[iDEA] Player can be carried by Follower

[Cursed Raccoon]

The idea is fairly simple:

as the title suggests, this mod makes it so any current follower has the ability to carry the dragonborn around. 

 

I recently got this idea, because of certain Devious devices that disallow the player to run and or use their hands. In addition to that fast traveling might be disabled at times, maybe even because of those items. The best example i could think of was the ultra tight straight jacket. This thing disables your hands and slows you down a bunch, only your ability to speak (activation general) will stay. It takes sooo much longer to reach places when running around with such devices. Furthermore you dont always have a horse hanging around or you are someone like me who just does not use them at all. And this got me thinking: is there a way to bypass this extremely time consuming circumstance without destroying too much immersion or cheating? One could just say that i need to unequip the device, but that is easier said than done, especially when the device needs a dozen special keys to unlock. That is where i got my idea from. 

 

The base of this mod would only consist of the following functionality:

a new dialouge option to ask one of your current followers if they are kind enough to carry you around. once they agree to your bidding, you as the player will take over control of the follower, at the same time the PC will be attached to said follower with a chosen animation. examples for carrying animations: put player in a backpack, drag player behind on a leash, carry player on shoulder, float player around with magic, put player in a wheelbarrow, etc.. Now you can fully control your follower and gain access to all of their stuff, like weapons, spells and other stuff you gave them beforehand, as if they became the 'new player character'. Once you are finished carrying around the dragonborn, you can hit a hotkey, activate a spell, or something along those lines to 'release' the player. After releasing you will gain full control of the dragonborn once again and your follower will act just like a normal follower would. 

 

I imagine this mod to somewhat be combination of the mods riding styles and alternate actors. As both mods already exist and function properly more or less, i think this idea will be possible to realize. 

This mod could come in handy on multiple occasion, one of which i have already listed above. Another example would be the dire need to clear a dungeon, but your hands are tied and you are rendered defenseless. In this case you could quickly take control of your follower and do what you need to be doing, afterwards you can continue struggling against your restraints just like before. 

 

I am curious about what you have to say to this idea. Maybe one of you is so enthusiastic about that they want to make it into a full blown mod (i would do it myself if it weren't for my current project). Let me know what you think! 

[Guest]

It can be a good exercise to make it.

Not very easy but also not impossible.

[Cursed Raccoon]

9 minutes ago, CPU said:

It can be a good exercise to make it.

Not very easy but also not impossible.

 

I can only agree, let me now if you are up to the challange. I would love to see this mod in action.

[BAB PEEG]

I remember playing a mod like that, it was called evil Evelyn or some such. The short of it was the automated process from walking from point A to B was very boring and slow, not to mention the player's mods could make all sorts of map/monster changes to pathing would have to account for. I would really like to see the process done better.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, CrymH said:

 

I can only agree, let me now if you are up to the challange. I would love to see this mod in action.

 

No, I am not.

I abandoned modding a bunch of years ago.

[Cursed Raccoon]

I stumbled across this post recently, it might help with this idea:

https://www.loverslab.com/topic/182231-skyrim-lift-and-carry/