I know I joked about it before, but this is exactly like playing FO3, only there it is Talon Company. It is almost impossible to go through that game without having them constantly attacking your character because of a mysterious contract out on your life.

It made sense that they were after Aravi, because she actually killed a few of them before they sent anyone out after her.

If this ever happens to my character, I'll know she's done something right!

Hmm.. if this goes for random or wierd. I decided it would be a great idea to punch a chicken in riverwood. I stood over the chicken and towered over it. I said I will beat you chicken. Then I punched it and got arrested by the gaurds.

...Well, could have been arrested by Gourds I suppose... ...

Aaamywho...

The occaisonally Hirsute Archmage Wulff Olfsson the Dragonborn Harbinger, Bard...(Erm...AWOOOOO!!...) Finished the Companions questline by marrying Aela...*Sighs happily*... ...

So obviously the first thing he's then going to do is go get his bessie mate J'Zargo back and go tell the Jarl of Whiterun that there be Dragons...Off they go to kiw de dwaaagon!!!...One FUS later and we're trying to find the end of the 7000 steps... ...Well yeah...Greybeards ahoy!!...

I had one of those signature "down the Rabbit Hole" moments a couple days ago on my first visit to Markarth:

I was tasked to help a Vigilant of Stendarr investigate a house that was apparently used for Daedra worship a while back, but was now deserted. As we entered, though, it became clear the house was haunted, and after the usual clanking chains and flying books, my ally was eventually persuaded to turn on me, forcing me to defend myself.

After defeating the Vigilant, I was asked to come further down to claim my reward. The house's basement gave way to small cave system. Inside was an altar, housing a very familiar artifact....

I was half-expecting the Ark of the Covenant!

No, no. The Raider DLC hasn't been released yet.

Today Ragnall was going about, minding his own business when some more Thalmor ambushed him. This was not at all surprising, it's been happening.

However, Ragnall had finally finished that new suit of dragon-plate armor he'd been working on, and with it fully enchanted, he was ready to go. And by "minding his own business," I really mean "just visited the Lord Stone and wow I can't wait to put this to good use." Add in a recently optimized shout and a nearby pack of wolves, and it became fun for the whole family!

Ragnall got some more stuff to sell once he gets back to Whiterun, the wolves all got dinner (and their all-important annual physical and six-month dental work) and the elves learned to better understand the true nature of the afterlife. By going there. And not coming back.

I'm saying that they're dead.

Because Ragnall killed them.

With a level of glee and enjoyment not considered healthy by any but Daedra worshippers and Talos fanatics.

Maxical toured Skyrim yesterday. She has now discovered 275 locations, has 6 Dragon Priest masks, and knows 22 shout words (although she has no dragon souls to use them with). She has done 60 quests now, all but two were side/misc quests since she is avoiding dragons (the main questline, lol).

She met the nice Jarl of Markarth, who (in thanks for her clearing out a Forsaken camp) allowed her to buy a beautiful house there. (She is way below level 20, so not sure why the WIKI said level 20 is required). Anyway, the house is gorgeous - and built inside a mountain so dragons can't destroy it.

Unfortunately, it is way at the back of the city from the gates and hard to find till she gets used to the town. She may need to get the ID from the bed and do a magic "placemeat" to go home. Also, not sure if this is just a Skyrim thing or what - but there is no fast travel from that house. Is that the way it is in all the houses?

She helped three people in town a few times each and the Jarl declared her Thane of Markarth! Not really sure what that means, but hoping it is good.

Maxical found out it means some big burly guy has moved into her house. There goes all her privacy, since there is no bedroom door to shut. He better have his own bed, and stay out of her bedroom - that's all she can say about that.

The Jarl has given her encouragement to wipe out any Forsaken she finds, and she is becoming quite wealthy off the sale of their equipment. She even improved and enchanted one set of their armor and wore it (hoping to sneak into their camps un-noticed, but that hasn't worked ... at all).

Because she has promised to keep secret the fact that the Steward in Markarth is having some issues and needs ... viagra, he has placed a lot of trust in her for other things too, like ... killing Falmer for him - oh wait, that was someone else in the Underkeep. Never mind.

Maxical also discovered Riften yesterday, and is now sporting an "Amulet of Mara" properly after paying the 200 gold for it. (she had two of them previously, but sold one and put the other in a drawer - she was unsure if it would work without the quest being started by the Priest in Riften).

Maxical ran into a certain Jiz-ic (spelling?) Priest in a bar and was curious to see more of what he looked like since the robe covered everything but his nose and fingertips. A quick spell, and VOILA !!! Not bad, and clean! Unfortunately, (other than saying there was no pleasure greater than talking to her) he didn't have much else to say, even with the aid of a console tapping at him. So Maxical went away disappointed.

While Maxical was out exploring the south, she came across a gate in the middle of nowhere, stuck in the side of a mountain. It doesn't open or give any indicator anywhere when you run your mouse over it (and does not come up as a "found" location) - so I'm thinking it is either disabled till a certain quest is raised or that it may be set up for a DLC that will bring us into ... THE JERALL MOUNTAINS IN CYRODIIL !!!!!!! Well, one can hope, lol. How cool would that be, open borders, lol.

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After her nasty encounter with the Thalmar, Chloe made it back to Riverwood to talk to her contact. At which point she found the Thalmar must have oracles as she was to infiltrate and steal information from the Thalmar. And just to spice things up, she was to do it with minimal equipment and alone. Asking Lydia to head back to Whiterun, she made her arrangements and snuck in. Though she wanted to keep it bloodless, she was forced to turn several Thalmar into feather holders. At least any further attacks will actually be warented now.

