[Mod Request] Save Jasmine!

[Mazdek]

This mod description is full of spoilers.

 

IIRC from her backstory, it could be argued that Jasmine wasn't really a pirate, she was essentially a prisoner with Stockholm Syndrome.

 

Similiar to Skyrim's Save The Dark Brotherhood mod, I want to be able to use an EM weapon to stun Jasmine when assaulting the Lock as SysDef. Then after you complete the quest she could be located in one of the otherwise empty cells in the Vigilance brig.

 

From a technical side, I attempted to actually do this and learned that I had to stun her twice. NPCs recover from the stun slowly, so by the time I talked Delgado down she had woken up. I made my companion wait at the bottom of the command center, went into Delgado's room and used the console to move her (RefID 153A3) to me, then had a little gunfight again to stun her once more. But after I left the inner part of the Lock, she chased after me down the docking corridor and got gunned down by the occupying UC SysDef troops, despite having just been stunned seconds before.

 

The mod would have to watch for her to get stunned and then just prevent her recovery (set the recovery rate to 0, I don't know what the actor value or global or whatever that controls that), and turn off her aggro and maybe adjust factions so she becomes a non hostile prisoner.

 

Main reason I want to do this is that I like the voice actress and didn't want to kill her character. :) Anna Graves, who has done a lot of work in the Fallout games and Star Wars animated series', and was even a soldier voice in XCOM.

[Mazdek]

So I did this manually on a 2nd playthrough. Did the 2 stuns inside the Key and one more in the docking arm, before the SysDef troops could kill her. Then I went to the Vigilance, used TCL to go inside an empty cell and moved her to me, then backed out. Took her weapon and ammo and removed the Crimson Fleet faction (10b30) from her. That kept everyone from trying to shoot her. She stays in a combat stance despite using stopcombatalarmonactor on her, but at least no one is trying to kill her.

[Strokend]

There are a bunch of other points where it would be reasonable to EMP the enemy and simply have them arrested, so if modders take this on, I hope they'll also be willing to at the very least leave open framework for other modders to add to the other missions as solutions.

[Mazdek]

Darn, I was trying to post a screenshot of Jasmine in the Vigilance's brig but the board is telling me I'm not allowed to use that image format in this community. No JPEGs? Really? I tried PNG too. :/

[Mavkiel]

I really have to wonder why they bothered to add in emp weapons if they didn't account for it in quests. Tried it several times in missions where I had to arrest a person. Ended up having to shoot them in the head because the quest wouldn't complete.

[Strokend]

I really have to wonder why they bothered to add in emp weapons if they didn't account for it in quests. Tried it several times in missions where I had to arrest a person. Ended up having to shoot them in the head because the quest wouldn't complete.

As far as I've seen, it's only allowed if the quest requires it or else only recommends a non-lethal approach. During the Vanguard events, you encounter enthralled citizens and are told to EMP them; during Ryujin events you're told to sneak and simply told to use EMP if all else fails.

 

Darn, I was trying to post a screenshot of Jasmine in the Vigilance's brig but the board is telling me I'm not allowed to use that image format in this community. No JPEGs? Really? I tried PNG too. :/

Use off-site links?

[Mazdek]

I wonder if this will work. I shared the screenshot in Steam and copied its link:

 

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044632901

 

Guess I can't embed the image.