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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 2:53:19 GMT
I don't remember all those Rigmor scenes the way you show them. Maybe the mod's been updated? Or maybe I just fast-traveled my way through some of 'em. It's the 'Reboot' version, August 2020.
My game play mode may make things look different. I mega beefed up and armored the PC so I could ignore enemies as a general rule. Then it's all about sightseeing, watching the followers antics, lots and lots of picture taking, never hurrying and weather and time having a say in what I'm doing. No quest orientation, blast through and get it done. I get a quest, I guess where the location is, then weather and time permitting set out. I only use the map en route to get my bearings as I have a lousy sense of direction. Basically, the difference between someone getting jobs done and a tourist ogling the world about.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 2:04:43 GMT
Rigmor Rescue (WrecksYou) Draggingburn pre child psychologist
Lets see. Ackolytes stabs her to death... I can fix that.
Oh great, disembodied voice infomercials.
Calamath, allow me to introdouche you to what you are diddling with...And of course, I've been pigging out on dragon souls for months now.
How many times before my banging her head against walls causes severe brain damage?
Whew. Out of there. The was the easy part. (Only fast travel allowed is game provided transportation)
Closest transport would be the boat in Dawnstar. I'm going to have seven foot arms.
Finally! Where you go, darling?
Progress at last! I suppose she might drown if I swim to the carriage.
GASP. Riften my good man. Wake me when we get there.
Another slog? No way. I've been meaning to buy a horse anyway.
Of course. Scammed. No horse.
Straighten out... If only Dragonborning had a job description.
Well aren't you all sweetness and light?
Whoa gal. Take a few deep breaths.
Oh how nice. I'm supposed to talk to a chair. (Glitched again. Riggly went the way of my horse. When did I make my last save game?)
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 25, 2024 4:01:48 GMT
They really aren't that great, are they? Rudi makes sure to upgrade his bows from time to time, and passes them out to his gang as well. Rudi's bows have more punching power than a crossbow and a higher rate of fire, too. Yo, grumpy tunnel visioned old man... let me get this straight. You want me to trade in my 420 damage super speed Zephyr or 508 damage dragonbone soul sucking bow for this piece of crap?
Incite enemies to come charging at you down a hallway. Zephyr, the Skyrim alley sweeper. Oh look! A tasty grand soul for my collection. Hot key 3 and come to mamma you putz.
Dialogues critiqued, with apologies to Janis Joplin.
Oh lord won't you buy them a dictionary, Monosyllabic is getting to me,
I wait for their fluency each day until three Oh lord, won't buy them a dictionary.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 25, 2024 2:00:25 GMT
OldRPMDaddy "Rudi draws a bead with his sweet crossbow, although he soon realizes his bow is actually a better weapon."
Mentioning this because I am already in a foul mood. By the time the average player gets around to Dawnguard with some smithing perks those crossbows are junk
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 24, 2024 10:50:41 GMT
How do I hate thee, countless are the ways. Fade To Black, five times. Controls taken away from the player. Blurred screens melodrama. I extend my sincere apologies, Mod maker(s), but you aren't even a shadow of a playwright. The effort put into the mod is admirable and it is enjoyable. But the dialogue, an uphill slog to droll. Banal, hackneyed, shallow, slopped together in weak attempts to show Rigmor is emotional but fails, leaving her as a childish brat much of the time. The Dragonborn is forced into a somewhat callous even more shallow role of a B- movie plot extra. Unabashedly borrowed from Jaques, I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.
Suggestions: Rigmor, Young at heart, but profound of mind and purpose. Her insights betray her steadfast resolute nature.
Dragonborn, A mighty warrior is known for prowess and skill upon the battle field. A true hero is all that of the warrior, while kind, gentle and introspective when circumstances allow. Shrewd of judgement, observative and sagacious.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 24, 2024 4:22:32 GMT
Just forking grrrrrreat. Retry #15 or so, chat with Khajit in Mara temple finally worked. Instead of him vanishing I followed him outside and he completed that quest and started the next with map marker. DOWNSIDE, Rigmor befriending a caged bear a couple of quests back has wonked out the wild animals AI. Some bears are non hostile, and when we left Riften all the deer in the immediate area were hostile. After Rigmor chased them across the scenery for 15 minutes I summoned her and she cooled off. So now each wild animal encounter may result in her dashing off towards Los Angeles or Tatooine. PFFFFFTB.
And off we go, following my usual game play mode, bright sunny day and gawking at the scenery...
Well it was sunny about five seconds ago.
Along the way we had a chance to cuddle a bear...
