Abandoned Prison Tweaks SE

LE Version Here!

This is a port of the original Abandoned Prison Tweaks. In short, this improves the starting experience for some of the popular alternate and quickstart options- namely by giving you access to basic equipment, spells, and a birthsign/Doomstone. This was made especially with Live Another Life in mind but will also work with the vanilla start and any other alternate start that still allows access to Helgen Keep, including Alternate Perspective.

Patch for Alternate Perspective here.

Starting Equipment

Sometimes your game start of choice doesn't give you the tools you need for your planned character build. To solve this, this mod adds a Rusty Chest full of super-crappy low-level equipment to both Helgen Keep and the Abandoned Prison covering amulets, robes, light and heavy armor, all weapon skills, torches, a pickaxe, and a woodcutting axe.

Starting Spells

This mod incorporates Starting Spell Choice to allow the player quick access to starting spells in every school of magic. Locate the Forgotten Scroll Case in the Abandoned Prison or in the mage's cell in Helgen Keep and use the scrolls you choose to pick your spells. You will also find two Turn Undead scrolls to help you with early undead fighting.

Starting Birthsign

Thanks to Choose Your Sign, you can now select a starting Birthsign by reading a copy of The Firmament for the first time. A copy has been placed in both Helgen Keep and the Abandoned Prison. Upon reading it, you will open a menu to picka vanilla Doomstone power to start the game with. This power will change any time you use another Doomstone.

Starting Thievery

Burning through lockpicks can be a problem in earlygame, so a cache of them- locked for extra security - has been hidden in both the Abandoned Prison and Helgen Keep. This is especially helpful for opening the Helgen Keep mage's cell for your starter spell scrolls or when choosing the "I want to break out of this cell" start in Live Another Life.

I Messed Up My Face!

Never fear, the Vanity Mirror is here! A new handheld vanity mirror has been placed in the opening room of Helgen Keep and in the depths of the Abandoned Prison. When you equip the item, it opens a limited appearance editor to change your character's features, but not your race or gender. You can also craft the mirror again at a forge if you lose it.

I Play With Alternate Start - Live Another Life

This mod was designed with synergy with Live Another Life in mind, and there are some extra features especially useful to users of that mod. The room itself is better lit for ease of use, there's a journal with hints, a crappy silver sword to fight the prison ghosts with, and you will find a b