Quest location bug

[JokeDeity]

First I want to apologize if this is not proper reporting, I wasn't sure if I should comment on a similar topic or start a new one.

In Gothway Garden I was given a quest by Uthastyr Hawkton to protect him from assassins at Wicksley Residence, but I've been directed instead to a tavern and the NPCs inside say that it is Wicksley Residence.

[Jay_H]

Is it that one tavern that's black on the automap and no one offers services inside?

[Hazelnut]

Good call Jay, there's a house that's all dressed up in Tavern fancy dress and this could cause this for sure.

[pango]

In classic you cannot enter it ("This house has nothing of value"), which mitigates the bug...

I still find it unbelievable that, being at the very northern border of Gothway Garden, it can be the very first building a player tries to interact with.

[Interkarma]

Yes, that is unfortunate. We could possibly hot-fix this building type at runtime so it operates as a real tavern. The key is that innkeeper NPC actually has correct faction settings to operate services. Obviously, I haven't explored this deeply and I'm just throwing out a potential solution.

[JokeDeity]

Is it that one tavern that's black on the automap and no one offers services inside?

Before this goes too far I need to say it isn't. It's a regular tavern that could be entered, had 3-4 NPCs in the main room, one offering talk and food/beverages, one just talked and I don't recall what the other two did, I think there may have been an NPC in one of the bedrooms as well.

[Interkarma]

Taverns are never treated as residences for quests (except in the case above where tavern is marked as a residence in game data). If you'd like to add more clarity, attaching a save game is the fastest way.

[JokeDeity]

I'm having trouble finding the save file, but I just checked again, it's as I said, completely LIKE a tavern, but does not come up on the map as green after I go in. I made a save directly outside as soon as I can find/someone can tell me where to look for the save I'll upload. EDIT: Got it.

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[Jay_H]

Before this goes too far I need to say it isn't. It's a regular tavern that could be entered, had 3-4 NPCs in the main room, one offering talk and food/beverages, one just talked and I don't recall what the other two did, I think there may have been an NPC in one of the bedrooms as well.

I nailed it! Yes, this dysfunctional tavern is a part of Daggerfall's game data. It's a residence, though it doesn't appear to be.

[JokeDeity]

I nailed it! Yes, this dysfunctional tavern is a part of Daggerfall's game data. It's a residence, though it doesn't appear to be.

I don't know what's wrong with my memory, I must have mixed up a different tavern, but I just double checked and confirmed they DO NOT offer services, I apologize because I swore they did offer me the regular options before.

With that said, it is the location everyone sent me to for a quest, but it doesn't seem like the quest can be completed as the NPCs that are supposed to be there are not.