King Olaf festival not ending

[Akas]

I have ran into a bug that after finishing the quest Tending the Flames the NPC don't treat it as it ended and just stand there having their festival dialogue

There is a similar bug where viarmo perpetualy lights the effigy but that is NOT the case. The quest is finished, Viarmo returned to his standard routine but all the others including pantea and the children still stand there as if the festival didn't end

I have the latest version and legendary edition unnoficial patch. I don't have any mods altering NPC behaviour except holidays that does it only during holidays. I don't have any mod altering solitude and other cities.

Disabling and enabling doesn't work
Killing and ressurecting doesn't work
There is no way of loading save before that point. Don't ask
Offering Nazeem to the daedric lords doesn't work either

Does anyone have a similar problem and most importantly a solotion? It really desolates this city...

[Kaiser]

Okay so you don't have any saves at all before that point? Or it's just a few hours back?

[Akas]

It is so far back that I'd rather just leave it as it is. I'm looking for a solution without reloading to that moment if it exists of course

[jancawa55]

The festival is always going when I leave for another mission. Go somewhere else and then come back if you want to. Go for Panteas flute, when you come back the party will be over.

[cfs111]

Try this
Open the console and;
coc quasmoke

once you load up do these (note on this area, some of the chests have a lot of stuff ain them and lock up weaker computers)

set timescale to 9000

exit the console, wait for 5 minutes. Best to just walk away from the computer.

After 5 minutes 30 in game days will have passed. Now do this

set timescale to 20
coc whiterun

Once you load up fast travel to Solitude and see if the festival is over.

[Akas]

Response to Jancawa55:
The problem is I cannot take the quest because Pantea is stuck in her festival dialogue and other quests including rjorns drum and the lute don't affect anything

Response to cfs111:
I will try that and see if it works however I'm sure that more than 30 days passed since I finished this quest. We'll see

[cfs111]

The trick is to not visit the area during that time. Going to an area will reset the respawn timer. Putting you in quasmoke will allow all of skyrim to reset. Especially as quasmoke is not even connected to any other worldspace.

[Kaiser]

It's qasmoke.

[cfs111]

Your right, sorry! Long day tracking down an electrical grimlen. Never did find it, I will have to call automotive tech support monday.

[Akas]

Thank you all for the help, when I get my hands on Skyrim again I will try it out and see if it works :).

[Akas]

It didn't work...
I did as you said and when I returned to solitude the NPCs were still "celebrating". Do you have any other ideas?

[cfs111]

Try
setstage MS05 300

[Akas]

Doesn't work either, the quest is already finished. I am now trying the resetquest command and then setstage ms05 300

[Akas]

I. Give. Up. I have tried everythink I could think of and these people are still standing there as if they are waiting for half life 3 to come out of the burnt effigy. I sincerely have enough and I think I will stop trying before the remains of my sanity hang themselves. Nonetheless, thanks for trying to help me, I appreciate it :).

[Akas]

Well, ok, one last try, I will spawn copie of all the people there and disable the originals, we will see how it goes

[Akas]

It works! It leaves some bugs but it works!!! The NPC are in their normal routines now
Some of the bugs are:
The quest markers are misplaced pointing to where the NPC was in the festival, it isn't a big problem as they always are in solitude
Pantea doesn't want to give me the quest for the flute, are some conditions needed or I won't be able to get it at all?
These are the only ones I recorded for now, I will update the list if more come