responsible for overwriting the cell might be something that overrides Bolars Oath blade such as Unique Uniques or Blades Samurai Armors and Kimonos which adds a set of armor on an alter near where Bolars Oath Blade is placed. These two mods seemed to be the likely cause. I didn't test it as I have both manually installed. Hope this helps anyone having issues with the same problem.

[Alcor]

Finally I found the solution,now do it one by one;
-Download the "Cheat Room Mod" (you can find in bethesda's forum)
-Start the game and you will see "cheat spell and cheat spell options"
-Equip both spells("cheat spell and cheat spell options")
-Use "cheat spell options" and select the "cheat menu 1" and select the "set teleport to whiterun"
-Now equip the "cheat spell" and apply/use it on Sinding.

Sinding teleported to white run and you will be wait 2-3 hours (he is walking from whiterun to quest mark.)

-kill the white stag and talk to hircine
-go to quest cave and you should be see the khajit npc.
-you know what to do next .

[Luke Lofaspell]

Solved it by the following commands, in order :

prid 0002abbd
disable
enable
resurrect
moveto player

[MajimaKing]

Originally posted by Doc Hammer:

So I encountered this same issue and a search for a fix led me here. I was able to reload a save before talking Sinding and starting the quest which solved my issue and properly loaded the cell. However the mods I believe that might be responsible for overwriting the cell might be something that overrides Bolars Oath blade such as Unique Uniques or Blades Samurai Armors and Kimonos which adds a set of armor on an alter near where Bolars Oath Blade is placed. These two mods seemed to be the likely cause. I didn't test it as I have both manually installed. Hope this helps anyone having issues with the same problem.

Im late to the party but has anyone been able to confirm if a mod like Unique Uniques to be some sort of issue for bloated mans grotto not changing for the quest Ill Met by Moonlight?

[Malchar]

Originally posted by Mercury Prime:

Solved it by the following commands, in order :

prid 0002abbd
disable
enable
resurrect
moveto player

I had the same problem. I tried doing this, and it seemed to work, but for some reason Sinding was flagged as "essential", so I couldn't kill him. I was able to fix it by also using these commands:

setessential 000136AC 0
setessential 0006C1B7 0
setessential 00090CF2 0
setessential FF000C46 0

For some reason the game has four different base ID's for Sinding. I'm not sure which is which, so I just set all of them to non-essential. You can search for these base ID's in-game using this console command: help Sinding

[draytalon]

Stuck?? On the quest Ill by moonlight I have chased the white stag, but I cannot reach it, I keep getting a message saying I cannot go that way, I am playing on the xbox one if that helps. If I could show you a snapshot of the area that could help

[Komyeta]

Originally posted by incrediboytom:

To acquire the ring instead:

prid 0002abbd
disable
enable
moveto player

I used this in the grotto to tell Sinding I would spare him then used -

setstage da05 80

This should "kill" the hunters. Then speak to Sinding and the quest completes as normal. Hircine fixes the ring once you leave the grotto. Hope this helps someone.

This helped greatly! for both options of the quest, thanks a lot!

[Bluejay Blackburn]

Originally posted by draytalon:

Stuck?? On the quest Ill by moonlight I have chased the white stag, but I cannot reach it, I keep getting a message saying I cannot go that way, I am playing on the xbox one if that helps. If I could show you a snapshot of the area that could help

Your best bet is to go away, sleep for the night, then come back later.