Sven Max

Sven and his friends paint Max on the Riverwood Bridge during a drunken night

Sadly necessary moving forward

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story

The night before, Sven got drunk with some friends in Riverwood. Very drunk. They thought it would be an awesome idea to see how many copies of Sven could completely cross the bridge outside the city if they dropped it end-to-end.

Since there was only one true Sven there, they decided the best thing to do was to have him lie down for a while, mark where his head (or feet) reached, then have him point his head or feet towards the mark again so they could mark the next stretch, and so on.

Well, that was the intention, anyway. Like I said, they were drunk. Very drunk. Several times, Sven again lay down in the space he had just measured. Sometimes he reaches out, sometimes he tries to curl up. One time he lay down and fell asleep and they couldn't get him back up, so they had to make some marks where they figured if he could still be used as a measuring stick. However, his friends were also very drunk and their estimation skills were somewhat impaired.

The end result is a set of paint marks on the parapet of Riverwood Bridge, unevenly spaced, possibly the length of the Nord. If you squint your eyes. Drunk.

They concluded that the bridge was approximately 15 and a half Svens long.

Mod

This just adds a set of paint markers to the Riverwood Bridge. that's all. real. There are no tasks. No funky armor or weapons. Just a split in the paint. That’s all.

This is a joke mode and you should thank or blame jknjb for providing me with the "encouragement" to make this work.

The entire mod is actually a reference to real world events. Your calculated prize for the event is a reasonable entitlement to feel smug about yourself for a few minutes. I hasten to add that the only similarities between this mod and real-world events are some bridges crossed - the story I've constructed behind those markers in this version has no intention of resembling any of the stories behind any real-world markers behind any real-world bridges.

This is a joke mode and I don't spend a lot of energy worrying about compatibility. It should work for anything that doesn't completely change the bridge (e.g. replace it with a completely different bridge) or move the bridge. It looks great with or without SMIM, and it also works well with the Skyline Bridge (since it doesn't change the Riverwood bridge itself, it just adds a roof). It is also perfectly compatible with ETaC.

Install

Download the archive and look inside the archive. Copy the contents of "data" into the game's data directory. Using your preferred mod management tool, make sure SPTSvenMarks.esp is enabled (if you don't see the mod in the mod list, you didn't install the file correctly).

To uninstall, disable SPTSvenMarks.esp. You can also delete SPTSvenMarks.esp and SPTSvenMarks.bsa.

integral

Thanks to jknjb for the "encouragement" and beta testing. Thanks to Bethesda for making the game and the modding tools that allow me to build weak jokes like this.

enjoy your meal!

final notes

This is a port of Legendary Edition's mod

2.0, 2017-11-04: Initial SSE port for LE version 1.1

2.1, 2018-03-26: Light major version added

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Sadly Necessary Foreward

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