Vilja's Flute quest help[potential spoilers]

[grendelthebrave]

Hello Everyone, I wonder if someone might be able to help me out with something. I'm playing through Vilja's quests specifically Vilja's Missing Flute. I think I lost the corpse of the bandit carrying the objective items - the flute and lute. I suspect some combination of erratic creature behaviour or early aggro-ing one of the bandits resulted in them being killed somewhere outside the fort.


Is there any consoley way a person could create those items? Or any creative solutions to get me past this stage in the quest? I've tried using setstage with what I could interpret from looking at the mod in xEdit, but setting the stage to one beyond didn't seem to be working. I was using AAEMCompViljaFlute as the QuestID. 

Anyway, I couldn't find any reference to anyone having trouble finding the loot for this quest, so I feel like something went wrong with my playthrough and my save-game discipline was sub-par.

Thank you for your time

[Aatrnasyn]

The bandits don't carry Vilja's flute, they carry Wilbert's lute. Is that the task you were doing that glitched?

[wotan]

You should be able to find the ID of the lute in the console when you do a search. And once you've found it it's easy to add to your inventory. Hopefully that would help with the lute quest.
As for Vilja's flute, you need to go to Riften and find the guy who stole it.

[grendelthebrave]

Ah yes, not Vilja's Flute, but Wilbert's and I forget the other fellow's name whose Lute I have to collect Rasheem or something similar. The target I'm currently stuck on is "search the corpses for the items".

Thank you for the responses, I'll look up how to search using the console, I had tried looking for the objectIDs using SSEedit, but I don't really know what I'm doing.