Exactly. Jerric is the last guy you’d want to have catch you in a Mythic Dawn robe. He’s not known for moderation.

Allek and Njall the Unliving are the only ones of mine who have done the quest.

Njall just wanted a new soul as his reward from Dagon, so he dropped the damned dagger on the shrine and stalked off when he realized it wasn’t going to happen.

Allek decided he would stick the dagger into Silus as soon as it was restored before Silus had even finished telling him the plan. That quest could have been written for Allek.

My ex-Morag Tong chick could really use the dagger, but she’s a follower of the Reclamations and a Mephala devotee in particular. I can’t imagine that she’d agree to increase Dagon’s influence in any way.

Someone of mine (I think Rowan) got tangled up with ice wolves on the way to the Lord Stone, and the dremora from the shrine ran down to join the fight. There may have also been a dragon. I’m pretty sure she could get into the shrine after that. Great source of respawning loot and hearts.

What? I've never seen one there and Aravi's been to the Lord Stone several times.

Yep. There were two outside the shrine who came down to join the fight. (There was a lot of running.) I was surprised. She may have had the quest in her log already, but she hadn’t done it. Also this was long ago. I wonder if that was one of those inappropriate quest-related spawn issues that was patched. I’ll have to run someone new by there and check.


I wonder what happens when we leave those quest items in the box? I can’t remember who, but one of my characters found Meridia’s Beacon. S/he took one look and thought, No way am touching that glowing stone. (That sounds like Big D, actually. It was probably him.) So it stayed in the chest and no quest popped up. I wonder if the chest will respawn and take the stone away with it.

The two dremora by Dagon's Shrine should only appear while you are doing the quest, and then only when you are there at the end with Silus. Otherwise the door is inaccessble, and there is no one there. You probably ran into a glitch that spawned them early.

I think things like Meridia's Beacon probably do randomly respawn elsewhere if you stay out of the dungeon you originally find it in long enough for it to reset. The beacon can be found at random in any boss chest in the game. I think there is probably a script running in the background that makes a dice roll every time to open a boss chest to see if it is there. Or maybe it picks a place at random from all the boss chests at the start of the game? Maybe the latter, because when you start the quest, it will give you a map marker for where the beacon is if you have not already found it.

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I just ran my new characters up to the shrine (pre- and post-pamphlet), and it was empty and locked up tight. I guess it was a glitch. That’s too bad.

In other news, I spent a little time in Darnand’s game getting Jerric’s (Argis’) gear together. It is tremendous fun to play Darnand the mage backed up by Jerric the battlemage. Here is a picture of Darnand and Jerric with their hot Skyrim chicks. Now Jerric (Argis) has the Sanguine Rose, so I’m sure the mayhem will increase. Next item on the list: the Shield of Solitude. Then they’ll make a Frost Atronach Staff. It should be interesting to see if one summoning staff gets used over the other or if he uses both.

Uthgerd’s house is more sparsely decorated in Darnand’s game. Jerric has had more time to accumulate stuff. Also Darnand is picky. He doesn’t want just any book on the dresser upstairs, he wants ‘his’ copy of Dwemer Inquiries Volume II. And a Dwemer gyro to put next to it.

love their hot chicks!

I also love those characters who just have to have things just so. Aren't they wonderful?

That's so cute XD

Yeah, this place is sooo icky. The lighthouse with the family that moved in. Let's forget about the chauruses for a moment: I can only imagine how depressing it would be to move into a friggin' lighthouse on a coast in the middle of nowhere.

Yikes!*shudders*



Cool! This is so awesome!

OK so here’s Part B of the Dawnstar Museum incident as it played out in Darnand’s game (with Argis as Jerric). I’ve mentioned how in some ways Darnand’s and Jerric’s games are mirrors of each other, but this is the first time I’ve really made things happen during the game. (I usually switch to first person for administrative duties rather than having the characters do it. Same controls, different experience.) Jerric now carries the Shield of Solitude and can summon a dremora (Sanguine Rose for Argis) in both games. But Argis in Darnand’s game won’t give up his ebony axe, even though Darnand keeps giving him cool swords. Anyway.

The guys arrived in a snowstorm and followed Silus inside. He made his presentation to Darnand and Jerric (Argis), who as usual was standing back a little. When the moment of rage arrived I had Darnand give the follower command Attack Silus (as Jerric had done). I wasn’t sure what would happen since my criminals don’t tend to use followers.

