Fixing "Blindsighted" in Skyrim

Good heavens. Skyrim is full of as many glitches as it is guards who have taken an arrow to the knee!  The latest 'discovery' is during the Blindsighted mission where you finally face off against Mercer Frey.  In some circumstances, he never shows up at the 'final' showdown!  He speaks for a moment, but is not there and the player cannot move anywhere.  Enter the console yet again.

I have heard of two ways to make this work: 1) Bring Mercer to where you are, 2) go to where he is and follow him until he gets to where he is supposed to be.

As for (1), I did not try that.  I read too many people having no luck with it.

As for (2), here is what you need to do:  Once you enter the room where Mercer says something about getting the drop on him, your character is frozen. Sorta.

1. Press the tilde (~) to open the console and type: epc 
2. Press ENTER. This will free you up to move freely.
3. Type: player.moveto 00022651
4. Press ENTER (the game will load to where Mercer is in the world)
5. Follow Mercer until he he gets to the right room *OR* until he suddenly disappears from you
6. *IF* he disappears from you while you are following him, type: player.moveto 00022651 and press ENTER.  This should teleport you back to the room with him and the other NPCs and start the dialogue.  Be sure to get to where he can see you so the auto-conversation can take place.  Once it does, finish out the scene as you wish.

This is one of the most ridiculous glitches out there.  How he goes from one cut scene to being totally removed from the quest area is beyond me.  That has got to be some kind of scripting glitch.  In any case, the fix above worked for me multiple times.  I repeated the steps a couple times from older save games just to be sure it worked.  NOTE: You may have to fight several things along the way.  One "option" is to put yourself into "god" mode until you get back on task.  I don't generally suggest going into "god" mode because it is too far down the cheating path, but since the is a glitch in the game, I see no problem using it to avoid getting killed while chasing doofus around the map.

Keywords: Mercer Frey, Blindsighted, "get the drop on me", glitch, bug, Thieves Guild

Skyrim: Markarth Guard Glitch SOLVED (UPDATED!)

So, I finished off one of the missions in Skyrim (where you have to raid an underground prison) and afterward, the Markarth guards always told me to "HALT!" and no matter what I tried to do, they attacked.  Paying the fine didn't work, taking me to jail just stuck the game in some weird loop, etc.

This fix worked for me, but I had to do it TWICE.  You may need to do it more than once as well.  I think it has to do with the particular hex code for certain guards (male/female).

Here is the Markarth Guard fix:

1. Walk up to a guard
2. When the guard says, "You've committed crimes against Markarth," DO NOT choose any options.
3. With the dialog waiting, press the tilde key (~) to open the command console.
4. Click on the guard's HEAD (note: must be HEAD!) and you will see a hex code on the screen.
5. Type: paycrimegold and hit enter.
6. You will be teleported to a new, random location in Markarth.
7. Press the tilde (~) key again (this will exit the command console).
8. IF YOU ARE ATTACKED, keep looking around for a guard to question you then repeat the steps above.
9. UPDATE NOTE: If this doesn't stop some guards from attacking on spot, try this:
1. Press the tilde key
2. Type: setstage MS02 250 and hit enter
3. This should set the game to the "Thonar has granted me pardon" though no actual on-screen message will appear.

Like I said, I had to do this TWICE (once on a female guard and once on a male guard) before they stopped attacking me all the time.

Hope this helps someone out there.  I found the original info on Neoseeker or some other forum, but it did not say anything about possibly doing it more than once.

**Disclaimer: there a LOT of things you can do inside the command console. What you do in there is on your own head, not mine!