Killing the Messenger Bug

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Killing the Messenger Bug

Post by Wocrepus »

After finding the 'Killing the Messenger' quest on the UESP, I decided to give it a shot. According to the UESP the quest giver/starter is 'Uryn Malas' who can be found, along with a dead body on the road from Bal Oyra to Firewatch.
After searching up and down this road with little success of finding either of these characters, I decided to check the Construction Set. I found Uryn Malas's ID, but his count was at 0, which I assume means he's not been placed in the game world.

Is this supposed to be like this (is he set to appear at a set time?) or is this a bug?
Furthermore, am I able to continue with this quest by adding Uryn Malas into the game world?

Thanks

I'm using the version of map 1 that came with map2
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Post by arvisrend »

You need to find the corpse first - it's one "Dead Man". A script disables it until you are level 12 (which is a bad idea, in my opinion - it has the consequence that most players who has visited the place on level < 12 will never find the quest).
Wocrepus

Post by Wocrepus »

Ah, that would make sense. No bug then.

I'd agree making that unavailable to players under lvl 12 is a bad idea. I can't think of any other quests that require you to have a certain level.

Thanks anyway. Guess i'll just have to go level up
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Post by Why »

Well, the vanilla main quest, but you're right, it's only confusing here.
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Post by arvisrend »

IIRC the vanilla main quest was rather explicit towards the player about having to wait until the next level. And the highest level requirement was level 6, so I'm wondering why they have implemented that at all...
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Post by rpeh »

That UESP page ([url]http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Tes3Mod:Tamriel_Rebuilt/Killing_the_Messenger[/url]) isn't exactly finished yet! We've done 89 quests but still have 21 that need writing. Any help would be appreciated.[/url]
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Post by arvisrend »

The problem is that nobody has likely played this quest in each possible way...
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