Oblivion Help: Mercator Hosidus Stood Me Up

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I’m planning on getting Skyrim for my birthday, and in the meantime, I’m re-playing Oblivion. Right now I’m doing the Ulterior Motives quest for the Mages’ Guild. I went to Skingrad and was told to come back the next day. I went to the chapel and quick waited 24 hours, went back to the castle and was told by Mercator Hosidus that the count would meet me at such-and-such place after 2 a.m.

So like a good little mage, I went to where the quest marker indicated and waited. And waited. Nobody came. No count, certainly no Mercator. I went to the castle the next day, and there was Mercator, only now he was dressed in his Necromancer’s robes. He said again, “Wait for the count after 2 a.m., stupid.” This wasn’t right.

So I re-loaded my last saved game just before this quest and tried again, this time waiting somewhere else, then going to the quest marker at around 10 p.m. Still no Mercator. I re-re-loaded the game, and waited somewhere else (but near enough to the quest marker) until 2 a.m., then went to the quest marker. Still nothing. I’ve tried everything I can think of, and every online search only mentions a glitch concerning the first waiting period, not the 2 a.m. rendezvous.

What am I doing wrong? This did not happen during my first play-through. Is there any way to fix this? Is it my breath? I’m getting very frustrated.

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Go here and scroll down to “bugs” and try the first fix.

EDIT: And if you’ve been told this fix before, download the patch. You are playing on PC right? If not, sucks for you.

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Sucks, indeed. I’m playing PS3 GOTY Edition. :frowning: Thanks anyway.

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When people tell you to get the PC version of Skyrim, this is why.

Get the PC version of Skyrim.

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Lesson learned.

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The Skyrim HD pack makes the game. Ah those poor console kids.

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For the record, I feel like my other post came off a little harsher than I intended. I do feel bad that you’re stuck in this situation and I wish I could help you more, so I apologize.

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No problem, I didn’t take it that way. Still frustrated as hell, though. Maybe I’ll try doing another quest and coming back to it.

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even the PC version has problems with trigger events, there console commands can fix some of it. If you can access console commands it might do the trick.

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I FINALLY got it to work! I re-loaded the last save before the quest, and go to the point where Mercator told me to wait in the pasture at 2 a.m. Instead, I went to Anvil, did the Athletics training quest, then came back. Sure enough, there he was at 2 a.m.

Thanks all, and I definitely learned my lesson. Skyrim will be bought for PC.