Jerric muttered something and whipped out his axe. While he was stalking forward Silus had time to summon a Familiar which jumped on Darnand. Then Silus attacked Darnand with lightning.

At that point things got confusing. A Dawnstar guard entered and confronted Darnand by smacking him with her… mace? It was hard to see through the blood and lightning.

Then I heard kaboom YOU MEET YOUR END, MORTAL! It was one of those moments when the game delivers sheer delight. Jerric had summoned his dremora.

Thankfully the guard entered her arrest dialog with Darnand before Silus and his Familiar did too much damage to him. Darnand had instinctively loaded up a fireball, and letting one off in there would have been a really bad idea. So while the guard was facing Darnand with her weapon in her hand telling him off for being naughty in Dawnstar (40 Septim fine), right behind her Jerric and the dremora had Silus pinned against the wall between two display cases. Jerric was using his axe and the dremora is armed with a greatsword, so over the guard’s shoulder all I could see was their backs and a heaving mass of overhead chopping as those two hacked Silus to death.

Then Darnand went along quietly to pay his 40 gold fine.

So today Raven is ready to assault the Dawnguard fortress! May Bal be with her

So the bards you hire at Winstaad manor canNOT sing XD

Oric-Shaarn Royal headed away from the Warrior Stone, his arm tingling with a power he'd not felt before. "Hrn..." he grumbled, "No warning signs for the unsuspecting then?"

Shaking his head as he walked further down the path, Oric shifted the weight of his pack around to ease his shoulder, not yet fully healed from his time in Helgen.

A sudden howl lifted his eyes from the road to scan the woods to his right. A trio of wolves walked slowly forward, growling as they came until they stopped with their paws on a rock slightly above the gravel road.

A bass rumble, more felt than heard pricked the wolves ears up...

Oric bared his teeth and growled; then he took hold of the handle of his greatsword and started to unsheathe it.

In moments, the wolves were gone.

"Clever boys." said the Orc Knight of The Nine, and headed on until he reached the small town of Riverwood...


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Booyah!!...I've started again, and I'm being an Orc this time...No different playstyle...Just me, my sword/Shield and charging in and taking punishment as I deal it out...Fun times!!...

Well, looks like I'm the only one playing at the mo so... ...

An update on Oric-Sha Royal...

Currently levelling up at just over one per hour, we're currently at level 25...

Having cleared out one of the Dwemer ruins...Oh yeah, that one in Markath...We got ourselves a huge amount of Dwemer metal and have ramped the Smithing up with the dwarven armour...Much fun...And money!!...

We finished the Companions questline...And so, in an effort to make things slightly different to the others, I've had Oric embrace the werewolf power when things have gotten a wee bit tricky with the multiple enemies...And yes, I will admit, using the wolf-form to tear Morvath apart was deeply satisfying...Ah, the joys of disease resistance... ...

Erm...Currently we're doing up the house in Morthal...As we've not had the time to stockpile the Iron Ingots, it's taking more time, and is therefore more fun, than it did/was with J'zirlo...Especially as I'm dividing the Ingots with any Smithing I'm doing...

Oric doesn't really use the magic much...He's more of a charge in and smite with his broadsword type...Although, the Illusion is going up from the Muffle, and restoration is going up from the healing...We'll see...Currently I'm putting the health/stamina/magicka up one point each as the level-up comes, but I may stop with the magicka...Maybe, I don't know... ...

Finding ways of playing the same sort of character differently has been hugely fun...Now I've finally gotten a handle on him, Oric may turn out to be my fave of the three Tank-Knights I've done so far...

Sounds like fun, McB. I've yet to try and orc, I wonder if I ever will.

I haven't been playing Skyrim at all for about a month. Summer's been too nice this year, and I feel weird being in a virtual winter's environment when it's actually warm and sometimes muggy (humid) outside. I've been gaming a lot of Oblivion, and I also got Fallout 3 last week, and am surprised to find myself rather addicted to this game. I didn't think I'd like it so much, but I can't seem to get enough of it.

I will return to Skyrim in the fall, no doubt. Here's a quick run-down on my three Skyrim characters...where I think I left them.

Lord Haaf-Mersey is in the Soul Cairn with Serana. This place is a lot bigger than I thought it would be. I thought it would be a linear experience, too, but since it's not, I wanna explore the place a bit.

