All Hands topic: Project "Interesting Main Quest"

[simtam]

It appears that 2017 will be the last year of this "interesting main quest" project (by yours truly).

 

Call for contributors! All Hands topic.

 

Synopsis:

 

If the vanilla main story is called a quest line, with this mod it should be called a "quest-braid". Because it will feature two extra, intertwining story lines. So, this interesting main quest will end with 3 climaxes (all more connected to the dragon story than, say, DLCs plotlines). All completed will unlock some epilogue finale, and the manner of completing them (in-depth or shallow) and the sequence order of completing them may have stipulated consequences in this new ending; which may or may not feature yet another boss fight.

 

Still that leaves a modicum amount of leeway for us in how to arrive at these two new climaxes (the third being the vanilla plotline). So, whatever goes in might end up fit in someplace. To ease the contributing process from talented writers, I develop the Skywrit tool, a utility aimed at fleshing out dialogues outside the Creation Kit, which may or may not turn out as fun as actual modding.

 

Project timeline:

• winter - working on the internal tool for quest dialogues, "Skywrit". work on quest ideas, as well
• spring - rolling out the second plot-line and the epilogue/finale (assuming the first is more or less the plot of Vaticidal mod)
• summer - fleshing out dialogues, polishing locations;
• autumn - public beta-testing, call for VAs

Quest rewards:

 

(idea that fits the story) possibly a special power that temporarily grants the player new dialogue options to progress in vanilla quests, like the "Daedra Prince for Good Guys" mods and similar mods do.

 

... maybe more?

 

Skywrit tool status:

 

1/17 - yesterday I managed to add an npc with a single toplevel dialogue line. Crashed Tes5Edit dozen times before finding the magic words to do that :dry: