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Hello all, I'm having some really weird issues with vanilla Morrowind on my Xbox 360.

I've been having problems with the disc not working (it's secondhand so pretty scratched up, getting it cleaned this week to see if it helps), so I've been double saving to make sure if anything goes wrong during a save I've got a recent one backed up. I'm in the Main Quest becoming Nerevarine of the Zainab, and was in Nerano Ancestral Tomb. I'd just killed Calvario and did a save from the menu. I then went outside and slept/autosaved. I returned to camp, talked to the Ashkhan, and was killed on my way to Tel Aruhn. Upon reloading my autosave, I was in blue foggy emptiness. I could not see my hands or my weapon though I could hear my blade moving when I pressed the trigger. My map told me I was in Moonmoth Legion Fort, which is obviously impossible as I saved outside of Nerano Ancestral Tomb. I tried to use levitate to escape, but though my arrow on the minimap moved slowly, nothing was happening around me. Figuring it as an odd glitch, I reloaded the manual save I had made after killing Calvario.

Upon the save loading I noticed my character was floating above the ground, as if there was an invisible floor in the middle of the room. I cast levitate, which let me move back down and exit the tomb. Once levitate had worn off, thinking it was just another odd bug, I autosaved again, and reloaded it to check it wasn't putting me in Moonmoth again. It wasn't, so I quit the game for the night.

Reloading my new autosave today, I attempted to walk back to Zainab. I noticed immediately my jump wasn't working - the sound happened but I only moved up a fraction into the air and did not drop back down. I have 100 acrobatics so obviously I usually jump rather high. Repeatedly jumping just pushed me higher and higher up. I used levitate again to rectify the issue, but upon walking up a high hill after levitate had stopped, I simply floated off as if the hill was just continuing. I can go uphill but not down.

This is obviously very frustrating and I am not sure what to do to rectify the issue. My only other save apart from the affected two is some way back. I have not tested it yet to check it is okay, but do not want to spread this problem to that save. This has never happened to me before on Xbox or PC, obviously I am running no mods because this is base game for Xbox, not even GOTY. Nothing is boosting my acrobatics skill at all, I've checked to make sure. Going in and out of buildings has not worked. I don't know what to do.

There could be so many things going wrong it isn't funny. And having a beat up copy on top of it all doesn't help. It's going to be difficult to zero in on the catalyst here without more information.

I will say, never count on autosaves. And it's always preferable to make a new file after every session, rather than repeatedly saving over old files. This is doubly important with the Xbox version, since you lack the software required to clean your saves. I can't stress this enough. It's not worth the risk of ending up with a corrupted file.

I've been trying to clear out saves and re-save rather than saving over after reading around to try and help. I was possibly levitating at the time of the initial death that took me back to the autosave, I'm not certain. I was killed by magic from some crazy magician ladies around a campfire. I don't know if any of that contributes.

I'm wearing full glass minus the gauntlets, as I'm wearing the ones that boost strength by 20pts and agility by 20pts. I'm wearing Hort-Ledd's Robe, Teeth of the Urshilaku, Mentors Ring, Moon-And-Star, Belt of the Hortator, Caius's black shirt, a exquisite skirt and Travel Stained Pants, which is what I was using to levitate. I'm wielding a Daedric Shortsword.

Saving and reloading temporarily alleviates the issue if I am inside until I go outside. Saving and reloading outside does not have this effect.

I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary at the time of both the autosave that went wrong, the save in the tomb, and the autosave after. In the tomb I had just killed Calvario and was standing by the chest near him, on the raised platform. Autosave wise I had simply saved just outside the tomb. I've seen some reports of floating in the air if you save while levitating or mid-jump, but I was not doing either, and with this you always drop straight back down when you move. I tried levitating into the air and waiting for it to wear off - Nothing happens. I remain where I am, but able to walk about at that level. Crouching does nothing.

My saves were 198 blocks, if that is also useful information

Its possible you just have a corrupted save file. These things happen, no reason why. Phantoms of the code as I call it.