Fluffy Follower Frill introduces a simple, insignificant and somewhat straightforward follower management system for Oblivion. The idea is to enhance the follower aspect of the game while keeping things simple and understandable. The plan is to include some of the essential sort of follower features to the game, but also keep things as compatible as possible. Everything is done via scripts. Also do note that this mod will never be of professional quality, so it might cause all sorts of issues. Unless you are ready to run into issues that can potentially be extremely severe, please consider using something like the more popular CM Partners or Companion Share and Recruit, anything else, really, please. Thank you.

The mod is built completely on scripts, so compatibility should be at a relatively acceptable level, however do expect issues with other follower management systems. It is also worth noting that recruiting quest-related NPCs, for example, will cause their quest-related AI packages to not be run when intended, thus breaking quests. Features included in the mod are the following:

• recruit and dismiss, wait, follow
• follower inventory access
• follower status report (health, magicka, stamina, responsibility, etc.)
• equipment type selection (clothing, armour, random, nothing)
• followers can heal themselves and repair and recharge their equipment
• point-and-press-hotkey commands plus command cancelling
• relatively straightforward simple ambush via hotkey
• player home accessible via summonable portal
• all dialogue voiced with lipsync using vanilla + SI assets
• easy to add new custom followers
  

There is also an optional plugin that changes the original systems, for example the ones from the Dark Brotherhood and Mages Guild, to use the new system. This plugin, however, is both experimental and optional, provided just to see if it is possible to replace existing follower management schemes with the new system without causing too much issues. So that plugin is experimental and pretty much untested.

Requirements

• Shivering Isles DLC
• Unofficial Oblivion Patch
• Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch
• Oblivion Script Extender (OBSE)
• AddActorValues (the OBSE plugin)
• Hud Status Bars Enhanced
  

Should Custom Spell Icons be installed, the spells will have custom-made icons, Custom Spell Icons is not required. Should you wish to use the gramphone to play music, you need to have Enhanced Music and Control 2 (EMC2) installed and the music file located in "Music\FluffyFollowerFrill\Gramphone.mp3" for it to play the music you have chosen - no music is included in the mod and EMC2 is not required for the mod to work. To have HUD messages active, you will need Hud Status Bars Enhanced (HSBE) installed - HSBE is not required to use the mod, though.

Installation & Removal

To install this mod, a mod manager would be recommended. Uninstallation is not supported, but before uninstalling the mod, dismiss all your followers. Load order should not matter. When upading the mod, please either do a clean save or do the following procedure:

• dismiss all your followers, the save the game
• update the mod by overwriting old files
• recruit all your followers again
  

Compatibility

Most likely conflicts with other follower management systems.

Known Issues & Bugs

See the bugs section of the mod page for bugs. The bugs section tab is right next to the comments section tab. Should you find any bugs or something else that clearly should not be there, do be so kind as to report it in the bugs section. It might also be a good idea for people considering whether to use this mod to see what bugs have been reported.

Credits

Bethesda for Oblivion and the Construction Set
authors of Oblivion Script Extender
shademe for the Construction Set Extender
JRoush for AddActorValues
TheNiceOne for Hud Status Bars
forli for Hud Status Bars Enhanced
pufthemajicdragon for the invisible activator resource
authors of similar mods for inspiration
Striker879 for contributing to testing, design and features
slapahotribe23 for developing immersion aspects for the mod

Permissions

See the permissions button just below the images.