Name: Order of the Virtuous Blood Expanded
Version: .02
Date: 7/15/2009
Category: Guilds/Factions
Requirements: Oblivion Patch 1.2.0.214
Recommended: Oblivion Mod Manager
Author(s): Nomadimp
Source: http://www.tesnexus.com/

Description
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OVBE takes the Order of the Virtuous Blood vampire hunting faction and expands it into a fully realized playable faction. The player must help the Order grow from an organization of dubious efficacy into a truly effective vampire hunting force spanning all of Cyrodiil.

Location
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MINOR SPOILER!!!

If you are having trouble finding the ancient banner, look on the ground in the backleft corner of the great hall among the books.

Details
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This version only contains Act I of III, which is comprised of two minor quests and four major quests. All of the major quests have multiple solutions and support any combination of stealth, diplomacy and brute force that the player wishes to use. It is possible to complete all of the main quests without engaging in combat.

The quest line can be started any time after completing the original Order of the Virtuous Blood quests without killing Roland Jenseric. Once 10 vampire dust has been "sold" to the Order, Roland will want to talk to you about expanding the Order. An effort has been made to make this mod fit seamlessly into the world of Oblivion and its lore.

Install
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This archive is distributed in what LHammonds calls OMOD-Ready format.
It allows you to manually extract and install like most other mods but it also
allows you to use Oblivion Mod Manager and import this archive with all the
settings pre-configured for an OMOD file.
Pick which method you are going to use for installation:

Manual Installation
- = or = -
OBMM Installation

Manual Install
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1. Extract this archive to any folder and then copy the contents to Oblivion's Data
folder. You can ignore or delete the "omod conversion data" folder.
2. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, and enable the .esp file(s).

OBMM Install
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Create the OMOD (Do this section only once)
1. Copy archive to (install folder)\Oblivion\obmm\omod\
2. Start Oblivion Mod Manager.
3. Click the Create button.
4. Click the Add Archive button, find and select the archive, then click Yes.
5. Click the Create omod button, then click OK when it finishes.

Install the mod using OBMM
1. Start Oblivion Mod Manager.
2. Double-click the name of the mod in the right-hand side of the OBMM screen.
(icon should turn blue)

Uninstall
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Pick which method you are going to use for uninstall based on how you installed it:

Manual Uninstall
- = or = -
OBMM Uninstall

Manual Uninstall
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1. Start Oblivion Launcher, click Data Files, uncheck the .esp file(s).
2. Delete the files/folders associated with the mod.

Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Clutter\MagesGuild\ovbeskoomalab.nif
Oblivion\Data\Meshes\Dungeons\Caves\ovbeStaticWispStalkCaps.nif
Oblivion\Data\OVBE.esp
Oblivion\Data\OVBEReadme.txt

OBMM Uninstall
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1. Start Oblivion Mod Manager.
2. Double-click the name of the mod in the right-hand side of the OBMM screen,
click Yes. (icon should turn green)

Upgrade
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Act II will be released in a few weeks but should have no adverse effects on savegames. Any bugfixes for Act I will be bundled into Act II, which will override this version.

Incompatibility
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This mod should hopefully be compatible with 99% of the mods out there.

Any mods that modify the Sintav Family NPCs in the ICElvenGardensDistrict may conflict with this mod but will not break it.

OVBE should be loaded AFTER Enhanced Quest Roleplaying

Known Issues or Bugs
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Voice acting will be added later.
A unique soundtrack is currently being composed and will be added later.

1. There was an accidental flagging of a default explore package, it will not have any effect and will be cleaned in the next version.
2. OOO may replace the arena guards, in this event they may attack Raecius Felix at one point during his quest. This will not break the quest but may look a little silly.

History
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v.02 Beta Release Version

Contact
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You can find me on the official Elder Scrolls forums as 'Nomadimp'
You can find me on TESNexus as 'Nomadimp'
You can send me an email here: tjflemming AT gmail DOT com

Credits
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Thanks to Bethesda for Oblivion and the TESKit
Thanks to TESNexus.com for the a one-stop-shop resource for authors and players.
Thanks to LHammonds for the Readme Generator this file was based on.
Thanks to all of the people in the modding community who created the tutorials I used to make this mod and to the people who answered my questions on the forums.

Licensing/Legal
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You must contact me and obtain my permission before re-packaging any part of
this mod. I'm pretty reasonable but would like a heads up on what you are trying to do.