Peril 3.0.0

Peril is a death-alternative mod that allows you to try to recover from defeat in combat, or suffer punishments other than death. Requires only the vanilla game, but supports SexLab and Devious Devices to allow for more nefarious punishments.

Defeat

The vanilla death and reloading system has been replaced by a new Defeat system. Once your health reaches zero, you won't die, but will enter bleedout. If you are on your own, then you will be defeated and the mod will move onto parlay, where you can attempt to bargain with your enemies for your safety. If you are not alone, and have allies with you, then they have the chance to save you by holding off your enemies long enough for you to to recover. If you have no health potions or healing scrolls, you will have to wait out 30 seconds to recover. If your allies also fall, then, again, you move onto parlay.

Additionally, you can skip all of this if defeat is guaranteed by using the surrender hotkey, set in the MCM.

Parlay

After surrendering or being defeated, one of your enemies will approach you and start dialogue. If you have the Bribery speech perk, or if you enabled bribes in the MCM, you can attempt to use your gold or provisions to buy your safety. If you can't bribe your way out, you can exit the dialogue and either fight or flee, or submit to whatever punishment they have in store for you.

If you have already surrendered or have been defeated recently then you will not have the option to parlay, and your enemies will punish you however they see fit.

Running, sprinting, drawing your weapon, opening containers, taking items, and commanding or talking to followers will cancel parlay and restart combat.

Punishments

When your enemies decide to punish you, they will have a number of potential punishments to choose from. With only this mod installed, they will only be able to steal items from you. Either your gold, your provisions, like potions, food, and scrolls, your weapons, or your entire inventory. The latter two punishments will only happen if you are at a dungeon that has a marked non-respawning container, which will often be right next to the dungeon's main chest, so no unique or quest items can be lost.

If you have SexLab installed, then your enemies may decide to rape you or one of your allies in some way.

If you have Devious Devices installed, you can wear appropriate chastity devices to prevent rape punishments. But, your enemies may also decide to punish you by locking some combination of restraints on you and your allies.

Punishments are chosen based off of a weight system, and the relative weight for each punishment can be changed or set to 0 in the MCM.

Escape

After parlay or punishments, you will be given 30 seconds to flee the area before combat starts again. Again, if you draw your weapons, open containers, take items, or command or talk to followers before escaping, combat will start again.

Compatibility

This mod shouldn't be used with other defeat mods under most circumstances. However, other modders can temporarily shut down this mod if they need to for certain scenarios. To do this, they should call the following papyrus command before combat starts in their scenario:

if(Game.GetModByName("Peril.esp") != 255)
	(Game.GetFormFromFile(0x008AC2, "Peril.esp") as GlobalVariable).SetValue(0)
endIf

This will prevent Peril from starting a defeat scenario when combat starts. After the external scenario is completed, the above command should be used to reset the global variables value back to 1, which will re-enable Peril's defeat system.

Future Updates

This mod is going to be developed at a slow pace. One of the reasons I decided to make my own defeat mod, first with Dragonborn in Distress, and now with Peril, was because every other defeat mod consistently failed during defeat scenarios. So, I'm developing this mod with the hope that every defeat scenario will work every single time. For that to happen I have to plan these mods out carefully, which takes a lot of time.

Changelog:
3.0.0 (5-8-22)

-Completely rebuilt all punishments to be more easily expandable.
-Punishments now work on a weighted system again.
-Sex Punishments rebuilt so all gender/creature combinations are included and considered in one punishment.
-Added 'Blowjob' sex punishment.
-Rewrote all dialogue, and added dialogue/messages for Moral, Amoral, Vampire, Dremora, Dragon, Undead, Giant, Automaton, Animal, and Creature enemy types.
-Added 'bleedout messages' for all punishments to describe what's happening to your character.
-Ensured defeat ended reliably when player has ended combat.
-Covered scenario where player surrenders multiple times in a row.
-Removed dialogue blocking from followers, instead, attempting to talk to or command followers will cancel parlay/punishments
-Added option to enable bribe options without the Bribery speech perk.
-Added option to MCM showing current state of Defeat.
-Added 'Bleedout Recovery', which prevents you from entering parlay with enemies after entering bleedout or surrendering, to make the defeat system less exploitable. Can be disabled in MCM.
-Disabled the surrender hotkey while using console.