I follow through the super-long and excruciating character setup, setting things I will never see on my character.
I do as the guy says... Follow him to the keep. (Found out later that you have two choices there. Follow him, or the storm-cloak guy into another door. That is not as obvious as it could have been.)
Any-who... I follow the guard instead.
He cuts my hands free and tells me to look for some weapons and armor, followed by repeated dialog that drives me insane...
"Search inside one of these chests, there must be some armor here."
So I do... I searched my chest... has no armor...
But his chest has armor... and I search inside it, with my fire-spell and two swords I found hanging on the wall...
I keep trying to search inside his chest, but he won't die... He just stands back up and asks me to search again...
Now I am level 30, with 100 skill in destruction, 100 skill in sneak, and 100 skill in one-handed (Dual-wielding both now.)
He still won't let me into the game! Please, fix this bug... let his chest open, so I can search inside and get the armor he keeps telling me to get!