Drinks at Desele's - plugin
requires CompanionSubjects.esm
both by Cal
Updated 23-01-2010: CompanionSubjects.esm GMSTs removed
Updated 23-02-2010: tiny error corrected
Updated 12-10-2014: unchanged but resaved to prevent error due to CompanionSubjects.esm being newer

Isn't it frustrating how Desele's House of Earthly Delights is full of bottles, yet the patron doesn't retail alcoholics. All she does is take any moon sugar you want to trade. And all her fellow barmaid says is "What Khinjarsi do for you?"

Well, now they do sell alcoholics. Not through bartering, because they're the wrong class; Helviane is a trader, not a publican, and Khinjarsi is a slave, and I didn't want to alter the NPCs themselves, to minimize interference with other plugins. Instead, you just ask them about "drink" (a topic added when Helviane greets you) and you get a menu of choices depending on your financial situation. If you don't even have ten drakes for a mazte, your only choice is "too broke to afford a drink".

All the plugin does is add dialogue for the topic "drink". In standard Morrowind, drinks fall under the topic "food", so the topic "drink" has been added in CompanionSubjects.esm, which contains a list of common topics for companion mods.

Adding this plugin should have no effect on existing savegames. Removing it shouldn't, either. Removing the ESM means that its topics are gone (and possible other undesirable effects; I didn't test).

ESPs override ESMs, so if you use an ESP with the topic "drink" which is not connected to CompanionSubjects.esm, this plugin will not work. The solution is to hook the ESP up to the ESM. How to do this is explained in the HTML files included with mwcompsl.zip (replacement dialogue for companion mods to make them work with CompanionSubjects.esm).