Hey folks, hope you're all having a great day!... Because I sincerely hope someone is! I'm having a lousy day, and my trusty TES3 escape from it all is, well, letting me down at the moment. Once again, I swear I have searched for something on this, but (once again) I fear my search skills have fallen short. Let me describe what's going on (concisely, I hope)...

I've been playing for a short while with a relatively new character. Things have seemed fine so far, but there's still a lot he hasn't done and, more specifically, there are still many merchants he has yet to interact with. I loaded my last save, which was inside Skar in Ald'ruhn, and then proceeded out the door to visit the merchant http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Dandera_Selaro... and there's a big problem. For sale she only has a very small variety of iron, steel, and silver weapons, and a pair of Netch leather gauntlets. I can see the Adamantium and Bonemold behind her, but it's not for sale. Talking/persuasion has no effect. Waiting has no effect.

So, being a Mash user, I went back and re-examined my load order and the related installers. It all looks right. I updated my "Mashed Lists.esp" and updated the Masters. I loaded the game back up, waited for about a week, and then went out to talk to her again. Still, her items for sale were as above... no armor to speak of at all (besides the same Netch leather gauntlets). But this time, after talking to her (every single dialog option, no persuasion), her inventory filled up as I expected! Yay! Fixed! So I immediately saved at that point thinking, "OK, this is a good point to work from".

But, it wasn't. As soon as I saved, and without doing anything else (ie: I didn't reload, I didn't talk to her, or anyone else, I didn't leave/re-enter cells), I went into the barter screen with her again... and no armor.

OK, so I didn't figure this would work, but I reloaded the save I had just made and tried again. No armor. So, I went back to the previous save and repeated the process of waiting/dialog/barter.... and there it was!

And then, it was gone again, and in the same conversation with her!

It's very strange, but I can only get her to show me the full compliment of available armor once, and that's only after going through the wait/talk/barter process. I've looked and looked, and I can't find anything like this out there in the interwebs. According to Wrye Mash and Mlox, everything is fine with the installers, the load order, and the save(s). It makes me wonder how many other vendor lists are going to be hosed, and if this is a sign of some deeper problem with further-reaching implications. This save is only at level 12 now... it would be a real bummer to get much further only to find that irrevocable damage had been done sometime in the past.

OK, I wasn't as concise as I intended; my apologies. I kind of found it to be a difficult issue to describe, for what that's worth! I'll put the load order below, and I can provide any additional info needed upon request.

Thanks, and I do hope you are all having a great day!

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I'd give it a try without the merged lists to see what happens. The Morrowind patch as well might be worth trying with and without.

I don't use mashed installers so this is guess work for me.