Ever felt that something is missing in the towns and villages of Cyrodiil? Why are there no children?

Well, there are now... In fact, there are more than 80 of them, of all races and all ages. They have families, homes, full daily schedules, they are fully voiced, you can play games with them, give them gifts, listen to them talk with each other and other npcs or just watch them play. Their schedules are based on who they are - the wild-hearted daughter of the stable owner might go for rides on her pony most days, whereas the shy son of the Chorrol bookshop owner rather spend his time reading books than playing around with the other kids on the street.

In their homes, they have toys and beds, and some of them are actually expecting a new little sibling, which you can see if you take a closer look at their mothers.

I know that it is late in Oblivion's history now; the game has been around for so many years. And I must admit that I have had this mod as a slow work in progress for quite some time; at the time when I started to work on it, there arrived so many animation mods with very dark-themed sixual special effects, that I felt uneasy at the thought of that kids could be "exploited" through these mods. Still, I have shared the WIP-version with many players on an individual basis.

At this point, the mod is almost finished. But, as there are so many children, I could really need help with Beta-testing to look over their schedules - I would be grateful for some volonteers that simply had the mod in their games and looked for problems with schedules, animations, behaviour. Are the kids coming out each day? Are there some that always get stuck at the same spot? Are there conflicts with other mods that will ruin this mod (or the other one)? Is the voice-acting endurable? They are all fully voiced, but this was recorded many versions ago of Audacity, when my children still sounded like relatively small children, and therefore the quality doesn't match today's standard - I would never had considered to release this to the more unforgiving Skyrim community. Also, the girls talk a lot more than the boys, as the boy-recordings are based on what my son made for Children in Morrowind back in 2005!

Here are a few screenshots of the children - hope you like what you see.

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http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids353.jpg- at the Leyawiin swing

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids370.jpg- pregnant mother in Cheydinhal (the house is a WIP of mine)

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids382.jpg- mother and son in Cheydinhal

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids616.JPG- Have you got a sweetcake?

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids692.JPG- A new artist?

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/Child595b.JPG(one dress is outdated)

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/child580.JPG(orc girl in Cheydinhal)

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids316.jpg

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids344.jpg

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids347.jpg

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids378.jpg(trying out a rocking horse)

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/Kid477.JPG

http://lovkullen.net/Emma/OB/CH/kids399.jpg

So, I guess my immediate questions are:

Is there still an interest in a mod like this?

Is there anyone who would feel like very soon helping me to test the mod ingame?

So, I guess my immediate questions are:

Is there still an interest in a mod like this?

Is there anyone who would feel like very soon helping me to test the mod ingame?

I think this is awesome. I'm backlogged working on my own mods, but as soon as I'm done I would love to test this out.