Today Raven went to Windhelm after a trip to Solstheim. It was around 10:00 PM, and she went to pay a visit in Candlehearth hall. Nothing much happened. She just went to relax, and with Serana at her side, look for supper.

She found Susanna The Wicked and thought she'd make a decent meal. So Raven paid the female bard to play a tune to distract everyone while she used vampire seduction to allay the woman's fear. Didn't work as Susanna also stood by as the bard played her song.

She waited until Susanna went downstairs and then fed, and then when she fell asleep, Raven went for seconds

So you're saying music > vampire's powers?

It would seem that way. She didn't use her powers there, just a distraction method

She didn't want to get caught, so getting someone away was a bit tricky when the entire tavern was awake.

While exploring, Trey the Arch Mage (ahem) discovered a vein of gold ore near a cave outside of which someone (or several someones) appeared to have been recently torn to bits.

“How sad,” he thought.







“How sad that I left my pickaxe in my other armor and will have to go back to Breezehome to get it.”





Later he also “mined” a Stormcloak camp after it was attacked by a frost dragon.

He never claimed to be “nice.” And besides, he really wants to improve his smithing.

Darnand and Jerric (Argis) have been entertaining me with the antics of their summonings.

Darnand’s fire atronach tends to pelt Jerric’s dremora in the back with her fireballs, causing him to turn around and chase her across the countryside while Jerric smashes the enemy and Darnand runs in circles healing him and trying not to die. He’s discovered fire runes. Unlike fireballs they usually only blow up the bad guys.

Lately Jerric summons a frost atronach (with a staff) and Darnand summons the dremora. That means the frost atronach takes exception to Darnand’s fireballs on a pretty regular basis. Also Jerric’s stray ice spikes tend to annoy Darnand’s dremora. The big fights can get pretty lively.

Plus it is difficult to maneuver around a Nord and a frost atronach in corridors, and Darnand has no control over when Jerric calls up the ice man. Yesterday Darnand got stuck between one of those swinging gate traps and the wall. STUCK. Jerric (Argis), the dremora, and the frost atronach wiped up the enemy and then came over to stand around and look at him through the gate. Darnand couldn’t get any of them to step on the pressure plate! I had to reload!

Good lord! Yeah, I would say that's a reloadable moment.

LHM has been going through some similar issues with Ingjard. He gave her an ice spike staff and a staff which throws 40-point fireballs (the ones that explode on impact). He got tired of rushing into battle, battling an enemy, only to have fireball after fireball explode in his face.

So we only re-enchant the fireball staff when it seems there will be some definite undead or vampire enemies. And once the staff is enchanted, LHM usually just lets Ingjard go crazy with it before he then finds an enemy to engage with.

Ice spikes are kinda the same problem, but at least with these LHM can engage with the enemy and then pivot about 90 degrees (so the enemy's side is ready for some ice spikes). This way, LHM no longer takes any spikes in his back.

Renee, it sounds like Ingjard is LHM’s kind of lady! He never made the bandits turn sideways for Mjoll. The same issue works out for Jerric in his game. Darnand (Marcurio) goes crazy with his chain lightning and Jerric (Atronach stone) absorbs enough to keep healing and dishing out the ice storms. Darnand has the Apprentice Stone in his game, so he’ll never give Jerric (Argis) one of those AOE staves. He would be a magecicle!

Acadian, the fellas had a legendary battle against one mage (in the near pitch-darkness), and I just couldn’t figure out what was going on. Turns out Darnand kept healing the bad guy instead of Jerric. D’oh! Sometimes he fights like a scholar.

That would be a great taunt for TES VI: "You fight like a scholar!"

"Book-reader! Go back to the library!"

And there are reasons 2 through 53 why Trey prefers to avoid followers.... Grits, as always, your descriptions make me smile- and laugh out loud.

In other news, Trey found he could not be a member of the Lawn Dart, because there are no throwable weapons in Skyrim. (I blame the Thalmor- stupid arbitrary laws against traditional cultural armaments.....)

He went to visit a museum and found a town that seems plagued by Daedric princes. The whole "do a favor for Marooned Dragon" strikes him as odd- but- hey... killing banditti, so why not?

And then the people are complaining about bad dreams. Trey ruminated to himself- "Bad dreams? Try waking up every morning to your 'housecarl' looming over the bed or sitting in the chair in your room! No one told me that housecarling meant watching me (literally) while I sleep. It might be different if she wasn't wearing all that armor AND the sword when she does it."

This post has been edited by treydog: Jun 8 2013, 12:31 PM

@ Treydog's bad dream moments.

It is not widely known, but Lydia used to be a Fighter's Guild porter.

HA haa haahahahaa!

Oh god, hahahahahahaha!!!

Trey finally took care of his other business and went to see about signing up with the vampire hunters, even though there are no lawn darts. This mostly had to do with the fact that a master vampire showed up in his house. There will be a discussion with Lydia about that Real Soon Now ™.

The voyeurism he can live with- vampirism- not so much.

On the way he found what must have been the happy hunting ground for every sabre cat in Skyrim- and they apparently heard Sam Elliot on the Sabre Cat Wireless Network (KCAT) saying,

“Trey- it’s what’s for dinner.”

It's the other white meat...

Which rather reminds Trey- although Lydia did not prevent the vampire from getting into the house- the body did disappear in a hurry. Trey makes a note to himself to just say no to any "stew" Lydia offers him for the next little while.

Trey has decided to name the dead dragon that seems to be following him around "Shep."

So far, Shep is good at "Roll Over" and "Play Dead." They are still working on "Fetch." And since Shep seems to mostly "un-live" in Whiterun, "Speak" is probably a bad idea.