[Joel Huenink]

The Romancing of Eyja
Better Servant and Rosethorn Hall

The Romancing of Eyja - by Joel "madmole" Huenink Contact,FAQ for feedback and bug reports on my forums here: http://forum.4druler...ead.php?t=11492
Email for emergencies: joel@4drulers.com

[B]Version 1.4:[/B]

1.4 Download @ tesnexus: http://www.tesnexus....ad.php?id=21112

1.4 Download from 4drulers.com: http://downloads.4dr...ngofEyja1.4.rar

[B]Now requires OBSE version v0014 or higher & Shivering Isles. [/B](it might work without SI, but you'll be missing animations).
You can get OBSE or higher here:
http://obse.silverlock.org/

Added new foods she can give you: venison, beef, pork, sweetrolls in addition to the original shepards pie.
Added ingredient storage by daleth.
Added spell making & magic item making alters.
Added bath tub in the basement & steam effect.
Eyja's stargaze package she now sits down on a bench on the balcony and will chatter with the player, instead of falling off half the time.
Improved Eyja's maid outfit, making it skimpier, and added sinblood's boots.
Gave Eyja's combat commands. She will stay back and use a bow, or get up close with a sword based on the player's commands.
Eyja will model clothing using a sexy animation.
Updated the basement appearance. There are red curtains down there now.
Added armor repair script, requires OBSE.
curtains which can be opened or closed in the upstairs bedroom for a nice mood when needed or immersion sleeping in the dark.
Added jewelry boxes for Eyja and for the player in each respective bedroom area.
Added a sleep package in gunders bed for before you hire her. Before she just loitered outside all the time.
Added work packages when gunder owns her, updated some work packages to use SI broom animation.
Added an openable and closable tapestry to the master bedroom on rosethorn hall. This lets the light in or shuts it out by lowering tapestries in the room. The one by the closet controls all of them.

[B]1.3 changes: [/B]
Added change clothes script to wear sexy clothing when she goes to bed
Added clothes change script so she wears what is in the adventure drawer when you ask her to follow you.
Fixed armor bonuses issue when Eyja tells player to get naked.
Added Wait function to follow mode and appropriate sound files.
Added Sneaking when player sneaking
Added torch equip script when dungeoning, and she puts it out when sneaking
Added Armor * weapon repair function. Note it only works with the stock armor I have given her.
Added Armor repair repsonse dialogue
Cleaned up mod considerably so there will be less conflicts with other mods.
Fixed dive rock book script, somehow I'd changed it to use one of mine by accident.
Added a check at the beginning so you cannot hire her until all the packages are purchased.
Moved reading package to a higher priority so she reads 7 days a week.
Added resurrection scripts to a few NPC's that were dead in many people's games, making the quests impossible to complete.
Clarified that the Lusty Argonian maid has to be a brand new copy from IC book store, and not just any old one a player may have had.
Added a check to the dates, Eyja won't go on a date if it's raining outside.


VERSION 1.2 COMPLETE DOWNLOAD from Tessource: 28.8 MB http://www.tessource...ile.php?id=6960

VERSION 1.2 COMPLETE DOWNLOAD from SaveFile:VERSION 1.2 DOWNLOAD

1.1 Official Oblivion patch is required - download here

Previous thread

At long last, the mod is here, after four months of blood, sweat and tears. I hope it lives up to it's expectations, and I hope everyone likes it as much as I enjoyed making it.


For those who are newcomers to this mod, it started out as "Better Servant and Rosethorn Hall" where I wanted to improve the maid, and Skingrad house, but as things progressed it quickly turned into a hot and steamy romance mod as well with quest dates you can take her on. I've turned the ugly old Nord into a somewhat better looking servant, and I've improved Rosethorn Hall a bit, by adding a swimming pool and various other small changes. I've given her all sorts of new behavior, and we've come up with a wardrobe that allows her to change clothes every day and for special activities. She works around the house and is reluctant to date the player at first, in fact she gives you the cold shoulder for a while until you prove you are serious. There are a few big dates, one where the both of you go horseback riding and another fancy dinner in Anvil.

