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From: Bill Niblock <bill@theinternetvagabond.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 10:18:09 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Begin project

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+# Morrowind May Mod: Daedric Merchant
+
+The player finds an item which, when used, summons a unique NPC merchant for
+bartering with. As the player interacts more with this merchant, dialog and
+quests become available. Completing these quests expands the merchant's
+offering, provides dialog options, and more.
+
+## Plan
+
+### Part 1: Merchant
+
+- The item
+- The merchant
+- The enchantment (i.e., the spell)
+
+### Part 2: Dialog
+
+- Include a different greeting based on geography?
+- Could be fun to reference Creeper and Mudcrab Merchant
+
+### Part 3: Evolving Inventory
+
+- The merchant will make requests of specific items found throughout the
+  game-world. Some for personal desire (who doesn't want a nice Colovian hat?),
+  and some for trade to get the player more interesting items.
+- Custom items?
+
+### Part 4: Quests
+
+- Some kind of quest involving the merchant, former clients, maybe a custom
+  location or "hijacked" location to add in some mod lore?
+
+### Part 5: Player House
+
+- Always fun to have your own plane of Oblivion...
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+# Morrowind May Modathon 2025 - Daedric Merchant
+
+You find in your travels an interesting item, which when activated summons to
+you a Daedric merchant! Beyond the obvious convenience, this creature offers
+insights and rewards, if you have the coin, of course!
+
+## Development
+
+See DESIGN.md for details on the mod content.
+
+Development is done on a Linux machine. I'm unfamiliar with using Windows or
+MacOS, so the following information may not be applicable or useful.
+
+Using the OpenMW Construction Set AppImage, as provided by the awesome "Modding
+OpenMW" site: [AppImages](https://modding-openmw.com/mods/openmw-appimage/)
+
+OpenMW does allow for multiple different instances, and the most reliable way
+I've been shown for doing this is by editing the `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` environment
+variable when launching the AppImages. This can be done "in-line", or integrated
+into the program or configuration for launching the AppImage.