Fort Homestead's a fun fort to clear, especially that final room. We have the option of stealth-attacking from up high, or perhaps going for a ranged attack followed by melee if we attack from below. I'm sure Buffy's up to the task.


It is, aint it?

Awesome to see your game working out, Callidus!

And to see dear Buffy back home in Cyrodiil

Welcome back Buffy! No more sunny deserts for a while, eh?

Bad news for me... My Oblivion game is going through some kind of tantrum and has suddenly started refusing to play! I'm no computer whiz so I don't know how long it will take to sort out the problem.... gutted

Renee, mirocu and Rihanae - thanks! Buffy's done at the University for now and is currently working the IC - Bruma - Chorrol triangle.

Rihanae, I'm very sorry to hear about your game. I hope you can get it sorted out for Lissa soon.

Problem solved! Just some conflicting mods I failed to recognise! Haha

What a relief! I'm so glad you figured it out quickly.

Rihanae, that's great news indeed!

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Buffy's still in that 'IC-Bruma-Chorrol' triangle. She stopped for an overnight at Bruma. While there, she sold some scrolls and gems while stocking up on supplies for the road. She also slipped into Lothran's empty cabin to place a pumpkin on the table - hoping Mooch will get blamed (private joke).

Early the next morning, she cleared the bandits from Capstone Cave, popped by Applewatch to say hi to 'Mother' Draconis, then turned south to join the beautiful road going west toward Chorrol. Fabulous views of the IC from that road of course.

I've never had that problem before so I immediately went into panic mode! Haha.

Today Lissa went to the Shivering Isles for the first time! She'd always avoided it, not wanting to take any unnecessary risks... but today she took the plunge. She made it as far as Crucible, after defeating the Gatekeeper... which was a challenge!

However, she decided the isles, for now, was not for her, so she quickly retreated back to Cyrodiil. She is now spending some time with Anyanka in Bravil.

Jerric and Darnand must have just missed Buffy when they passed Applewatch. They took an unmarked road past Sancre Tor and Ninedava and entered Bruma through the North Gate. Darnand is footsore and frozen. They both miss the horses. Jerric doesn’t have much of a plan other than conduct his business quickly and get Darnand out of the snow. They’re headed to Cheydinhal next.

Ooh I've always meant to ask how you incorporated Darnand into your game? Did you use the CS?

Poor them with their frozen feet, though. Lissa HATES the snow. She has a phobia you see. During her travels she got caught in an avalanche in Skyrim, which left her traumatized. To this day she has NEVER been to Bruma. Ever.

Yep, I made him as a basic NPC in the CS (there are some links here) and Jerric recruited him with Companion Share and Recruit. Now if I could only get them both on horses! I also gave Darnand a different voice using Companion Sound Sets. So now Darnand sounds a lot like he does in Skyrim (which is more how I imagined him than Oblivion’s Breton voice) but says some not entirely in-character stuff about nature. Lol.

OK, breaking news. Jerric leveled up in Bruma, which is a rare event but that’s not the story. On the way down the Silver Road he stepped up to thrash a bandit to the familiar sound of NPC Darnand summoning behind him. Darnand has a leveled set of spells and has been summoning a scamp. Today Jerric heard whoosh KYN AND VALKYN and got shouldered aside by a charging dremora. He and Darnand are going to have a talk.

Rihanae – I’m glad Lissa got to visit the SI! What a shame about her fear of the cold. Bruma is a beautiful city.

Grits – Buffy stays toastie enough up in the Jerrals due, in part, to the beautiful butterfly toe ring enchanted with resist frost that dear Jerric gave her for her birthday. Maybe he should give one to poor Darnand? Oh, wait. . . maybe not. That would probably just fuel the rumors that Lil spreads about Jerric and Darnand to keep the ladies away from the big Nord.

And Darnand has learned to summon the Big Kidz now! Wonder how that dremora will get on with Jerric's Frostie?

Oh awesome! I might need to try this to create my perfect Jessie, Anyanka and Simon...



