Conjuration visual effect bug

[Birdgri]

There is a conjuration-type visual effect on one of my companions, and it was annoying at first, but I've grown to live with it. Up until now, however, it has only affected her. Now, the effect is on *me*, and... quite frankly, I don't know if I can live with a save like that. I do have a save file from before this started happening to my character, but I get the feeling this may happen again. Maybe not to my character, but probably someone else from another mod. Or, worse, someone important from the vanilla game!

Here is a shot of both characters with the visual effect:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=245378556

I have tried stripping my character naked, manually removing all the active effects on him, and using the dispelallspells command in the console. Nothing has worked. If anyone has a fix for this... please do tell, because even after weeks of searching for a fix, I have found nothing. Not even a mention of this bug.

For the sake of myself, anyone else with this bug, and perhaps you - the reader of this post - if you ever get this bug in the future.

[Hamsterbytes , bits and nibbles]

have you noticed that it looks like it is a fish mixed in with that swirl? Facing us as we view. Not a complete fish, but half it's body,head and eyes.

[hedgie_yozh]

http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/872861-tutorial-removing-unwanted-magic-effects-from-the-player/

I am not certain which one you have. Solution 1 there works quite well for getting rid of these, though.

[★Kelvy★]

Maybe the hots for each other, a bonding spirit, fish or whatever

[hedgie_yozh]

Seems very odd it's on the other person first.

[Hamsterbytes , bits and nibbles]

Originally posted by Alkpaz:

that's a fish?! I thought it was an embryo.

Two bulgy eyes, little fishy looking nostrils, fish mouth.. Yea, still looks like a fish to me.

[Birdgri]

Thanks for the guide, hedgie, I'll try that out...

At first, I laughed because when I found this girl first, I looked at her and said aloud, "Hello, shrine maiden. This is so cool." and this effect appears on her. If you look closely, the effect seems concentrated, like a shield, and looking at it from the side makes this more apparent. I thought it was an accurate representation of the social wall pretty Asian - primarily Japanese - women tend to throw up at me when I attempt to interact with them. I mean, you'd think I'd just threatened their life with the faces they make. Her 'swirly conjuration shield' as I have come to call it does always point at me, regardless of what direction she is facing: if I move around beside or behind her, the shield is always facing me. Found it kinda funny.

However, as I said, it just recently apepared on my character... facing another of my companions. I can still see the effect firing off in first person, and the swirly conjuration shield always faces her regardless of my own facing.

At any rate... time to try out this guide for removing effects...

PS: Just a note, but killing and resurrecting her with console commands does not fix the problem. Spawning another of her simply produces a new actor with the same bug.

[hedgie_yozh]

Let us know if you figure out what the ♥♥♥♥ that is. It is messing with my MIND.

[Birdgri]

Well... seems like two other people on that guide you sent me have had the same problem as I. It appears to be the rarest of them all, and may originate from Skyrim Immersive Creatures. However, the problem is as of yet unadressed.

[hedgie_yozh]

Damn! Well, I guess if you are going to have to be plagued with a disease, at least it is an impressive one. Complete with bizarre ghostie fish.

[jeffy]

i ahve a white misty smoke constantly floowing my character, its really annyoing for sneeaking lol it lloks cool but i dont want it :(

i fought a willow of wisp mother theing now the smoke is permanent :(

[hedgie_yozh]

Dallas, check out that above link. That one I know is on there.

[Birdgri]

Man... Sucks when hardware goes bad, I feel your pain.
I've tried everything I can possibly think of without disabling the mod or going into the CK to, possibly, edit out the visual effect or replace it with an invisible effect. I'll try deactivating and reactivating the mod, then come back and tell you all what happened...

EDIT: Well, no such luck with deactivating that mod. The bug is still there even after deactivation. I've also tried using SKSE's command for removing orphan scripts, clearinvalidregistrations, and no effect. I'm going to head back to that thread and see if a response was posted...

[Birdgri]

I'm back with an update: the effect appears to be the same one from the Expert Restoration spell "Guardian Circle." Normally you only find them in scrolls, but there are tomes for them as well. This problem appeared long before I learned the Guardian Circle spell, however, and my companion doesn't even know the spell.