I tried a lot of mods that do away with those annoying message boxes (e.g. Glassboy's No Chargen Message Boxes), but in each of those I still get some of the messages or (and) encounter a pause where a message used to pop up previously (like when you activate the bedroll in Census and Excise Office, so you have to do it twice, which is slightly annoying). So I thought maybe I missed some little old (or not-so-old) gem hidden somewhere out there that removes the unnecessary tutorial messages (there are some that should probably stay e.g. the reminder to talk to Sellus Gravius when you try to leave the building without showing him your papers) and all of those pauses completely and properly, so that you still go through the standard character generation procedure but encounter none of those... Any hints?

Skip Tutorial by cdcooley. It's what I use.

At chargen you have three choices: normal start, normal start without pauses and tutorial messages, and istant creation.

I find the last one incredibly useful when testing mods.