Haha! Lissa often has this trouble with Jessie! Scares the life out of her. Lissa will be fighting, with Jessie at a safe distant then suddenly a daedroth will appear out of nowhere, charging full force! It's makes both Lissa and I jump out of our skin! Haha




I have a couple of awesome SI shots which I will put up in a bit. SI is amazing, but I think Lissa wasn;t fully prepared for what it brought. haha

And Lothran has enjoyed a nice day on the Gold Coast

Yup. Those campsites are beautiful at night, looking up at the SI sky.

So glad that Lothran is getting to enjoy the warm salt air and golden grasses of the Abecean coastal area.

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Buffy's working north of Chorrol. She cleared some bandits from Hrotanda Vale, then camped the night inside, with Superian and her cat.

With a sip of anti-cramping potion and a light dusting of vampire dust over herself (ugh), she killed the vampires in Lipsand Tarn. After a painful reminder, she issued stern instructions to Acadian to remind her upon entering a vamp lair that the blood suckers are immune to paralysis.

She's heading for Fort Rayles now; she knows that's a fave lair for conjurers. I imagine, she'll then take care of the bandits in Black Rock Cavern and have a well-deserved play/clean-up in the waterfalls there. Hopefully some silk sheets in Chorrol for a night after that.

Buffy continues to do everyone favors by clearing out Cyrodiil´s riffraff! Such determination and energy in that small body of hers

Well, born out of sheer jealousy at both Mirocu and Acadian's ability to long-term their characters...I've started Oblivion again... ...

Having discussed with the family, Mirocu's spending a thousand hours not really doing a hell of a lot, I wondered out-loud about the possibility of being a Monk...To which the family all laughed heartily and said, "You?...Not fight?!"...

Pffft...Yeah, well...Even if they do have a point...Pffft...

Aaaanyways...

Currently, the recently be-Level 5-ed Battle-Priest, Brother Tharryn...And that's from level one in about three hours...*Shrug*...I can't help myself...Um...

Oh yeah, he's just finishing up clearing out Vilverin...

The plan is...Currently...Yeah, I know...Don't say it... ...The plan is to eventually do the KOTN and pretend that the Priory is a small, out of the way hamlet called Prion or something...And have Brother Tharryn do some sort of Cadfeal-esque religious ministering to the good people and then the administering of swift sword-y justice to the bad where required...

Oh hush you...I'm trying!...I WANNA THOUSAND-HOUR CHARACTER!!!... ... ...

Oh, the coolest was that when I was doing the dungeon-trawl at the start, I gets to the end and Baurus asks you what you are, and you get all the options, the one that the game decided I was, was Pilgrim!...Not far off what I was going to do anyways...When I did the choices and selected the skills etc, the picture I got was the same as the Pilgrim anyways...

And for the first time ever, the birthsign isn't The Warrior...It's The Ritual...It's a change, people!!...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Apr 5 2014, 11:36 AM

mirocu - Aww, thanks!

McB - I'll wager mirocu joins me in feeling plenty honored that our long-running elves have had a bit of a role in coaxing you back to Oblivion! Tharyyn sounds like he might be fun. A Monk of the Nine! Let's take it as prophetic that Baurus guessed close to your intent. I so hope Tharyyn grabs you by the. . . heart (Hee! Thought I was gonna say something naughty there, didn'tcha?) and keeps you in Cyrodiil.

Then you better start working, ol´ boy And just like Acadian guessed, I´m also very honoured to be one of your inspiration sources for you coming back to dear ´blivion..

Best of luck to your monk! May he perform his duty with joy and maybe, just maybe, he´ll eventually join the 1K + Character League!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 5 2014, 02:36 PM

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Forgot to mention he's a Dark-Elf, didn't I?...And in a very strange coincidence, he looks not unlike Jared Padeleki... ...I didn't set out to do that, it's just that suddenly, with the hair the length it is...Tharryn just...Does...*Shrug*...Not complaining, just saying is all...

Anyways, we'll see...I'm happy with him, he does his job well... ...

EDIT!!!...Btw...Cheers guys... ... ...Ah owe ya!...

This post has been edited by McBadgere: Apr 5 2014, 04:12 PM