So, McCommander is now level 43? Good show, I say!

Seems like there´s lots o action going on at Cadlew in several games atm

Nice to see Sir Robert out and about. And putting foul necrodudes to the blade!

Roger Ro'Jhirr - my latest character, is a thief (so he can go through the TG quests and then Nocturnal's afterward). He's just hit level 12, and has been summoned to Othrelo's house to start the Ultimate Heist.

But he doesn't think he's ready yet. He has the skeleton key, so locks aren't an issue, but his combat skills and equipment are. He only has a plain Dwarven bow, and his chainmail - every piece enchanted, but a motley set of loot items, as he isn't in the Mages Guild and can't enchant his own - is beginning to look inadequate.

His marksman skill is only 62 - plus a 6 point boost from his gauntlets. His blade is minimal, so he needs a lot of arrows to make sure he doesn't need to fall back to a dagger. That makes him concerned about a long drag-out passage through the catacombs, where he'll run out of ammunition and poisons if he's not conservative with them.

He also has no chameleon gear yet. He's relied entirely on sneak skill so far, but will need a boost for the Palace at the end, so he's avoiding the Gray Fox for now, and looking for some better stuff to wear, and a better bow. If he goes to Lake Arrius Caverns and lets the city gates open, he could go and find Hatred's Soul (and maybe recruit Prizna for Gweden). Hmmm......

The story is progressing faster than I can write it, so here is a (very) brief summary:

• Niamh has become "altered" as a result of a trigger caused by drinking human blood, and has discovered her origins and nature.
• Subsequent to that she has a little "episode", and is located by Luciana and Bogrum, the owner of the Lonely Suitor in Bravil - (We are currently here writing-wise, see fan fiction).
• Brought home and nursed back to health by Luciana, Niamh seems to be much as she was having taken the blood initially - (although that isn't much of a comfort, to be honest) - however she will not speak of what she has learned from Beldanne; Luciana knows that there is more to come and that Niamh clearly isn't herself any more. She realises that something has happened to her partner on a very fundamental level and that "normal" - (even by Niamh's standards) - just simply does not apply...
• Some days later, having trashed her house, Niamh disappears to The Isles - Luciana guesses this as it's obviously the only place she feels she can be - (this is where the story is).
• Luciana resolves to follow her, despite Bogrum's reservations and advice, because some things just cannot be given up...

Oh dear Gods do I know that one... ...

Aaamywho...I do love the Niamh story very much and look forward to more instalments...



On my side, we continued down the Yellow Road, found that inn by the bridge...The name of which I currently forget...Went into that Goblin fort just up the hill from it...Because we'd used so many arrows in there, we farmed the Marauders in...Dear Gods my memory is crap... ...Fort Celdryn...Or is that a character?...The one near Cropsford with the flooded basement...Anyways...Did that, made much money...And then, finally we did the Ayelid ruin called Morehame...YAY!!!...I remember something!!... ...


EDIT!!!...Still can't remember the name of that fort...And I forgot to check...

Anyways, my thing for this morning is...McWylde found a place called Fort Irony...Across the bay from The Mouth of The Panther shipwreck...I've only been back on Oblivion for 24 hours and I'm so sick of Goblin dungeons...It's as bad as the damned Falmer...Well, technically it's the other way around, I know...But still...

Yes, once I realise they're Goblins, I could not go in the places...But there's money to be mined!!...I'm almost a millionaire!!... ...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Aug 27 2013, 06:35 AM

Update: HERE - Niamh's fanfic thread.

Sun's Dusk 29:
Crouching, bereft of all belongings in the darkest region of a Grummite lair, beyond even the lambent glow from the strange subterranean plants, she watches.
Increasingly her vision, through her altered eyes, has lost it's definition and the world has become a place of complex glowing shapes and colours, almost but not quite on the edge of resolution. It makes the back of her head pulse and throb.
Her hearing is becoming more acute, such that far off sounds of creatures in the caverns that she knows are beneath her are brought to her mind, but all at once and with no filter.
Sometimes she feels like her head will explode.

