Help! The Mind of Madness - Pelagius' Night Terrors

[snakepaws]

Possible spoilers!

I have all the DLC, so I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not. I've followed various guides making sure I'm not messing this up, and I found at least one other person that described this exact issue (with no workaround or fix mentioned).

I can beat the other tasks just fine, but when I get to Night Terrors, I use the Wabbajack on Pelagius, and a wolf appears from a red portal. Wabbajack the wolf, it turns into a goat. If I Wabbajack the goat, nothing happens. Wabbajack Pelagius again, and a red mist appears from back-left, but nothing actually spawns. Repeat. It's like an enemy is supposed to spawn that I can then Wabbajack, but nothing actually appears from the red mist portal. I also did not punch Pelagius to make him hostile.

[Grathagis]

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[Trigger]

you kill the bad one-wolf, and a gentle one will show up-goat-do not kill goat, wait for next bad one to show up

[snakepaws]

Originally posted by Grathagis:

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I've read the wikis, which is how I know it's not me.

Originally posted by Trigger:

you kill the bad one-wolf, and a gentle one will show up-goat-do not kill goat, wait for next bad one to show up

I found this post on UESP under the Night Terrors part:

After using the Wabbajack on him, the wolf spawns fine, then into a goat just fine. But when I wabbajack him again a portal appears, but nothing comes out of it and I can no longer complete the quest.
Skyrim with all DLC's — Unsigned comment by 65.130.18.200 (talk) at 13:32 on 10 August 2013

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim_talk:The_Mind_of_Madness

This is EXACTLY what my game is doing. I'm able to get as far as the goat, but when I Wabbajack Pelagius again, the red portal appears on the back-left (from where the arrow indicates), and nothing actually spawns.

[kikinoko]

I'm getting this exact same problem, and I can't find a solution either. This is not just you.

Edit: Quick question, I know you probably have moved on by now, but did you have any mods installed?

[snakepaws]

I did/do have mods, but I couldn't tell you which - if any - were affecting the mission. I remember finishing this mission, but I think I ended up using the "advance mission objective" console command to skip to the next objective. In hindsight, I probably should have tried disabling mods.

[kikinoko]

Then it was probably mods. I'm also running mods, but I didn't think to use the console. Thanks for the fix? I'm calling it a fix.

[Jools]

If your still having trouble with that mission just type this in the console
setstage DA15 190
that should send you back and complete the mission.

[Big Skump]

I had the same problem and this solved it.

Originally posted by Jools117:

If your still having trouble with that mission just type this in the console
setstage DA15 190
that should send you back and complete the mission.

Thanks Jools

[forestpas3]

I loaded and old save and did the Pelagius' Night Terrors first and the two others after and it "fixed" the bug
I'm also using mods