Gweden Brothel, an ever-growing series of side-quests Options

[ghastley]

I'm starting a thread in this section so I can move discussion of the development out of the Fiction thread.

The Red Dragon Club arc of quests is getting another one added, related to the attempt on the life of the Mane. The player manages to head off one assassin, but there may be others (which means I can use the same idea multiple times!) The Bosmer woman (archer) that was recruited to do the job is persuaded to join the staff of the Club instead. I just have to fix a few bugs in the AI packages for her Khajiit handler and then I may put up another file at the Nexus, and let a few more folks try it.

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This post has been edited by ghastley: Sep 20 2018, 04:17 PM

[ghastley]

@mALX: So far, the player just goes to Anvil and talks with Lathenil. I have the Altmer walking up and asking him if he's seen Rynandor, and accusing the Thalmor of being behind Rynandor's disappearance. The conversation ends when Lathenil spots the assassin and hurls a fireball at him. I was then going to script a guard coming over and arresting Lathenil, and the player would visit him in prison.

However, I can't (yet) stop the guards from killing Lathenil! The "Special combat" flag in the faction that he and the assassin are in (and the player temporarily, in case he gets friendly fire) doesn't appear to stop the guards interfering, the way it does in the Dark Brotherhood quests with J'Ghasta or Ungolim fighting the player in the streets of Bruma or Bravil.

If I get past this problem, then the player will have to survive a few attacks by assassins himself over the next few days. He'll report back about the infighting in the Summerset Isle, but without knowing who are the "bad guys" - just that Lathenil's group are not on the same side as the Thalmor. I may even plant a suspicion that Lathenil is involved in the Enilwen/Mane incident, or the trouble in Valenwood.

[mALX]

@mALX: So far, the player just goes to Anvil and talks with Lathenil. I have the Altmer walking up and asking him if he's seen Rynandor, and accusing the Thalmor of being behind Rynandor's disappearance. The conversation ends when Lathenil spots the assassin and hurls a fireball at him. I was then going to script a guard coming over and arresting Lathenil, and the player would visit him in prison.

However, I can't (yet) stop the guards from killing Lathenil! The "Special combat" flag in the faction that he and the assassin are in (and the player temporarily, in case he gets friendly fire) doesn't appear to stop the guards interfering, the way it does in the Dark Brotherhood quests with J'Ghasta or Ungolim fighting the player in the streets of Bruma or Bravil.

If I get past this problem, then the player will have to survive a few attacks by assassins himself over the next few days. He'll report back about the infighting in the Summerset Isle, but without knowing who are the "bad guys" - just that Lathenil's group are not on the same side as the Thalmor. I may even plant a suspicion that Lathenil is involved in the Enilwen/Mane incident, or the trouble in Valenwood.

Can you make him essential till a certain stage of the quest? This sounds like a great quest !!