LE Strip Club/ Bar w/ sidequests viable or not? Need opinions

[saltricks]

Hi guys, new to the forum, but have been modding/playing elder scrolls for years.

 

I have a mod idea that I am willing to develop myself, but I need a little feedback on how difficult certain things will be so I can adjust my ideas accordingly/ find people willing to help on certain things I'll have trouble with. I'll describe it in stages:

 

Stage 1: A Strip club/bar in riften, windhelm (gray quarter), or perhaps solitude

 

3 Poles/ stage/ with dancers

-ability to tip dancers

-ability to become a dancer and work for tips

-lap dances for preferred customers

Khajit bartender serving drinks

A dressing room / bedroom for the dancers

Patrons

 

The problem I have with this will be in the dance/lap dance animation. If someone knows of anybody who has one that might be usable, please let me know.

 

Stage 2: Minor questline involving one of the dancers

 

SPOILERS:

One of the dancers is actually trying to pay off her debt to the college of winterhold/ bards college. You can choose to pay off her debt and have her become a follower. OR you can go to the college to see if you can convince their debtor to release the debt. You find out that the debtor is pretty much an extorter, and he's been getting money out of the poor girl by using the old "imaginary debt ruse". You can choose to kill him or turn him in to the guards. You still get her as a follower, and maybe you get some gold out of the guys pocket.

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Stage 3: Major questline involving perhaps the owner/bartender

 

SPOILERS

Master locked door in the back of the club reveals a room filled with dessicated corpses, body parts, and general viscera. Trail of blood leads to the cemetary. Waiting till dark reveals the bartender/owner sneaking into the graveyard, shovel in hand. You are urged to wait for him to return to his hideout to confront him or you can try to stop him in the act, which will lead to him attacking you / ending the quest. If you choose to return to the room, you catch him with a fresh human heart in his possession. He explains to you that he wants to be a healer but is terrible at alchemy and magic. So, he studies freshly buried corpses and is trying to study how the body works so he can become a healer through practical know how (surgery/first aid). You can choose to turn him in or let him go. Turning him transports him to the prison, ending the quest, getting a reward from someone at the bar. Letting him go lets him set up shop as a healer. He'll sell "first aid kits" and perhaps a minor gravedigging fetch quest where you dig up some bodies to get a permanent boost to health as a reward.

End SPOILERS

 

Might need help on event scripting, depends on what I can figure out once the edit toolset comes out.

 

So what do you think? Criticism, comments, worries, ideas are appreciated. I think this mod is the right "size", small enough for me to do myself, but could benefit from some extra help. I do have a few voice actor friends who would provide the voices, so I'm looking to really make this a polished mod.

[justice1000]

sound kind of awesome.

[RitchieTheMerc]

Yeah, I'd definitely like to see something like this in Skyrim. Don't think it would fit in well in Solitude though, too many posh people there lol. But I think it would fit in in the Gray Quarter in Windhelm. Problem is they don't have a graveyard there, but that could be easily done with the CS.

I'd actually like to help you work on this mod, with the voice acting. My profile is in my sig. I could also help you with the placement of the club/interior of the club. It'd be cool if it had it's own unique atmosphere.

[BCbrad]

Definite yes. Could add some side questd from patrons... go get me this, I need that. I'd really like to play this.

[Silentdagger]

That actually looks pretty good, but ONLY if the Khajit sells skooma. I can't find a decent source of skoo... Er, never mind about that last part... Sounds like a great idea. I'm willing to do any typing you need. Just send me a PM.

[kingchris20]

Happy endings?........TroLoLoL j/k but I think this mod would be a fun addition. I say have two of these bars, one in windhelm and one in riften, both with separate quests to begin with, and then an overlapping quest that results in one of the owners taking over the others bar, kinda similar to the black-briar/honningbrew story, except you would be able to choose a side

[EnterSevenSeven]

I am working on a similar concept for a huge project, "Sexy Maids of Skyrim", but it won't be for a while until after the first version is released that I start working on the brothel/strip club. If our mods do intersect down the line, I'd be glad to help out if you still need it when the time comes.

 

If you have Oblivion installed, I recommend checking out some mods that follow a similar theme. Colourwheels Sexy Dance Club might serve as an inspiration. There is also Sevennity that may be even closer to the strip club that you're looking for.

 

Once the CK is released, I suggest focusing on setting up the layout and scripting first and then move onto the animations. Most of the scripting should be able to work with a placeholder until you find the right animation.

Edited December 29, 2011 by Enter_77

[huntsman2310]

Sounds cool, I like how this actually has a storyline rather then just mindless sex thrown in.

[Etemnatus]

I was originally going to reply with "Go get a girlfriend" upon opening this thread but then I saw you actually added some decent thought to it.

 

I'd suggest you make entry to the bar a difficult thing to obtain. Unless you are the persuasive type.

Make a quest for those with high speech who originally intend to run the place or infiltrate it and end the operation at the request of the locals.

 

I'd suggest Solitude. Windhelm already had a problem with grizzly murders and desecrated corpses. a second case would just create confusion with the original vanilla quest.

Also, the owner being a graverobber doesn't have much to do with running a strip joint...

 

I'd also suggest you change the original idea from "Strip Joint" to "Brothel". Strip joints don't really.... Fit the culture in the game.

Edited December 29, 2011 by Etemnatus