I've been working on this for quite sometime now but haven't made a WIP here. This compainion mod is born from my desire to have a companion that doesn't out shine my player. Carrie Irrietie has many of the feature of modern companions. One thing she lacks is companion share. Instead she carries a sack that the player can use. In this manner the player will not be able to dress her up. Carrie has specific taste in clothing and will, given the generosity of the player, acquire an attractive wardrobe. She picks out outfits appropriate to her suroundins. When it rains, she'll put on a hooded robe. When she's swimming, she's don a swimsuit. When she's in the wilderness she'll put on a bit of armor.

Carrie is an alchemist and can make potions for restore health, water breathing, levitation and cure disease. The player gives her the ingredients and she'll keep, share with the playeror give the potions to the player. She'll have a few quest to improve her alchemy.

There is a http://www.fliggerty.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=946 with pictures.

Have been lurking at GHF just to watch the progress on this character - some nice new features - I like the idea of your NPC picking her own outfits to suit the environment - bet she does rapid changes in the Bitter Coast with it's rainy days - have always wished someone would do a clothes mod that at least switchd all the NPC's into having umbrellas or raincoats when it rained instead of wandering around in their shirts.

Nice she can make he own potions too

Sounds like a very unique and enjoyable companion; I'm looking forward to when this is done!

I said it before in GHF and I'll say it again. She sounds like she'll be the perfect companion for my character. Eagerly awaiting completion. ^^

I hear she's going to have some great dialogue. :hehe:

I owe Jac a big appology in posting this I neglected to mention that he has been polishing the dialog that I've written. As many of you will be aware Jac is an excellent writer and his input has been a major improvement to Carrie. Thank you, Jac, and please accept my apology for not mentioning you in the initial post.

I'm just glad you like the new dialogue.

Now this sounds rather cool. Thanks guys! :thumbsup:

I like the idea of having an alchemist companion. Cool idea!

It does sound very good.

Thanks for all the positive feed back. Right now I'm slowly patching together a series of quests where Carrie joins the mages guild. Never the one to take orders well she promply enlist the player to complete her assigned task. The major hold up on this mod is my lack of creative writting talent. If anyone would like to contributte a line or more of commentarry check out the profile and sample dialog on the GHF thread. I reserve the right to fold, spindle, mutilate or otherwise alter anything Carrie may chose to say.

:meh:

BTW, what did you think about the dialogue I changed?

I'm not sure about the joining the mage's guild dialog, I'm still mulling it over. the comberry dialog is good.

Give me a couple of days and I'll see if I can come up with something else.

Work is still continuing although at my usual gliacial pace. At present I'm still writing the dialog for the "Carrie Joins the Mage's Guild" story arc. In this section of the story Carrie would like to receive training from the Guild's best alchemist. She discovers the trainer won't train non-members so she enlists the player's aid in joining and advancing rank within the Mage's Guild. Writing this dialog is complicated by the need to not interfere with the original mages guild quest lines. The player will be able to go through this story arc before during or after doing the Mage Guild quests from the original game. Consideration is also taken for the event that the player has killed any of the new quest givers.

more to come it's time for work.

Sorry. But felt I had to clear it out, this "Carrie", doesn't be any mean have relations to a certain little girl in Stephen Kings novel's? :unsure:

@verm1n no

For some of the quest Carrie will be given a duty by one othe Guild's original quest givers. In Vivec Carrie is tasked with taking an inventory of the Guild's bottles (patterned after the Guild Guide's comment in her greeting). This quest can be activated before during or after the player completes the Mage's Guild quests that Trebonius gives the player. Another quest giver is Edwina in Ald-ruhn and will have the character's testing out a little something she put together. This quest builds upon Edwina's intrest in the dwemer. It is possible for a player adding Carrie into an existing game to make completing this story arc impossible to complete by having killed off enough of the quest givers.

Completion of the Mage's guild story arc then leads Carrie to seek out the master alchemist. A couple of quests here will then lead to Carrie being able to get training from the master alchemist.

Well I just want to know why her shack fell over in the swamp?

You have some nice dialogue going on



I thought that was quite sweet

(heehee and didn't need spellchecking either)

As to why her shack fell over, I can give two different answers. From the story-teller perspective it is a feeble plot devise to provide motive for Carrie to join the player. The reasoning from the fictional perspective of the story is that Carrie's shack was poorly supported and not well maintained. Carrie has a little bit of an attitude problem and as such has been relegated to the outskirts of the community. This also hampers her income as she finds some potential customer's unwilling to deal with her. Without maintenance the support of the shack had rotted and led two it's eventual collapse. Mostly likely this occured when the residence of Hla Oad gathered together inside her shack look for pillage during Carrie's time in jail.

I'm glad that you like the flower feature. I will also be adding in the option to give Carrie jewelry. Also pending developement will be a romantic story line and compatability with the Romance Mod. As has been mentioned elsewhere Carrie is a bit head-strong. She does not respond well to persuation. Simularly romancing her will be a more involved process. At the core of her romance features will be limitations on how soon she can be swayed. She is not easy and will not consider intimacies with just anyone. For users of the Romance mod her romance scores will be restricted by her friendship scoring and her eroticism scores are limited by her romantic scores. Further she won't disregard the relationships she's built so easily. The romance mod can be easily broke under a verity of circumstances. A simple bit of scripting allows the player to talk it over with Carrie in such an event to restore the relationship. Without the Romance mod the romance plot will still be available though perhaps not as deep.

As I continue to work on this project my respect for Katerie, Jac and others who have made such advanced companions continues to grow. Carrie doesn't have the depth of dialog as either Julan or Jasmine have. I'm not that good of a writer, so I must give a great deal of credit to Jac for polishing my rough drafts into the gems that should define this work.

Here is a bit of a teaser on one of the quests that is still in the planning stage:
Carrie: "By the Nine! Doesn't that n'wah know that I'm an alcemist and not a mystic? Don't kill it yet %PCName! I still can't get the Soul Trap spell to work!"

Just from that line of dialogue, I can see my character jogging backwards, frantically warding off a daedroth, while hissing at her to hurry up. And Julan standing to one side laughing and making snide comments.

An initial http://www.fliggerty.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2193 of this mod is now available at GHF.

Great, I've been looking forward to this!

Not to be a stick in the mud, but wouldn't female dialogue be better written by a female? Truth is, men really have no clue how birds think. Your scripted features sound awesome though.

Through out history numerous male writers have written convincing female characters. Numerous female writers have written convincing male characters. I won't claim to be the most talented of writters. I do have a good basic understanding of the female mind (as much as is possible for a male anyway) but by no means an expert. Jac, the creater of Jasmine, has been a considerable help in creating Carrie. I would certainly welcome the input of the femanine persuasion. For samples of the dialog you can check the WIP thread on GHF as linked in the 1st post above.

...Clearly. :facepalm:

(You know, I used to hear this a lot, as a writer, though it was usually the other way around--that women writers can't write male characters, because they're not male, and have no idea how men think. It's sixist whichever way you spin it, IMHO, not to mention a lot of hogwash. That's just one of the challenges of writing: writing in a voice that isn't yours, whether it's someone of a different gender or the same. From what I've seen of this mod so far, Nicholiathan is doing a fine job at that.)