Adventures with Balazar (Balazar's Bitch) - Beta

[Gristle]

On 2/1/2025 at 10:45 AM, NeveRogue said:

im having an issue with balazar himself, him and him only ndoesnt have collisions in his husky form, all other creatures do, i have updated abc and the rest.

He's a normal Dawnguard armored husky. However, when playtesting, he ended up blocking narrow hallways a lot, so I made it so when you bump into him he teleports back a little bit directly away from you. Perhaps that's what you're seeing. But otherwise he has collisions (which is why he kept blocking me).

[Gristle]

22 hours ago, Alturistix said:

For some reason, Balazar appears naked when wearing Redguard Clothes.

I've seen this reported before, but don't know the cause. He's a vanilla Dremora Lord and the redguard clothes are vanilla clothes. Do you have any mods that affect dremoras or vanilla clothes? Does this affect male and female Balazar?

[Gristle]

11 hours ago, PolluxX said:

Hi I like this mode but I'm stuck with calcelmo's Dwemer beacon. the animation doesn't want to start. However, I have quite a few animation modes. Do you have the console code to skip this step?

I'm guessing you mean Calcelmo's Dwemer ballista that is part of the Markarth Jarl quest. If so, you can skip the ballista sex stage with: setstage BLZR_Markarth 100

 

If you mean Calcelmo's Dwemer centurion that is part of the initial priestess quest, then you can skip the centurion sex stage with: setstage BLZR_Dialogue 58

[Amatum]

6 hours ago, Gristle said:

If a quest is active, you will have the dialogue to dismiss him but he'll respond that he "won't free you until you've gained him favor with the Jarl". I looked at the dialogue conditions and the only thing I can see that would prevent the dismiss dialogue completely is if you are not wearing one of the three Balazar collars. (The collar type is a condition so he can unequip the right one and take it from you.)

 

Ok, I will have to check it out. I rechecked my Solitude quest status and it seems that I was never able to start it - maybe Elisif bugged out and I consoled her back in and forgot, but she is - post Civil War - in the basement of the Blue Palace and when I choose the dialogue to gain favor, she responds with something along the line of "Not now - talk to me again when I am on my throne"...which she never is.

[Gristle]

3 hours ago, Amatum said:

 

Ok, I will have to check it out. I rechecked my Solitude quest status and it seems that I was never able to start it - maybe Elisif bugged out and I consoled her back in and forgot, but she is - post Civil War - in the basement of the Blue Palace and when I choose the dialogue to gain favor, she responds with something along the line of "Not now - talk to me again when I am on my throne"...which she never is.

I don't run the civil war stuff much, but I'm pretty sure Elisif is the only Jarl that cannot be replaced by any civil war actions or decisions.  That's the main reason I was able to center the Solitude quest around her.

[Alturistix]

11 hours ago, Gristle said:

I've seen this reported before, but don't know the cause. He's a vanilla Dremora Lord and the redguard clothes are vanilla clothes. Do you have any mods that affect dremoras or vanilla clothes? Does this affect male and female Balazar?

I haven't checked with female balazar, but vanilla clothes work on every other npc. Ill try with a different dremora, but xedit shows no modifications to either dremoras. One thing that I noticed was that the clothes somehow also occupy the 52 slot, which could be the reason, as outfits aren't rendered if the NIF data doesn't have the same slot as the esp. I'll check the clothes in nifskope, but since it renders on other characters, it may be something to do with your scripts.

Edit: It seems that the redguard clothes didn't have dremoraRace in their compatible races. Added it and it was fixed.

Edited February 3, 2025 by Alturistix

[BigOnes69]

1 hour ago, Gristle said:

I don't run the civil war stuff much, but I'm pretty sure Elisif is the only Jarl that cannot be replaced by any civil war actions or decisions.  That's the main reason I was able to center the Solitude quest around her.

Dont they clone her for some events.

