Captured By The Thalmor: Southrange Gaol

[RedTelephone8]

2 hours ago, lollllllllllnope said:

What happens if you enter "coc cbtsprisoninterior" into the console? The same behavior, or does it transport you to the prison?

This works just fine, I teleport into the prison as expected. quest doesn't work this way obviously but it confirms that the location itself isn't the issue but something with the sleep/teleport/quest start

[Echi Corsair]

Great mod. Kudos to the developer. We need more lore-friendly quest mods like this one. 

[lollllllllllnope]

13 hours ago, RedTelephone8 said:

This works just fine, I teleport into the prison as expected. quest doesn't work this way obviously but it confirms that the location itself isn't the issue but something with the sleep/teleport/quest start

Hmmm, okay. Could I get a pastebin of your modlist?

[RedTelephone8]

6 hours ago, lollllllllllnope said:

Hmmm, okay. Could I get a pastebin of your modlist?

Yeah, but be warned that it's pretty extensive. For the purpose of getting the mod to start I always turn off Fever Dreams in its MCM(Mod which causes you to "dream" sexlab scenarios when sleeping sometimes but works by tping you to a cell after sleeping), nothing else that I have should interact with sleeping as a mechanic at all.Modlist6.11.25.txt

[lollllllllllnope]

On 6/11/2025 at 8:49 PM, RedTelephone8 said:

Yeah, but be warned that it's pretty extensive. For the purpose of getting the mod to start I always turn off Fever Dreams in its MCM(Mod which causes you to "dream" sexlab scenarios when sleeping sometimes but works by tping you to a cell after sleeping), nothing else that I have should interact with sleeping as a mechanic at all.Modlist6.11.25.txt

Have you tried it without Fever Dreams installed/enabled at all, instead of just shutting it off in the MCM? (You can always reinstall it after finishing CBTS if you want)

Also, some people have reported issues with SmoothCam--mostly relating to NPC behavior. You going to sleep ALSO moves Keldarin and resets his AI; can you try deactivating that one and see if the problem persists?

[Raven 54]

On 5/12/2025 at 2:11 PM, Melissa_69 said:

Good news, I managed to get it working on SE 1.5.9.7.  I opened the mod in Craetion Kit it said "Masterfile: CBTS- Captured By the Thalmor- Southrange Gaol.esp is a higher version than this EXE can load." So I loaded the mod in SSEEdit, and looked in the Left panel under File header and changed the 1.710000 to 1.700000 , saved it and now it works on SE 1.5.9.7!

So I use 1.5.97, can you tell me if it will work as downloaded without messing with it, no way here to manipulate the files.

[RedTelephone8]

16 hours ago, lollllllllllnope said:

Have you tried it without Fever Dreams installed/enabled at all, instead of just shutting it off in the MCM? (You can always reinstall it after finishing CBTS if you want)

Also, some people have reported issues with SmoothCam--mostly relating to NPC behavior. You going to sleep ALSO moves Keldarin and resets his AI; can you try deactivating that one and see if the problem persists?

Ok I've made a pretty big discovery. Disabling Fever Dreams and Smoothcam didn't do anything, but I found out wat the issue is.
I found a number of very old posts with the exact same issue (Load into a save or location followed by a black screen with ambient sounds and music of the location playing) that say it's an AE issue caused by the game loading scripts too quickly

https://www.reddit.com/r/skyrim/comments/qx1w9y/fix_black_screen_on_loading_save_still_can_hear/

Black Screen with music when loading save game - Skyrim SE - Nexus Mods Forums

Not sure what this means for fixing it but its a start, I'm gonna try uninstalling and reinstalling SSE Engine fixes again to see if that does anything.

 

[merpbandit]

Try tinkering with your script heavy mods. I had trouble with wet and cold for instance and it worked when i got rid of that bychance

[Raven 54]

Ok... I use SE 1.5.97, got teleported to the torture room but Thalmor Justiciar just keeps asking the same shit over and over, player is just standing there, if I try to move she turns in a circle, camera is fixed in a terrible position, familiar pushed player into the camera so all I can see looks like first person.

I am not doing the whole moveto thing, not why I tried this mod, it would be a nice addition to Skyrim in my opinion but inputing codes is a dealbreaker for me.

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[asdfa94]

I am not sure what is the issue but after sleeping I get teleported to the dungeon but Keldarin doesn't do anything, as if the forcegreet got bugged on my end or smth.

[asdfa94]

23 minutes ago, asdfa94 said:

I am not sure what is the issue but after sleeping I get teleported to the dungeon but Keldarin doesn't do anything, as if the forcegreet got bugged on my end or smth.

Nvm, either running LOOT again or getting the No Collision Camera Mod fixed it.

[ce0715]

It keeps crashing my game as soon as the first interrogation ends and he says you get a break. The screen fades and i get a message box then it immediately crashes before i get teleported to the jail cell. 

[Samsara281]

some of NPCs will have a "……" dialogue option with this mod installed. somthing wrong?

[Lilzt3hcat]

Issue I found was the prisonbackground1-2-3 files as wav files they're abit large for what skyrim wants to load (I find that skyrim doesn't like loading .wavs reliably over a certain size as the audio buffer is only so large and has to retain SL sound files and such for abit), turning them into xwm files (or replacing them with much smaller wav files) prevented crashes related to large file size audio loads.

 

^For those getting a CTD when the game tries to teleport you to the cell, for me it was the oversized wav files, changing them to xwm or making them like 30s stopped that issue unless the bleedout script spam was causing a crash after the SL scene ends (which is a different issue and doesnt occur every time, unlike the so).

