Mark of Arkay - Death Alternative

[mort65]

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Mark of Arkay - Death Alternative

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Mark of Arkay - Death Alternative

 

When you lose all or a chosen percent of your health, a Menu will appear and asks you which one of these items you want to trade to restore your health. If you don't have enough items or choose nothing from the menu, depending on the settings, you either die, respawn or the game will exit to the main menu.

 

•     Arkay mark: a dark stone which can be found in the loot.
•     Filled grand soul gem
•     Filled black soul gem
•     Dragon soul
•     Gold

 

Update from versions older than 3.37 requires a New Game.

Only v1.6.1170 of the game is supported.

OStim Standalone must be updated If using version 7.3.3

 

You can disable or change the required amount for each item in the MCM menu, or set it to zero for cheating. If you don't want to see the menu, you can disable it and trade items automatically, based on their priority. When the menu is disabled, items with higher priority will be removed first. If two or more items have the same priority, one of them will be picked randomly. You can change their priority and other settings from the MCM menu.

You can revive yourself without trading by using one of these Items:

 

•     Scroll of revival: If you cast it, you will be revived automatically for one minute.
•     Scroll of sacrifice: If you cast it on an NPC that satisfies its conditions, that NPC will die instead of you for 30 secs.
•     Healing Potion: When your health drops to zero, You have 6 seconds to open your inventory and revive yourself with healing potions.

Spell versions of the scroll of revival and sacrifice are in a chest at Falkreath's hall of the dead. They can be used by the player once per day.

You can decide to lose some or all of your items before respawning. If you enable this option, you can take back your items by activating your soul mark (Grand soul gem or Player character's dead body) or you can revive yourself by sacrificing someone with the sacrifice spell. Instead of activating the soul mark, there is an option to send your items to a boss chest or retrieve your items by killing a nearby enemy or a spawned one.

You can also toggle losing your items permanently whenever you respawn before finding them.
 
If you don't trade, other than losing items from your inventory, these outcomes could happen before respawning:

 

•     Disease: you'll be infected by a random vanilla disease that gets worse with each respawn.
•     Skill: you lose some of your skills or experience (Probably not compatible with mods like “Skyrim Skill Uncapper”).
•     Silence: you can't talk to NPCs or shout.
•     Ghost: You'll become a ghost and NPCs will attack you on sight.
•     Arkay's curse:  50% worse prices, 50% harder persuasion & intimidation, 25 points lower Health, Stamina and Magicka.
•     Slavery: You'll be sold into slavery (Requires the Simple Slavery ++ mod).
•     Dreamworld: If SD+ is installed, after visiting it, you could be sent to the dreamworld.
•     Rape: Requires either SexLab, OStim Standalone or Flower Girls to be installed.
•     Prison: When you have a bounty and a guard is nearby.

 

 Respawn points can be set to one of these locations:

 

•     Inn
•     Hall of the dead
•     Last place player slept
•     The throat of the World
•     A custom place chosen by mark spell.
•     Checkpoint: which is a close location that you visited.
•     Nearby: Similar to checkpoints, but it could send you to a map marker in the current hold.

 

Mark and recall spells could also be used for travel, either free or in exchange for arkay marks.

 

On the debug page if Information is enabled, currently lost items can be viewed by clicking on their numbers on the right side (Requires UIExtensions).   

 

Some MCM settings can be locked from the debug page. You can set a maximum number of respawns,

After reaching that number of respawns, if you don't have any items for revival, you'll die.

Also, you can make it a permanent death (Requires PapyrusUtil) and prevent yourself from loading saves from that character after using all allowed respawns. 

 

MCM settings can be saved\loaded with FISSES.

 

 

Hard Requirements

• SKSE
• SkyUI
• UIExtensions
• Address Library for SKSE Plugins

 

Soft Requirements

• FISSES
• SexLab
• OStim SA
• Flower Girls
• PapyrusUtil
• Simple Slavery ++
• Scrab's Papyrus Extender
• Powerofthree's Papyrus Extender
• CrosshairRefEvents script hang fix
• Sanguine Debauchery enhanced: SD+
• SkyPatcher (Requires for the 2 patches. For patched container version, iAllowLeveledListsAddedToContainers in Skypatcher.ini should be set to 1)

        

 

Compatibility

         

This mod should be compatible with almost anything, except mods that do the same thing or remove the essential flag from the player.

