Anvil - The Recluse [mr.potato][Reviewed]

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Kalin Thurion, a commoner in the Five Fathoms Flophouse, has barricaded himself inside his modest residence. He is convinced that he has contracted the curse of vampirism, and has resolved to waste away rather than succumb to his bloodthirsty urges.

Fortunately for Kalin, he is not in fact infected with vampirism, and actually just has a bad case of wasting consumption (which is much easier to cure in a world with magic). He is convinced that he met a vampire, though, and enjoyed a rousing evening with him at the Sailor's Fluke fight pit before drinking too much and blacking out.

The player may investigate the situation, and find Volanil, an Altmer who is in fact a vampire. As a member of the Vampyrum Order, however, Volanil seems to not be especially interested in converting random commoners in a tavern fight pit, and will simply admit that he brought Kalin home after their night out.

If the player really hates vampires, they can kill Volanil and get away with it by talking to the fight pit publican. Otherwise, Kalin will simply reward you with a bit of gold for assuaging his fears and curing his consumption.

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Opening

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Claiming

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Granted - have fun!

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The quest is ready for review. I mostly followed the claim to the letter, though I had to get a bit creative with making the quest completable even if the player kills Volanil. The edit to PC_i2-anv_Cira is intentional. Her default fight value meant that she joined combat every time. I also added a startscript that gives the pc all items and spells needed to complete the quest. Whoever is going to be reviewing this, feel free to clean it out.

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Reviewing

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Ready for merge

Misc.
Cleaned out the edits to the no longer existing "The Sailor's Fluke" cell

Placed the locked door in the correct int so it can be unlocked from dialogue, and linked it up with the Fighting Pit subcell

Placed the key to the door on the cupboard behind the bar.

Redirected the two lines of dialogue that were filtered to the old subcell to the new one.

Instead of setting your bounty to 0 when you tell the bartender you were killing a vampire, it now gets reduced by 1040 (1000 for murder, 40 for attacking), so you can't use this quest to clear any previous bounty.

Imulav will no longer try to forcegreet you if he's dead.

The other patrons will no longer try to fight you if they're dead.

PC_i2-anv_Imulav: Changed his class from Publican to Rogue so he will trade with you even if you have moon sugar (considering he's selling it himself), and so he doesn't get a bugged beds dialogue. Gave him a real weapon and upped his Short Blade skill. Gave him black hair to go with the black beard.

PC_i2-Anv_Kalin: Reduced his Alarm to 90 (how is he going to report a crime?). Switched his class to Glb_Comoner instead of the vanilla Commoner.

PC_i2-anv_Volanil: Made the PC and his name in his ID upper case, because otherwise that's bothering us forever.

Made it so that you don't need to be at stage 10 for Kalin to react to being cured with a spell, you can even do it without taking the quest at all now. This is a big logical leap for the player to take, but the alternative is that you've already cured the disease by the time he tells you about his affliction, which would suddenly bring up the "you cured me" dialogue once the stage gets set to 10.

Being a member of the Thieves Guild means Julius lets you in for free. That seemed sensible to me, given the Fluke is the TG base, even if Julius isn't a member.

Added a unique Background entry to Volanil, because otherwise he wouldn't have dialogue at all if you're not on the quest.

Removed the Khajiit local from the two new NPC scripts.

Removed auto-calc flag from the two NPCs that had it for validator reasons.

Cleaned out the test script.


Dialogue
General
"high elf"->"High Elf" and "altmer"->"Altmer" (races are always upper-case, except occasionally orcs)

"vampyrism"->"vampirism"

Added contractions (e.g. "you are"->"you're") throughout

Replaced a few . with ! for emphasis (and ? with ?!).

It was called "Sailor's Fluke Tavern" a few times, but the Tavern is not part of its name.

"in the fight pit"->"at the fight pit". None of those people are rats.


find Volanil
Kalin
I added an extra line for stages 40 and 50, because without it there was some weird behaviour if you went straight for curing him with a spell.

Filtered the initial line one stage earlier and moved the addtopic to the first line it's actually mentioned in. This way it hyperlinks correctly immediately.

Generic
The three generic Fluke lines didn't have a PC_County filter or nolore exclusion.

The line for the main Fluke cell no longer plays for NPCs that are in the TG, because they're all upstairs and wouldn't have seen him. This way you can only ask the people in the main bar area.

Imulav
"He looked just like any other high elf."->"He looked just like any other High Elf to me."

Julius
"You are in luck because I know exactly where the mer you are talking about is."->"You're in luck, because I know exactly where the mer you're talking about is."

"Go find your friend, but make sure to stay for the fights. And make some bets too."->"Go find your friend and enjoy the fights. Maybe place some bets too?"

"ot this door is not getting opened any time soon."->"or the door's staying closed".

"Usually I would say no to anyone wanting to skip paying"->"Usually I wouldn't let anyone in without paying"

"Find your friend and get out."->"Find your friend and then leave."

