I so agree! They always say they are too busy to talk. Then they stand for hrs looking into a wall :facepalm:
Even the apprentices, before a certain point in time: "im sorry fellow magister im really busy with my blah blah whatnot studies crap"
And then he goes to talk with another mage apprentice.
So i used the console to set conditions that wouldnt make me get expelled. And i chopped off all of their heads. Including the idiot mage scholars'.
Oh yes, Martin. "I know this is hard, maybe impossible, and no one's ever done it, but YOU'VE GOT TO SUCCEED".
Probably could have sued him for attempted murder time and over again, and at the end of the quest, random npcs will say "ZOMG did you see -snip-? MARTIN SAVED US ALL"
And im like I DID YOU IDIOT HE COULDNT EVEN RUN TO THE TEMPLE ENTRANCE HIMSELF