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DESCRIPTION
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In Anvil, a young mage is recovering from being fired. Originally hired by Lady Umbranox to keep tabs on her wayward Count, Mae Scryus was downsized when the Count became completely untrackable. She's decided to set up a magical supply shop in Anvil, but she needs a healthy supply of septims to afford the real estate; so, meanwhile, you can find her in The Count's Arms and browse her wares.

Mae has a particularly special item on offer, but she won't part with it to just anyone - the buyer has to be someone she likes, and someone skilled enough in Alteration to handle the enchanted portable tent she created during her previous travels. And, of course, the buyer has to be able to afford her price tag of 10,000 septims.

An adventurer of discerning taste would find this an incredible bargain. This isn't a quaint or rustic camping tent, no - this is a luxurious portable abode, fully furnished in gilt-edged woods and lush fabrics. There's a four-poster canopy bed, oodles of safe storage, and all of the amenities required by today's magician on the go. Nowhere to put those dozens of daggers? The magically miniaturized & customizable storage will help you handle the clutter. Overloaded with ingredients and out of your favorite potions? An alchemy lab and ingredient storage is included for just such emergencies. A custom rack will display your staves gorgeously. The sitting area is fantastic for meditation, spell study, or just lounging. The mage-crafted braziers and votives are specially designed to keep you warm without setting your tent ablaze. The finicky magician can change the color theme of the tent, choosing from one of fifteen vivid gem- or metal-inspired tones. Even the Luggage (Cobl only) will dress itself up, so as not to be self-conscious amidst all the other fine furnishings!


HOW TO USE YOUR TENT:

From your inventory, drop the Enchanted Tent Materials on the ground. The extra bit of material protruding from the fold is the side where the front door to your tent will be. Once it has been positioned satisfactorily, activate it; take a quick step back, and POOF! Your tent will appear!

To take down your tent, or to pick up the Enchanted Tent Materials without setting up your tent, simply activate the tent or the materials while sneaking.

To change the color theme of your tent:
Hold down the left ALT key while clicking on the tent from your inventory, or!
Hold down the left ALT key while activating the tent materials on the ground, or!
Just press the handy "Change Color Theme" switch in the tent, affixed low on the center post. (Recommended.)
Available colors: Amethyst, Blue Topaz, Bronze, Citrine, Emerald, Garnet, Gold, Hematite, Onyx, Pearl, Rose Quartz, Ruby, Sapphire, Tourmaline, and Turquoise.
*A new color theme has been added to match the the interior of Star's Rest as well.

By default, the tent is stocked with shelves lined with miniature chests. Each shelf unit can be traded in for an empty shelf, a shelf with normal-sized chests, or an armoire via the "Customize Storage" switch, located just beneath the "Change Color" switch on the center post. Your belongings are safe - if you forget to remove them before switching storage types, just switch back, and everything will still be there. Feel free to milk this feature for "hidden" storage.

A map marker will automatically appear at your tent's location when you enter it after setting it up in a new place.

If you lose your Enchanted Tent Materials, go see Mae, and ask her very nicely to help you recover them. Bring more septims. Of course, if you didn't acquire your tent in a respectable fashion, she will probably not offer to help you.


OTHER NOTES:

You cannot use your tent indoors, in an Oblivion plane, while in combat, or in certain other dangerous or unstable places.

Non-Cobl users can bypass the menu of the automated ingredient storage shelf by holding the left SHIFT key while activating it.

When you emerge from your tent or fast travel to its map marker, you will be in just the same spot you were when you entered the tent - avoid entering the tent while sunk into the ground or stuck inside objects.

Path grids have been added to the tent's interior.  While some companions cannot follow you directly into your tent, many will, and most will also teleport inside if you've set the tent as their home marker, and should have no trouble getting around.  The bed sleeps two.

Changing the color theme of your tent does not change its contents. Your belongings are safe.

All containers except the Wastebasket and the Grinder (Cobl only) are safe for storage.

All Natural and See You Sleep support are included in the main download. Also included is a patch for those who would prefer to hold the left SHIFT key instead of sneak to pick up their tent.

All meshes have been pyffi'd for best performance, all resources have unique file paths, and all plugins have been cleaned with TES4Edit for best compatibility.

New this version:

• Lowered the tent's spawn point position just a hair, so you're less likely have the corners of the tent poking into mid-air if the ground beneath isn't quite level.
• When you activate the outside of the tent while sneaking, you now have the option of having a platform piece spawn under the tent.  This will help with placement on ground that isn't quite level.
• Now that we all have better computers, we're often getting stuck in the collision of the tent after we've put it up, so I gave us a few extra seconds to move out of its way.  Note that this means it will take a few extra seconds for your tent to appear -- please do not report this as a bug, or worry that your game is lagging.
• Fixed the stoopid Northmarker.  UGH.  Now your compass should remain accurate while you are in the tent.
• Fixed a script bug in the Alt Hotkey patch.  That left shift key should actually work now.
• Fixed a bug that caused the tent to spawn on top of the player when used for the very first time.
• Added a teleport spell that moves only the player to the interior of the tent from anywhere.  To reduce spellbook clutter, the spell will be given to you automagically when you enter the tent for the first time after setting it up, and it will automagically go away when you pack up your tent.
• Added a repair station to the tent.  As in my other mods, it gives you 100 skill *only while you are using the repair station* so that you don't use up your hammers.  Your skill will return to normal as soon as you exit the repair menu.
• Cobl version only: Added a barrel-shaped Food Larder for Cobl users.  The non-Cobl version just got a lame barrel.  LAAAAME.
• Due to heavy edits, the refs for the big chest in the back-center of the tent and the tiny Ayleid chest on the alchemy counter in the non-Cobl version were search/replaced, and I can't promise the ref IDs are the same as last version and your stuff will still be in those containers when you update.  So while a clean save from v2.1 and later is not necessary, you may want to empty those two containers before you update, or at least keep a backup save until you are sure you still have all your stuff.
  
  

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REQUIREMENTS
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Requires the latest official Oblivion patch (1.2.0.416).
Requires OBSE v0018 or higher.

Your character must be either:
Charming, a Journeyman or better at Alteration, and in possession of 10,000 septims; or,
Sneaky, comfortable with grand larceny, and tricksy with a lockpick.


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NEED HELP? FIND A BUG?
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Mod Installation Guide
Mod Troubleshooting Guide


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CREDITS
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Thanks to/for, in no particular order:

• Bond123 for his Bond's Big Portable Tent mod, which was the inspiration for this mod
• Treleth for his original Pitchable Tent mod, which was the inspiration for Bond's Big Portable Tent
• DaMage, for fixing the tent's exterior UV mapping
• Meo's Ayleid Clutter (globe, original texture)
• Lady Li's Carpets (gold circle rug mesh & original texture)
• Phitt's Bravil Sea Domes (bed, mesh & original texture)
• Xiamara's Sofas & Chairs + Pillows (meshes)
• Zimnel (sofa & chair original texture)
• Phoenix Amon's Ingredient Storage Shelf (original mesh & script)
• Loth's Better Weapon Racks (staff rack, original mesh)
• Qarl's Texture Pack 3 (wood detail original texture)
• the OBSE team
• the Cobl team
• XMarksTheSpot's IllumAnimation Tool (used to animate all the light fixtures)
  

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PERMISSIONS
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You may re-use any of this mod's content in your own Oblivion mods, as long as you don't charge money for it, you credit me for my work, and you credit anyone I credited for their work.

You may share this mod freely, as long as you don't charge money for it, and you include my original Readme.

Please enjoy. =)