Mourning Never Comes Not Starting?

[Umbra]

So I began the Dark Brotherhood questline, and have completed the first set of contracts Nazir gives you. I return to the sanctuary and Astrid doesn't come up to me with the quest 'Mourning Never Comes'. Nazir has given me the awards for his contracts, but Astrid still is saying that she doesn't have a contract for me and that I should 'introduce myself to my new family', which I have. Help?

[Docsprock]

Just go do something else for a couple days, then come back and check.

Do you have the Unofficial Patch?

[tulle040657]

Do you have the The Brotherhood of Old mod installed?

[Pyrimidal]

Originally posted by 𝔘𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞:

So I began the Dark Brotherhood questline, and have completed the first set of contracts Nazir gives you. I return to the sanctuary and Astrid doesn't come up to me with the quest 'Mourning Never Comes'. Nazir has given me the awards for his contracts, but Astrid still is saying that she doesn't have a contract for me and that I should 'introduce myself to my new family', which I have. Help?

If you have mods installed, try to figure out which one is tampering with your game. If not, reset the quest via console commands and redo it, then see if the problem persists. If it does, then try to keep resetting the previous quest until you meet Astrid. If it still exists, then it could be a problem with your save. Tbh you should get the Unoffical Patch if you don't yet have it; Skyrim has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of bugs that Bethesda never patched, and a lot of those bugs can wind up breaking the game.

[Umbra]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Do you have the The Brotherhood of Old mod installed?

I do, I'll try disabling that.

[Umbra]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Just go do something else for a couple days, then come back and check.

Do you have the Unofficial Patch?

Yes, and I've tried that.

[tulle040657]

Originally posted by 𝔘𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞:

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Do you have the The Brotherhood of Old mod installed?

I do, I'll try disabling that.

if your save was made with The Brotherhood of Old mod installed before you started Mourning Never Comes, you have script probems which cannot be fixed by disabling the mod

the only why I know to get around it is this
save your game in case you mess up

in game stand outside the entance to the sancutary

open the console and enter the following commands

prid 0001E64A

enable

prid 0001E648

enable

prid 0001BDE8

moveto 0001E64C

prid 0001E64A

moveto 0001E64B

prid 0001BDE7

moveto 0002EE3D

prid 0001D4BB

moveto 0002EE3E

prid 0001C3AE

moveto 0008D294

prid 0001BDEB

moveto 0001D23E

prid 0001D4BC

moveto 0008D295

prid 00015CF4

enable

setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroArrive_var 1

close the console and enter the sancutary and see if things work

[Jouchebag]

That is a horrifying list of teleports... I would just restart the game without that mod.

[tulle040657]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

That is a horrifying list of teleports... I would just restart the game without that mod.

It just does what the borken script does in the base game,

restarting would be best but if you put a lot of hours in already...

when I had the issue it worked for me

[bleemanguy]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

That is a horrifying list of teleports... I would just restart the game without that mod.

It just does what the borken script does in the base game,

restarting would be best but if you put a lot of hours in already...

when I had the issue it worked for me

I want you to know that 3 whole years later, your huge mess of teleports fixed my game. You are a hero, and you've made my whole week.

[iAmLoki]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

That is a horrifying list of teleports... I would just restart the game without that mod.

It just does what the borken script does in the base game,

restarting would be best but if you put a lot of hours in already...

when I had the issue it worked for me

My guy. Here I was stumped out of my mind. A level 56 wizard trying to max everything out and complete all the big storylines, thinking I was gonna have to restart because this quest never started. You have saved me countless hours of grinding. What a saint

[丂ㄒㄖ尺爪丨]

Thank you tulle for saving my playtrough. This gave me headaches. No its working as intended.

[dementedhobbit]

Also here to reaffirm that the above list of console commands works to restore the game. Fantastic.

[DeadpoolIsOurSavior]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Originally posted by 𝔘𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞:

I do, I'll try disabling that.

if your save was made with The Brotherhood of Old mod installed before you started Mourning Never Comes, you have script probems which cannot be fixed by disabling the mod

the only why I know to get around it is this
save your game in case you mess up

in game stand outside the entance to the sancutary

open the console and enter the following commands

prid 0001E64A

enable

prid 0001E648

enable

prid 0001BDE8

moveto 0001E64C

prid 0001E64A

moveto 0001E64B

prid 0001BDE7

moveto 0002EE3D

prid 0001D4BB

moveto 0002EE3E

prid 0001C3AE

moveto 0008D294

prid 0001BDEB

moveto 0001D23E

prid 0001D4BC

moveto 0008D295

prid 00015CF4

enable

setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroArrive_var 1

close the console and enter the sancutary and see if things work

BRO THANK YOU, this saved my ass!!! And for anyone else that's kinda lazy, you can open notepad, copy and paste all of the lines in there, then save it as something like (include the quotes) "cicero.bat", save it to your game directory, then type "bat cicero" into console

[tulle040657]

Happy this is still helping people after all these years

[PigeonBurd]

Originally posted by tulle040657:

Originally posted by 𝔘𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞:

I do, I'll try disabling that.

if your save was made with The Brotherhood of Old mod installed before you started Mourning Never Comes, you have script probems which cannot be fixed by disabling the mod

the only why I know to get around it is this
save your game in case you mess up

in game stand outside the entance to the sancutary

open the console and enter the following commands

prid 0001E64A

enable

prid 0001E648

enable

prid 0001BDE8

moveto 0001E64C

prid 0001E64A

moveto 0001E64B

prid 0001BDE7

moveto 0002EE3D

prid 0001D4BB

moveto 0002EE3E

prid 0001C3AE

moveto 0008D294

prid 0001BDEB

moveto 0001D23E

prid 0001D4BC

moveto 0008D295

prid 00015CF4

enable

setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroArrive_var 1

close the console and enter the sancutary and see if things work

Sorry for the necro, but this as of november 18th 2022 is a working fix (for me at least)