• Overview & Palace Rooms
• Features To Note
• Combatibility
• Special Notes
• Credits, Usage, and Thanks

 

While walking in Hla Oad, you meet a strange being, who seems to be covered in scales with a fin down her back. A wave of compassion and curiosity crash over you...compelling you to speak to this strange creature. The creature is startled that you have chosen to speak with her, and is warmed by your compassion. She invites you to live in the grand Pearl Palace...and tells you it’s dark story.

PALACE ROOMS

• The Alchemic Conservatory: Here you can view the unique plant life collected by the geneticist Nathanial Pearl, or you can work in your alchemy lab upstairs. Pull the lever on the Alchemy Sorting Machine to sort your ingredients.

FEATURES TO NOTE

• A completely undersea experience, all the windows are sea through, with views of undersea creatures outside of them.
• A unique quest* to help a heartbroken widow, and to finish what a dead man started. Do you choose to take it? Or will you keep the secrets for yourself? The Quest will take you to a new undersea cavern. *Note: The quest is not required for ownership, nor is it required at all. If you choose, you can ignore it.
• Two unique Better Bodies custom races welcome you into their home.
• Sidithie, an NPC you’re soon to meet, will tell you the story of the palace via dialogue. She will also update your journal with information about each one of the rooms.
• If you speak with the version of Sidithie who is in the Loading Docks, she will offer you travel to the following places: Hla Oad, Ebonheart, Vivec, and Gnaar Mok.
• You can call Sidithie to you via a sea star, as long as you aren’t in the Palace or Hla Oad. She will offer you travel back to the palace…for a small price of course!
• The Alchemic Conservatory houses a unique green house, as well as a fully functional alchemy lab complete with ingredient sorting for all the ingredients from Morrowind and the expansions.
• A bubble panel in the Alchemic Conservatory will allow you to raise or lower the palace.
• A library houses countless bookcases, all containers, which you can fill with thousands of books.
• A beautiful bath, surrounded by glass walls, casts a regenerative spell on you when used.
• The Exhibition hall houses 35 female white marble Better Bodies mannequins, and 31 male white marble Better Bodies mannequins.
• A stone in the Exhibition Hall will allow you to create more mannequins, of your choosing, if you have a journeyman’s armor hammer in your inventory.
• A mechanical dancer will dance for 60 seconds for you. To activate her, use the crank on her pedestal.
• The Galley (Kitchen) is full of delicious new food and items. Some of the foods are NOM compatible. Check out the fish tank while you’re there.
• The genetics lab holds a strange new creature, as well as some rather unique items.
• The statue of Azura: Sea Mother will cast her blessing on you, if you donate a pearl. (Note: Without a pearl in your inventory, the statue will not ask you if you wish to donate.)
• 3 birds fly sweetly in their cage. You can also open and close the bird cage door.
• A completely interior Palace, to avoid exterior conflicts.
• Necessities of Morrowind Compatibility. (See compatibility section)
• NOM with BEER! Compatibility. (See compatibility section)
• Your Morrowind Family compatibility dialogue. (See compatibility section)
• The nursery features a rotating star dome, so even under the ocean you can view the night sky.

COMPATIBILITY

Necessities of Morrowind: The Galley features NOM food, tisane pots, and books, as well as NOM keg stands and water barrels. The fireplaces are also NOM compatible. If you are not using NOM, you may notice that a few things have names (aka keg stands, fireplaces, and barrels) but that is the only impact it will have on your game play. PLEASE NOTE: Necessities of Morrowind will need to be loaded AFTER the Pearl Palace esp.

Your Morrowind Family: Special dialogue has been included that the children will use in different rooms of the palace. If you are not using “Your Morrowind Family” by Emma, there will be no impact on game play…except that you have a nursery and no children to give it to!

Vampire Embrace: Special globals and compatible dialogue have been included for compatibility with Vampire Embrace, to accommodate for the “talktoPC” issue. Once again, if you are not using Vampire Embrace there will be no impact on gameplay.

