I have an unusual situation in my current game. I haven't been able to figure out exactly what caused it, or how to fix it.

At one point I had a mod called "Brutal Underground" installed, to try it out. It adds a Fight Club-style arena to the basemant of the Gray Mare (Chorrol). I ended up uninstalling it.

Anyway, I recently noticed that Emfrid (the Gray Mare's publican) isn't in the inn. Or anywhere, for that matter. I suspect Brutal Underground caused it but I don't know for sure. I've tried reenabling Emfrid through the console (using 23504, her RefID, and 234b7, her ObjectID)...I've tried Resurrect, Enable, PlaceAtMe, CloneForm, IsRefDeleted, GetDeleted, GetDisabled...every one of those say "This is not a recognized command" when I use either of her IDs. In other words, it doesn't recognize those IDs at all.

If it is Brutal Underground, then Emfrid must have been deleted through a script, because I "Undeleted and Disabled references".

Any idea what the heck is going on? I can't for the life of me figure out how to fix this.

You might create a temp mod with a quest and the following example script
(add all the IsThis, IsThat, GetThis, GetThat functions you may need)
Press num0 and check the console output

scn FindEmfridfloat fQuestDelayTimebegin gamemode	let fQuestDelayTime := .001	if OnKeyDown   82   ;  NUM0		print $EmfridRef.getdead		print $EmfridRef.getparentcell		print $EmfridRef.getpos x		…		…						endifend

Maybe just a "EmfridRef.MoveTo playerref" would suffice.

Thanks! With that I was able to locate her and get her going again. Looks like she had a weird travel package assigned to her by one of the mods, so she was nowhere close to The Gray Mare. Strange.

It may have been the way you entered the commands that gave you this problem. The usual method that works is to enter "PRID 234B7" to select Emfrid (wherever she may be, not necessarily in the current cell). This should result in "Emfrid" appearing at the top of the screen as if you'd clicked on her. Then you can just use "MoveTo Player" or whatever, with Emfrid already established as the one the command will work on.

Yeah, I think you're right. I wasn't using PRID because I assumed Emfrid was either in Chorrol, or the Gray Mare. Since she wasn't, my commands (23504.moveto player, etc.) weren't working. Lesson learned!