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I'm at the portion of the "Revealing the Unseen" quest (from the College of Winterhold) where I have to go to Mzulft and enter the ruins. However, when I try to interact with Gavros Plinius, the man slumped on the floor to the right when I enter the ruins, I cannot enter a conversation with him. According to the guide, as soon as I talk to him he should mutter some hint about the quest and drop a key that lets me through the door ahead.

I've tried talking to him, attacking him, pickpocketing him, and none of these things work. I've done other quests and then returned to try again, but still I'm unable to interact with him and get the key to enter the ruins. What can I do to continue this quest?

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  • Are you playing on PC? Even if there are no other workarounds, there are likely console commands to un-jam the quest.
    – Ben Blank
    Nov 29, 2011 at 2:26
  • playing on xbox 360
    – Carrie
    Nov 30, 2011 at 17:37
  • I have the same issue but I'm on the X-box version. Did a bunch of other quest too but nothing changed. Can't figure out a way how to progress this...
    – user15761
    Dec 2, 2011 at 22:58

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Try walking up to him and then just leaving the game running for 10 minutes, go eat lunch. He is scripted to actually initiate dialog with you, not vice versa, and for some reason the script is not firing up. I have had similar issues before and just passing time in the right location can on occasion fix this

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The best advice I could give is to reload your last save before starting the quest. And if you don't have a recent enough one that you feel comfortable doing so than you may just want to leave that quest for a while and do a few others before returning sometimes these things just work themselves out.

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If playing on the PC, try installing the Unofficial Skyrim Patch (USKP). Although not exactly like OP's issue, it has a fix for Gavros not being in the Mzulft (and not giving the key).

From the UESP Wiki, "Revealing the Unseen - Bugs" article:

The Mzulft map marker isn't added by the quest as the scripting for it wasn't set up properly. Also Gavros will not be in the entrance to Mzulft to give you the key. Updating the game to a newer version will not solve the problem for existing saved games. This bug is fixed by version 1.0 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.

Related USKP changelog:

In "Revealing the Unseen" (Winterhold College) the Mzulft map marker will now be added as was intended but misconfigured.

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There is a way to enter console commands on Xbox, not just PC. The mod “Cheat Room” has a feature that populates under the alteration spell menu entitled “cheat menu”. When you enter it, there will be an option to use or find certain scripts in the game and this is basically the console command for the Xbox that the developer came up with. The issue is trying to find the hexadecimal number for the specific quest, Revealing the Unseen. The ID for it is MG06, but I can’t find the “hexadecimal” that’s apparently required to be used to bypass the glitches in this quest.

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