 

List of known conflicting mods:

 

• Death Alternative – Your Money or Your Life
• SexLab Defeat: If Bleedout is enabled.
• SkyTweak: If Bleedout is enabled on the Scripts page.
• VioLens - A Killmove Mod: Either place this mod lower than Violens in your load order or enable 'Player KillMove immunity' in its MCM Menu.
• Survival Mod:  You can't revive/respawn after freezing to death, but it can be disabled by installing Conner's Survival Mode and disabling “Death From Cold” from the MCM menu.

 

If you use ENB and don't see the fade-to-black effect before respawn, check this link:

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrimmods/comments/dyfkhi/got_fade_to_black_working_in_rudy_enb/

 

 

Installation

 

Copy files to Skyrim data directory. Start the game and change the setting from the mcm menu.

If you have other mods that change the level list, create a Bashed Patch with Wrye Bash or a Smashed Patch with Mator Smash.

 

 

Uninstallation

 

make sure you are not in Falkreath's hall of the dead. Stop the mod, remove its files (if you don't stop it, your character remains essential), rebuild your Bashed Patch, and then use a Save cleaner like this to remove its scripts from your save file.

 

 

Credits

 

SKSE Team
Creators of SkyUI
Saerileth for Arkay mark model and texture

 

 

Permissions

 

This mod is intended for personal use only and must not be sold or distributed for profit. Additionally, it should not be uploaded to any other website without the explicit permission of the mod creator.

 

 

Links

 

Video (Old)

GitHub Page

moaUtil Source

 

Images

 

 

 

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• Submitter
  mort65
• Submitted
  07/27/2022
• Category
  Regular Mods
• Requirements
  SKSE, SkyUI, UIExtensions
• Regular Edition Compatible

 

Edited March 20, 2024 by mort65

[spoonsinger]

Mark Of Arkay always was the most reliable death alternative (Still using the 2-72 ?) I knew the latest had been on Github, but nice of it to turn up here.

 

 

[mort65]

1 hour ago, spoonsinger said:

Mark Of Arkay always was the most reliable death alternative (Still using the 2-72 ?) I knew the latest had been on Github, but nice of it to turn up here.

 

 

I'm glad you like it ?

[R34x]

I always liked Mark of Arkay, great to see an update. Will also be great to see it integrated with SexLab and Loverslab mods, if Mono took interest for SexLab Survival that would be excellent.

Do you think there would be any chance of mirroring some of the features found in

?

 

That mod still serves as a decent, simple death alternative mod to this day. Someone there posted a rewrite that made it about astral projection or something instead of death, which I liked. But the actual features worked decently for me.

 

Also, any chance of leaving bodies after revival so they could be used by reanimation spells?

 

Look forward to testing it out as is, ty!

[osculim]

So glad this mod is back best DA mod by far. It just works. 

[spoonsinger]

Alternate Perspective, ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/50307 ) Mark Of Arkay patch.

 

Just removes the MQ101 quest from zzzmoa_QuestBlacklist for those using Alternate Perspective.  Load after Mark Of Arkay.

 

 

Alternate Perspective MarkOfArkay Patch.7z

[atehu]

Curse and NPC menu is grey, can't change anything

[mort65]

2 hours ago, atehu said:

Curse and NPC menu is grey, can't change anything

Set 'Aftermath' to 'Respawn'.

[atehu]

6 hours ago, mort65 said:

Set 'Aftermath' to 'Respawn'.

So am i understanding this correctly - the curses functions only apply to player when refused to pay for revival?

[mort65]

5 minutes ago, atehu said:

So am i understanding this correctly - the curses functions only apply to player when refused to pay for revival?

Yes

[Barry W.]

42 minutes ago, mort65 said:

Yes

 

Cool mod, thanks.

May be you know a solution. I want to install SD+ which makes PC essential.

Is it possible to make PC not essential (not immortal, no bleedout) with SD enabled? Any command or plugin? I prefer my PC to be mortal and die sometimes in combat and other situations. Especially in situations when PC is not enslaved. 

Edited July 29, 2022 by Barry W.

[mort65]

43 minutes ago, Barry W. said:

 

Cool mod, thanks.

May be you know a solution. I want to install SD+ which makes PC essential.

Is it possible to make PC not essential (not immortal, no bleedout) with SD enabled? Any command or plugin? I prefer my PC to be mortal and die sometimes in combat and other situations. Especially in situations when PC is not enslaved. 

To remove essential from the player you can try 'setessential 7 0' but this will stop mods that use onbleedout event like this one.

