Insults To Injuries

"Hate. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live."

Ever notice how you can kiss ass all day, but it’s weirdly hard to make someone genuinely hate you on purpose? Sometimes I want to roleplay with the player character opinion mod but there’s no way to decrease the other character’s opinion of me when I hate them because my character is just too cool for anyone to hate.

This adds a way to deal with that, through several new systems:

• Send rude letters to other rulers and intentionally make them dislike you.
• Their reactions depend on personality, and some responses can lead to diplomatic consequences.
• Castle Raid: Attack them at their own home to answer for your grievances! Insults can escalate into personal confrontations, so make sure you have at least 3 good knights to back you up.
• AI will insult you if they hate you. (you can’t insult your liege however to prevent weird things happening during the castle attack).
• A new casus belli lets you settle things when they start talkin that shiiii

• Adds a new court position: Thug. These are your enforcers recruited from lowborn characters with at least 5 prowess. Having one unlocks more mechanics. Thugs are hired to do 1 thing, so they will join your schemes with gusto.
• New scheme: Ambush. Send your thugs to beat the bells and whistles off your targets. Success depends on your intrigue skill, since you’re planning it.
• Gives intrigue characters a real use beyond just killing and fking, now there’s a middle ground? Beat the fk out of someone.
• Successful ambushes can earn gold, and sometimes the thugs bring you a lil extra something back as souvenir!
• Having multiple thugs on a job increases success chance.
• New decision to check out a local tavern and recruit from the worst of the worst.
• You can now make use of characters that are disfigure, or are just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ugly. Having traits that make you naturally scary is very helpful for being a thug. Job aptitude boosts for traits where appropriate.
• Being a victim of a beat down may permanently alter the victim’s view of the world and themselves.
• AI will attempt to get their own thugs to come for you if they hate you.
• Landless adventurers may get chances to ambush peasants or even passing nobles for profit.
• New secret and crime. Sending thugs to beat people up is a crime, in case you didnt know.

Tired of words? Thugs stomping them out not doing it for you? Well how about sending them.. a gift? No, not just any gift. A Bloody Gift. Now with a new hostile interaction, if you just happen to have a member of your enemy’s close family in prison, you can send them a reminder of who’s big bad around here. The new "Send Bloody Gift" interaction allows you to slice off a body part from your poor victim and send it back to your enemy! Your enemy will receive the Bloody Gift, complete with personalization. Beware, if your families fall into the hands of a Callous or Sadistic enemy.. well.. you might not get them back in one piece.

Inspired by Ramsey Bolton’s gift to Balon Greyjoy!

Settle grievances on the battlefield with the new Battlefield Duel module! Now there’s a chance every battle for you to fight important enemy characters who are engaged in the same battle as you. Winning these duels are costly, for your knights and yourself, but winning can often shorten a prolonged conflict. Duels are now deadlier for all parties involved. Choose wisely!

Insults:
1. Right click a character.
2. Send them an insult using the new interaction in hostile category. There may be consequences for talking shiiii

Thuggery
1. Use the new decision "Peruse the local tavern" to check out some thugs for hire. (Or you can appoint them directly in the court position tab if you have lowborns with at least 5 prowess in court.)
2. A new character interaction will become available with at least 1 thug appointed, allowing you to send them to a target for a beat down.

Bloody Gifting:
1. Have a close family member of your enemy imprisoned (sons, daughters, wives etc).
2. Right click the enemy, in hostile interactions, there is now new "Send Bloody Gift" interaction.
3. Send the gift! Of course, sending someone their family’s bodyparts will instantly render all diplomacy moot. They will become rivals with you instantly and if they are already rivals with you, will become your nemesis. Only do this if you really hate someone! (i’ve not implemented the ability for you to choose which part you are hacking off as I want it to be an interesting surprise.)
(Side note: I’m using the "Maimed" trait for when you cut off an arm as visually the character loses an arm, but the icon for maimed is a wounded FOOT? there’s already a one legged trait, where’s the one armed trait? one of the most common disability is not there. literally unplayable.)

Does not replace vanilla files.
Compatible with all mods (I think) as it uses its own files and mechanics.
Safe to add and remove.

• More evil things.
• More character interactions. Maybe more things you can do to your prisoners who are related to your enemies.
• More interesting artifacts! More artifacts that tell a story rather than just space hogging junk.

Let me know if there are any bugs! This is my first official mod so there might be jank but I’ll do my best to fix.

Localization:
Chinese: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3090564070

-Insults To Injuries: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3700289603
-Succession Crisis: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3713902872