The Ancient Profession 2024-06-24

[Jack005]

On 7/16/2025 at 10:54 AM, ruddycray said:

 

I haven't lost interest. I am simply very short on time at the moment and had a few technical issues I had to overcome earlier this year.

 

Succubus wasn't a planned feature, just a natural follow-on to a quest line that I did plan, so I included it.

 

Decisions like max gold I made because of my own feeling when playing some other mods that it was too easy to get rich as a prostitute. Honestly, even letting players go to 150 was an adjustment I made. I had originally hard capped it at 50. I might loosen that up, because ultimately if you want to unbalance your game that's up to you. Right now, you can do it with the console, although I've forgotten right off what the value is. It's something like TAPStandardClientGold, but I don't remember if that's what it is exactly.

 

I do put the brothels outside the cities partly for technical reasons, but it's already the way I've established it now, so I'm probably not going to change it. The TAP Interiors mod makes some adjustments where that makes some sense, like putting the Windhelm brothel at the docks.

 

I know it can be frustrating to hear that you're free to do something if you don't have the necessary knowledge to do it, but I don't really have time to do everything that everyone wants, and some things people want I have no interest in doing myself. It's the best answer I can give, just being realistic.

I love to hear that, I still waiting for update hyped, I want that continuation of dawnstar quest, based by its esp is going to be really fucking cool, 

 

For me in my case is way too low money, my pride tells me to dont sell myself and work hard with missives, so I need an insentive to sell myself witch is a good pay and that is not  a dangerous work (best case escenary on my game is diying) , because I need the money to buy licenses for weapons, armors, magic, and pay taxes for my horse and house, so there is not way I could get filty rich at least at the beginig of the game, I even have scarcety mod to dont get too much stuff in dungeon chests so I apply the console commad to change the default pay (Set TAPStandardClientGold to 350)

 

I like brothels outside cities first for compatibility there are a lot of mods that changes cities, and two because it gives some anonymity and avoid "working" or being seen for npcs that you deal with on a daily basis. 

 

 

For that reason I ask for an "approach setting" on the mcm, the only mods that have that kind of feature are SL workingirl that doesnt work well because they give you like 40 septins, and radiant prostitution that only works on inns and the refresh rate betwen solicitations is like 5 sec, I would LOVE to have a solicitation option for The ancient profession, because of the type of character rolplay and situations she face, in some cases my character  is a succubus or a vampire they should be trowing themself at me in place of me beggin them to fuck me

Edited July 24, 2025 by Jack005

[lancelot6king]

Thanks for the great mod! This mod is one of my must-have mods since I found it.

Got a couple of questions if you have time to answer it.

1) could you add the dialogue option with the barkeeper in New Gnisis Cornerclub(windhelm dark-elf inn) to prostitute there? In this version, you cant offer to work there and if you ask someone in the New Gnisis Cornerclub offering protitution, there will be bounties coming.

2) Is is possible for you to make this mod compatible with SLSF (sexlab sexual fame) and make the whore fame increase when prostituting via this mod?

3) I don't quite understand the license quest of dawnstar which the steward ask player to find two missing girls. After I convince the begger in the town and report to the steward the quest ends there, is it the whole quest or have I missed something? Can I really find the missing girls in the quest?

[shiagwen]

If pc is female and has a male follower. Both enter the brothel. PC is whoring around, follower has to wait . What happens to the follower ? will a npc whore pick him up as a client ? will he be bugged afterwards ?  Or can he just wait there and nothing happens to him ?   (using aft )

Edited July 25, 2025 by shiagwen

[43deadwood]

1 hour ago, shiagwen said:

If pc is female and has a male follower. Both enter the brothel. PC is whoring around, follower has to wait . What happens to the follower ? will a npc whore pick him up as a client ? will he be bugged afterwards ?  Or can he just wait there and nothing happens to him ?   (using aft )

I use Autonomous Sex Framework (ASF) and male followers have lots of fun!

 

[shiagwen]

8 hours ago, 43deadwood said:

I use Autonomous Sex Framework (ASF) and male followers have lots of fun!

 

Not for LE 

The question is not about if he has sex or not, but if he is bugged afterards.  Because i already has this case with Sven in Dibellsy whiterun. He was "bound" to one whore and always run back to her.

