Jensa met the fake soldiers who attempt to shake you down for 100 Septims in a random encounter. Long ago my Imperial officer Rowan was pleased to inform them, “I’m with the Imperial Legion and I’m damned sure you’re not!” Jensa had the new for me reply, “There’s only three of you Legionaries versus one Stormcloak? Hardly seems fair.”

Hod to vampire Zanimal: “A new face. And a right ugly one at that. No offense.”

Simple things for simple elves. . .

For some time, Buffy's used the magelight spell for its intended purpose as well as other creative things. She sets off wards with it and sometimes lights up a friend or foe (it sticks to living things and it not an assault). Today, she cast it on a bear trap. To our delight, it set off the trap from a nice remote distance!

Oh, and she has not to long ago figured out that using detect dead is a great way to locate the corpses of her victims, since she tends to fight from long distances. Although she loots/picks up almost nothing from her victims and has no need to recover (bound) arrows, curious elf insists on trying to search all her victims. We sort of considered that spell obsolete since we modded 'detect life' into 'detect anything that can move', so I'm glad she's found a 'utility' use for detect dead.

I never thought about using Detect Dead for that! I thought it only detected undead, not all dead things.

Heh, yes it detects corpses too. That's one reason I use a mod that greatly expands the detect life spell to detect anything BUT corpses. Normally, detecting corpses is simply a distraction when there are foes about. But using it to find corpses after the dust settles has turned out to be kind of helpful. I guess we got used to having to hunt for corpses after shooting from long range in OB - it was the toggle grass off command that really helped outdoors there.

I used to use the TG command in Oblivion a lot to find bodies and spent arrows as well. Even when I was fighting them in melee it could sometimes be hard to find where they all fell!

Having spent quite some time in the Reach hunting forsworn and living off the land, Buffy made it to Dragon Bridge and was met by a courier. He gave Buffy a 'Letter of Inheritance'. The letter relayed the condolences of Jarl Igmund to Buffy on the loss of her close friend 'Forsworn Forager'. This 'friend' left Buffy 300 gold which the courier also gave to Buffy (minus a 30 gold cut for taxes).

Since Buffy considers any and all forsworn to be nothing more than targets, she was completely mystified. The UESP wiki says this can happen when an NPC that you have befriended is killed. The only thing we can think of is that the 'befriending' may have been the result of one of Buffy's illusion spells and the forager was either killed by one of his own kind or perhaps one of Buffy's arrows.

Quite the unexpected surprise!

And Buffy's sure gonna miss her pal, 'Forsworn Forager'.

Whoa I didn't know we could use Magelight to deactivate bear traps!

Buffy's got some secret admirers! Even her enemies can sometimes admire her.

Maybe it was a Forsworn Forger, rather than a Forager? The will might be a phoney!

*Destri takes frantic notes*

'Magelight to set off runes (I assume you meant that rather than 'wards')'

'Detect Dead to locate corpses.'

- Funny, one reason I never bothered with Magelight was because I couldn't really think of a practical use (other than putting a minute long tracker on a deer while night hunting… but who ever needs a minute to kill a deer?).

- Chalk another up for the Illusion school. If Acadians experience is the norm, then maybe casting Rally or Call to Arms on an Npc you have Pacified results in that NPC being 'befriended.' This needs testing! The bandits in Embershard could net the enterprising adventurer 2400 gold! Might be a great source of income for those who don't want to exploit alchemy, enchanting, or smithing.

My Crusader guy who fought for the Dawnguard would sometimes throw some Magelight into a lair; an attempt to piss its inhabitants off. Ya know, here are a group of vampires or bandits living in their dark, cozy cave, living their life in the dark, and some paladin comes along and all the sudden they've got this annoying bright light illuminating their darkness! I imagine this would make them pretty mad!

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Buffy makes friends so quickly! Like between the time she shoots and when the arrow finds its mark. Maybe Buffy can use her inheritance to buy more arrows. Then she can “gift” them one at a time to Forsworn Forager’s other friends.

I ran a quick test in the hope that alternating or combining Calm and Rally would produce a friend/command effect, but no. Great idea, though, Destri. Back to wrestling with that issue (learning about scripts).

Outstanding tip for using Detect Dead to locate corpses. Captain Zanimal is a compulsive looter, and with his night vision it’s often hard for me to track down the bodies he’s exploded all over the place.

I like that, it has subtlety. Usually my crusader just throws on Stendarr's Aura and walks through the lair bold-as-you-please. It's like some kind of demented wake up call! Not very subtle.


So now this leads us back to speculation over how Buffy and 'Forager' got so friendly!

I spent a lot of this weekend revisiting my old characters and cleaning up their unfinished quests. Genevieve, the Hulking Arch-mage, had one of the Black Books, Untold Legends, from Dragonborn to do, so we went back to Severin Manor for a day trip.

All went smoothly until the final chapter, where she was confronted with a Lurker Guardian behind a door. It was able to attack her from the other side, but she couldn't hit it. After a lot of trial and error with her spells, she discovered that only Flames, the Novice level spell, would damage it, but at such a slow rate that she ran out of magicka before doing a significant amount of harm. There were a few other ways to hurt it, but they all meant getting close enough to get the worst of the exchange.

After drinking all her magicka potions, it still wasn't dead, so she ran back to a fountain for more. She returned to find it had regenerated back to full health. Eventually she tried Hulking, and discovered that she couldn't touch it, and dropped back out of the book.

On re-reading, and running through the empty chapters, she found the door open and the creature gone, and was able to open the final book and leave. She still hasn't used the butler, though. Once we got the reward, we remembered why we'd left this one unfinished.

Persephone had something new happen to her tonight. After returning home from the College, Sofie exclaimed that she didn't know Persephone had a dog, and asked if she could keep it. I didn't read it too carefully, and immediately said yes, thinking she had brought home a dog for a pet. I was a little surprised when a dog did not appear. That is when I realized that for some reason Sofie thought Persephone already had a dog companion, and wanted to keep it. But Persephone has never had a dog. Hmmm...

Buffy spends very little time inside Windhelm, but she just spent the evening and night at the tavern there. She met the old cook, Nils. He looked her up and down, then said with a kindly manner, "Can't just throw the big logs on the fire. Got to have the little bits, too."

Rather fitting comments to a tiny woodster!

Nils says that to Alise too!

That must mean Buffy and Alise are both special.

Oh, I was thinking of you in that tavern. Buffy met Stenvar there for the first time. I see why you like his voice so much!

Stenvar sounds like Argis? Oooh, I'm gonna have to go find him! *looks him up on the UESP wiki* Oh, I think I left Alise and Co. in Dawnstar . . . Drat! Have to hike all the way over to Windhelm in that cold?

Have I mentioned that Alise hates cold? That's why she loved Falskaar - cool and even temperate, but not cold (except on rainy nights)!

Big logs and little bits… was that Nord hitting on Buffy?!

I found a note I made of a new thing from when Jensa was in Solitude a little while ago and spoke to Elisif the Fair. She expected Jarl Elisif to have some harsh words for her since when they last spoke Jensa was soaked in Legion blood and Solitude was burning. Instead she complimented Jensa’s outfit. Then she said, “We have the utmost confidence in you and Ulfric’s guiding hands.” I guess there’s something to be said for diplomacy.

If you’ve never traveled with Stenvar, I’d recommend spending the 500 Septims on him. He is a hoot.