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  So I just got my movie deal... next maybe I can get a six-book series out of my Skyrim playthrough!

Well, bear in mind that I'm not exactly great at looking at these, but...   There are a number of stack dumps from Wet and Cold. Wet and Cold is a wonderful mod, but it's kind of script heavy. Aside from that, most of it looks pretty standard. Something called "RNPC" (Realistic Needs Player character, maybe?) is triggering every minute or less, maybe that's the cause of the problem?   You might want to post your load order.   Oh, and this should probably go in the tech support section instead of the general "adult mods" section. And it's also considered polite to put long stuff like papyrus logs or load orders in spoiler tags, or in a downloadable text file, or link to the text on pastebin or something like that. Just, you know, future reference.

  Ah. That makes sense.   Is there any way to make an item unbreakable? Or even just increase maximum condition to an extremely high number so it virtually won't break?

theDeModcracy made a video. Nifty! >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdNHo1Uu2so

Excellent.   Reward Your Followers has been reported to be compatible (not by me - I haven't tried 1.6 yet so this is not an author post equivalent ). I'm sorry for what happened uses the same script, essentially, so it should be fine. The Devious Manual uses the same basic script too. Should be fine.

Geez...   This should actually be on the front page of SOT.

  That's the original???   Well... huh. If it works in-game, it obviously works, I guess...   But still, I would use onUnequip instead. That seems like the more logical way to do it. Just try it out - compile it and see if it works for you. It's not going to melt your computer if it doesn't...

I'm not familiar with Fallout 3, but... The first script has OnEquip and OnUnequip event detection. The second script has OnEquip  and GameMode for some reason.   Just duplicate the original, I'd say... why the integer flip? It won't cause problems, I think, but why have it at all when you've got the ability to listen for equip and unequip events?   But I think your problem is the GameMode event listener. You're never detecting an unequip event, so taking off the swimsuit won't do anything.

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Next "chapter" is probably going to be another intermission. Just saying.   Before you wonder... no, it really isn't as bad as the College of Winterhold ending. Harkon asking for the bow actually makes a sort of twisted sense, if you consider that he is really an arrogant megalomaniac who can't conceive of the possibility of anyone disobeying him, particularly not a mere mortal. My feelings about the last bit of the Dawnguard DLC are more "meh" than anything else. It started off kind of slow, and ended kind of slow, and did a whole lot of slow in between... but it did have some really, really nifty levels and worldspaces. The writing more often than not seemed a rush job, like some poor writers were under a deadline to get the DLC out before June 2012... but it wasn't truly bad, most of it. Just... meh.   All in all? Worth the price, I'd say. It had some really great bits and pieces. The whole may not have been more than the sum of its parts, but most of the parts were pretty cool. Final overall grade: B-. Maybe a B.

