Ruined Tails Tale

RUINED-TAIL\'S TALE 3. 01 - A Complete Rebuild =========================================== By Paul \'Simyaz\' Thomson CONTENTS: ========= 1 - MOD DESCRIPTION 1. 1 - Ruined-Tail\'s Tale - In Brief 1. 2 - Ruined-Tail\'s Tale - Design Focus 2 - UPDATE DETAILS 3 - INSTALLATION 4 - TROUBLESHOOTING 5 - CREDITS 6 - ADDITIONAL 1 - MOD DESCRIPTION =================== 1. 1 - RUINED-TAIL\'S TALE - IN BRIEF =================================== Ruined-Tail\'s Tale is a story-driven Companion-MOD featuring an Argonian Battlemage by the name of Ruined-Tail (or Ruin, for short). Throughout the course of your time together you will learn more about what drives Ruin and what haunts him, and through numerous multi-path conversations, complex scripted sequences, and challenging strategy-orientated encounters, you will play an integral part in shaping Ruined-Tail\'s Tale to its ultimate conclusion. Ruined-Tail\'s Tale 3. 0 has the following features: Companion \"Ruined-Tail\" (Ruin) - An Argonian Battlemage who will follow the you, and under your direction can be ordered to: Follow, Wait (at current location, or return to previously designated \"Home\" point), Ride Horses, Mark and Recall locations, be Summoned, and Adjust tactics (Aggressiveness, Combat styles, Following distance, etc.) Complex, multi-path storyline focusing on Ruined-Tail (and his relationship with the player), played out through immersive, detailed scripted sequences and events, and several thousand lines of dialogue. *Companion development in the style of Westly Weimer\'s SolaMOD (for BG2) in which every conversation and your responses shapes Ruin\'s development, as well as his relationship with the player. 1. 2 - RUINED-TAIL\'S TALE - DESIGN FOCUS ======================================= As one of the earliest Companion MODs released for Oblivion, and certainly the first with any sort of developed story (not to mention one of the first COMPLEX quest MODs released), it was inevitable that Ruined-Tail\'s Tale\'s age would begin to show after all this time. Originally built in about 6 days at the request of a friend, very little effort went into developing the non-dialogue-related elements that made up the early version of the MOD. As new story elements were added to the MOD, it became too complex to simply \"go back and fix what was broken\", short of completely rebuilding the MOD from scratch. And so, with my other modding endeavours finished (Specifically: Tears of the Fiend and Malevolent) it was time to go back and make Ruined-Tail\'s Tale -my most popular MOD to date- the sort of MOD it deserved to be. Originally designed to follow the style of Westly Weimer\'s SolaMOD for Baldur\'s Gate 2 (indeed, many of the original dialogues were simply rewritten versions of Solaufein\'s dialogue\'s from Westly Weimer\'s MOD), the overall \"story-structure\" of the first 1/2 of the MOD (containing some 15 conversations) was lacking, due to no obvious d