So, not long ago I completed "No One Escapes Cidhna Mine"...

not long after, I got infected with Vamprism from a vampire attack, So I decided to go to the Shrine of Talos in Markarth to cure it before the end of the incubation period..

I get into the shrine, and once again a Guard approaches me giving the same dialogue i got at the end of the Forsworn Conspiracy.. I turn myself in, and am now in the same version of the Cidhna mine you are in for the quest...

but I cant escape because the door to the escape route in Madanchs cell is key-level locked, and because I am in the quest version of the cell, mining the silver won't trigger the "serve your sentence" function it should...



Fortunately, this is why I keep multiple saves....

But I have never experienced this before, has anyone encountered this odd bug?

The guards in the Markarth Shrine of Talos not disappearing after the conclusion of the quest is a known bug, iirc.

is it? huh... never experienced it before... then again I usually try my best to avoid Markarth...

Do you have a bounty in Markarth? Try clearing it before heading back there and see if it still happens?

nope, no bounty...

just gonna have to stay out of the shrine of talos i guess....

Maybe is a Thalmor Conspiracy to prevent Talos worship haha.