Skyrim Special Edition

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Cleans up the writing in Skyrim Underground to align more closely to the vanilla game

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I like Skyrim Underground a hell of a lot. It's weird, but not too weird to throw into a 'serious' save. The only glaring issue I had when playing it across multiple saves was the inconsistent writing quality. Well, that and the zombie sounds. Kind of brings you out of the eerie atmosphere when a mod has some oddities in its writing.

By no means am I a superstar writer with twelve awards and seven novels, but I am someone who knows how to nitpick and fix stuff. All those peer-reviews in college are finally paying off.


What this patch ISN'T:
  • A comprehensive overhaul of Skyrim Underground, or a balance patch.
  • An expansion to the original mod of some sort.
  • Me throwing shade at AncientKane, the mod author, in any way.


What this patch IS: 
  • A work in progress, probably. 
  • A series of sensible edits (in my opinion) to anything text-related in Skyrim Underground and the 2022 Add-On. Most of the changes are related to typos, punctuation, sentence pacing, and formatting. Occasionally certain lines were rephrased/reformatted to feel more in line with the style of Vanilla Skyrim. I didn't make any scripting/mechanical changes to the quests, but they'll be presented in what I hope is a more pleasing manner. I tried to avoid editorializing as much as possible to, ideally, preserve the author's original intent. 

    The exceptions to this subtle approach are the changes to two specific items and one of the monsters related to them. I'm sorry, but shoggoth testicles and demon breast milk are just too out-there for me.

    Mara demons are now possessed statues, Mara demon milk is now concentrated ectoplasm, and shoggoth testicles are now shoggoth tumors. The relevant passages in the book 'Exotic Alchemy' have been tweaked to accommodate the changes. To see the nitty-gritty of what I changed, load the plugin in xEdit and compare my edits to the original text.

Patch is now compatible with BURP, thanks Rafaelkai!


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INSTALLATION:
  • Download Skyrim Underground and the Add-On.
  • Download this patch.
  • Install them both with a mod manager.
  • Sort your load order, the writing patch should go below it automatically.
  • Enjoy Skyrim Underground in all of its moist and damp glory. 



LOAD ORDER FUN TIME:
This order will give you a consistent experience of CC zombies everywhere, and maintain the best of all worlds. There might be a few differences in the leveled lists but you can always resolve those to your liking with a CR/bashed/merge patch.


I haven't really attempted something like this before but I've been wanting to for a while. If I missed anything, drop a comment or shoot me a message on Nexus/Discord (That Guy#8995).  


Special thanks:
AncientKane for Skyrim Underground SSE
Bethesda for the CK
The xEdit folks for continuing to maintain SSEEdit