(I was not ready.) error?

[Xaltine]

I really need help with this. Everytime I try to engage with the NPC they always reply "I was not ready" and nothing happens, i have tried waiting in game; but every single time i ask i get the same response from the NPC

Does anyone know how to get around this problem?

Any help would be most appreciated

[HavocDS]

This happened to me a few times, i either loaded a previous save or talked to someone then exited the conversation then talked to them again, those worked for me, was probably because of a bug with MB2 not showing the proper animations after finishing.

[brewmasterhal]

That sounds like a likely culprit.  I dunno which mod might cause it and I can't check right now, but it seems like an error catcher that's been added in to handle npcs that get stuck in a kind of sex-ready state but aren't actually animating.  You can load up your full set of lovers mods and do a text search for the dialog in TESCS and see if you can figure out what triggers it.  It should be some variable/flag in a quest script that gets set and then checked in the dialog handler, but if you can get as far as figuring out which specific mod contains that dialog it can help you or someone else find a solution much faster.

[snarfies]

Cast the Lovers with PK spell, and use it to fix surrounding NPCs.  I find that often does the job.