[tamai]

can this mod trigger sexlab defeat?

[mort65]

14 hours ago, tamai said:

can this mod trigger sexlab defeat?

No

[spoonsinger]

On 7/29/2022 at 11:23 PM, tamai said:

can this mod trigger sexlab defeat?

 

As mort65 said. However...

 

If you use Skooma Whore, (and additionally -  but not needed - Skooma Whore SLSW Addicted), you can change the 'zzzmoa_HealingPotions' forms list in Mark Of Arkay to only include Skooma variants and set the revive with potion option in Mark Of Arkay's MCM. This doesn't effect the revive healing effect because that isn't reliant on the actual healing potion drunk. Advantages.

 

1) Defeat is a bit finicky anyway and suspending combat just leads to more problems than really it's worth.

2) When you revive you are now under the influence of whatever Skooma product you just chugged down.

3) It gives a reason to carry around illegal Skooma products.

4) It gets addictive if you rely on it, (with all that entails). But the consequences are generally outside a combat scenario.

 

Attached ESP/ESL with the form list changed if you want to take it for a spin.  (Load after Mark Of Arkay). (My Skooma Whore Version is the SE version 1.04, just in case the Skooma form ID's were different of previous versions).

 

 

MarkOfArkay Skooma Revival.7z

Edited August 3, 2022 by spoonsinger
Just an additional note.

[drummond]

I need help... I can't see the mcm mod panel.

[sfdrake]

On 7/28/2022 at 3:29 AM, spoonsinger said:

Alternate Perspective, ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/50307 ) Mark Of Arkay patch.

 

Just removes the MQ101 quest from zzzmoa_QuestBlacklist for those using Alternate Perspective.  Load after Mark Of Arkay.

 

 

Alternate Perspective MarkOfArkay Patch.7z 395 B · 3 downloads

is that blacklist essential for something not to work off either mod?

[spoonsinger]

1 hour ago, sfdrake said:

is that blacklist essential for something not to work off either mod?

 

The black list, (and forgive me if I'm wrong Mort65), is to stop revival during certain quests because it would break those quests. However Alternate Perspective does it's own thing to the MQ101 quest because it's an alternate start. So it will be active up till the point you actually start the main adventure properly. Which means during that time Mark Of Arkay wouldn't normally be be reviving you. Which is why it has to be removed from the black list.

Edited July 31, 2022 by spoonsinger
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[Calabria]

This single mod does pretty much what I was trying to achieve with Stay In The Fight - A Death Alternative and Rest By Campfire - Souls-like Bonfire Menu and Respawn - Soulslike Edition, if it had the Campfire addon as checkpoint/respawn would be perfect, I don't like stay in the fight since its respawn/revive is super buggy and mess with the camera. I will give this a try since looks awesome.

Edited August 3, 2022 by irhygin

[paparebbe]

Possibly a stupid question - is this mod LE compatible?

[mort65]

7 hours ago, paparebbe said:

Possibly a stupid question - is this mod LE compatible?

It could be converted but I don't have LE installed. The last LE version is 3.25 on GitHub.

Edited August 6, 2022 by mort65

[R34x]

Do the features of previous dead body having items and the newly added rape feature work similarly to the mod I linked above? (body drops, respawn as ghost, have to persuade someone / something to have sex with former body)

 

Or does it simply store dropped items in a chest, and respawn PC in middle of a sexlab scene they must escape from / finish before retrieving items from chest (or unconcious body / corpse)?

[mort65]

13 minutes ago, R34x said:

Do the features of previous dead body having items and the newly added rape feature work similarly to the mod I linked above? (body drops, respawn as ghost, have to persuade someone / something to have sex with former body)

 

Or does it simply store dropped items in a chest, and respawn PC in middle of a sexlab scene they must escape from / finish before retrieving items from chest (or unconcious body / corpse)?

It's like defeat. You get raped then teleported. Then based on the MCM setting, you take your items back either by killing an NPC or activating your dead body or a grand soul gem or you'll find them in the boss chest of a dungeon.

[R34x]

Just now, mort65 said:

It's like defeat. You get raped then teleported. Then based on the MCM setting, you take your items back either by killing an NPC or activating your dead body or a grand soul gem or you'll find them in the boss chest of a dungeon.

 

Cool, tyty

[sfdrake]

I'd kinda wonder if it was possible to make mark of arkay and the new one on nexus the shadows of skyrim: nemesis to work together......