how to get viola giordano out of her house

[shiraz]

I'm doing the blood on the ice quest in Windhelm, and I'm at the part where you have to talk to Viola Giordano, and she won't come out of her house. I broke in and tried to talk to her, but she only says the default "trespassing" line. I have already investigated Hjerm and gotten both of the butcher's journals, and I have the "beware the butcher" notes.

[Bullets]

You must not have the un-official patches for the game. I have no problems with the quest, nor have I in ages. Might want to give that a check.

[shiraz]

I used to have the unnoficial patches, but I found they were causing problems with absorbing dragon souls.

[Bullets]

Make sure you grab all the patches for each DLC. In the beginning the dragon soul bug was a problem but they fixed it with the first DB patch. Unless you have some sort of mod that has some script files preventing the souls from being absorbed. Have a look at the Nexus site it explains in the description what mods will do that. The patches will make the game waaay more stable than with out.

[shiraz]

thanks, I will try that.

[shiraz]

are the patches on the workshop, or only on the nexus?

[Bullets]

I think they used to be here but are now only on Nexus site.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Well I kind of had the same problem, but then after breaking in found out she wasn't in there. I had to look all over town for her, but she was just walking around.

She does have a weird schedule sometimes where she leaves the house and roams around early in the morning and at odd times.

I do use all the unofficial patches though.

A couple of times I just used console to make her come out of her house.

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[Ilja]

The problem with dragon souls was not introduced by Unofficial Patches. They came with the official Dragonborn DLC. Patches fixed this problem, but it remaind for those who did not sort their load order as instructed.

Here is a link to Unofficial Skyrim Patch. Page has links to other patches.

Unofficial Skyrim Patch by Unofficial Patch Project Team
http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/19/?

Run LOOT after installing these patches to sort your load order and always after installing or updating mods.

LOOT
https://loot.github.io/

[Ilja]

About the problem with Viola Giordano, this is a common AI bug in Skyrim and not directly fixed with unofficial patches. It has been met with several NPCs staying indoors and there is no scripted fix for it.

Sometimes leaving the city fixes this bug, but it often require leaving the whole hold entirely. Fast travel to other hold, or use a cart if you wish to keep your immersion. Do something there and come back. Viola's AI should reset and quest will proceed normally.

[shiraz]

i'm already getting the unofficial patches, I will see if the patches fix it, if not, I will return here.

[Uncle64]

Go back later, that is what you should do. To breakin is not one good idea.
Stay away for atleast 3 days.
And install the patches.
Loot to.

[shiraz]

good news, all. I figured out how to bring Ms. Giordano out of her house. I initiated the "trespass" dialogue and then ran outside. She followed and I was able to continue the quest. Thanks for your help everyone!

[Raziel Lewach]

Binkiedontaskwhy thaaaanks! It worked! That creative solution