Nether's Ninara Plus - 2.5.1
Update: Fix for Ninara's boots not showing with CBBE Physics. Install the attached fix, overwrite and re-run bodyslide for the boots.
A brand new update and polishing of Nether's Ninara with completely reworked voice (same style), reworking mood system, many more lines, improved quests, new quest content, new abilities, intimacy system and much more!
REQUIRES:
SKSE
XP32 Maximum Skeleton Special Extended - XPMSSE
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1988
BEES (if on AE prior to 1130 or on SSE)
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/106441
PapyrusUtil SE (for saving MCM settings)
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/13048
Short, sweet and crafty, Ninara is my take on a Gnome follower for Skyrim, woven into Dwemer lore. Original, unique voice, 1300+ lines of dialogue. Features a gameplay mechanic where she creates new, unique items based on being inspired when reading schematics. Includes interaction and quest content. ESL-Flagged and compatible with SSE/AE.
I think should be fine updating from 2.0 to 2.5.1 as there's nothing deeply structural that was changed except the Mood system, which was still floating on top of things.
UPDATE 2.5.1:
Audio:
- Completely reworked voice, much more lifelike and expressive. Still keeps her original quality and characteristics. She loses a tiny bit of awkwardness (but not much!) and I made up for it by her having nervous laughs and giggles. Over 2000 lines reworked by hand across Ninara, Intimacy, NFF and Vanilla lines!
Quests:
- Added an additional quest where Ninara further wants to satisfy her sweet tooth! Requirements: How Sweet of You and Neverending Stories quests completed, Relationship Rank 2+. Occurs after Ninara makes a purchase so you must have purchasing enabled and she needs at least 250 gold in her inventory.
- Moved all Kill Story events high in the story manager.
Interaction - General:
- Added lines for when player gives her gold.
- Added more player received gold lines.
- Ninara now comments when she consumes sweets, many lines here.
- Added sweets count global so that she only asks for sweets under a threshold you set. It's base value is 5. You'll be able to set it in the MCM.
- MCM now includes a list of all valid Sweets items for Ninara so you don't have to guess!
- Corrected some issues where goodbye lines wouldn't reflect giving her sweets, books or gold.
- If you have Dawn of Skyrim (full) version installed, Ninara accepts these as sweets: snowberry biscuit, midyear cake, cyrodiil apple pie, dawnstar spiced cake.
Interaction - Jen and Kat:
- Jenna and Katya get some love this time around!
- 13 new interactions with the gals, 5 with Jen, 8 with Kat. These all play one time.
- It does track their own relationships and you need Rank 1 in Jen or Kat to have interactions. This is to simulate being around them a bit.
A Needed Mood Adjustment:
- Highly changed and optimized from the older system.
- Now has a 0 to 3 range. Zero is normal mood, 3 is over the moon.
- Even though this is a simpler system, there is an additional dynamic. Likes and loves. When she likes something, it stabilizes her current mood level, so it doesn't go up or down. When she loves something, it raises mood by one level. If she hates something, mood is automatically lowered by 1 and it's cooldown to drop to the next level is reset.
- When gaining mood, most actions always grant likes and there is chance that a like turns into loving it, so would raise her mood level. Some actions are always loved and always raise Mood, when possible.
- If she's at Mood 0, doing something that would grant a like makes her instantly love it, raising it to 1. There is no stabilization of Mood 0 since that's the baseline. Similarly, receiving gains at Mood 3 just stabilizes it, resetting its cooldown to lower to Mood 2.
- Shows loves, likes and dislikes on screen with current mood value.
- The following mood scenarios were removed: boredom, friendly fire, bleedout, lack of treats, jilting her by dialogue, quest lockouts, dismissal.
- "Breaking the ice" for intimacy can now be done if your relationship with Ninara is 2 or higher OR Mood is at 3.
- Mood can no longer be toggled on/off. It just settles down to 0 but is far easier to raise to max of 3.
- Trading and giving actions no longer have cooldowns for the purposes of affecting Mood and amounts do count.
Gains
- Engaging in combat alongside the player can affect mood naturally, up to twice per hour.
- Visiting a new dungeon for the first time.
- Buying and applying perfumes.
