Vilja Hates Me!

[tpaul]

Things were going well.  I finished the potion and flute quests and rescued Vilja from the Brinehammer.  I never progressed into the 'Romance' script and Vilja's disposition dropped from 100 to -256.  I back up to saves where Vilja's disposition is 100 and the same thing happens over and over.  Usually when I do something 'nice' for Vilja.  Give her food or drink = she hates me.  Ask her to play for audience = she hates me.

Is there any way to reset her disposition towards me?

[wotan]

This shouldn't even be happening. You're experiencing a weird bug, I can't even begin to imagine what is causing it.

[jgf]

Her disposition could probably be set via the console, but that would be a temporary fix.

I'm reminded of Vilja's spiritual "ancestor" from Morrowind, Constance, who was my constant companion for years in that game. Her disposition would inexplicably plummet at times, often in a matter of minutes between two conversations. I was advised against resetting it, and found that just continuing playing her disposition returned to normal ...maybe an hour, maybe a day (game time).

[dogonporch]

In Oblivion, there's a skooma addiction mod that can lower both the PC's and NPC's Personality (hangover). Vilja would chug back 2-3 skoomas and next thing I know...after the initial glow wears-off...Vilja's in a foul mood and ticked right-off at my PC. Pretty funny, actually, as it does eventually get back to normal levels after she sleeps it off...or whatever.

Beware that you don't have something similar at work behind the scenes.

[Dova]

I am going to tag amgepo here, because I haven't look at vilja script in awhile. If I recall correctly, amgepo has a short script in place to limit the range for disposition value. What you are saying is likely script error, mod conflict, or both. first try the reset spell, it should reevaluate most of her values

[amgepo]

As Skyrim didn't use a propper dispositino system, Vilja's disposition is handled by her rank in a special faction. Her disposition is the double of her rank in that faction. If her faction rank goes over 50, making her have more than 100 in disposition, it's set back to 50 to make her disposition 100 again. I guess this is not happening in your game and aparently when her rank increases over 128, it turns to -128, wich translates to -256 disposition (as her disposition is the double of her rank in the faction).

Probably the script is being stopped from adjusting her max disposition and probably the number going over tha max and returning from the min side is not something one could expect in Skyrim (are you playing in Skyrim special edition?). Anyway, you can set her disposition to 100 again by typing in the console by selecting her and typing setfactionrank XX00B693 50 (where XX are the first two digits you see when selecting her in the console)

But I think your game may be suffering from script bloatting.

[tpaul]

Dova: Vilja Reset does no good.

amgepo: I think you got it right. I'm restarting and I'm going to do the least number of nice things I can get away with for Vilja. Vanilla Skyrim but I'm upgrading to LE in the near future. Thanks for the console code. And, yes, I very much agree that I've got script bloating going on. I use Rogue Script Remover but that doesn't seem to be enough. Time for a housecleaning.

[amgepo]

No need to do the least number of nice things for Vilja. Having her disposition maxed and continuing being nice to her is not something that tends to cause problems (yours is the first case I learned about in these years).

[Aatrnasyn]

Happy birthday, tpaul. I hope Vilja gives you a nice present, like a sunny disposition.

[tpaul]

D'oh! I went almost all day forgetting about it. Thanks, Aatrnasyn. Vilja has already given me many, many hours of happy times. With the tool amgepo provided, I can go back to returning the favor.

[tpaul]

amgepo's fix worked perfectly. The CompViljaRomance script started up with just a slight nudge. Thanks for the help, everybody.

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