After the revelation awhile back, those days are over

Yesterday said elf took a stroll in the eastern part of the mountains where he practiced archery on some long-distanced bandits. The first one was easy but the second just couldn´t stop moving around so eventually he switched to Targetfinder and simply charged.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 12 2014, 04:42 PM

Thanks Acadian. All the greenery is the only thing Tallei Luia knows.

Today was a beautiful day in Leyawiin from start to finish.

The dawn came just as the night's rain was clearing. Tallei was able to head down to Topal Bay to catch it. She couldn't resist and went in the water. Of course, being out in the wilderness so far from the city walls, she didn't forget to keep company around.

Before the sun went much higher, she returned to Leyawiin and took Casey out for an early morning ride. They went up to Molapi, a little village just north of Leyawiin. Here she enjoyed the view from the dock.

Then it was time to head back to Leyawiin and dinner at the Mages Guild. With a full stomach, she stepped out to see a lovely sight. It was the Golden Hour, that hour right before sunset when the light is just amazing. She tried to picture what the birds saw in that magical time. At times like this, she envies their ability to soar above the streets among the spires of the Chapel.

Beautiful pics there, HER. Love the one with the skeleton in the background especially.


Huh. Interesting. She makes strong poisons but not potions.

That's one thing I've seen with several of my past characters: they might start off with Alchemy, start to get really good at it, but after awhile their magic starts getting so strong, they won't actually need their Alchemy skills anymore. Eradi~Kate is an example. I don't know if this is what happened with Buffy, but that seems to be the case with some of mine.

One of the mods I want to get someday is something which slows magic down. Restoration is a slow-moving skill, it would be ideal to have all the other magic skills level upwards just as slowly.

Wonderful lighting in those pics. I especially liked seeing the Secunda in the sky.

Buffy's limitations on potions are pure RP of course, but it does seem to flow naturally that she pays a price for the time and devotion she puts into the 'archer' of being a mystic archer. There is only so much she can be highly proficient with.

As an archer, she is a world class sniper, but she cannot really shoot on the move and is poor at hitting a moving target. She also aims carefully and shoots slowly; that is emphasized by her sniper bow. It is very powerful, but slow to fully draw, aim and fire.

Although she's a master of destruction, that was achieved by specializing in only a few destructive effects. Her skill with the elements is really only good enough to light fires, cooking or chilling an ale for a friend. The destruction effects she has skill with are few, and well suited to who she is -
-Weakness to poison - obvious for an archer.
-Drain speed - we treat this as an illusion effect, for what we are after is the ability to briefly bring a foe's mind to a stop (which drain speed can do). So it is simply another illusion-type command type effect for her.
-Disintegrate weapons and armor. Buffy's primary arcane specialty is illusion, but her secondary is restoration. She is very much a healer. As such, she finds it (pure RP here) very helpful, in the case of grave wounds, to simply disintegrate the patient's armor away from the wounded area before healing the flesh beneath. Clearly, she doesn't do this (damage a patient's armor) for minor wounds. And disintegrating an embedded arrow is absolutely the definitive and least traumatic way to remove the missile before healing the wound itself.

In the case of conjuration, she is actually quite handy at summoning simple bound utility items like repair hammers, towels, a hunting knife for skinning game or cutting her arrows free. Even handkerchiefs. However, summoning a daedric cuirass, lich or storm atronach is way beyond her ability - even though she actually is a master of conjuration. Again, she's sort of specialized within the magic schools.

When it comes to restoration, she is a superb empathic healer and diagnostician, but that comes with two prices: She can only heal by touch (laying on of hands) and she must absorb some of her patient's pain unto herself (empathic).

And i have returned to my darling redguard achress, Lissa! After some time away it's been wonderful returning to her.

This morning she went for her usual early morning jog in her hometown, Anvil, inadvertedly finding herself beeing leered at by a guard on watch. She wasn't best pleased as she suddenly felt awkward bathing in the lake. Such grossness, as she would say. She must now stink for the rest of the day.

The rest of her day had her visiting her friends at the fighters guild and the mages guild (althougj she causef some upset by eating poor sparky's sweetroll. Imp's can get so emotional

Her evening was spent walking the Gold Coast enjoying the evenung breeze. Tomorrow she plans to get back to work clearing a local cave, but for now she will enjoy the peace and quiet.

This post has been edited by Rihanae: Jan 14 2014, 08:00 AM

Welcome back, Rihanae and Lissa

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 14 2014, 01:55 PM

Rihanae! Mirocu's right - a warm welcome back to you and Lissa!

Eating Sparky's sweetroll! Try making up with him by offering him some crab meat.

