Turdas, 10:44 PM 21st of Second Seed

"Huh? .. I was sure I heard something."

The bandit cautions herself as she puts her tankard of mead on a nearby table. It's been days since she's had a break. Stand guard. Sleep. Stand guard. Eat. Stand guard. The routine has dragged on for almost a year now, yet she never tires, never gives up her cause. Yes, she's not exactly on the front lines where she'd prefer to be, instead (as an archer) she's often posted up here, two stories above the road itself. But she's a part of 'the cause', and knows that someday she, and others like her, MANY others like her, will rise against the Nords of Markath, and take back what is rightfully theirs.

"Must be my imagination".

She stares across the brilliant Skyrim landscape, gazing upon snow-capped mountains. She begins to fidget with her deerskined jerkin, while a dark figure creeps from behind.


Day 277
Mycharonna the Ice Witch has just left Broken Tower Redoubt full of dead Forsworn bandits. She was no match for the boss of this place, a wizard who could have killed her with three blows of his shock-magic. Even a powerful vampiress such as she must sometimes give up a fight. The little story above tells the tale of a not-so-fortunate Forsworn.

Mycharonna has decided to roam the area around Markath for awhile, postponing her trip to Solitude. The bride known as Vittoria Vici isn't to be married until the 30th of Second Seed*. The Ice Witch has time to explore and terrorize.

* (I am RPing this part since the game doesn't give an actual limit).

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Mar 9 2014, 03:20 AM

HELGEN #1
"What's your name, Elf?"
The shouts of soldiers and the clatter of weapons echoed around the windblown courtyard. Someone's discarded linen shawl blew between the legs of the small group of guardsmen standing lazily to attention beside an old and scarred desk set up in the middle of the wide space.

Behind this desk, holding a quill pen poised over a ragged sheet of parchment, sat a hard-eyed and angular woman of maybe 50 summers, bedecked in the regalia of a captain of the guard.
She sighed, and waved the quill at a soldier standing behind the prisoner.

With a grunt of acknowledgement the soldier lifted his spear and slammed the butt end of it into the small of the captive's back.
She fell to her knees on the hard dusty ground, sucking a pained breath in through between dirty, clenched teeth.
"Your name." Demanded the captain once again.

After a moment longer, the prisoner looked up at the captain behind her desk; regarded her with large, nearly black eyes set in a gaunt face framed by lank, straw-coloured hair from which protruded the pointed tips of distinctive Elven ears.

The Elf opened her mouth and said in a low, cracked voice; "Eilidh."

A really cool story, Ms. Gade, especially the fact that you only mention Mycharonna creeping from behind but leave the ending out. Another thing I like is that you set a fixed date for the wedding. Although I haven't gamed Skyrim for a long, long time, I really enjoy reading Mycharonna's stories.

Here - FanFic section

Kayla has been busy. I restarted her game, and haven't done the Whiterun quest, so her world is Dragon free, which only sucks because her home is in Whiterun, but the jarl of Falkreath has contacted her, and she's currently working on getting some land, since she's been made Thane.

Well, I've gone and started again...*Sigh*... ...

The chap's based on a character in the Assassin's Creed Multiplayer thing that I properly loved the style of...Called The Wayfarer...

Anyways, I've made him look as much like him as I can...And, as the AC version uses a war-club thing, I shall be using maces as far as possible...

Hells that's all a bit boring...

Anyways...So far, I followed Hadvar for the first time...And loved it...Awesome character...And basically, Wayfarer's been clearing out Embershard mine, and doing a couple of Bounty missions...Much awesomeness...

Nothing subtle - Shoulder down-CHAAAAARGE!!!-Smashy-Ouch-Killyness...Y'know...What I normally do... ...

Much fun...It's a shocker how much fun it is actually...I thought I'd done far too much for it to be fun again...*Shrug*...

Liz, great to hear that Kayla's back in action!

McB, gosh it's nice to have you back. Even better to hear that you're playing a TES game (even if it is the cold weather one - )

Here's the most recent update: RALOF (fanfic thread, if anyone's interested - comments are as ever more than welcome.)

This post has been edited by PhonAntiPhon: Mar 13 2014, 09:30 PM

Wayfarer is currently sitting on one of the benches beneath the mighty tree in Whiterun, considering his options...



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I can't decide...I really can't...I'm thinking it's going to be the Companions and all that...But I'm not sure whether to bother or not...It may be too soon for me really...I just got excited watching McGirl play her latest Assassin and decided I had to play it meself... ...

Though just listening to the Oblivion soundtrack has really made me miss Cyrodiil...So maybe I'll be headed there instead... ...

Companions is pretty fun, I can't wait to do it again, this time on PC.


Sundas, 9:38 PM, 24th of Second Seed, 4E 202

Days Passed: 280

"Prepare to die!" shouts the Mercenary as he readies his sword. A dark figure had just appeared in the middle of the road before him, and he can already taste the gold that's been offered, assuming this dark figure is the one whom he now hunts.

This mercenary battlemage had been hired just hours before by a local he had met in Dragon's Bridge. The local was a fisherman who informed this village that he had found evidence of the vampire's trail at Robber's Gorge: not only had all the bandits of this campsite been found dead, but some of their flesh had also been torn to shreds in a way in which no animal would do. Wolves, cats, and skeevers always ate the flesh they tore away, they never left it scattered about the landscape.

