Need help with advancing "find custom follower" quest in creation kit

[Pugyoulongtime]

Having a really hard time with this so hoping someone can help me out. Been trying to get this to work for a week and followed a few different tutorials, but I think the problem I'm having is none of them do simple "talk to follower and advance stage" quests. It's usually something more complicated that I don't want to do.

 

Basically the quest starts up fine, the markers on the map work, but when I talk to the follower I'm supposed to find (my custom voiced follower), nothing happens. What I want to happen is as soon as I locate the follower (and recruit if possible - already have a working follower quest), it advances to the next stage of finding a location they need to go. After reaching said location, I want the quest to end.

 

Hoping this isn't too difficult of an ask for someone to help me out with. Uploaded all the images to a gallery to give you a better idea of what I'm dealing with. I have a feeling it might be related to the lack of scripts but idk. I'm still very much a noob who started learning this two weeks ago. Thanks for reading/any help you can provide.

 

Labeled below are questdatainfo, findfolloweralias, findlocationalias, questobjectives1, questobjectives2, questobjectives3, and queststages1, 2, and 3.

 

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Edited March 31, 2025 by Pugyoulongtime
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