Without near flat terrain Rigmor moved at the speed of a banana slug stuck in the middle of a salt flat. The trip to Ivarstead took nearly an entire day what with retracing our steps every few minutes to move the slug along. No girl, giving me bambi eyes does not make up for your inability to step over a rock smaller than a rabbit.
Along the way I assisted Serana to change into her risque belly dancer outfit and dropped her off at the inn in Ivarstead. Maybe make the place a little less fraught and gloomy, and possibly add some funds to our coffers. Drag-on-grrrl was starting to cop an attitude with a constant stream of frivolous chatter and amorous come ons. Her 'tude grew by leaps and bounds when, in spite of our cautious sneaking, Rigmor-on declared war on a nearby bandit fortress. She was given a justly deserved spanking, Dragonborn style. She can't negotiate an ankle high rock but she can climb the battlements of a fortress?
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 24, 2024 0:28:13 GMT
HI folks, I managed to get in touch with the mod creator and they very graciously helped! You need to have the Hortator quests done too. Thanks all for weighing in! This is the reason I'm so leery of mods. They need a list of caveats.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 23, 2024 15:32:02 GMT
The Rigmor mod is pretty complex, and sometimes it requires you to stop in EXACTLY the right spot to move a quest forward. Your Rigmor above looks like Lara Croft with a Notre Dame football helmet on! :-) So the mod may be fine and where the PC is when talking to the cat... ?? Or after the dialogue and Rigmor is asleep I'm supposed to stand on the third roof tile from the northleft during a sunny midnight tryst session. With all the other checking, balking, and tripping over itself I'm not surprised. The mod needs intensive care babysitting every inch of the way. Some NPCs or locations get quest pointers, some don't.
Lara Croft... be nise. Several corpses gave up their underwear for that outfit. She is definitely not an armor clad type and most of the other foof just isn't for a petite cutesy.
Weird brother. His college days. What do you get when you combine 10 kg of 95% nitric acid, 25 kg of sulfuric acid and 600+ rolls of toilet paper? A house and garden invisible under a TPing endeavor. Victims wife came home and just as she was about the spontaneously combust the paper vanished.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 23, 2024 9:02:57 GMT
And this appears to be the end of the Rigmor mod. We delivered the messages to the two army head honchos and reported back to the Khajit in Riften. He spoke about a mine, gave a warning, said he has marked it on my map. No such mark is to be found. Meanwhile Rigmor went to take a nap and after waiting 24 hours up to one week she stays asleep. Waking her up she offers no dialogue, no menu, and goes back to sleep. Any suggestions? Continued in the next edition mod? Seems to me Rigmor works well in shorts.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 23, 2024 3:29:14 GMT
Your brother sounds like a remarkable man! He's as weird as they come. An academic polymath with multiple degrees, a horse wrangler, enjoyed fighting wildfires, and at one time had prepared to take the orange robe and become a monk. His favorite hobbies include electronics, dabbling in high explosives and deadly chemicals. He's been my sage counsel for years, always somehow managing to get me to turn about and take a good hard look at myself. "What you know and think you know can be the greatest impediment to learning; which is. after all is said and done, the real purpose of life."
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 23, 2024 0:06:11 GMT
Sniffles : Rigmor struck me as someone who, in real life, would be very difficult to be friends with. Though it's not her fault, you'd have to be very careful around her. The last time I played Rigmor, when the topic of romance came up, I had the Dragonborn demure. Speaking from the viewpoint of a person with a degree in social sciences, minor in psychology... coupled to my brothers very extensive experience as foster care provider for traumatized young women removed from their homes and placed in protective custody by courts, Rigmor is not all that unusual, and her care and assist is relatively easy. Essentially, pretty much the polar opposite of the dialogue the PC is given. Keynote caregiver traits, strong, reserved, silent, rigid unyielding unbending ethical conduct, and ever ready to drop everything and focus entirely upon the victim with few if any words, mien and conduct clearly displaying non judgemental care and compassion. Essentially, 'Here's your rock. Staid, reliable, go ahead and lean on me all you want. Vent your inner feelings freely as you wish. You now have a new life where you are free to follow your dreams and reach for the stars. Zero oppression, you make your own rules, following the guidance, demonstrated conduct of a deeply caring solidly ethical supporter. The mistakes you make along the way receive no reproach but are considered learning lessons by both parties.'
