I'm stuck on the Vivec Informants quest. When I go back to Caius in Balmora he just tells me to read the mission notes. I've spoken with all three informants - Addhiranirr, Huleeya and Meha Milo. I've got the information from each and obtained the book. I'm told that typing Jounal "A1_V_VivecInformants", 50 A1_V_VivecInformants (and PCRaiserank "blades" into the consul should fix this. It doesn't. I just get an error message! If I can't figure this out I'm going to give up. I've been playing this game for ever. I don't want to start again!

You sure you've carefully gone through http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Vivec_Informants and have everything done correctly? And if there are problems, check you have typed the needed console commands correctly. If there are still problems, I can't help. Of course you have written the commands to different lines, right? That is,

open the console. Type:

Journal "A1_V_VivecInformants", 50

and press enter. The text should turn blue, meaning the game has registered this command. Then type:

PCRaiseRank "blades"

and again press enter. Again the text should turn blue. Close the console.

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Yes. Have done exactly as you say. Typing the jounal enty simply returns an error. However, when typing the RaiseRank entry only it does turn blue.

It's possible you already are at quest stage 50. 55 is also an option that ends the quest, so try it instead of 50.

Also, click through Caius' quest-related dialogue (or all dialogue for that matter) to confirm you haven't missed anything important. Also, you should of course have all the texts you've gathered in your inventory. You haven't accidentally sold Progress of Truth or anything?

Thanks for the reply. Substituting 55 for 50 in the line: Jounal "A1_V_Vivecinformants", 50 simply returns that it is not found on line one - or something like that. I've not accidently sold "Progress of Truth", I still have it. I have notes from Huleeya in my inventory + the book. Addhiranirr's entry only appears in the jounal; he has given me no notes, nor will he! Perhaps this is the problem? However, no matter how many conversations I have with him he won't give me any notes!

Wtf... could it be this simple? You say the A1_V_VivecInformants line isn't working? Could this be because it might be missing a comma? I just noticed this. Most journal commands at least are in the form Journal, "Quest ID", value. So try once more writing:

Journal, "A1_V_VivecInformants", 50

.

If this works, we should edit the UESPWiki since clearly there would be a typo.

I see another problem possibly yet coming if you have saved the game after the erronious console commands. Since the PCRaiseRank command has always worked, you might have raised your Blades rank many times trying to make this quest work. Right mouse click to open your inventory and other menus and see from the bottom of the upper left-hand-side menu (default) if you still are an Apprentice with the Blades as you should be at this stage. If you are higher, put in the command

PCLowerRank "blades"

as many times as you have to. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Blades#Blades_Ranks are the possible ranks. So if you've become e.g. an Agent, activate the PCLowerRank five times before talking to Caius and finally moving on from this surely irritating problem.

Thanks for the tip. You were right about the blades rank it was raised. Does this actually matter? As for the problem of getting Caius to recognise that I had completed the mission and give me new orders - how could I have been so stupid! I typed that line over and over, tried all different ways to no avail. Comma? No! What I didn't see was that each time I typed it I was missing the "R" out of "Journal"! So I now have my Journal updated and Caius has given me new orders to go to Ald'ruhn to see Hassour Zainsubani. This is the next part of the quest, I guess? The journal does say that Caius has taken "Progress of Truth and Huleeya's notes, yet I still have them in my inventory! Does this matter? Should I just dump or sell them?

It's all the same whether they're now in your inventory or with Caius; perhaps he just checked them and gave them right back. Yeah, you're free to dump/sell them.

And yup, Zainsubani Informant is the next quest. Did you lower your rank or does it still work as normal? It's all the same if it works anyway, although you SHOULD be just Journeyman now.

Glad you found your way out!