BEER! With NOM: I’ve also included several beer bottles from Tarnsman’s BEER! Mod.

*If you are not using NOM, or BEER! With NOM: There will be no impact on your game whatsoever, except for several new beers in the galley.

*If you are using NOM alone: Once again, there will be no impact on game play regarding the beer.

*If you are using BEER! With NOM: The beer will now run its NOM compatible scripts, and you will reap NOM benefits from drinking the beer included.

PLEASE NOTE: BEER! With NOM will need to be loaded AFTER the Pearl Palace esp.

SPECIAL NOTES

• This is an “as is” mod. Meaning? Please do not contact me for special requests or additions to the place, or for any changes to be made. Any such PMs or requests will either be ignored, or you will be referred to this read me. If a serious bug or error is found, that is another matter entirely.
• MOST IF NOT ALL OF THE CELLS HAVE THE POSSIBILITY FOR FPS IMPACT. This is caused by the large amount of items in the cells, among other things. Due to the response I’ve got from people in the past regarding how their computers run FPS, I’m going to say this as nicely as I possibly can: IF THIS BOTHERS YOU UNINSTALL THE MOD. I WILL NOT, under any circumstances, respond to any correspondence pertaining to FPS issues. Nor will any cells be “lightened up”. The cells are intended to be luxurious and detailed. FPS varies on different systems, and can also vary depending on what other mods you are running.
• Some cells may have a gap, or rut, in the floor in front of doors. This is caused by one of Fidel's original meshes. That particular mesh was used in certain cells because it fit the building needs the best. Please do not contact me about the mesh.
• Some cells use ivy or other textures that contain alpha channels. Depending on the properties of the texture (which also depends on if the player uses a texture replacment) there may be the possibility of alpha glitches when the item overlaps the windows at certain angles. The ivy, or any other possible items, will not be removed or moved. Please do not request this.
• If traveling with companions while first meeting Sidithie in Hla Oad, you may wish to tell them to stay put. The dialogue will transport you, and only you, to the Loading Docks of the palace. From there you can travel back using the version of Sidithie in the Loading docks and pick up your companions. There will now be a new version of Sidithie in Hla Oad that will offer traditional fast travel (the kind where your companions travel with you) back to the palace.
• Do not COC into the Palace initially. There are multiple versions of Sidithie in Hla Oad. If you do not speak with her and initiate a journal entry from her dialogue, the proper version of Sidithie will not be in Hla Oad.
• You can hear the Kraken scream twice if you jump into the water right after administering the poison and hearing the scream in the lab. In order for the sound to be heard where the player was transported after administering the poison, we needed to add the sound to the script. The Kraken’s animation also calls for the sound file in Death 2 idle.
• You will receive the message box that the Kraken has died right before he begins his death animation. As adding a timer to the script is not something any of us feel quite up to at the moment, it’s one of those things that is just not going to happen.
• There is a sound file on the laboratory entry tube that may or may not play for you. It may also just make a short “pop” sound. Apparently, it’s played for 2 other people, but for 2 of us it hasn’t played…and I’ve definitely heard the pop with the sound effects turned up and the music all the way down, with my system volume maxed out. The sound file is saved at optimum Morrowind settings. If it dosen’t play for you, please do not contact me stating so. I’m aware of the issue, and honestly…it’s not worth the 3 days of banging my head that it’s already received.
• The Statue of “Azura: Sea Mother” will not prompt you that you need a pearl in your inventory. I rather like it that way. This will not be changed, nor is it a bug, as it was intentional.
• There is a submarine in one of the exterior cells in Hla Oad. This submarine serves no purpose. If it conflicts with anything placed there, deleting the submarine from that cell will not cause any impact on game play.
• DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT retrieve the journal and ring for the quest before taking the quest. It proved too confusing to set the quest up to accommodate for this. I WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES offer support for anyone who does this, as it is noted here in bold. The “container” for the quests should be out of the way, and not easy to find without extensive exploration. Hopefully, you read the read me before exploring!

