Playing as a norn warrior who chose blacking out for their personal story. Currently stuck on The Machine in Action I cant continue past the first objective. I’ve waited about 10 mins, tried talking to everyone in the story instance but nothing happens
Unfortunately, we’ve been unable to reproduce this on our end. If you could provide additional details, such as whether you were doing this solo or as a group, what your profession was, and any other details that you took before getting stuck, we’d appreciate it! A screenshot is always a plus as well. Thanks for the reports!
My other half couldn’t get this to progress tonight either. He’s playing a Norn Warrior with weapon and armor smithing. I don’t recall the rest of his personal story choices at character creation, but we both had the blacked-out-drinking choice so our personal story has been progressing together. I’d actually just completed the last few stages in his instances.
He was owner of the instance again. We got the first cut scene and completed the first objective “Meet with Ballista and her warband outsinde Grendich Ruins” but the next objective never triggered or showed up on the tracker and all of the Charr just stood around. We wandered down into the tunnel and all around and tried talking to all the NPCs. We eventually exited by running out to the edge of the instance. We re-entered, again with him as instance owner. We skipped over the cut scene this time, but the same thing happened where the next objective never triggered and the Charr just stood around.
I did a search and found that this thread about someone, specifically a warrior, having the same issue. So we exited again and I entered first. We watched the cut scene and very soon after the event progressed (the charges went off) and the rest of the story proceeded just fine to the end. So my character could progress it. My character is a Norn (obviously?) Engineer, leatherworker and huntsman crafting professions. He’s also all nobility/dignity for personality (the warrior is mostly ferocity) if that might be worth knowing. His character level was 28 I think, and mine was 35 or 36 at the time, if I recall correctly. The only other notable differences might be that I had an elite skill equipped and he’s not high enough level for one yet.
Thank you for the details! We’ll take another look at this and see if we can identify what’s breaking. 
