For the first quest in a questline, it's quite simple. The player is approached by a messenger when they change location. Yet no matter what I do, I can't get this thing to work.

I've added the quest to the Change Location event story, it's flagged with the appropriate event type, yet the actor never appears, no matter where I go.

The strange thing is, said actor would appear just fine before I went back to tweak things, but now they don't.

http://i.imgur.com/YPf5MMc.png

http://i.imgur.com/hz88vcG.png

http://i.imgur.com/SGiHqnV.png

Here are the relevant... things involving that. I see no difference between them and other Change Location quests, SO WHY DOESN'T MINE WORK

Kinda at my wit's end here.

Don't know what to say but there's a SM log you can enable from configs (similar with papyrus) and see what it shows.

"[08/06/2014 - 11:43:13PM] ---Quest '_Lull_MQ01' failed to fill aliases"

Interesting. It was filling those aliases just fine before, yet now it doesn't. Any reason why this might occur?

Maybe some conditions are failing and the alias is not optional, or someone/thing is dead/disable and the alias is not checked to allow that.

Or...there's the timeout thing that I'm personally mad about: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1447502-sendstoryeventandwait-not-returning-either-true-or-false-what-can-it-mean/

Try making all aliases optional and see if it start and which of them remain unfilled (console "sqv questId").