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Hey, thank you very much the quick reply and help. I had tried on just leaving the game on at idle, though does that stop the real time counter at some point or not, as I hadn't got the next thing to appear?  With that console code I got the pre-chapter 4 stuff done.

I might have pretty good guess on what stalled it.  The time when there were just the cycle of flirts going on, I had gotten my Mage stronghold and I was doing the Unseeing-eye quest etc.  So I had either rested in the sphere or in the sewers for a while.  Normally it would be more pain to go the sphere to just rest but if you CTRL+J yourself to outside the door it's just so convenient… …and then I mistook correlation for causality (i.e. the different responses to flirting back for getting the romance going again.) And I should know better than to not rest at all in inns.

I got the next talk to occur just like you said, though I was first at the Trademeet Inn, where it didn't start, but going into Athkatla and into the Copper Coronet did. If the the same requirement was for the earlier talks too (I mean being inside Atkatla), that probably made it even harder with my behavior for the talks to occur. But in the end, it was my fault, just for different reason than I thought.

I hadn't done in previous runs Firkraag, Staff of Magi or Kangaxx before going to Spellhold, so it was kinda refreshing to do them with a bit different tactics this way, so that was an unexpected benefit. :]