About This File
This work may be modified under the terms of CC BY-NC-SA.
I consider this pre-release but ready to use (see "Future Work" below to see what I believe is missing from full release version).
Oh look, colors! This must be a professional mod that I will try immediately!
What is this?
Apropos 2 is great. It's a well-designed engine for translating animations into descriptive text on the screen, increasing immersion. However, the text database is large and (Gooser's words) "labor intensive". I decided that I wanted to add some text to it, and found that the database needed some love. So I did that.
This DB presumes a female Dragonborn with loose morals, with 1st or 2nd person descriptions as default. It removes the original DB's references to scat and incest. I speak, read, and write American English, so the output of this project reflects that localization.
Features
* W&T: Added Succubus Heart and Skooma Whore consumable compatibility
* W&T: Healing potions now affect W&T
* Synonym definition updates
* Dramatically increased the places that the synonyms are utilized in the database
* Added missing Female/Creature and Female/Female content
* Added Female/Male and Female/Female foreplay content (set Sexlab -> Animation Settings -> Pre-Sex Foreplay to on)
* Fixed typos and grammar
* Added patchups to animation tags that needed it
* Other text description additions to the DB
Why do this?
Synonyms are a quick, cheap way to add a ton of variation to the text displayed by Apropos 2.
Known Issues
* Some synonyms get capitalized when they're parsed, sometimes in very odd ways. This is a code issue that will need to be fixed in Apropos2 itself.
* Female/Female animations make it hard to predict {PRIMARY} and {ACTIVE} actor assignments, making 1st and 2nd person narratives come out odd sometimes.
* NMM chokes when trying to remove this mod. You might consider switching to Vortex if you're still using NMM.
* MO makes some assumptions about mods that can be tricky, worik wrote a walk-through!
Future Work
* Animation patchups - IN PROGRESS (long-term effort)
* Consistency: remove 3rd person strings that discuss internal thought processes - IN PROGRESS (long-term effort)
* Consistency: change strings said out loud to start with ({ACTIVE/PRIMARY}) - IN PROGRESS (long-term effort)
* Add missing Female/Creature content (Spriggan [OHV], Wisp [V], Horse [G], Skeever [H], HighlandCow [O], Lurker [A], Hagraven [A], Skeleton [O], StormAtronach[O], Slaughterfish[V]) - IN PROGRESS (0.6 versions)
* Add Dwemer Estrus-specific text and UniqueAnimations assignments - IN PROGRESS (0.6 versions)
* GoBack, HugeLoad, and LargeLoad refresh or implementation for all content - 0.7 versions
* Perform manual/editorial review of all Male PC content - 0.7 versions
* Convert Female/Male content in order to fill out Male/Female - 0.7 versions
* Place content into files that are blank templates - 0.7 versions
* Replace Female/Female {PRIMARY} and {ACTIVE} tokens with pronouns - 0.8 versions
* "Rescue" strings utilized for unique animations and generalize them - 0.8 versions
* Develop "Kink Kit" system so content of certain types can be swapped in and out of the DB
Installation/Upgrade
Make sure you have Apropos 2 installed!
1. Use your mod manager to install this file
2. In the Apropos 2 MCM, go to "Message Preferences" and click "Refresh from Database"
3. In the same MCM menu, click "Sexlab Animation Patchups"
Recommended Mods
* Skooma Whore: Play the balancing act between body aches and pains and addiction!
* Sexlab Pheremones: There are now plenty of consumable options for managing W&T. Some of them include ingestable potions with a risk of contracting pheromones.
* Apropos DB Filter: Is there something weird you don't like in the DB? Why remove it manually when you can be lazy AND thorough?
* Corruption: Overlapping themes, and hey, more text on the screen! Why not?
* Apropos2 Rape Descriptions NONCON Overhaul: Don't like "mind break"? You're not alone!
Credits
@gooser: for creating and maintaining the original database, not to mention the whole of Apropos2!
@Vauria: for reporting broken JSON. Repeatedly.
@GoldMembr: for significant content and patchup submissions
Edited by Eadoo
What's New in Version 0.6.22 (March 25 2023)
Released
The "oops, I made a mistake about a year ago, I hope you didn't notice, but even if you did, here's some other stuff I was working on too" update.
* Continued updates for Gunslicer animation patchups (mostly foreplay)
* Addition of Ace Animation patchups (almost all foreplay)
* Miscellaneous fixes here and there (including the mystery "oopsie" moment from last year I just found today)