Nonhostile Paralysis for "Billy Club"?

[fireundubh]

Since there doesn't appear to be a way to remove the Hostile flag from the Paralyze Magic Effect, how would you go about creating a, er, friendly "Billy Club" that paralyzes a target without engaging in combat or increasing your bounty?

 

Or I suppose you could force an NPC to sleep instead of using paralysis... Hrm...

[Abramul]

You could use a script effect that adds a Paralysis ability, and removes it when it expires.

 

The following should work:

begin ScriptEffectStart
addspell DarkParalyze
end

begin ScriptEffectFinish
RemoveSpell DarkParalyze
end

 

DarkParalyze is an already-existing ability.

[Povuholo]

Thieves' Arsenal has a club that you can use to knock opponents who don't know you're there unconscious. That's different from paralysis though.

[fireundubh]

The problem with setting an NPC unconscious is that you can't pickpocket unconscious NPCs.

 

I want the player to be able to sneak up behind the target, whack the target with a blunt object causing the target to fall into a paralytic sleep, and then proceed to successfully pickpocket the target--no harm, no foul.

 

There doesn't appear to be a way to do that though... :\

[Povuholo]

It's been a while since I used Thieves' Arsenal, but I think the unconscious state the npc is in by clubbing him is different from that of 'killed' essential NPC's. I think you can still loot them.

[markaedw]

try this idea I had.

 

First add a positive encaahntment. like fortify health on touch, then the parylize on touch. This way the spell reegisters as a freindly enchantment, istead of a hostile attack.