CONTAINMENT QUEST BUG

[Mercy - twitch.tv/DonVladdy]

Hi so when I finish the previous quest Revealing the Unseen, which is the mage college's questline, I don't receive the Containment quest. After i speak to the woman that's sitting down, she just tells me to go find the arch mage, gets up and acts like if nothing happened; ALSO no one makes a crowed around the dead body of the arch mage (as i remember during my first play through). If there are any fixes or any known quest interference or mod interference, please let me know, thank you!

[Bjorseth]

Try to fast travel to a different location and type "startquest mg05" or "setstage mg05 10" in the console. Both worked for me.

[simpsondesert]

Found this on wiki, works a charm!

This happened to me too, but I play on the PC. I found a way to get back on the quest line using the console, but I had to skip over this quest and go to the next one, even doing that. I couldn't find any way to actually play through the Containment quest, possibly because it is MG05 and Revealing the Unseen (the prerequisite) is MG06. In any case here are the console commands to use if this happens to you:

setstage MG07 0 : Start the quest after Containment (The Staff of Magnus)
player.additem 000a34f8 1 : Quest item from Containment (Torc of Labyrinthian)
player.additem 000f1b33 1 : Quest reward from Containment (Savos Aren's Amulet)

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68.32.170.29 06:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Missing containment is no bigie, it's a single battle in Winterhold really:
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Containment