Mycharonna the Ice Witch was on her way to Riften back when I last saw her in May or June. She's supposed to be getting some object 'appraised' for the Dark Brotherhood.

Naska is my newest character; I created him but haven't started gaming with him yet. Naska is based on a character a friend of mine made way back in high school. He probably will do the Thief's Guild.

Keep it up, McB. Eventually I will start writing again.

I haven't played Skyrim in awhile, either.

I'm glad you're having fun with Oric, McB. Orcs are such fun.

GAAAAH! Jerric killed Silus? The Silus from the Wobbly? Urk ...

Goodness, no! Jerric killed Silus Vesuius the Skyrim NPC who talks about how awesome the Mythic Dawn was for bringing about the end of the Septims. Then he wants the player to help him re-forge Mehrunes Razor. As you can imagine his plan did not fly with Jerric.

Silus the Brawler of the Wobby Goblet is Jerric's drinking buddy. Jerric has been known to yell, "Dance, bitch!" at Silus the Brawler late in the occasional evening, but it's all in good fun.

Oh how I would love to hear stories about the two of them rousing (and carousing) it up at the Wobbly! Lol.





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Aravi got Windcaller's horn back to the Greybeards and then went down the mountain to Riverwood where 'A Friend' told her to rent the attic room. She got there after 10 PM. It was pouring.

She goes in, expecting to get some rest after listening to some woman talk about the Blades, Thalmor, and dragons. Then the woman decides they have to leave right now for Kyne's Grove. A dragon is supposedly going there.

Aravi says she's not ready. Doesn't matter. The woman changes into armor and goes outside into the pouring rain. Aravi is seriously considering just going to bed at this point.

This is a dragon though. Can she sleep if this thing is actually going to attack that village? Very reluctantly she tells Kharjo in the bar that they are hitting the road, in the pouring rain, in the middle of the night. She did not stay to see his expression.

Here's a little update from Jensa:

It’s been a long time since I did anything I thought I should write down. Then I went to Whiterun with Stenvar and we trapped a dragon. Time to get out the quills and ink.

I learned how to call the dragon by name from the Blades. They’re still not talking to me on account of I won’t kill Paarthurnax, but I guess the last time I was up at the Temple I got Esbern’s attention.

He showed me the words. My blood knew how to say them.

Then I went to Dragonsreach and talked to the Jarl. That would be Jarl Vignar since I removed my friend Balgruuf the Greater back when I was a Stormcloak. But this is supposed to be about new deeds, not old ones.

Vignar didn’t care for me in my days as a whelp in Jorrvaskr and he still doesn’t like me much. But that didn’t matter once a dragon landed right on the palace porch. Odahviing. His name was a song in my blood, but I guess it pissed him off to hear me sing it. Anyway his scaly backside got squashed in the trap just like Numinex all those years ago, at least according to the nonsense I helped them write down while I was at the Bards College.

I probably shouldn’t admit to that.

Odahviing talked himself back out of the trap in about ten minutes, just like the dovah that he is. We hatched a plan where I was going to fly with him to Alduin’s stronghold. Just me. And then he was going to leave me stranded up there to fight through all of Alduin’s defenses. It sounded like another trap.

Still I had to do it. I let Odahviing go, and he stayed true. Then it was up to me.

Stenvar and I went over to the side so we could speak more privately. We knew the day would come when I had to leave him and find my end in ice or fire. I had a fight waiting for me in Sovngarde, and that’s not a place for the living. Now that the moment was here I was fighting my emotions. I could see that he was, too.

“I don’t know how long this will take,” I said. “I don’t know how I’ll make it back, or where I’ll be. I’ll try to call to you, Stenvar. In a dream or something. And maybe I’ll hear you somehow if you speak my name.”

Stenvar pulled off his gauntlets and took my face in his hands. “Now and forever, kid. It doesn’t matter where, I’ll hold you again. This life is only the beginning.”

So then I kissed him as best as I could with both of us chin to toe in armor. We must have looked like two dwarven centurions trying to get close to each other.

“Make sure Calder knows where you are,” I told him. “So I can find you. In case.”

Stenvar pulled out a smile while he was checking my gear. “Ready?”

“Yeah.”

He gave me a look.

“Oh, hells, you’re right,” I said. “First I should probably go pee.”