-turns deep red-

Nothing.

SPEW! You owe me a monitor, a keyboard, and god knows what else - I lost hot cocoa everywhere! ROFL !!!

Fredas, 8:02 AM, 27th of Sun's Dawn

Days Passed: 194
Level: 37



"I'm in the mood to siiing! What about you, friend?"

Mycharonna is supposed to kill Lubruk, a bard who stays at the Moorside Inn in Morthal. This bard happens to be unique in Skyrim. Why? He is an orc! This is why.

I must admit I really wanted to hear the orc sing. I got all psyched to hear a singing orc, but he never sings! Maybe it it good that he never sings. It will make it easier for Mycharonna to 'remove' him. Her desire to hear a singing orc (...one who doesn't just sing the "someone had to die" song) intrigued her. And her fascination with this concept (a singing orc) was getting in the way of her contract.



"Jarna. Do you think the townspeople are warming up to my serenades?" asks the orc.

"No they aint. And if you weren't paying for your room, I'd have thrown you out of here a long time ago", answers Moorside's barkeep.

"Yes but they'll come around eventually you'll see!"

"Hah, I wouldn't be surprised if they do come around, and if you're never seen or heard from again.

"Ha ha! I'm in the mood to siiing!" the orc passes by Mycharonna, who wishes he would just do so.


This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Apr 11 2013, 02:22 AM

So...Kayla visited her house, and when she got there, she was nearly knocked aside with a HUGE GREEN EXPLOSION.

A GIANT SMACKED HER.

And Onmund threw some wicked spells at him and killed it before she could even get Dawnbreaker out. I screamed and accidentally dropped the controller lol

Surprise! A nice welcome home, isn't it?

Cool update, I'm curious how will her conflicts resolve and whether the Orc will sing in the end.

First test was passed - Brand-Shei had been accused of theft and taken to prison. To pass the next test, Tamala had to find The Ragged Flagon in The Ratway, dangerous sewers under Riften.

As she closed the door leading to The Ratway, Tamala immediately crouched . After only a few steps she heard a conversation between two men in the distance. And unfortunately for her, one of them decided to check on the entrance. She didn't have many spots to hide so she quickly moved behind a wall in a small tunnel. She could hear him approaching...will he spot her? Then she saw him - a tall, strong Nord and obviously an archer since he was carrying a big bow on his back. Although he stopped only a few steps away from her, he didn't see her. Tamala wasn't sure whether he'd attack her or not but she didn't intend to find out. He looked mean and strong and not one to be triffled with. Nord eventually turned around and ventured back where he came from, only to return a few minutes later and stopped at a same spot as before.

Now was the time! Tamala could only hope that his friend was not somewhere close. Still crouched, she silently ran behind him down the dirty tunnel...only to bump in his friend who was standing behind a corner! This one looked even more dangerous and obviously didn't have any intention to be nice with Tamala as he pulled out his mace and struck her! Tamala wanted to avoid the fight, she wasn't even sure that she could defeat these two thugs. She continued running and hoped that they'll lose her or that perhaps...perhaps someone would come to her aid. After a few sharp turns she saw an opening down in front of her. Not having any other choice, she jumped down and Nord with a mace did just the same!

There was no other option now - the angry Nord obviously wouldn't let her go at any cost and his friend with a bow probably wasn't far behind either. Having no choice, she pulled out her steel dagger and the duel ensued! Nord was strong and was wearing a shield with which he successfully blocked Tamala's attacks. However he was big and bulky while Tamala was slim and agile so she was jumping from side to side or running around him and hitting him whenever he exposed himself too much.

"No more, no more! I yield, I yield!" yelled the Nord and fell on his knees.

"Now's too late for that!" shouted Tamala, surprised at her own words. She stabbed the Nord for good but in the next second an arrow flew over her head! The archer! He was standing in a tunnel above and was getting ready for another shot. Tamala quickly hurried to a small tunnel with a locked door, hoping that she would be able to unlock them. But the lock was too much for her and it required an expert skill in lockpicking to open it. She was in a dead end. For a few seconds everything was silent and then...

*THUD*

The Nord jumped down! If he came to the tunnel, he would spot her...Tamala readied her bloody steel dagger with whom she killed a man just a few moments ago. But the archer didn't spot her! He was walking up and down over the room, talking to himself but he didn't see her. Eventually he sheated his bow and Tamala heard him walking away. That was close! She decided to wait for a few more minutes just to be sure that he had really left. When everything around her was silent, she began slowly walking out of her hiding place. There was no way to climb back and only one way led out of the room (apart from the heavily locked door). As she entered the other tunnel, she noticed something unusual ahead...it looked like there was someone lying on the floor. She continued slowly, readied a dagger until she realized there was a man ahead. And he seemed dead. Even more...he had a bow on his back! Was this the archer from before?

