I have been asked by the companions to intimidate a guy called Atar in Karthwasten, the guy that is causing trouble in the mine. The thing is i already asked Atar to leave the mine from a quest given to me by the town folk. Now he isnt there anymore, if i show the mission marker it now points to Markarth, inside the inn. When i enter the inn the only thing there is a marker in the floor and no one to talk to!

I have seen many bugs relating to the hired muscle quest online and it seems this a randomly generated quest via the radiant system. All the people i have seen with this bug have already interacted/killed with the person they are asked to intimidate making quest impossible to complete.

I can work around the ps3's many many issues but quest line progression being broken isnt something i can work around . This means the companion quest line is broken and keeping me from my precious trophy

Has anyone come across this bug and found a solution?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Well if he's not dead then he's probably floating around somewhere, try waiting a few hours at a time and see if he wanders into the inn or something.

That was my initial thought, ive tried waiting for days (took ages having to wait for the slider to tick the hours down each time) but he hasnt shown up. I know he isnt dead because i paid him off to leave the mine.

I even tried revisiting the mine just incase he had reappeard but with no luck. In all ive spent a good couple of hours trying to find this fella :-/