On the power attack: Perfect! Looks just like the dual sword one. I seriously wonder why the original one was so slow and… I’m not even sure what they were doing with the daggers.

The giant vid: At 1:42, good job getting in there while he was recovering from a big swing! Those giants really pack a punch, I’m glad Aravi hasn’t had to fight one.

Aravi uses the Lord Stone, it provides some good magical protection that she needs. I was tempted to have her try the atronach stone, but stuck with the Lord.

Love the power attack. I don't even remember what the vanilla one is. It must not be very special.

Wow, two daggers against a giant! That was great fun to watch!

Eris is in training to be a Bloodletter – and doing darn well at it with those twin scalpels.

She really was hackin’ and slashin’ on that giant’s armored shins. Wow, he hits like a . . . well, giant! He’s slow on his feet (thank the Nine) but the reach on that hammer makes it so hard duck in, hit and leap clear without getting hit! Only letting something like those logs on pallets intercept his strike seemed to help. Wow, Eris has a pair of more than daggers to get in close enough to kill that thing!

That spinning attack against the frost troll does indeed look pretty cool!

King Coin: I think it is the same as the dual sword power attack. It has made a huge difference. Eris literally went from struggling through her battles, to walking all over people.

Most of my characters have used either the Lord Stone or the Steed. The latter is actually useful, as it it not only adds 100 more pounds to your carryweight, but it also makes the armor you wear weightless, and removes the movement penalties from it. So it is excellent for heavy armor characters.


Grits: I was kind of leery of taking on a giant with nothing but daggers. But I had just finished watching Pitch Black and Chronicles of Riddick. So I was a little juiced up over what a shaven-headed maniac could do.


Acadian: Those giants are bad news at any level. Their regular attack is that underhanded swat with their club. Those are the ones he landed on Eris, that took over half her health. The overhanded attack is their power attack. Those launch people into orbit. Seriously. No one survives that.


A short vid of Eris taking a leap of faith

That was very cool! At first I thought she was going to try and jump some EvilKineval chasm. Then I realized she was jumping out into the water. Once she started talking to the ghost, then I figured it likely involves some quest. Like I said though, her running leap was very cool!

Aravi saw that little ledge inviting a jump. She declined. I see your little maniac went for it!

I tried playing Baldur's Gate II and came to despise the little message that said 'this person is busy.'

Woo hoo, she did it without the Become Ethereal shout! Nice.

Acadian: I thought that a quest was in the offing too when the ghost appeared and started talking. But not. The wiki says he is supposed to give you a boost to your speechcraft, but I did not notice it happen.


King Coin: I just could not resist jumping off of that plank. I love jumping in games. I can still remember when games did not give us that option at all, so I am making up for all those lost years of playing Doom and other games where it was impossible.


Grits: She actually did it twice in a row. The first time I did it, I did not think to record it. So I went back to my save and did it all over again and recorded it.

Eris is now packing a new dagger

Many people of Skyrim have had a shave from Mehrune's Razor

A short combination of two vids showing Eris doing what she does best.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 14 2012, 12:22 AM

Nice new dagger!

After the first couple throat slittings in the vid, Eris snuck up behind that heavy metal dude. I was scratching my head. Can she reach his throat? Will her dagger cut the metal? Will she simply dull it on his shin guards? Finally I decided she was probably gonna go for the butt poke instead of throat slit. I think that may be just what she did!

Fun video! She hit the centurion’s off button!

That’s a great dagger.

Acadian: Maybe she did the old banana up the tailpipe trick?

Grits: Eris hits everyone in the off button! It helps that I am using a mod that spiffs up Mehrunes Razor a bit. It makes the central part of the blade black, and has an option that lets you choose how often it kills someone straight out. I went with 15% of the time. Normally it is once in 50.5 hits, which is pretty useless (since if you hit someone 55 times, they are going to be dead anyway).


Eris had gotten too easy to play. Killing that Dwemer Centurion in one hit was an example of how the challenge was ebbing from her game. So I started thinking of trying someone else. Doing Peryite's quest with Eris got me thinking of an old idea of mine. A Dwemer ruin explorer. So I decided to run with that. I created an Argonian, because I have never played one in Skyrim before. Like the other races I have modded their powers a bit to give them 100% resistance to poison and disease, like in Oblivion. The Histskin power is something that I will never use. So far, I am having a lot of fun!

Meet Delves-The-Depths

The Creature From The Green Lagoon!

