Another Kick in the Head v1.2

Instead of always dying, this mod adds an effect that simulates you being knocked out, robbed and then rescued- bandits are now more interested in your loot than your life, and like the NV intro, death isn't inevitable.

You will lose some of your equipment, but it can be recovered from either your attackers, a stash box or wasteland merchants.

Since you'd otherwise load game, it makes 'dying' a lot worse, and stops the game getting too easy because you have all the best gear. The wasteland becomes a much more threatening place and you start to think twice before entering combat if you can avoid it, and selling rather than stashing your spare gear.

There is a short dream sequence between your knockout and rescue. Most of these become available only after completing different game events and link in to them. Some dreams are connected in an overarching story. The dreams are lore friendly, although sometimes there are surreal elements (they aren't real after all).

The mod features a difficulty option which affects how much gear you lose, optionally companions may lose gear too.

Who you are rescued by depends on your location and standing with the various factions, your 'hero' will give you some new equipment dependent on the same factors and what you have left to get you back on your way- you will always have a weapon and armor. You may also be required to complete a quest to repay them and get back some of your gear, or risk minor infamy.

There are 14 possible Heroes, if the local one is unavailable (enemy/dead etc) or you fail an easy luck save then there is sometimes a small luck chance to be rescued by the next closest hero or by the Mysterious Stranger (with perk), otherwise you will wake up wounded and alone at some nearby shelter, having lost more equipment than otherwise- Your character blacked out and managed to crawl there.

Local enemies and opportunist characters may steal some of your caps, equipped and aid items.

The Merchants who may have your stuff are random major ones.

If knocked out by bandits, the Loot Box will be in one of the bases of the faction who knocked you out.

When your health drops to an adjustable low level, your character begins to black out and while this occurs any further hits may trigger a knock out. (In engine terms, damage taken is greatly reduced whilst blacking out which prevents you from dying and instead triggers the knock out effect). You will sometimes still die as normal, especially with options set low and/or massive damage.

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Requirements and Extensions

The main .esm requires only its included data and New Vegas with NVSE (the script extender, like most mods)

Sexout extension plugin

This optional plugin adds some additional dreams... details and availability is here

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Known Issues

- Up to 7 non-vanilla companions are supported at once. If you have more than 7 non-vanilla companions hired at the same time then problems may arise. In some dreams non-vanilla companions might briefly appear and then disappear when moving through doors.

Future Plans

Credits

Sharing

You are welcome to link to this page but please do not upload these files (except data pack sounds) or versions of them you have modified yourself anywhere without my explicit permission. I am actively developing this mod.

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Upgrade Note

August 2

- DLC extension is now redundant and does nothing. AKH and included data updated.