[PolluxX]

18 hours ago, Gristle said:

Je suppose que vous faites référence à la baliste dwemer de Calcelmo qui fait partie de la quête du Jarl de Markarth. Si c'est le cas, vous pouvez ignorer l'étape de la relation sexuelle avec la baliste avec : setstage BLZR_Markarth 100

 

Si vous parlez du centurion Dwemer de Calcelmo qui fait partie de la quête initiale de la prêtresse, alors vous pouvez ignorer l'étape du sexe du centurion avec : setstage BLZR_Dialogue 58

super merci

 

[Gristle]

8 hours ago, Alturistix said:

I haven't checked with female balazar, but vanilla clothes work on every other npc. Ill try with a different dremora, but xedit shows no modifications to either dremoras. One thing that I noticed was that the clothes somehow also occupy the 52 slot, which could be the reason, as outfits aren't rendered if the NIF data doesn't have the same slot as the esp. I'll check the clothes in nifskope, but since it renders on other characters, it may be something to do with your scripts.

Edit: It seems that the redguard clothes didn't have dremoraRace in their compatible races. Added it and it was fixed.

Actually, I was wrong when I said these were vanilla Redguard clothes. I looked at the mod with xedit and I see that I did add the dremora race to the armor addon (AA) file for the redguard clothes.  So, I wonder why you had to add this?

[Gristle]

8 hours ago, BigOnes69 said:

Dont they clone her for some events.

I'm not sure, but for example in the Diplomatic Immunity party at the embassy, she is not cloned.  In fact, I can't think of any case where vanilla Skyrim clones an NPC.

[bark1313]

On 2/3/2025 at 12:08 PM, Amatum said:

 

Ok, I will have to check it out. I rechecked my Solitude quest status and it seems that I was never able to start it - maybe Elisif bugged out and I consoled her back in and forgot, but she is - post Civil War - in the basement of the Blue Palace and when I choose the dialogue to gain favor, she responds with something along the line of "Not now - talk to me again when I am on my throne"...which she never is.

Impossible, Elisif agrees to Ulfric's terms when he gives a victory speech to the soldiers in the courtyard of Castle Brim. There are no alternatives, since no one can replace her; there is no opposition to the empire in Solitude.

[Amatum]

35 minutes ago, bark1313 said:

Impossible, Elisif agrees to Ulfric's terms when he gives a victory speech to the soldiers in the courtyard of Castle Brim. There are no alternatives, since no one can replace her; there is no opposition to the empire in Solitude.

 

I don't know - I've never played this far in the game. But this is what happens - she never leaves the basement and says "Not now. You may address me when I am on my throne." I assume that means when she's sitting on her throne physically?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 4, 2025 by Amatum

[bark1313]

3 minutes ago, Amatum said:

 

I don't know - I've never played this far in the game. But this is what happens - she never leaves the basement and says "Not now. You may address me when I am on my throne." I assume that means when she's sitting on her throne physically?

 

 

 

 

 

The screenshots are buggy, try putting them in a zip file. 

or send me a private message, an interesting case, I’d like to look at it in more detail.

Edited February 4, 2025 by bark1313

[Amatum]

6 minutes ago, bark1313 said:

 

The screenshots are buggy, try putting them in a zip file.

 

Yeh weird.

And I PMed - I don't want to spam this thread with my issue.

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Edited February 4, 2025 by Amatum

[bark1313]

2 hours ago, Amatum said:

 

Yeh weird.

And I PMed - I don't want to spam this thread with my issue.

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Yeah, well, in general, look, the bug is rare, it appears for several reasons: the quests with Elisif were not completed, but the civil war was simply completed.

If the Dark Brotherhood killed the bride at the wedding, she might also get bugged. Just try to drag her to the throne through moveto player, And if it doesn’t help at all, then start prescribing a reboot for her like the resetAI code, Look at the wiki, they're all there,

You can also take the NPC under your own control, but I can’t guarantee the result. The reset should actually help.

What else can I suggest... you can make her an active companion through the EFF, then just order her to sit on the throne, and then fire her. This should run the script.

