Nazir, the guy who handles contracts for the DB, says:

"He is, by all accounts, the worst bard in all of Skyrim. Apparently so many people sought his death, Astrid had to hold a lottery to determine the client."

Since I have no new Lucius' pics too show, let's continue with Aard.

New hairstyle, new beard

Death comes for Ma'randru-jo
Aard had some business to do in Whiterun and by the time he returned, Khajiits already departed. He quickly jumped on Loyal and ran into them close to the Whiterun Watchtower. But it wasn't easy to kill Ma'randru-jo because he traveled in group, so Aard had to think of something else. He rode ahead of the caravan and ran into a generic bandit which he lured back to the Khajiits but the bandit was interested only in Aard so in the end he had to finish her off by himself. The 2nd plan (of which none pics were taken) was to provoke bandits from Fort Greymoor but they ignored the Khajiits too and instead focused on Aard. So Aard decided to take extreme measures and provoked a nearby giant and lured him back to the Khajiits. In fear the Khajiits scattered and Aard followed Ma'randru-jo until he got stuck behind some rock and thus stayed far behind the caravan. He quickly dismounted, ran up to him and stabbed him in the back. Another interesting thing in the last pic is "fire in the sky" which I don't know what it is.

A lottery for the contract on that poor orc bard!

Wow, Aard must have gone to Lucius' barber?

Luring attackers into the Khajiit was very clever. Buffy loves to do that, only with baddies vs Thalmor patrols. In fact, she'll follow a Thalmor patrol, just so that baddies will spawn along their path.

Great shots as Aard is going about his work of making Skyrim a . . . less populated place.

Have you got a shooting star mod like I do? .. Or something which adds shooting stars, or comets? This could be what we're seeing in the final pic.

Those poor cat-people!

Wow, the trials and travails of an assassin. Nothing would go right until the cat-man got stuck in the rock!

I have never seen a comet like that. Or shooting star, or whatever it is.

These are all great screens, but this last one is my favorite - Awesome shot!







GAAAAH! He killed that poor girl? Urk!

Night Rider is stunning! What a gorgeous shot!







I remember this dungeon, scared the living heck out of me when those dragon bones came to life!


Awesome shots!








Stalking the vampires is my fave of this group, for two very obvious reasons, BWAAHAA!






I have to quote this whole thing, what an awesome little mini story you made here! I love this!






This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 12 2015, 04:23 AM

Holy Crap, why didn't she just take the tunnel?







Holy Cow, all this going wrong; lol. I love the story behind this, even though I'm not happy with the Khajiit caravans getting killed. Great story! I don't know about the fire in the sky, could it be a comet or falling star?

Yes, they were both served by the only barber in Skyrim, except that Lucius hair was longer for a few mm while Aard's head is now completely shaved.

I use Climates of Tamriel and though its readme is pretty long, I didn't find any references to comets or falling stars. If I didn't turn the camera around, I wouldn't even notice the fire in the sky.

Fortunately the giant calmed down, so Aard didn't need to deal with him as well.

Hey, at least Aard killed only the one which he was paid for, he could have killed all of them. He's a softie, I'd say.

Climates of Tamriel must have created that comet, gotta be. Another possibility is that it's a firebolt which got fired by some other NPC in another cell, but if this is true, the angle is all wrong. That comet is obviously flying horizontally, not on an upward angle.



Roleplaying. She felt it would be morally-wrong to leave before her sentence is over, even though she disagrees with why she got arrested.

I love the roleplay, but can't help but count how many scripts you are yanking in and out of a Skyrim game - Skyrim doesn't play well with scripts being enabled and disabled. But as far as the roleplay goes - very cool!

I'll keep this in mind, thanks. Claire's game in particular isn't going to last a long time, though. Chances are when she gets to the end of Civil War (whatever end that may be), I'll simply move on to somebody else. I have lots of other character ideas for Skyrim especially.

Starting a new game usually clears the coffers on those script memory problems. Acadian changes things around a lot too, and he has had issues with his game caused by script memory retention - the game holding memories of scripts in a save when that mod has been disabled or removed, and the script keeps ordering the game to search for references that are no longer there - messes up your game or crashes it.

Like Lopov, I thought of you right away when I saw that journal mod, what a great way to record your character's thoughts as they quest! It would be cool if you could then print them off into game book form or something too, lol.

Sober Assassin at the Drunken Huntsman
Death comes for Anoriath
Traps are set
Traps worked
Finishing moves

Some misc shots:
Training
In Fort Fellhammer
Outside the Dawnstar inn
Under two moons

Yay, lots to see in this thread!

Lopov, I love the shot where Aard is stalking Lurbuk by just sitting in a chair at the tavern. He seems like a regular inn patron. I love his new look. Funny, I like Aard bald but I couldn’t wait for Lucius to grow his hair back! Oh hells, not Anoriath!! It’s been a while since I played an assassin. This is like new for me. In Fort Fellhammer is my favorite Aard shot so far. I love his beard.

Renee, welcome back to Master Baytor! I’m looking forward to hearing more of his insults. Argh, poor Claire in prison. I guess she didn’t have fun playing dice and brawling with the other inmates. Sweet freedom indeed! That’s a lovely picture. I’m so glad she’s finally out!

Aard better be careful in that Sober Assassin pic. If his shadow is half the man he is, it might just slit his throat when he's not looking!

Are you using a mod that lets you set out bear traps like land mines? I recall seeing something like that for Oblivion.

It's my favorite shot so far as well. And it's the last pic where he still wields the orcish dagger, later on he found a dwarven one.
And I also think that shaved head suits him more than Tullius hairstyle.
I think you can move traps around by holding E (or any command which you use for activating), I don't think it's from a mod. I mean, you can't put them in your inventory but you can drag them around and place them where you wish.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Apr 15 2015, 06:15 PM

Beautiful shots, Lopov! That is such a coincidence about the Deekus encounter! Buffy was just today, helping Onmund retrieve the Helm of Winterhold from that very campsite! And what a beautiful night with both moons and all those stars out!

There is a mod that lets you do that. I think it was just released. Yes, found it.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 15 2015, 09:09 PM

You know, it's the little things that grab me sometimes. Like I love the open book in the right side of the second picture.

Whoa, the traps worked! That's cold!

Vampire armor looks good on Aard, it literally suits him.

Wow, I really love Fort Fellhammer. Damn good shot of your assassin, that one is.

I've been waiting for Molly to debut in Skyrim, I remembered the Mohawk hairdo from your earlier screens when you were warming her up in the bullpen.

My favorite shots: Tied for first place is the wicked looking Molly in "Wishes she had an axe;" and the "Alduin clears the way."

Both of these shots are breathtaking for different reasons. All are awesome shots, so glad to see you posting again, I've been waiting/missing your posts!





This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 20 2015, 03:23 AM