I always keep in mind one incident my brother had. A couple of his wards borrowed his truck without permission. His new bicycle fell out the back and was mangled. He came home to see the wrecked bike and added things up. Going into the house all his wards were gathered in the living room, cringing and waiting for the explosion. He sat and spoke four words. "Wow. "Well........? Group meeting." He sat on the floor and slowly they all unwound and got to talking. As he related it went on until midnight, about eight hours of them making excuses, reviling, finger pointing and venting. Slowly introspection crept in. Accusations and reviling each other and circumstances received frowns - NO. Let's not be judgmental, no recrimination please unsaid. They slowly let all the cats out of the bag, frustrations, gripes, grievances 'loads upon loads of emotional baggage'. And at last they ran out of gas, group hugs and off to beds.
He related later to me their unloading was well worth the price of the bike.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 22, 2024 23:24:36 GMT
Rigmor. The Elven helm seems to be her best look. Worst place goes to horns and Ebony.
The story line is interesting so far, and has moments of intrigue. The worst intrigue, probably in a large part thanks to my wuss computer, is the amazing vanishing caper of her and other central characters. Go into a new cell or a major script heavy dialogue scene and poof, actors vanished. This isn't helped with my realistically very dark nights and the tendency for the mod NPCs to suddenly dash off and can't be found come daylight.
Almost overly melodramatic but understandable in a traumatized young lady, the PC dialogue options range from somewhat acceptable on down to pure crap. The Dragonborn ends up seeming callous with superficial thinking with poor mature adult voice option making her seem a little bit like a selfish self centered moron at times. Not a mature capable responsible world shaker with deep seated care and consideration of others. But that is the general Dragonborn theme throughout the entire main quest. Dragonborn, superficial one-dimensional heavily melee combat oriented jerk. Big developer nod to the hack and slash mainstream gamers. Not the nurturing guiding admirable leader Rigmor needs at this time in her life.
My GTX 1650 ($100 overpriced) POS video card and I in a constant battle, occasionally beaten into submission.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 22, 2024 4:27:33 GMT
Don't get me wrong: I wasn't Making a Statement, just noting the irony. The awfullest stuff can appear on network TV, but a bit of exposed flesh will send everyone into a feverish frenzy! Irony so often fails in text.
Yes, utterly ridiculous senses of what is right and wrong. Extreme horrific violence MAY get a warning label. Just a hint of the wrong body part receives extreme umbrage and automatic censorship from the hobnailed boots of the ultra self righteous zealots that masquerade as proper parents and modern societies moral weather vanes.
Meanwhile, in it's proper place, full frontal nudity, often explicit, draws drools from all fronts but the scene of an accident gets blurred out. Absolute bare faced hypocrisy.
A while ago I went toe to toe with a gang off the self righteous in an ER. The mother, a good obedient indoctrinated convert in distress, serious to borderline critical condition from fetal complications. Abortion prescribed. The Thai medical staff, zero confrontation as per their culture stood aside. Two foreign gentlemen from the waiting room walked in, muscled me aside and offered to throw the zealots out the door and drag them down the driveway. The poop heads retreated, and one of the mountains of masculinity that came to my aid, bowed, kissed my hand, and apologized for my discomfiture and their gruffness in a thick Russian accent.
(Incidentally, I conscripted one of those Russian tourists later to work for an NGO on his return trip. Turned out he was a field medic in their army. 300% can do attitude. Addedum. By sheer chance I was handed a phone in the office. The caller in a Russian accent told me he wanted to get somebody to a hospital in a hurry. What to say to the songtaew driver. Phone handed over to the driver I told him. I suspect it was that same guy. For reference, it's Ow pai roong priahbahn, pai ray-oh pai ray-oh, mai yeut!! In retrospect, hilarious. Him speaking terrible English, me speaking worse Russian, and trying to get other side of the universe Thai speech nuances across. )
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 22, 2024 1:28:17 GMT
Sniffles : But the gruesomest violence still seems to be acceptable... Torture and other abuses have been and are presently promoted by certain religious sects. Is this what you are referring to?
Whatever, abuse is simply a lack of respect, of self and extended to others. In groups, religions especially, that lack becomes a paradigm.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 22, 2024 1:23:25 GMT
Check the uespwiki/Morrowind:Ahemmusa_Nerevarine#Bugs. A couple of bugs were mentioned there. I vaguely recall having loads of issues with the four tribes quests. Ultimately I reverted way back to a save game. Even then one tribe head honcho had the wrong dialogue and I had to try repeatedly from saves to get it to move forwards. Another I vividly recall was getting a slave girl for some schmuck's bride. Delivered her and his dialogue just repeated the request for a bride.
I think the entire Ashlanders quests were put together by a committee that didn't talk with each other.
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