Save Icerunner - Extinguish Alternate Route

Jaree-Ra has plans to build a sunken ship in "Loneliness". The ship was said to be laden with weapons and riches and was ready to mature. what will you do?

Overview

Lights out! For many Skyrim players like me, the side quests in Solitude are one of the most annoying things. It's a 100% linear sequence that leads to you being "tricked" into causing the deaths of a bunch of innocent people, and if you don't want to do that, you have to have Jaree-Ra call you in your solitude the whole time, or the mission you don't want to perform is stuck in the diary.

If you're familiar with Lights Out!, you might be asking yourself some of the following questions:

Why would it be implied that reporting to the guard would in turn result in me agreeing to take the job?

Why can't I actually talk to the guards?

Why doesn't Jaree-Ra work on the dock?

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

Why can I find clear evidence of Jaree-Ra's fraudulent activity and still nothing is done?

After all this trouble, why is there any change in the "Icerunner Chest"?

Why can't we be friends?

Well, once you install this mod, you no longer need to ask these questions!

How to Save an Ice Walker

IceWalker will return if any of the following conditions occur:

Jaere-Ra or Deeja dies before you hear Jaree-Ra's offer (the mission does not start).

Jaree-Ra dies before extinguishing the lighthouse fire (mission failed).

You convince Jaree-Ra to give up.

The guards arrested Jaree-Ra and put him in jail.

How to make Jaree-Ra a follower

Jaree-Ra and Deeja definitely have a search route that's friendly to you. It requires crashing Icerunner and is therefore mutually exclusive with saving it. After completing that route, you can have Jaree-Ra as a follower, or Jaree-Ra or Deeja as a consort. Jaree-Ra is a rogue and his maximum level is 50.

Don't know what to do?

Alternative routes are not easily discovered. The key to unlocking more routes is to find some evidence that can either be used as leverage against Jaree-Ra or reported to Captain Aldis. Talk to the leader Ahtar. His pursuit of you should point you in the right direction. (In particular, he should send you to Shattered Paddle Cave. Other mods may interfere with this.)

Detailed walkthrough (spoilers)

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FAQ.

Q: Can I install it on an existing archive?

A: The short answer is that I've taken some steps to install the mod functionality on an existing save and it worked in my testing. In principle, Skyrim doesn't actually like it when you try to add or remove things from a running task (Lights Out! has startup enabled), but there seems to be some Papyrus magic to force it to keep running.

Q: Does this mod restore any cut content?

A: In short, no, this mod will not restore cut content from this mission. It appears there was originally a route where you would ally with Ma'zaka (the lighthouse keeper) and Captain Aldis to defeat the Blackblood Marauders, but it's not complete enough to be rebuilt. Some lines are also represented with the wrong characters, making them difficult to replace. The new routes eventually added by the mod are based on vanilla events. However, this mod does benefit from being able to repurpose certain cut lines of dialogue into new routes.

Q: I have a mod that changes the "island" and it conflicts with where you place the icewalker. Can you make a patch?

Answer: I have provided an option to simply disable Icerunner's return using the global variable STIReturnEnabled. If you set it to 0, you can still benefit from the rest of the mod's changes. I'm afraid I don't have much experience moving things around the world when it comes to navigation nodes, and don't want to spend time troubleshooting kinks in other people's load instructions. If you want to make a patch and move the ship somewhere else, I'll be happy to host it for you.

Q: What will happen if the Stormcloaks capture Haafingar?

Answer: Istar Cairn-Breaker should be able to replace Captain Aldis in the …