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| Take a Hike |
| A Morrowind Mod, Version 1.0.2 |
| by Necrolesian |
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Summary |
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This mod disables (almost) all methods of travel except your own two feet. Now
you can take your time, enjoy the scenery and commune with nature without the
distraction of modern contrivances like silt striders and teleportation magic.
Stop and smell the Gold Kanet!

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Details |
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This mod contains both a plugin and an MWSE-lua component. Both are required
for the mod to work as intended.

The following methods of travel are affected by this mod:

- Fast travel services: This refers to silt striders, boats, guild guide travel
and the gondolas in Vivec. This mod takes advantage of the "service refusal
filtering" feature of Morrowind Code Patch to cause all NPCs that normally
provide travel services to refuse to transport you.

Each class of travel-providing NPCs (Caravaners, Shipmasters, Guild Guides and
Gondoliers) has several service refusal dialogues, and there's a generic one
for any travel service providers in a different class.

Note that this portion of the mod *requires* Morrowind Code Patch and its
"service refusal filtering" feature to function properly. Without MCP, NPCs
will provide travel services like normal.

- Teleportation magic: This refers to Almsivi Intervention, Divine Intervention
and Recall spells, and the various enchanted items, scrolls and potions that
provide these effects. Any AI/DI or Recall effect, from whatever source, will
no longer work.

This change is implemented via MWSE-lua, so be sure to install the MWSE
component of the mod, or teleportation magic won't be disabled.

- Propylon network: The Propylon chambers in the Dunmer strongholds no longer
function, even if you have the correct index. This obviously conflicts with the
official plugin Master Index (which it makes no sense at all to use alongside
this mod) or any other mod that edits the Propylon scripts.

- Vampire amulets: The Quarra, Berne and Aundae amulets that you can receive as
a vampire will no longer transport you to your clan's headquarters.

- Barilzar's Mazed Band: The ring you receive at the end of the Tribunal main
quest will still transport you to Mournhold the first time you use it (so you
won't get stuck in the Clockwork City), but will no longer function after that.

Note that this means that once you leave the Clockwork City, you cannot return.

- Going to jail: Guards will now transport you back to the exact location you
were arrested in after your jail sentence is complete. You'll no longer end up
at the nearest jail.

This is the second portion of the mod implemented in MWSE-lua.

There are a few means of transport that remain functional:

- Transport to Mournhold: Asciene Rane and Effe-Tei will still transport you
to/from Mournhold. Otherwise there would be no way to get there and back.

- Barilzar's Mazed Band: As mentioned above, the first time you equip it after
receiving it in the Clockwork City, it will transport you to Mournhold as
normal so you won't get stuck.

- Magas Volar: The Daedric Sanctuary Amulet will transport you to Magas Volar
as in vanilla. (And like in vanilla, this amulet will only work once.) However,
you will no longer automatically be transported to Tel Fyr after defeating Lord
Dregas Volar. Instead, you'll need to use the Tel Fyr Amulet on his corpse to
return to Tel Fyr. (This also only works one time.)

- Scripted transports: Certain one-time scripted transports (e.g. being sent to
the Clockwork City by Almalexia, or being transported to and from the Mortrag
Glacier at the end of the Bloodmoon Main Quest) are unaffected by this mod.

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Installation |
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Use a mod management tool such as Wrye Mash, or just copy the plugin and the
MWSE directory to your Data Files directory, and select the plugin in the
Morrowind Launcher.

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Requirements |
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This mod requires both the plugin and the MWSE-lua component to function as
intended.

The plugin requires Morrowind Code Patch and its "service refusal filtering"
feature.

The MWSE-lua component requires MGE XE and the latest version of MWSE 2.1 Just
install MGE XE and run MWSE-Update.exe to download the latest build.

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Version History |
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Version 1.0.2 - 2021-01-20
- MWSE component now has an MCM with options to disable its features.

Version 1.0.1 - 2020-06-23
- MWSE component is much more efficient now, no longer checking on every
frame for every magic effect for every actor.

Version 1.0 - 2020-05-28
- Initial release.

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Credits |
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Thanks to Merlord for helping me figure out how to disable teleportation magic
in MWSE.

Thanks also to Greatness7 for greatly improving my code detecting when the
player has been sent to jail.

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Contact |
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Feel free to contact me on the Nexus with any comments or suggestions. You can
also find me on Discord as Necrolesian#9692.

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Usage |
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You can use this however you want.