CHAPTER 38: ASSAULT ON VAMPIRE CENTRAL In which our hero just kind of sits back and lets stuff happen. Previous: Chapter 37, Something Interesting on the Other Side   We return to the Bastille-inspired architectural wonder known as Fort Dawnguard to enlist the aid of the Vampire Hunters Local in the coming struggle against the forces of apathy. Darkness, I mean. Forces of darkness. Yeah.   Back wayyyyy across the province, back south of Riften, to Fort Dawnguard. Isran seems pleased that we have Auriel's Bow... wait, scratch that. I mean to say that Isran should be pleased that we have the bow. He seems more... stoic. I get the vague feeling that he's somewhat disappointed that he wasn't the one to recover it. Dude's got some issues with needing to be the center of attention. He proves this by gathering all the Dawnguard together and making a boring, but blessedly short, speech about how we're going to kill all the vampires. Then it's off to Castle Volkihar to massacre a bunch of vampires. I'm down with that. They deserve it.   Hmm... I have, in the past, repeatedly considered the best way to assault Fort Dawnguard. Mostly because I feel somewhat insulted that the Dawnguard's idea of a good front-line defense is a short wooden palisade, just in front of the great big stone walls, and I am always itching to prove to them just how ineffective that is. But now I am forced to consider how best to assault Volkihar Keep.   Volkihar Keep stands on an isolated island in the middle of the water with the occasional rock poking up through the surface, like some remote star, orbited by a few lonely planets, which it greatly resembles. Except for the fact that stars are very hot, and this area is cold. And planets are usually bigger. And space isn't full of water like the ocean. Come to think of it, it doesn't resemble a solar system at all. Forget the whole thing.   The point is it's a tough nut to crack. There are any number of potential assault points, each of which has pros and cons. We could perform the assault perhaps two or three ways in order to achieve the maximum of surprise and suffer the minimum of casualties. There's only one major problem with each of them - Isran's in charge, not me. Which means he gets to make up the battle plan. The rest of the Dawnguard agree - an obsessive megalomaniac bent on proving just how tough and strong and mean he is to everyone around him is the absolute best person to come up with a battle plan. I mean, if you can't trust someone who is suffering from a massive inferiority complex combined with a near-crippling lack of self-awareness, who can you trust?   So Isran comes up with a fiendishly diabolical and complicated plan for assault. We will attack the castle...   Through the front door.   It's a crazy notion, but it just might work! The ol' hit-them-where-they're-strongest ploy. We'll show them we mean business by slamming up against their defenses headfirst! Genius! We'll only lose, what, 80% of our army that way? Suits me! I mean, all Isran really needs is maybe one or two people around him when this is all over so they can see him covered in glory. Then he will truly, truly know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, who has the biggest penis.   Serana and I take a vote, and the two of us unanimously decide to hang back and watch the Dawnguard beat themselves to ribbons against the Vampires. Because sure enough, we're attacking at midnight, when the bloodsuckers are strongest. I blame myself, here... I thought for sure that you'd have to be a complete idiot to do that. I figured, we'd arrive at the island and wait for daylight. But I failed to remember one very important point - Isran is, in fact, a complete idiot.   Serana and I mount the steps of the little watchtower that stands just outside the castle bridge, and watch as the Dawnguard... huh. Actually, they do pretty good, considering their many disadvantages. I gotta hand it to Isran... he may be a real moron, but he's got a couple brain cells up on Harkon, who failed to do the most obvious thing - lower the castle gate. We'd have been stuck out there banging on the walls with our axes and hammers, and the vampires inside could have just sat there, laughing and hurling insults (and possibly a giant wooden rabbit for good measure).   But no, Harkon once heard the aphorism "the best defense is a good offense" and took it a bit too much to heart, so instead of remaining in his nigh-impregnable fortress, he decided to send his minions outside to do battle. You know... why did we wait so long to do this? I grant you, nobody could have predicted the stupid insanity on the part of the Dawnguard, much less the even stupider insanity on the part of the vampires, but... it strikes me that this assault could have been launched at any time in the last couple of weeks. I get that everyone thinks we need to have Auriel's Bow to defeat Harkon, but by all accounts his daughter is just about as strong as he, and she goes down from spiders. The memory still makes me nauseous.   Anyway, we rampage through the castle, killing vampires left and right. They really suck at fighting. And they suck. Blood. They suck blood. And they suck. Like, are not nice. See? I can make jokes too! Sometimes I cry myself to sleep at night.   Anyway... once all the vampires inside are dead, Serana and I head in to the Inner Sanctum. Isran inexplicably fails to follow us. As we pass through the door, I could swear I hear him say "solidarity, brother" which is just sad.   ANYWAY... Once inside, Harkon proceeds to smarm at us for a bit, which I completely expected. I mean, really now. If he didn't smarm and tell us how foolish we were and how our defeat was inevitable, I'd probably have a heart attack on the spot. He just wouldn't be a proper villain. After insulting me and then insulting Serana, then telling us that he was going to kill us both, he turns to me and asks me to give him the bow.   Yep. You read that right. He demanded the bow from me. As I write this now, looking back on the moment, I honestly don't know how long I just sat there, staring at him, flabbergasted, before saying no. I mean, really now. I know he's the dumbest fuck this side of anywhere in the world, but... really? Really? Not even your stereotypical villain who fails to follow every recommendation in "if I were an evil overlord" and fits every line from TV Tropes to the letter would be that dumb, would he?   As I moodily shoot sunhallowed arrows at him over and over again, seemingly to no effect, while he continually summons gargoyles and skeletons and what-have-you to attack me and Serana, the whole time I'm just sort of mentally stunned. I haven't felt like this since becoming Archmage. Only this time, it's not anger at the stupidity of the world, it's sheer dumbfoundedness. I honestly am having some serious trouble coming to grips with what was supposed to go on here. I get the feeling like I must have missed a good ten minutes of dialogue somewhere.   Eventually the dude goes down, apparently dissolving into a pile of red... blood... ash... stuff. Isran magically appears (well after the fight is over, I must point out), and commiserates with Serana about killing her father. At least, that's what I guess it's supposed to sound like. It actually sounds more like he is having trouble coming to terms with the concept of "emotion" and doesn't honestly know whether someone killing their father would be an emotional event or not. I honestly don't give a fat flying fuck, though. I immediately divest myself of Serana, Isran, the Dawnguard, and the whole fucking mess. I just can't give a good goddamn any more. I'm gonna get tanked and sleep for a week.   Next: Intermission 4 Start at Chapter 1

