Adventures with Balazar (Balazar's Bitch) - Beta

[killer905]

3 minutes ago, Xhalia said:

That was it -- I feel so stupid for missing this !  😅  Well, the ring was hidden under the glass dagger and I just missed it; here it is for others in case they cannot find it either:

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Elenwen know how hide not her stuff :3

[Gristle]

13 hours ago, zwdragonbone8314 said:

I can confirm that I did run version 0.943. And the door is still not working.

 

4 hours ago, ghostwalkr said:

I wanted to follow up on testing v0.943 for the door issue at the embassy.

Unfortunately still is showing that a key is required.

 

I just posted a new version 0.944 that moves the mod-added Thalmor Embassy door forward a small amount. So, even if the vanilla door is not disabled, the mod door should be the one you interact with. However, I don't think this cell change will update if you're in the cell. So, you'd have to reload a save before you got to the Thalmor Embassy area. Please let me know if this fixes the problem.

[Xhalia]

I finished the Solitude quest -- super fun, great story and bdsm elements!

 

Spoiler

Especially how Elisif the Fair eventually succumbs to Balazar's prowess over her husband, nice twist!

 

One issue I had was that (in 3rd person view) I became invisible when entering Elisif's bedroom at the end -- was that intended or a glitch?

[Gristle]

50 minutes ago, Xhalia said:

One issue I had was that (in 3rd person view) I became invisible when entering Elisif's bedroom at the end -- was that intended or a glitch?

Glad you liked it. No. Invisibility not intended. There's nothing special about entering her bedroom. Elisif has a typical force greet package, but there's no code affecting the PC or the area in general. It's just the standard vanilla Blue Palace room. All I did was swap out the four-poster bed for a noble bed without the posts. (PCs get stuck inside the four-poster beds after sex.) 

[Xhalia]

2 hours ago, Gristle said:

Glad you liked it. No. Invisibility not intended. There's nothing special about entering her bedroom.

Weird, it happens every time from my save -- maybe something with another mod. (running 100+ mods).

Spoiler

Also, I thought the cuckolding of the Jarl by Balazar was a cool story twist; but even though Elifir mentions how "big" Balazar is, he is not rendered as such -- maybe this is due to the SOS mod? I think SOS randomly assigns a size?  Is there a way to mod Balazar so he is actually always rendered big ?

edit: it was SOS; I could select Balazar ("N") and in the menu for SOS change the size from 5 to 20 -- looks dremora lord sized now 🙂

 

Edited November 25, 2024 by Xhalia

[zwdragonbone8314]

10 hours ago, Gristle said:

 

I just posted a new version 0.944 that moves the mod-added Thalmor Embassy door forward a small amount. So, even if the vanilla door is not disabled, the mod door should be the one you interact with. However, I don't think this cell change will update if you're in the cell. So, you'd have to reload a save before you got to the Thalmor Embassy area. Please let me know if this fixes the problem.

Hi, thank you for your response. I have updated the version and load with the earlier save. The door did work now but there is a problem. One of the NPC, Corwen still not following my PC into the cell and I believe this is the cause of other problems I encountered I mentioned in my previous post. If my PC leave the cell and with Corwen, the quest scene is working. But when my PC return back to embassy, the scene is not working due to absence of Corwen.

[PippinTom]

13 hours ago, Gristle said:

I don't think this cell change will update if you're in the cell. So, you'd have to reload a save before you got to the Thalmor Embassy area

 

Another workaround for someone who faces vanilla door instead of modded ones (which are in previous versions a bit sunken in the building's wall - by a frames length I would say) is to:

-- toggle clipping off,

-- strafe a bit inside the building, thru vanilla door - just enough to "key required" tooltip on crosshair be replaced with something/anything else, meaning it is pointing at right door

-- click that, to enter embassy

 

regarding "disabling" - I've tried that too, but from my experience, (quite often) objects crucial for currently running quests (including actors) are immune to that (no idea what kind of protections is in action here - is it from vanilla engine or one of SKSE's hack'em plugins), probably disable/enable works but not after loading object/cell/whatever.

