Hey guys, there must be something I'm missing here, as I vaguely remember being able to do something like this in Oblivion.

I have an NPC in a dungeon, who's supposed to be a prisoner, and is shackled to the wall. The problem is, as soon as combat starts, he runs around commenting "ooh, my money's on the big one!" and "I'll find whoever did this!" and all the usual sort of stuff.

Which, obviously, I don't want him to do. He's a member of CaptiveFaction, so I suppose that could have something to do with it, but if I tried making him neutral to anybody in the dungeon, they're going to attack him.

So, what do I do?

Did u try to find another prisoner in CK like the one which is delivered from thalmor domain ?

There is a function called SetRestrained, set that to true for the character.

Aha! Thanks.

EDIT: I seem to have some trouble getting it to work in my quest script (it compiles, it just doesn't seem to do anything). Here's what I have:

"Victim" being the NPC I want shackled, and "VictimMarker" being the shackles. The script is intended to run at Stage 10 of my quest, and everything works exactly as intended, except for that SetRestrained function.

As far as I can tell from the wiki, it automatically defaults to "true". Do I need to manually type it?