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About this mod
A small mod that allows you to bribe Sovor Trandel for his key and turn him into his master, while also being able to complete Sugar-Lips Habasi's Nerano Manor quest as well as Larrius Varo's Little Request.
- Permissions and credits
Screw You, Sovor Trandel
By DimNussens
Dec 2022
Requires: Morrowind
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Changelog
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1.1 -- Added ownership to the key. Sovor Trandel now might attack on sight after you rat him out, so you might want to avoid the Council Club unless you're looking for a brawl.
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Description
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The Balmora Thieves Guild quest involving the Nerano Manor key has always vaguely irked me -- I do not like the Camonna Tong, I do not wish to deal with them, and I certainly do not wish to help them. I only very recently learned that if you bribe the key away from Sovor, you can actually turn him in to his master, and get him fired!
This pleased me greatly. While very much enjoying the catharsis this brought me, I soon found difficulty completing the quest -- the only other key is terribly hard to get, especially early on, and if you do the quest in this manor, you're effectively "softlocked" and unable to complete Larrius Varo's Little Request, as Sovor Trandel is disabled after turning him into his master, and therefore doesn't count as "killed."
This little mod is a remedy to that. The features are:
First, you can now complete Habasi's quest to get the key without even talking to Sovor Trandel, or pickpocketing the key from Ondres Nerano. There is a third key placed inside of Nerano Manor's cell. Unless you're miserably short like Fargoth, you should be able to find it reasonably easily.
Second, you are now able to bribe the key from Sovor Trandel and return it to Ondres Nerano, who will reward you with a hundred gold for returning it. Sovor Trandel is no longer disabled if you do this. He won't be happy about it, though.
Third, as Sovor is no longer disabled after turning him in, you are now able to complete Larrius Varo's Little Request by dealing with the Bad People. If you help poor Larrius with his humble and heartfelt request, you might even get a little extra catharsis after Sovor breathes his last.
Fourth, in the updated version, Sovor Trandel will be less than happy if you rat him out. Mechanically this is done by setting his fight to 75, which should trigger a fight for all but the most silver-tongued of Personality builds.
Note: you will only be able to rat out Sovor if he actually gives you his key. Otherwise, Ondres Nerano won't recognize it, and Sugar-Lips Habasi will only accept it as normal.
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Install
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Unzip in your Data Folder, or use your preferred mod installer such as Mod Organizer 2. OpenMW users might elect to install this mod the "OpenMW Way," as explained on Modding-Openmw.com.
Manual uninstallation (barring abnormal installation procedures) should be as simple as deleting the "ScrewYouSovor.esp" file.
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Compatibility
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All dialogue mods touching vanilla NPCs can, in theory, conflict. Given that this mod exists wholly within five or six dialogue lines, there's only so much I can do to prevent conflicts save cross my fingers.
Loading this mod after any other dialogue mod, such as LGNPC, should give this mod precedent. Load this mod before other dialogue mods if you prefer the changes another mod makes -- given that this mod adds another key to Nerano Manor to steal, it's still possible to bypass Sovor Trandel and Ondres Nerano entirely, and thus this mod isn't completely useless. If you (by some strange circumstance) prefer this mod, load it after, and you'll experience the lukewarm glory that is getting Sovor Trandel fired.
Regarding the placement of the extra key; I use BCOM and with my current mod list the key is perfectly accessible. I can't promise another mod won't place something in more or less the same spot, but it's at least somewhat unlikely that anything another mod adds would completely cover the key.
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Credits
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Danae, because I continually steal her readmes to use as a template. Her Discord server is also nice.
The Morrowind Modding Community on Discord, for painfully obvious reasons.
Special thanks to Greatness7 and NullCascade for their amazing work with CSSE. Though I'm an OpenMW player myself, CSSE gives me life and I can not sing their praises enough for making the Construction Set more enjoyable to use.
