[Abandoned] Red Sonja goes to Insmouth V1.1.2 (small edits, plugins reorganization , removed DD requirement) - Fixes, voiced dialogues add-on, misc. for Delzaron's From the Deeps 1.1.2

For the "my outfits choices" plugin

• Devious Devices SE V5.1

• The Amazing World of Bikini Armors REMASTERED 6.1 (ESP) (Nisenika's mod ported by Sunjeong) : Contains a lot of options for varying NPCs' outfits. There will be little proper Bikini Armor outfits users in the mod.
• Ninirim Collection 6.0: This collection contains a lot of unwanted things (I halved my plugin's content, to a single AddItem inventory page), but the variety, good quality, and the optional damaged or slutty variants can be very useful.
• C5Kev's Herme Mora Priestess (ESL) (ported by Sunjeong): Renamed duplicates are used for the Dagon priestesses' outfits.

All of those are CBBE and similar bodies-converted or compatible (but I'm not very learned on body issues).

For the "more of my outfits choices" plugin

• DT T19 Kneeboots (ESL)
• Venus Cage (ESPFE)
• Venom Blade Maiden (ESPFE)
• WACCF Armor and Clothing Extension (ESP)
• TDN Bosmer Skull Headresses (ESP, can be ESL-fied)

• Guards Armor Replacer (NordWarUA and DanielUA ). I modified the guards' (including Knyva and Erikson) outfits with Guard Armor Replacer in my LO. I don't assume it would be too odd if you don't use it. I also recommend aMidian Book of Silence (I intend to do a patch for aMidian Content variants) and some NordWarUA's legion replacer.
• Diverse Skyrim: For Female Insmouth guards. I dislike the groups where there is only one female, usually the chief (I've got no issue with having a female leader, but it's the "no-generic-female-NPC" part that bothers me. I was creating those when I noticed there were actually already a few female guards, modified by Diverse Skyrim.
• Skin Features Overlays (SFO) for the presets
• Wet and Cold: Breathing in the cold, wearing cloaks and hoods. Not only this mod compliments Delzaron's work, but I try to keep it in mind when editing, to avoid having to make my mod dependent on Wet&Cold. That's why some characters I wish to not benefit from Wet&Cold cold gear effect are marked as being in the beggarjobfaction, which is excluded from the effect. I excluded (by faction or specifically) irrelevant NPCs from the BeggarDialogues' conditions.
  • That means a patch or a little xEdit tweaking could be necessary if other mods use the beggars' dialogue.
• Stress and Trauma SE: Stupidly great mod. It still needs balancing (especially arousal visuals, that should occur at way higher levels), but if adds to the delirium and paranoid ambience. I'll try to have a look at it, see if I can tailor a version more to my liking and fiting FTD.
• Your favorite weather mod that adds classic and/or yellowish mists, snow storms and rain
• Seagulls of Skyrim: Competing for best "SOS" mod, it adds seagulls to the coastline. I'm working on an ESPFE. But I'm not sure it would fit: marine ambiance or cold-dead harbor?
• No Crime Teleport for a less punishing bounty paying
• Maximum Carnage

• Ask Delzaron about stuff regarding his ideas and some stuff present or absent from Redone V2.6
• Stories, more dialogues, conditional, etc.
• Alternate Starts? (haven't been able to do anything, the scripts compiling always fail on my CK, might check Alternate Perspective) 
• Deep Ones Hybrids. I've made presets for a Male Nord and a Male Dunmer (and intended Fiana to be one as well). But I haven't managed to import them to CK correctly. There are in Dealing with Daedra but I haven't tried it yet.
• Compatibility/integration with Here There Be Monsters - Call of Cthulhu, Dealing with Daedra? Integrtion of The Sunken City" and/or Vicn's Shoggoths?
• Random, radiant and unique encounter, events and quests
• A FOMOD to integrate patches/alternate choices
• Player home?
• New textures and assets?
• Some kind of LOD is needed for Insmouth and Ne-Ket-Kadath. I actually started to add a forest to hide the fact Insmouth appeared out of thin air.
• More carriage and ferries options in and out
• Followers? (Knyva is set as potential, but I've yet to find how to allow to recruit him based on the faction rank or the quest stage)
• More of the stuff initially planned or mentioned in the original FTD thread (I don't see Lurkers on the streets when the cult takes over, more interactions with outer world)
• More mist, more rain, more pestilence. [check for maluses intended to exist in early stages of development of FTD LE]
• Integrate Erikur and Gisli in the story properly, rework alternate courses in case of Skald's removal, or any's death
• Corrected packages, timers, triggers
• New generic and unique NPCs
• Find someone to do the resist path overhauling or get on with it myself
• Balancing of cultists and priestesses gear (possibly to be scaled to level player like the Ebony Blade, or that could be upgraded like that Thane weapons mod that up/replace the weapons periodically when you visit the steward)
• Go further in the Red Sonja's story

