
I was in the wrong cell totally. When I first got the quest update,I've found the mages such and such I should check for the Aloewere; I had just past the bandit camp on the other side of the road, where the Ayelid ruin is. I came from the farm where the quest "the deep one" can be found in vanilla oblivion, so that's the side I was looking on mostly. Now I have found them and there was no more quest update after I picked the aloewere, so I guess I could have added them. I know how hard it is to find people sometimes - think I spent hours and hours in an other mod years ago trying to find a dead knight.
Aha, so it was a major undertaking checking for dead quest breakers. Hmm, should be a way to end quests that get stuck in some way - I have no idea at the moment how to implement that, it would probably be as much work as checking for live NPC's anyway, LoL.
Thanks again - I am now off to hunt for onions....