Until his plans are laid bear, we just have to grin and bear the suspense.

I believe that Captured Dreams has something in the works. Search the support thread for "chaste spouse" for some hints.

Your puns are bearly tolerable.

Next update will include Kitiara and Rumarin. Honestly, though, it might be a while... I've got like three hours a day of free time, and I spend most of that playing games, and the rest lately has been spent fiddling around with Elrindir's Discount Magic Items. But yeah, it'll get in there, eventually. I promise!

Aah... but how will she get out? I am, of course, assuming that Sanguine is not done with her yet...     And I have found a very serious, terrible error in your text. You should be ashamed of introducing such inaccuracies.

  Thank you.

  An excellent game system I can heartily recommend. I'd actually recommend GURPS more, but D&D, or its semi-offspring Pathfinder, are also very good.

  ...What? Why?   Is the sound of the dice on the tabletop too loud or something? Or too many dice at once? Worried about dice bouncing off and rolling under something heavy? I could make the argument that that's part of the fun! A felt-lined box to roll dice in would solve the problem.   I dunno... most dice rolling programs are random enough that most of the time you'll never notice any problem. But still... it just seems a little odd to use dice-rolling programs for a D&D game.

Anybody else have a problem where Elrindir will stop offering to sell you items for some reason? I can't seem to duplicate the issue...

  I've noticed a distinct lack of randomness in the utility random script. In most mods that use it, mine included. I have absolutely no idea if I'm right, but I always blame it on the designers using ctime and rand() or something similar (what language is the program written in, anyway?). That's about the easiest, but close to the worst, way to do it.   I stopped doing that years ago... I've been using a mersenne twister algorithm in everything I code that needs random numbers. Yeah, it's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than random number generators that always generate the same "random" number.   I should try it out someday, just run a couple thousand random int checks in Skyrim and see where the numbers cluster. My guess would be they do discernibly cluster.   Of course, I could just be whining because it doesn't work precisely how I want it to... which is also a distinct possibility.   /rant

I never know when I'm supposed to be shooting at Ancano and when at the eye... I wonder if you might be having the same problem. Not a bug, but just bad mechanics. The eye doesn't open automatically when you shoot at it with the staff, I think it's timed, and you only shoot at the eye when it opens up.    

  Thank you for checking out the mod! I'll add a link to your post in the OP.

  I can certainly add her. What is her personality like, though? I need something to go on...

Forgive my poultry compliments, but this is an eggcellent mod. I've been cooped up in dungeons too long, and free ranging hither and yon completing these quests is wonderful. No yolk! I am also very interested to see what new plans you're hatching next! Just don't crack under the pressure of development.