Lildereth and Jerric made it back to Anvil safe and sound. Lil got their stuff unpacked and loot sold in record time. It’s unclear what she intends to do next, but she needs some alone time. I left her sitting happily by herself on the porch of Benirus Manor watching the rain.

Ahh, that sounds nice, Gritsy. Sitting watching the rain.

mirocu: CSR gives us three 'wait' options, we can tell our follower(s) to Wait Here, Harvest Ingredients, or Make Yourself at Home. I won't spoil what these three do, but the second one (Harvest) is what Saga told Maglir to do, last time she saw him.

There was one other time she told him to do this. This was at that campsite just south of Bravil (the one on the small island). She told him to Harvest Ingredients and then went dungeon-diving in the Ayleid ruin there. Well, she spends hours looting the ruins, comes back to surface, and Maglir is nowhere to be found. She went to sleep, woke up the next morning. No Maglir.

It was funny because as she's getting on her horse, that's when Maglir comes running up. We checked his inventory and there was 113 bergamot seeds, 83 clouded funnel caps, and so on. I laughed so hard! A lot of the things he picked are useless to her!


Heh heh, clever.

Lothran has joined Jerric and Lil in Anvil and told them all about the fun hunt and other things he and Buffy has done in the beautiful county

Aww, that’s nice mirocu! It’s fun to visit with friends.

Kanet is making her way back to the IC via the Green Road. She witnessed the death of fellow Dunmer Alval Uvani at dawn. He fell battling a will-o-wisp. Kanet was unmoved by the event. He had just walked past her and threatened to turn her bones to ash. She took his key and enchanted dagger. He probably has a house somewhere with lots of stuff he won’t need any more. She plans to find it.

She’s taking a breakfast break at the Faregyl Inn. This trip has introduced her to a number of new road critters. Thankfully her enchanted bow Turn is still up to the task, but her nerves are wrecked. One wisp managed to throw a curse on her before she got the last shot in. The chapel blessings are out of her reach due to her lifestyle. (“Repent your crimes, wicked one!”) Hopefully the nearby wayshrine won’t be as wise to her ways.

Ding dong, the wicked Alval is dead!

I don't blame Kanet one bit for feeling no remorse. When he threatens Buffy, she just whacks a demoralize spell on him and giggles as he runs away in terror - it never gets old. But if a wisp did kill him, she'd thank the wisp.

It always seems to be a bear that gets him in my games. Usually as I follow him north from Bravil waiting for it to happen.

Exactly what happened in Lothran´s game too! He was walking south from Bravil when he met Alval by that little peninsula. He made a threat and they both continued on their way. I think there was sound of fighting a few moments later but when Lothran got to where Alval was he was dead and there was nothing around that could have done it!

No tear was shed though, and no console magic was performed..

I've just been back at the Imperial City prison, correcting an issue I've been having with Tarvyn. I'd set him up to do too much, spreading him too thin, and a couple of shifts in his story had meant that really couldn't work anymore. So I've restarted him, kept as close to the original run as I could, but now he has a more focused, and more appropriate, in-game representation. Should be much more comfortable with him now.


And I'll be back at the prison later today, or early tomorrow, to welcome back an old friend...

A little fine-tuning then, eh?

I hope it´ll work out now

Not so much fine-tuning as streamlining and a healthy dose of common sense. I'd originally set Tarvyn up to use destruction, marksman, blade, illusion, and conjuration, and those are just the ones he'd use offensively. It was just too much, and pretty crazy looking back. Now he's a balance of stealth and magic, favouring stealth ever so slightly.

And later on Sal will be returning to Cyrodiil, again, this time as a Shadowmage.

Too much? Crazy? Lothran uses all of that and then some!

Yeah, but Lothran isn't DiD. That setup was going to get Tarvyn killed, sooner rather than later. And I just wasn't comfortable with him set up from the start for so much, two thirds of him wouldn't really be there until all those skills were in the 50s at least.



Anyway, back on topic:

Hello, Old Friend

Welcome back to Sal the Salamander!

Welcome back to Sal (I love his head spines!) and the trimmed down Tarvyn.

I’ve been doing some maintenance with my crew’s games. All is well again. And they are all ready for it to be their turn to play.

Kanet is considering a walk back to Bravil. She wonders how Jared Ice-Veins is faring in the Shivering Isles.

Callidus Thorn: I am just glad you've chosen not to delete Tarvyn altogether. This shows progress with your habit of restartitis, at least.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: May 31 2014, 12:30 AM

So Lissa is no more, and I'm devastated. Thanks to a friends clumsiness with my computer, it got a virus, which was a virus strong enough to completely wipe the majority of my Oblivion data. I've spent the past few days re-installing the game and my mods, which was a task!

As saves were gone, that meant all my progress with Lissa has gone.

But instead of creating Lissa.4 I decided to let her rest for a while. I can't deal with rushing through her game to catch up on almost half a years worth of gameplay, so I have rolled a new toon.

Meet, Eden. Half Redguard, half Breton. Skilled in Blade, Heavy Armor and Alteration. I don't know much about her yet, but I do know some of her back story. She is 16 years old and was orphaned, left to be raised on the waterfront district. There is a rumor going round that she was actually stolen from her mother, and then dumped, but she has no evidence of that. However, if it does turn out to be true, this means her mother is still most likely in Cyrodiil.

I know she is somewhat cold initially, very quiet and it was initially quite hard for me to get into her head, but she is very kind and loving when it comes to her best friend/surrogate sister Feena, who is (seriously) a race confused Argonian. She longs to be human, so dresses and acts like one.

I started Eden's game about a month after she escapes from prison, and I do not know what quest line (if any) her path will lead her.

But yeah, the loss of my wonderful and boisterous companion will be felt for a long time, and heck, one day I might just take the plunge and bring Lissa back. But for now I will welcome Eden (and Feena) into my ample bosom.

Aww, sorry you lost the data on Lissa. Given how you feel, you are wise to let her rest for a time. Likely, there will come a time when you want to play her again, then it will be a joy to start her all over again at level 1.

In the meantime, welcome to Eden! She seems lovely. And what a clever idea for Feena - an Argonian who longs to be human. Just don't let her cut her tail off or anything.

Thank you I will miss Lissa terribly, but, as you say, it will be a joy to replay her when I have the patience to restart her.

And the idea for Feena came quite randomly. I knew Eden's companion would be a female Argonian, but when I went shopping for her she seemed to attract very human clothing, including a wig. I just figured that she had some issues, which I imagine will be explored over time.

Ouch! My condolences on Lissa.

Good luck with Eden. Funny, she does not look like a power mad supercomputer bent upon domination of the post-apocalyptic wasteland!