Quest Design – The Pie Heist

The Pie Heist is a short quest I designed for Harthstone Isles, a short-term collaborative modding project for Skyrim Special Edition that I worked on as part of Beyond Skyrim’s Arcane University. I worked on this project as a writer from October 2022 until its release in July 2023.  I devised this quest for the two new NPCs specifically created for Harthstone Isles, Ysalotta Stockus and her roommate Elethe Mehr. You can read a detailed breakdown of how I created it here.

The documentation here follows the Beyond Skyrim and Arcane University unified style guide. As such, all text is in American English and the Oxford comma is used. Notes for voice actors are highlighted in orange, and implementation notes are highlighted in purple. There’s also a playthrough clip of the quest below this document.

In-Game Clips

Playthrough footage of the quest is from 3:18:30 to around 3:28:20. This clip is from an early stream of the mod so there are a couple of implementation bugs, but it works nonetheless!

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