Live another life broken?

[NebbyOtt]

I started a new playthrough arriving from a ship in Solitude. diddled around skyrim for a while, then eventually went and got the journal from the burnt corpse in Helgen (DID see the dragon fly away, but the burnt corpse was in a new position, and there were thugs all around helgen, which was new but i assume that was an update to the mod and not anything breaking) I read the journal and got the quest to "Investigate the cave mentioned in the journal or warn Riverwood about the dragon". Now, i got around to doing this later as I went to helgen for a different reason. The first time I passed through riverwood the woman WAS talking about the dragon she saw, but now, I go to the cave, and both boys are laying there after I killed the bear that was attacking one of them, and I only have ONE dialogue option with each of them, asking about the dragon, no stuff about healing them, nothing to do in that cave but ask them the same two questions about the dragon. So I go to riverwood, talk to Alvor, NO dialogue about dragons. can not continue the MSQ. Wondering what i should do, is this a common problem and google was just being unhelpful or what?

[Ihateeverybody]

This is just conjecture, but the way quests run is in stages. When you arrived in Riverwood and triggered old lady speech you advanced to a new stage.

I THINK if you talk to Sven he will direct you to the Jarl. You can also go to whiterun and see the Jarl Directly. Whiterun should be closed up at this point.

[NebbyOtt]

Originally posted by Ihateeverybody:

This is just conjecture, but the way quests run is in stages. When you arrived in Riverwood and triggered old lady speech you advanced to a new stage.

I THINK if you talk to Sven he will direct you to the Jarl. You can also go to whiterun and see the Jarl Directly. Whiterun should be closed up at this point.

Whiterun WAS closed the next time I went there, but I don't get approached in Dragonsreach, and the MSQ isn't active, but I can try talking to npcs there and see what happens

[NebbyOtt]

Goddangit, that was it, as soon as I approched the Jarl Irileth approched me. Sorry about the false alarm but in my defense the active mission was extremely misleading ^^;

[Riverdusk]

I've gone in through the back cave way many times and I've never seen an active bear down there. That only happens during a vanilla start. Sounds like something broke to me.

You could try starting again and this time choose "camping in the woods" option to start. It puts you right near that cave entrance. Would be able to test if it is working very quickly that way or if maybe you have a conflict that is messing it up.

Edit: Well, never mind then. Glad it worked out.

[Vlad 254]

Originally posted by Riverdusk:

I've gone in through the back cave way many times and I've never seen an active bear down there. That only happens during a vanilla start. Sounds like something broke to me.

This^

Glad you were able to proceed NebbyOtt

[Ilja]

Sounds a lot like a load order issue, where ASLAL is not winning conflicts.

With correct load order, bandits only appear sometime after the quest has been finished - never before. There is no cave bear. Boys are hurt and cave is collapsing.

It is good that quest moves forward, but if ASLAL is busted, then you might have some other issues with load order as well. Did you sort plugins before running the game?

[Know Won]

Helgen reborn?