I was attempting to complete the Hircine's Gift quest in order to become a werewolf. One day, I decided to check on the boss to see if it was the mammoth or not, as I usually do because the mammoth is arguably the easiest. So I approach the portal and find the packmaster in his wolf form. I thought it was strange, since he's usually in his human form when I find him, but thought nothing else of it and enter the portal. Once I was in, I noticed that he didn't follow me. So then I'm thinking "okay, this game lags sometimes and he'll spawn soon. No big." But as I wait, he doesn't spawn. Instead, I notice my active quest has changed. I scroll through my quests to reactivate it, thinking that might have something to do with it. But no.
The quest was no longer in my quest list!!!
It was as if the quest either quit itself or completed itself! But I didn't get the werewolf skill line, and I still had Sanies Lupinus when I checked my active effects. I then think "yeah, this is definitely a bug, but will it fix itself?" And then I leave the Hunting Grounds only to have the portal close behind me and the packmaster disappear!!
Hircine, that was awfully rude of you!
I've tried everything: leaving and coming back, fast traveling and coming back, logging off and logging back on, waiting a whole day, returning to the wayshrine where I met the lady who originally gave me the quest (she wasn't there), checking for her at several different wayshrines... nothing has worked. I even asked several people who were playing, and this glitch didn't happen to any of them.
Has this happened to anyone else at all? Is there any way to fix it? I really want to be a werewolf!