Key features:
Quest to date her and win her heart...
Fully functional wardrobe. The user can make her wear what they want by placing items in the drawers.
Tons of packages. You never know what Eyja might be doing.
Eyja is younger and more attractive.
Voice acting all reconstructed from original sounds to make new voice overs sound authentic.
3 New maids outfits
New Dress for the big date and custom hair
New swimming pool Eyja swims in each day. (wears swim suit an has special wet hair model for that package)
Variety of clothing she wears.
Custom music
Custom animations
ReUse of unique animations
Basic disposition system.

Here are some screens:

Old Eyja and New Eyja:
http://i113.photobuc...efore_after.jpg

Eyja in formal gown with formal hair:
http://i113.photobuc...eyja_sexy01.jpg

Eyja in new maid outfit:
http://i113.photobuc...yja_reading.jpg

Eyja swimming in new underground swimming pool:
http://i113.photobuc.../eyja_mod26.jpg

Eyja on the horseback riding date:
http://i113.photobuc.../eyja_mod30.jpg

Eyja in white lingerie:
http://i113.photobuc...rie_white02.jpg

Eyja in black lingerie:
http://i113.photobuc...rie_black01.jpg

Video of dinner date:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=huRm5cGXwUQ

Video of her scrubbing the floor (new custom animation)
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-o6W8yZYzvc

Video of her strutting her stuff (new custom animation)
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=h6hCu7uS1Co

Previous thread

Frequently Asked Questions

Essentially, 1.4 is 100% bug free. There are no bugs, its been playtested for months. There are a few unfinished things (noted below), but the mod works flawlessly, IF YOU INSTALL OBSE AND SHIVERING ISLES.

I'm having some sort of problem blah blah blah blah (insert your problem here)
Make sure you have OBSE and Shivering Isles installed. Make sure to use the OBSE shortcut to start Oblivion. Make sure Eyja is the last mod in your load list.

Eyja won't go on the dinner date or gets stuck at her wardrobe.
Make sure you have OBSE and Shivering Isles installed. Make sure to use the OBSE shortcut to start Oblivion. Make sure Eyja is the last mod in your load list.

I'm having crashes moving from room to room in Rosethorn hall, what is wrong?
I'm pretty sure you need the official patch, you can download it here:
http://static.bethso...inalEnglish.exe

[B]I updated to version 1.3 and the bed upstairs is gone![/B]
Open the console up by hitting the tilde key. Select the rug on the floor where the bed was. Type disable and hit enter. The old ugly bed should reappear. Then type enable and hit enter, and the good bed and rug will come back.

I can't find Shum go-Yarug to buy Rosethorn hall. I followed his quest marker but there is nothing there.

Glitch Warning: Shum go-Yarug is a candidate for the "sudden NPC death" because he tends to fall from the bridge to the castle. If he is dead, his quest marker will uselessly cycle between Skingrad and Castle Skingrad.
If this is the case, on PC you can use the console command "player.placeatme 00028FB6" to respawn him at your location. You may have to raise this respawned Orc's disposition (again) with Speechcraft.

I can't buy Rosethorn hall? Shum go-Yarug won't sell it to me.
You need about 16 fame.

I've made it to the bridge with Eyja on the horse date, but nothing happens?
You have to both be mounted on your horses, and then just wait (in real time, not fast wait) a few seconds, and you should get a pop up saying it's time to head home.

I gave Eyja the book, but the quest won't advance?
You need to see her read it. She might have thrown it in the fireplace for all you know. (HINT) she reads about 8 pm on weekdays, so follow her around a bit and once she sits down to read your in business.

I am a female argonian. Can I still date Eyja?
Yes. Eyja does not discriminate. There are a few lines of dialogue that are said assuming the PC is male, but that shouldn't ruin the experience.