[Soothing Darkness]

I'm trying to find Rudhiir with Chaser-Of-Cats, but his dialog flashed so fast that I don't know what I'm doing other than what I ready in the quest log. There is no map marker, and s far as I can tell, there aren't any clues to go off of. Which means I likely am missing something because of the dialog that flashed by too fast to read. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[debased]

Well i don't know if this will help or not, I actually had a quest marker and found them on the road from Kynesgrove to Riften near giant camp.

 

[ruddycray]

On 7/24/2025 at 1:21 AM, Jack005 said:

I love to hear that, I still waiting for update hyped, I want that continuation of dawnstar quest, based by its esp is going to be really fucking cool, 

 

For me in my case is way too low money, my pride tells me to dont sell myself and work hard with missives, so I need an insentive to sell myself witch is a good pay and that is not  a dangerous work (best case escenary on my game is diying) , because I need the money to buy licenses for weapons, armors, magic, and pay taxes for my horse and house, so there is not way I could get filty rich at least at the beginig of the game, I even have scarcety mod to dont get too much stuff in dungeon chests so I apply the console commad to change the default pay (Set TAPStandardClientGold to 350)

 

I like brothels outside cities first for compatibility there are a lot of mods that changes cities, and two because it gives some anonymity and avoid "working" or being seen for npcs that you deal with on a daily basis. 

 

 

For that reason I ask for an "approach setting" on the mcm, the only mods that have that kind of feature are SL workingirl that doesnt work well because they give you like 40 septins, and radiant prostitution that only works on inns and the refresh rate betwen solicitations is like 5 sec, I would LOVE to have a solicitation option for The ancient profession, because of the type of character rolplay and situations she face, in some cases my character  is a succubus or a vampire they should be trowing themself at me in place of me beggin them to fuck me

 

I may do an approach thing eventually, but it's not gotten to the top of my priorities. I'd also want to make sure it feels like it fits in the game, which is not necessarily as easy as it sounds. I think I do already have it on my list, though.

[ruddycray]

On 7/24/2025 at 8:19 AM, lancelot6king said:

Thanks for the great mod! This mod is one of my must-have mods since I found it.

Got a couple of questions if you have time to answer it.

1) could you add the dialogue option with the barkeeper in New Gnisis Cornerclub(windhelm dark-elf inn) to prostitute there? In this version, you cant offer to work there and if you ask someone in the New Gnisis Cornerclub offering protitution, there will be bounties coming.

2) Is is possible for you to make this mod compatible with SLSF (sexlab sexual fame) and make the whore fame increase when prostituting via this mod?

3) I don't quite understand the license quest of dawnstar which the steward ask player to find two missing girls. After I convince the begger in the town and report to the steward the quest ends there, is it the whole quest or have I missed something? Can I really find the missing girls in the quest?

 

1) I already have this on my list. It's because it's not technically an inn, so I'd have to add special handling for it.

 

2) Some things already do this, I think. I probably haven't kept up with it because I don't use SLSF myself.

 

3) You can't find the girls yet. I do have something planned for that, but it's a quest line that I can't release partially done.

[ruddycray]

On 7/25/2025 at 6:18 AM, shiagwen said:

If pc is female and has a male follower. Both enter the brothel. PC is whoring around, follower has to wait . What happens to the follower ? will a npc whore pick him up as a client ? will he be bugged afterwards ?  Or can he just wait there and nothing happens to him ?   (using aft )

 

I don't think I do anything with followers at all in brothels, at least as far as the other prostitutes, so they shouldn't be bugged as far as I know.

[ruddycray]

On 7/27/2025 at 5:29 PM, Soothing Darkness said:

I'm trying to find Rudhiir with Chaser-Of-Cats, but his dialog flashed so fast that I don't know what I'm doing other than what I ready in the quest log. There is no map marker, and s far as I can tell, there aren't any clues to go off of. Which means I likely am missing something because of the dialog that flashed by too fast to read. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

Do you have Fuz Ro D'oh? It's required for anything that doesn't have voices or you get strange behavior.

 

To answer your question, though, just head south on the road toward Riften. You should catch up to him eventually.

 

I may have put a quest marker at the spoiler level. I don't remember off hand. You can always try setting the quest marker level to spoiler and see what happens.