Unlike other vampires who merely stayed in their lairs *, it was rumored that this one traveled from place to place. This one had left her mark in dozens of other locations all over Skyrim: the village of Karwathstan had been rumored to have also been slain by her. If the fisherman had managed to find the location of the hated vampire, the mercenary would now have 100 extra gold in his pocket if he could take her down. But it was not to be.

His mistake was trying to hunt for her after nightfall. Minutes after encountering the dark figure he had thrown his last fireball, while she countered with an ice storm two men tall and two men wide. There was no escape.

"Arrgh!"

Paralyzed by her cold, he fell to the ground and struggled. The last thing on his mind before the dark figure finished him off was 100 gold in Dragon's Bridge, and a bottle of nord's mead in his hand.

* = with Dawngaurd disabled, there are no travelling vamps except Mycharonna.


Mycharonna the Ice Witch is still headed towards Solitude, she doesn't have to actually be there for another 6 days, so she's taking some time to explore & terrorize.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Mar 17 2014, 01:05 AM

Mycharonna is soooooooooo evil

Aww shucks.

Instead of exploring, she wound up staying in Dragon's Bridge in one day, and got to Solitude the next. There she rented a room, but found a deserted area in the cellar of the Winking Skeever to hide in. With 4 days left to go until the wedding of Vittoria Vici is to commence, Mycharonna's been exploring this town (which she's never been in. I didn't know this until she entered town, and Solitude's scripted 'greeting' started up).

She's been wowing over the clothier's shop, where she found a Mourner's Outfit she looks great in. She bought several other pieces of clothing here, too. All of these other outfits can now be found in the Winking Skeever's basement.

She's fed on two citizens of Solitude: a young, hardy blacksmith, and the snobby lady who runs the clothing store. After feeding on the blacksmith (and he drew his blade in defense), Mycharonna did her usual hypnotism trick, and he merely went back to sleep. The snobby lady was a little more challenging. She was about to call for the guards, even after the ice witch hypnotized her she could feel the chill of evil. She would not just go calmly back to sleep. Mycharonna managed to flee the clothing shop with the speed of an ice wraith.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Mar 17 2014, 01:17 AM

Ingame-wise Eilidh is heading west out of Whiterun towards the large fort, she's been there before and its always proven to be good value. She's intending to "pick up some supplies" and hopefully some cash before heading north to the coast.

Her usual morning hangover is taking longer than to dissipate this morning.
She woke up face down on the bed in The Bannered Made, still in her armor. Her bare feet betrayed the marks of some nighttime activity and with the help of a fortifying flaggon of wine she was able to piece together the fact that she got roaring drunk and went on a burglary spree after having - for reasons best known to herself - removed her boots.

This would account for the fact that she woke up with more money than she had the night before. There were other ways she could have got the money but she's pretty certain she'd have remembered that...

It's probably best she leaves for a while anyway, regardless of her reasons, she vaguely remembers somebody waking up and catching her. Aside from that, everyone knew she was back and more than likely up to her old tricks again and it'll only be a question of time before someone catches her.
Guards or citizens, either way she'll get a kicking.
Again.

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Fanfic-wise, new update soon...

Lol, I read "a young, hairy blacksmith" at first. Nice story, hope we see some pics of her new attire.

As mentioned, Eilidh is in Fort Greymoor.
The bandits in there are well off relatively speaking, and numerous. It'll be handy to get some coin from them before heading north. She intends to head to the coast and then turn west to Solitude.

She has a long way to go before she gets the cash she needs, but she's got proper mates in Solitude so she may be able to get something off them.
One of them does owe her a favour after all, for a little job she did to help him out a couple of months or so ago...

On another note, I shall be censoring some of my future posts for here, as Eilidh can be a bit "fruity", shall we say. Full coverage will be on the blog, once its sorted...

Next installment: fanfic thread

Next installment: FanFic Thread

(Slightly edited for language, but does contain... "grit").

New installment up in the FanFic Thread

Eilidh gets some food for thought, and an obligation...

Saturalia has passed in Ravos' game and he's back on the road! From Lakeview he headed out to Riften so he could some stuff into honeyside, his new 'base of operations'. He hung around in Riften for a day and then set out again for windhelm via shor's stone and Darkwater crossing. He cleared fort greenwall but apart from that it was a pretty uneventful trip. He's now enjoying a some fine sujamma* at the new gnisis cornerclub. He plans to arrive in whiterun in time to celebrate the new life festival and once the new year arrives he'll get on with solving the dragon menace...

In other news, Attia spoke to general tullius in solitude and earned his pardon. She's now on her way to windhelm to join the stormcloaks for a bit of undercover** work for the legion so we'll see how that goes

* bit of rp here - why doesn't the cornerclub sell dunmer drinks?
** apparently you can join the stormcloaks and then after the first mission switch he sides somehow. I made the rp decision that Attia actually escaped Helgen with the stormcloaks and they will readily accept her..

This post has been edited by Vital: Mar 30 2014, 01:02 PM

* because the Dunmer drinks are so horrible that even they cannot stand them?

** You can join either side to start. Then during the quest in Korvunjund to retrieve the Dragon Jagged Crown you can switch to the other side, simply by taking them the Crown instead. Whoever you take the Crown to becomes your side permanently from then on. I believe it is the second quest in the Civil War questline, maybe the third at most.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Mar 31 2014, 03:19 PM