Fixing a glitch in Dark brotherhood questline where Cisero never shows.

This is a quick fix I found to start 'Morning Never Comes'


http://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/829460-the-dark-brotherhood-quest-mourning-never-comes-wont-begin/page-2

Thanks To: sciron524

The dark brotherhood quest "Mourning Never Comes" won't begin.

I had the same glitch with one of my characters. After digging around in the Creation Kit for a few hours, I found some console commands which allowed me to finish the Dark Brotherhood questline. Before attempting any of these commands, save your game just in case they make things worse.

If the courier never shows up with the Dark Brotherhood note and you don't get kidnapped while sleeping after completing "Innocence Lost", open the console and type:

setstage DBEntranceQuest 20

The courier should now show up and you should now be kidnapped while sleeping.
If, after completing the first 3 contracts for Nazir, Cicero never shows up and Astrid does not give you the quest "Mourning Never Comes", first, exit the sanctuary, then open the console and type in the following commands. I had to enter them one at a time; running them in a batchfile would not work for me.

prid 0001E64A
enable
prid 0001E648
enable
prid 0001BDE8
moveto 0001E64C
prid 0001E64A
moveto 0001E64B
prid 0001BDE7
moveto 0002EE3D
prid 0001D4BB
moveto 0002EE3E
prid 0001C3AE
moveto 0008D294
prid 0001BDEB
moveto 0001D23E
prid 0001D4BC
moveto 0008D295
prid 00015CF4
enable
setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroArrive_var 1

Then, enter the sanctuary and the Cicero arrival scene should play out and Astrid should give you the quest "Mourning Never Comes".
Before talking to Astrid after completing "Mourning Never Comes", open the console and type:

setpqv DarkBrotherhood CiceroTalk1_var 2

This should make the scene where you spy on Cicero play correctly.

After the scene where you spy on Cicero, I didn't need to use the console again to finish the Dark Brotherhood questline. The only other anomaly I noticed is that volumes 1-4 of Cicero's journal didn't show up in the sanctuary. They are not critical to the main Dark Brotherhood quest, but if you really want to read them, you can add them to your inventory using the following console commands:

player.additem 0009DABE 1
player.additem 0009DAC1 1
player.additem 0009DAC4 1
player.additem 0009DAC5 1

Good luck!

[Lion El'Jonson]

Saved my life in 2024! Thank you!

[Scatman]

11 years later and this post is still relevant, thanks for the fix sir.

[Charles]

Em 2020 venho para dizer que funcionou, muito obrigado!

[𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐰𝐚𝐲 ྾]

Man you're f*cking life saver also 2 times. I meet this bug second time in the game and i seek your topic everyhere and i'm glad to found again.

[CatgirlV3]

This didn't really work. The scene played out and all, Cicero showed up ect, but Astrid does her normal dialog.

[Rainy Devil ★ Oddity Hunter]

WORKED THANKS

[Jeff]

what about a glitch where gianna doesnt finish talking so im locked in the castle

[Aprils Flower]

@ Draco Lol thanks. But sciron524 built the fix, I just copied it from the internet.

[PCserverdude]

You're a god.

[SirKiller]

thanks !!!!