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Permissions
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If by some strange circumstance you want to use this mod as part of your own, feel free. I literally just edited a couple lines of text. Any boob with a keyboard and a beer could do this, and I proved it because I'm a boob with a keyboard and a beer. I require no special permissions.
By DimNussens
Dec 2022
Requires: Morrowind
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Changelog
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1.1 -- Added ownership to the key. Sovor Trandel now might attack on sight after you rat him out, so you might want to avoid the Council Club unless you're looking for a brawl.
------------
Description
------------
The Balmora Thieves Guild quest involving the Nerano Manor key has always vaguely irked me -- I do not like the Camonna Tong, I do not wish to deal with them, and I certainly do not wish to help them. I only very recently learned that if you bribe the key away from Sovor, you can actually turn him in to his master, and get him fired!
This pleased me greatly. While very much enjoying the catharsis this brought me, I soon found difficulty completing the quest -- the only other key is terribly hard to get, especially early on, and if you do the quest in this manor, you're effectively "softlocked" and unable to complete Larrius Varo's Little Request, as Sovor Trandel is disabled after turning him into his master, and therefore doesn't count as "killed."
This little mod is a remedy to that. The features are:
First, you can now complete Habasi's quest to get the key without even talking to Sovor Trandel, or pickpocketing the key from Ondres Nerano. There is a third key placed inside of Nerano Manor's cell. Unless you're miserably short like Fargoth, you should be able to find it reasonably easily.
Second, you are now able to bribe the key from Sovor Trandel and return it to Ondres Nerano, who will reward you with a hundred gold for returning it. Sovor Trandel is no longer disabled if you do this. He won't be happy about it, though.
Third, as Sovor is no longer disabled after turning him in, you are now able to complete Larrius Varo's Little Request by dealing with the Bad People. If you help poor Larrius with his humble and heartfelt request, you might even get a little extra catharsis after Sovor breathes his last.
Fourth, in the updated version, Sovor Trandel will be less than happy if you rat him out. Mechanically this is done by setting his fight to 75, which should trigger a fight for all but the most silver-tongued of Personality builds.
Note: you will only be able to rat out Sovor if he actually gives you his key. Otherwise, Ondres Nerano won't recognize it, and Sugar-Lips Habasi will only accept it as normal.
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Install
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Unzip in your Data Folder, or use your preferred mod installer such as Mod Organizer 2. OpenMW users might elect to install this mod the "OpenMW Way," as explained on Modding-Openmw.com.
Manual uninstallation (barring abnormal installation procedures) should be as simple as deleting the "ScrewYouSovor.esp" file.
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Compatibility
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All dialogue mods touching vanilla NPCs can, in theory, conflict. Given that this mod exists wholly within five or six dialogue lines, there's only so much I can do to prevent conflicts save cross my fingers.
Loading this mod after any other dialogue mod, such as LGNPC, should give this mod precedent. Load this mod before other dialogue mods if you prefer the changes another mod makes -- given that this mod adds another key to Nerano Manor to steal, it's still possible to bypass Sovor Trandel and Ondres Nerano entirely, and thus this mod isn't completely useless. If you (by some strange circumstance) prefer this mod, load it after, and you'll experience the lukewarm glory that is getting Sovor Trandel fired.
Regarding the placement of the extra key; I use BCOM and with my current mod list the key is perfectly accessible. I can't promise another mod won't place something in more or less the same spot, but it's at least somewhat unlikely that anything another mod adds would completely cover the key.
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Credits
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Danae, because I continually steal her readmes to use as a template. Her Discord server is also nice.
The Morrowind Modding Community on Discord, for painfully obvious reasons.
Special thanks to Greatness7 and NullCascade for their amazing work with CSSE. Though I'm an OpenMW player myself, CSSE gives me life and I can not sing their praises enough for making the Construction Set more enjoyable to use.
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Permissions
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If by some strange circumstance you want to use this mod as part of your own, feel free. I literally just edited a couple lines of text. Any boob with a keyboard and a beer could do this, and I proved it because I'm a boob with a keyboard and a beer. I require no special permissions.