Oblivion talk:Repairing the Orrery

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Contents 1 If Bothiel is Killed Prior to the Quest 2 Losing Track of the Dead Bandit Carrier 3 Activate? 4 No Plugin, No Orrery? 5 Camps 6 Orrey/Necromancer's Moon Trouble

[edit] If Bothiel is Killed Prior to the Quest

I had a little incident occur inside the Arcane University in which Guards were chasing me, and the three mages jumped in. Bothiel died as a result, and because of her death, I am unable to complete the quest. I downloaded the plug-in way after this incident occured so I am unable to load an old game to bring her back. I have all of the components for the Orrey, and on the compass it shows a green arrow when I am on the grounds of the Arcane University, yet the arrow on the world map appears across the water to the south of the Imperial City?? Perhaps it is pointing to her grave?

Use the console command "resurrect" after clicking on her corpse to reanimate Bothiel. It might work. If you can't find her corpse, you might try to spawn a new Bothiel. I don't know if it will mess with your game or not, so make a fresh save before you try this.

I don't quite understand this bug report, because Bothiel is tagged as quest critical (unkillable) from the start of the game. She plays a small role in Necromancer's Moon, but even at the end of that quest she is not changed to a killable character. Is there any chance that this problem occurred in a mod that makes all characters killable? Or can anyone verify when Bothiel becomes killable (in an unmodded game). In the meantime, I'm deleting the related warning on the main page. --Nephele 03:33, 13 October 2006 (EDT)

[edit] Losing Track of the Dead Bandit Carrier

What happens if I can't relocate the Bandit Carrier? I do remember killing two bandits, but I lost their bodies in the woods somewhere and I can't complete the mission until I do! Does anyone know what I can type in to respawn their bodies? Thanks. --Preceeding unaccredited comment by Dxatm092

To find the Bandit Carrier use the map quest finder arrows. The green spots stay on the bodies of the dead bandits if you haven't taken the artifacts off their bodies. --Preceeding unaccredited comment by Youiur

[edit] Activate?

I have the 360 Oblivion, and I was about to buy this plugin when I decided to read this. I saw that you needed to "activate the orrery with the console." Huh? Does the 360 version work? ^{—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Verin Sedai (talk • contribs).}

Yes, the 360 version works. The interface for the orrery itself is identified as the "Imperial Orrery Console", which is unfortunately somewhat confusing, as it has no relationship to the more familiar PC console. I've tried to revise the main page to make that clear. --Nephele 10:53, 17 November 2006 (EST)

[edit] No Plugin, No Orrery?

So, if you don't buy the plugin, you can't get into the Orrery? Seems a bit odd. The door is there, you can't pick the lock, it says you need a key. So, the developers built this as a "you will need the plugin to get in here" kind of thing? Can you pickpocket the key off of someone? (Yeah ok I should try that.) --Natpoor 20:54, 18 July 2007 (EDT)

Yep, you need to buy the plugin to enter the Orrery. There is no key for the door. The door is only supposed to open once you complete the plugin's quest. Even if you used console commands to get past the door, there wouldn't be much to see inside: the contents are all added by the plugin. --Nephele^Talk 21:19, 20 July 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Camps

Are the camps always empty after you do this quest?--Imperial Scum 21:51, 20 May 2008 (EDT)

No, the normal bandits will respawn. The Bandit Carriers don't, though. –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 01:18, 21 May 2008 (EDT)

[edit] Orrey/Necromancer's Moon Trouble

I have the 360 version and I'm doing Necromancer's Moon. The trouble is that when I get to the point when I have to find Bothiel she is in the Orrey. I attempted to finish the orrey quest but she isn't in the lobby to begin with so, I can't finish that. Am I screwed or is there something I can do?

You could try uninstalling the plug-in, wait for 24 hours (Bothiel should appear then, but don't wait in the lobby of the Arch-Mage's Tower), do Nec. Moon, then reinstall the plug-in. -- LordDagon 03:30, 15 July 2008 (EDT)

Or you could try reading the article instead of posting questions that have already been answered dozens of times. --Nephele^Talk 10:20, 15 July 2008 (EDT)

Nephele's link doesn't seem to work. Here. Read it; you'll love it. --Saruuk 10:25, 15 July 2008 (EDT)