• I intend to keep as updated as possible:
  • a FAQ section responding to most problems originated from Delzaron's mod (and progressively from my own edits).
  • a to-do-list, in the mind-set of a buglist and the list of stuff promised by No Man's Sky: Specific issues, ideas to implemented or polish, originated from Delzaron's mod or from my changes, to allow me or anyone to try and fix/implement them. I make no promises, everything I've done so far is really learn stuff I didn't knew how to, when the mod needed it. Much like he monitored the progress of the quest stages, all issues should be listed and polished, one by one. And that'll save a lot of space and time (which the GOO wish to consume) here.
  • a voiced dialogues quality list: Due to an uneven learning curve, some voices beings easier to use, updates by SKVA Synth's creator, some lines are awful. Some may do the trick, and I can say some are as good as it can get (whether because the software made those great or because I've tinkered the lines with success).
• To make this do-able, reports should be clear and straightforward (I won't look for you what character is causing you issues or missing voiced dialogues, quest stages, and I won't try to decipher unreadable stuff and wasting time I could spend on the mod or myself). Screenshots if possible and relevant. You can post them in French or English (I don't speak other languages that might be relevant on Loverslab, but I expect there are a few people here speaking other languages that will help you translate the issues?). Punctuation and leaving some space between paragraphs also never killed anyone.
• "Can you make a patch for..."
  • If it's about body type, no (see FAQ). If it's about anything else: I hope I can (meaning "I don't know how it works/what to do, but I'd like to learn"). Please be clear and as informative as possible: what does the mod does, how does it work, what part is somewhat incompatible, have you any clues how it could be achieved, etc.? (the most information, the easier)

Compatibility and requirements

• "Is this mod for fe/males?"
  • You can play as a male but it is intended to be for female characters (Delzaron had built-in some variations for male). I don't intend to accommodate the mod for male characters, though I might put some efforts to give alternate dialogues/responses (but I'm actually more interested in adding race-relevant dialogue rather than sex/gender-relevant).
• "Is this mod for [body]?"
  • I use CBBE, I think Delzaron did as well. For UUNP, I would invite you to make a patch yourself. Check C5Kev's stuff or convert something from the old FTD LE thread and make a CK or xEdit modification or patch, I can't help you on this. 
• "Can you [do anything to make this mod compatible with some bodytype]"
  • No. I don't know how to do it.
• Can you do this mod with/without [requirements, parts of the mods]:
  • I can think about it, but I don't want to multiply versions to accommodate each and every load order. It had a bit of mess to my already messy organization, and would mean more back-and-forth edits, errors, and less time for actual updating, fixing, or working on my other projects 
  • Depending on the assets, their compatibility regarding bodies, the permission of authors, the way the records and plugins work, I can try to separate it under plugins/modules (like I did for the pictured books or the outfits). But given how I work, I prefer to keep at least the character creation mods (Eyes of Beauty, KS Hairdos) within  the main mod.
  • If you can do it yourself, please do. I'll upload it and use it to make as the basis to separate it. (but if that involves creating a new non-ESLfied ESP, there's not much point)

Quests

• "Can't get info while asking people, can't find undercover agents, etc."
  • Yes you can. I haven't polished/expanded it yet. The first is based on the amount of people you asked to, the second is that you forgot to ask someone
    Spoiler

    the priestess in The Sweet Sload, Kurshul I think

• "Objectives don't go forward, markers are incorrect or absent (going to the temples, corruption quest, etc.)"
  • WIP. Both due to incomplete (in my POV) quest building, game engine, etc. as well as Delzaron's intent to have a less marker-driven mod, the markers can be absent or link to unimmersive results. I intend to polish this (no necessarily adding more quest markers, even the contrary possibly, less map markers wouldn't be a bad thing), divide the quest objectives, etc.
• "Has this mod any impact on the rest of my game?"
  • WIP. It's pretty self-contained. You'll gain some (a bit OP) armors and spells, but  I intend to expand it but without damaging much of vanilla stuff, at least to tie loose ends introduced by the mod.
• "The quest doesn't start/Knyva doesn't offer me to enter town"
  • You have to start the quest: Innkeeper (or directly Falk is ok?).
  • You should have a dialogue offering you to enter nonetheless, still after a small "donation", I left it for testing the city without having to console-travel the quest up to that point.
• "[Scene] doesn't start":
  • WIP. I working on it. But report it on the forum with as much as details as possible (who, where, when, how, names, screenshots if possible...)
  • Spoiler

    If it's Maive's first scene, going into naughty animation puts her close enough to trigger it. If it's the Nasura's ritual, I can only tell you to setstage for now. In any other cases, I don't know, but both option might help depending on the contextr.

