Hello,

I've just returned the plans to Aela, and...she doesn't say anything to me. When I'm near her, she says:

"I've been running interference for you around here. I don't think anyone's caught on on our little campain. Yet."

"Have you been brining battle to the Silver Hand, friend ? I wish I could be there. Soon."

"I hope the hunting goes well, Brother. We've got these cowards on their heels, now."

No one in the Companions has any type of work for me. This is ridiculous. I've checked and this bug is well-known (but not on Bethesda forums, I've done some research). This game is 3 years old. I bought Oblivion when it was this old on 360 and never had a problem with anything. Bought Skyrim day 1 never had a problem. Now I buy Legendary Edition and I got all sorts of trouble, but this is the first one I can't solve by myself. I had already solved a bug during "trouble in Skyrim" by waiting 30 days to reset dungeons, but this issue isn't dungeon-related.

I'm really advanced and the game, so there's no way I'm doing a new game. If my game is broken I will return it to the store. Because it's a broken game. I'm not trying to be bold here, just a frustrated consumer. Thank you for any help you can bring.

The game is not broken.

All Bethesda games will have glitches and bugs. Some guests will have glitches and bugs. It is important to create a lot of fresh manual game saves and not use the auto game save or quick save feature. Do you have an older game save.

Thank for for the reply.

I obviously have an older save. It's when I'm doing the "retrieval" quest. I used it but still didn't work when I redid the quest. The problem isn't that I can't complete the quest. It's that nothing happens after it's completed. I tried letting days pass, reload my game, do some other quests before completing "stealing plans", but nothing works.

Someone said that if you didn't complete the Helm of Winterhold misc quest before doing this quest, it wouldn't work, so I did it, but still didn't change anything.

EDIT: I've tried something else that also doesn't work. I reloaded my game, completed "retrieval", but did "rescue mission" for Vilkas before accepting "stealing plans" from Aela. I was hoping if I progressed more within Companions, they would give me all the quests. BUT NO. When I get back to Aela after having rescued Faendal, the dialogue required for "stealing plans" isn't there anymore.