Brelyna's Summoning Fetish

[PlutoHimself]

I use Better Followers, and have composed a crack team composed of Jenassa, Ahtar, Faendal, and Brelyna Maryon.

 

Unfortunately, I specialize in Conjuration/Alteration/Restoration, and with Faendal's Familiar, things can get pretty crowded. Especially because Brelyna's opening gambit is to always summon a Flame Atronach, which gets hit by friendly spells and explodes like, all the time.

 

I've tried removing the spell from her through the console, as I did with Onmund's Chain Lightning. However, none of the spell codes given to me through the console could be removed from her with the removespell command. My next thought is to mod her directly though the creation kit.

 

My concern is that I will cause a conflict with the Better Followers mod (which includes sushisquid's Specialized Followers), or overwrite those changes. I've also never modified an actor's anything.

 

Can someone give me advice on how to avoid a mod conflict in creating this mod? And/or what to be careful not to do in general? I'm also considering placing this in the mod request forum and having someone do it for me but I'd like to know what I'm asking first.

 

Thank you!

[Mujuro]

You can try creating a patch mod against Better Followers that removes the unwanted spells, with this mod loading after Better Followers. As you've already realized, if the NPC has the spell hard-entered via the CK, it can't be removed via console. Essentially, what you'd be doing is setting a dependency to Better Followers from your patch (e.g., use Wrye Bash ESMify), make the changes to your patch mod ESP, save, and ESPify Better Followers.

[PlutoHimself]

Is there any other way to esmify an esp besides wrye bash?

[PlutoHimself]

Is there any other way to esmify an esp besides wrye bash?

 

So my plan is to copy the Better Followers esp to another directory, then use the CK to esm the original file. I create my plugin, then replace the esm with the original esp file in the directory.

 

Does this make sense? Or do I need to have the Better Followers esp flagged as master still (without the extension)?