[MERGED] Merchants Broken, Mages Guild: Escort Itermerel

Thank you! I will let you know.

[Edit:] Unfortunately it didn't work. It successfully braught up the message that the mission was completed but did nothing to help the merchants begin selling, they continue to say "so you got the notes? bring them to me". I have yet to find the two npc's that you mentioned that you said could buy and sell things. I'll look for them

I found RaVirr and Arielle. They do the same thing, whenever I click on the button to trade or get training they only respond with "so you have the notes? Bring them to me" from the mages guild quest. They all started saying it when i began that quest "Escorting Itermerel". It doesn't sound like the issue being described in the forum thread you linked me to because he just states he "can't trade" and the option to do so "doesn't come up", where I get the classic buttons at the bottom of the dialogue screen but clicking them just says "so you have the notes? bring them to me". I also successfully attempted to summon (via oblivion mod) a merchant from Cyrodiil , however when attempting to trade with this merchant they also say the same thing. Every npc who has the option to trade or train says this.

I have tried troubleshooting by deactivating all but the morroblivion essential mods and trying again to see if any of my other mods are conflicting and causing this error but it didn't help. I have long since completed the Itermerel quest.

I am using version 21 and the issue only began after I switched, however switching back to V20 didn't fix it so i'm not certain it's specific to 21. I typed in SetStage MG_EscortScholar2 100 and it said it was not found for paremeter quest. Could this be because I already completed the quest, or is it missing and maybe what is causing the problem?

Thank you for taking the time to put attention to it. I hope it can be fixed.

Tried, typed it into the console and hit enter. Nothing happened, I got no popup screens or anything so I excited the cheat console and tried to buy something with no result. It continues to ask about and for the notes.

The fact that I already finished the quest wouldn't affect it? It would do it again?

Ok. Just for noveltys sake I typed in the startquest fbmwmgescortscholar2 2 and it did nothing, same again with setstage fbmwmgescortscholar2 100. Yes I finished the quest and my journal says that. If worse comes to worse I can revert back to a very very early save game when I just joined the mages guild. I really would prefer not to have to do that though, as I'll lose a couple of levels and a lot of stats. Theres no telling if I revert back to that save if I will be able to complete the itemerels notes quest without the same problem happening.

No affect.

Reverting back to a previous save before I started the quest fixes the ability to trade with merchants and get trained. I'll have to play again from this point. I'll use startquest and setstage to do Itemerels notes quest and see if it happens again. If it doesn't that may mean that Orator's fix may fix it but be unable to fix my already saved game which in that case may be scrapped.

[Edit:] Tried setstage to complete Itemerels notes quest and completed the quest this way. The same problem cropped up so this problem is triggered by the quest. I'm sorry Orator but I don't think your fix worked...

On another note, is there a chance anywhere I can get a list of the setstages for the mages guild quests so that I can type them into the console and skip ahead to where I was instead of having to do them all over again?

Thank you. Yeah I learned that I can't do that quest if I want to continue to be able to trade and train in my game. If the next release of V22 comes out Sunday and fixes it then I'll go back to playing my current saved games. If it doesn't fix it or doesn't come out Sunday then i'll just revert back to the earlier saves and avoid the mages guild until they do get fixed. The mages guild of Morrowind itself isn't such a loss to me because I am already the head of the Cyrodiil mages guild.

Whomevever wants to work on this also might want to check the kahjiit in the transporter room of Balmora's mages guild too. The one who gives you your very first mages guild quests. I finshed all of her's and now whenever I try to trade or train from her she just thanks me for the items I braught her. It only happens with her though, the dialogue isn't widespread through the Morrowind npc's like Itemerels is, so I considered it more minor. But it makes me wonder whom else is affected or if the problem is bigger than a single quest or npc or something.

I see the esm has been updated to version 22! I tested to see if it fixed this quest buggy and it doesn't. Am I the only one having troubles with it? I don't see anybody else complaining about not being able to do the mages guild quests...

Thank you Orator. I will try this in a couple of hours when I have the time and let you know how it goes. I'll update this post with an edit. Stay tuned.

[Edit] Great news it worked! I loaded the saved game with itimerels quest already finished and I am able to open and use the trade and train menus! Great work!

Alright. I'll do other stuff in the mean time. Thanks so much for working on this!

This not being able to sell and buy items from merchants is driving me nuts. I tend to collect a ton of items from looting and it's beginning to weigh me down and I have no idea where I might find a safe place to stash it where the game won't reset and make it disappear. Is there a way I could force the merchant menus open? Any codes or anything I can type into the cheat menu to bring me to the screen? They all just ask for the notes from the guild mages quest and won't bring the screen up.