[RELzWIPz] Arachnophobia : V

» Thu May 17, 2012 6:45 pm

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=2927

Name: Arachnophobia
Version: 0.90 (this one's going to take some fine tuning to get just right)
By: JustinOther
Description: Alters the relevant LVLN, NPC, and ACHR records to spawn a variety of other foes in spiders' places. If, for example, there's a spider cave, there will be a dead spider or two and a more powerful foe(s) like a troll or wolves to explain why they're dead.
Future:Several more refined versions will roll out over time and after the CK's release.
Install: Unpack and place the plugin in Skyrim\Data, then load with your your launcher or favorite load order tool. Please back up your save(s), just in case.
Uninstall: Delete the file or untick it.
Rights: I'm a lefty. Do ...whatever.
Thanks: Beth for the game and Elminster for *Edit.

Note: This was to fulfill a promise I'd made before Skyrim's release. I don't play with this plugin 'cause I'm not afraid of spiders, so fine tuning of it will require feedback. If you encounter a living and/or aggressive spider, please note its FormID with your console using the '~` for any ~~bug~~ arachnid reports.

» Thu May 17, 2012 10:45 pm

What a brilliant idea.

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:18 pm

What a brilliant idea.

My sister is deathly afraid of real spiders in real life, so I've become accustomed to creepy-crawly removal. This should fit in better than the *goofy bear mod.

*all due respect to its creator, but http://static.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/images/28-1-1321027276.jpg is just absurd!

» Thu May 17, 2012 4:00 pm

My sister is deathly afraid of real spiders in real life, so I've become accustomed to creepy/crawly removal. This should fit in better than the *goofy bear plugin.

*all due respect to its creator, but that's just absurd!

Indeed, it was a good quick fix, but ultimately a less-than-ideal hack. I like how this makes the spider replacements fit in so immersively.

My girlfriend is also mortified by spiders, so I know the feeling of living with an arachnophobe.

» Thu May 17, 2012 8:24 pm

"Bug report"? Should be arachnid report.

Anyway great mod for people who can't stand creepy crawly's. You should add an option to replace the Chaurus, they are a little creepy to.

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:19 pm

Indeed, it was a good quick fix, but ultimately a less-than-ideal hack. I like how this makes the spider replacements fit in so immersively.

My girlfriend is also mortified by spiders, so I know the feeling of living with an arachnophobe.

*knock on wood* I played with it for a few days and didn't encounter anything that seemed out of place.

Yeah, I, as an advlt, share an apartment with my sister and she's still afraid of spiders. I usually just pick 'em up and put 'em by the lamp outside my front door so they can kill off all the crane flies.

"Bug report"? Should be arachnid report.

Anyway great mod for people who can't stand creepy crawly's. You should add an option to replace the Chaurus, they are a little creepy to.

Ha!

*amends OP*

Chaurus removal: Perhaps when the CK comes out. This plugin is the husk of a Skyrim.ESM copy, gutted of all but the relevant records. Suffice it to say it was no cakewalk to make.

» Fri May 18, 2012 4:26 am

*all due respect to its creator, but http://static.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/images/28-1-1321027276.jpg is just absurd!

The drop bear mod... I'm fine with spiders, but drop bears... THAT'S terror

» Thu May 17, 2012 6:29 pm

The drop bear mod... I'm fine with spiders, but drop bears... THAT'S terror

Let us hope you never encounter the scariest thing ever, a backward flying dragon! That is terrifying.

» Fri May 18, 2012 1:20 am

Let us hope you never encounter the scariest thing ever, a backward flying dragon! That is terrifying.

I saw one of those, but he kept running away from me. Apparently I'm even scarier

» Thu May 17, 2012 4:49 pm

At this point I'm tempted to make an "Everything is Spiders" mod. Or at least, I would be, if I had the PC version and the CK.

» Fri May 18, 2012 3:32 am

At this point I'm tempted to make an "Everything is Spiders" mod. Or at least, I would be, if I had the PC version and the CK.

And disguise it as something else.... like a spider remover mod.

Spider Lydia: "Hello my thane"

» Thu May 17, 2012 5:56 pm

And disguise it as something else.... like a spider remover mod.

Spider Lydia: "Hello my thane"

I don't get peoples fear of spiders, I love them, they eat the bugs. As such I FULLY endorse the above idea.

It should be subtle though. It should work as intended and then slowly NPC's start to change into spiders, when you are running past them. You stop, they change back. Finally at a set point, everyone is a spider and you get attacked by a giant ancient spider while they all laugh.

» Thu May 17, 2012 7:21 pm

I don't get peoples fear of spiders, I love them, they eat the bugs.

A phobia is an irrational fear, therefore it is impossible to understand. It's a deeply-rooted psychological reaction that has nothing to do with logic.

» Thu May 17, 2012 11:46 pm

A phobia is an irrational fear, therefore it is impossible to understand. It's a deeply-rooted psychological reaction that has nothing to do with logic.

Yah. While there may be some poisonous varieties of spider, and thus a fear of spiders may have some evolutionary advantage the fear is illogically disproportionate. Where the person will freak out at a PICTURE of a spider, yet happily stand next to a tiger enclosure in a zoo even though the tiger is an infinitely greater threat.

The bear replacer mod is an ultimate example of that... placing spiders (Harmless?) with BEARS?! (One of the few creatures on earth that can and DO eat humans). Being afraid of spiders but not bears is not a beneficial evolutionary trait

» Thu May 17, 2012 2:57 pm

At this point I'm tempted to make an "Everything is Spiders" mod. Or at least, I would be, if I had the PC version and the CK.

Evidently, someone did make a prank plugin that made spiders larger according to someone's comment on the Nexus. . :laugh:

I'd only do something like that on April 1'st or opposite day.