#vhspeaks

i was thinking about my dirt broke little dragonborn fresh out of Helgen who felt uncomfortable imposing on/staying with whomever you sided with in Helgen for whatever reason (i mean in vanilla they don't even give you a bed which isn't exactly welcoming LOL). and like blah blah camping mods you don't actually have to sleep etc etc, but I -do- RP and all that

anyway i thought it would be cute if you couldn't afford an inn room there might be a chance that the innkeeper would take pity on you and give you a night or two for free, maybe on a percentage with a cooldown or diminishing chance. i mean, i just almost got burnt to death by a dragon AND i'm over thirty, do you -really- mean i have to sleep with my head on the table even though the room is empty? or what if the weather is bad or in a more dangerous climate like Dawnstar?

on that same note, maybe they should sometimes be full up and have to refuse you. or if you've offended them or are in the wrong faction they might not always stoop to taking your money. and/or charge you a premium XD. or the reverse where if you're thane or helped in some quest that people would hear about they might be like, no charge, or here, have this random food/drink for free, kind of like cashbox's "A Drink From a Familiar Face" mod. or if you've got "Dirt and Blood" and you need a bath they won't rent to you until you're clean lol.

because they are "dialogue" they use the "voice" slider and are excruciatingly loud :(

i looked into the dialogues and the BSAs, but unfortunately they're not labeled in any intuitive way and, of course, they're all FUZ files, with which I have no experience x.x

i was really hoping i could just edit the static attenuation of individual lines like i've done for other sfx that seem too loud to me, but it doesn't seem to work that way for dialogue? :/

i was prepared to like, convert wxm files and edit them as mp3s and then convert back as loose files, but alas.

i thought there might be something to edit in the ai packages or the bard scenes themselves, but nothing jumped out at me.

it's to the point that i don't want to go anywhere one of those bards happens to be because they're a distracting, overpowering mess T-T

i honestly think this Lakeview Manor replacer mod I made might be one of the best things I've ever done, like, artistically speaking and. i'm kind of bummed that i'll probably never be able to share it with anyone so like. i want y'all to see it, if nothing else.