She's making for the Big City, though she can no longer remember why, so for now she just watches.
And waits.

Roger Ro'Jhirr is going round the conjurer dungeons looking for Journeyman level alchemy equipment, so he can make poisons that actual do some damage. His Novice gear is not producing ones that get noticed, and he's taking way too many bow shots for each kill. One the other hand, it's helping to move his marksman skill along.

He still has the Dagon Shrine and Ultimate Heist quests pending, but he wants to prepare himself for those first, and he'll most likely do some more of the Gweden quests along the way. Some of those might need new skills and equipment, too.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Aug 28 2013, 08:43 PM

Sun's Dusk 17, 1:20 pm

Lady Saga is in Fort Cedrian this evening.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Aug 29 2013, 02:19 PM

Shortest update evah!

Yeah, I'm going for the record. Still haven't beaten Phon's "Somewhere west of Chorrol" post.

Why thank you.

(Some 3 weeks earlier)
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The rest of this update can be found in Niamh's fanfic thread HERE

Roger Ro'Jhirr has cleaned out the Lake Arrius Caverns, but Jeelius didn't get out alive this time. With the City Gate opens, Ro'Jhirr has closed the Chorrol one, so he could collect Hatred's Soul, and was attacked by Eugal Bellete when he went into town after. That gave him the key he needed to finish Silanu's quest.

He's closed the Bravil Gate for Prizna, and the Gweden Lodge is starting to fill. Now Shulassa's there, he started spending more time outside Anvil, and taking lessons from Alawen.

So that opened the gate near the farm, and he's had to go and close that one too. Third gate meant third Ascendant Sigil Stone of chameleon, so with the Ring of Shadows a Dremora gave him, he had the full 100%, and could go through the Palace without having to kill anyone.

So now he's done the Ultimate Heist, become Grandmaster, and started on Nocturnal's quests. He's currently trying to get out of the Deadlands with Cyndil, but he's dangerously short of arrows.

Yikes, good luck to Ro'Jhirr and Cyndil! Ring of Shadows a Dremora gave him, lol.

Roger Ro'Jhirr took multiple attempts to get Cyndil out of the Citadel. I'd put five leveled Dremora on the bottom level that are enabled when she's released, and it seemed that she'd always run off and collect the whole set every time we went down there. That meant two or three on one and one of us would get killed every time.

So I had to change tactics. We stopped on the level above and I sniped at the ones we could see using sneak and poison to cut the numbers down before we went there. Of course Hatred's Soul had run out of charge, and I used up my last poison on the third Dremora of five. Cyndil's Bow of Shadows doesn't help the battle when she tries to fire through walls, but she did actually finish off the last one.

I thought I'd lost her on the way down the mountain. You can't go back through the caves, unless everyone in the party has high enough Acrobatics to jump back up the holes, so we scrambled down the rocks. Followers don't pick the best routes, and she took some major falls.

Silverhome-on-the-Water, dusk

Lothran was resting his legs in good company after a day in Blackwood and a brief stop in Leyawiin. Throughout the day he had gotten himself some more Black Bows for his collection and since night had begun to fall he decided to spend it in the Stallion Lodge. It was raining heavily but come morning it had stopped and been replaced by a thick fog.

Leaving the Lodge in the early morning, it took the Nordic Dunmer most of the day to reach Bravil. Once there he entered his home to put all the things he had collected throughout the last few days into a chest. The content is later to be brought to his home in the waterfront.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Sep 1 2013, 05:26 PM

UPDATE: Rescue: Part II

Imperial Prision



This post has been edited by ImperialSnob: Sep 7 2013, 08:04 PM

UPDATE: RESCUE - PART III

[edit: a couple of people asked what the other language is, I'm ashamed to say I haven't made it up! It's Irish, done through a translator.]

This post has been edited by PhonAntiPhon: Sep 8 2013, 10:46 AM