Same ole same ole did the forsworn conspiracy and can't get the right guard dialogue to let me work my way out the pile of trouble I'm in. Meanwhile I have a bunch of quests lined up around Markarth, so I am stalled like heck.

Is this patched in 1.4? Does anyone have a reasonable work around? I tried the sneaking to Talos with no luck.

I don;t know if the patch fixes it or not. I had to travel in and out a couple of times to get the guards to not only "attack" but then give the right dialouge. I think ( not 100%) that I had to fast travel in with my weapon drawn and then sheath it.

I had the problem with my 1st char but not the 2nd.

Now this does give me an idea. I could do the FC just before I finish up the Civil War. I do need to thoroughly explore that ruin. Falmer are starting to get real nasty though using poison and all that. So I figure that if the SHTF with the guards I can always kill them all and the bounty will be cleared when Ulfric takes the city.

Well that's one way of doin it...

Same problem had to give the town to storm cloaks in dragon quest line to fix mine.

So I had initially opted not to do the civil war quest. But after thinking it through I thought it might fix the Markarth bug, and sure enough it does. I am now free to roam about and even went ahead and purchased Vlindrel hall.