LE Request for an 'End Of Life' mod

[kealkeal]

I have a Skyrim installation that I have modded and played for the last 2 years. It's a bloated installation, and I've done everything I wanted to do - completed all the quests, seen everything. But I added mods throughout my game, so my character and the environment changed through the whole experience. It was aweseme! I'm at level 50, I've maxed out my skills in two-handed and restoration, the only two skills I enjoy. I have all the houses, got the best weapons and clothing, and with some of the adult mods like the Cannabis and some of more seedy, sexual ones, I've turned my Skyrim into a really open-world vacation spot. When I'm tired and worn out, I jump into Skyrim and just go to locations, and take snapshots. I use the snapshots in a jigsaw puzzle game on my android phone. The free app is called 'Jigsaroid'. That jigsaw app keeps me motivated to wander around Skyrim, looking for spots to take snapshots. Here's the last one I took for my Jigsaw puzzle. Dragon overhead, as you can see the shadow and a part of its wing :smile:

http://www.shaka.com/~redsky/jigsaw2.jpg

 

At this point, I got the Skyrim Legendary Edition, and installed it on another computer, but mods don't seem to work. It's just something II have to figure out. I'm ready to play Skyrim from the beginning again, and I want to load all the mods I want from the beginning, and play the game and get to the point that I am now in my original installation, without the use of fast travelling. I want to play Skyrim as a truly lore-immersed game for my second round.

 

I have a hard time retiring my original installation. I was hoping someone could come up with a simple mod that I would pitch as an 'end of life' mod.

 

If someone could create a worship stone or statue, where you could take your character to, and activate the item. You would then be asked to type out your own eulogy of your achievements and whatever you wanted to say to the people of Skyrim. You would then die, and various characters would show up at your funeral would show up, and your eulogy would be inscribed on a stone. You could leave your assets to something like the elders of High Hrothgar, or your adopted kids, and they would accept some kind of token, and something would come up onscreen to the effect of 'The End'

 

Anything that a player like me could use to close up a game of skyrim. Something we could save, replay, and record with FRAPS to a video, for closure. Then I could happily delete my installation of Skyrim, and start fresh. I could view my video to rehash my original game.

 

Thanks in advance!

Edited December 15, 2013 by kealkeal

[Oubliette]

That actually sounds really nice. I hope someone makes it for you.

[kealkeal]

Thanks, Oubliette!

[Cowgoesmoo3]

Lol cannabis mod?

 

I swear potheads are all-too obsessed with pot. Over-the-top obsessive.

Edited December 15, 2013 by Cowgoesmoo3

[Shadeybladey]

There's a magick mushroom one as well.

[kealkeal]

The Cannabis mod is done nicely. A small store near the Whiterun stables, and you can buy a very nicely-done outfit in reggae colors. If you're offended by the smoking animations, you can digest the hash and/or hash oil, which gives you the fun visual effects. It makes for great jigsaw puzzles. As for the drug mod with the mushrooms and such, it's not well integrated. The visual effects are way over the top, and have no real benefit, as with the Cannabis mod, which allows you to navigate at night without the use of the 'candlelight' spell or any other light source. Here's the 3-piece outfit (boots, suit, and hood) standing in front of the quaint little shop:

http://www.shaka.com/~redsky/outfit.jpg]]

 

And here is a regular nighttime shot before and after having a little:

http://www.shaka.com/~redsky/nosmorking.jpg

 

 

What's nice about this mod is that it's all contained in this shop. If you installed this mod, You never have to visit the store, and it would not affect the vanilla Skyrim experience. For the fun outfit, which looks great when you visit the Greybeards, it makes you look 'special' among those elders, considering that they exist to serve you, the Dragonborn. Aside from that, The store has a garden which shows all the plants you can grow, wherever you want. No other mod has such a well-implemented farming process. You can use planting pots for indoors, or plant directly in soil. You have to water and harvest, and there's even a record-keeping aspect to show how good you are at farming. Anyway, enough with the Cannabis mod :smile: Thanks for paying attention to this thread, all of you :smile:

Edited December 15, 2013 by kealkeal

[AndyTheLegend]

Wow that's really an amazing story. I've always felt that it was weird for one character to do EVERYTHING in the game. That's why I've had sooo many characters. It was so hard for me to delete many of them, who've individually only accomplished a fraction of what your single character has. I can't even begin to understand how you must feel, trying to find closure for this character who's accomplished so much. I sort of admire you, as weird as that is for someone who dislikes single playthroughs of the ENTIRE game.

 

Luckily, a mod like this might not be so hard to do. There is already a funeral in the game. It involves burning a pire and cremating the body (being vague for any one who's been living under a rock and doesn't know who dies). That script can be recycled for your funeral. The script that's used in weddings to invite all your close friends in skyrim could be used to gather all the people attending your funeral. I could imagine it. You activate the funeral pire, it'll ask you one last time if you're sure about dying. You click yes and it asks you to write your own eulogy (kind of weird, but hey its your request), and then you disappear into the pire. The screen fades to black and then fades back in. The camera is now a free-moving camera that lets you watch as the friends you've made in your travels gather to honor your life and mourn your death. Its dusk, and raining. Someone of closest importance (maybe the follower you've spent the most time with) lights the pire. It slowly burns and then your screen eventually fades to black. It fades back in to show a tombstone, buried at a location of your choosing, and then fades back out. And boom you're back at the title screen.

 

Now someone just needs to script it :tongue:

 

BONUS: YOU CAN VISIT YOUR TOMBSTONE IN FUTURE PLAYTHROUGHS.

Edited December 15, 2013 by AndyTheLegend

[kealkeal]

AndyTheLegend,

 

That sounds awesome! I'm not picky about the details on an 'end of life' mod, and your ideas sound great! Having a tombstone in future playthroughs isn't something I even thought about!

 

With the idea of a tombstone, another way to do the mod would be to create a tiny building\temple, where you could go in and place items of your character such as clothing, weapons, books... and you could load a snapshot of your character that would be placed on a wall, and load in a text file that would appear in a book or inscribed on a stone. A place of worship for the character. So it wouldn't be an end of game mod - more of a mod you could install in a new game, load the snapshot and text files to start off the temple, and as your new character acquires the old character's items throughout Skyrim, they could go to the temple and place the items. That would be nice too!

Edited December 15, 2013 by kealkeal