Moriel Balmora Apartment

What it does?

This adds a small apartment above Caius Cosades’ place in Balmora which you can rent on a monthly basis. To get started, read the notice on the door.

The apartment features:

• []Good storage. There are only regular containers, but unlike the containers in most in game locations, these will not mark your items as stolen.

  []Realistic lighting. I prefer realistic lighting, so the interior is intentionally fairly dim, lit only by a flickering chandelier. To lighten things up, you can add candles and lanterns that you find or purchase.

  []Reasonable rent. At 150 septims per month, it’s cheaper than staying at an inn by far. (You might even get a discount as a professional courtesy, depending on your faction memberships.)

  []A small working oven if you have Necessities of Morrowind installed.

  []Rats. It is, after all in a rather run down part of town and you live upstairs from a skooma adict. Every now and then, you'll have a rat show up in your apartment, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. I mean, you could just kill the rats, of course, but an animal lover should be able to find a happier solution. You could try talking to it, for example. See the SPOILERS file for details if you need help.

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  Why this mod?

  For a long time I used the very similar Apartment mod by Grumpy and was very happy with it. Recently, though, I finally upgraded from my creaky 32 bit Windows XP to 64 bit Windows 7 and was able to take advantage of all my RAM for a change, so I loaded up a new game with lots of mods, including some big graphics overhauls. Suddenly, the apartment stood out like a sore thumb and looked really out of place: it didn’t use the new textures. It turns out that there is no building in the construction set that was quite the right shape, and Grumpy’s solution involved a custom model with it’s own custom texture that doesn’t get modified by graphics replacers.

  At first I thought I could just update Grumpy’s mod for my game, but then I realized that it really lacked a few things that I wanted, and this was the perfect opportunity to make my own mod. So I did, adding the monthly rental requirement, changing the lighting to be more subdued, adding storage, and making it NOM compatible. I hope the result is pleasing and useful to others.

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  Installation

  If you are upgrading from a previous version you should be able to just install the mod normally. It should not invalidate your saved games.

  Recommended procedure: