So, I'm trying to do the Sanguine deadric shrine quest, but there's one problem I wait untill like 2am and we still don't have all the guests present. Most notably the Countess herself doesn't show for the party. May be due to her unfortunate demise on the road at the hands of bandits per my post in a different thread.

At any rate is there a summon character cheat or something I can use? Or perhaps just a set value command of somekind to set the parameters of the mission as fulfilled?

Console commands can be used in game to spawn anything that appears in the CS. However, i'm 99% sure that the ordinary command for spawning Countess Leyawiin will not help without also altering the journal entries (via console) which act as triggers for quest advancement. Fortunately for me, i haven't had to learn how to do this in Oblivion. Unfortunately for you, i can't help. :(

Are you sure Countess Leyawiin is clinicly dead?

yeah, I saw her body, picked a couple keys off her too. If I ever want anything in the castle I just sneak right in and pick it up. Unseen of course, but no need to pick locks. had I thought about it I would have used resurrect command on her when I found her. As it is I can't get a copy of her to spawn using the usual commands. I may indeed be out of luck.

This page contain the npc codes and how to add them.

http://vgstrategies.about.com/librar..._NPC_Codes.htm

However, I'm not sure whether this will solve your problem. I just hope you got an earlier save whereby you can add the npc before you get the quest.

Hmmm, I'll give that a shot, if it doesn't work, I've nothing to fall back on. But I can always make sure not to let the same thing occur in future runs of the game.