CREDITS, USAGE, AND THANKS

Thanks:

• Palinurus and OldeCow69: Without the two of you, the quest would be leading a happy life in the recycle bin. Thank you both for all the help you’ve given me and for putting up with my whining!
• Enmesharra: Thank you for the dancer’s scripts*, and the bubble lever scripts.
• Galsiah: Thank you for helping me with so many scripting questions.
• Lady Rae: Thank you for testing and battling the crabs!
• Lonewylfe: Thank you for fixing the spelling and grammar, and for making a few changes that really helped out!

*later amended by Palinurus to stop the dancer from dancing if the player exited the cell.

Usage:

Please do not use anything from this plug-in without first researching the individual items for usability. Please do not redistribute this plug-in without prior consent. If you use any items from this plug-in, please credit the original authors if listed below.

Credits:

• Psychopie, (aka my_name_was_already_taken) for cast iron pans, meat cleaver, display pin, and the kitchen whip. Psychopie also thanks LudoErgoSum, for the cast iron textures made from his own frying pans.
• TheSlof for the Chef Hat, Fryingpan, milk, salt and pepper shakers, and large spoon.
• Caelum Ira for the towel mesh I've used to death! The texture is mine.
• Starcon5 for the bookcases and treasure chests. I'm aware that several chests have been modified by 3rd parties; however, I could not find a read me. If someone else had a hand in the creation of this chest please contact me for future reference and read me amendment. Also, thanks for the original sextant model, which has also been modified by abot.
• Abot for the algae and the sextant (please see above as well.)
• RX31 for the dancer's animation.
• The unknown author of "gold treasures" for most of the reflection mapped gold items.
• MagicNakor for the avocado, sliced bread loafs, butter, cherry, coconut, and peach.
• MJY for the cookies, pies, frog, moons, columns (some slightly modified), white couch, fountain, cupids, bread, muffins, submarine, and soup.
• Lady E & Proudfoot for the Flour Plane, Palm tree, Hanging skeleton, Green pool, pile of fold, green potion, red potion, scattered skeletons, display case (used for fish tank), skeleton hand, crab, salmon, oranges, watermelon, apple, banana, and pears.
• Barabus for the chimneys, fireplace, fish, food from NOM, clock & clock pieces, kettle, and coal scuttle.
• NQD for the Imperial Bust pieces. Quoted from the original read me, after translation:
• The meshes from the imperial bust are from Betterheads_v2.o and have been retextured for this occasion. The read me of this mod doesn't define who made these meshes and textures, I would like to give all the names to you. (and god will recognize his)

  Meshes/_FoB/_FoB_MarbleBust02 (=BH_DS_Im_m_H02-E2)
  Meshes/_FoB/_FoB_MarbleBust03 (=BH_FP_Im_m_hair_04Lk)

  Textures selected from released works by:
  Allerleirauh, Wormgod, Don Salus, Hellkitty, Eternum, Nomad, Mantodea,Sheikizza, Astarsis, Zuldazug, Noviere, Silaria, CanadianIce, Motoki, Arathrax, and Gorg

• Lespagnol for the map of Tamriel found on the table in the Athenaeum.
• Cait: For most if not all of the sea life, the cats and kittens, the trout (which I removed animation from), the eggs, the sea stars, and for the custom octopus death animation. Thank you especially for the custom birds that fly in their own cage, for the sounds, for the scripts, and for fixing my birdcage! You are an amazing person! Upon request, additional documents for the birds and cats have been included. From the cats read me:

  “The cat and the kitten have been made from a mesh I've downloaded off the web which has been reshaped according to a picture of a cat you can find at www.daz3d.com.”

