Thanks for reading!

I'm looking for someone to help me with a small/personal project for Skyrim. I'm trying to alter the quest Blood on the Ice, which triggers automatically upon entering Windhelm for the fourth time.

I want to change the 'fourth time' condition to a much higher number, so that the quest won't likely trigger at all. I've looked at the quest bits in the Creation Kit, but I can't open the scripts (despite doing what is advised on the CK wiki). A friend took a crack at it for me (simply deleted the quest itself), but he wound up breaking the ability to purchase the house in Whiterun. So, I'm trying to find a more elegant solution.

The reason for this is, I made Susanna the Wicked into a companion (her sympathy toward the dunmer made her endearing to me) and would rather not see her eviscerated simply because I chose to go to Windhelm.

If anyone would be willing to help with this, please PM me or simply reply here and I'll message you. Thanks again.

Alternative solution:

in the Quest (MS11) > under the Aliases tab > The alias called "Initial Victim" and it's set to unique actor 'Susanna'

I propose pointing that RefenceAlias to a different NPC. If you're worried about what NPC to choose that won't fudge the vanilla, just make your own copy of Susanna, change her looks, and name... then assign the new NPC to the RefenceAlias. The butcher should kill the other NPC, and Susanna should be safe.