Joseph Russell's Writing Patches

Joseph Russell's Writing Patches

Skyrim is a fantastic way of telling stories.  This vast and deep virtual world that we're lucky enough to be able to explore is not only a source of hundreds of hours of entertainment, but also serves as a medium for those of us with little technical experience to deliver immersive stories to a massive, international audience, the like of which has never really existed before.  From Falskaar to the Wheels of Lull, we've had dozens of remarkable, exciting and even emotional experiences delivered to us for free by the community, and that's really quite amazing.  These mods are professional and sophisticated, but at times the one thing that can occasionally slip is the writing.

Typos, awkward sentences, grammar niggles, formatting inconsistencies - even entirely missing journal entries... these issues are common across what are otherwise the greatest mods on the Nexus, and personally, I find immersion can be damaged wherever they occur.

As a writer myself, I reasoned I was in a position to do something about this, so I've had a go.

Previously known as the "Typo Patches" on the Oldrim Nexus, this collection of patches has been ported across to SSE and updated with new improvements for the most promising content mods on the Nexus.  The patches are in various states of completion (indicated by the version number, 0. 1 being barely started, 1. 0 and above being, as far as I'm aware, finished), ranging from fixes to minor yet bothersome mistakes to large-scale re-writes that in my opinion improve the flow and quality of the writing while remaining true to the original, fantastic mods.  It had crossed my mind to withhold the patches until they were all finished, but then I thought it might be better to release patches that fix some errors rather than to release nothing at all. Do bear in mind that I do not have the facilities to test these patches beyond my own PC, so please, please remember to back up your save files before installing.

The Patches

Cutting Room Floor, by Arthmoor

v1. 0 []Quest Dialogue (The Missing Apprentices): "I found all the missing apprentices." >> "How is the search going?" - Better flow with response. []Key: "Vigilants Vault Key" >> "Hall of the Vigilant Vault Key". []Quest Objective (Filling Soul Gems): "Fill a Grand Soul Gem for Sergius Turrianus." >> "Fill a Grand Soul Gem for Sergius Turrianus". []Quest Objective (Filling Soul Gems): "Bring the filled Grand Soul Gem back to Sergius Turrianus." >> "Bring the filled Grand Soul Gem back to Sergius Turri