Blood on the ice

[Lurkz]

Can't seem to activate any of the clues in hjerim (windhelm house) to complete this quest, anyone else done this or had the same issue?

[Despiser]

Don’t trust that quest marker above the sarcophagus. Go talk to calixico and tova shattershield. I found this on wiki.

[Lurkz]

I've got the key and I'm in hjerim already (after talking to tova), once inside the bloody chest, flyers and wardrobe etc are all unclickable. Think this is a VR only issue as seached online and couldn't find anyone with the same problem. I'm on the latest beta too btw. Were you able to beat this quest already?

[noctemdracone velk.ca]

I completely the quest fully. I don't have the latest beta build just whatever the last live patch was. I actually believe that being unable to activate anything was a SSE bug.

EDIT: Quick question, has anyone died in Windhelm?

[Lurkz]

Originally posted by shadowdragoon66:

I completely the quest fully. I don't have the latest beta build just whatever the last live patch was. I actually believe that being unable to activate anything was a SSE bug.

EDIT: Quick question, has anyone died in Windhelm?

Yes the quest started normally, spoke to witnesses, spoke to guard, followed blood trail, spoke to jarls bff, spoke to torva, got key, entered hjerim.... and it broke. I reloaded an older save so will try this again if you managed to complete it ok.

[noctemdracone velk.ca]

How long into your playthrough was it before you did this quest? Unfortuantely there are a few essential NPCs that are not properly flagged as essential and if they die, will break the quest. Sounds to me like one of them might have died. If you still encounter the problem where nothing can be interacted with, check the crypt to see if there is a coffin for Viola.

[Despiser]

Sounds like you haven’t spoke to Calixico to advance the quest

[Lurkz]

First time in windhelm, nobody 'accidentally' killed yet. Spoke to Calixo at the site of the murder, also went to his house to take the tour as I've never done that before... maybe that's what caused it? I reloaded from a previous save and have opted out of the beta as I had a few crashes, will try again tonight!

[Despiser]

Maybe. I didn’t get the quest markers in hjerme until I took the tour. I may have spoken to the steward afterwards but it seemed to open up after that. I managed to complete it. Make sure you get the amulet from the house. You can sell it to calixico as you won’t need to produce it as evidence. Otherwise, another bug may prevent you from unloading it once the quest completes.

[noctemdracone velk.ca]

If you are going to make use of the necro amulet, you don't have to sell it to get it to change. The court mage will identify it.

There are a few different flags for it, so I am going to list a few to see if you have gotten to any of them yet. It actually can take a few visits for it to trigger. The main trigger you want to look for is to go to the graveyard around midnight. If the flag is triggered you will see a corpse surrounded by people. If they aren't there, you might be able to trigger it by talking to Viola, but she might not have the dialogue line you need if you do not have one of her fliers. You could possibly trigger the quest as well by going up to the house although it is inconsistent.

[Psycho Al]

The amulet can become the necromancers amulet if you finish a certain way.

Edit: I may be mistaken. I think I looted it at the end.

[noctemdracone velk.ca]

Whether you sell it or not, it still becomes the necromancer's amulet. If you sell the amulet to calixo, when you later kill him you loot it off of him as the necromancer's amulet. If you keep the amulet and talk to the court mage instead of implicating him as the murderer, then he will identify it as such.

[Lurkz]

Update: finally went back to windhelm, spoke to jorleif regarding key, couldn't find torva so just picked the lock instead, got the quest progression noise and new quest objectives listed, again I can't click anything to investigate nor get any action listed when I hover the quest items.

It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥ on my save, not really bothered though as playing sword and board mostly with only a bit of magic to supplement.

[noctemdracone velk.ca]

Type this in the console and Viola will come to Hjerim.

SetStage MS11 80