v2.5.0

IntelEngine v2.5.0

🗡️ Rescue Quests (New)

NPCs can now ask you to rescue someone who's been taken. The quest plays out like a vanilla radiant rescue — you'll fight through the dungeon following your compass marker to find the victim deep inside.

• Victim is placed before you enter the dungeon — no spawning in front of you
• Victims can be found restrained in prisoner furniture when available
• Walk up to the victim after combat to free and heal them
• Works as a fallback even if some enemies get stuck somewhere
• Victim awareness: how the rescued NPC reacts depends on whether they've actually met you before

🔎 Find Item Quests (New)

NPCs can send you to retrieve a specific item from a dungeon. The compass guides you to a chest deep inside, guarded by a boss enemy.

⚙️ MCM Settings

• Danger Zone Policy — single-select radio buttons (Allow All / Block Civilians / Followers Only / Block All) replacing the old toggle pair
• Player Home Visit Policy — same 4-level control for who can visit when you're at home
• Story tuning options for tick intervals, travel timeouts, meeting timeouts

🔌 SkyrimNet Plugin Manifest (New)

IntelEngine now registers as a SkyrimNet plugin with its own settings file:

• Separate LLM configuration — point the Story DM at a different model/endpoint than your dialogue model
• Faction Blocklist — exclude factions from story candidates with optional rank filtering
• Location Blocklist — block NPC dispatch to specific locations

All configurable through SkyrimNet's plugin settings — no MCM needed.

📅 Scheduled Meetings & NPC Visits

• NPCs properly dispatch to scheduled meetings with adaptive timing
• Off-screen travel estimates capped to prevent absurd multi-hour waits
• NPCs pathfind the last stretch naturally instead of teleporting
• Meeting cancellation blocked while you're mid-conversation

🧠 Story Engine (DM) Improvements

• Rescue victims must appear in the quest giver's actual relationships — no random strangers
• Recent quest history prevents the DM from recycling the same victims and items
• Better candidate context with bio relationships and location-mates
• Message/delivery quests: LLM picks the sender, engine selects the messenger automatically

📝 Prompt & Submodule Changes

• Story DM prompt expanded with stricter rescue rules, bio context, and rotation hints
• Meeting outcome prompt added (0199_intel_meeting_outcome)
• Gossip prompt updated with rendered sections
• Facts and task awareness prompts renumbered (0497/0498 → 0800/0801)

🐛 Stability & Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when spawning enemies near the player
• Fixed quest spawning before the courier reaches you
• Fixed infinite teleport loop (Temba Wide-Arm bug)
• Fixed anti-trespass turning inns and shops into trespass zones
• Fixed stale FormID crash in NPC lookup
• Fixed escort travel: followers no longer fight their travel package
• Quest marker properly clears on save/load
• Safety net no longer causes duplicate actions