But for the future I will say one thing - don’t play such mods with the main story, the civil war, completed. 

 

Personally, I have characters specifically for this, + I'm tired of the main story

 

[Alturistix]

On 2/3/2025 at 12:46 PM, Gristle said:

Actually, I was wrong when I said these were vanilla Redguard clothes. I looked at the mod with xedit and I see that I did add the dremora race to the armor addon (AA) file for the redguard clothes.  So, I wonder why you had to add this?

Ahh, I have v0.933b  installed.  Sorry for the trouble.

[asuranow]

I'm currently imprisoned in the dungeon of the Thalmor Embassy. How do I escape from here? The door can't be opened without a key, the guards on patrol don't have key, and when I try to talk to him, he only become hostile and don't respond.

[killer905]

58 minutes ago, asuranow said:

I'm currently imprisoned in the dungeon of the Thalmor Embassy. How do I escape from here? The door can't be opened without a key, the guards on patrol don't have key, and when I try to talk to him, he only become hostile and don't respond.

On leaving the cell on the right there is a trapdoor. Use it :3 You need kill guard too.

[Gristle]

2 hours ago, asuranow said:

I'm currently imprisoned in the dungeon of the Thalmor Embassy. How do I escape from here? The door can't be opened without a key, the guards on patrol don't have key, and when I try to talk to him, he only become hostile and don't respond.

Did you try to talk to him through the bars when he walks past? If so, did he open the door? If so, then you need to fight him to escape. Note that there's a weapon rack nearby.

[asuranow]

6 hours ago, Gristle said:

Did you try to talk to him through the bars when he walks past? If so, did he open the door? If so, then you need to fight him to escape. Note that there's a weapon rack nearby.

I've tried talking to the guard through the bars as he passes in front of the gate, but he only shows hostility on his compass and won't open the gate for me - he just keeps patrolling.

[KitKatKseniya]

Hi there, recently started the mod and loving it so far but I've got to the stage where I need to go to dawnstar and find more information on clavicus vile but the dawnstar museum hasn't got anyone in it?

 

 

 

[Gristle]

2 hours ago, KitKatKseniya said:

Hi there, recently started the mod and loving it so far but I've got to the stage where I need to go to dawnstar and find more information on clavicus vile but the dawnstar museum hasn't got anyone in it?

 

 

 

 

What level are you? If you're not level 20, the door should have been locked if one of the priests didn't let you in. In any case, there should be a quest marker on the two priests (or one priest, if you are less than level 20), and one leaves the museum every day to go to the tavern.

 

My guess is you fast traveled out of the shrine interior with a mod. If so, go back and leave via the door. There is an encounter outside the door that will advance to the museum stage.

Edited February 9, 2025 by Gristle

[Gristle]

23 hours ago, asuranow said:

I've tried talking to the guard through the bars as he passes in front of the gate, but he only shows hostility on his compass and won't open the gate for me - he just keeps patrolling.

He shouldn't be hostile. Have you tried reloading an earlier save? Is he still hostile?

[asuranow]

24 minutes ago, Gristle said:

He shouldn't be hostile. Have you tried reloading an earlier save? Is he still hostile?

Yeah, it's still hostile even with a previous save, so I just entered TCL, got out of the prison, found the ring, and proceeded with the quest.

[KitKatKseniya]

10 hours ago, Gristle said:

What level are you? If you're not level 20, the door should have been locked if one of the priests didn't let you in. In any case, there should be a quest marker on the two priests (or one priest, if you are less than level 20), and one leaves the museum every day to go to the tavern.

 

My guess is you fast traveled out of the shrine interior with a mod. If so, go back and leave via the door. There is an encounter outside the door that will advance to the museum stage.

 

Thanks, I guess Balazar was too far away when I went in the shrine so I had to go outside to talk to him to get the translation and I guess something didn't update in the quest but going back in and out of the shrine has fixed it, thanks!