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Since I had the Lucky Mudcrab screens pulled out to show someone tonight, I'm going to post them on here for anyone else who hasn't seen it and wants to look - some of these screens show the updates I added this past year!
The Grande Tour:
The Lucky Mudcrab Inn mod (formerly the Wobbly Goblet Inn mod) I made specifically for everyone on this site to all RP on – so we’d all be at the same location in our game, be able to instantly recognize the places/people another RP’er was describing in their posts when talking about inside or outside the Inn.
I absolutely LOVED this Inn! (and put a ton of work into it). I was just going to find one screenshot to show the Inn with (since everyone on here has already seen it anyway), but – it wouldn’t do. I couldn’t pick just one to get the feel of the updates in the Inn across. So here is the grand tour:
The staff at the Inn is a set of triplets that all have a good supply of items to sell, one can repair and enchant your weapons too. There are two Nord male regulars at the tavern that sleep in the staff quarters at night (and I added two different snoring sounds to them while they sleep).
Sounds: I added a lot of sounds to the Inn. Inside there is bard music (that the staff dances to occasionally); the sounds of a “busy tavern” when the Player enters; and when the player sleeps in their suite they will hear the muted sound of a dog barking off in the distance.
Outside the Inn: early morning birds chirping, the Weynon Priory chapel bells ringing on the hour, and at midnight/5 am/6 pm you can hear the monks of Weynon Priory in a Gregorian chant – Awesome sound!
It has a nice stable, the player gets their own horse if they want (and I always put plenty of personality in any animals I add to a mod – the Player’s horse and two sheep are VERY quirky and full of fun. The two black horses belong to the two men in the tavern.
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1375189916.jpgThe Inn is majestic, sitting high on a hill outside the Chorrol main gates.
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1375190041.jpg There is a small garden for the budding alchemist …
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1375190041.jpgAnd a small vineyard. Characters have come from as far away as Skyrim and Vvardenfell to have their portraits painted "helping" squash the grapes, lol.
Case in point: Acadian's Buffy ...
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1372445934.jpgAnd Grits's Jerric ...
http://static-3.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1374610465.jpg Grits had Jerric's portrait made in the vat:
http://static-4.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1379165762.jpgFor roleplay, nothing beats an Inn! Some people might want to roleplay as a maid at the inn:
http://static-4.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1376727721.jpgThe Inn has a nice Restaurant…
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps816bc01b.pngNow with two fountains/ planters:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps0c7d49f5.pngThere is a huge bathroom…
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsd6ffd7e6.pngWith a nice vanity:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsa2f25f84.pngOops! The chamber pot was used:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsa5752acf.png(NPC’s actually sit on it sometimes!)
The player gets their own suite at the Inn, with a continental breakfast included:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpse7a5b452.pngThe stews are actual food/ingredients that increase health and strength:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsaf23c7b7.pngThe Inn has Room Service (ignore floating potted plant, I need to drop that to the ground) - A Continental Breakfast is included with the room rentals and in the Player’s suite:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps2fb84dd7.pngUpstairs balcony area for people who don’t want to sit in the tavern area:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsf719642f.pngAfter hours there is a Poker game (and Still!) in staff quarters:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps364a7b51.pngThere is a nice Kitchen:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zpsfb38f6c7.pngA Gypsy caravan of street sellers and musicians comes by once a month to spend a weekend selling their wares on the street outside the Inn:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps1f5eb128.pngThey set up these tents along the City Wall to sleep in during their stay:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps8d01f49c.pngBrother Piner from Weynon Priory bought a dinner from the gypsies – he spends quite a bit of time out with them when they are around!
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps0125f5a5.pngThe gypsies break for meals, they need to eat too!:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps2119bb55.pngThe staff gets a bit tipsy and dances at night sometimes:
http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq67/Ma...zps3d8494d4.pngHere is Acadian’s Buffy teaching them some steps she learned in Elsweyr:
http://static-1.nexusmods.com/15/mods/101/...-1372445932.jpgRight before my stroke I pulled the Inn off of Nexus to add the food you might have noticed on the Restaurant screens and make a few updates to the Inn = and that snowballed into the Gypsy caravans! (Which later snowballed into "The Village of Weynon, but that is a story for another time, lol).
The food: I wanted more realistic food on the plates, I mean - who eats a raw potato and a slab of raw boar meat on a plate and with a fork? So I went looking for something to use, and found MEO's "dishes" - real meals on plates.
I LOVED them! Well, that meant revamping my Inn mod to add those meals. Then the meals were a bit too classy for a middle class Inn, so I had to make the Inn an upper class one.
THEN - I wanted the Player to be able to actually sit down in front of those meals and eat, so created a whole menu of ingredients to match MEO's meals. Every bit of food you see in the Inn can be eaten or taken and sold; and each ingredient has a very valid reason for the Player to eat it.
(for example: the effects of the "Hearty Oxtail Stew" is:
Cure Disease
Fortify health 300 seconds, magnitude 30
Fortify strength 150 seconds, magnitude 20
Reflect damage 150 seconds, magnitude 20
So the Player might carry a bowl of the stew with them, and eat it right before a battle. Some of the other foods/ingredients I created have a shield effect, a reflect spell effect, fortify speed, etc.
The vanilla ingredients only last 1-3 seconds, I wanted my heartier food to last longer, give the player a valid reason to want to eat it instead of just looking at it.
The roleplay is another reason I make every character or animal have a unique personality - some quirks that make them interesting to know and be around.
Inside the Inn, one of the males will just suddenly start dancing - while he is looking at you and saying some of those normal things NPC's say to you (like, "You have the hands of a healer...") - it really gives the feel of a drunk guy in a tavern hitting on you, lol.
I've got screenshots of trying to rent a room from Vinja and she was dancing while she talked to me, so the screenshots have her head all over the place - I just kept snapping shots to capture it - and was laughing my butt off the whole time!
I have given the NPC's some special dialogue that may pop up late at night as they get tipsy - some really funny stuff - all of it from vanilla voice files, surprisingly.
The horses and sheep will follow the player around if they have apples in their inventory, and have some odd stuff they do - like escaping the pen to graze outside the fence, etc. Their idle animations have been increased so they have more personality.
I was working on a script to make them all go inside the stables when it rains, and gave the Gypsy's horse high intelligence and a script to travel to the Inn's stable if it rains and get in out of the rain, etc. I was writing that script and still beta-testing it when I had the stroke.
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AND - Ghastley made some AWESOME little mods of his own to attach to the Inn! Not just the Inn's (gorgeous) signs, but a wall poster the Player can draw on ("HEY! Who's been drawing boobs on my posters?") - and Eyja the Friendly gives her warmest thanks to Ghastley for giving her a magic shirt that somehow disappears when most convenient!
Thank you Ghastley !!!
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(and thank you Acadian and Grits for those screenshots you posted on the mod site, I hope you don't mind me using them in this description page for other members of this site to see!).
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This post has been edited by mALX: Oct 2 2014, 03:32 PM