Edited August 6, 2025 by Lilzt3hcat

[tokrat]

the mods seem to work but I encounter a problem each time at the same moment, the mods had difficulty launching, I had to use the command "setstage cbtsintro 0" to spawn the NPC but after that no more problems, I slept without problem, I teleported into a building populated by elves but at the moment when my character faints after being electrocuted, burned alive, beaten and other joys ... I have the impression that I am teleported elsewhere, a message appears which explains to me that I am moved but at this exact moment my game freezes each time for two seconds then they close, I tried again several times and it is each time at this exact moment that the game crashes, if someone has a solution because they would have had the same problem or if you have the command "setstage cbtsintro ***" with the right step just to skip this moment I'm a taker

[lollllllllllnope]

On 6/29/2025 at 7:19 AM, ce0715 said:

It keeps crashing my game as soon as the first interrogation ends and he says you get a break. The screen fades and i get a message box then it immediately crashes before i get teleported to the jail cell. 

Sorry for the delayed reply, for some reason LL has stopped notifying me about new comments. I don't suppose you've got a crash log?

[lollllllllllnope]

On 7/18/2025 at 6:48 AM, Samsara281 said:

some of NPCs will have a "……" dialogue option with this mod installed. somthing wrong?

Hmmm, it SHOULDN'T do that, but you're not the first person to report the issue. Do you use any other dialogue mods? I'm wondering if there's a bizarre interaction with another mod, and that's the reason I can't replicate it myself.

[lollllllllllnope]

On 7/26/2025 at 11:56 PM, Lilzt3hcat said:

Issue I found was the prisonbackground1-2-3 files as wav files they're abit large for what skyrim wants to load (I find that skyrim doesn't like loading .wavs reliably over a certain size as the audio buffer is only so large and has to retain SL sound files and such for abit), turning them into xwm files (or replacing them with much smaller wav files) prevented crashes related to large file size audio loads.

 

^For those getting a CTD when the game tries to teleport you to the cell, for me it was the oversized wav files, changing them to xwm or making them like 30s stopped that issue unless the bleedout script spam was causing a crash after the SL scene ends (which is a different issue and doesnt occur every time, unlike the so).

Thanks for troubleshooting that! Sound files have turned out to be the bane of my existence--the reason that those files are included as uncompressed WAVs in the first place was that I was getting crashes on my own setup every time it tried to play those files in xwm format. I have no idea why that's happening 🥲 I might try releasing a patch eventually that disables that sound entirely for people who are having trouble with the crashes, because it's not like it's critical to the plot. Sorry y'all

Edited October 8, 2025 by lollllllllllnope

[Lilzt3hcat]

19 hours ago, lollllllllllnope said:

Thanks for troubleshooting that! Sound files have turned out to be the bane of my existence--the reason that those files are included as uncompressed WAVs in the first place was that I was getting crashes on my own setup every time it tried to play those files in xwm format. I have no idea why that's happening 🥲 I might try releasing a patch sometime next week that disables that sound entirely for people who are having trouble with the crashes, because it's not like it's critical to the plot. Sorry y'all

Depending on how skyrim wants to cooperate you have them as .wav in the kit but xwm in the folder (Skyrim will prioritize .wav files of the same name in the folder over xwm 100% of the time, so make sure there is no wav files with the same name). Another thing you could do is have the ambience be 'music' instead of a conventional play sound ambience. Should allow it to be xwm and play when commanded to.

[Lasaubia]

Hey! Thanks for sharing more content with the Thalmor, I'm really excited to add this to my modlist. One question I have, looking at this mod in xEdit I've noticed several errors. One error places an object that doesn't exist/has the wrong formID. I'm thinking that might be because I'm 1.5.97 without any AE content but there's a few more that worry me. Attached below are what I'm looking at. Is there a requirement besides SexLab that I'm missing? Or perhaps the errors are intentional? Regardless, if there's anything on my end that could possibly be wrong I'm happy to fix it myself. Just thought I'd check, thanks!

[lollllllllllnope]

14 hours ago, Lasaubia said:

Hey! Thanks for sharing more content with the Thalmor, I'm really excited to add this to my modlist. One question I have, looking at this mod in xEdit I've noticed several errors. One error places an object that doesn't exist/has the wrong formID. I'm thinking that might be because I'm 1.5.97 without any AE content but there's a few more that worry me. Attached below are what I'm looking at. Is there a requirement besides SexLab that I'm missing? Or perhaps the errors are intentional? Regardless, if there's anything on my end that could possibly be wrong I'm happy to fix it myself. Just thought I'd check, thanks!

Off the top of my head, I have no idea what's going on, but the errors aren't intentional, there's no AE content in this mod, and there aren't any requirements other than SexLab. I'll try to do some digging on this once I finish my current project lol

[Lasaubia]

No worries, thanks for taking the time to check it out!

[sorrowsmith]

Fun mod,  no issues on my build.  I admit I wanted the option to tell Keladarin that I just stumbled across Northwatch and murdered every elf in it for FUN

 

[lollllllllllnope]

3 hours ago, sorrowsmith said:

Fun mod,  no issues on my build.  I admit I wanted the option to tell Keladarin that I just stumbled across Northwatch and murdered every elf in it for FUN

 

...I've heard worse suggestions lol. Maybe I'll add that in a future update

[spirit141]

Is there away where you can get capture more than once and at rqndom times you sleep anywhere except player homes or safehouse from the legacy of the dragonborn mod