Right now, I'm able to do essentially a player.GetLocation() and get that Location object. What I'm trying to do now is set an NPC's location to the same as mine. I don't see anything like actor.SetLocation(Location) or anything like that. How do I set that?

Have you tried MoveTo or maybe PathToReference?

Elias is right. It doesn't really sound like you've fully understood what Locations are? An actor's current location is the the Location of the cell that the actor is currently in. That means you would have to move the actor the right cell for him to have the right location.

Yes this is what I meant. I couldn't find a way to move that actor to the same Cell as me - the only thing remotely close was to SetLocation to me with an offset - this seems to move them at least to the same Cell I'm in.

YourActorProperty.MoveTo ( Game.GetPlayer (), 0, 0, 0, true )

the zeros are x- y- and z- offset in units, if you want your npc to appear AT and not IN the player, you'll want to exchange some of these with nice values of your likings

edit: and maybe leave the "true" out in this case. that's for "match rotation", might not be what one wants for an actor)

Thanks, s7o - this is probably how I'll end up doing it. Would you happen to know anything about playing animations?

depends what it is.

generally, you might want take a look into anything that starts with "play.." on http://www.creationkit.com/Category:Papyrus (scroll down!)...