Save the Icerunner - Lights Out Alternate Routes

Overview

The Lights Out! side quest in Solitude is one of the most annoying sequences of events for many long-time Skyrim players like myself. It is a 100% linear sequence that leads you to getting "tricked" into causing a bunch of innocent people to die, and if you don't want to do it, you either have to have Jaree-Ra calling out to you in Solitude all the time or a quest stuck in your journal that you don't want to do.

If you're familiar with Lights Out!, you may have asked yourself some of these questions:

• []Why does insinuating that I report to the guards loop back into agreeing to take the job anyway?

  []Why can't I actually talk to the guards about this?

  []Why doesn't Jaree-Ra ever do his job at the docks?

  []Why can't I kill Jaree-Ra and just forget about this?

  []Why can I find clear evidence of Jaree-Ra's fraudulent activity and still do nothing about it?

  []Why, after going through all this trouble, does the "Icerunner Chest" have pocket change in it?

  []Why can't we be friends?

  Well, once you install this mod, you never have to ask these questions anymore!

  How to save the Icerunner

  The Icerunner will return if any of these things happen:

  • []Jaere-Ra or Deeja dies before you have heard Jaree-Ra's offer (quest doesn't start).

    []Jaree-Ra dies before you put out the Lighthouse fire (quest failed).

    []You convince Jaree-Ra to give up.

  • The guards arrest Jaree-Ra and put him in jail.

    How to get Jaree-Ra as a follower

    There is exactly one quest route where Jaree-Ra and Deeja become friendly with you. It requires crashing the Icerunner and is therefore mutually exclusive with saving it. Upon completing that route, you can have Jaree-Ra as a follower or either Jaree-Ra or Deeja as a spouse. Jaree-Ra is a Rogue and his max level is 50.

    Not sure what to do?

    The alternate routes are not made to be trivial to find. The key to unlocking more routes is to find some evidence which can either be used as leverage against Jaree-Ra or reported to Captain Aldis. Talk to Ahtar, the headsman. He has a quest for you that should point you in the right direction. (Specifically, he should send you to Broken Oar Grotto. Other mods may potentially interfere with this.)

    Detailed walkthrough (spoilers)

    See the attached article.

    F. A. Q.

    Q: Can this be installed on an existing save?

    A: The short answer is yes, I have put some measures in place to make the mod function when installed on an existing save,