Okay first a little background.

I’m creating an Adventurer Guild mod. The guild has rank advancements like the old style Oblivion/Morrowind guilds.

A single ‘parent’ main quest called AGAdvancementMaster Quest controls the advancement through a script and then via dialogue within this quest launches the various Guild Quests which lead to progression. I’ve created the ‘child’ quests in advance as a skeleton structure.

This means I need to start one quest from inside another.

This is should be a pretty straight forward process. Right.

So I have a bunch of brief info in the Adventures topic of the AGAdvancementMaster Quest like

A local farmer has problems with rustlers. And you're going to solve those problems for him.

And then the topic info fragment TIF script is used to launch the relevant quest
I have used this same generic script to do this for all the child quests so far.

ThisQuest.SetStage(1)NewTopic1.Add()

I then assign the quest I want to launch in properties and likewise the topic I want to add.

This topic is then used to kick off for the quest proper in the relevant 'child' quest by advancing it beyond stage 1.

So I add 2 properties to the TIF

ThisQuest Property Quest AutoNewTopic1 Property  Topic Auto

Finally, I use the values to set the property value to 1Rustlers (The quest) and 1RustlerTopic (The Topic) for the first quest

This worked fine.

I use the exact same method to launch the first 5 quests in the series.

Every thing works as expected. The relevant quest starts and the necessary topic is added to the quest givers topic list in game.
From their the quest advanced as expected and I was feeling pretty good about things.

Then when I tried to launch the sixth quest called 1Bounty, it didn’t work.
No Quest start, no topic add.

I tried to change the name of the script variable/property

ie

AnotherQuest.SetStage(1)

but it doesn't work.

It compiles fine.

I get to add properties using the value assignment but it has no effect in game at all.

If I use a debug.messagebox, then the message appears.

The script is running but it does not seem to recognise the property value I assigned.

So I tried using a function.

LaunchMyQuestPlease  Property Quest Auto;(Set this to 1Bounty using value assignment in properties)Function LaunchMyQuest()			  LaunchMyQuestPlease.SetStage (1)			  Debug.Messagebox(“the function was called”)EndFunction

No joy. The function runs (debug messages appear, but the property value is not being detected)

However, If I create a new quest. Eg TestQuest

Then use

ThisQuest.SetStage(1)[NewTopic1.Add()

and set the value to TestQuest
It runs fine.

It appeared it was an issue with the 1Bounty quest. So I created a duplicate version, 1BountyNew and the quest started and operated fine using the

ThisQuest.SetStage(1)[NewTopic1.Add

Method.

Happy days.

Now I've hit the same issues with the next quest 1Battle

Again I used

[size=4][b]ThisQuest.SetStage(1)[/b][b]NewTopic.Add([/b])[/size]

Set the properties. Run it. Nothing. Test using debug. The fragements run but the property is being rejected.

So I figure this must be a savegame issue. Some legacy item is creating an issue. No idea what but...

I try ‘clean’ saves. No joy. The first five work, the new 6 works, but the 7^th quest just will not start.

I get drastic. I remove Skyrim. I delete the Skyrim folder and reload Skyrim via steam.

I Start a new game. No Mods. No DLCs. Just Skyrim and Update.

I create a Save just outside Helgen. You couldn't get any cleaner.

Then I Load my plugin and test and still no luck. 1-5 runs fine. New 6 ok. But 7 is still a blank.
No Joy.
Script still will not register 1Battle as the property of any Quest property I create.

Quest Property AnyNameYouLike Auto

I'm at a loss. It will work for newly added objects but not for the skeleton quests which contain all the dialogue and lip synch files etc.
I have nearly 20 others mapped out, and duplicating is a huge effort. I don't know what the issue is.
Very Very frustrating weekend. I've worked for 28 hours and achieved nothing.
I don't want to restart the build until I can figure out why

ThisQuest.SetStage(1)NewTopic1.Add()Quest Property ThisQuest  Auto  Topic Property NewTopic1  Auto

Works for the first 5 quests but not for the latest 2
Any pearls of wisdom?