Vilja isn't sleeping.

[Aidan]

Been travelling a week with Vilja now, and she's a very lively (and very useful) companion. Haven't had any major problems with her, but of late she seems to have developed insomnia.

Whilst on the first night of our travelling together I had no problem - I just put down two bedrolls and she appropriated one - since I have been staying at inns and guildhouses, Vilja hasn't got a moment's sleep.

I am using Emma's own companion friendly inns mod to add additional beds. I do take Vilja and say 'this is your bed' (She gives the usual reply). But at 6 in the morning (upon my waking up) Vilja runs into the room and tells me there's nowhere she'd like to sleep.

Now, I don't even recieve complaints that there are no free beds... I just find Vilja sitting around doing absolutely nothing wherever I left her the night before.

Now I'm always big on realism in 1st person RPGs, and while I admire my companion's ability to go five days without sleep and still be insufferably chirpy, it would be good if she could get a few hours' kip when I do.

Any way to remedy this?

-Aidan.

. . .

Also, one other tiny issue (which is really no matter, but I thought I'd bring to your attention): Having told Vilja to avoid fighting (I didn't want her to kill the little wolfsies whose den I was invading) I initiated dialogue with her while being attacked by wolves and chose to reply "Do you need some help" with "nevermind". Presumably this should leave her combat behaviour unchanged, but instead it set her back to chopping up the poor little beasts. Of course it took just a few seconds to change her behaviour again, but if there is a way to fix this I guess it should be done.

[Emma]

Did you go to bed before Vilja in the inns? In that case, are you perfectly sure that you didn't go to sleep in the companion bed? One bed in the inn is the vanilla bed - the only person who can sleep in it is the player. So, next time, let Vilja go to bed first (yes, I know she is a nightowl, but you can do this once just in order to check that she goes to bed properly).

Have you seen this problem anywhere else, or is it just in the inns?

I have never seen her do what you tell me about with the dialog during battle. So I'm wondering if the reason might be something else - like if your health was low and you just draw your weapon. As said in the readme, for realism reasons, she will refuse to stay out of battle when your health gets so low that she fears your life are at stake.

Or could she have been hit by something at that time, maybe a spell?

Or did you have Wolfgang in tow and he was attacked? She'll refuse to follow your orders if someone attack Wolfgang and Bruse. That is not a glitch, it's a design choice as we felt it would be out of character for her to not defend them.

Also, had you told her not to fight at all, or not to fight unless attacked? If the latter was the case, she will start fighting as soon as she is attacked, or as soon as your health start to lower or as soon as you draw your weapon, thereby signaling an attack.

->I'm moving this topic to the Oblivion section where it belongs.<- Temporary brain failure... the topic of course belongs here

[marek0712]

Did you guys mind a little joke?

Stop giving Vilja too much coffee with guarana.

[Emma]

Hehe, I think her coffein level is probably a minor problem compared to her adrenalin level after spending the day dungeoncrawling

(could be strawberry abstinence, too)

[Aidan]

... Heh, I total forgot to reply to this. Thanks for the help, I've managed to get Vilja to sleep most of the time now.

Regarding the combat thing: Maybe I was badly injured, but I don't thinks so. I like to practice restoration magic whenever possible (Yay! a paper cut! *cast cure minor wounds*). I didn't have Wolfgang either... in fact who is Wolfgang? Someone I've yet to encounter?
To be honest it wasn't a real hindrance, so I didn't think to recreate the scenario to see if the problem happened again.

-A.