- Giving her sweets, books and gold. Sweets and books require those relevant quests to be completed. Amounts do lean towards raising a rank rather than stabilizing the current one. There is no cooldown.
- Giving her schematics. Amount matters as above. There is no cooldown.
- Giving her resonance crystals. Amount matters as above. There is no cooldown.
- Complimenting her. It's free but has a 4 hour (standard game time) cooldown.
- Being intimate with her.
Relationship effects
- Even if her mood is high, doing all those things will raise relationship.
Losses
- Naturally lowers over time, losing 1 level per 9 minutes (real time, unaffected by game time or fast travel).
- Taking her sweets, books or gold automatically loses 1 level, you "can" offset gains and losses.
Benefits
Mood 1: A Little Revved Up: +5% to Elemental Damage she causes.
Mood 2: Really Revved Up: +10% to Elemental Damage she causes.
Mood 3: Flurry Strikes ability: +10% speed when dual wielding.
Relationship
- Asking her relationship now shows percentage complete and current Mood.
Intimacy:
- Rolls are now frontloaded when talking to her, correcting an issue where the position might not match the dialogue.
Miscellaneous:
- Party Sheet Portrait updated to reflect her default look.
Comments (30)
Hello, having an issue where the Intimacy dialogue is not showing when I have your other followers with Intimacy following in the group. Also when using fertility mod adventures, when the conversation about being pregnant occurs, she stops speaking and interactions stop entirely afterwards. Any help to resolve these issues?
Her system should be self contained and I don't recall any issue - which other followers? I don't use fertility adventures but I can ask if there's any block.
When I initiate any intimacy or NSFW scenes my game immediately crashes. Any idea as to why this could happen?
The dialogue that leads to the acts is just calling the API for whatever you're using. You didn't allude to what system you're using. Does fade to black work?
Is there a way to stop her from crafting weapons for herself? I'm sick of her spiders and all that. I take them away, but the moment she sees a forge, she just crafts them all over again. I can't disable Sandbox mode; it starts glitching after a while.
She should only build 1 of each item if Prototype is on. Look for the setting "Build Prototypes" and uncheck it.
Just wanted to say thanks! Added Ninara to my LO recently, and I'm loving her so far. She's sweet and fun. And her banter with city guards is so funny.
Hi again, I don't know where I should report bugs, so I've to do it here: Ninara's boots are invisible in the CBBE version, even after building them in Bodyslide.
Attached a fix. Install and overwrite and rebuild the boots in bodyslide for CBBE physics.
I don't have any of the recommended mods for the intimacy addon, still it was included in the files and got automatically installed. But it doesn't have missing masters or things like that, should I leave it here or remove that plugin? Is it still useful even without the NSFW frameworks? Would I be missing out on anything?
It will use fade to black instead. The MCM might break without "NWS_Nina_Intimacy" installed. You can turn off the functionality in the MCM.
Great girlfriend + update, but I have a few questions: 1. Why does Ninarna's mood deteriorate so quickly (how can I slow it down)? 2. The most important question is the structure of the mod installer, specifically the open scripts and in the BSA, why is this the case? When translating, I have to translate twice : first BSA, then cut it out and translate the scripts in the folders (EET4 doesn't want to translate both the BSA and open scripts at once). Is it possible to use scripts, only open scripts, or only the BSA ones? How to do it right? Oh yeah, and there are three more... where is the in-game name "Nina" hidden? I'm tired of searching through scripts))).
Mood raises and lowers dynamically. Each mood rank lasts 9 minutes per rank (regardless of fast travel or using wait time). Just visiting dungeons and fighting alongside her will raise it without any interaction and you can interact with her to raise it pretty quickly. It's not hard to get to 3 and it only goes as low as 0. I'm happy with where it's at. I've left compiled scripts loose for a very long time now. It has helped to avoid issues people have had in the past. I can't advise on how to do translations or speak to nuances there. She's disabled in an empty area of the game. You can see the ACHR record in xEdit. Record is 0x817.
Hi Nether!
She is cute but can we get a better choice of hair? She almost looks like a HS Freshman LOL and I use a mod that removes all kids from the game.
