The Ancient Profession 2024-06-24

[shiagwen]

In Benjens Brothel in RIfton there are too less men, girls standing around, getting no men. There is nobody selling the drinks and THERE ARE NO DIALOGUES FOR DRINKS !  

This brothel is out of work.  Additionally especially in this brothel is looks weird to get the couples always at the wrong side of the bed, hanging in the air. This is a sexlab matter or a bed furniture matter, but there is no one to fix that since 14 years. What a shame. You think this is fun to look at ? Why making such a mod with thousands of sxripts when the basic sex in bed looks like that ?

[abunchofcats]

Figured I might as well report this here, but I'm getting freezes when this mod tried to start scenes, after starting a new game. Basically, when trying to start a scene with a client, a drinking animation plays before the scene (not sure if the drinking is due to this mod or some other mod, but it seems to be linked to this?), and then it freezes before it gets to start. I've encountered this in the Solitude brothel with the first interview scene, and at the inn at Dragon's Bridge. With the inn scene that freezes, it actually works fine with the 'let's go to my bed' option, but happens on the 'lets find somewhere private'. Because these are freezes (as in the game gets stuck and I have to use task manager to exit the game), I'm not getting any crash logs that I can look through.

 

If it helps, I'm using P+ and Hentairim P+. I tried it without Hentairim and the freezes still happened. Other SL scenes seem to start up no problem.

 

Edit: bizarrely enough, removing 'ultimate animated potions ng' solved this

Edited November 9, 2025 by abunchofcats

[BasicallyBasic]

I'm unable to convince Tlatha of any of the options regarding her father in The Fabric of Family. I've spoken to her brother and sister for additional information, but it didn't help with resolving the quest. Is it just a Speech check issue? Do I gotta go level Speech higher to convince her of a choice? 

[ruddycray]

On 11/16/2025 at 7:48 PM, BasicallyBasic said:

I'm unable to convince Tlatha of any of the options regarding her father in The Fabric of Family. I've spoken to her brother and sister for additional information, but it didn't help with resolving the quest. Is it just a Speech check issue? Do I gotta go level Speech higher to convince her of a choice? 

 

Yes, that's probably a speech skill issue. There are a few ways to go about it, though.

 

Spoiler

If you sell yourself to her brother at Dibella's Garden, the speech check is considerably easier. You can also pickpocket something from her sister that will make it so that you don't have to pass a speech check. For the "best" ending to the quest, you should convince her brother to talk to her again.

 

[danna233]

My scenes are also disappearing under the bed. I have no idea how to fix it. Even if I set the SexLab settings to never use the bed, the scenes still start under the bed. At the beginning of the scene, the sex lab tries to set up the scene correctly by aligning the actors above the bed, but then something takes over and pushes them under the bed.

 

P.S. At first I wanted to delete the message, but I decided to leave it. It was the bed replacer's fault. I deleted the replacer, and the scenes started working correctly. So if anyone is having any issues with actors falling through, check your furniture replacers.

Edited November 26, 2025 by danna233

[danna233]

I finally figured out how to tie this mod into my playthrough. Because, in my opinion, a heroic heroine didn't really fit into the prostitute content. And I couldn't figure out how to start it all off as a respectable woman with an unblemished reputation. So, I came up with an idea. She'll do it incognito. I disabled prostitution on the road. And she visits brothels secretly. Ideally, I'd also disable dialogue about prostitutes in taverns, but that feature doesn't exist; it would be nice if it were added. And incognito mode, too. For now, I'm improvising. Here's my dragonkid applying for a job.

 

 

Sexlab can be set up so that she never takes off her mask.

Edited November 28, 2025 by danna233

[danna233]

What could have happened to the quest in Whiterun? It doesn't appear. I mean the quest with the axe. Or is it gone? What are the conditions for this quest? Honestly, my character should be moving on with the main storyline and the Harbinger quests, but she's still hanging around in Whiterun because I know there were other quests in the brothel. Perhaps the reason the quest isn't there is because the Riverwood quest hasn't been completed? But I can't do it yet because Delphine is sitting in the tavern with a quest to the Thalmor embassy, which I don't want to go to yet.

[ruddycray]

On 11/30/2025 at 5:44 AM, danna233 said:

What could have happened to the quest in Whiterun? It doesn't appear. I mean the quest with the axe. Or is it gone? What are the conditions for this quest? Honestly, my character should be moving on with the main storyline and the Harbinger quests, but she's still hanging around in Whiterun because I know there were other quests in the brothel. Perhaps the reason the quest isn't there is because the Riverwood quest hasn't been completed? But I can't do it yet because Delphine is sitting in the tavern with a quest to the Thalmor embassy, which I don't want to go to yet.

 

The only requirement should be to earn 3000 gold after you've joined Dibella's Garden. The quest won't start if you're hanging around in Whiterun, though, I think. If I remember right, it requires you not to be there.

