[LE] [WIP] Follower Rewritten - an overhaul for vanilla followers' stories and dialogues

[anbeegod]

Progress:

Onmund

-Doing/Finished

Main story plot 100%

Onmund's Main Story dialogues 50%

College quests comments 100%

Civil War comments 100%

Main quests comments 100%

World interaction 75%

World Encounter comments 25%

Romance 20%

Facelift for Onmund and some NPCs 70%

Companions quests comments 100%

Thieves Guild quests comments 100%

Dark Brotherhood quests comments 65%

-Not yet started, will do

City Quests comments

Zone creation

DLC support, including comments, new scenes and Hearthfires functions

-In plan

Compatibility with Vilja and Sofia

-Not in plan

Misc quests comments (Letter delivery, fetch random things. f*** these kinds of quests. I won't do anything about them in this mod at all.)

Originally, I only planned to make the romance part of Onmund and add some backstory, and some dirty things, nothing more than Amorous Adventures - I never imagined that I'd be actually attempting something Vilja-sized (besides the AI and functions). I'm still surprised by myself, frankly.

With the new aim, more challenges will come through, and I believe I will be needing much assistance. I'm going to try to contact Emma and John, I hope that they too want to make the mods work together. I sincerely hope that Onmund will become another legend among the Dragonborn's followers. More and more ideas come out every time I open the esp, dozens and dozens of new sweet and harsh dialogues spoken by the player and Onmund appear in my brain each time I take bath. The amount of work is massive, and I won't release the mod until it's finished and perfect - at least for the Onmund part.

Demo is on.

STTP:

I'm making a male romance/friendship mod. I write the stories and make the dialogues in CK, but I need voice actor(s) and voice actress(es), and possibly more people who know CK and script.

Brief introduction:

I am looking for people who know CK and scripts to make a follower romance mod, that adds in-depth romance and friendship for VANILLA followers. At first, I only knew a few about CK, the best I could do was doing facelifting; but thanks to WraithSlayer's guidance, I know how to make the dialogues and very basic scripts. My major talent is composing stories and doing writing stuff.

This mod will add new locations as well, and might involve complex scripts in the middle and after. If no one offered help in these parts, I would have to learn making new regions, but complex scripts might take me very much time to learn, which I might just cancel the parts that involve certain degree of complexity; so, your help is needed to make the mod more awesome, and to speed up the development.

In the mod, the player will get to truly romance some MALE followers (and some non-followers made followers). I don't plan to make female ones, at least for now, as Amorous Adventures had already added plenty of qualified female romances, such as Serana and Elisif.

The mod is temporarily named Interesting Vanilla NPCs.

We'll do Onmund first. If the Onmund romance is successful, then we'll proceed to other people, possibly Brynjolf or Marcurio.

Features of the final product:

- Enriched vanilla NPC personality and background story
- Realistic romance with vanilla NPC
- Player's decisions and words have impacts to your relationship with the NPC and the whole story
- Flirting, kissing, and sex

Why do I want to make this mod:

I know three mods that introduce male romance: Skyrim Romance Mod (SRM), Amorous Adventures, and Interesting NPCs.

In SRM, the PC is unnaturally attractive. Every man added by this mod has irresistible desire to bang the PC, and most of them are similar in a lot of ways. They also speak unnaturally sweet, and I'm embarrassed whenever a man of SRM speaks to me. Only a teenage girl who fancy love stories like Twilight would find SRM exactly what she needs. The romance of SRM lacks depth as well.

Amorous Adventures adds 3 male romances: Vilkas, Farkas and Ralof. The "romance" of Ralof is not a romance at all, and that of Vilkas and Farkas lack depth; also, all three romances haven't even a single interesting point. In short, they're lame. But in fact, the author confessed that (s)he doesn't find making male romances easy or interesting, and won't do male romance in future; so we shouldn't demand too much in Amorous Adventures' male romances, as the author didn't intend to make them in the first place.

As for Interesting NPCs, romance is neither a main part or an important feature, so it shouldn't be enlisted at all.

Meanwhile, I also noticed that the romances in SRM and AA didn't provide much choices for players to pick during the romances. All of the storylines are set and the players just need to follow. To make it sound clearer- you do realize that there's only one dialogue option for you to pick each time you're going to speak in SRM and AA, don't you?

Basically, I have few romance choices when I'm roleplaying as a straight female, but to romance my badass Familiar Face character - in my brain only; and when I say romancing him, it's just imagining that we speak something about the last battle and then we feel quite horny and get laid. That's lame.

Therefore, I wish to add some solid male romance options, which are not overly-sweet, Twilight-ish or lame. I want to make male romances that are natural and realistic, interesting and not lackluster, and most importantly- they should have depth for players to think about and consider.

