Wow YES the old orc intervened! What a great story.



That cracked me up! She hasn't got the stones for it, eh?

Companions is a great Faction (despite what 'they' say). I really enjoyed it. My character who became Harbinger (Gunter, Son of Talos) was a bit of an imbecile; very simple-minded. Anyways he became head of the place, but the way it got RP'd was he didn't really realize the extent of his own power. Being Harbinger meant more of everything: more wine, more meat, more gold....but the concept of power was foreign to him

I personally didn't like the whole werewolf thing, but Gunter didn't mind. It was kinda neat having 100% Disease Resistance. What about Buffy? Are you keeping that in, the 100% Dis. Res. part?

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Nov 3 2014, 10:07 PM

I have to say, that I would prefer turning into a werefox over a werewolf. Though a wereshark would be best, with fricken laser beams!

Last night's gaming had another amusing event. Persephone stopped off in Markarth to sell of some of the loot she had scraped up off the bodies of the aforementioned Thalmor patrol. While talking to Ghorza, she learned of her metallurgical-challenged apprentice, and agreed to fetch an appropriate book for the lad. Now Persephone had cleared out Fort Sungard a long time ago, where that book is normally found, so I wondered where the game might point me to. I opened up the journal, selected the quest, and had it bring up the destination on the map. It was in Persephone's house!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 3 2014, 10:33 PM

Renee - Buffy accepted the one 'forced' transformation and never touched it again. Before long, she had cured Kodlak, the brothers and herself of wolfiness. Only Aela remains a WW but it seems to suit Aela the Huntress.

SubRosa - P-10's house! How amazing/convenient is that?!? That quest is nice in that it is good way to become bloodkin to the orcs.

Edit: The random coincidences just continue. Shortly after the old orc incident, Buffy just happened to encounter Vilkas (the questgiver) and Ria out hunting. So Buffy 'completed' the 'catch the criminal' quest and got a new one: Arcadia's been kidnapped!

This post has been edited by Acadian: Nov 3 2014, 11:18 PM

Exactly, Acadian... Gunter also never touched werewolf-ism again. It's forced upon the character, but I managed to RP that it was required for initiation only.

SubRosa: Whoa that is bizarre.

Acadian, congrats to Buffy the Small, the littlest Companion! The mental image of a little werefox is adorable. What a very Buffy take on the Companions questline.

SubRosa, I had no idea those book quests would give you a marker, much less one pointing to your own bookshelf! That’s hilarious. I think Jerric has a quest for Last Scabbard of Akrash in his journal. I wonder if it’s already shelved in one of Darnand’s libraries.

Jerric and Darnand have been in the Reach kicking tail and knocking off heads. Jerric finally found a weapon with the Absorb Magicka enchantment on it, so he disenchanted it and put it on the mundane Skyrim version of Atronach’s Redeemer. It’s a very weak enchantment with kind of an annoying effect. The blade looks cool but when he stabs someone they both turn blue. Oh well, I’m sure he has another one of those blades stashed in a chest somewhere.

Jerric joined the Bard’s College (so he could chat up the generally aloof bard women, I’m not kidding), and while he’s been told he can really bang the drums that seems to be his only bard talent. That and gathering up the lost artifacts that belong to various non-adventurer fellow bards. He and Viarmo finished up King Olaf’s Verse in a way that made Viarmo laugh and I had never heard before. So maybe there’s hope for him yet.

Here’s a shot of Jerric displaying his bardic smoothness while flirting with the ladies. He did not even see that hole until he was standing in it! To his credit, at least he is wearing a clean shirt.

Jerric is now a rock star!

Fortunately all females in Skyrim are either 11 years old, or 21+. The screaming fan phase is explicitly excluded.

Jerric the big bard! Well, it makes sense - that'd be where the ladies and mead can be found. And the drum is such a natural choice for Jerric.

I'll confess that Buffy does indulge me - when we're at the Winking Skeever, we can just sit and listen to Lisette sing for the whole evening.

@Grits

In case you don't know about it yet, there's a mod which allows you to use instruments. Might suit Jerric as he tries to impress women.

@Acadian
Is that dog on the screenshot with Buffy?

Yes! It's actually a silver gray fox named Kitsune. The fox is one of several wood elf animal totem spirits that sometimes travels with Buffy.

Today Persephone finished off the Aetherium questline, forging herself a mighty crown of aetherium. Unless I find a mod that changes it appearance she won't wear it though. It is too big and gaudy. So it will probably end up in a drawer at Helajarchen Hall. Maybe the kids could play with it.

