Mind of Madness bug

[mcbarker69]

I've played through Skyrim a bunch of times, but never had this happen in the Mind of Madness quest. I enter the Pelagius Wing and go down the halway, but instead of entering Pelagius' mind, my player character changes into the usual fine clothes, keels over, and dies (happens also when in god mode). Anyone know of a workaround?

[DrNewcenstein]

Remove the mod that's doing it. What happens after you "die" - does the game reload you into the Pelagius Wing or do you appear in Pelagius' mind? It sounds like someone tried to make the quest more of a "I died and went to Oblivion" type of thing but messed it up.

[mcbarker69]

Originally posted by DrNewcenstein:

Remove the mod that's doing it. What happens after you "die" - does the game reload you into the Pelagius Wing or do you appear in Pelagius' mind? It sounds like someone tried to make the quest more of a "I died and went to Oblivion" type of thing but messed it up.

Game reloads where I made my last save (in Pelagius Wing). If I use the console, and try to advance the quest, I still die as soon as I try to bypass the hallway. Same thing happens if I have the key to the wing, and I try to completely bypass the quest using the console (I'm transported back to the crossover place in the hallway, and die). If I don't have the key, and I use the console to bypass the quest, it ends, and I have the key and wabbajack in my inventory without doing the trip into Pelagius' mind. Yes, I managed to find a way around the problem, but worry about it affecting the game later.