Wondering back, she picked up some smithing instructions to get more out of her Elven armor and almost feels up to working on Lydia's steel plate.

In the meantime, a trip to Riften is on the plan, she's heard that there's some folks there she can talk to about improving she silent movement skills even more.

In a move which should please Thomas Kaira, I'm running everywhere in order to try and get a dragon...With middling success...

Anyways, Wulff and J'Zargo are currently abandoning the main quest for a short while in order to go to somewhere where there's apparently a Dragon Priest and it's near Markath...Aaaand I'm currently in Solitude...Then, after that, we're running to Riften to help Mjoll the Lioness get her sword back...Yes, yes we are...

Oh, we found Meeko...*sigh*...Couldn't leave him could I?...Oh noooo...Anyways...I put him in the house with Aela and told him to wait...Last time we went back he was lying by the fire...Bless him... ...

Wulff and J'Zargo killed the Dragon Priest, did some more killing of Forsworn on the way back to Whiterun...Stopped off to visit the missus...Got another note off the courier but Wulff has not yet read it...*Shrug*...Off to Riften next...

Aravi and her new friend are about to enter a ruin with no map marker and blood all over the outside. Doesn't seem like the best decision, but the fact that it isn't on the map makes her very curious.

EDIT: That was short. It was the exit to a quest related dungeon. No way to get past the gate from the side she entered, and the front door (when she found it) was locked. Key required.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Dec 3 2011, 07:11 PM

I've had that happen to me before - where second exits don't register as a found location. Wish they would after you have fought your way to it and even gone inside though !!

....

Did some running...Killed some Dragons 'nd stuff...Made some money...

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Oh, and then discovered that the game had lied previously and was now making me look like a Thermos... ...

You were entirely cylindrical, metallic in colour and filled with hot liquid?

J’Shanji spent some time in Falkreath recently, earning a name for himself. Unfortunately the name is Thane of Falkreath, a town with no house for sale. That put him in a mood. J’Shanji dismissed his companion Uthgerd the Unbroken and stalked north to Solitude. Uthgerd had a very negative attitude, and J’Shanji will not miss her. He will however take the opportunity to beat the crap out of her again, should he ever return to Whiterun. She seemed to like that. To replace Uthgerd, J’Shanji hired the spellsword Belrand, a Nord who has a great attitude but is very hard for Grits to look at. So far he also gets lost a lot.

In Solitude J’Shanji made the surprise announcement that he was joining the Bard’s College. I really hope he doesn’t plan to sing. Anyway, the bards seem to lack an adventurer in their ranks, because now everyone wants him to go get bloody while retrieving various things for them. J’Shanji is game.

What he really needs right now is a place to put his stuff. He has accumulated rather a large wardrobe, and he wants to keep all of it. Also even though he loves his new ebony axe, he wants to keep all of his various swords just in case. It’s a good thing he doesn’t also want to collect books or we’d have to find a place out in the woods to drop a bunch of stuff. We might end up doing that anyway.





McB, which quest line made you look like a picnic implement?

Today: Dere of Skyrim, having finished a job for Maven Black-Briar by taking down the Honningbrew Meadery to turn into her own Mead Brewery, decided it was time to pay a visit to her lodge and steal a prized Stallion named Frost for a man named Louis Latroush. If you are wondering, he had already consulted Maven about the job, and she told him to go ahead with it as if they never spoke of it. Probably because doing this would give her leverage to put Louis in his place.

On the way to Maven's lodge, he had a nasty encounter with a Dunmer outside an old ruined fort long forgotten, who proceeded to butcher two bandits and a helpless courier before turning on our Bosmer. It was a hard fight, but eventually, the Dunmer fell. Dere found a book in his pack titled "Boethiah's Calling," giving him a hint to the location of the Shrine of Boethiah.

It was a little bloodier than Dere had hoped, one of the hired mercenaries guarding the place was killed and another wounded, but he eventually made it out with Frosts's lineage papers and the horse in tow. After turning it in to Louis and being paid out, he returned to retrieve his own horse and make scarce before the rest of the guards figured out what happened.

He then happened across an interesting trail leading up a mountain in the Rift, where he encountered a couple of bandits and a Frostbite spider, who were quickly dispatched. After performing a quick public-service-eviction of the bandits in the nearby Broken-Helm Cave, he proceeded further up until he happened across a huge Nordic barrow: Vorelhost.

It was here he met a Legion Captain, dispatched to the barrow to retrieve a mask from a Dragon Priest. Now, Dere must enter... and who knows what awaits within.

Sorry, should have said like a right Richard...

We discussed on the Coffee Shop thread at great lenght I seem to remember the auto-censor changing short-for-Richard into Thermos... ...

Aaamywho...

Got Mjoll's sword back for her...Having detoured to Solitude briefly...SnassnFrassn...Went back to the dwarven ruin...Aaand then ran to Whiterun to see to the missus...And then ran all the way to kill a bandit chief somewhere near Ivorstead...And wouldn't you know it?...There's an Elder Dragon just nearby!!!...Although I may have killed J'Zargo... ...When I've finished this battle I'll fast travel here and see if he turns up...Otherwise...Oooh wait...There's an autosave earlier...Yes...Not fast travel...Yes...