"He should be downstairs. If you want to find him, go there."->"He should be downstairs."

Added a third "Nevermind." option to when you're asked to pay, mainly for players who want to open the door another way (or already have).

"I unlocked the door for you"->"I've unlocked the door for you"

Added an unlocking sound effect to the lines when he unlocks the door.


turned into a vampire
Kalin
"We started talking. One word after the other. We spent the whole night together and drank a lot of liquor too."->"We started talking. Spent the whole night together, and drank a lot of liquor too."

Removed an in-response line break. Those should almost always be avoided.

"Otherwise, you would have"->"Otherwise you would've"

"You are not a vampire. It looks more like you caught a simple disease."->"You were not infected by a vampire. It looks like you caught a common disease." - also duplicated this for the other line where you can tell him.

"I knew I shouldn't get my hopes up. Although I don't blame you."->"I knew I shouldn't have gotten get my hopes up. I don't blame you."

"I will not be able to live with myself if, in my hunger, I hurt a living being."->"I won't be able to live with myself if I hurt you in my hunger!"

"I believe I won't last any longer on the food I have here with me."->"The food I have with me here won't last me much longer"

"Leave now!"->"Leave!"

"This can't be!"->"That can't be!"

"embarrassing. I've"->"embarrassing. I've" (double space)

"I don't want others to make the same mistake that I did and confuse me for a vampire. Please do me"->"Other people might make the same mistake and confuse me with a vampire! Please, do me"

"mad from the isolation, and the pain is also not growing any less"->"mad from isolation, and the pain's not getting better either."

"the jerk"->"the villain" (jerk is barely used in TES3, and it doesn't feel strong enough here)

"Sailor's Fluke and ask the publician where he is now. Hopefully, he is still staying there. Find him and demand of him that he turn me back into a human. When he agrees, come back here, and I'll be sure to find a way to pay you for your help."->"Sailor's Fluke in the Port Quarter and ask the publician. Hopefully Volanil is still there. Find him and demand that he turns me back into a human! I'll be sure to find a way to pay you for your help." (the player might've never been there, so at least tell them in which quarter it is)

"He said what? But it can't be. Volanil's right in that the cough did start before I met him."->"Volanil is right that the cough started before I met him."

"but can you help me one more time? Can you help me cure it?"->"but can I ask you for one more favor? Can you cure it?"

"confused vampyrism for a simple disease?"->"confused a simple disease for vampirism?" (other way round)

"this pain will leave my life so soon"->"this pain will all be gone soon"

Added a drinking sound effect to when you give him the potion.

"I cannot wait to go outside."->"I can't wait to go outside again."

"all now behind me"->"all behind me now"

Volanil
"More than that,"->"And aside from that that,"

"For all I know, he should be seeing a healer, not a vampire, for the cure."->"He should be seeing a healer."

"drinking with strangers in a rat fight pit."->"drinking with ungrateful strangers at a rat fight pit."


Greeting 1
Kalin
"Have always hated my neighbors, but I would kill to talk to any of them now."->"I've always hated my neighbors, but I would kill to talk to one of them now."

"Is it you again?"->"You again?"

"leave me to suffer in peace."->"leave me to my suffering."

Imulav
"good-paying"->"well-paying".

"the city guards hear"->"the city guard hears"

"Really? The vampires are truly hiding everywhere, just as the rumors say. I don't know why this one would choose to hide in our fight pit, though. Excuse me for being so harsh with you at first. Here, have some Akul on the house. You deserved it."->"You're right! Those damn vampires really are everywhere. I don't know why this one would choose to hide at our fight pit, though. Forgive me for being so harsh with you. Here, have some akul on the house. You deserve it." (this implies that he's checking the corpse to see that he's indeed a vampire, and doesn't just take your word for it)


Journal
"Kalin Thurion believes that"->"I've met Kalin Thurion in his apartment at the Five Fathoms Flophouse. He believes that" (it's a good reminder for where you met the guy)

"drinking with in the Sailor's Fluke fight pit"->"drinking with at the Sailor's Fluke" (he never talks about the fight pit in his dialogue, and it gives the player more reason to ask the publican if they don't know about it)

"Volanil told me that, although he spent the evening with Kalin, he did not turn him into a vampire."->"Volanil assured me that he did not turn Kalin into a vampire."

"imagined vampirism and"->"imagined vampirism, and"

"rewarded me with some gold."->"rewarded me with some gold and his favorite drinking cup."

"Kalin told me to leave him alone after I failed to undo his curse of vampirism."->"Kalin Thuron told me to leave him alone after I killed Volanil without learning what he'd done to Kalin." (no need to be evasive here, this is the only way you get that stage)

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Ready for merge v2

I just learned that the door to the fight pit is no longer supposed to be locked, so I've removed that whole interaction, including the custom door and the keys to it. The publican now only gets one simple line where he tells you where the Altmer is.

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Merged into Cyr_Main