Fanfic legends, Meet the heroes, the villains, and more! Options

[jack cloudy]

Yup, this mod's sole purpose is to put in characters from the fanfic section into the game as NPCs, possibly with quests, rewards and of course custom dialogue.


Black Hand posted some quest ideas recently.

"Trey of High Rock is looking for his long lost heir to Bal Isra. I should start my search there."

"Serene of Cyrodiil has told me where to find the Ring of Immeasurable Mobility"

"Simion Mandrake tried to assassinate me last night. Fortunately I was able to defend myself, there is this strange dagger he left behind before he escaped, it is unlike anything I've ever seen before."

"Sethyas Velas has given me 20 new writs for the Morag Tong."

While the quests are fine, I personally don't like to involve any of the strongholds due to their changing nature. And of course, I need to read that really big modding manual I downloaded.

So, do you have a fanfic character. Do you want him or her in the game? Send me every single bit of information you can and I'll see what I can do.



And just because the mod isn't complete without it, here's a little promotional screenshot. I call this one: Two Luper Alkads, can the world survive?

Note: The visible glitches are not caused by the mod. This is my underpowered graphics card trying to keep up.

This post has been edited by jack cloudy: Nov 19 2006, 10:55 AM

[treydog]

This is a brilliant idea. There ought to be some pics of Trey around somewhere- if not, I will post one or two. Basically, a stock Breton with blonde hair in a tail and a full set of glass armor with round glass shield. Stats I can provide if needed. Will also be glad to write dialogue- don't know diddly about scripting, though.

[Lord Revan]

I wonder if you could do this in Oblivion?

[jack cloudy]

Thanks, Treydog. A picture of the face would be really helpful. Where would you like him to appear? Please give a place on Vvardenfell, I don't have Tribunal nor Bloodmoon.


Revan, I'm sorry but that won't be possible unless someone else does it. Just like I don't have Tribunal or Bloodmoon, I don't have Oblivion.

[Black Hand]

I wasnt saying that those HAD too be the quests, I just was giving random sentences that formed in my mind at the time. Sort of an added incentive to having the Fan Fic characters rather then just a novelty.

I would like to have Sethyas in the Mod, though I hardly think he qualifies as Legend just yet. If you need a pic, click on the link in my sig, hes already in-game (No Hood though, rather people saw his whole face.)

My Idea for him? This may seem complex, but if you're able too, make him appear after the player is Grandmaster in the Tong as the Exalted Master, and have him appear in the Ald'Ruhn Chapter of the Morag Tong Guild.

Background: You may call me Sethyas Velas, Grandmaster, Loyal servant to you and Mephala.

Writ: Yes, now that you are Grandmaster, there are several high-profile Writs that must be fulfilled. We currently have one on.....

And thats where you can add some NPC's randomly throughout Vvardenfell, and kill em for some money. Add some 'bonuses' if the kill was a sucessful sneak attack. You know "None dared to report my actions"

Ideas: (Something I actually have) An Expensive ring with CE 15 points of night eye, called the "Morag Tong Signet Ring"

Bonemold Long Bow enchanted with Paralyze 10 seconds on target, soultrap for 20 seconds on target. I call it the "Soul-Catcher Long Bow"

etc, etc. If anyone has more Ideas, lemme know!

[minque]

I´ve got a lot of pictures of Serene, and I´d like to write dialogue as well....mmmmm great mod-idea I think

[The Metal Mallet]

If only I had Morrowind on the computer...

But it would be neat to see Simion Mandrake in there. Heck, you could even make him a villian if ya wanted to.

Makes sense, given his murderous ways...

I'll have to get back to you on info and such. I did post skills and stuff for him on that one thread that Black Hand made in the General Discussion section. It mentions FanFic Characters in the name.

[Taillus]

Oh man this is going to be excellent. I am going to love this. Hopefully it will draw more and more people into the Fanfics. Myself Jack, I have just located my face and custom armor. I will go on in an attempt to catch a screenshot for you and then we will talk where Taillus is going to show up. All in due time though, let us not burn poor Jack out. I have also stumbled upon a shoddy Modding manual myself in hopes that I can be of some assistance. At the very least I will write some dialogue for myself and any one else looking to have a character in this spectacular mod!

[canis216]

Hmmm... Always-He-Lingers-in-the-Sun could appear as a Blades trainer in Ebonheart (his home base). He could train the PC in short blade, sneak, and probably acrobatics. He's more or less an acrobatics master, actually. Of course, he'd only train for cash and booze. Or he could provide a quest to destroy the Suran slave market!

[jack cloudy]

Sounds neat, but I do require the pics. Now that I am officially expelled from school (till januari), I should have time to work on it.

[canis216]

Using vanilla Morrowind, Always-He-Lingers-in-the-Sun uses face #2 and hair #3 for Argonian males. I have pictures of him, but only while using AlienSlof's Better Beast mod. Otherwise, I can give you his in-game stats and gear.

