The Unknown Explorer

A quest in its most basic form as we know it from the days of Morrowind. No dialogue, just text in notes, holotapes, and the quest journal. All of the actors are vanilla placed, and most of the items are as well. Dialogue wouldn't make much sense since all of the actors are either dead, or don't engage in non hostile dialogue with the player. Depending on how you play it, and difficulty, it can range anywhere between 15 minutes to 1 hour. It "naturally" incorporates and respects other mods like SotC, SS2, and the UFOP.

What do we need?

Base game only.

I recently, after 2000+ hours playing with my very much "scrapping freedom" tailored mod list, switched to a mod list that builds around Sim Settlements 2. Obviously big changes in some of the mods I'm using, and some of my own, were inevitable. Basically I had to drop anything circling around the "scrapping freedom" topic, and had to "rearrange" SotC to blend well with SS2. However, one thing that I always felt missing, was something that coherently unites all the pre placed "point of interest" encounters, north of Sanctuary. You know that gun practicing scavenger. The dead lady, which, I just recently learned, is not a rapist victim, but a drug abuser that took too much hits of psycho.

What this quest does is basically leading you from the gun practicing scav, all the way west, to that farming trader living in solitude. And the way the quest does that, you will find every single POI(point of interest) in this area. If I at one point upload my current in development "Enviromental Mod", which adds tons of new POI's, natural landmarks, and map markers not coming with the Cartographer Mod, you will also unlock a couple of map markers in that area. And yes, the new version of SotC will also blend nicely with this quest project.

Do you want to spoil?

No, I don't, but I will for those without patience and aptitude to just explore.

1. starts in sanctuary, in the house with the skeleton, which has a note dropped by the grate

2. reading the note reveals the skeleton waited for someone and eventually got killed by "insects"...he will mention near by gunfire

3. following the gunfire you will encounter the practicing scav, who will eventually attack you when closing in

4. once killed the quest wants you to investigate the area, which reveals a holotape

5. since a scav isn't stupid...well not as stupid as a raider, but still stupid enough to get killed by the player, he can read and write, hence why he wrote a diary

6. the diary will reveal some nasty content addressing the skelet