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Lydia Spousal Autonomy Demonstration - WIP

A *highly* work in progress AI overhaul for spouses when visiting player owned homes. Works with player houses, Hearthfire homes and AE creation club homes so far, untested on mod-added homes, but if they follow the basic location keyword principles base game homes do, they should in theory work.What the mod does is allow you to tell your spouse that when you are travelling together (spouse is follower), and you visit one of your homes, they can do their own thing and dont need to be glued to your hip. However, if you choose to sit down, they will find the chair nearest to you and sit as well, offering an opportunity to use some of your dialogue to create a "sitting and conversing" situation. And, come 11pm, they will announce they are going to bed, and do so until 7am.

If you leave the house while they are awake, they will follow you outside and the autonomy AI will be terminated (until next you enter a player home). If they are sleeping when you leave the house, they will remain in bed until 7am, at which time they will run to your location. Perfect for those late night messy jobs or drinking binges or whatever else you want to do without the spouse seeing you, lol.

For those curious, this does NOT edit any vanilla forms. It functions 100% beside the follower AI and also works regardless of follower frameworks installed, provided of course, they don't have their own "autonomy" overhauls built in. I tested against MFF (Multi Follower Framework) and SFO (Sexy Follower Overhaul), without any issues or conflicts. Also in use is the mod that makes followers go to bed when you do and this also presented no conflicts or issues.

Again, highly work in progress and so far keyed to Lydia, but down the road, it could be voiced for all spouse types in base game. Work continues to expand on this and to generate the needed voice lines via xVASynth.