Hello, everyone! As the voice actress for this mod, the original author told me I could post an official release thread on this forum. So here it is.
Please, give this mod a try and give us your opinion.

Please, share your comments here or on the Nexus forums. We're still working on this companion and will try to enhance her romance options.
I'm mostly an idea giver and the provider of Gabby's voice, Squ1g9y is the one who developed all the creation kit goodness.





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GABBY THE CUTE PASTRY CHEF COMPANION by: squ1g9y

v1.3a


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We encourage you guys to leave comments, feedback or suggestions. Also endorse it if you like it. It's what keeps us going, after all we are working hard on this mod for you !

Please, read this description, especially the troubleshooting section before reporting any issue in the comments. Thanks.




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DESCRIPTION


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COMPANION GABBY FEATURES:

- Fully voiced dialogue, including a unique personal quest ;

- She is also a potential follower and wife after completing her personal quest ;

- Her level scales with the Dragonborn, the stronger you get the stronger she gets ;

- Doesn't effect stealth or trigger traps ;

- Specializes in either bows or one-handed sword depending on what you give her ;

- Essential, so she can take the extra friendly fireball or arrow to the back of the head ;

- Stats are based on a player level multiplier, so she gets stronger as you do ;

- Better quest : tweaked, boss difficulty and location of enemies ;

- Get some special sweetrolls as a reward, or buy it from her ;

- And many other lovely details. (Facial expressions, animation etc.).

NEW IN VERSION 1.3:

- Gabby now has some custom dialog about her life in Dawnstar ;

- She'll dance if you ask her to (mostly a place holder for future quest - beta feature) ;

- The player can ask her to change her default outfit and remove her chef hat.

After completing her first personal quest, she will be your friend and reward you with her ooey gooey sweetness. She can then be married or asked to follow you.
Location: Gabrielle can be found at the Windpeak Inn in Dawnstar.


GABBY'S BACKGROUND STORY:

Gabrielle Bahrae-ventos is half dark elf born into Skyrim in troubled times. Her parents died at an early age due to tensions of an interracial relationship. She and her brother were left to the care of her aunt.

At the age of 17, the young Gabby decides to run away in hopes of finding a better life and a way to provide for her few remaining family members. Her reluctant aunt eventually agreed that there was no future for her in Windhelm and decided to help smuggle Gabby out of the Grey Quarters. Gabby's small and thin figure made it an easy task.

Gabby decided to make her start in Solitude. However, the journey across Skyrim was a long one, and not cheap either. So midway and running out of money, she decided to take a part time job at the Windpeak inn, eventually, hoping to save up enough gold to make her trip to Solitude.

A month passed and while working, Gabby discovers that she has a natural talent for baking sweets. Her sweetrolls quickly became a sensation around Dawnstar and gave Gabby quite a reputation. Coming into her new shoes, Gabby decided to further develop her talent and to use her abilities to spread sweetrolls all over skyrim.
Even til this day Gabby still works at the Windpeak Inn, hoping to save up enough gold to start her adventure.

The young and friendly Dunmer will soon get much more adventure than she has ever expected.




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UPCOMING FEATURES


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MORE STORY:
Gabby's History quest arc is being developed now. Why is she so skilled with weapons? Why is she fleeing from Windhelm? All will be explained, as her quests will be added.


MORE ROMANCE:
Adding romance options after marriage. Want to talk to her and tell her how cute she is? Want her to answer? We hope to add some romance dialogs in future updates. Stay tuned and don't hesitate to share ideas of what you'd like to see.


MORE CUSTOM CONTENT:
Retexturing Sweetroll. Hopefully, some modders have agreed to provide some help. So a few new objects may be added concerning Gabby (maybe later linked to her future quests).


OVERCOMING VANILLA GAME SHORTCOMINGS:
At the moment, no mod has found a way to replace vanilla follower dialog with custom voice. Once this will be done without affecting compatibility, the vanilla lines will hopefully be replaced by her custom voice. This includes also replacing marriage dialogue with custom voiced scripts. Meanwhile, Gabby will have 2 different voices, once for the vanilla lines, one for her custom lines.

The tools is new and the community is still discovering the bugs and features of the creation kit, so this mod will be updated basically just when it can be updated.




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RECOMMENDED MODS


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MODS USED TO MAKE GABBY LOOK LIKE THE SCREENSHOTS:


http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3563 VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=498 v1.2 Darker&Desaturated version

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=6709.

Please note that these 3 mods are only cosmetic and can be replaced by other mods, for instance, people who use Bella's popular face textures will see a different Gabby appear than on the author's screenshots.


COMPATIBILITY WITH OTHER MODS:


Gabby should be pretty much compatible with any mod changing the default vanilla follower or spouse AIs. The way gabby mod is made does not change in any way the vanilla system and uses the default AI. If you have mods overhauling the follower system, load Gabby first and then the big follower mod.

