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Maids II: Deception

Maids II: Deception (M2) is a sequel to Maids I: Euphoria[www.nexusmods.com] for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. Originally intended to be a simple mod that would add a single maid to a player house for dress-up, the series has evolved to feature a questline. M2 aims to expand upon where M1 left off, this time with an emphasis on story.

Quest Start: The quest should be added to the Miscellaneous section of the quest journal upon loading the game with SMSkyrim.esp activated. The quest will instruct you to travel to the town of Jonestead.

The Story So Far
During the Oblivion Crisis, an organization of mages and alchemists known as Project Purity sought to rule Tamriel by first enslaving its women through the use of a corrupted Hist tree's sap that, when ingested, provoked an insatiable frenzy that made female victims vulnerable to submission. At the request of two maids who were cursed with the sap’s effects, the Champion of Cyrodiil put a stop to Purity’s plans and saved the women held captive in the palace of the Argonian warlord Desann.

The descendants of the two maids - the Pinder family - would face persecution by a resurgent Purity as retaliation for their defeat. Over time, this rivalry escalated to the point where in order to survive, the family had to form a clandestine group of mercenaries whose only purpose was to put an end to Purity once and for all.

200 years later, only two family members remain in a small underground town in Skyrim. The reasons for how and why the rivalry started have long been forgotten by both sides of the conflict. Yet the mercenary group founded by the family remains strong and has undergone drastic transformations. Now composed entirely of female warriors and assassins that rival the Dark Brotherhood in terms of secrecy and skill, the conflict has reached a standstill with both sides waiting for the other to resurface for one last showdown. With the province under siege by dragons and the civil war, Purity is bound to use this distraction as an advantage and unleash their final plan to eradicate the Pinder family and reveal their most devastating weapon yet, all in the name of saving the world from the enigmatic woman known as Matari.

Features

• 17 main quests with several offshoot side quests
  
• A large underground complex with several connecting dungeons
  
• A new land called Sky's Divide, a tropical dwarven fortress island that becomes accessible from the final quest onwards
  
• A new dungeon tileset based on the Dwemer ruins of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
  
• 114 interior cells, 16 worldspaces
  
• 1 new home and another - a ship - that can be obtainable depending on the Dragonborn's actions
  
• Approximately 13,000 lines of dialogue with branching paths
  
• 79 voice actors voicing 116 characters
  
• A maid management system that expands alongside the main questline and allows players to hire up to 98 maids, have them serve as followers, and depart on missions to temporarily increase player stats while in a city or retrieve a specific type of supplies
  
• Optional MCM menu for maid management
  
• A companion with an optional friendship and romance system
  
• New items, including those from other TES games
  
• Optional enemy patrols in the Skyrim wilderness depending on the player's place in the main questline

M2 is a script-intensive mod with 2,072 scripts. It's highly recommended that M2 is started on a new, clean save (new character/game) with as few script-intensive mods activated as possible. It's suggested that this save be kept aside for M2 updates.

If playing on an existing save, it's important to make a backup of the save prior to installing and activating M2. If M2 is ever deactivated and uninstalled, script data will be left over in the save which may affect the stability of the save and other mods that add scripts (such as quest mods). This problem is due to Skyrim's scripting and save system which causes scripts from uninstalled mods to "stick" to a save long after it has been uninstalled.

The following issues encountered in M2 are signs that a save game may be experiencing the negative effects of this left over data:

• Quest advancement issues
  
• Scene/NPC-to-NPC conversation stalls (NPCs will appear with the "This person is busy." message when activated and their conversations will never progress)
  
• Crashes to Desktop (CTDs) or frozen loading screens

Use a save game cleaner, such as Save Game Script Cleaner[www.nexusmods.com] or SkyrimTools[www.nexusmods.com], as a measure of last resort to repair bloated saves.

Please read the Maids II: Deception - FAQs for additional suggestions on what to do when problems are encountered.

1. Read the Compatibilities guide for a list of incompatible mods without patches and determine if M2 can be installed.
   
2. If M2 can be installed, click "Subscribe" on this mod's download page.
   
3. Install the Maids II: Deception - Assets mod which contains the new, required models and textures for M2.
   
4. Read the Compatibilities guide for a list of incompatible mods with patches. Download the offsite Mod Patches package if deemed necessary.
   
5. Read the Supplementary Materials for a list of optional M2 resources. Install any that you wish to use.
   
6. Adjust the load order to be as follows, top to bottom: All ESM plug-ins >> SMSkyrim.esp >> SMSkyrim - Compressed.esp >> All non-M2 ESP plug-ins >> All M2 ESP plug-ins
   
7. M2 is now ready to play. Remember to keep a backup save for the character on which M2 will be played. Revert to this save for when M2 is uninstalled to avoid the complications explained in the WARNING section of this mod page.

• Supplementary Materials
  
• Compatibilities
  
• FAQs