I am the best parent in Skyrim.
Apr. 30th, 2014 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingHello adopted child who I have just picked up off the street with a promise of candy, and welcome to your new home! I am your new mother and I love you. Come in, come in! This is the main hallway, which is full of dead animals that stare at you. That heavily armed person over there staring at you while he sharpens a giant axe, who only speaks in grunts, is the Steward. He will be responsible for your education!
The east wing of the house is an unlocked trophy room full of dangerous artifacts, like that one right there. That's the Wabbajack, it's a magic wand that turns things into other things, at random. Mommy got it from the god of insanity, who is Mommy's friend. If you touch it he might speak to you!
In the north wing is Mommy's lab, full of things that are delicious and things that will explode or kill you, or both! That's where I keep all the potables. And the poisons! None of them are labelled! It's also where we prepare dinner because I didn't build a kitchen. The only spoon in the house is actually a fork.
Over here in the east wing are the living quarters! You get your very own chest to store things! I've pre-stocked it with the personal diaries of a notorious serial killer and a copy of all the different contracts on my life that have been taken out in the last few months. There's a LOT of reading material there! The chest is also full of severed ears. Mommy takes those from elves.
Oh, and this is your new younger brother Aventus. Say hello! Aventus is my other foster child. It's a funny story how we met - he performed an ancient and profane ritual to summon an assassin, me, to kill his previous foster family! So I did, then I brought him here. You two are going to get along JUST FINE. You share a bedroom! You're going to sleep within arm's reach of each other! Now, I have a gift for each of you: You get 1000 gold to use for ANYTHING you want. Aventus gets this magical knife, made from the heart of a demon, that steals souls.
Don't go in the basement.
The east wing of the house is an unlocked trophy room full of dangerous artifacts, like that one right there. That's the Wabbajack, it's a magic wand that turns things into other things, at random. Mommy got it from the god of insanity, who is Mommy's friend. If you touch it he might speak to you!
In the north wing is Mommy's lab, full of things that are delicious and things that will explode or kill you, or both! That's where I keep all the potables. And the poisons! None of them are labelled! It's also where we prepare dinner because I didn't build a kitchen. The only spoon in the house is actually a fork.
Over here in the east wing are the living quarters! You get your very own chest to store things! I've pre-stocked it with the personal diaries of a notorious serial killer and a copy of all the different contracts on my life that have been taken out in the last few months. There's a LOT of reading material there! The chest is also full of severed ears. Mommy takes those from elves.
Oh, and this is your new younger brother Aventus. Say hello! Aventus is my other foster child. It's a funny story how we met - he performed an ancient and profane ritual to summon an assassin, me, to kill his previous foster family! So I did, then I brought him here. You two are going to get along JUST FINE. You share a bedroom! You're going to sleep within arm's reach of each other! Now, I have a gift for each of you: You get 1000 gold to use for ANYTHING you want. Aventus gets this magical knife, made from the heart of a demon, that steals souls.
Don't go in the basement.
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Date: 2014-05-14 11:19 am (UTC)Unofficial Dragonborn Patch works wonders. Just make sure that the game loads the mods in the right order - Main Game, then Main Game patch, then Vampires, then Vampires Patch, then Houses, then Houses Patch, then That Dickhead Who Steals Your Kills, then the Dickhead patch.
Even if you don't use any other mods, the unofficial patches fix so much.
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Date: 2014-05-14 04:52 pm (UTC)(All I can say in defense of my ignorance is that Skyrim is both the only game I've played with mods and the only game I've played on Steam. On the other hand, I've put in 450 hours, so...yeah, still embarrassingly uninformed.)
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Date: 2014-05-14 05:06 pm (UTC)If you're just using the vanilla steam launcher, there's no easy way I know of to change the order - it's based on filename and modified time and stuff like that. ALMOST ALL mods will still work, but there's occasionally weird things that happen, and the bugfix patches aren't nearly as reliable at catching and fixing all the bugs because they're not always making the right change *before* something else changes it again.
I have basically decided I never want to play Skyrim without the bugfixes and UI improvements, which means I need to start Skyrim Script Extender instead of Skyrim-from-Steam *anyway*, so I might as well let Nexus Mod Manager handle the load order.
(Before Steamworks, "the Nexus" (http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/?) was the main place to get mods for games like Skyrim. Even now, there's a bunch of really good ones that aren't available through Steamworks[1]. Also a bunch of really bad ones, and a bunch of really porn ones, but you don't have to use those.)
[1]:like the ones that fix your "e" key to actually be your default "do the thing" key in every interface, instead of it being E sometimes then A or R or whatever. And SkyUI, which makes the UI into something that works with mouse and keyboard on a high-res screen and not something that expects you to be waggling sticks at it from across the room.