Alternate Start - Live Another Life Mod

Installation Requirements

Skyrim Special Edition 1.6.1130 or greater.

Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch 4.3.7 or greater.

You will need to turn on subtitles to see the text for the startup quest.

Alternately, download and use Fuz Ro D-oh - Silent Voice (https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/15109) to see subtitles only on those NPCs with no voiced audio. This requires SKSE64, so it will only work on PC copies of the game.

DO NOT extract the contents of the BSA file into your Data folder as loose files, or let your mod manager perform an equivalent function on the contents of the file. Doing so will cause things to load in the wrong order and break the game. Skyrim is intended to load a BSA alongside it's ESM/ESP file. Circumventing this causes issues which I will not provide support for. If you insist on going against this advice, you will receive no support for the problems you generate as a result of this.

Installation - Wrye Bash BAIN

Drop the archive into your Skyrim Special Edition Mods\Bash Installers folder, then install as usual.

Make sure the mod is active in the Wrye Bash mods tab.

Installation - Manual

Drop "alternate start - live another life.esp", "alternate start - live another life.bsa", "alternate start - live another life - textures.bsa", and "alternate start - live another life.ini" into your Data folder.

Activate the mod using whatever management tool suits you.

Uninstalling Live Another Life

Due to the nature of Skyrim mods, especially those adding scripts, it is strongly discouraged to attempt uninstalling a mod from your active game. Any mod that is more than pure mesh or texture replacements has the possibility to leave behind permanent changes to your save that you may not want. This is not something modders can correct for. It is how the game was designed by Bethesda. No support will be provided for anyone who uninstalls this mod from an active game and continues on with that save.

That said, should you insist on going forward with doing so you must adhere to the following:

First things first. You need to be sure the main quest has been started before you can uninstall this mod. The quest "Live Another Life" must have been marked as completed, AND you must have "Before the Storm" listed in your journal. Uninstalling prior to this will break the main quest as well as the civil war.

It should also go without saying that if you're using the farmhouse start, clean your stuff out of it first because if you don't you'll lose it all.

Clean your stuff out of any other start location containers you may be using, including any that are part of the vanilla game because they will NO LONGER BE SAFE STORAGE!!!

Once that's done, use your preferred method to uninstall the mod. The "alternate start - live another life.esp", "alternate start - live another life.bsa", "alternate start - live another life - textures.bsa", and "alternate start - live another life.ini" files must be removed entirely.

Load Order

Due to the sensitive nature of the mod, it should be loaded relatively late in the load order. A lot of other mods may seek to make modifications to Helgen and the charactergen quests. Moving this further down in your list will likely help, a lot. I highly recommend going with the order LOOT (https://loot.github.io/) specifies.

Should load BEFORE Open Cities if you are using it so that location and region data for Whiterun don't get clobbered.