[danna233]

Ah, so that's it. I don't have 3,000 gold yet. I've been too busy. I'm going through the College of Mages, and then, once I become an Archmage, I plan to take the Winterhold quest from your mod. To expand my magical knowledge, so to speak.

 

Okay. This quest is impossible to complete. He gets stuck literally everywhere, and his AI breaks. He'll never reach the necromancer's workshop. Well, maybe he will, but my character won't see it because he'll freeze to death in survival mode. I think the best approach would be to simply set a marker where she needs to go.

Edited December 5, 2025 by danna233

[ruddycray]

23 hours ago, danna233 said:

Ah, so that's it. I don't have 3,000 gold yet. I've been too busy. I'm going through the College of Mages, and then, once I become an Archmage, I plan to take the Winterhold quest from your mod. To expand my magical knowledge, so to speak.

 

Okay. This quest is impossible to complete. He gets stuck literally everywhere, and his AI breaks. He'll never reach the necromancer's workshop. Well, maybe he will, but my character won't see it because he'll freeze to death in survival mode. I think the best approach would be to simply set a marker where she needs to go.

 

It's on my list to make that work better, because the navmesh leading to the workshop is not great. That's a vanilla issue. But, with that said, he should jump past the spots he gets a little stuck, and playing with no mods but my own, I've never seen him get permanently stuck even once, so you may have something else interfering here.

[danna233]

5 hours ago, ruddycray said:

It's on my list to make that work better, because the navmesh leading to the workshop is not great. That's a vanilla issue. But, with that said, he should jump past the spots he gets a little stuck, and playing with no mods but my own, I've never seen him get permanently stuck even once, so you may have something else interfering here.

He finally made it there on the fourth save restart. He only got stuck in snowdrifts twice, but we didn't encounter anyone along the way. Just two trolls along the way, so we didn't lose our way too much. But it's usually crowded there. Bandits, companions, they all try to beat him up, and after that, he breaks down. One time, a crazy old woman, a Sheogarath cultist, was running around there. That time, he completely broke down, stood rooted to the spot, nothing stopping him from moving forward, but something must have broken in his AI. So I think the best option would be for our character to get to the workshop on his own. Yes, there was something different there. You probably didn't realize that this spot is where random vanilla events spawn.

Edited December 6, 2025 by danna233

[BasicallyBasic]

On 11/24/2025 at 1:22 AM, ruddycray said:

 

Yes, that's probably a speech skill issue. There are a few ways to go about it, though.

 

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If you sell yourself to her brother at Dibella's Garden, the speech check is considerably easier. You can also pickpocket something from her sister that will make it so that you don't have to pass a speech check. For the "best" ending to the quest, you should convince her brother to talk to her again.

 

Hi, thank you for your response! I didn't even consider attempting those things. I happened to put my run on hold for a few weeks, so I'm still basically where I was when I asked, so I'll give these options a shot. 

 

Spoiler

Nice to see that you added some things for pickpockets to use their skills on! Never went into pickpocketing even when playing thief characters cus it always felt kinda pointless.

 

[joesly27]

is there any future plans in this mod so male characters can become incubui if you haven't already thought of this idea after you take the soul of your opponent they should turn into a draugr I already used something like this with sex lab p and another mod called sex craft I just don't like sex lab p just to use sex craft sex lab p just breaks too many of my mods

 

Edited December 7, 2025 by joesly27

[ruddycray]

On 12/7/2025 at 12:04 PM, joesly27 said:

is there any future plans in this mod so male characters can become incubui if you haven't already thought of this idea after you take the soul of your opponent they should turn into a draugr I already used something like this with sex lab p and another mod called sex craft I just don't like sex lab p just to use sex craft sex lab p just breaks too many of my mods

 

I don't play as a male character really ever so it's not something I'm likely to be super motivated to add. I won't rule it out altogether but I'd also say don't hold your breath.

[sen4mi]

I was trying to figure out what efforts have been made to integrate this mod with 

 

 

But it looks like no one has even talked about that here?? Is this such a trivial thing that how to make things work has been automatically obvious to everyone that cares?

[ruddycray]

On 12/18/2025 at 6:34 AM, sen4mi said:

I was trying to figure out what efforts have been made to integrate this mod with 

 

 

But it looks like no one has even talked about that here?? Is this such a trivial thing that how to make things work has been automatically obvious to everyone that cares?

 

TAP's license system predates that mod by several years. Where I've seen license systems before, they usually have things like expiration systems in them, which I don't really want to implement for TAP. I don't care if someone wants to mess with it themselves, of course, but it's not something I really have a lot of interest in pursuing.

[sen4mi]

On 12/20/2025 at 1:22 PM, ruddycray said:

 

TAP's license system predates that mod by several years. Where I've seen license systems before, they usually have things like expiration systems in them, which I don't really want to implement for TAP. I don't care if someone wants to mess with it themselves, of course, but it's not something I really have a lot of interest in pursuing.

Ok, so... it sounds like, if I want to try using both mods, hypothetically speaking, I should probably disable all features of the other mod which seem to have something similar implemented here.

