Devious Devices - Laura's Bondage Shop (16-aug-2025) v3.55 LE & SE

[Naps-On-Dirt]

29 minutes ago, Laura said:

Good choice. I went for the killmove too.

 

This didn't occur to me until after I had already finished the quest, but next time I run through I'm gonna kill Sloane with the Mace of Molag Bal and then give Laura the black soul gem with her soul in it.  ?

[Laura]

1 minute ago, Viri1 said:

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I see, but still, given she vanished, this could still be expanded. Future Thotium-tech?

 

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It was just an invisibilty potion. She could've been watching. ?

 

1 minute ago, Viri1 said:

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Still related to Jade, I saw your ?, I vote for her still being stuck in the belt a thing. Maybe she researches some sort of Anti-Thotium to get it off, with us as the more-or-less willing test subject, ~~but it obviously fails and backfires on both~~ 

 

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That's really mean. I love it.

 

1 minute ago, Viri1 said:

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Oh? Which bit? 27 or the furniture? Or both?

 

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That's a secret.

 

[Laura]

1 minute ago, Naps-On-Dirt said:

This didn't occur to me until after I had already finished the quest, but next time I run through I'm gonna kill Sloane with the Mace of Molag Bal and then give Laura the black soul gem with her soul in it.  ?

That's even better. ?

[Laura]

Alright folks. Version 3.41 is here!

 

It's tiny, but bugs annoy me.

 

 

Here's the tiny changelog for v3.41:

 

Changed: One of the clues is now a bit clearer. It's still cryptic but it should point you to the right waterfall now.

 

Fixed (hopefully): The entrance door and the cage door are now unlocked after the player is teleported. It used to be before the player was there and that probably messed it up.
If you had that issue, please let me know if it's fixed.

 

Changed: When it says that he's still around, he'll now actually still be around.

There was a throwaway bit where he walked away which meant he wasn't actually around. That bit was removed. It makes more sense now.

 

 

 

I'm gonna get some sleep now. I'll respond to stuff when I'm no longer horizontal.

Edited December 30, 2022 by Laura

[Laura]

33 minutes ago, LunaPapilio said:

For the record, we absolutely do update to latest versions as fast as we possibly can.

Hurry up. There's a new one already.

[aurreth]

21 minutes ago, Laura said:

Hurry up. There's a new one already.

 

Check your messages ?

 

Oh, she went to bed ?  I sent her the new SE conversion, should be available in roughly 8 hours I guess.

 

Edited December 30, 2022 by aurreth

[xyzxyz]

New quest? Wohoo

Edited December 31, 2022 by xyzxyz

[Viri1]

36 minutes ago, Laura said:

Alright folks. Version 3.41 is here!

 

It's tiny, but bugs annoy me.

 

 

Here's the tiny changelog for v3.41:

 

Changed: One of the clues is now a bit clearer. It's still cryptic but it should point you to the right waterfall now.

 

Fixed (hopefully): The entrance door and the cage door are now unlocked after the player is teleported. It used to be before the player was there and that probably messed it up.
If you had that issue, please let me know if it's fixed.

 

Changed: When it says that he's still around, he'll now actually still be around.

There was a throwaway bit where he walked away which meant he wasn't actually around. That bit was removed. It makes more sense now.

 

Did some quick testing. The new clue is there, and the door/cage thing is fixed.

 

The part with Karo:

 

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He now doesn't go anywhere and sits in a chair halfway between the tavern and the entrance to that area. He still needs the 27 distraction to get him out of there. I assume that was always the intention then, but I didn't see any hint that pointed to the distraction being needed for him and not just Daubeny (it obviously is needed for us to check the book in the office).

 

[aurreth]

1 minute ago, Viri1 said:

He now doesn't go anywhere and sits in a chair halfway between the tavern and the entrance to that area. He still needs the 27 distraction to get him out of there. I assume that was always the intention then, but I didn't see any hint that pointed to the distraction being needed for him and not just Daubeny (it obviously is needed for us to check the book in the office).

 

Always bet on 27!  ?

 

[threp]

Lissel rules. There is no doubt. She's my third favorite character (after Jade and Dynane)

[Viri1]

7 minutes ago, aurreth said:

 

Always bet on 27!  ?

 

 

Loved the way she continuously trolled them. They didn't really look like they were in control of her.

[fdsfgdg]

 

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After you collect journal pages 1, 3, 13 and 21, what are you meant to do? I’ve been trying to figure it out for ages but still can’t.

 

[Viri1]

6 minutes ago, fdsfgdg said:

 

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After you collect journal pages 1, 3, 13 and 21, what are you meant to do? I’ve been trying to figure it out for ages but still can’t.

 

 

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 Check the nearest waterfall, near the tower. Climb it down until you reach a cliff with a barrel (quest marker will pop up). You don't have to climb down all the way.

 

[chaimhewast]

Thank you for the new update, Laura! And thank you for the quick SE conversions, aurreth.