[icantthinkofausername69]

im stuck on the whipping scene right after talking to the jarl for the first time. No animations are played(except for being tied to the pole) and it goes on for days

[PawGirl]

On 11/23/2024 at 12:19 PM, Gristle said:

Did that just show up with the new versions (v0.94+) or did that happen before? Who is supposed to be following you when it happens - Dremora male or Dremora female?

I only just noticed it on the latest version.

 

Male was supposed to be following me, and it was pre-Riften in the questline. I think it may only happen when you fast travel from town to wilderness prior to the Riften questline.

[Garfieldcat]

I have a bit of an issue.
While on the Solitude quest, I got the signet and moved to Oblivion with Balazar.
Got the book, got banged by the hentai monsters and came at the last fish-like monster.
The pop-up came up, no sex was initiated (probably missing animation - had that with the huge golem as well) and after that I figured I'll just click the book the return to Solitude.
It moved me to the town, but Balazar isn't there with me and the quest still shows find a way back to Solitude.
Any ideas? A script to complete it maybe (although it says it's the last stage of that quest so, not sure how to trigger it as complete and then start the next bit).

Thank you in advance!

Nevermind!
Figured it was Balazar Solitude Quest 3 and managed to move the quest past the non-banging monster  

Edited November 25, 2024 by Garfieldcat

[lordbor]

Thalmor Embassy
When I activate the horse (with the E button), the character saddles the horse and after selecting the sex dialogue with the horse, the animation does not start. Any idea why this is happening? 

I have animations for a horse and in a normal situation, animations are launched through other mods. The problem is that the character saddles a horse with the same key. And instead of running a sex animation, the character just saddles a horse. The quest does not continue because of this. It took the input of console commands.

Edited November 26, 2024 by lordbor
A more detailed description.

[icantthinkofausername69]

how do i return to balazar after obtaining the paragon

[killer905]

48 minutes ago, icantthinkofausername69 said:

how do i return to balazar after obtaining the paragon

The same portal through which you entered the location with the Frost Giant.

[recroid366]

I am replaying this mod, And during Pit Bitch, Seems everything goes well until the PC is supposed to be returned to the cages, My character walks backwards, back to the pit. I have tried to run to the cages my self, but then my character refuses to go to the cage, What stage is it to set up the cage use?

[Gristle]

19 hours ago, lordbor said:

Thalmor Embassy
When I activate the horse (with the E button), the character saddles the horse and after selecting the sex dialogue with the horse, the animation does not start. Any idea why this is happening? 

I have animations for a horse and in a normal situation, animations are launched through other mods. The problem is that the character saddles a horse with the same key. And instead of running a sex animation, the character just saddles a horse. The quest does not continue because of this. It took the input of console commands.

The default action of the "E" (Activate) button on a horse is to mount it, but this particular horse has a script attached that blocks the default activation and adds its own code to run on activation.  My guess is that you have a horse mod that is overriding this script. Are you running any horse mods?

[Gristle]

1 hour ago, recroid366 said:

I am replaying this mod, And during Pit Bitch, Seems everything goes well until the PC is supposed to be returned to the cages, My character walks backwards, back to the pit. I have tried to run to the cages my self, but then my character refuses to go to the cage, What stage is it to set up the cage use?

The quest name is BLZR_Riften2. You are ordered to return to the cage on quest stage 120 and the next quest stage, where you are locked in the cage, is quest stage 130. Are you running True Directional Movement?

[recroid366]

41 minutes ago, Gristle said:

The quest name is BLZR_Riften2. You are ordered to return to the cage on quest stage 120 and the next quest stage, where you are locked in the cage, is quest stage 130. Are you running True Directional Movement?

I am running True Directional Movement , I have the setting turned off for stop on direction change. Is there something else I should turn off?

