Telvanni Guard is aggressive towards exhibition piece in Dwemer Museum

Onager
2026-03-23T17:55:21Z

## Issue Description

Telvanni Guard is aggressive towards Articulated Amunculi Head (talking head of Dwemer robot) in Dwemer Museum. When head is killed player no longer can talk to it.

[2026-03-22 23-29-18.mkv](/uploads/ae76259290c4458f6ca2f893ab3f3062/2026-03-22_23-29-18.mkv)

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a test character, spawned in Tel Vos, Central Tower.
2. Go to Dwemer museum on second floor
3. Stand near robot head and wait for Telvanni guard to go to second floor during partol
4. Notice: music changes to battle theme, when guard reaches second floor he summons a bonewalker and starts attacking robot head.

## System Information

* **OpenMW Version:** 0.50 Release
* **Operating System & Version:**

Bazzite, created Fedora 43 VM in Distrobox and installed Fedora package of OpenMW into it.

Also observed on Windows.

* **GPU:** Geforce 1050 Ti
* **Morrowind Version:** Steam
* **Language:** English
* **Addons:** Tribunal, Bloodmoon

## Mods

* **Are you using mods?**

OAAB Grazelands 2.1.0 + its dependency OAAB Data 2.5.1

Also observed on Expanded vanilla mod pack
* **Are you using any shader mods?**

No
* **Does it happen in a clean vanilla install?**

Articulated Amunculi Head is not present in vanilla game. Telvanni guard is peaceful towards exhibition in original engine with the same mods installed.

## Logs and Settings

Location: Tel Vos, Central Tower, Dwemer Museum

bc output on Articulated Amunculi Head

```
Report time: 2026.03.22 22:06:21 UTC
Content file: 5 [OAAB_Grazelands.ESP]
RefNum: 4294
RefID: "ABtv_Dwe_HelmTalking"
Memory address: 0x564e3703ce60
Cell: Tel Vos, Central Tower
Coordinates: 1376.48 1198.6 16207.4
Model: meshes/oaab/u/xdwhelmtalking.nif
(DIR: /var/home/onager/vm-homes/openmw-vm-home/morrowind-mods/OAAB Grazelands-49075-2-1-0-1737940444/00 Core)
Bound textures:
BSA: /var/home/onager/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files/Morrowind.bsa
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_03.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_03.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_05.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_02.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_00.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_steam_centurions_34.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_01.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_04.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_08.dds
diffuseMap: textures/tx_a_dwemer_05.dds
diffuseMap: textures/vfx_alpha_steam00.dds
diffuseMap: textures/vfx_alpha_steam00.dds
Script: "ABtv_DwHelmTalking_s"
```

[openmw.log](/uploads/c264a887b2347bd6e323d1090277e928/openmw.log)

[settings.cfg](/uploads/756f62ff622f15c307ee980519e700f7/settings.cfg)