Can I change her clothes?
Yes. You can put whatever you want in her wardrobe cabinet and she will wear it when the next activity cycles along.

How does her wardrobe work?
It has a drawer menu in it for each day of the week, and special drawers for adventure, lingerie, swim wear, etc.

Can I take Eyja with me on adventures?
Yes, once you complete the quests there is a basic follow/go home option.

Is there nudity or any hot coffee action?
No, this is a romance mod, not p0rn.

I love her clothing. Will you make a separate release so I can get use her clothing?
Probably. But not until after this mod is done. You can just steal it from Eyja once the quests are over, she won't mind.

What body are you using?
All sorts of them. Bodies are integrated into the clothing. I used Stock Bethesda stuff for the clothing with some model/uv changes, but enhanced her full figure appearance on the models/meshes, and used BIU's body for the lingerie and swimwear, with some small tweaks.

Do I need a body mod for this mod?

No.

Can I run a body mod with this mod?

Yes.

Is it compatible with OOO or Francescos mod?

Yes.

Is the other Rosethorn hall mod compatible with this?
No, but it doesn't have a hot servant and a million features either. You'll have to decide.

Is the billiards table optional?
Nope. Delete it in the CS if you don't want it.

Can I play pool?
No, but you can knock the pearl around on the table with a sword and it might fall in the hole, I haven't messed with it much. I just had it laying around and threw it in there a long time ago.

I don't like how Eyja looks. Can you make her a mystic elf?
No. But you can edit her in the CS if you want. Eyja is the same as the stock game except younger and with make up. I reduced her lips after ten million people requested it, other than that her face is the same. I have no idea what might happen though, and I will not support any changes, so do so at your own risk.

I like the hair. Can I wear it with my character?
You can, but it's brunette only. It doesn't change color like normal hair, it's like a wig.[/QUOTE]

How do I install it?
Read the readme file included in the download.

FAQ by Vutall:

Remedies for "Bugs" People are having and other FAQ's: WARNING CONTAINS SPOILERS

Firstly, I would like ot thank the developer, Madmole, for all the hard work and effort he put into this mod. Its little things like this that really enhance TESIV;Oblivion, and we need more people to follow in his footsteps. Secondly, before reading this FAQ, Please nopte this was written for the newest release of the ESP, 1.1 If you have the old version, see above links.

"BUGS"
Q: I cant start the quest to romance Eyja:
A: First, make sure you have everything bought for the house, then when she is inside the house, talk to her and click the Romance Eyja button. After you click it, wait for a few minutes in game ((not using the wait menu)) and a quest popup should say something about talking to her again. Talk to her again and press the Romance Eyja button again ((note, it should be gold, not grey. If its grey, you didnt wait long enough)) and you should get your frist quest to get her a gift.

Q: I got Eyja her book, but now what?
A: Again, this one is simply fixed by waiting in game, ((not using the wait menu)) and after a while a menu should pop up saying she had had long enough time to read the book. Go and talk ot her and click on the newly gold menu item. ((I cant remember if its just Romance Eyja or if it says something about the book))

Q: HELP! I am supposed to take Eyja horseback riding but when I get to the stables Eyja is nowhere to be found!
A: You silly goose. Its not to romantic if you run ahead and leave Eyja behind. Wait outside your house until you see Eyja, then WALK to the stables. She will follow you. If you just run ahead she might eventually show up, but it could take a while.

Q: I love this mod, but when we go riding I dont get any updates after we get to the bridge and it says enjoy the view.
A: This one alot of peple had problems with, and again, tis simply fixed by 1, You HAVE to be on a horse. ((dont steal one either while Eyja is in your presence. You cna try it.. but I warned you)) and two, you both have to be on the bridge somewhat in the middle, and then wait for a few minutes in game ((NOT using the wait menu)) and after a while another menu woill pop up saying head back home.

Q: The dinner date seemes messed up! Every time I try to talk to her she only says: Im on my way to rose...now. What do I do?!??!
A: After she sits down at the table, sit down at the chair and then just wait in game. She will say some things outloud and after a few minutes it brings up another menu saying something about going home.

