Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-112.229.7.32-20130707154707/@comment-175.141.37.127-20141011012424

Hi guys,

I played the pc version. Have all the DLC installed. Was doing the Dawnguard mission of tracking down a master vampire by getting a lead from Jon Battle Born. Prior to all this, most of Whiterun citizens were ambushed by vampires from time to time when I went back to rest at Breezehome. First victim was Adrianne Avenicci. Well, that's one shopkeeper down if you like buying ores from her. Fast forward; lotsa people died, nazeem and his wife, belethor (another shopkeeper), and a few others.

I then used "player.moveto [insert actor REF ID]" and this will teleport you to the character. In my case, I'm looking for Jon Battle Born. I checked his coffin in Whiterun Hall of the Dead, but no sign of it (guess Andurs still making his coffin though). So, used the console command, and it teleported me to the Dead Body Cleanup Cell. I saw Ancano dead body alongside a few others. Jon was infront of me. I quickly chat with him and ask him the location of the Master Vampire. Thought that I can teleported out and safe the mission before anything happen. I did hang out there for a while, went through the "door" and it sent me back to the center of the DBCC. Not gonna risk my save game, I teleport out using "coc whiterun" and got back at the bridge near the meadery.

Then I figured I wanna save those guys so I may still peruse their wares. I thought of using "player.placeatme [insert BASE ID]" unfortunately, another copy was made instead of bringing the actual NPC back. How do you detect? Simple. Two ways. PC version, open up console, and click the char in front of you. If the ID doesn't match the actual base ID you've typed in, and if it starts with fxxxxxxx, thats a clone. Not the actualy NPC. Another way, if its Trader, you won't have a trading dialogue with the NPC.

So, my solution of saving them are as below:

-> Teleport back to DBCC = coc WIDeadBodyCleanupCell

-> Click an NPC {i.e.: Adrianne}, type in Disable

-> Teleport back to Whiterun = coc Whiterun [once teleported back to Skyrim, go in the town.

-> Open console, type in Enable.

-> Adrianne will be back with her trading dialogue and your last relationship with her (if you have completed her quest earlier).

Now, I have more NPC to be transported back. T_T Damn vampires. >_>

Anyway, I hope this will help you guys out there for the PC version. Apologize for the long version. And if you feel like placing more guards at each Hold or town, find the guards that patrols around and intead of using the REF ID directly (meaning from wikia), Click on the patrolling guard, and "player.placeatme [his shown ID]", and it will spawn another guard with simillar behavior. Guards you spawn from direct wikia ID doesn't patrol and sits where you spawn them. You can put as much as you like. And when a dragon attacks, the arrows flying from the guards reminds me of the war scenes from LotR. :p

Hope this will help! No lollygaggin'! :p

Cheers~