Unofficial Creator Club Update - Plague of the Dead

Prevents the Creation Club's Plague of the Dead quest (Rise of the Dead) from automatically starting on install instead of being triggered when players find letters in Riften's Bees and Barbs.

Unofficial Creator Club Update - Plague of the Dead

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I hate it when tasks start automatically. Whether it's a mod, a DLC pack, or what we call a download from the Creation Club, if installing it causes a certain quest to appear only in my diary, I'm not a fan. Immersive destruction is one of them. Downloading some content from CC and suddenly I had to accept that my character heard three rumors and received a message in one go - at the bottom of the dungeon, no less!

Therefore, I am taking it upon myself to rectify the situation and intend to work on all the files on the Creation Club one by one so that the missions can start in a more immersive way and make other improvements as I see fit.

After installing this patch, "Rising Dead" will no longer automatically launch when loading the game. Instead, notes that originally magically appeared in the inventory can now be found on Riften's Bee and Barb's bar. Reading it will start the quest. After that, everything should continue as normal.

The patch also resolves a minor conflict with USSEP.

I strongly recommend not to install this patch on a save file that already has Plague of the Dead installed. If you do this, it won't break your game, but it won't stop the mission once it starts.

Do you own all Creators Club content? Please use my all-in-one patch instead!

Require

"Plague of the Dead" by Creation Club

compatibility

This mod is incompatible with the following mods:

Unofficial Plague of the Dead - This mod only contains minor changes to the Plague of the Dead quest logging to eliminate harmless Papyrus log errors, and is completely covered by this unofficial update. Choose one or the other.

Disclaimer

I am not the original author of the Creation Club files this patch relies on. This patch is not supported in any way, shape, or form by the original author, and is an independent mod with its own responsibilities and shortcomings.

Install

Make sure you have downloaded and installed Plague of the Dead from Creation Club.

Download and install the patch, preferably using NMM or MO. If you want to do it manually, you can simply drag and drop the .esp and script files into the Data folder.

enjoy your meal!

Uninstall

Uninstall the patch using your Mod Manager, or delete the .esp file from your "data" folder. This should safely revert all my changes back to their original state. However, in general, Skyrim does not support uninstalling mods during playback, which is a practice that should be treated with caution.

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Writing Patches by Joseph Russell - A set of patches similar to these that focus on improving the writing of popular mods.

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