Q: I went upstais after hte argument but Eyja was not there! Did I really piss her off that bad?!
A: No... You jumped the gun. Eyja needs to go downstairs and change and THEN she will go upstairs. Simply wait around either upstairs in your rook or downstairs ((I prefer downstairs so you can get some extended eye candy) and after a few minutes she will change and then walk upstairs

Q:Were in the room but what now?! I cant talk to her, she only says: Im heading to Rose..now!
A: Again, this one is solved by waiting in game ((NOT using the wait menu)) for a while. Eyja will cycle through some verbal lines and after so long a menu will pop up.

Q: After the dinner date Eyja keeps telling me to get naked, and I am but she keeps saying it.
A: Make sure your armor class is zero by taking off all rings and removing any enchantments. 1.3 might help resolve this issue.

Q: OMG She fell asleep on me and I didnt get any! What a tease!
A: If you cant figure this one out, you probably dont deserve to be romancing eyja, but ill help you out. Go to sleep with her.

Q: When Eyja pus on certain clothing her body looks funny, or sometimes appwears inviible!
A: First, make sure you installed the mod brand new, and dint install anthing after it. Nothing SHOULD interfere with the textures, but its better to be safe then sorry. Second, make sure Eyja loads completely last on your mod order. Again, nothing should interfere with the mob, but its better to be safe than sorry. Thirdly, make sure you updated your archiveinvalidation. I dont know ho to do this manually, but if you use Oblivion Mob Manager it has a little button that will do it for you.

Q: The basment pool area has purple tiles on the ceiling! its ugly!
A: Its a little bug that slipped past our wonderful designer. hey, when working on something this grand, little thing are bound to slip through. You cant fix it yourself unfortunetly, we have to wait for madmole to release a patch with a fix for it, which as of writing this, he has! Download the patch here: http://www.4drulers....entsections.rar

Q: How do I get eyja to change her clothes?
A: Go to her wardrobe and click it, Select whatever option, and take out the clothing items in that drawer it bring sup. ((leave the key and the hair)) then drop in whatever you want her to wear. When it comes to the time to wear it, she should. An easy test is to either put it in her swimwear since she swims every day, or to put it in the slot for the next day of the week and wait till the next day. If she still wears the old clothing, you forgot to take it out of the drawer.

Q: Can I change Eyja's looks at all? I want her to be X race:
A: This isnt exactly supported by the developer because it could, ((but shouldnt)) cause unknown problems.First, make a backup of the Eyja.esp file for safe reasons. Then open the Constrution set, click data, and click on Oblivion.esm and Eyja.esp, then while you have eyja selected, click set as active, then hit ok. click NPC's and look for the one named EyjaNew under the editor ID menu. Click her and it should outline everything with a blue line. Right click that line and hit edit, and then there is a little box that says race and should say nord in it. You can change it to whatever you lie. If you want to set her as a custom race, make sure you have the custom race esp checked as well when you load up the editor, but make sure the euja esp is the active one. You can use this method to edit anything on her. From her animations, skills, dialog, spells, face, animations, or any of it.


FAQ by Vutall, If I missed anyhting, please PM me or Email me at thomas_stavlo@hotmail.com subject: Eyja FAQ.

Permissions: Madmole may use this however he wants. Anyone else has to ask HIM for permission. Not me.

[square]

I had a few months of Oblivion addiction and "Better Servant and Rosethorn Hall"
was one of the MUST have mods for every new char I started. :P :yes

Too bad I've uninstalled it but I'll definatly check it out next time I
decide to jump into the game.

Tried the expansion btw?

[Joel Huenink]

[QUOTE=square]I had a few months of Oblivion addiction and "Better Servant and Rosethorn Hall"
was one of the MUST have mods for every new char I started. :P :yes

Too bad I've uninstalled it but I'll definatly check it out next time I
decide to jump into the game.