• "How do I setstage":
  • Command "help aFTD" => Get the ID. Command "sqs [ID]" => Get the stages. Command "Setstage [ID] [stage number]". (hope this is right)

Other issues and questions

• "I CTD when going near/entering [interior or exterior]"
  • Delzaron put the blame on navmesh (so that could be that) or on disabled actors/creatures. I removed most spawn points within the city (there was a couple wolves near the blacksmith area I always believed were corpses placed there by Delz). CTD still occured on a few cases (fast travel, leaving interior cells, but those are non-repeatable, and rare to me).
• "Physics go crazy with the priestess' outfits":
  • The original mod had a problematic priestess outfit (at least on LE and on my SSE LO). I replaced it with Sunjeong's port of the armor. But I also had trouble with it due to SMP (and "SMP reset" command worked only for a brief moment. No more problem since I removed HDT-SMP (only using CPBC for now). You'll need someone who understands bodies/outfits/physics to help you out. I'm actually interested by this one if you find a fix (but it's a config issue, not a mod issue).
• Can you install/uninstall this mod mid-game (and if you have or haven't installed FTD prior to your game start, nor visited Insmouth)
  • I don't know. if someone does, please share! But I would advise against it. But you do you.
• "I can't generate LOD"
  • If you haven't, please read the FTD requirement section of this mod (not the requirements section of the FTD mod). There's a package error in both the official version and the consolidated one. The fix is mentioned in the FTD requirement section of trhis mod (either downloading a corrected ESP or making a small edit).

Red Sonja?

• The main ESP is named "ETM_RedSonjaStandalone.esp". Is it a standalone mod?
  • No, stick to the (dated and updated) information on the download page.
  • No, it's the name of the original mod plugin, which was supposed to be a FTD-parallel or sequel in the form of a Red Sonja-centered standalone companion and quest mod (either set or ocntinued in Bruma), but derived into an add-on/fixes/overhaul/voice-acting mod for FTD. I haven't changed the name in fear stuff would break (especially the paths and names for voiced dialogues created within my mod).
• Where is Red Sonja/Sonya?
  • Nowhere where it is important to the quest, to your character's stats, to anything.
  • Spoiler

    The mod having moved away from its original purpose, the Red Sonja aspect has not been written extensively so far, and her future remains uncertain. Though, the many futures transpires into the present and a few clues of her possible fates may be apparent to the Dragonborn.

    Spoiler

    At this point, you understand the concept of "spoiler".

    The following elements have no current impact on anything, and are only eastern eggs of what could have been and of what could be in the future. If you prefer to have the surprise in the case this mod ever develops into those directions, you can forget about it. However, those isolated pieces of lore may also be discarded in the future in favor of better (new or reworked) concepts and ideas.

     

    Spoiler

    - Red Sonja of the Companions went to inquire in Insmouth, and left a letter to Kodlak informing him of that at Jorrvaskr (letter from Sonja)

    - Red Sonja was witnessed at the Drunken Ship, where she rented a room, but has since vanished. (dialogue with Gwendoline)

    - Red Sonja's body is to be found in the basement of the Drunken Ship, in a path locked by a key possessed by Gwendoline. naked and parasited, she hanged herself (or was hanged) after writing with her own blood a crazed warning letter to Kodlak (body and blood-letter)

    - Red Sonja's body is to be found at the basis of Ne-Ket-Kadath, seemingly a prisoner that fell (either by accident or on purpose, whether it was an attempt at escaping, a murder, or a suicide). The same blood-written warning letter (body and blood-letter)

    - Red Sonja was enslaved by Raelek, and sent bound and maimed as a gift to Balgruff (unresponsive NPC + letter from Raelek)

    - The blood-written warning letter can be found hidden under Aela's bed in Jorrvaskr (blood-letter)

     

     

     

• aFTD0:
  • aFTD0Begin: Not many done (can't get around the word "disappearances" in SKVASynth.
• aFTD1:
  • aFTD1Starter: Falk Firebeard (awful, but vanilla voice is not good)
• aFTD2: 
• aFTD3: 
• aFTD4: Nothing done (maybe a couple?)

• Creation Kit 64
• SSEEdit
• SKVA Synth
• Yakitori Audio Converter
• Audacity