so, I created this dragonknight argonian character and played through the very beginnings of the wailing prison opening - this is before morrowind ever existed
that character has sat there unused while I did...lots of other things
now, I return to start playing this character, only to discover that lyris titanborn has been replaced by...some chick in robe. I have a quest marker to talk to her, but every time I talk to her she says that I have to speak to her benefactor instead
So, I leave to take a look around the zone (it's the zone with the security eyeball thingies that you have to disable), the berobed chick disappears, and now my character appears to be trapped in this particular instance of the wailing prison
I can't advance the quest (the questgiver shows up in glenumbra), I can't port out to guildmates OR my house, logging out and shutting down the game and logging back in always logs back in to the wailing prison instance, and the door leading to the next stage (the one you have to lockpick) says I can't interact with this object.

Now, I'm sure, I'm ABSOLUTELY certain, that someone at ZOS realized, when releasing morrowind, that some people would still have characters logged into the previous intro zone - I mean, it's OBVIOUS, right?...an inevitable conclusion anyone with 5 seconds of foresight would come to - so, I'm wondering, does anyone know what exactly I'm supposed to do with this character in order to either leave wailing prison and begin the vvardenfell (sp?) intro, and or continue the wailing prison intro, or what? because right now, he's quite actually stuck in limbo

yes, the irony of being trapped in a prison instance is not lost on me

thanks for any help - and yes, I suppose I *COULD* just recreate the character - but it frustrates the HELL outta me, because it seems like such an obvious problem that someone should have prepared a very carefully designed fix for exactly this sort of issue, so much so that I assume someone has, and I just haven't found it yet