The long path to the Devious Followers

and my Elderscrolls Journey 

I guess it all started with Elder scrolls :Daggerfall, my friend had a copy of the game and I'd borrow it all the time cause it was like one of the best games ever. Eventually, because of me and my friend playing the game so much the disk got scratch to death until it died. We did get another copy later which shared a simalar fate but by that time I moved away and move on to other games.

Roll on Morrowwind, I remember reading the previews for Morrowind and was like OMG a modern Daggerfall with good graphic and thinking "Is it even possible and I can't wait", Anyway I got the game which came with a creation kit on an extra disc. I loved the game ofc it was awesome, I do not miss the hours of searching for an NPC or swinging my sword on the target the size of the moon and getting miss miss miss miss, I do understand though why it was like that it was moving on from Daggerfall, still for it's time it was one of the best PC experiences you could get. I did make some mod on Morrowwind but it was small stuff like uping weapon dmg and size, I do remember applying a lizard texture to a human or something and making it massive which made me laugh like crazy. Either way, at this time wikis did not exist and I didn't know how to program.

Oblivion time, I think I came to the game late (lack of good PC) enjoyed it but once I discovered loverslab and nexus, the first adult mod I used was Claudia's Little Secret which was magic and an incredible achievement by the author, not long after I discovered Lovers lab and the rest.

Now, between this and skyrim I learnt how to program (in University) which was a dream of mine since I was a kid.

Skyrim arrived, which at the start was sad Oblivion mods died off fast like it was sad and Sexlab took a while to get running so mod were few and far between but like 2 year in to was beginning to get awesome and even then I wanted to make mods, I slowly learnt how to edit small things in mods I didn't like but everytime I tryed to make a mod I'd hit my head against wall as it failed and I couldn't understand. I didn't invest a huge amount of time into but I was all the time getting there.

Then one day when altering a mod DD Sexist guards cause it didn't work like I wanted it too I worked out something that I could use the dialogue system to basically entirely move my mod along, then one day I woke up early and started my mod I spent hour and hours of it not working, one problem is I had to install the SKSE scripts correctly the problem was I saw the scripts there that were in the errors on compiling so I thought it was installed but I didn't realise SKSE replaces a lot of vanilla scripts but it took me like hours to work this out. There were like a million problem like that but literally after 12 hours of trying and trying.Then, I got a follower to equip a collar on my character if they didn't have one and Devious followers was born.

Why I made Devious Followers?

Basically, player slave encounters(PSE) gave me and experience I really wanted to have agian in Skyrim. So my mod is very different from that but PSE was a player slave themed mod that worked with the gameplay of Oblivion and the content wasn't too long to bore you. I'd love to run around the world trying to escape enslavement and taking risks but of course I'd balance the game so eventually I'd get captured and this is the mantra I took with devious followers.

In Devious followers the game ticks on a lot, you being able to afford everything your follower nice and happy but then either another mod effects your gold or you made so it's pretty hard to keep the follower payed off or you need to remove some Device that puts you in debt, the mod begins lacking money you'll have to sell your freedoms slowly and well is balanced well you'll move back and forth with the deal trying to avoid the punishment for breaking enslavement and the interest on existing debt and skyrim becomes trying to buy your freedoms back but time rolls on you are at this point a slave ofc, if you totally fail you get the harsh enslavement and it's easy enough to farm gold to get free but problem is you can't escape your follower still, those damn deals you made and the feeling that you could be free but failing is what I love and the reason I made this mod. Also, while all this is going on you can still play the game, your not stuck reading pages of content so hopefully you'll never get bored. 

The other reason is I want to be there from the start of the modding scene for the next elder scrolls game.

What's next? My dream skyrim!

I'd love to make more mods, the problem is time like for example the other day I wanted to make it so becoming a milk maid in milk maid economy so I made a small mod that drugged the player on rape or drinking a potion it took me like 4-6 hours to do it and the things I want to do are so much grander (I dream of more than I can do). Basically, I want to do my stuff like devious followers but on a different scope it will be called Devious Skyrim or Devious Events, so it would be avoidable things that would catch the player out or space out in a way it won't inconvenience the player too much. For example, hunters looking to capture the dragon born to like enslave them or just steal there stuff, or if mages defeat you in combat they curse you so you can't wear clothes or at night if you don't have a follower in town maybe people will rob you or try out some devices on you. There are grander things like quest where a Collar every 7 days teleport you to a bandit camp where they fuck you then let you go and only once outside the camp the chain will disappear (reappear on reentering) so you have to pay a mage to remove the collar magic then go get the key from the bandits. Either way, my dream is to have skyrim be a game about trying to escape and avoid being enslaved but unfortunately it's always a little too hard.

Lozeak out !