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I'm having a problem with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and hope someone can help me resolve it. Basically, Caius Cosades won't acknowledge the completion of the Ashlander Informant quest in which I have to meet Hassour Zainsubani and return with his notes. When I return to Caius to speak to him about "orders", instead of rewarding me and my journal being updated, he responds by saying, "As I said, go to the Urshilaku camp [...]". Not only has he NOT previously spoken to me about the Urshilaku camp quest but, no matter what I say to him, my journal does not get updated with entries related to this quest. I think the reason this problem exists is because a bug in the game allowed me to ask someone about "Urshilaku camp" before I actually received the quest from Caius. My quest log reveals that I do indeed already have the Meet Sul-Matuul quest even before I speak to Caius. Unfortunately, all of my saved games are affected. The only solution, as I can see it, is to fix this problem with the console command. If anyone knows how to resolve the quest bug, I would greatly appreciate the help.

By the way, there is a similar bug with the Travel to Vivec quest. The solution to it can be found at The UESP: Morrowind - Main Quest: Travel to Vivec and Morrowind:Vivec Informants - UESPWiki for those interested.

Are you running any mods?

Yes, but only the official plug-ins.

I think I may have figured out a way to fix my game. Since the problem is almost certainly the result of having a journal entry that I should not yet have, if I'm able to delete it, the problem should be resolved. I need to delete journal entry A2_1_MeetSulMatuul 2. I know, to add it, you open up the console and type Journal "A2_1_MeetSulMatuul" 2 but how do you delete a journal entry?

By the way, journal entry A2_1_MeetSulMatuul 2 reads "Nuleno Tedas gave me directions to Urshilaku camp. The camp is due north from Maar Gan, but high ridges lie in the way. Follow Foyada Bani-Dad, a deep ravine just north of Maar Gan, northwest to the sea. A shipwreck at the seamouth of the ravine is a landmark. Swim east around the headland. Pass east through the ruins of Assurnabitashpi Shrine. Urshilaku Camp lies east of the ruins, inland in a low hollow".

I finally solved the problem. And I was right about needing to delete the journal entry. The console command I used was SetJournalIndex. It basically sets the journal to whatever index you want. Since I needed to set the quest completely back, I put it to zero: SetJournalIndex "A2_1_MeetSulMatuul" 0. After that, Caius acknowledged the quest I'd done for him.

Interesting. I was unaware that journal entries also had a function sometimes, as opposed to simply being a result. There are some utilities out there that supposedly can remove obsolete quest entries in journals, but they don't always seem to work. In any case, nice job.