Hi,
Having occasional issues with your merchants these days.
Firstly, sometimes when I talk to a merchant they http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll61/Revanchism/Working/ScreenShot297a.jpg. This isn't too serious as they'll typically offer it if I try again a little while later. I am wondering if this might be some kind of conflict with the 300 lore dialogue mod I've just installed recently, as the timing would seem about right.
Secondly, I just completed the Malacath quest (believe it or not, for the first time: I've hardly played this game) and the first time I did so, the merchant in the screenshot above and the shrine followers suddenly engaged in a fight to the death. Pitted against three burly orcs the merchant went down along with his guar, but I'm fairly sure this wasn't supposed to happen! It was literally, talk to Malacath->get Volendrung-> come out of cut-scene->everyone draw weapons and starts fighting...
I reloaded from a save a few minutes earlier and tried again. This time it *didn't* happen, so I'm really *not* sure what might have caused that. :shrug:
Sorry, I can't be more helpful or informative, but I figure you're better off at least knowing that these things are happening.
Vac
Load order: (needless to say, several of these mods have been customised (or shredded, depending how you look at these things))
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