Solstheim Alternate Beginning v6
Midgetalien
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Installing the Plugin
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Install to your morrowind datafiles directory.


Playing the Plugin
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This mod makes the player start in a tomb on Solsthiem.
The tomb is kitted out with starter equipment and doesnt break the
start of the main quest (as the package is given to the player via an NPC)

In the tomb is a hermit, who healed the player. Talk to him to find out
how you ended up in the tomb and to recieve the package that starts
the main quest.

As in the nature of morrowind, there is a small nudge towards the main quest,
but aside from that you are free to do what you want

There is also a quest to clear the rats out of the entrance of the tomb.
So be sure to talk to the hermit before you leave!

Changes in version 2:

- Added map marker for Thirsk
- Fixed spelling and Grammer problems
- Added a shipwreck near the tomb ( just off the coast) to fit with the story

changes in version 3:

- Balanced the starting loot ( i.e starting dagger is no longer worth 1000 gold.)
- Added in more "weapons of choice" for those that dont want short blade. You can find an axe and crossbow within the tomb.
- Added another rat to the entrance to fit the dialogue that Godric gives you about the vermin coming in.
- Prevented the rats from respawning
- Added more clutter to the tomb to make it feel more "lived" in.
- Godric has new dalogue on various topics: bears, wolves, spriggans, werewolves, berserkers, draugr, solstheim and mead.
- Godric now also sells mead
- Godric now sells helath potions, resist disease potions and resist frost potions
- Fixed all the doors with the imperial shipwreck. They should now work as inteneded
- fixed the the Thirsk map marker not appearing
- Added quest to clear the rats from the tomb

Changes in version 4:

- More clutter added included various alchemy ingrediants
- Godric will now give the player 50 gold, and tweaked the dialogue to reflect this.
- New scroll added reflecting Godric's personnel Alchemy notes (using Solsthiem ingrediants)to get any budding alchemists up and running.
- Misc - Updated readme credits.

Version 5:

- Changed the Rats in the tomb to Snow rats
- added Dead guards to the shipwreck
- Added more clutter to the shipwreck

Version 6:

-changed starting clothes to bloodmoon clothes
-godric now gives the player a choice from 2 rings as a reward for killing the rats (one is resist frost, restore health the other is reist frost and resist desisease)
-Fixed spelling mistakes in dialogue
-Fixed Journal Spelling mistakes
-Made the last jouran entry for the rats quest the "end of quest" entry. This helps clean the journal up over all


Conflicts/Issuies/Bugs
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This mod will conflict with any mod that altars the Chargen and start of the game.

It is recondmened that you start a new game to use this mod (it is a chargen mod...)

GCD - its been reported that GCD could conflict with this mod. However the two "work"
together. The only problem is at the start of the game, instead of the menus poping up
one by one, they pop up all at once. Not really a game breaking issuie, just annoying.



Credits
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Midgetalien - For the mod

BLuebit - for chargen scrpts that were modified by me

The Wanderer for the Snow Rat model/textures

Special thanks to Beta Testers:

- Skye
- NovemberRain
- Darzax Var

and Gluby for pointing out further spelling mistakes
Also Jac and The greatness for dialogue reconmendations



Cleanded using Enchanted Editor


Usage
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Please contact me if you wish to use any of this in your mod

contact
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smn_mckay@yahoo.com

Very interesting, MA, thank you.
Cheers! :foodndrink:

Quite intriguing Midge, thank you for the release. :celebration:

There is nothing wrong with the file, its a problem that Planetelderscrolls is having in general: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/fullstory.php?id=163277

Version 5 is up - enjoy

I've already tested your mod just recently, but I don't know if http://a.imageshack.us/img834/240/screenshot03960273.jpg is an issue or not. As you can see from the screenshot the hermit is actually hovering in the air and this picture was taken exactly after when the intro movie stops.


Btw... Thanks MA for the new version. :bowdown:

nope not a bug - the NPC just hasnt had time to kick start ( i.e the cell to "load") You'll find all NPC's hover a little bit in the cells they are placed in untill the cell loads ( i.e you go through a door). The cell only loads after the player has entered their details

nope not a bug - the NPC just hasnt had time to kick start ( i.e the cell to "load") You'll find all NPC's hover a little bit in the cells they are placed in untill the cell loads ( i.e you go through a door). The cell only loads after the player has entered their details

You could initially orientate the player away from the NPC so it won't look so peculiar. :poke:

You could initially orientate the player away from the NPC so it won't look so peculiar. :poke:

I wouldnt move the player - but rather the NPC. As the player starts next to the bed rolls - which is because he is a crash survivor recovering - so its an asthetic excuse why I wouldnt move the player.

It wouldnt hurt to move the NPC though :shrug:

Orientate means directional facing - just turn the player start position so it's facing away from the NPC.

Version 6:

-changed starting clothes to bloodmoon clothes
-godric now gives the player a choice from 2 rings as a reward for killing the rats (one is resist frost, restore health the other is reist frost and resist desisease)
-Fixed spelling mistakes in dialogue
-Fixed Journal Spelling mistakes
-Made the last jouran entry for the rats quest the "end of quest" entry. This helps clean the journal up over all

Wouldn't another solution be to edit this section of the readme file:

[PreLoad]Cell 0=Imperial Prison ShipCell 1=Seyda Neen

Just a thought, might not be a good idea, I don't really know

GCD - its been reported that GCD could conflict with this mod. However the two "work"
together. The only problem is at the start of the game, instead of the menus poping up
one by one, they pop up all at once. Not really a game breaking issuie, just annoying.

GCD - its been reported that GCD could conflict with this mod. However the two "work"
together. The only problem is at the start of the game, instead of the menus poping up
one by one, they pop up all at once. Not really a game breaking issuie, just annoying.