OE EEC: Rehiring after getting expelled is confusing

Type: 

Bug

Severity: 

Normal

Game version: 

Morrowind

Concerns: 

TR_Mainland

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Description: 

Say you got expelled from the EEC. How do you get back in? Ma'Shavir's dialogue mentions "make amends", but that's not the right topic and nothing is blue. Other NPCs suggesting talking to a factor, but don't mention him by name. The right NPC to talk is actually "Aetia Nemesia", and the right topic is "re-hire". No reason why this should be so confusing.

Comments

> Ma'Shavir's dialogue

Marhaus's picture

> Ma'Shavir's dialogue mentions "make amends", but that's not the right topic and nothing is blue.

Technically this has vanilla precedent. The Imperial Cult and Imperial Legion share this greeting but do not use "make amends" as the readmission topic. Nonetheless, I agree that it's confusing. In the future, I wouldn't mind tweaking it so the mainland EEC uses "make amends" for consistency with real factions, but for now, I have created this ESP which makes a new Greeting that mentions "re-hire", as well as tweaks some of the existing "re-hire" dialogue for consistency (there should be no responses unless PC Expelled = 1, and anyone in the EEC faction should be able to give responses, not just Officers).

> Other NPCs suggesting talking to a factor, but don't mention him by name.

This also has vanilla precedent. "Someone in particular" will tell you who the factor is at OE. I would be tempted to have the "re-hire" topic mention them by name anyway, but the EEC is a special case because both OE and Solstheim can have their factors change over time.

 

This plugin also has various last-minute fixes for the OE EEC that I only noticed were needed on a second run-through. Hopefully people are fine with it. To wit, the other changes are:

  • More NPC PositionCell aids placed around.
  • Sarrugi Sentishi has his old hair back, with a written explanation in his script as to why it makes sense. Evil Eye, maintainer of the TR validator which flags it, approves.
  • Fixed a typo'd Choice and gave it shorter wording
  • Gave better directions to Aetia Nemesia's office in the EEC Cano1 quest
  • Fixed a couple Journal typos
    • Lorindil, the dainty Bosmer clerk, is not an Imperial Legion guard
    • Mette Black-Briar is not a "he"
  • Removed an instance of the legendary thinking ellipsis in the "Mamaea Banapli" topic.
  • Gave directions to Deldor Arethi in the "Deldor Arethi" topic
  • Made it an optional choice to give Zenurie Mondette the Briricca report, in case players don't yet realize she's their best bet (necessary because of the interior redo)

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