Very Long Initial Quest? (Vilja)

[tjzil]

First off, awesome mod. Very first companion mod I downloaded, after using Vilja for a couple days, downloaded like 10 others and none of them even compare. The accent is very fitting for Vilja and its very charming and very high quality.

Now my question, is I ran through the whole main quest line and the arena with Vilja by my side, and almost a month has passed by in game time. Vilja has told me everything there is to know about herself, and shes told me shes collected an ingredient at least 10 times. And shes asked for books of course, the last one being Ten Commands: Nine Divines.

So... Is it just a long time process for her to collect all the ingredients? I reset her once because I started a new file and wanted to pick up where I left off, but when I did the reset on Heneri, the only option even close to the begining was something like "Vilja recovered from the poisen" and I didnt even know any of the 5 options were even in the mod, because shes been just collecting ingrediients.

So I said "Nevermind I'll play through it again" to Heneri and here I am, itching to get to all these cool features of the questline, but nope, still a huge list of ingredients to find. Am I doing something wrong? Ive even just started buying a bunch of ingredients and dumping them in her inventory hoping shed find something usefull.

[tjzil]

Scratch that. After posting this I prodded further. I figured she had a thing recording how many days you were with her, so I commited a bunch of murders and got arrested and served my sentence, then spoke to her, just to test. Didnt work. I hit heneri with the reset spell again but reloaded before answering any of the questions for fear of damaging my precious Vilja.

Then I just decided to go on with my game by fast traveling to the imperial city from Cheydinhal, and started walking on the water (And Vilja followed me, walking on the water, yet only I was the one with water walking enchanted shoes, lol) and then she forced me into conversation about the poisen. So hopefully everything will be ok? Shes back to needing to collect ingredients, but I assume thats normal?

[loriel]

I would have expected the initial quest to have finished after a month.

In my current game, which is about the fourth with Vilja, I finished her initial quest about day 26.

Perhaps you have been spending your time in places where ingredients are hard to find - e.g. cities ?

Loriel

[tjzil]

I spent alot of time in cities and dungeons, with some in the wilderness. Since I wanted to get the main quest done I was hurrying about fast traveling, so therefore cutting out the wilderness travel but alot.

Makes sense, and I thought maybe she was deeper than I would have initially thought.

[Emma]

Vilja normally finds one ingredient every day when travelling in the wilderness, but she doesn't find ingredients in cities or dungeons. If you are using any mod that affects how fast time passes in your game, that can delay her finding ingredients quite a lot. If you want to hurry things up, you can do like this:

make sure you are in the wilderness. Wait 24 gamehours. Now, wait approx 40 seconds for the questscript to update. Now, initiate dialog with her repeatedly. She should very soon tell you she has found an ingredient.
Wait another 24 game hours + 40 seconds for the questscript to update. Initiate dialog until she tells you she has found an ingredient. Repeat...

If she tells you that she has now been poisoned, you should be very close to when she will need more extensive help from you to gather the last ingredients.
Be aware that after this first questline there will follow two more questlines that Vilja will initiate. It will however take an ingame week before anything new starts to happen (but finishing the first mainquest should open up several new dialog options, like for instance being able to invite Vilja for an evening out).