Persephone also had an unusual encounter in the Reach along the way. She came upon a patrol of Imperials slugging it out with one of Stormcloaks. The first to fall was from neither side however, but rather an Orc Hunter in iron armor. I am not sure how he got into the fray, or even which side killed him. The Stormcloaks won it hands down, and afterward as they walked off I noticed a cluster of four more people standing nearby and watching. Turns out it was Forsworn, who did nothing when Persephone rode over, or when the Stormcloaks walked by. I guess that battle showed them not to mess with the Stormcloaks, and perhaps word has spread that no one who tangles with Persephone lives to tell the tale.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 5 2014, 02:49 AM

I loved the Aetherium questline! It was a wonderfully satisfying and lengthy endeavor. Buffy loved Katria and saying goodbye to her at the end was bittersweet indeed. I agree about the crown - although kind of neat looking, it is just too big and gaudy. So. . . it now sits proudly on the brow of Mjoll the Lioness where it looks perfect.

Wow, that was quite the mixup that P-10 witnessed of Imps, Stormies, orc bandits and even Forsworn. No wonder the Forsworn stayed out of it - they were probably confused.

I fairly often encountered friendly Forsworn with my former character Corcaigh. At first only one group was friendly, the one which you encounter if traveling from Whiterun to Markarth, close to a dead Khajiit merchant and an overturned carriage. Eventually more and more Forsworn were friendly but only those outside, those inside still attacked on sight. Later I read about it at Beth and it's supposed to be a glitch. It didn't bother me because Corcaigh was a Breton so it made sense that Forsworn left him alone.

Persephone has been exploring the Reach since finishing up the Aetherium questline. Last night she came upon that same group of Forsworn who had been friendly before. This time they attacked, along with a second band of Forsworn. Apparently they did not know that 8 Forsworn vs. Persephone & Darryl was not nearly enough guys!

Getting back to the topic of the Bards' College. My archer, Spike, found Finn's Lute, before even going to Solitude, and she doesn't want to become a bard. Guess who's the only member who never leaves the College building? It's a good thing that quest items don't add to encumbrance. She's just got enough levels in Conjuration to be able to cast a Bound Bow and still have magicka left for her armour, so she's able to run around without anything hanging on her back.

Drelka, on the other hand, is trying to kill Harkon without using Auriel's Bow. She's probably too specialised a build, pure mage, using only her health draining spell, and she keeps running out of magicka too soon. She can out-drain the vampire lord, but she's very vulnerable when her ebonyflesh expires, if she can't recast it right away. I may have to reload a bit earlier, and collect some more potions to take to the party!

Persephone knocked off The Reach a few nights ago, finishing up by exploring Nchuand Zel (where she slugged it out with Mini Me), and wiping out the Namira cannibal cult. With the Reach now safe until things respawn, she headed east, and began wandering the forests of western Falkreath hold. She cleaned out the entire place, up until Cracked Tusk Keep, which she is leaving for later. She turned east and north again after that, and is now standing just inside Ilinalta's Deep, on a mission from Azura.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 12 2014, 04:08 AM

SubRosa, I love those Calcemo quests under Markarth - what a cool dungeon Nchuand Zel is. A baby falmer! Wow, it looks as ugly as the grown up ones. Especially standing near the lovely undead beauty that is P-10.

Azura's quest is a nice one. I imagine P-10 will have no use for the Star. Buffy's perked out mystic bow can fill it just fine. . . but the irony is that the bow does not require charging. So the Star is really just a pretty decoration.

Are those small Falmers vanilla or from a mod?

Glad she put an end to the Namira's Cult!

The mini Falmers are pure vanilla. There were several of them in Nchuand-Zel. I am sure they were some sort of glitch, where their scale somehow got set really low. Because other than their size, they were exactly the same as any other Falmer, including the names I saw on the hud when I moused over them.

I took Clarisse to Solitude to check out the ships. She's building Lakeview, but it just makes her want a ship to live in as well.

Redwave has an essential crew-member, so taking it over would be problematic.

The Dainty Sload doesn't have that issue, but it's full of junk (and now dead corsairs, too). Clarisse has a better stock of scimitars, now, so it wasn't a complete waste of time.

I may have to add another ship somewhere in the area for her, thinking maybe she'll build Windstad and anchor a ship nearby.