Here are a few mods that could improve your follower experience:

- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9504.
- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11370 Gabby will be able to live in modded houses...


Other mods reported to be compatible:

- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=14037 - Be sure to load Gabby before UFO or you won't be able to hire multiple followers.
- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=4020 ;
- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=11609 ;
- and certainly many others...




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CHANGELOG


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v1.3a
Set Gabby's level multiplier to 1, removed Hentai Karliah Armor (mistakenly packed in v1.3).

v1.3
Fixed Innkeeper AI Package small conflict. Biggest additions are the voiced dialogues, including scripts to change her default outfit or take off her hat.
Gabby now dances! You can ask Gabby to show you her moves after some interaction (This is mostly a place holder until we add more quests).
Allowed her to be married after her personal quest again (Again another place holder until more quests can be added)
Fixed some typos in the quest log and speech. Thanks to everyone who pointed them out.

v1.2
Adds voice acting for Gabby's quest and general bug fixes and follower AI enhancement. Moved Sweetrolls from the barrel to the counter. Added Inn Server AI package, Set Thoring as her boss.

v1.1
Fixed fast flowing dialogue text

v1.0
First release




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TROUBLESHOOTING


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The mod itself has no known bug we are aware of.

Just please take note that:

- If you want the dancing animation to display properly when asking Gabby to dance, you have to talk to her and remain still. Don't move your character or Gabby will try to follow you (her follower AI stops the animation), and the animation won't display even if you're able to hear the music. Just ask her to dance and stand still for watching

- Some rare users have reported that for some reason, their quest log does not update when looting the basket of sweetrolls from Charlsdam. Try dropping the basket and taking it again, it solves the issue. It's a glitch reported for some other quest mods, must be engine related.

- If you use a version of the game other than English, this mod might translate a few items name into English. If you want to provide translations for other language versions, please feel free to do so.



There are frequent vanilla issues you can encounter with any follower or spouse because the vanilla follower AI and marriage system has a few flaws.

Until this is fixed by Bethesda or other mods, Gabby could suffer from these problems. Here are some of the most common issues and how to fix them:

- Follower tends to revert to their default outfit after being dismissed for a while. Though they normally don't lose what was in their inventory. But it's a vanilla feature. Now since version 1.3, the player can ask Gabby to change her default outfit. Just be sure to tell her to wear her chef outfit before dismissing her.

- Also a vanilla/original game bug, if you give Gabby a bow, she'll switch for a default bow in the middle of fight. There are many follower mods around the Nexus that fix this problem already. If you use any of them, Gabby should be fixed.

- The Marriage system is bugged in Skyrim, so be sure to save before entering the Temple of Mara and beginning the ceremony. As some other vanilla spouses, Gabby sometimes rushes through the Temple at the end of the ceremony and can be found nowhere else. This is because sometimes, the newly wed spouses leave the Temple before the player gets the dialog to choose the default home location for the spouse. Some solutions you can try:
* Wait and go back to the temple of Mara, Gabby should show back there eventually as this is the default living place location for spouses ;
* If it doesn't work, reload your save before the marriage and rush to her before she exits the Temple of Mara.




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MISC. LINKS


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Mod is downloadable on both:
- http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=9070
-http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=11093

Videos of the mods are available on youtube:
- http://youtu.be/Q1jr77zd3Ds
- http://youtu.be/BvZGdqzupI8





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CREDITS


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Squ1g9y - Original mod creator
Karrakaz - Voice actress for Gabby and whimsical muse

Help from other modders and resources used:
RSV - for the Galaxias Dance Animation Gabby uses

This sounds great! I will give it a shot!

Yes, this sounds excellent! I'm about to start a new character soon and will definitely give this a try. Thanks for posting. I hadn't seen it on TES Nexus ( nowadays the Nexus' "Latest Files" listings whizz by faster than threads in the Skyrim General Discussion forum).

@ Shepherd83: thanks!


@Pseron Wyrd : It's not a new mod, I created this release thread because we have just uploaded version 1.2 containing the new voice and some quest fixing.


All your feedback will be precious, we really want to enhance this mod and transform into a full fledged companion, with more dialogue about her, hopefully more quests about her past, and more romance interaction, because the vanilla system is a bit lacking at the moment.

I almost broke a lung laughing at the quest title

Sounds good. I will give it a try.

It looks fun. She's really adorable. I love the little dance she does when you say she can come with you.

@Arctorius, I love it too, made me laugh a lot too first time I saw it.

@Brezel, Enjoy her

@SteamTeck, yep, Squ1g9y has put a lot of attention into her animations. He made an amazing job.


We're already working together, so I hope we'll be able to further improve Gabby with an update, hopefully soon.

Just watched the video. Will give it a shot definetly. What I like best is the great voice acting. Very well done. And I have a question: What mod is that new Bard song about Alduin the Bard in the background is singing?

