[WIP] Pick- Fully Voiced, Quest Aware Follower

[robberfox]

Another follower mod in the Skyrim Nexus?

 

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I'm sorry not sorry.

 

The Mod

"I wanted to be a dragon when I was young. I thought I was halfway there, until I jumped off the roof trying to fly.

Ah, shattered my dreams. And my pelvis."

A fully voiced follower mod with custom framework and a 20 page script as well as around 100-200 implemented lines. I'm looking to get that number in the 1,000's cause I am a masochist and a sadist. Pick has a varied array of combat taunts dependent on enemy type and location, as well as a few scenes where he bonds with the player. Sometimes over mead, sometimes over war stories, sometimes over booty. And I ain't talking 'bout the treasure kind.

He features a romance quest, a companion quest, and soon will have a few side quests with other characters from his past (for example, an old flame that really wants to claw his stupid eyes out). Ideally, there will be some companion point system that goes up when the player finishes his related side quests or presents him with his favored shiny baubles that unlocks parts of the romance quest. Alternatively, a rival system that goes down if the player insults him or picks rude options when in dialogue with him, akin to the friendship/rivalry system in Dragon Age II.
However I have no idea how to do this. Which is why I'm turning to the Nexus in the hopes of recruiting a few modders more experienced than me to help.

I've laid most of the groundwork, but my scripting knowledge is... duh. So I need more help in this department than the others. I could continue on my own, but then I wouldn't be able to add many of the things I have in mind, as through most of this mod I've learned as I went along.

The Character

"Zenithar's balls! What, what I wasn't doing anything!"

Pick is a sarcastic bundle of awkward with unresolved Mommy issues and a penchant for buggery. His main goal in life is to have a good time and try to forget that everything is terrible. Nothing pleases him more than to sit with the player in a tavern and have a laugh over drinks, take a stranger to bed, and work off the hangover the next morning by robbing a nearby nobleman blind.

He's been mostly on his own for the past decade, give or take a fair weather friendships, so it's a bit jarring for him to have a constant companion all of the sudden. Not to mention when that companion turns out to be the single most important person in the world at the moment. Afterall, his biggest problems before meeting the player was avoiding guardsmen and ineffective hangover cures. Now he has to fight dragons, end civil wars, defeat ancient evils, and come face to face with Daedric princes.

Pick is mindblown that everyone is just cool with these sorts of things.

He is ( to my knowledge) one of the only followers that bothers asking how the player is feeling about all of this. After all, you go from being a relative nobody to the Dragonborn, the fate of the world on your shoulders, the product of ancient prophecies. How could anyone deal with that sort of pressure? He takes great care in helping the player shoulder the responsibility placed on them, and makes damn sure he has a distraction to lighten their spirits at every opportunity. He is very much a roleplay oriented follower, and I'd like to flesh him out as much as possible, as well as give the player varied options that better suit their Dragonborn's personality (ala Interesting NPCs)

And that's why, in addition to fellow modders, I'm seeking a few writers to not only work on Pick, but on the other NPCs in the mod as well. As I mentioned, I have 20 pages of idles, taunts, location comments, in addition to the dialogue branches of his quests, and I'd like to breach the 1,000's. Even simple suggestions on things he could comment on in the game are greatly appreciated.

I want Pick to rival the likes of Inigo, Vilja, and Sofia. Though... obviously he might not be as big as the titans of the follower category. Still, a girl can dream.

 

TL;DR: I've got a sassy Argonian follower and I need people to help make him the sassiest.

 

While it is entirely possible that I can do the modding part on my own (I've gone it alone this far), it's the writers that I'm really leaning on, as I'd like to get outside opinions on quests and obviously dialogue. I've bounced ideas off friends up until now and very few have any knowledge of Skyrim's lore, so I want to get out of my little bubble and make sure everything is up to snuff. I've been a one woman team for a year now through bugs, voice actor discrepancies, and rewrites. For ages I hesitated reaching out for help (even now I'm not entirely confident in posting this) but after a long break, I've gotten back into it and decided it was time I said 'screw it' and reached out to the community.

 

I'd be much obliged for any help anyone can provide. Message me if you're interested on working on this mod and together we can make this sassafrass the best around.

One of the best.

Top 10.

... Top 50.

... A pretty cool dude.

.... Help.