Yes. The message is not in the body's inventory to force the player to read it on picking it up. An other mod can prevent the quest from starting when a message is read from your inventory. I'm not yet sure if this is caused by Cobl, some Darn-UI variant or both.
A clean save and starting anew with that can put you back on track.
PetrusOctavianus: I think that should be Vatechan (sp?) cave.
I think not. Vahtacen is not used anymore in this version 2.6.

TheNiceOne: I have made Map Marker Overhaul, a mod that among other things makes it possible to have (almost) any number of different map marker types in the game. And someone suggested that I added an unique map marker type for the markers you add for the steps to the hidden ruins. I think those steps deserves their unique map marker symbol too, but don't really have any good idea for the icon?
Dazu: This is not my mod of course, but what about a step-like icon? I think the steps leading to a lost dungeon would be good for a map marker.
What a nice idea. :thumbsup: However, I imagine a step-like icon would just look like a little disc or maybe even an egg. I've never really thought about this though, being content with the default cave and ruin-symbols. A stepstone is after all not too different from an ordinary door, is it? You activate it, you see a loading screen and then find yourself in an interior. To indicate the Step, there is the prefix "(Step) " with each map marker.
Maybe a
meaningful symbol would be a welkynd stone, since you always need one to get there. But that's not very impressive, is it?
Any other suggestions?
Kyoma: When you think about it the vanilla Ayleid Ruin icon would fit much better for Ayleid Steps, and as was mentioned in the other thread (by you I think?) that icon doesn't really fit with an Ayleid Ruin.
That's it, TheNiceOne. I'll have the default icons if you come up with a fitting icon for the vanilla ruins.

Thanks all, for bumping this thread all day ... I was too carried away in modding what is to become The Ayleid Steps 3.0 to pay attention for a while.