 

[Gristle]

On 11/25/2024 at 12:51 AM, zwdragonbone8314 said:

Hi, thank you for your response. I have updated the version and load with the earlier save. The door did work now but there is a problem. One of the NPC, Corwen still not following my PC into the cell and I believe this is the cause of other problems I encountered I mentioned in my previous post. If my PC leave the cell and with Corwen, the quest scene is working. But when my PC return back to embassy, the scene is not working due to absence of Corwen.

I don't completely understand. Is Corwen following you? There's at least three places in the dialogue where she will stop following you due to dialogue choices. She is optional in that you can choose to leave her behind, if you want. Is she following you after the conversation with the door guard? Under what conditions is the quest working?

[Gristle]

On 11/25/2024 at 9:05 AM, PawGirl said:

I only just noticed it on the latest version.

 

Male was supposed to be following me, and it was pre-Riften in the questline. I think it may only happen when you fast travel from town to wilderness prior to the Riften questline.

Thanks. There was a safeguard against this in the code, but I will add a second one in the next version to be sure.

[Gristle]

On 11/25/2024 at 4:51 AM, icantthinkofausername69 said:

im stuck on the whipping scene right after talking to the jarl for the first time. No animations are played(except for being tied to the pole) and it goes on for days

Are the two guards in front of you, one with crop drawn? If so, then I would try to rerun the scene. Sometimes it's just bad luck. The guards are trying to get to particular spots and sometime a random NPC will get in their way and make them freeze up.

[Gristle]

25 minutes ago, recroid366 said:

I am running True Directional Movement , I have the setting turned off for stop on direction change. Is there something else I should turn off?

 

I don't have that mod, so I'm not sure. That's the only setting I'm aware of that has been reported to cause issues.

[lordbor]

23 hours ago, Gristle said:

По умолчанию кнопка «E» (активировать) на лошади используется для того, чтобы сесть на неё, но у этой конкретной лошади есть прикреплённый скрипт, который блокирует активацию по умолчанию и добавляет собственный код для запуска при активации. Я предполагаю, что у вас есть мод для лошади, который переопределяет этот скрипт. Вы используете какие-либо моды для лошадей?

I tried disabling NFF. But I don't have any more ideas. I don't remember that any other mods influenced the behavior of horses. I have a lot of combat mods that could possibly have influenced something. Also, your mod is located at the very bottom of the download and on top of the other mods. I'm not sure.

 

 

*This horse became my main one and it began to appear in the stables. And the sex dialog box still appears on it.*

 

Edited November 27, 2024 by lordbor
a new bug

[Xhalia]

2 hours ago, Gristle said:

Are the two guards in front of you, one with crop drawn? If so, then I would try to rerun the scene. Sometimes it's just bad luck. The guards are trying to get to particular spots and sometime a random NPC will get in their way and make them freeze up.

Just to add, it would be nicer if those guards would not carry a shield as that looks strange during the whipping animation (and perhaps no helmets as well).

[zwdragonbone8314]

4 hours ago, Gristle said:

I don't completely understand. Is Corwen following you? There's at least three places in the dialogue where she will stop following you due to dialogue choices. She is optional in that you can choose to leave her behind, if you want. Is she following you after the conversation with the door guard? Under what conditions is the quest working?

Hi, Corwen is not following me as I choose to let her wear the mask and following me. All the conversation with guard outside the door is working fine and when my PC enter the embassy, Corwen is not following. When my PC go out again, the dialogue with Corwen about meeting her father start, but my PC and Corwen is outside the embassy. Basically for me, the problems start when my PC enter the embassy. None of the scene working intended. Only after my PC being sent to prison then the scene start to work properly.

[PippinTom]

5 hours ago, zwdragonbone8314 said:

Basically for me, the problems start when my PC enter the embassy

 

Maybe PC has entered embassy using wrong door (after unlocking them) and then you tried to bump quest stage manually? Doors my look identical but they lead/teleport to rather different (copy of) reality.