[aurreth]

24 minutes ago, chaimhewast said:

Thank you for the new update, Laura! And thank you for the quick SE conversions, aurreth.

 

You're welcome.  I can't give you the 3.41 conversion though ?  You'll have to wait for Laura to wake up, or you can do it yourself with CAO.

 

[aurreth]

51 minutes ago, threp said:

Lissel rules. There is no doubt. She's my third favorite character (after Jade and Dynane)

 

Her name is 27!!!  ?

 

Honestly when I was working on the fixes for 3.32 I had no idea she had a real name and was positive she wasn't listed in the ledgers.  I kept arguing with Laura that she must, therefore, be the "perfect girl".  Now I absolutely refuse to call her anything but 27.  Maybe I'll go change the ledgers in my game so you can't read her name ?

 

[xyzxyz]

Jade lost her belt after we entered the slaver cave. The chains are still locked onto her.

[threp]

19 minutes ago, aurreth said:

 

Her name is 27!!!  ?

 

Honestly when I was working on the fixes for 3.32 I had no idea she had a real name and was positive she wasn't listed in the ledgers.  I kept arguing with Laura that she must, therefore, be the "perfect girl".  Now I absolutely refuse to call her anything but 27.  Maybe I'll go change the ledgers in my game so you can't read her name ?

 

I'm terrible with names (it really annoys the kids, so there is a plus side!), so me remembering one is rather special.

 

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the Perfect Girl does exist in the game. You meet her a couple times.

 

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It's Sloane. The venom in her end monologue? There's a massive chunk of jealousy in there. More projection than Cinemax, that woman.

 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by threp

[Allen Harris]

Okay - so I ran the SE version of 3.40 in VR, and it looks like Darius is bugged now. I loaded in the Inn before being enslaved, and he showed up, but had no dialog. Then, when I was enslaved and up in Sloane's room, Darius never showed up at all; Sloane talked like she was a schizophrenic hearing voices, then it got to the point just after she suggests "sleeping" had a little more dialog, got in bed, then nothing triggered.

[aurreth]

55 minutes ago, Allen Harris said:

Okay - so I ran the SE version of 3.40 in VR, and it looks like Darius is bugged now. I loaded in the Inn before being enslaved, and he showed up, but had no dialog. Then, when I was enslaved and up in Sloane's room, Darius never showed up at all; Sloane talked like she was a schizophrenic hearing voices, then it got to the point just after she suggests "sleeping" had a little more dialog, got in bed, then nothing triggered.

 

I quote myself from Page 248:

 

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For future reference, the mod author develops for LE.  She does not work in SE at all.  There are a few of us who then convert the mod to SE and test/troubleshoot that.  SE fixes are then backported to LE, and, if they work, they are incorporated into the LE build.  Which is then converted back to SE and tested again.

 

What this means:  LE is the official build.  The author will make fixes to things that cause SE bugs If and only if that does not break the LE build.  And VR is not even on her radar.

 

I further quote myself from Page 253:

 

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I won't promise anything as far as VR goes.  To the best of my knowledge no one ever tested for that, and I'm certainly not going to spend thousands of dollars for the computer and equipment to give it a try ?

 

Now, that being said, do you have all the prerequisites installed, especially Fuz Ro Dah, which I understand does not have a working version for VR?

 

[Tetras66]

5 minutes ago, aurreth said:

 

Now, that being said, do you have all the prerequisites installed, especially Fuz Ro Dah, which I understand does not have a working version for VR?

 

 

Any voice-pack is going to be completely bugged now too, since Laura made changes to dialogue of previous quests

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I went to the inn of Ivasted and talked to an Imperial soldier.

What should I do next? Was I stuck?

Guys I encountered a problem.

[mikesolo1975]

9 hours ago, aurreth said:

 

I converted it with Cathedral, it should work for any SE version as long as all the prerequisites are met, i.e., you have the versions of everything else that match your game version.

 

Honestly the only difference between the LE and SE versions has to do with mesh and textures.  Cathedral converts those from LE to SE.  All the scripts, etc. are, or should be, identical between LE and SE, because I did a crap load of work a year ago trying to figure out why they weren't ?  And then backported all the changes to LE to make sure nothing broke.

 

I won't promise anything as far as VR goes.  To the best of my knowledge no one ever tested for that, and I'm certainly not going to spend thousands of dollars for the computer and equipment to give it a try ?

 

ok

i dont use VR ?

aurreth  thanks for the conversion and great work my friend

Laura   thanks for the amazing work and support and the new update you are amazing my friend ?

 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by mikesolo1975

[Addramyr]

Epic story @Laura! Loved every moment of it! I did have one minor snag:

 

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The "message from the author" at the end of the story is coming up as a bunch of boxes

 

[HyperonicX]

Got a bit of a bug. (At least I believe so.)

 

I'm currently doing the slaver quest and while I am able to get to the tavern, I am unable to pick up any bottles of mead, the plug and chastity belt.

Currently I'm wearing the straitjacket, so that may be causing problems.
Is there a fix or do I need to remove it somehow?