Blindsighted Quest Glitch? Suggestions? : V

» Tue Jan 22, 2013 12:52 pm

If you guys have gone through the Thieves Guild quests I'm sure you'll remember the quest "Blindsighted" where you kill Mercer Frey in the Irktinghand Sanctuary with Karliah and Brynjolff. After you kill Mercer Frey, the room floods and you have to climb up to a cave at the ceiling. When you get up to this ceiling you're supposed to talk to Karliah but in my game Karliah and Brynjolff just won't get out of the water. I have tried leaving the cave and coming back, and they still stayed in the water. I tried shooting Karliah with an arrow but she just came up and tried killing me and I tried pushing her up to the cave but that doesn't work either. What should I do? I saved the game before I went into the Sanctuary so should I restart from there? Or shoudl I restart from the beginning of the quest?

» Tue Jan 22, 2013 7:57 pm

Just keep going through the cave part once you get out she should respawn there, I had the same problem.

» Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:39 pm

I did that. I went through the cave part, went outside, came back to the cave, did that a couple times. Nothing really happened.

» Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:20 am

This may help, it is from http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Blindsighted, bugs section.

Before leaving the sanctuary, be sure to talk to Karliah before exiting, as both Karliah and Brynjolf may become stuck underwater. At this point you will not be able to talk to her, essentially breaking the quest.
PC: Use the console commands prid 58F1A and then moveto player. This way you can talk to her and continue the quest.
PS3/xBox:Try swimming and bumping into Karliah repeatedly to knock her into the correct path and out of the water, at which point she will continue normally. This may take a while, so it is a good idea to have a waterbreathing enchanted item with you to prevent drowning. Although if you are playing as an Argonian this is not needed.

Edit: the other option is to reload your save from before the fight and replay it, then after the fight stay close to Karliah and try to speak to her before the water reaches the ceiling - I think it's if you leave it until the water is too high to enter dialogue (because her head is underwater!) that it glitches. I think!