[Relz] More Adoring Fans

Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:56 am

http://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/46267/

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More Adoring Fans v1.0
Author: tegeus-Cromis
1 July 2015

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It's not fair. It just isn't. You risk life, limb - and sometimes the loss of your very soul - either saving the world from Daedric imperialism/imminent necromantic zombification/revanchist Ayleid princelings; redistributing the ill-gotten gains of the bloated plutocracy to the deserving poor; or just preventing underqualified scab labour from undermining the perfectly reasonable wage demands of hard-working guild members. And what do you get? A few trinkets and the odd bit of good will from the legion. A brief acknowledgement and you're yesterday's news.

Meanwhile, any farmboy/girl who knows which end of a sword to hold can take a stab at immortal fame. In the Arena, the opium of the masses. And should they survive an ordeal much less gruelling than crawling through just one Ayleid ruin, they are guaranteed universal renown. And the adoration of a certain woodelf.

Well, universal renown is hard to guarantee, but now you can at least have your very own Adoring Fan, whatever your achievement. And, if your character is the sort who takes on every challenge in the game, you can collect them all. Dive Rock may soon become a very busy place...

Requirements

Oblivion v1.2.0.416 (I strongly suggest you install the Unofficial Oblivion Patch too, though.)

Compatibility

This should be compatible with almost everything. It barely modifies vanilla resources at all. In addition, the new fans are all placed in the Tamriel worldspace, hopefully avoiding any present or future conflicts with Better Cities. (It was tested with Better Cities 5.5.3). No clashes with Unique Landscapes seem likely either.

However, an extra line has been added to the appropriate quest script for each of the Fans. This is simply to make them appear promptly to greet you when you make the grade. These could be overwritten by a later mod, but even if this happens, the fans will be enabled anyway by their own quest script which runs every minute of game time. This script also ensures that your current character will acquire a Fan even if they've qualified before installing the mod.

If they are script-enabled, and you are elsewhere at the time, don't be sad. You can find your adoring followers outside at:

Imperial Prison Entrance (Champion of Cyrodiil)
Arcane University Entrance (Archmage)
Chorrol South Gate (Fighters' Guild Grandmaster)
Garden of Dareloth (Grey Fox)

Final Notes

Well, it's the hottest week of the year so far in the UK (as of 1/7/15 that is), hence this mod. Far too hot and humid to even figure out how to run up a convincing pomegranate mesh for my Harvestable Fruits mod, let alone to deal with the mission creep that besets all the other partly finished gubbins I've got on my drive. So this is just a little potboiler that I had some fun making in a couple of days. Nonetheless, I may consider extending it. I can't really get my head around the idea of a Dark Brotherhood Adoring Fan, but perhaps the Madgod and Divine Crusader would be grateful for followers (especially the Madgod).

Oh, and if you don't want me to add a Fan to the end of your ginormous quest mod (you know, I think The Lost Spires lobby could do with a bit of livening up...), modest payment terms can be arranged...

More information

For more information, please re-read this document.

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rebecca moody
 
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Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:14 pm

Very well written introduction. Had to look up revanchism.

Mod for [censored] and GigglesTM it is. :banana:

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Brandon Wilson
 
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Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:54 am

It's that time of year...

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Craig Martin
 
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Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:35 pm

It's hot as heck here in Oregon, USA, too. I like the concept of this mod. Very creative. I think you should be awarded your own real-life Adoring Fan for making this mod under sub-optimal weather conditions. :)

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Rodney C
 
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Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 5:19 am

Nice! I'm not sure I am ready for that many adoring fans but reading the description sure was fun :) I will have to keep this in mind for my next Oblivion modding update. Are the fans all annoying Bosmer, or did you spread it around among the races?

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josh evans
 
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Post » Thu Jul 02, 2015 4:35 pm


Aw, gee, thanks, PW. Wow, my personal Adoring Fan? Well, I suppose there is Beachy Head - it's the nearest equivalent of Dive Rock to here, I'd say. Hope you're managing to somehow keep cool over there, anyway.

(I found the game actually helped. It rained almost non-stop in Tamriel when I was testing it - hence the dingy IC screenshots - which somehow made me feel much cooler. Mostly just the sound of rain, I think. Be sick of it tomorrow though, big thunderstorm predicted. Well, maybe - nothing's ever certain about British summers.)

Nah, all annoying Bosmer (can any race annoy like a Bosmer?). I actually toyed with the idea of making them identical clones, but that was just too scary...

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