Tried the expansion btw?[/QUOTE]Hey Square, small world I guess. Thats cool a gore fan (I think you are anyway) enjoyed my Oblivion mod. Yeah I just got the expansion and I'm getting sucked into it again. It's very well done so far, and I'm enjoying it. It's like a mini-Oblivion all over again since it's a whole new universe of it's own.

[DAWG [ROK]]

I MUST be getting way too old for you guys - I have NO idea what this is about. :(

[Keenan]

Quote

'']I MUST be getting way too old for you guys - I have NO idea what this is about. :(

Ya I have no idea wtf this is.

[Manson 666]

Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Joel made a mod for it.

I have Oblivion, but I still haven't played it, I let my cousin play it, and he played it for a while, and that is about it, I don't want it to consume a lot of my time because I know it will, haha.

[Lead]

Oblivion (one of the Elder Scrolls games)

Joel is modder on the side. Did Doom mods before he made Gore, and a while back he did mods for Oblivion.

[m@nc0w]

[QUOTE=Lead]Oblivion (one of the Elder Scrolls games)

Joel is modder on the side. Did Doom mods before he made Gore, and a while back he did mods for Oblivion.[/QUOTE]
Didnt' he do some Quake mod too ¿

[Joel Huenink]

m@nc0w said:

Didnt' he do some Quake mod too ¿

I never really did much Quake modding. I played around with their editor a bit to see how their level design flow went.

[DAWG [ROK]]

[QUOTE=Manson 666]Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

Joel made a mod for it.

.[/QUOTE]


RPG ???

[Joel Huenink]

Yes, Oblivion is IMHO, the best RPG of all time. It has many really cool features. Like Gore you can see armor in the view port on your character, you can change clothing/armor/weapons and customize it all, change your characters face and hair appearance, level up and gain new powers and attributes. NPC's have a life outside of their existence to interact with the player, such as they eat, go to work, go home to sleep in their bed at night, and live little schedules. I took what they did to the next level with this mod, and took a fairly boring maid that you can hire in the game and made a full blown quest where you romance her, take her out on dates, buy her things, and eventually get lucky if you complete all the quests. I made it so she changes clothing daily and based on what she is doing, where the regular game has npcs sort of doing the same stuff all the time. It was a very fun experience to see how life like I could make an NPC, sort of an AI experiment for me. It was very challenging, I had to learn a lot, and for a huge company with a AAA game, their mod author support leaves a lot to be desired. It took several tries to figure out even a simple mod.

Nevertheless, it's a great game, I highly recommend it. There is a bit of a learning curve to it at first, because it is very in depth, a lot of menus that control your character, etc, but once you figure it all out, it's probably the deepest and most compelling game I've ever played. Beautiful graphics too. The water and mountains are amazing, and they dont' spare any details on the polygons, some of the armors alone are 20000 polygons, so you see tons of sweet detail. I love the game obviously :D

[Joel Huenink]

Yay I can double post without someone yelling at me :D

Anyhow last night I fixed the crash to desktop bug that went out with the initial version of this mod. I tried and tried to fix it with no luck many times, and so did others who liked my mod. Anyhow, I figured it out, but will have to re-do one small area of the mod to get it release ready, hopefully I'll have that ready soon.

And for all you Oblivion lurkers, (I know you are out there :D )come join the forums, we wont' bite. We allow attachments, images, HTML code, won't lock threads at 200 post limits, wont' delete your threads when they get old, and have email notification and other bells and whistles. Nothing against the Bethesda forums but I really don't like spending hours answering questions just so they can auto-delete old threads in a couple months and all that information lost forever. That is the main reason I created this forum, so we can talk shop, post tutorials and help people learn to mod without regurgitating information constantly. I decided to get back into some modding, and all my old threads I bookmarked that had good tutorials or info in them were deleted. Pretty weak, but I suspect with the volume of posts they get they have to do that.

Plus with that silly 200 thread post lock, it's hard to see whats really popular and what isn't. Personally I'd like to look at the thread with 20000 posts, there is probably a good mod in there if they would allow it.

