I bought my house, went in and found some clues, sold some skull amulet that didn't update my journal to the museum dude, (not sure if it does update it one way or another) and accused a wizard of being the serial killer. After that I payed the guy to clean up my home and bought whatever I could for it and that was that. The quest never updated for me ever again. I looked up this quest on the wiki and I guess I should have went to the graveyard before purchasing a home. I don't remember getting a quest reward from it.

Hours doesn't mean much at all if the person playing the game can't identify a fairly common quest.
My apologies if it sounds rude, but I honestly don't see the necessity of stating how much you've played the game.

I still don't understand that quest. Alright, so I snooped around someone's house and found a secret room filled with creepy. Doesn't that mean the owner of the house was the murderer? When the Jarl said "So it was the court mage, arrest him!" I thought "Woah, wait, WHAT? I didn't even know this court had a mage, why is he suddenly to blame?" I didn't even know his name when it only gave me the option to blame him. That and the Forsworn Conspiracy are two quests where I though "slow down a sec, just WTF is going on here? Why am I suddenly fighting this guy or accusing him of something as if my character understands the situation fully and is not massively confused. :facepalm: (I actually reloaded a previous save halfway through Forsworn because I was so lost and frustrated. Funny that the first quest you get in that town is the one that also drops a bounty on you so you can't go back.)

does that guy look 250+ years old?? I just recall jaufre from oblivion Too important of a character to reuse the name imo...

He probably didn't start it because it's buggy. It didn't start for me until I bought my house, but evidently there was a murder in the graveyard or something. Not in my game there's not.

Yah, it would show up in ones quest journal if it activated properly now would it not?
Please do not waste my time with pointless jibber-jabber as to the meaning of a word, or how something is inflected or insinuated.

The neccessity, in this case, obviously, is that I cannot get the quest to start, at all, during 200 hours of playtime over several different characters.
As if that was ambiguous at all.

Quest is bugged unfortunately
If you want the house type

setstage a7b33 10
completequest ms11
completequest ms11b

while selecting Jorleir from the console. Should enable the dialog options for decoration.
I think it should enable you to be a Thane too since you will own the house.

Who here is on PC, I got console commands.


This quest wouldn't even start for the RP I need it for. Went in and out dozens of times, even at night and 2:00 like a lot have suggested. I just console commanded the SOB back to Aetherius. Problem is, the cob webs and bone shards are still there if you console command it. You can however remove those with more console commands. fortunately for me, the cobwebs and bugged clutter befits this RP perfectly.

How?!

click on them, enter the id and remove them. Um, the link you actually linked me to in the PM had it where you could do it. I believe it also warned not to remove the floor or house with the console commands, apparently that's possible, lol? In the end, it looks like a damp [censored] hole, but that fits for me. Although I could see how that would screw over the other 99% that didnt use it as a Vamp lair.

Yea everything should be possible to remove.
Ah i hadn't thought of clicking them and removing them.
I hope i can get rid of that damn mist somehow (hope it has its own ID):P

I think were screwed, until we find a mist Id. Unless there already is one. Might wanna check the database.

In fact, I just got the house a few hours ago when I entered in the linked ids you gave me. I had been in and out of windhelm trying to trigger that over a hundred times. I picked the locked, talked to every person, arrived and exited at every night time, including 2:00 am. It just didnt work, so I said screw the mission. I had already finished it with my Necromancer to get the Necromancer Amulet, but didnt buy the house. So it really is hit and miss with the trigger bug.

I did the whole quest line without even picking up the amulet. I was confused as all hell when NPC's were talking about it since I over looked it. I went back and found it after the second half of the quest triggered. I was never clear on why we were accusing the court mage in the first place.

lol, that last part is classic.

Don't waste your time... now that's an ironic sentence. It depends on you whether you reply a comment or not, so don't blame me if you got so defensive about it.
Like I said, I meant no offense. I simply find it rather arrogant state how much you've played the game across different characters, that's all. Now, if I touched a soft spot and damaged your ego, my bad.

Wierd... I didnt have any trouble with it at all :confused:

Something tells me half these bugs are down to disks being rush burnt.

]removed[

I think what is happening (at least what happened to me) is (will finish this thought when I figure out the spoiler box)...

EDIT...being as I see spoilers already abound in this thread...here is what happened to me


I thought I was finished with the quest when Wolfgar got escorted to the dungeon. so I bought the house and fully outfitted it, not realizing that there was a second part to the mission. Bad coding here.... you shouldnt be allowed to buy the house until the mission is 100% complete, or fix the code that breaks the cleanup if you decorate it before the mission is fully complete.

Like others I never even found an amulet and finished the quest... very poorly scripted this mission was. Shame as it was somewhat interesting (allthough no where near as much as Bearnius Mannor in Anvil was...that mission still gives me the creeps when I run it).

Yea I had this quest bugged too. The quest would not start even after repeated visits to Windhelm. The steward would not sell me the house either.

The problem with my two second characters is that the murder scene never actually occurs. I can go away from Windhelm several times and back and the quest simply will not start. Its also important that you talk to Calixto I think, initially and take his museum tour. For both of my last two characters, when I told him I wanted to take the tour, he walked to his house and locked himself inside. If I enter by lockpicking he yells at me and tells me to leave, has no other dialogue options. The house remains locked all day.

I think Beth might have tested it, but knowing already exactly how they made it to go, they knew exactly what to do in what order. If you do everything in the "right order," there are no bugs or other problems. But I think Beth just didn't even consider the possibility that there are a million ways to get and finish this quest...

Exactly, I've found it out on 2 of my 3 characters. Big F'ing mistake on their part.

This helped me. i didnt know I was supposed to take the journals and poster because the amulet was the only thing that updated the quest. Thanks.