That's a wig that comes with her. There are several you can choose from. I'll try to add some other images. It's not a child character. I'm only updating at Patreon for the time being but you can see images at Nexus: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/116158?tab=images . The default hair is the straight shoulder length, first image.
Thanks for your kind answer. Yes, you are right, she was bred. I have corrected it in my translation. What I miss in the conversations is something about the aetherium forge, some lines in Nchundzel and of course banter with Remiel, which I am voicing too. Of course it is up to you what you make, but this are suggestions. Your intimacy part is very good written, but if you dont deactivate some things in MCM, she is very eager, Additional I miss a litte, that she explains that she can have intimacy and asks the player if he is intereted. She does, but like a wooden hammer. I know you have many other projects in progress, but think about it. I had voiced the Rigmor series, LOTD, Morri and others, but Ninara was always my favourite. Regards, gerhard from Germany.
Hallo Gerhard, für Dialoge mit Remiel bräuchte man einen Patch und auch die Einverständnis des Mod Autors. Sie hat aber, neben einigen Dialogzeilen mit bestimmten Vanilla NPCs, wie Stadtwachen oder Serana, etliche Dialogzeilen mit anderen Followern von Nether, wie Elana und Maloria. Besonders die Dialoge mit Letzterer sind echt witzig. Was die Intimacy Option angeht, so ist diese halt keine Romanze sondern primär S*x. Während dies bei Maloria so passt - und bei ihr auch nicht optional ist - hätte man bei Ninara und Elana das ganze wohl auch über eine Romanze machen können, aber das ist Nethers Entscheidung.
Hello Nether!
Hi Nether! Its me, the translator and voicemaker of german Ninara. I happened to discover that Ninara is now on Patreon. Vortex777 told me. Now I have downloaded it and I translate and voice it in german. I like the additions you made, and I like your sex-content very much. As i heard some sentences, I had to laugh. Very good written and very fitting for Ninara. When ready, I will post it on Nexus and make a link to your downloadpage. What I miss the most, is the fact what exactly she is. Yes, shes a gnome, but how was she created, or wasnt she created... Was she born? She can have sex, is this biological? And so on... There should be an explanation from her. And you should inform players that sexlab or others is needed, as well the animations for small NPC from Billy and maybe Anub. Otherwise the animation dont fit well. Please answer me to discuss this further. Regards gerhard
No problems at all with linking as far as I am concerned. If I'm not mistaken she does say "bred" in initial dialogue with you and then in some comments here and there. That would indicate breeding (over time) the old fashioned way. Dwemer did same to the snow elves but also with influence of certain substances. You don't need small animations. At least in Sexlab, there are adjustment keys that save settings on a per race basis. But it really is up to the person using Sexlab, Ostim, Flower Girls, etc to know enough about those systems to understand them. It's beyond the scope of this mod. I use normal animations with Ninara plus adjustments, so it's a non issue as far as I am concerned :)
Hey all! I posted a Hotfix update (1) to fix the following issues. Sweets issue is outstanding for now. - Raised quest starting lines high on Awareness stack to help fix any delays of her starting new quests through making comments (Boomstick for example). - Fixed old values in Containment to point to new int variable for updating from running game. Also updated Awakening the Core quest. If you're starting a new game with her, this won't matter. - Fixed books repetitive dialogue.
Just FYI. I was most of the way into Mzinchaleft (for Elana's Understaffed quest) before Ninara's 'This is my Boomstick' quest triggered. In the past, that had triggered soon after meeting her
I hadn't changed how the quest activated. It's based on her saying an idle. Maybe there was some kind of delay based on having another quest in there. Not sure, honestly.
Thank you so much. She is super funny. One of my favorite followers actually.
Ninara's "How Sweet of You" quest might be bugged to where giving her the right amount doesn't progress the quest. If it doesn't progress, open up the console and type this to advance it: setstage nwsninaqhowsweet 100
First, I love the update. Beyond the major intimacy addition, I really enjoy the new lines, and she's kept some of my favorites. Her interactions with guards are classic "And then you took a mace to the face?" "No. Move along."
Excited to try this out. Can I upgrade mid-game if I haven't met Ninara yet?
Should be able to.
Wanted to say thanks