Possible Bug, stuck on final fight "Scorpion and Lion"

[Dwishy]

Hi guys.
Wondering if anyone can suggest a fix for this. I have chosen to side with Dijaam and now have to fight the two 'Petrified' mercenaries in the Theatre after the big reveal.

The problem however, is that I can not manage to kill them and trigger the fight with Mendelus.
Whenever I 'kill' the two assassins they keep getting back up, after a short animation with some sort of magical explosion/them glowing blue.

Is there something I am missing? I have even tried to kill both of them through the use of the console, but they just recover from it, almost as if they are essential NPCs.

Thanks for any input.

[Dwishy]

Possible Bug, stuck on final fight "Scorpion and Lion" (Spoilers)

Hi guys.
Wondering if anyone can suggest a fix for this. I have chosen to side with Dijaam and now have to fight the two 'Petrified' mercenaries in the Theatre after the big reveal.

The problem however, is that I can not manage to kill them and trigger the fight with Mendelus.
Whenever I 'kill' the two assassins they keep getting back up, after a short animation with some sort of magical explosion/them glowing blue.

Is there something I am missing? I have even tried to kill both of them through the use of the console, but they just recover from it, almost as if they are essential NPCs.

Thanks for any input.

[Goedeke]

You should be able to kill them. Possibly a bug. Please use spoiler tags and the right forum section please.

[Dwishy]

Spoiler? If someone clicks on the topic with this title it should be obvious that it will contain spoilers to do with this quest, or so I would think.
I am posting it here as I was not sure if there is a game mechanic or trick I am missing.
I will repost this in the support section.

Thanks for confirming that these two npcs should usually go down.

I have just added "(Spoilers)" to the title, just in case ...

[Dwishy]

I managed to work around this issue by forcing the two assassins (Alyx and Devra) to non-essential status by using the console. This allowed me to kill them as intended and finishing the quest.

For anyone else struggling with this, the commands I used:

setessential 0013fa21 0
setessential 0013fa23 0

After that you can kill them.

[Rapid]

You can only damage them while both are downed.

[Casanova]

lmao, when they go down strike them again and again. They have a psionic shield that can only be destroyed when they're in the down phase. People claiming the quest is bugged and just can't understand a mechanic ffs.

[Dwishy]

I tried that, pelted them with arrows with sneak attacks / critical hits. They must have gone down 20 times. Apparently my timing was off but I managed to kill them now without having to apply any console tricks.

Also, as you can see in my initial post I was in fact asking if I was missing a mechanic that should have been utilized. I did not assume it to be a bug straight away. I must say that I have not seen any explaination of this mechanic in game by the way. Also tried google before posting anything, and I could find no guidance there either.

[5Andysalive]

It's hardly surprising people ask this. This questline disabled basic game mechnaics all the time. npc immortal and so on.
I my case devra was down all the time but apparently not really.

[MikeBob2013]

I just kept going back and forth between the two of them (meleeing both) until neither one of them got up again. (It was a bit like a real life bar fight, actually. =p)

It took several 'rounds' to finish them both off, but it didn't really take too long.

[StarlightRac]

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