Skyrim Alternate Start Loverslab

1. Skyrim Different Start

Skyrim Different Start

Mar 31, 2012  Is loverslab a safe site for game modding? I am familiar with Skyrim Nexus and Steam's Workshop. I am only vaguely familiar with loverslab. I know they do more adult oriented mods which I'm not looking for, but a friend said they do other mods too. Is this a good place for mods or should I avoid it.

We’ve all heard of the core Alternate Start - Live Another Life mod, which offers a wide variety of different places you can choose to start your Skyrim adventure other than Helgen. It’s a great mod that has inspired other mod authors to include compatibility patches for Alternate Start options in their own separate mods. What I’d like to do is put together a comprehensive list of other mods that offer an Alternate Start - Live Another Life component in order to let people know what other options are out there.

Here are the ones I know about:

• Escape the Cell - Adds a tiny bit more backstory to a few of the Alternate Start scenarios to help you with your roleplaying. Example (I am a patron at an inn - Bee & Barb Inn start: 'You're finally of age and free of that horrible orphanage and its vicious matron! But what will you do now? Seek out your friend Arentino? Or maybe make your way across Skyrim to find the family you never knew you had?'

• New Beginnings - Live Another Life Extension - This one adds another dozen or so Alternate Start options ranging from being a humble pilgrim, filthy skooma addict, or even a prisoner of the Thalmor.

• Death Alternative - Alternate Start Addon - This mod incorporates several difficult scenarios from the mods Death Alternative - Your Money or Your Life and Death Alternative - Captured into Alternate Start options for players looking for a challenging way to begin their Skyrim game. These options include being a prisoner of the Falmer in Blackreach, being captured by bandits or Forsworn and held for ransom, and a few other dire situations. While the Death Alternative mods are a required install to use the ASLAL option, their base mechanic can be disabled to avoid affecting your gameplay past the beginning scenario.
  (Per Phunkie_J, 'Some of the captured scenarios cannot be escaped from if you are playing with a controller. For some reason they require the keyboard movement keys.')

• Content Consumer's Alternate Starts (LoversLab) - Adds 49 new Alternate Starts of varying levels of depravity. Some are fairly interesting, such as 'I am a witch of the wilds', 'I am an aspiring mage who has been trapped in Oblivion', 'I am an ancient Nord Queen', 'I am a sexbot waking up in a Dwemer forge', etc. But given the context, it shouldn't be a surprising that most of the scenarios revolve around slavery, prostitution and a surprising amount of bestiality (i.e. 'I am Meeko's bitch'). There's also more than one scenario about being an incubator for chaurus eggs, if that's what you're into. The mod requires Sexlab as a hard requirement. Some scenarios that tie into other LL mods will also require those, as well.

• ImmerSlave (LoversLab) - Another slavery-focused Alternate Start mod that ties into various other LL slavery mods. Allows you to start either as a slave in some of the ASLAL scenarios or as a slaver in coordination with mods that let you capture NPCs. The hard requirements of other LL mods to run this makes this best for people who are hardcore into making slavery a core part of their roleplay.

• Alternate Start - Bruma - Gives you 2 options to start in Bruma, as added by the mod Beyond Skyrim - Bruma: 'Patron at the Jerall View Inn' or 'Investigating an Ayleid Ruin'.

• Joopvande’s border mods:
  Nyhus and the Border of Cyrodiil
  (SSE ) Alternate Start Extension for Nyhus and the Border of Cyrodiil
  Folkstead and the Border of Hammerfell
  (SSE) Alternate Start Extension for Folkstead and the Border of Hammerfell
  Haafstad and the Border of High Rock
  (SSE) Alternate Start Extension for Haafstad and the Border of High Rock

• Legacy of the Dragonborn - Allows you to start your game at the Solitude docks as a relic hunter on your way to meet the curator of the Dragonborn Gallery museum in Solitude.

• White River Priory - This one is intended to allow the player to use White River Priory (which is a great Oblivion-themed priory home) as a starting location. Unfortunately this patch is broken and needs an overhaul. The robes the player is given at the start of play cannot be unequipped, which is quite problematic.
  (Per summoner94, you can drop the robes to unequip them. Thanks!)

• Salmon Shack - Gives you the option to start your game as owner of MannyGT's humble Salmon Shack player home near the Solitude sawmill.

Know of any other mods that offer Alternate Start - Live Another Life options? Link them in the comments below!