Project Tamriel

Nauk gra-Olad - greeting (already included)

Greetings. Ignore the mess, if you will. I'm too tired after exploring caves all night for ore deposits to take care of house chores. If Kerlingroff Mine hadn't become overrun with spikeworms, my lot in life might have been easier.

Back again? I really ought to get going to the mines soon. I think I saw an actual iron vein last evening, and I'm anxious to check it out. If Kerlingroff Mine hadn't become overrun with spikeworms, my lot in life might have been easier.


Nauk gra-Olad - overrun with spikeworms
There are hundreds of them. The Kerlingroff Mine northeast of here has been standing still for three decades and those monstrosities have infected every single tunnel and chamber. Thane Grondvyrd's useless guards can't be bothered to take care of them. If you can clear them out, I'd stand to gain a steady source of income.

Player agrees
Really? You'll clear out the worms? I'll believe it when I see it. Come back when you have put an end to the worm-plauge and I will reward you any way I can.

player says no for now
Fine then. Not like I expected help from a stranger anyway.


Erond – overrun with spikeworms (this entry already exists)
Worms, worms, and more worms! The whole cave is lousy with worms and I can't get rid of them. A real shame, since the iron here is top notch stuff.

Play response: Choice 1: "I will slay the worms" Choice 2: "Goodbye"

Will you really do that?... You will? I will come with you.

Erond – overrun with spikeworms
I can't believe that they are really gone! %PCName, you are my Saviour! From now on I will go unmolested mining day for day till I die, hahaha.

Flavor dialogue to go along with quest:

Guards - overrun with spikeworms
We're too busy protecting the village to take care of the spikeworms in Kerlingroff Mine. Wouldn't be worth the time clearing them out anyway, if you ask me.

Guards - overrun with spikeworms
Is it true that you cleaned Kerlingroff Mine of those worms? That must have been quite the ordeal.

Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
Feel free to take care of the spikeworms in Kerlingroff Mine. That problem has been around for much too long.

Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
I heard you were able to drive the spikeworms out of Kerlingroff Mine? In that case, I owe you my thanks. This helm was made of ore harvested from Kerlingroff Mine long ago. Now it is yours!
*player gets the armor pieces*

Grondvyrd – overrun with spikeworms
Kerlingroff Mine is finally free from the worm-plague. It's about time.

Yeti wrote:Looking at this now, it doesn't look like Erond serves any meaningful purpose in this quest. He can probably be removed.

Yeti wrote:A nice touch would be to move Nauk gra-Olad to the mine after it has been cleared.

Sure, can do. I also thought that maybe some more generic miners and guards can be enabled in the mine when it's cleared - together with some torches to make it feel more hospitable? I think players would find seeing such difference they made to the game world rewarding.

1. add a "psycho-filter", journal entry triggering on Nauk's death and finishing the quest. I always keep forgetting about that, and it won't be needed that often, but it's vanilla convention
2. add dialogue lines to Errond to make it possible to ask him to wait or start refollowing players. It's MW convention again, plus I bet it can be really handy in this quest especially, where PC is likely to use Destruction to rapidly bring down these swarms of low level mobs. Errond would be crooked without it then.