[LE] Any Way to Making Cooking a Skull a Crime?

[sp0ckrates]

So I've released this mod HUNT NPC Skulls. Works great using dynamically added scripts to put the skulls in NPCs' inventories when they die and remove their heads when the player loots the skulls from them.

 

Now, the skulls are bloody until cleaned in a cooking pot. (Sick! Right?) But I'd like to make it more immersive. I'd like to make it a minor crime to cook a skull in someone's cooking pot, like the one in the Bannered Mare. It would be sweet to have a script treat the skull washing like the trespassing crime, so people shout, "You need to leave!" and the guard arrests the player if she doesn't.

 

Anyone have an idea how I might begin to figure out how to do this?

 

(I'd be happy to share the skulls as a mod resource with someone who has the solution.)

Edited October 18, 2017 by sp0ckrates

[JonathanOstrus]

You can add bounty via script but you need to determine the faction. The simplest way is to attach a script to the newly crafted item. So I presume this as follows. You have 2 misc items; one bloody skull and one cleaned skull. Then you have a crafting recipe for making a clean skull using a bloody skull as the cooking ingredient. You would edit the misc object for cleaned skull and add a new script. Something like this could be used as a base. Note: It is not ready to use as it uses a hardcoded faction for the crime. I don't know how to detect the crime faction for an arbitrary location the player may be standing in.

Scriptname AddBountyOnPickup Extends ObjectReference
 
;This can be removed if the value is hardcoded instead
int Property BountyValue auto
{How much bounty to add when acquired}
 
Faction Property BountyFaction auto
{What faction to add bounty to}
 
bool Property RunOnce = true auto
{Only run one time}
 
;local script var to 
bool AlreadyRun = false
 
Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)
    if !AlreadyRun
        BountyFaction.ModCrimeGold(BountyValue, abViolent = False)
    endif
    if RunOnce
        AlreadyRun = true
    endif
EndEvent

[sp0ckrates]

 

You can add bounty via script but you need to determine the faction. The simplest way is to attach a script to the newly crafted item. So I presume this as follows. You have 2 misc items; one bloody skull and one cleaned skull. Then you have a crafting recipe for making a clean skull using a bloody skull as the cooking ingredient. You would edit the misc object for cleaned skull and add a new script. Something like this could be used as a base. Note: It is not ready to use as it uses a hardcoded faction for the crime. I don't know how to detect the crime faction for an arbitrary location the player may be standing in.

Scriptname AddBountyOnPickup Extends ObjectReference
 
;This can be removed if the value is hardcoded instead
int Property BountyValue auto
{How much bounty to add when acquired}
 
Faction Property BountyFaction auto
{What faction to add bounty to}
 
bool Property RunOnce = true auto
{Only run one time}
 
;local script var to 
bool AlreadyRun = false
 
Event OnContainerChanged(ObjectReference akNewContainer, ObjectReference akOldContainer)
    if !AlreadyRun
        BountyFaction.ModCrimeGold(BountyValue, abViolent = False)
    endif
    if RunOnce
        AlreadyRun = true
    endif
EndEvent

 

 

Thanks. That's a start. Still wondering if there's a way to have the NPCs residing in the building react as though the player is trespassing and the guards ask the player to leave.

[lofgren]

You can create a story manager event that will detect the nearest NPC and have them react as though the PC has committed a crime.