I have never had a character spend so much time underwater. You see the darndest things

Unfortunately, there is still no way to fight underwater (even with Underwater Combat checked in the Construction Set)

A short vid of Delves coming across something unexpected under the lake

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 15 2012, 07:52 PM

Neat! How is the water so clear? Is it like that for all of your characters, or just Argonians?

How funny, aquatic necromancers!

The water has been like that since I went from version 1.4 to 1.6. I am guessing that is the underwater change that people were all talking about glitching on some people's games. I love it. Especially the way you can see the mountains and trees when you are near the surface and looking up.

One interesting thing I noticed, is that only the player character can drown in this game. I have seen animals like that Elk in the pic above, a bunny, and people like those necromancers stay submerged for several minutes straight, without once going up for air.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 17 2012, 04:45 PM

Just the character to explore underwater! I had heard there is no underwater combat, but I'm still stunned that it is true. It is also too bad that you can't lure your foes under the surface to drown. The visibility offered below the water is great though.

07/13
Mehrunes Razor looks cool. Looks just like it did in Oblivion. Eris is a fitting character to wield it. I love that thieves’ guild armor on her.

Vid: She just went up that line of people! I wonder what the Centurion’s armor rating is at? They’ve always seemed rather fragile for a metal automation.

07/15
What a cheerful looking Argonian! Aravi finds it difficult to swim in armor; I see this Argonian has no problem at all! That shot in the weeds is fantastic. I don’t know what to think about underwater combat. In some ways it was very silly to be swinging a sword under water in Oblivion, but then if you remove combat, then remove the slaughter fish as well. They should let you at least use unarmed while in the water.

The necromancers!

Acadian: I have been meaning to try out an Argonian in Skyrim for some time now. Since they took away water-walking, they are the ideal character to go exploring the lakes and ocean.

King Coin: I think the Centurions are tougher against magic and arrows than they are against melee attacks. It seems to take forever to take them down at a distance. But once you get in close, they seem to have a glass jaw, as you noticed. I also found out yesterday that if you get really close, they cannot hit you with that steam breath attack of theirs.

I think Delves probably has an easier time swimming than walking in heavy armor. At least she cannot drown! I agree that swinging battleaxes or war hammers would seem silly underwater. But knives and spears work just fine IRL. So does biting and clawing. I wish the Argonians had a bite attack they could use underwater, like a crocodile.

Delves tries to camouflage herself as a Forsworn

She had made herself a new set of Dwemer duds

Putting the smack down with her new mace

Kneel before Zod!

Why is Spellbreaker inside out?

An obligatory moonlight aurora

The Riften guards do not enforce the law of gravity

Part 1 of Delves' trip to Avanchzel

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jul 23 2012, 09:13 PM

Ooo, I love a mace! Nice to see From-Deepest-Fathoms alive. I usually find her dead on the dock. (Dragons.)

Awesome, Fire Runes! I’ve never used those. At first I didn’t know what Delves was doing! I like the parts where it was snowing inside. DtD looked particularly awesome in her Dwemer gear.

Wow, I love the way she uses different fire spells. She seemed a bit creeped out with the memory people. Or maybe that’s just me. Fun video!

Delves is a great-looking Argonian. I love her head feathers.

No walk on water magic?!? Surely they don’t expect a girl to ask her horse to swim!

Lol, the ‘gravity’ screenshot actually looks like the guard is leaning against the nearby light pole taking a dump. . . .

I agree that the Argonians look great in Skyrim. Delves looks like a beautiful little T-Rex!

Loved the fire traps Delves cast for those spiders.

Fun vid. Like exploring the inside of a Dwemer spaceship. The Dwarven Spheres look straight out of Star Wars.

You know, Delves doesn’t look bad as a forsworn.

She looks even better in her full Dwemer armor though!

I don’t think I’ve seen auroras looking like that before, very pretty.

Avanchzel, Aravi did this one when she was in Riften. Aravi wanted the Riften house, someone told me to talk to an Argonian in the fishery.

I enjoyed the use of the rune spells too. I sort of forgot they were there!

The door is barred from the other side! A trap!

She’s going to like the reward for that quest. Aravi didn’t have much use for it though.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jul 26 2012, 02:00 AM

Sorry, every time I see Delves in Dwemer armor, all I can think of is Earthworm Jim. *runs and hides*

Fun mission, I really like those quest dungeons that have echos/ghosts of past dungeon divers preceding you.