Gweden Brothel

NameGweden Brothel
Version1.3
DateAugust 15th, 2013
CategoryQuests
RequirementsOblivion Patch 1.1.511, OBSE 20 or higher
OptionalShivering Isles DLC and The Talkie Toaster's Playable and NPC Creatures
Author(s)ghastley
Sourcehttp://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26346
Homepagehttp://ghastley.org/Oblivion/Docs/The_Gweden_Cathouse.html

Description

Changes the Sirens' Deception quest to allow Tsarrina to survive and restart her brothel at Gweden Farm. You are asked to recruit more girls to rebuild the business.

Once the player is Champion of Cyrodiil, a second location is made available in Talos Plaza, but that is not a simple brothel, and the quests are a little different. They relate to the early rise of the Thalmor, and the search for a new Emperor, and should be quite lore-friendly for that period.

What might not be so lore-friendly is the introduction of the Bear Riders in the crossover optional plug-in that adds Falkreath. That's one reason it's optional.

Location

Gweden Farm, but you'll find the girls in every city.

Details

There is a fake wiki in the Docs folder which should explain everything in a familiar format. Note that this includes the Expansion for SI, which is a separate plug-in requiring Shivering Isles, and Playable and NPC Creatures (for the Minotaur NPC). The one at the Homepage link above may describe details which are not in the distributed mod. The one in the Docs folder is a snapshot that matches the version it comes with.

Notes and known problems

If you want use a character that has already completed the Siren's Deception, use "SetStage MS04 140" to resurrect Tsarrina for another chance. This will also unlock the farm door, so that you can go talk to her to start the quest.

There are no voice files. I'd suggest using Elys' Universal Silent Voice.

There are known clipping/seam problems with some costumes.

Some quests are only possible at certain stages of the regular game. Prizna's quest can only be done while the Bravil Oblivion gate is open, and Juliana's requires Dreugh Wax, which is not available until about level 18. Dark-Eyes is not hired until Tolisi Girith (a Mythic Dawn sleeper agent) is dead, so you must be in the right range on the main quest for that, or she must have died earlier. To do Freija's quest, you must be the Grand Champion of the Arena. However, there are more girls than Tsarrina needs, so it should be possible to play the connecting quest to completion with any existing character.

All the quests for the Red Dragon Club, and Falkreath, depend on your completing the Main Quest, and are related to the early events of the Fourth Era. If you find any conflicts with the Lore for this period, let me know.

I'm working on AI packages to stop Falanu from following you upstairs every time you visit her sister. Nothing works yet.

Several characters change clothes at various points in their quests. These are sometimes not happening at the right time.

The bath in the sub-basement will get used later once I've done the required animations for using it. At the moment, I can't get the exporter from MAX to work, so they're trapped in there. I may have to learn to do it in Blender.

The quests for the Guild heads (Arch-mage, Fighter's Guild Master, and DB listener) each have one of the girls accompany you.

The quest for Miranu Hlaalu (Falanu's cousin) is dependent on SI and The Talkie Toaster's Playable and NPC Creatures for the Minotaur NPC. If you don't want to install that, you can remove the master with TES4Edit and omit that quest.

Install

The mod is now package as a BAIN archive, so it can easily be installed through Wrye Bash, or manually as below:

  1. Extract the files to a temporary location.
  2. Copy files in the Data folder to (install folder)\Oblivion\Data\
  3. Start Oblivion Launcher, click 'Data Files', place a checkmark beside the .esp file(s).

The folders are :-

If you have already completed the Siren's Deception quest use "SetStage MS04 140" to resurrect Tsarrina inside Gweden Farm, and unlock the door.

The town of Falkreath is built in the approximately correct location, just beyond the borders. You'll need to edit your oblivion.ini file to turn off borders, if you don't already run a mod that does so.

Uninstall

Use the command "SetStage GS01Brothel 250" from the console to re-enable any disabled content from the original game, and relocate anything moved. Then use Wrye Bash or

  1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the .esp file(s).
  2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.

Upgrade

From 0.9 or earlier - start these two quests from the console

You may need to start quests manually if you are upgrading from a version where you have completed the quest that now chain on to new ones. See the enclosed "wiki" documentation for the quest ID's. If you have completed a quest marked as "prerequisite", there's a good chance you'll need to start one via the console. In rare cases, you may also be missing a topic that was added to the existing quest to trigger the new one.

If you are installing this mod for the first time, the doors will have the correct ownership set by the quests as you proceed and the customer quest will be started automatically when there are girls to serve them. Do not start the quests from the console unless you already have a game started using an earlier version.

Incompatibility

The Siren's Deception mod supplies its own alternate ending to the SIren's Deception quest, allowing you to join the gang. I don't see any way to make the two endings possible at the same time.

Apparently The Blackwood Company replaces Viranus Donton with a clone at some point in one of its quests, in the same way that this one does with Maeva the Buxom and Tsarrina. After that, the original is not available for Juliana's quest. It may still be possible for both to work if you do the quests in the right order. However, it doesn't look patchable to make it work all the time. Version 0.94 adds new NPC's at Blackwood Company Hall after the quest "The Hist" which could be a further incompatibility.

The addition of the Leyawiin docks, and use of the Lucky Old Lady in Bravil, introduce a potential for incompatibility with Open Cities. This has been scripted for, but I have tested only with Open Cities Classic (3.3.3), and Open Cities Reborn (0.6.2), and there may be issues with other versions.

Open Cities Reborn or Leyawiin Reborn can both be used with this mod. One of the ships in the docks becomes the Damsel.

Leyawiin Harbor (part of Bananasplit's Better Cities) is currently incompatible with this mod because of its own addition of docks to Leyawiin. It is possible that a patch will be produced later that places the Damsel in the other docks, but there's not a lot of room for that.

Tanya's mod All Things Alchemical Ruin as Player Home will also conflict with this mod.

Most of the changes are inside Gweden Farm, where they should be safe, but there are some outside.

Known Issues or Bugs

While play-testing this, a couple of times I've found the door to the farm locked, and quest MS04 has become reset to stage 40. So far I've not tracked down a cause. Just reset the stage to 120 and continue, there appear to be no other side-effects that will interfere with the game. This may have been cured by splitting the quest script in 0.98.

Some players have reported issues with the Arena, and Freija's quest. This is a complex setup in the vanilla game, with multiple copies of the Arena door, leading to multiple copies of the Arena. I added one more, so the number of combinations possible is multiplied. I think it's all ironed out now, but any Arena-related mods could break it again.

History

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Contact

Best method is on the Forums at TesNexus or Bethsoft.

Credits

Tools Used

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3D Studio Maxhttp://www.autodesk.com/3dsmax
Blenderhttp://bende.org
DDS Converterhttp://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8698
GIMPhttp://www.gimp.org/
NIFSkopehttp://www.niftools.org/
TES Construction Set http://www.elderscrolls.com/downloads/updates_utilities.htm
Readme Generator http://lhammonds.game-host.org/obmm/tools_readme_generator1.asp

Licensing/Legal

You can do whatever you want with this mod, except expect it to work properly.