[Jack005]

On 7/24/2025 at 6:19 AM, lancelot6king said:

Thanks for the great mod! This mod is one of my must-have mods since I found it.

Got a couple of questions if you have time to answer it.

1) could you add the dialogue option with the barkeeper in New Gnisis Cornerclub(windhelm dark-elf inn) to prostitute there? In this version, you cant offer to work there and if you ask someone in the New Gnisis Cornerclub offering protitution, there will be bounties coming.

2) Is is possible for you to make this mod compatible with SLSF (sexlab sexual fame) and make the whore fame increase when prostituting via this mod?

3) I don't quite understand the license quest of dawnstar which the steward ask player to find two missing girls. After I convince the begger in the town and report to the steward the quest ends there, is it the whole quest or have I missed something? Can I really find the missing girls in the quest?

For point 2 on reputation just use this ring, or change the meshes of the outfit to something you like if you want the outfit 

 

[xtrange988]

For places like the New Gnisis Cornerclub, you can use or create a mod that adds the missing bed since the inn script is already in place. It’s a simple way to fix things up. The same goes for spots like the Drunken Huntsman and the Ragged Flagon.

 

I was thinking, it’d be nice to have a less restrictive alternative where, instead of a bed, you could use a heading marker with a location reference. Not sure if that’s possible, but it’d make patching locations a lot easier when adding a new bed is tricky. I mean, you can put a bedroll in any place but it will not look good.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43731  For example, this mod for The Drunken Huntsman uses the double bed upstairs (instead of taking the bartenders bed on the first floor, they never sleep anyway, right?). It works great with TAP.

 

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/21181  And for the New Gnisis Cornerclub, this mod uses Malthyr’s bed upstairs, not perfect but it will work too.

 

Edited July 31, 2025 by xtrange988

[Jack005]

On 7/30/2025 at 9:14 PM, xtrange988 said:

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/43731  For example, this mod for The Drunken Huntsman uses the double bed upstairs (instead of taking the bartenders bed on the first floor, they never sleep anyway, right?). It works great with TAP.

 

There would be a problem with Drunken huntsman, "barkeeper" has this wierd script that makes the barkeeper chase after the char in the store/inn (to avoid shoplifting) so would resoult in him being a "creep" if char deside to "work" there, and worse if you use immersive wenches, the patron/boss wench and the barkeeper looking at char working without missing any sec of the action, could be a funny situation if someone is into that, but a little weird to say the least

Edited August 5, 2025 by Jack005

[tonitrulupus]

From what I have read about your mod, it looks very immersive, and would actually fit right in with another life mod, if you ever get that far, there or other mods that you can add and it will give you an option to start out as a proustite, if you didn't know that already, it may make it more immersive. 

To bad succubus heart could not be linked, it is by far the best one for the mechanics out there, though one you start the mod the mod can't be turned off at least for now. I may go ahead and add this to my mod list the next play through.

[xtrange988]

On 8/5/2025 at 2:43 AM, Jack005 said:

There would be a problem with Drunken huntsman, "barkeeper" has this wierd script that makes the barkeeper chase after the char in the store/inn (to avoid shoplifting) so would resoult in him being a "creep" if char deside to "work" there, and worse if you use immersive wenches, the patron/boss wench and the barkeeper looking at char working without missing any sec of the action, could be a funny situation if someone is into that, but a little weird to say the least

 

You are right, forgot about that annoying thing. I think it's the vanilla package that needs to be altered too and also there's Nazem and his wife trying to use the same bed.

 

Perhaps an invisible bed is enough for other places. I still have an abandoned mod that turns the Corner Club into a brothel lol, perhaps I might go ahead and publish it too, it was one of my first mods.

 

1 hour ago, tonitrulupus said:

From what I have read about your mod, it looks very immersive, and would actually fit right in with another life mod, if you ever get that far, there or other mods that you can add and it will give you an option to start out as a proustite, if you didn't know that already, it may make it more immersive. 

To bad succubus heart could not be linked, it is by far the best one for the mechanics out there, though one you start the mod the mod can't be turned off at least for now. I may go ahead and add this to my mod list the next play through.

 

An Alternate Start, Live Another Life patch would be cool.
 

