[LE] Riften Jail Prisoners

[Jrr1011]

I was wondering if it would be possible, that after becoming Thane of Riften in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, to add a speech option to the steward of Riften which could allow the release of Threki the Innocent, and another option to release Molgrom Twice-Killed, from the jail. After getting them released, both will be found at the Bee and Barb and walk around the marketplace during certain hours, but can be recruited as followers.

 

I already know how to do the last part, by creating new actors, using the originals as the base actor, but I would make some changes. The bit I need help with is making it so they despawn after they have been released, and a new actor spawns in at the Bee and Barb, and then with adding the speech options to the steward, but only after the player is the Thane of Riften.

 

If anyone can help me, that would be great.

[foamyesque]

Preventing the original from spawning should be as simple as disabling them. You should be able to set up a quest for this, to add the dialogue to the steward. Throw on a couple of conditions to check you are Thane and the prisoners are alive, enabled, and unreleased, and then add some scripting in the dialogue fragments to enable your new references and disable the old ones.

[Jrr1011]

Okay. And how would I go about doing that? I've never made a quest before, and I'm not too familiar with scripting.

[foamyesque]

Okay. And how would I go about doing that? I've never made a quest before, and I'm not too familiar with scripting.

 

There's a walkthrough on setting up a basic quest on the CK wiki, including dialogue, how to set it up conditions on it, and adding scripts to it, and I'm sure there's others you can find with some searching.

 

Dialogue creation is not my forte, but what you're after isn't particularly complicated. The trickiest part will likely be if you want the Steward's replies to be voiced, as because dialogue is silo'd by quest (if you look in the CK you'll find a lot of quests with Dialogue in their names, whose only purpose is to store that) even re-using generic voiced lines is a bigger hassle than it really ought to be. There's walkthroughs for that out there as well, though it's not something I've done myself.