Pat's Business Mod---Shop
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It is rather disappointing at the lack of ways to obtain gold in Oblivion. The only way is to get a little pocket money is to get up and kill something or crawl through a cave or sewer. This mod is for the more peaceful or maybe less adventurous types. Being a shopkeeper can still be dangerous though...

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What this mod does

Purchase a shop in Chorrol from Seed-Neeus in Northern Goods and Trade. The shop is right next to hers, you can't miss it. You buy the deed from her for however much she is selling it for. 3500 and up, but probably not higher than 8000 or so, depending on your mercantile skill. Open up the deed and you will get a key to the store. You will not be able to stock any items in your store the first day you activate the mod. 

You can order goods to sell at your shop by writing out order forms at your desk. These you can put in your mailbox and packages will be delivered a day later with your requested goods.

Thieves might break into your shop randomly at 10PM. If you sleep through ten o'clock, there is a 75% chance the night will pass without event. If you are awake at ten, they might decide to come anyways. One, two, or three thieves will come. They will either wake you up, or steal a little gold. You can remove their bodies in the same way as the Shoppers. These guys are fairly easy to kill and may run away from you if you startle them (or they may run away if they just feel like it.)
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How it all works (all the nice little details)

Just about everything in this mod is made up of messageboxes. So not a whole lot of freedom, but it makes it a heck of a lot harder for somebody to forget what they are supposed to do. In my opinion, the messageboxes work the best.

THE THREE CHESTS: These three chests are what make you money. It basically turns the selected weapons, armor or other stuff that you put into it into gold daily. In one of the chests you can put in weapons to sell, in another one, armor to sell, and in the last one, micellaneous, which includes wine, clothes, skooma (yes, you can now be a drug dealer!), and potions to sell.

	Restock weapons- you sell weapons in full sets (claymores, daggers, longswords, maces, shortswords, waraxes, warhammers and battleaxes) in 1, 5, 10 , or 20 sets. You HAVE to have the right amount of claymores, daggers, longswords, maces, shortswords, waraxes, warhammers and battleaxes in your inventory to put them in there. If you restock your store with these items, it'll message something like '5 iron claymores removed' '5 iron daggers removed' so on and so forth. If you do NOT have the items you need to put the stuff in the store, then it won't message or do anything.
	
	Restock armor- basically works the same way as weapons, you sell it in complete sets of gauntlets, greaves, cuirass, helmets, shields, boots in sets of 1, 5, and 10. Once again, you HAVE to have the required items to put them in there. You can't put in 5 elven gauntlets, greaves, cuirass, helmets, shields and 4 elven boots in. It has to be perfect.

	Restock Micellaneous- Pretty straightforward. Stick in 5 bottles of Surilie Brothers Wine Vintage 399 and you're done. You just have to have the stuff in your inventory.

	OPEN SHOP button- you have to click this to open your shop and get some gold

	Time requirements to restock: 12 AM to 12PM

THE DESK: You can write orders here. You select whatever you want to order and it'll give you the correct order and remove the right amount of gold from your character. Take the order outside to the mailbox and mail it. All of the weapons and armor come in sets here, so you don't need to worry about clicking 500 times to get 5 sets of iron. You can only order in bulk, so you can only order in 5 or 20. You can only mail 2 identical copies of an order at the same time. Next to the 'how many you want to order' window there are two options: '5 (amount of gold this will cost)' and '20 (amount of gold this will cost)'. Make sure you have enough gold to order. If you do not have enough, the mod will not tell you. If you do have enough, it should say something like, "1322 gold(s) removed, Order added" at the top of the screen.

THE MAILBOX: This is located right outside your shop to the left. Before you open it up make sure you have ALL the orders you want to mail for today. Open it and put in your orders. As soon as you close it, you won't be able to open it until tomorrow when the packages arrive. So, whenever you go to collect your packages, take your orders along with you. Open it up, take out your packages and put in your orders without shutting it. If you shut it, you can't open it until tomorrow. You have to receive your packages and mail your orders all at one time. You can only mail two types of the same order per day (ex: 1 order for 5 sets of leather armor and 2 orders for 20 sets of steel weapons each will work but not 1 order for 5 sets of leather armor and 3 orders for 20 sets of steel weapons. It won't kill your whole mail order for that day but you just won't get anything for that third order.
		Time requirements to mail orders and recieve packages: 12AM to 6PM

THE SHOPPERS: Shoppers don't really have any effect on your business's success, they just add a much more 'shoppish' feel to your store. Shoppers will come in your store and just kinda hang out, chat with each other, walk around and do whatever NPCs do. I apologize right now for my pathetic understanding of AI and pathgrids and all that jazz. The shoppers might enter at 11AM, 1PM, 3PM, and at 5PM. They will either choose to leave on their own or they will be forced to leave if you sleep or at 6PM. There are 41 different NPC faces in the leveled list and for the most part they wear different things from the leveled items and clothes I gave them, so cloning should be at a minumum. There are a few Shoppers that are hand made primarily to spice up your existance at a shop. If a Shopper should die (whether by accident or by your hand) you can remove their bodies. Activate them, click 'Yes' and then activate them again to delete them. You can loot the corpse by pressing 'No' and activating again.

THE THIEVES: Thieves might break into your shop randomly at 10PM. If you sleep through ten o'clock, there is a 75% chance the night will pass without event. If you are awake at ten, they might decide to come anyways. One, two, or three thieves will come. They will either wake you up, or steal a little gold. You can remove their bodies in the same way as the Shoppers. These guys are fairly easy to kill. They will run away if they get freaked out or they just might do it for no apparent reason.

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Glitches and other little bugs

There has to be a few minor ones here and there. This is something like 4000 lines of script, give or take a hundred, there is probably a really small glitch or two in there. I'm pretty sure I worked out the big ones. If you find any, let me know.

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Version History

Version 1.2 (2/19/07)
-Prices in parentheses when you're ordering goods
-75% chance the night will pass without thieves (instead of 65%)
-fixed bug where the 'The thief has been scared off' message wouldn't go away
-bookshelf offers more reading material


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Credits

My cousins, Jeremiah and Jeanette, and my dad for helping me fix my computer when it crashed when I was 80% done with this mod.

One of the posts on theelderscrolls.com by AdamFrechette with help on his lockpick mold mod.

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Future Ideas

I'll think about it. You'll see.