She hurried to the man and saw it was him. He was dead. Who killed him? But afther she took a look around, she realized the correct question was "What killed him?". There were signs of some trap that was obviously linked to the door and as the archer opened the door, the trap (whatever it was) killed him. "Hmmm...you should really stay guarding the entrance, Nord," she thought while being glad that she didn't need to kill him herself. She took some gold and garnets of both corpses and then carefully continued, on a lookout for more traps.

It was not long after and she met another resident of The Ratway. An Imperial, judging by his appearance, who placed bear traps all over his room. Even more, he was armed with deadly gloves. He spotted Tamala immediately and attacked! At first she had hoped to lure him into one of his own traps but after a few good punches quickly changed her mind. This time Tamala didn't dare to run around him since there were many traps but apart from his powerful gloves the Imperial didn't carry any armor protection and Tamala dealt with him in three acts.

Act 1-> Act 2-> Act 3

After she carefully deactivated most of the traps, Redguard thief continued down The Ratway. Some time later she met another resident - another Imperial. She was turned with her back towards her, obviously looking at something on a table and Tamala sneaked after her. She was good at it and only after she had to make a jump over a wooden cart, a lowlife heard something. She began her search for a possible intruder but it was too late...Tamala already managed to sneak down the stairs and opened the wooden door.

Second test was passed - Tamala found The Ragged Flagon.

Author's note - as you probably noticed, Tamala avoids fight whenever possible so my today's experience in The Ratway was very fun, especially when she found the second bandit already dead. I like it when such spontaneous little things happen!

The Ratway is fun, aint it? Lord Haaf-Mersey actually went down there to "cleanse the Ratway of its riff-raff" (totally non-quest related) but once he got to the Flagon he decided he could not really "cleanse" the folks who dwell down there, not without just cause for doing so.

Wow, those are great pics! Miss Cristophe is frickiin' beautiful as she swings her weapon, holy [censored].

College of Winterhold


Gestor,

You are hereby directed to cease and desist all discussion of your missing apprentices with the College’s new members. Two of my group investigated the barrow Hillgrund’s Tomb on your advice in an effort to locate them (and no doubt impress each other as the youngsters do). Onmund’s death will certainly bring trouble to our institution, as he was our sole Nord applicant since those twins disappeared. Thankfully young Denelle Jeline had no family, so no one should notice her passing.

As I tell my students, safety first. A suit of armor does not make a battlemage, a thought no doubt shared by Onmund in his final desperate moments. So put a sock in it, Phinis.

Oh, and I expect you to arrange for the return of their bodies. Under no circumstances are you to resurrect them. Especially not that sweet young girl.

On second thought, Faralda can do it. You are to leave my apprentices both living and dead ALONE!

Tolfdir

RIP Denelle and Onmund

How do you investigate their disappearances? Is it the same group that did the glove in the Midden?

No, it’s a different group. There’s a piece of dialog from Phinis (I think) that doesn’t actually start anything, but you can find the bodies out in the world with personal items that identify them. Looks like an unfinished quest.

I made it a quest by closing my eyes, jamming my finger into the map, and saying to Denelle and Onmund using Phinis’s voice, “Saaaay, one of them said they were going to check out Hillgrund’s Tomb. Gosh, I hope they’re not lying there injured… waiting for rescue…”

And away they go.

(Just kidding about the voice. )

Wait, I had to rescue Onmund from some powerful necromancer or mage or something - he was being held in an old fort where other mages from the college had disappeared.

Onmund was with Denelle as a follower. Poor guy. He’s no Argis the Bulwark. (Also she shot him. Oops.)

Was the rescue guy Onmund or Orthorn at Fellglow Keep? That’s part of the Winterhold questline. Orthorn is in a cage next to some wolves.

Oh. Well, their names both started with "O," it is possible I ... er ... uh ... well, you might be right.

They wear the same kind of robe and hood, and it’s really dark in there!

Not that dark! XD

ROFL !!! Seen one NPC in a robe, seen them all, ROFL !!!

And I liked Denelle too. Her name is almost the same as mine.

So Kayla picked up The Black Book...

She's decided to go back to Skyrim.