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The Elder Scrolls III
MORROWIND:
Westly Presents The V'Kai

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Index:
1. Installation
2. Playing the Plugin
3. Save Games
4. Changing the Face/Race of an Existing Character
5. Credits & Usage

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INSTALLING THE PLUGIN

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Manual Installation:

This mod is packaged/archived with 7zip. Should one desire to use
this mod, an archive programme such as 7zip, Winrar, Winace, or
Zip Genious should be used to extract/open the information/files herein.
(Although, if you are reading this, then you already know how to do
extract from archived files, so good for you ).

Once extracted/opened, just drag and drop these onto the Morrowind
folder in your C:\Program Files\Bethesda Softworks\Data Files directory and
they will go where they are meant to go (except the readme and Extras
Folder). All the files are placed inside folders as marked (become familiar
with manual installations, your game will thank you for it). You will then
be prompted to overwrite. Click yes/ok and the files should now be
properly installed.

Files included in the Data Files folder of this mod:

Icons FOlder
Textures Folder
Meshes Folder
Westly Presents The V'Kai.esp
Westly Presents The V'Kai README (which you are reading right now )

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PLAYING THE PLUGIN

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From the Morrowind Launcher, select Data Files and check the box next to
Westly Presents The V'Kai.esp to activate the mod .

This plugin adds:

A new BB race based on a marathon of creature movies I was
watching while I was making them (inspired and created for
fun with no purpose further than my own enjoyment of the
creation of them). Guess which movies and I will
give you a cookie or a doughnut (whichever I do not eat
first) .

Hailing from the realms of ancient night, the V'kai are a demonic race
bent on domination through the corruption of the denizens of the
mortal realms. With darkness based abilities, the V'kai use the
subtleties of stealth and illusion to invade and conquer unsuspecting
foes. Be it air, water, or earth, no realm is out of reach from these
servants of shadows.

STR - 40
INT - 40
WIL - 40
AGI - 40
SPD - 40
END - 40
PER - 30
LUC - 40

Racial Bonuses:
Ahletics 10
Acrobatics 10
Medium Armour 5
Marksman 10
Long Blade 5
Sneak 10
Illusion 5

Abilities/Powers/Spells:

Blinding Shroud(SPELL):
Blind Target Area:0 Duration:60sec Magnitude: 10pts
Drain Health Self xxxxxx Duration:5sec Magnitude: 10pts
Spell Cost: 45pts

Cloak of Night(POWER):
Blind Self Area:0 Duration:60sec Magnitude: 100pts
Spell Cost: 50pts

Breath of the Deepening Dark(ABILITY):
CONSTANT WATERBREATHING

Night Flight(SPELL):
Jump Self Area:0 Duration:60sec Magnitude: 20-50pts
Slowfall Self xxxxxx Duration:65sec Magnitude: 25pts
FRTFY Agility Self xxxxxx Duration:65sec Magnitude: 5pts
FRTFY Athletics Self xxxxxx Duration:65sec Magnitude: 5pts
Spell Cost: 100pts

Night Terrors(POWER):
Frenzy Humanoid Target Area:1 Duration:30sec Magnitude: 100pts
Frenzy Creature Target xxxxxx Duration:30sec Magnitude: 100pts
Drain Health Self xxxxxx Duration:5sec Magnitude: 10pts
Spell Cost: 45pts
WAKING DARKNESS(SPELL):
Night Eye Self Area:0 Duration:60sec Magnitude: 50pts
Spell Cost: 30pts



Also included in this plugin are a few sets of "mix 'n' match" armour,
as well as weapons and a pair of "static" wearable wings.
The container with these items can be found somwhere in Addamasartus,
which is near Seyda Neen (the container is a Giger-esque Egg rooted to
the ground).

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Save Games

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This plugin will not invalidate your old saved games. If you save
your game while this plugin is loaded, you may encounter error messages
when you reload the saved game without the plugin. But you will be
able to continue on with the original game.


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Changing the Face/Race of an Existing Character

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To change the face/race of your existing character without starting
a new game, open the console and type "enableracemenu". Choose your
new face and hair.Then, once you have changed your race, save your
game and exit. Then restart/relaunch your game and resume from that
save.

Changing your race will cause temporary problems that should resolve
themselves when you reload. Always save your game first in case of
unpredictable errors and save afterwards in a new file.

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Issues/Bugs/Mild Irritances

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- None that I can think of at the moment

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Credits & Usage

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Original face models by Rhedd, then altered by Robert,
then altered further by Westly.

Vampire Head meshes by Robert, reanimated and vampified by Fenrya13

Hair meshes by Ren
Hair meshes by IDKRR


Corn-Rowed Dred style by Geonox:
http://geonox.silgrad.com/download.htm

Better Body meshes by Psychodog Studios:
http://psychodogstudios.com/

V'Kai helms and weapons by Tarasaurus, from the Zone:
http://www.tarazaurus.com/zone.htm

Female V'Kai Armour Meshes by Zool

Arm and Back Spikes by Oriphier

Demon Wings by Anoldfriend:
http://www.elricm.com/nuke/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=308

Male V'Kai Armour Meshes by Reavance (Better Daedric Armor)
http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=3060

All textures by Westly

Thank You! to Dave Humphrey for creating NifTexture
Thank you NifTools for NifSkope
Thank you to the community for the continuing support.
Thank you to AlienSlof for initally pointing me down the
right paths when I first began making mods.

Permissions = none just yet, as this mod is subject to my changing it at a
whim, with new content and world support in the possible future .

Questions? Comments?

I hang around Planetelderscrolls and The Elder Scrolls Forums
with my given id "Westly". Seek me out at these forums.
Please PM if you have any questions.

Looks like AlienSlof's Giger Armour!

Sweet!

Dang Westly, youre making me stay up past my bedtime downloading all your releases at once

Looks like you were watching "Alien" and "Species". Do I get that cookie now?

Good job seriously. Nice work filling the forum up with REL threads. Are you trying to make it crash? lol

I know there are no permissions yet, but if/when you've made your decision could I use them in my Daedric Realms mod?
Just wondering, i see you used some Zone meshes by Tarasaurus. Did you contact him to use them? Just thinking those unique buildings might be useful if I can use them.

I ate the cookie (I got hungry while waiting), but you can have a http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/02/PeachMP8a.png (high in fiber,
with a good balance of carbs, sugar, and protein for sustainable energy).

Indeed, I watched Species and Aliens, but also a host of "knock-off" creature
features as well (Alone in the Dark[horrible movie, but I love the creature
effects], The Cave). Also Jeeper's Creepers (though some deem it a
horrible movie, it does indeed creep me out), The Descent, and The Care Bears Movie (OMG).

Let me see if I can convert them to creatures for you first (as that would be more beneficial
for your mod than the race as it is ). As far as the Zone meshes, Redwoodtreesprite
relayed long ago that the meshes were OK to use, so I have been sticking by that since .

The creature versions, if I can work them out best, will not be wearing the armour (so if you wanted armoured versions, then they would have to be the race, for now). For the creatures, I was going to have them as the winged version with only their exoskeleton showing.

Funny observations, out of all the mods I have uploaded, these have the most downloads (by 2 over the Kheran ATM, but before it was a larger margin). Save for the Corean Hair mod (which I knew was the more desired and universally versitile for all users), this mod is in the lead. Is it because they are dark and evil looking? It would be a good experiment (for any aspiring psych majors) to see what type of mods mod users are the most likely to download first (dark and arcane, or angelic and heroic).

Take Care, All :angel: