Alternate Start - Live A Deviant Life and such.

[tonitrulupus]

I tried one of the alt starts and now I have no clue who to talk to or what to do to clear the quest, I chose the necromancers pet, Sebastian Lort was the "owner" once I killed him and escaped, another quest popped up, "a necromancer's pet"  stage I am on is "escape your master and find clues on your past" with no clue where to go or where to find this clues just not sure how to clear that quest, if any one has done this start any help would be welcomed.

[CaptainJ03]

Just guessing here: the first LAL quest typically ends when you travel to Helgen, and the Mainquest starts.

As I don't care being dragonborn, normally I just keep that LAL quest in my journal forever (better than having the mainquest in the journal)

[belegost]

1 hour ago, tonitrulupus said:

escape your master and find clues on your past

This is a subtle hint to point you to Helgen and main quest. Every single LAL start has something like that, only worded differently, in line with your chosen start.

 

There are no quest markers, because most of us, who use LAL, have been playing for so long we don't care about dragons or being Dragonborn anymore and just want to get on with literally anything else. The quest marker, should there be one,  would just annoy the hell out of us.

 

That way one can totally ignore it. Out of sight, out of mind, and all that jazz.

Edited July 16, 2025 by belegost

[Miauzi]

Vor 1 Stunde sagte tonitrulupus:

Ich habe einen der alternativen Starts ausprobiert und weiß jetzt nicht, mit wem ich reden soll oder was ich tun soll, um die Quest abzuschließen. Ich habe das Haustier des Nekromanten gewählt. Sebastian Lort war der „Besitzer“, nachdem ich ihn getötet hatte und entkam. Eine weitere Quest ist aufgetaucht. Ich befinde mich im Stadium „Haustier eines Nekromanten“ und sage „Entkomme deinem Meister und finde Hinweise auf deine Vergangenheit“, ohne zu wissen, wohin ich gehen oder wo ich diese Hinweise finden soll. Ich bin mir einfach nicht sicher, wie ich diese Quest abschließen soll. Wenn jemand diesen Start schon einmal gemacht hat, ist jede Hilfe willkommen.

 

As the mod's concept suggests -> a SECOND chance

 

You actually died in Helgen... but thanks to the "Dragon Break" (it's a break in time - because "dragon" = time) you can experience Skyrim WITHOUT dragons... until you travel to Helgen.

 

For example, as soon as you select a certain dialogue option with the innkeeper in a tavern -> you'll receive the quest pointer to Helgen.

 

I've already completed the entire Vampire DLC without having been to Helgen... of course, the references in the dialogues with Serana seem a bit odd.

 

Many players are no longer interested in the main quest about Aldiun in a 15-year-old game - with the abundance of good quest mods, you can play for months without having anything to do with dragons!

[belegost]

2 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

you can play for months without having anything to do with dragon

Make that years.

[tonitrulupus]

56 minutes ago, belegost said:

This is a subtle hint to point you to Helgen and main quest. Every single LAL start has something like that, only worded differently, in line with your chosen start.

 

There are no quest markers, because most of us, who use LAL, have been playing for so long we don't care about dragons or being Dragonborn anymore and just want to get on with literally anything else. The quest marker, should there be one,  would just annoy the hell out of us.

 

That way one can totally ignore it. Out of sight, out of mind, and all that jazz.

I had thought about that a little bit ago, so basically any of the alt starts point in starting up the dragon born quest line more or less, good to know.  thank you

 

[tonitrulupus]

53 minutes ago, Miauzi said:

I've already completed the entire Vampire DLC without having been to Helgen... of course, the references in the dialogues with Serana seem a bit odd.

That is when AI would play a major role in games it could change the dialog depending on what is going on in the game. it can almost copy any voice now, give it a few years and it will change games as we know it

[belegost]

24 minutes ago, tonitrulupus said:

give it a few years and it will change games as we know it

When that happens I'm calling Butlerian Jihad on it.

[tonitrulupus]

6 hours ago, belegost said:

When that happens I'm calling Butlerian Jihad on it.

Yeah, I just wonder how wise it is to do all this AI stuff, didn't we have enough for shadowing in the 80's to give us pause?

[tonitrulupus]

On 7/16/2025 at 8:06 AM, belegost said:

This is a subtle hint to point you to Helgen and main quest. Every single LAL start has something like that, only worded differently, in line with your chosen start.

 

There are no quest markers, because most of us, who use LAL, have been playing for so long we don't care about dragons or being Dragonborn anymore and just want to get on with literally anything else. The quest marker, should there be one,  would just annoy the hell out of us.

 

That way one can totally ignore it. Out of sight, out of mind, and all that jazz.

OK I been playing for a little be without going to helgen and going NO were, no clues, nothing on that quest, in that alt start you are sitting in rimrock cave, once you kill or escape with the masters key, that completes, then what pops up is the quest that called  "a necromancer's pet", so I figured why not see if it completes by doing the new beginnings that one completes, so I am just following the DB quest line for now to see if it completes.

the thing is , the quest its elf states this :

 I am hoping this may help, It did pop up right after I left the cave.

[belegost]

Should complete after you read a certain journal and/or finish Unbound.

 

The first two lines of the actual journal (not objective) are a clue. But I guess nobody reads those anymore.

Edited July 26, 2025 by belegost

[tonitrulupus]

On 7/26/2025 at 2:54 AM, belegost said:

Should complete after you read a certain journal and/or finish Unbound.

Already finished unbound, still there, I am thinking maybe find the correct necromancer and the main one I can thing of is through the college quests, which I have not done yet, another thing is druagr don't attack the PC, So that give me a clue of maybe a necromancer, drelas

Edited August 9, 2025 by tonitrulupus

[MorePrinniesDood]

On 7/16/2025 at 7:29 AM, tonitrulupus said:

I tried one of the alt starts and now I have no clue who to talk to or what to do to clear the quest, I chose the necromancers pet, Sebastian Lort was the "owner" once I killed him and escaped, another quest popped up, "a necromancer's pet"  stage I am on is "escape your master and find clues on your past" with no clue where to go or where to find this clues just not sure how to clear that quest, if any one has done this start any help would be welcomed.

 

Lort's involved in the vanilla quest "A Daedra's Best Friend". Have you finished that one yet?

[tonitrulupus]

Just now, MorePrinniesDood said:

 

Lort's involved in the vanilla quest "A Daedra's Best Friend". Have you finished that one yet?

Yup, no clues, I does come from CCAS, found more help, hopefully someone can give me a direction

[belegost]

From LAL's description:

 

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For most of the starts, it will appear as though your "Live Another Life" quest has stalled. You will not have an active objective telling you where to go next. When you are ready to begin pursuing the main quest, talk to an innkeeper and ask them for rumors. You'll be given a generic rumor about Helgen and told to travel there. You can also simply go to Helgen on your own without anyone telling you to do so.