How do get rid of unwanted quest? : V

» Mon May 27, 2013 3:11 am

So I'm trying to clear my quest backlog but I ran into a problem. It seems I've unintentionally started the whole freaking Thieves Guild quest-line and can't back out.

I've completed “A Chance Arrangement” at some point, who knows when...I think it was about 437,584 quests ago...Which seems to force me to do Taking Care of Business, which forces me to do... you get the idea.

There was no indication that doing A Chance Arrangement would force me to join the thieves guild. I thought it was just another of the bazillion pointless side-quest that was cluttering my quest log and needed to be completed to make it go away.

Why can't I just tel Brynjolf – “Sorry, I'm not interested any more”? Why are some seemingly innocent quests actually crap-bombs that [censored] all over your quest log? Are there any console commands I can use to clean up this mess? Did it ever occur to Bethesda that maybe, just maybe people don't want to do every single quest and join every guild in the game with every character?

Is the only way to get rid of it to actually waste time and sit through the whole thieves guild questline or are there any console commands I can use to fix Bethesda's flawed game design?

» Sun May 26, 2013 4:40 pm

Why do you need to get rid of it? Just ignore it if you do not want to do those quests, it is just one journal entry, you are bound to get stuck with more than one journal entry if you have a long list to work your way through.

» Mon May 27, 2013 4:05 am

I agree with aussie, it's kind of a drag, but I don't know anyone who's not had quests stuck in their journal.

On the other hand, have you ever done the TG questline? It's actually more fun that I thought it would be, and they aren't the evil nasties I thought, not like the Brotherhood. I avoided it for ages, but finally did a character just for that and had a lot of fun with it.

» Mon May 27, 2013 4:59 am

You don't. Removing quests from the journal has never been a feature in Elder Scrolls games.

Best you can do is deactivate the quest and turn it off. As you get more, it will eventually drop to the bottom of the list.

» Sun May 26, 2013 1:52 pm

This is very true. Sadly.

» Mon May 27, 2013 2:21 am

You can't remove it or hide or anything like that, you just need to either

A. Finish it.

B. Ignore it.

Other than that you are SOL.