Lost Threads

Acquire from Jobasha in Jobasha's Rare Books, Foreign Quarter Lower Waistworks, Vivec Foreign Quarter, Vivec. Or try: coc "Vivec, Jobasha's Rare Books"

Made in OMW-CS but converted to ESP using TESCS from this fix.

I originally wanted to have a quest to go with it where you would follow rumors and ghost sightings to find the pages. The idea was to either hear a rumor about the ghost or see the ghost and follow it to a page. The pages would be spread out and each rumor would only get you one step closer. A scavenger hunt for puzzle pieces to a lore mystery. I am glad I took the advice of Danae123 and started small.

Fun fact: Tweaking the alignment of the last 8 pages took me 3 hours. The lesson here is to avoid book ideas that require precise page breaks at all costs. Don't make my mistakes. At least not until OMW-CS adds a live preview of the book pages (it already has a dope 3D preview). If they add that and a real way to export as ESP I am sold.

Spoiler for the specific obscure lore explored (it is more fun to figure it out on your own!):

The book is a journal that once belonged to a wizard's apprentice doing menial fetch quests around the Iliac Bay before and during the "Warp in The West / Miracle of Peace".

Mega Spoilers:

There are 8 copies of the journal page written during the first day of the dragon break, one for each divergent timeline.

The original idea for the quest was that the apprentice became a ghost after dying in exactly one timeline then having all 8 merged (similar to the reality paradox that created the "Dwarven Spectre" undead).

Ideas for future improvement:

• []The writing could definitely use an editing/grammar pass. Only worth fixing the alignment if I am actually expanding the mod though.

  []The basic quest, obviously. That is 1-2 NPCs, multiple quest stages, 2-3 conversation topics, 8 world/loot placements.

  []Ink blots and smudges for every page ('show, don't tell').

  []Clean dirty references and records.