Followers help you out of and in to devious devices.   Upgrading from versions prior to 1.04: A clean save is required.   Motivation and Concept: While playing with Deviously Cursed Loot and other Devious Devices mods, I found that my character being tied up and helpless was amusing for about five minutes.  I also found that NPC's could be tragically stupid when it came to restraints.  For example, when my character was doing the key fumble thing to remove "Paw Bondage M