Problem with CompUSA + DFQFIX artifact quest

[Lochlann]

Hello, I've been replaying Daggerfall following Bethsoft's free release of the game. I've taken advantage of the new/fixed quests in the CompUSA patch, along with the further fixes in the DFQFIX patch. Among other things, I was excited to finally complete the quests for the "missing" three neutral-aligned artifacts. (i.e., not just Chrysamere.)

I've just completed one such quest, for the Staff of Magnus, but there seems to be a problem. Everything in the quest went smoothly until the very end. After the two dungeon crawls, I was directed to a specific Mage's Guild to get the Staff, and I went there, and sure enough there is the staff lying on the ground in one of the rooms...but when I click on it to pick it up, nothing is added to my inventory. The quest "finishes," in that the relevant log entries disappear, and the sprite image of the Staff is removed from the gameworld. But, my inventory doesn't change at all. No staff, no nothing. (Actually, the first time, clicking on the Staff resulted in a game crash with an error; I reloaded and tried again, and the game didn't crash, but the Staff just isn't being added to my inventory.) (Yes, I've examined all parts of the inventory, including my wagon. )

Can anyone help? I am running the game on DOSBox with the 2.13 patch, with the following installed: questpak.zip (which includes the CompUSA patch), DFQFIX.zip, FACTFIX.zip, brenrsc11.zip.

Thanks very much.

[Elliot]

In what order did you download them? This might be the problem.

[Lochlann]

I applied the 213 patch first, immediately after installing the game. Then I applied the questpak mod, and then I began playing. A short time later I found and installed dfqfix. (I hadn't yet started on any artifact quests at the time that I applied dfqfix.) When I encountered the problem, one of the things I tried, just to be sure, was to re-apply dfqfix...but of course by that point the quest had already been started, so that likely wouldn't have affected this particular quest. Though, I believe the order I applied them in was the correct one to begin with, as dfqfix purports to fix problems in the CompUSA patch.

I've been searching everywhere for someone who has encountered a similar problem, but I've turned up nothing. I'd settle for a way to simply add the Staff to my inventory, having already completed the quest, but not knowing a thing about hex editing, that seems unlikely. (All of the editors I've looked at only allow modification of existing items, and then only piecemeal, and not the addition of brand new items with their own complete records.)

[Lochlann]

Adding more data to this: the same thing happened when attempting to pick up the Necromancer's Amulet. It would seem that whatever bug exists is in the "lich artifact" quest scripting, not in the Staff of Magnus item. The artifacts obtained via other quests seem to be working fine.