spoiler...broken quest--Diplomatic Immunity

[MacSuibhne]

Hoping someone can help me with a problem.

I went to see Malborn in Solitude. He asked me to give him my gear that needed to be smuggled into the Embassy. I agreed, but there were no options to choose which gear nor any warning that none was chosen when he said "great" and headed back to the Embassy.

So now I'm in the 'larder' and the chest is empty and he won't leave the larder until I pick up my gear. And he's getting real nervous.

I could go back to before I met him in Solitude but in between I investigated the Gaulder amulet which was nearby. I was hard pressed during that quest and would prefer not to go back and fight it again.

Is there any thing I can do or any way--a console command, perhaps, that will allow me to move this quest forward? I have no armour and no weapons Delpjine has it all and I didn't get any choice about that either.

[alexander_dougherty]

You don't want to try to skip it.
You could use player.additem to give yourself some armour, weapons and lockpicks.

[Nabinkemper]

Based on the bug section of the following page, you may need to reload a previous save when the character was still in Solitude. There doesn't appear to be a fix for this.

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