Name: Always-He-Lingers-in-the-Sun

Level 18
Class: Assassin (stock class)
Birthsign: The Lady

Health: 135
Magicka: 164
Fatigue: 301

Strength: 69
Intelligence: 82
Willpower: 60
Agility: 105
Speed: 67
Endurance: 67
Personaluty: 90
Luck: 55

Major skills
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Sneak: 96
Marksman: 77
Light Armor: 65
Short blade: 86
Acrobatics: 120 (Because he scales walls, of course!)

Minors
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Security: 72
Long blade: 15
Alchemy: 55
Block: 15
Athletics: 85

Prominent misc. skills
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Enchant: 30
Destruction: 43
Alteration: 55
Illusion: 85
Mysticism: 25
Restoration: 32
Unarmored: 61
Mercantile: 55
Speechcraft 75
Hand-to-hand 66

Weapons:
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Unique daedric dagger called "Kills-You-Dead", absorbs health 25 pts on strike with an unusually high charge (30000)
Ebony shortsword
Dwemer shortsword w/viperbolts

Armor:
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Blackened chitin (no helm) worn underneath a black or brown hooded robe

Miscellaneous stuff:
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Absolutely MUST have a few bottles of flin and brandy.

[Black Hand]

Are you gonna work on this anymore Jack? Cuz I'd love to help, I do have a knack for dialogue apparently, and I have a way of whipping everyone into shape! (You have 15 New Messages.)

[jack cloudy]

I am. I'm trying to figure out how to do the writs. While I'm at it, I was thinking of making a large (yes, I'm ambitious) questline involving all of the new characters. I just need to figure out what kind of questline.

[The Metal Mallet]

Evil/Crazed Simion is at your service for that. He could be a potential enemy for our hero. Seems that a lot of known characters are assassins, so maybe a clash or in-fighting amongst them would work?

[canis216]

Well, there was a Morag Tong writ out on Always-He-Lingers-in-the-Sun... but he's also a Blade, which could make the situation a little messy for Sethyas Velas, who's both Morag Tong and a Blade...

Heck, I don't know. I still like the idea of A-H-L-i-t-S giving the player a mission to destroy the Suran Slave Market in some way--wouldn't that be great? Could have all sorts of repercussions to that...

[canis216]

Anything new on this front? Any way I can help (poor poor modder that I am)?

[jack cloudy]

Not really, I'm making a list of the characters and trying to figure out how to combine them. So far, I think it could start with Simion attacking the player somewhere after which the player goes on an investigation which eventually leads him to dealing with all the others. So while the Slave market won't be destroyed forever, I do think that Al can go with the player and do some mayhem there.

Speaking of that, I personally believe that having the fanfic characters tag along with you for some while would be pretty neat. Gamewise, it would be your run of the mill 'escort character x from A to B'. Storywise, it would range from escorts to plain out assaults/assasinations. I believe that the standard protection AI would be more than sufficient considering that the characters I'm working with are better fighters than the pilgrims/slaves you meet in Morrowind.

So, would 'escort' missions like those be fun or should I avoid them like the plague?

[The Metal Mallet]

Well when the escort is actually capable of fighting harder creatures and such, I personally don't mind the escort style missions. Perhaps it could be a series of escorts with the same person. Take for example that Al wants to hit up a bunch of slave markets, so you take him to Suran, take that out, then maybe you go across the river and deal with Arvel and Dren Plantations, or possibly get out to Tel Ahrun and free the slaves there. That would be something that would float my boat.

[jack cloudy]

Ok, you'll get a series of 'escorts' but not over the top. Sethyas for example will likely remain in the guildhall (because he also has a few writs for the Grandmaster and I don't want to mess up by leaving him in the middle of nowhere.)

As an added treat, I'll show you the current idea of the questline's start.



If the player goes to Pelagiad, he might meet a Breton (Simion) in the tavern. Simion talks to you and says mainly nothing, though he does give you the advice not to spent the night. He says that there might be a disturbance at midnight.

The Player(PC) ignores this advice and rents a room. The player should then rest till midnight. That night, a cloaked NPC attacks PC. PC fights off NPC and investigates the corpse which leads to the NPC being involved with the Black Brotherhood. [Topic added: Death assassins] Specifically, the DB had targeted the Halfway Tavern’s inhabitants for assassination. (So the PC is for once not the actual target. Just a case of being at the wrong place at the wrong time.)

Going downstairs, the PC will find more bodies. Naturally, everyone is awake and rather frightened. Investigating the bodies will bring nothing new, just more DB assassins. Talking to the the NPCs about [Death assassins] will reveal a man dressed in black who literally slaughtered the assassins.[Topic added: man dressed in black] For a moment it appeared as if he would strike down the innocent as well but he fled as if he was frightened of himself.

Asking people outside about [man dressed in black] will reveal that he ran south and soon vanished.

[The Metal Mallet]

Hehe, that sounds sweet. I really need to get Morrowind for the PC once this mod is done....