Help MEEE :((

[Max]

I have a problem with a quest of the dark brotherhood..
It is the quest " recipe of disaster" ..
So there i have to kill anton virane but he won´t die...
I already questioned him and than i have to kill him, but everytime i try it he won´t die.
I tried it many times and also used "setstage db08 10" but after I killed Balagog I have to kill him again :(
Pleaaaase help me :(

[bobczes]

Load an older save and try again.

" I found that it takes some time for him to become nonessential after talking to him and it depends on the time of day the quest is done.

It works best if you tell him he will not be harmed. Get the information and leave and hang around or go do something else in the world (don't use the "wait" system) until he goes to sleep (after midnight), then sneak into the kitchen and kill him.

Trying to kill him right away doesn't seem to give him time for his script to change to nonessential and it seems like it changes after he goes to sleep at night or at least some period of time after talking to him."

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/608229-recipe-for-disaster-bug-anton-virane-will-not-die/

[Max]

jeah that was the same i read at the same forum ... :D I also tried to walk around a few days without waitting sleeping and something like that but the problem is, he doesn´t even sleep ... he don´t walks around, he just stays at front of the table in the kitchen with one women and one men on his side ... What else could i try...
I also tried others saves but they all don´t work...

[MageThis]

Have you tried resetstage DB08 10? Suggestion from the same thread.

[bobczes]

First you should try waiting in a different cell. Go to Whiterun and sleep for 10 days (240 hours) of in-game time. This is the default time period used before a dungeon or any other game location respawns.



If that doesn't work you can try this with the console.

setessential 00013387 0

It is worth noting the following warning though:
"While it is fine to change an NPC to essential yourself and then decide later to make them mortal again, you should never set an NPC that is essential (immortal) in the vanilla game (i.e., before modifications) as mortal. If they're already essential, don't change them. Certainly do not save the game if you do. If an originally essential NPC dies it will undoubtedly break whole quests, entire questlines, or perhaps even the entire story, and you'll be forced to reload a previous save."

[Max]

So I hope I understood everything right (I´m Geman). At first -MageThis- I also tried this but it doesn´t work (ok it worked a bit, I could continue the story but at the end of the quest i still had to kill him) -bobczes- Ok I will trie to sleep 10 days or the setessential ... ( This will change the mood of Anton so that I´m able to kill him, right ?) The rest you wrot was that I shouldn´t make the same with the setessential with other cacrakters, right ?

Thank you both much for helping me :)

[bobczes]

If you change the essential status of Anton Virane with this console command there is a strong possibility you will break the quest completely.

[Max]

oh ok i´m just try it so sleeping didn´t work I`ll now try the command

[Max]

OK so the command didn´t worked :( what can i do... so the command work but i couldn´t kill him (so there was no error)

[Max]

I also ried the command "kill" but nothing happend. Then i tried "kill all " but he just "kneeled " at the floor and wasn´t really dead :/

[Younecorn]

I figured out how to fix this issue! First, enter setstage db08 10. This should add the new ability to go and kill the Gourmet. Kill the Gourmet, return to Festus. He will say that Antone Virane is still alive. Go back to the Keep, enter setessential 00013387 0, then kill Virane! Return to Festus and he will say you've completed the contract! (NOTE: This is just the order I did it. I guess you can do the setessential command, kill Virane and then return to Festus, but I'm not sure if that will work.) Hope this helps !

[Sir Gamealot]

I have very different problem with the quest Recipe for Disaster, for me when going down into the Nightgate Inn's cellar, Balagog is already dead and lying flat on his back by his bed, I can also loot him and the quest list already says that killed him. Also the Writ of Passage is not on his person. I have tried spawning the Writ of Passage into his inventory but nothing happens, if I spawn the Writ of Passage into my inventory the quest does not detect that I have received it.

[Wolfgang]

Originally posted by Younecorn:

I figured out how to fix this issue! First, enter setstage db08 10. This should add the new ability to go and kill the Gourmet. Kill the Gourmet, return to Festus. He will say that Antone Virane is still alive. Go back to the Keep, enter setessential 00013387 0, then kill Virane! Return to Festus and he will say you've completed the contract! (NOTE: This is just the order I did it. I guess you can do the setessential command, kill Virane and then return to Festus, but I'm not sure if that will work.) Hope this helps !

thx for help me!!