New Dragon Club, Oblivion -> Skyrim Options

[ghastley]

The Red Dragon Club in the Imperial City closed down, and its staff dispersed when the city was invaded by the Thalmor. The Blades took over the espionage, and you all know how well that turned out.

However, the other part of the business just re-established itself in safer territory - i.e. Solitude in Skyrim - taking over an under-used wing of the Blue Palace, opposite the haunted Pelagius wing. There is no entrance from inside, only a door off the courtyard, so it doesn't interfere with courtly proceedings, but is convenient for visitors to the Palace. It caters to the diplomatic visitors to the province, as well as its wealthy merchants.

I've ported the Oblivion Dragon uniform over to Skyrim, although it's only the 100 weight as yet. I cloned the interior of the Pelagius wing, and removed some of it, which corresponded to the part occupied by the palace bedrooms. What was left got a new entrance door, and a general clean-up. The upper level, which was just a corridor to Sheo's realm in the other wing, now has bedrooms, while the ground level has a bar, and the basement is a restaurant. I'm working on a dancer, with flute and drum accompanists, for one corner of the bar. Dance animations available are all a bit modern, and/or too wide-ranging for the small space.

The place needs cluttering, and populating with a few more NPC's, but the main task is creating some quests to go with it. I'm looking through the generic dialog to see what radiant quests I could kick off from patrons or staff talking with the player. No spy quests needed, as it's just a club this time, but I'd expect the Thalmor Embassy to want to keep an eye on it.

It may run into the usual issue of needing custom dialogue, and screech to a halt, but so far, so what?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Oct 19 2017, 03:09 PM