Hello everyone, I recently reported an interesting one-off bug at northwind summit where after I learn the word from the word wall the dimness in lighting that happens in the spell effect stays permanent no matter where I go or if I save and restart the game. So I just deviated from that and went to a slightly earlier save and generally things have gotten to be malfunctioning or oddly so. Here's a short list:

- In Windhelm, trying to open up the barter window with Sadri does not work, it just hangs in the conversation window until I press tab.

- My vampirism isn't having the daylight burning effect on health or the light brightening/blurring animation when I go outdoors.

- Activating book racks in Hjerim (have not checked other houses) does not work.

- Serana just disappeared as my companion, but is still active according to my housecarls so I cannot replace her with one of them.

- Retrieving the fine cut void salts from the brood cavern does not change the quest marker from the chest to the wayfinder (it just stays pointing to the chest in the cave).

Do I just give up completely and start anew? That would svck ever so much. I put in like 140 hours into this character.

System specs and game file details:

Windows 8 Enterprise x64

i7 4800MQ

GTX 765M

8GB RAM

Dawnguard.esm, Unofficial skyrim patch are active

Many thanks in advance.

1. what you mean "open up the barter window with Sadri" In which quest ????

2. Using the Lady Standing Stone, or taking a perk that grants faster regeneration allows stat recovery regardless of Weakness to Sunlight.

3. The weapons racks and bookshelves in Breezehome, Hjerim, Vlindrel Hall, and Proudspire Manor may not work.
(This bug is fixed by version 1.4 of the Official Skyrim Patch.)

4.First of all, check Fort Dawnguard or Volkihar Keep (depends on whom you sided with), since that's where she should reappear when she gets lost.

You can use the console to either teleport to Serana via

player.moveto xx002B74

or her to you via

prid xx002B74
moveto player

Note that the xx has to be replaced by a number, usually one of 01, 02, 03 depending on the DLCs installed. You can also use help Serana to figure out the correct value.

5. If this item is found before the quest has been started, the journal updates to state that the item should be given to Captain Wayfinder. When he is met, the dialog options make it possible to start the quest again before completing the quest.

The item is then respawned and a duplicate may be obtained. There is no known way to complete the quest in this case with two of the items in the inventory.

When the item is obtained the second time, the quest marker does not update and there are no dialog options to complete the quest.

To fix the quest bug, if the Dragonborn has obtained the Fine-Cut Void Salts before receiving the quest from Captain Wayfinder, then whike talking to him, the option should be chosen to immediately give him the fine-cut void salts,

rather than trying to learn his story about the Void Salts (which triggers the quest).

This way the quest can be completed without learning his history about the void salts which his crew misplaced.

1. Not quest related at all, just generally want to buy stuff from him.

3. I've used these book racks before. They have books on them that I put in prior to buying the Dawnguard DLC.

5. I've never found the void salts before starting the quest, I actually never even discovered the brood cavern before the quest was given to me.

This is awesome input though, I sincerely appreciate it

Sorry that's the best i can do, because right know i am not so far as you...

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As for Sandri:

His shop may be locked during normal business hours, and entering will count as trespassing, although Revyn is standing at the counter.

• Wait for a day to get him to reopen his shop.

To the OP: Do you also have the Unofficial Patches for the DLC that you own as well (e.g. UDGP, UHFP, UDBP)? Also, make sure your mods are in the correct order by using BOSS to sort them; otherwise odd things have been known to happen. The load order changed with the Unofficial Patches recently (as of the update to v. 2.0.0).

I have installed the 2.00 patches yesterday (all of them - the funny thing is i didn't had any dirty edits...i checked it with BOSS.)

Strange..., as i had those entries with the older patches. !!!!!

According to the people who make the Unofficial Patches, they have already been "cleaned" with TES5Edit when you download them. This must be why there aren't any dirty edits.

Aha, thanks....