@Jason Parker: Thank you ! I'm glad you like the voice acting. It's still awkward for me to hear my own voice in game. The bard song in the background of the video is a vanilla song that appears after you've completed the main quest.

You're welcome, I know exactly what you mean. I don't like hearing my recorded voice at all. Hmm guess I'll have to restart the save of my first char and go see some bard.

I am not sure If I will make her a follower, but I will definitly install the mod since I like to have more and new charachters on the Game and the extra Quest its a Plus aswell. Since she seems to be created with a lot of background Info and Interaction Dialog, I like that. Kudos.

Gabby reminds me of this Nord that wanted me to buy her books on ingredients. She was always telling me about Solsteim and how she hates 'zumbees.'

@Jason Parker; I haven't completed main quest and asked the exact same question to the mod author XD



Thanks. She'll definitely have more background and dialog soon. At the moment, she pretty is much like a normal follower once she is hired. So you won't lose much if you only play her quest and finally decide not to recruit her at the moment.
Soon though, after her quest, she'll get dialog lines about her past and some flirt/romance topics. We'll see how the work with dialog writing and creation kit goes.



Are you talking about the http://tes.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=28977? I'd be very honored if Gabby achieved even a quarter of what Emma has done.
Sorry for the non lore accent. I try my best, I very much hope that people will accept it.

Actually the accent is what I like best about it. In my view anything that is different from the two hands full of voices you hear in vanilla is a good thing.

It isn't like Bethesda totally broke lore on Nord accents anyway, is it? I mean, Skyrim's Nords sound just like Morrowind and Oblivion's Nords...

I like what you've done here, and I definitely like the VA work. Can't help but think that the pastry thieves should have their own dialogue though... "You'll never take the sweetrolls alive!"?

You may want to fix the vanilla bandits showing up during the quest, though?

I suppose it adds to the originality of Gabby's character, that's for sure. French accent for the Chef then.


Thank you for the compliment. In fact we talked about the vanilla bandits with the mod creator, Squ1g9y, and http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Fort_Fellhammer. We didn't want to break the original events and simply added the bandits to the original ones. Makes Gabby's quest tougher. I remember Squ1g9y telling me that on previous version, pastry bandits had already cleared the fort of vanilla bandits when his player character reached the place. I bet they really did not want to share their loot. This (sadly) has been fixed.
I love your idea for the pastry thieves battlecry. I cannot promise anything, but that's an idea that surely would make me laugh a lot in game when hearing it.

Thanks for the feedback.

When completing the initial quest, is there anything else that needs to be done besides killing the dude who stoll the sweetrolls and taking them back from him? I've done both of those things, but the quest still indicates that I need to "unleash hell" upon him. Am I missing a step?

Nice work with the voice acting!

Did I mention, Poor Consolers?

Did you kill all the pastry bandits? Did you take the basket of sweetrolls from Charlsdam's body?
Did you use Steam Workshop or the Nexus to install?
Do you use other mods? Did you use a previous version? If so, was it a clean save?
Gabby should be loaded among the last mods in your order. Use BOSS.

I need more information to help you properly.


Thank you

Mods are the reason I play on computer. This platform is superior concerning user modifications, consoles are just "jailed" in my opinion.

Hi i have Gabby running around Skyrim with me after she got her sweet rolls back. (she is so cute with her pastry hat still on along with wolf armour and big axe i gave her.... she kicks butt....) I love the accent it adds alot of cutenessness to her and looking forward to more voice acting

I did have the "I still need to unleash hell on them when I went back to turn in the quest and I did have the stolen sweetrolls in my inventory. I when back to the fort and droped the sweetrolls and picked them back up and the quest completed and i was able to finish with gabby back at the inn. It seems the sweet roll pick up didnt register the first time.

Hope this helps and Keep up the good work....looking foward to more.

Thank you Tajond for the feedback, it's not an issue we encountered when testing the mod, and I have done and redone her quest something like 20 times, all the times having to awkwardly listening to my terrible voice acting XD

We're working on an update. We have a lot of plans for this mod.

I did kill all the bandits (as far as I can tell) and I took the sweetrolls
I used the Nexus
I do have other mods, but I use BOSS to manage my load order, and I have only used the most recent version of the mod.

I will trying doing what Tajond did and see if that works. Thanks!

EDIT: BTW, I really like the mod so far. Gabby really is cute!

I'd really like to help you more Shepherd83. I really don't see what could cause the issue. I hope that Tajond's advice will help you. It's really odd.

Thanks for the the compliment, I really wish your issue will be solved.

I think this is a wonderful idea, honestly. I imagined an idea like this a little while back... something like dynamically evolving companions with fully fleshed back stories and every now and again a dialogue update would trigger that immerses the player deeper into the companions history and life. Love it. I'm definitely going to look into this when I get some play time.