Edited August 6, 2025 by xtrange988

[Badpenny]

I might have found a bug, in the One Apple Bad quest. After asking in The Drunken Huntsman and The Bannered Mare, quest log updates to "find a clue about the location of the axe" (something like that), but there's no map marker going with new objective. Also, I talked to the scarred girl in the The Bannered Mare, who gives up what it seems like a clue to me... but the quest doesn't update anyway. So I have no clue about the location of the axe and no clue on what to do next... I'm clueless.

[Badpenny]

Sorry, don't mind my previous post. I just read The Content Guide. I was impatient, this mod is too good.

[tonitrulupus]

On 8/6/2025 at 4:06 PM, xtrange988 said:

An Alternate Start, Live Another Life patch would be cool.

Yeah, CCAS I believe it is already has the stated for being a whore or (what ever hold) or proustite in a inn, so if he could tie in to that it would be prefect, books of Dibella may have the whore start but not sure.

[Eskeran Luka]

Where is Janilla after completing her questline in the Temple of Dibella? She didn't die and we had the ordination ceremony. Afterwards she just disappeared from the temple. I want to hire her for the Solitude license quest.

[debased]

1 hour ago, Eskeran Luka said:

Where is Janilla after completing her questline in the Temple of Dibella? She didn't die and we had the ordination ceremony. Afterwards she just disappeared from the temple. I want to hire her for the Solitude license quest.

She should be in Solitude temple.

 

[ruddycray]

9 hours ago, Eskeran Luka said:

Where is Janilla after completing her questline in the Temple of Dibella? She didn't die and we had the ordination ceremony. Afterwards she just disappeared from the temple. I want to hire her for the Solitude license quest.

 

She'll go back to the temple in Solitude but you might have to hunt for her a little bit because she doesn't hang out by the shrines all day anymore.

[zittonⅡ]

On 7/17/2025 at 12:54 AM, ruddycray said:

 

I haven't lost interest. I am simply very short on time at the moment and had a few technical issues I had to overcome earlier this year.

 

Succubus wasn't a planned feature, just a natural follow-on to a quest line that I did plan, so I included it.

 

Decisions like max gold I made because of my own feeling when playing some other mods that it was too easy to get rich as a prostitute. Honestly, even letting players go to 150 was an adjustment I made. I had originally hard capped it at 50. I might loosen that up, because ultimately if you want to unbalance your game that's up to you. Right now, you can do it with the console, although I've forgotten right off what the value is. It's something like TAPStandardClientGold, but I don't remember if that's what it is exactly.

 

I do put the brothels outside the cities partly for technical reasons, but it's already the way I've established it now, so I'm probably not going to change it. The TAP Interiors mod makes some adjustments where that makes some sense, like putting the Windhelm brothel at the docks.

 

I know it can be frustrating to hear that you're free to do something if you don't have the necessary knowledge to do it, but I don't really have time to do everything that everyone wants, and some things people want I have no interest in doing myself. It's the best answer I can give, just being realistic.

Regarding the fees that the customers charge to the players, my suggestion is to set the fees based on the players' level advancement. For instance, the base fee is 150 gold coins. For each level upgrade, the customer needs to give the player an additional 10 gold coins. Furthermore, you can also receive additional reputation rewards as the storyline progresses. After all, playing with the dragonborn, the thane, or the Dibella priestesses would definitely involve a much higher cost.

[brololo]

i would very much like to see a brothel take over quest or some thing like that if you work for benjen you will take over the dibella's garden brothels and with dibella's garden you could eventually take over the black briar brothel maybe a little addon mod where you could turn a hearthfire house into a new brothel or like have some sort of hearth fire construction stuff to build the new brothels in the holds that have no dibella's garden yet

[Zangron]

Talk about the plot thickening, remember when I was inquiring about maybe making it so bards using Skyrim's Got Talent could get tips in the bar area of the brothels?  You didn't want to flag the brothels as inns and that was understandable and were unsure if it was possible for a non-inn to offer tips to bards.  I just now discovered quite by accident while checking the acoustics in the Riften Bathhouse that if you play a song in the Riften Bathhouse you get tipped even though it is not an inn.  I wonder if they have some secret flag that allows tips to be given even though the Riften Bathhouse has no rooms to rent and is not an Inn?  I played in the Riften Market and got no tips, just to make sure it was localized to the bathhouse.

Edited August 26, 2025 by Zangron
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