 

Though, of course, additional issues might show up if or when I actually try such a thing.

 

(I am mostly surprised that I am the first person to bring up the subject.)

 

Edit: I had left a similar query on in the other mod's support thread, asking for insight on how to integrate the two mods. Instead of an answer, my question was simply deleted. This suggests that the author of that thread does not want to discuss the topic. Which, in turn, suggests that I should not bother trying that mod.

 

(Or: quite possibly other people have also cried out for help and have had their questions censored.)

Edited January 14 by sen4mi

[Herowynne]

2 hours ago, sen4mi said:

(I am mostly surprised that I am the first person to bring up the subject.)

 

Many folks on LL use multiple mods that have different license systems.

 

For example, I use both TAP and Sexlab Survival, which each have prostitution license systems. I just roleplay that the different license systems are for different kinds of prostitution and/or prostitution in different venues.

 

During a playthrough, I will typically acquire TAP licenses in various holds and also a Sexlab Survival whore license, which ties into Public Whore.

[BugReporter_0x29fda0ed]

On 10/24/2025 at 7:27 AM, Polyleritae said:

Good evening!

 

Firstly, thank you so much for taking the time to create and share such a fun mod. TAP is easily one of the most enjoyable I've added to my game; it enriches the gameplay without ever feeling like it jeopardizes or monopolizes your game. 

 

I've run into a bit of an odd snag with the Solitude questline. I've found my four ladies and am able to start a scene with one of the ambassadors... but then I get a CTD when trying to end the scene. I get a CTD if my PC and the ambassador finish "naturally", so at first I figured perhaps the game was overwhelmed with the other ladies having finished prior to us and the game having to sort it. I then assumed perhaps ending my PC's bit early would help... but nope, same thing. I've tried with the Argonian and with the Redguard. I tried running the crash log through the crash log decoder which unfortunately didn't give me answers. I've tried reading through it myself but I am WOEFULLY ignorant about how to interpret them; all I can guess is that something does not appear to be playing nicely with this mod. I suspect Balazar might be part of it, but I can't quite figure out how or why they're conflicting. I believe I have Balazar loaded after this one - would TAP need to be loaded below it, perhaps? I've used LOOT but I understand sometimes manual finagling is required.

 

A quirk of my load order is that I have a mod that can load Sexlab scenes through Ostim. Normally this isn't too problematic, but I do wonder if perhaps it's an issue for this particular mod/scene. While this wouldn't be your issue to solve, I do wonder if it's also related to a separate issue with critter mods wherein sometimes SL doesn't seem to recognize that I have an animation for something, but I can play it via OStim.

 

I'm content to simply console command past this small portion of the Solitude quest - everything else has mostly cooperated with me and I've otherwise had quite a lot of fun with this mod!

 

I apologize for my ignorance and wordy response!

crash-2025-10-23-23-04-16.log 510.95 kB · 4 downloads

same issue, do you know how to skip this quest phase?
need help

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I've found workaround, in console, type "setstage TAPQSolitudeLicense 50" to skip ambassador party

wish can help someone encountered the same issue

Edited December 29, 2025 by BugReporter_0x29fda0ed
solved

[Polyleritae]

8 hours ago, BugReporter_0x29fda0ed said:

same issue, do you know how to skip this quest phase?
need help

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I've found workaround, in console, type "setstage TAPQSolitudeLicense 50" to skip ambassador party

wish can help someone encountered the same issue

 

This was more or less what I had to do. Not the end of the world, and only a small hiccup in what is otherwise a delightful mod.

[abinisa]

something is wrong with my settings, i always get 3 basic vagina sex animations. i use Sexlab+ so might be the problem not sure.

and my animations are working (i think) creature stuff etc, defeat works.

 

thing is if using Sexlab with loader is so slow and slugish 

[Jack005]

Does someone knows how to make a spid for TAP using this mod??https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/104357?tab=files&file_id=509251&nmm=1 , I just want to be able to play cards with the costumers while theyre ready for the deed

[Sternentreue]

Hey, quick question: is it just me or why does it always crash when a sex scene is starting inside one of the Ancient Profession Brothel's by NPC. I enabled the Autonomous Brothel Sex in the Ancient Profession MCM cause i thought that would be nice for immersion but it seems my game always crashes. here are some crash logs if that helps

crash-2026-01-06-22-56-23.log crash-2026-01-07-02-12-11.log

[tvRoosey]

Hey @ruddycray was wondering when another update would be coming for the mod. Really excited to see how some of the story lines turn out

[ruddycray]

On 1/3/2026 at 5:13 AM, abinisa said:

something is wrong with my settings, i always get 3 basic vagina sex animations. i use Sexlab+ so might be the problem not sure.

and my animations are working (i think) creature stuff etc, defeat works.

 

thing is if using Sexlab with loader is so slow and slugish 

 

If you mean P+, the only issues I'm aware of are some problems with furniture that seem to be a problem in P+ itself. It should be able to use a variety of animations.