Whom I'm looking for, desperately:

A CK worker who knows how to script

A CK worker who knows how to make new places

Voice Actor(s)

Voice Actress(es)

Whom I'm looking for, but not in urgent:

Writer(s).

Modeler(s).

What I'll do:

Writing stuff, NPC making (eg. Onmund's family), making dialogues and quests in CK, voice acting (better not, unless no one is offering to voice act).

If you're interested in helping, inbox me or leave a reply, and I'll inbox you.

Demo:

This is the very first part of the Onmund romance/friendship storyline. In the demo, you will know the basic concepts of the mod, but it's not everything we'll be doing (say, quests that require "doing and killing something").

Please also note that this mod is NOT to be used in a serious save (playthrough). Its purposes are to show players what this mod's concepts are, and to attract voice actors/actresses to help in this project. The content in the demo might change in the future, so what you see in the demo might not be the "real" story.

This is an unfinished mod, and is supposed to be used in a separate test save. We hold no responsibility for breaking anyone's playthrough. Be sure to uninstall it after you finish the demo.

And to clarify, there's NO sex and romance in the demo, just friendship. You'll become intimate with Onmund in the middle of the story.

Lastly, all the dialogues are currently unvoiced, so it's strongly advised to use Fuz Ro D-oh while playing the demo. We're still looking for voice actors and actresses.

Credits:

Anbeegod for mod idea, story and dialogue writing, CK working

WraithSlayer for scripting, teaching me to use CK (this is very important, without that, this mod won't even exist)

Demo:

(Interesting Vanilla NPCs was the original name of the mod, so it's IVNPC)

Edited February 25, 2016 by anbeegod

[AvalorFreeman]

I'm interested in expanding my VO portfolio so I'll help out!

 

21, Male, UK with a baritone voice and ability to do accents.

[drewsbrew]

I probably can't help much with the CK, and I most certainly can't help with the voice acting, but I might be able to help a little bit with the modeling. I'm a beginner, and I'm working on a few things of my own at the moment, but you did say the modeling isn't urgent. I created a custom sword mod, Drusus' Sword (I'm better at texturing now) and I'm in the middle of working on a series of crime mods, keep an eye on this one for more samples of my work. I'm also learning how to script at the moment too, so I may eventually be able to help there as well. Just keep in mind I'll probably be working on my own mods for some time to come and I'm helping the Beyond Skyrim team here and there too. If you're interested, let me know what it is you need modeled, and I'll try and help if I can.

 

Out of curiosity, would you consider making this compatible with Arisssa and Inigo as well?

 

This mod sounds great though, and I'd like to see it come to fruition!

[anbeegod]

I'm interested in expanding my VO portfolio so I'll help out!

 

21, Male, UK with a baritone voice and ability to do accents.

 

Could you send me voice samples via PM, saying something simple like "Hello, this is my voice, I'm recording this as a voice sample"? I'd love to know your voice and what kinds of characters you might be capable of.

 

 

I probably can't help much with the CK, and I most certainly can't help with the voice acting, but I might be able to help a little bit with the modeling. I'm a beginner, and I'm working on a few things of my own at the moment, but you did say the modeling isn't urgent. I created a custom sword mod, Drusus' Sword (I'm better at texturing now) and I'm in the middle of working on a series of crime mods, keep an eye on this one for more samples of my work. I'm also learning how to script at the moment too, so I may eventually be able to help there as well. Just keep in mind I'll probably be working on my own mods for some time to come and I'm helping the Beyond Skyrim team here and there too. If you're interested, let me know what it is you need modeled, and I'll try and help if I can.

 

Out of curiosity, would you consider making this compatible with Arisssa and Inigo as well?

 

This mod sounds great though, and I'd like to see it come to fruition!

 

Your sword seems OK. Currently, a couple of items require unique models, but that can wait.

 

Haven't played Arissa and Inigo before. I'll check if there's any lore conflict between the characters; if there are notable and significant lore conflicts, I believe there would be few logical explanation regarding the joint story of them. My mod introduces intrusive and unique background lore about the situation of Tamriel.

 

 

 

 

 

I've added a few simple scripts that makes the dialogues more realistic. For instance, if you didn't have Onmund with you when you accepted the emperor assassination contract, he shouldn't know until you did the job.

Added a new branch for Onmund about having kids.

Noticed how wrong it was when I spotted the sentence in the Demo section: "(the demo) which is about 1/5 of Onmund's story."

It's less than 1/50 now. Deleted wrong information.

If anyone hasn't known already, Onmund will NOT tolerate any act of adultery, because I don't. If you're already married, Onmund will not be romanceable and will be rendered impossible to be sexually interacted with via normal methods, which means you can only be friends.

Edited February 25, 2016 by anbeegod

[GeoPiroi]

Following. Any update?