Eilidh had to backtrack a touch, so we are back in the vicinity of Anvil once again, seems to her like she's not going to get away from the port city. It's particularly frustrating being there because the ship she came in on is still docked, much to her chagrin, and the ship's master's amusement...

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Couple of things I am learning about this young lady...
- She's surprisingly religious, and even though her Gods are different she does appreciate the worship in Cyrodiil - (if nothing else) - as far as she has seen it and seems at least genuinely aggrieved that the chapel in Anvil was done over. Attacking members of the religious orders in her country is punishable by instant death with no trial.
- She's more "modest" in the sense that she's rather less inclined to get her kit off at any opportunity, don't get me wrong, she's got no problems displaying a bit of skin and she knows how many beans make five but unlike Niamh you're not going to be getting photos of her running around the landscape in her underwear, she was brought up to demand and respect privacy - (sleeping in the Fighter's Guild dormitory is unpleasant. Even in her military career she has always had separate quarters and a maid).
- She has high expectations and is undoubtedly offhanded and spoilt, but she can also handle herself and she's not afraid to get her hands dirty when it suits her. Although she is a princess she's also aware that respect must be earned and so has mucked in with both the best and worst of her father's army - (although she is bathed by a servant afterwards and has several people to mend her armour and weapons for her).
- Aside from that saving grace though she's pretty much got no real feel for the common elf and no real sense of where and how she stands in society - how she should and must behave - nor does she care how she is viewed. These are but some of the reasons why her father has sent her to Cyrodiil - (but more on that later)
- She's actually a Very Good scout - (which is another reason) - and a natural with blades. Swordplay is held in great esteem, worthwhile swordplay that is; not that fencing rubbish.
- Eilidh is very much more down to earth - (refreshingly so) - and much more pragmatic and less "metaphysical". She doesn't carry deep-seated feelings of misery and despair and tends to leave her baggage at home - (what little she has). I'm not suggesting she's shallow, but she is not the deep pool of dark mystery that her predecessor was.
- She loves clothes and shopping. Niamh only did towards the end but that was... abnormal, and partly due to Looch's influence. Eilidh loves her clothes and has looted almost as much clothing as she has armour and weaponry.
- She, unlike Niamh, is a lover of both "Apples and Oranges" - not unusual in her society - although from a marriage point of view any male - (or female) - characters out there are out of luck unless they are from a high standing family from her country, and even then they should be prepared to wait for quite a while until both she, and court protocol, says that it's time - oh and it's pretty much expected that there will be affairs - particularly if the begetting of a royal heir/ess is deemed necessary - so don't bother applying if you're the jealous and possessive type...
- Oh yeah, a word on her attitude to other races: She's an Elf - (Ailph) - and staunchly Pro-Elf. One of the first things that struck her about Cyrodiil is how the Elfs there have no more social standing than common humans. This strikes her as a sad state of affairs, but more surprising is the fact that Orcs - (thyrs, in her tongue) - are actually allowed out in public without a master or a mistress and appear to be able to act independently and have weapons and property! To her it isn't right, after all she owns four of them, and yes they are ok once they're trained up but she personally wouldn't trust them with anything sharper than a fork...
There are no talking lizards in her country, nor are there Kats. She doesn't know what to make of them but they aren't like her and so consequently she can't help feeling they are a bit... strange, and therefore clearly inferior. She's not racist as such, but she has been brought up in a very specific way and is <ahem> more than a little close-minded and set in her opinions, but then she's never known another way and she is a product of her culture - (although her father... well, he has "plans" in that respect).
Oh yeah, and humans? They have them too and whilst they aren't treated as servants they aren't exactly appreciated. Tolerated is a reasonable description.

Will she change...?
We shall see...

There's more to her, and as we travel I'm sure I'll learn it.

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So now we learn what was in the scroll that Donal gave to Eilidh:

Eilidh's Fanfic page

No wonder she's cross all the time!

Today Lothran cleared out Plundered mine and Capstone cave. He took the sneaky approach this time and although he didn´t collect many items of interest, he had a fun ride

Phon, glad to see you and Grumpy getting closer as you learn more about her.

Mirocu, Bruma is certainly a much safer area in the winter with Lothran around to keep the nearby dungeons clear. Buffy doesn't clear Plundered Mine often, but she does enjoy evicting those bandits out of Capstone Cave pretty regularly.

She should help Lothie with Plundered Mine instead since those pesky goblins pose a threat to road dwellers

Yeah, she's got lots of potential this one, if ONLY she'd lighten up a bit!!