[Son Of Gump]

#1 you can't get anything like that on the 360

#2 it's bs that you have to pay for extra missions or anything of the sort for the 360 when you can get it all free on the pc version :L :L :L :fem


microsoft's ****s the entire market with that bs microsoft points shit

[Joel Huenink]

[QUOTE=Son Of Gump]#1 you can't get anything like that on the 360

#2 it's bs that you have to pay for extra missions or anything of the sort for the 360 when you can get it all free on the pc version :L :L :L :fem


microsoft's ****s the entire market with that bs microsoft points shit[/QUOTE]
Wow, a little angry? Can I do anything about it? It's pointless bitching to someone who can't change things.

1, you can get oblivion and all the add ons for 360, but no mods like I made.
2, pc owners have to pay for extra missions, unless they are pirates.
3, I don't even know what microsoft's points are, I just heard of them a week or two ago. Not sure how it can **** the entire market though.

All I say is the 360 is sweet, but I'd never buy a Bethesda game on it, RPG's are way better on a PC, always have been, always will be.

[Son Of Gump]

[QUOTE=Joel Huenink]Wow, a little angry? Can I do anything about it? It's pointless bitching to someone who can't change things.

1, you can get oblivion and all the add ons for 360, but no mods like I made.
2, pc owners have to pay for extra missions, unless they are pirates.
3, I don't even know what microsoft's points are, I just heard of them a week or two ago. Not sure how it can **** the entire market though.

All I say is the 360 is sweet, but I'd never buy a Bethesda game on it, RPG's are way better on a PC, always have been, always will be.[/QUOTE]


I was just saying that it's unfair that you can't get things like this for the 360 version, i wasn't bitching at you.

Microsoft points are points that you buy..... You have to spend real money to get points, and points is what you use to get things over xbox live marketplace.

by the post i made i hope you would have known that what you made was a great job, and that i would like to try out your mod or any up coming mod but can't for i have the 360 version

[Joel Huenink]

Oh well my mod is well worth dropping another 50 bucks to play on your PC, lol. Seriously I think the mods are worth it, there are some really good ones. Trade your 360 version in or sell it, you could probably get 30 bucks out of it and then buy a used copy of oblivion for pc on ebay or wherever... probably cost you very little if you go that route, then you can play mods. But you need a pretty stacked PC to play Oblivion. I'd like to buy a monster box just to get hdr and be able to play it at higher res and get better fps.

[Kobaltic]

Looks like I might have to dust off my Oblivion DVD and try some stuff out. Although I still think Final Fantasy is the best rpg, but it was the first rpg I ever played.

[Joel Huenink]

Kobaltic said:

Looks like I might have to dust off my Oblivion DVD and try some stuff out. Although I still think Final Fantasy is the best rpg, but it was the first rpg I ever played.

That could have something to do with it, but I don't know for sure. I was into Diablo and Diablo 2. I wonder why they aren't working on D3? Probably because of WOW making too much money to settle for a game that would only sell 50 million copies :P

So anyhow, back on topic, I've got the crash to desktop load game bug fixed, and the mod is all working again. I want to make some improvements as I play tested through the whole thing I thought of a few things I could do better. Just some basic bullet proofing to make it more intuitive and to fix problems with dead NPC's stopping the quest line.

[maniax]

[QUOTE=Joel Huenink]That could have something to do with it, but I don't know for sure. I was into Diablo and Diablo 2. I wonder why they aren't working on D3? Probably because of WOW making too much money to settle for a game that would only sell 50 million copies :P

So anyhow, back on topic, I've got the crash to desktop load game bug fixed, and the mod is all working again. I want to make some improvements as I play tested through the whole thing I thought of a few things I could do better. Just some basic bullet proofing to make it more intuitive and to fix problems with dead NPC's stopping the quest line.[/QUOTE]

Blizzard are making a new StarCraft.

[Lead]

People say that every time they are set to announce a new game. :L