• Dongle for the Water pieces, lily pad, glass door, and original galleon (which I resized to make the toy galleon).
• Nigedo for the Dwemer Lantern.
• Qarl for Gold dragon statue, perfume mesh, animated lab jars, lab cabinet, lab table, lab cart, dish sets, lab tubes, dresser with mirror, flasks, syringe, shaker trey, and gold statues. Please note that I have modified one item (the hand jar) to use a renamed Better Bodies texture, to avoid conflict with the original BB textures, or any texture replacer the player may use.
• Dale Stocker for the Hour Glass.
• Calislahn for the Kitchen jars saucepan, frying pan, and teapot.
• Aleanne for dress used by the Porcelain Dancer. I’ve retextured it to white.
• Fariel, Nightstrider, and Zenorf for the base BB textures used for the 3 custom races. Your source files make creating custom races so much easier! Also KO_bb_skinm_br.dds is a renamed version of the original BB 2.0 texture. I renamed it and the mesh that required it, to avoid conflict with the original BB textures, or any texture replacer the player may use.The Better Bodies team for the meshes that Sid, Pearl, mannequins, and the Porcelain Dancer use for their bodies. For more information about Better Bodies, please visit here;

• The Glory Road Team (Tommy and Kathryn): for the statues and chaise lounge mesh.
• Ireni for the hair meshes used for Pearl and the Porcelain Dancer.
• Rhedd for the head meshes used for Amanda, Pearl, and Sidithie.
• Better Heads- Sidithie's hair originally came from here. I do not know the original author of the hair. All I know is the mesh starts with eve. If you are aware of whom I should contact, please send me an email.
• NoLiv for the skirt mesh.
• Ayse for the map board. There was no read me included in the archive, and after several attempts to contact Ayse I’ve decided to still include the map board. Please attempt to contact Ayse yourself if you also intend to use it.
• StarBoi for the staff mesh that I retextured for the Ocean Staff.
• Jog for the compass and spyglass pieces, named and re-textured so they would not conflict with Booty Island per Jog's request.
• Loch for the Porcelain dancer face, and the Victorian Bed. I slightly modified the Porcelain dancer’s face, and I also moved the bed textures to avoid conflict.
• Robearberbil for the star dome, tub, and bathwater.
• Junkmail for the teddy bears, which have been renamed with new texture assignments to avoid conflict.
• Fidel for the original Palace tile set.
• Erstam for fixing a few errors in Fidel’s tile set, and also for making it segmented for building ease.
• Oriphier for the cylinder.
• Rolach for the Alchemy sorting scripts, amended by OldeCow69
• Heph for the mannequin scripts.
• All sound files came from multiple free sound sites, unless they are bird or cat sounds.
• Hoss for the simple elegance pack.
• Necessities of Morrowind for all the food used, as well as a few items. Please see the read me for NOM for individual artists, which I have included.
• Tarnsman for the beer bottles, textures, names, and stats.
• Adul for the watch mesh.
• Ozzriffic for the lobster meshes, remapped by me.
• PianoManDylan for the dwemer platform piece.
• Dx117 for the maps of Tamriel. The username was all I could successfully translate from the read me.
• Redwoodtreesprite for the sand dollars, and shells. Please refer to included documents. Upon request, Redwoodtreesprite asks that this information is included:

redwoodtreesprite@yahoo.com
http://www.zyworld.com/redwoodtreesprite/Home.htm

• *The Authors of Upright Beasts Version 2.0. Sidithie obtained her tail from here, although it uses my own textures. Redwoodtreesprite is the "me" referred to (see above) in the following paragraph:

  "Karstux made the physiqued Khajiit Tails, and gave the OK for modders to use and modify them.

  Midnight made the Argonian feet and one version, male and female, of the Argonian tails, and also gave the OK for using and modifying them. They first appeared in the Civilized Argonian Mod.

  Calislahn physiqued the BB2 left-knee Argonian tail and one version of the neck Argonian tails for me to include in my resource and race packs.

  All of the tail textures are Morrowind textures. The other meshes are all retextured Morrowind meshes, with two exceptions, the Argonian feet by Midnight. The feet textures for these are by Silaria."