This is awesome, Phon:



Niamh is rather like a girlfriend who is dark and mysterious, but also she was very moody and cantankerous at times. Eilidh is more like somebody whom you can live with day-to-day, without worrying so much about if she's going to bite your head off or give you the 'evil eye' or something. She is concerned about her place in society (Niamh never seemed like she cared), and seems like she's trying at something. She's trying to figure stuff out. It's interesting the way she is, is what I mean to say.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Jan 18 2014, 01:50 AM

Now that's very interesting that is, I think you've Niamh nailed down very much there. I often felt very sorry for Looch and Vilja because it must have So Hard for them living with her, I felt kind of guilty at times!

I'm still getting to know Eilidh it must be said but I do think that somewhere underneath all her spoilt Princess stuff is a genuinely nice girl with strong beliefs. She's very capable and quite sensitive and whilst she might not be the brightest she has a lot of common sense and a good eye for a situation and the people around her.
Her problem is is that she's so used to being a Princess that she's never really bothered using her natural talents. Even on the battlefield or scouting she's never *really* been in danger.

So yes she's spoilt and a bit lazy and rather stroppy and "high maintenance". BUT she's also quite chipper and has a lighter, livelier and more inquisitive nature. She's passionate too, but not as darkly so, and when she puts her mind to it and tries - well she's actually rather good at many things, but she doesn't bother though; for instance she's actually quite good with people but she kind of has an expectation that They will get on with Her which leads to people misjudging her. Maybe this will change.

Now though, she's been thrown into somewhere she doesn't want to be and she has to work out how to get through her tasks, and why?
Because the things you and I have touched upon are the things her father can see in her and this is his way of drawing them out - whether or not this goes entirely to plan is kind of the point...

Much like Niamh, hers is a story of self-discovery and there will be peaks and troughs along the way but unlike the Bosmer, Eilidh's story will I think follow a very much more upward curve.
But what do I know? The future hasn't been written yet.

Tonight Lothran has been hunting goblins in Silver Tooth Cave. Poisons brought were quickly put to use and he was soon out and had to rely solely on spells. Much gold was found and many valuable items collected to sell back home in Bruma. Lothran decided to go on this trip before his fourth guard shift; a nice little warm-up if you will

When Targetfinder was out of charges, good ol´ Snowflake was put to use. Remarkable little trinket it is. It may be low on effect but it makes up for it in speed and together with a seven-second paralyzation spell it´s rather effective, even against goblin warlords! Ten hits means an extra 30 health points damaged, and then I didn´t count the dagger´s own damage potential!

Worthy of mention is also Shocker, Lothran´s custom bow, that did its job just as well and served mainly as a means to deliver some nasty green packages

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 19 2014, 09:54 PM

Hmm. Targetfinder. I'll have to remember that name for the quiz show.



Why is that? Because they're much more 'normal' than Niamh perhaps?



I just get the sense that she's 'trying'. That's really it. She's trying to figure stuff out, Eilidh is. She doesn't really have to try (does she?) yet she is doing so anyway.

Grumpy is in a foreign land with no one to serve her. She´s gotta rely on just her own abilities now, maybe even for the first time...

Of course I´m just guessing

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 18 2014, 11:27 PM

Yes, they were more "normal" than her, more open and certainly in Looch's case her life was much much simpler.
Both of her lovers got hugely caught up in the emotional rollercoaster of Niamh's personality, unfortunately one them never survived the experience and the other was utterly changed by it.

But it wasn't just that, Niamh was by nature secretive and selfish - not deliberately so I don't think - but she was. Hard to know, and harder to please.
She had "something" about her though and let's not forget that she fell for Looch first, which was surprising even for me, Looch was what? A barmaid.
I didn't even think she was Niamh's type, nor did I think that after V Niamh would ever meet anyone else, given what had happened.
It took me a while to realise that one of the reasons that Niamh fell for Looch was Precisely Because Looch a nobody, "just" a barmaid - normal. I think on some level Niamh longed for that stability.

But though she did fall for her she initially treated Looch terribly but eventually things calmed down and for a brief time looked, if not normal, then at least better.
Looch was I think with hindsight better for her then than V had been, certainly at that point in her life. Although V and her had a very intense relationship it served really to feed the fires of Niamh's random passions rather than to manage them, with predictably terrible results.

Looch helped her to control herself and her feelings to an extent, but I think by then it was sadly rather too late.
Niamh was destined to grow old and be happy - I just didn't know until very near the end.



Eilidh is trying, indeed, and yes she has been thrown to the wolves in a foreign land and has to figure things out for herself
She has never really had to try too hard in the past and that is precisely one of the reasons why she has been placed in this situation, so that she has to.
It will either make or break her.

I suspect the former, because there's more to her than anyone - even she herself - imagines.
I think she's very likeable, but she just needs to loosen up a bit.
We shall see.