The Lost Spires - Cleaned Up Scribe Store Ruins

Version 1. 1

REQUIREMENTS

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The Lost Spires - https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/12997

INSTALLATION

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Copy the esp into the Oblivion game Data directory.

Activate the mod in your load order. This esp must load AFTER The Lost Spires.

SHORT DESCRIPTION

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This mod adds some realism to the way Rhea Miro's Scribe Services building (added by The Lost Spires) is

handled in Leyawiin. Before the quest involving Miro's transcript, the area will not be burned and you can

visit the Scribe Services shop itself and even interact with Rhea Miro. After you have returned the burned

transcript, the smoke will be put out and Rhea Miro's corpse will be buried. After the full Lost Spires

questline, all the ruined area will be rejuvenated with new trees and a small memorial park.

You can activate this mod at any point, regardless of your progress in The Lost Spires and still have it

work as intended.

LONG DESCRIPTION

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The Lost Spires is one of my all-time favorite mods, an absolutely amazing series of quests and locations

with so many realistic details. The only thing that has bothered me about it for years (and I am sure

others can relate) is that it adds a sizable area of burned out ugliness to Leyawiin, right between the

Mages Guild and the statue of Topal the Pilot. It's part of the main plotline, but those ruins ugly up

an otherwise beautiful area of the city with never-ending clouds of smoke rising to the sky for all eternity.

Kids, I remember when The Lost Spires came out back in 2007 and this issue has bothered me ever since, but

I finally got my lazy rear around to doing something about it today. At first, I was just going to disable the

smoke clouds after the related quest ends because they always ruin my otherwise beautiful shots of the Mages Guild.

But then I said, "You know what? That lovely little corner of Leyawiin doesn't deserve to be shunned by me forever,

so I might as well make all that ruinage disappear and be replaced by something nicer while I'm at it!" So I did

that too. Then I noticed in the Construction Set that the original mod contained a fully-decorated interior cell

for Miro's Scribe Services that I never realized existed (because you can't get to it in-game without the console),

complete with a cute wood elf NPC version of Rhea Miro! This included interior was beautiful, but made entirely of

stone. So I cannibalized bits and pieces from the interior and made up a smaller wooden one and gave Rhea the life

she deserved to have before the related quest. Of course this meant I had to redo the exterior with taller trees,

pristine fence and unburned rocks to resemble the burned version. And then the burned version didn't ma