Grits – That is so neat to see Varia and Coda playing as the Karthwastrels. And I love the one of Lailah and Cuhulain rockin’ out in Riften! Yup, Cuhulain’s a fixture in my Skyrim, and I really like having Morcant in both Cyrodiil and Skyrim. Like all of SubRosa’s mods, Nature Summoning is a flawless gem.

Lopov - Great pix! I don't know the DB questline of course. Looks like Aard let Cicero live. Love seeing Shadowmere and Lucien LaChance again!

Thanks. In short - you are named the Listener very early during the DB questline (when compared to Oblivion where it happens at the end) but the current leader Astrid dislikes it and doesn't acknowledge you as a new leader. Cicero, on the other hand, is a keeper of the old ways, and is very happy when you're named the Listener. Naturally, this angers Astrid so the two end up fighting and Astrid then sends you to kill Cicero but you have the option to spare him, which as you correctly assumed, Aard did.

Later on Astrid betrays you (and consequently the entire Brotherhood as well) and if you spared Cicero earlier, you can have him as a follower when you finish the main questline. All of this already occurred in Aard's game but I don't want to spam the thread with too many screenshots at once, that's why I'm posting them at regular intervals.

Ahh, so that's where home plate went. Kind of hard to play some ball if we haven't got a home.

You know .. because the Dragonstone.... looks kinda like ....never mind. X|

/badjoke

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And Molly in Skyrim! Heh, good use for that dragonstone. Much better than ratting out the dragons with it. Renee, I love your reference to a baseball home plate - and you're right!

Hmm, I did a little digging and I guess that Edoras is a Lord of the Rings city that bears some resemblance to Whiterun.

Pointy-eared mutant! Spoken like a true round-ear.

Actually that is what I always thought too. I know Molly thinks it is home plate as well.

Yeah! Molly !!!!

Oh, I love her armor here! And actually, I have used soapstone when I'm camping to keep the food warm after you pull it from the fire so it doesn't get overcooked - it is great for keeping biscuits and breads hot at the table too; Molly must have high survival skills!

Molly's hatchet is HUGE !!! Wow!

Uh oh, that man looks like he is going to fight with Molly! She must have said that aloud, lol.


Awesome Shots; really loved seeing Molly again !!!

Finally that Dragon Stone has been put to some use.

Who's the guy in the third pic? I don't recognize the location either and there's even little Azura.

Oh hey, I just realized what everyone was saying here - OMG, was that the Dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow?


SPEW !!! Oh how I wish I realized that when I commented, that is so funny! I looked at the screen from my email notification and wrote my response without seeing these comments till just now, lol.

Oh SubRosa, I am going to be rolling laughing every time I think about you using it for that now !!!! That is hilarious !!!!

His duties finally took him to Markarth again, so Aard decided to invite his girlfriend Muiri on a midnight stroll through the town. Not even cold stones of Markarth could stop them...but next day was a working day and when Aard forced the Understoone Keep chef to reveal him the Gourmet's identity and his whereabouts......it was time to kill that chef. Anton Virane, the cook of Markarth, was killed publicly and his servants didn't even notice.

Aard tracked down the Gourmet in the Nightgate Inn. He repeated the same procedure as above, which is to drink a potion of invisibility and get as close as possible to the victim. One strike was enough to finish this season of MasterChef.

A few days later, after getting last instructions from Astrid, the new Gourmet arrived to Solitude. The chef's hat made him feel even more dumb than the noble's hat which he was wearing on the deadly wedding. Numerous guards were patrolling streets of Solitude because of the Emperor's presence, but of course they let the Gourmet through and directed him straight to Commander Maro, whose son the Gourmet killed not long ago. Commander let the cook through and told him to talk to Gianna, the obedient cook at Castle Dour. She was a bit surprised that the Gourmet was a Nord and Aard wondered what she'd say if he was indeed an Orc. Since Aard had no clue about cooking, they made a meal of carrots, a splash of mead, a giant's toe, a septim and a special something that Aard added by himself, namely the poisonous Jarrin root and together they presented the extravagant dish to the Emperor.

*It is actually possible to cook the dish with ingredients mentioned above. If anyone's interested, here's the list of all possible combinations.

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Aard killed the Master Chief? What is the Halo series going to do!?!

Awww....



Oh!



Uh oh.



Oh?



Ooooh!



A-ha-ha-ha!



Mmm mmm....



Mmmm stew.....


Yummm.

Aww, a nice evening with his gf. . . on the cold stones of Markarth. Ahah! So that is who that orc in the Nightgate Inn is – I knew he had something to do with the DB. Nice to see Shadowmere, and I see Aard is getting his money's worth from those invisibility potions. He's right - hopefully his next job disguise comes with a less silly hat than these last couple jobs. And feeding giant’s toe soup to the Emperor! So ends another season of Iron Chef, Skyrim.

This quest actually caught my eye because of Gianna's great unique idles with the soup; it was really fun to see it play out! And the Chef hat looked good too,

Like Renee, I got a kick out of Aard's idea of romance,




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Welp, I just realized that I have never posted any screenies to this thread. Time to rectify this.

Forsworn Hunter. This is up in the hills high above Rorikstead, just north of Fort Sungard. I think it is near Sundered Towers, but neither Alise nor I can quite recall. It is before Argis joined her.

Getting to the Bottom of the Forsworn Conspiracy. Alise tried to get Nepos the Nose to be more forthcoming his information, but instead he and his housefolk attacked her. Surprisingly, the old man proved to be the most durable of the lot - he was the last one standing before Alise thwacked him good. After it was all over and Alise returned from Cidhna Mine, she was so angry and bitter at the Silverbloods and the Markarth guards that she had to take a breather.

Following some errands for the Steward of Markarth, Alise went up to Lost Valley Redoubt to find a shield for the Jarl. There she encountered her second word wall. Still not clear on just what they are, she took a few moments in the late afternoon sun to think about things.

A few days later, she and Argis are outside Riften. Alise doesn't like the climate of the town, so she camps outside, between the Khajiit camp and Merryfair Farm. This is the first time they shared a tent, and Alise found out that Argis knows how to keep quiet when she needs to think about things.

Alise also found out that Argis is pretty darn good at sneaking. Not only does he cast invisibility on himself whenever she goes into sneak mode, he's pretty good at staying out of her way when she is sniping. Together they cleared Treva's Watch, where she had plenty of opportunity to work on her archery skillz.

Finally they made it to Whiterun, where Alise delivered a sword for Adrianne and found herself drawn into yet another quest - this time to recover something called the Dragonstone. She had already heard about Bleak Falls Barrow when she escorted Hadvar back to Riverwood, and did not find the thought appealing. But with Argis at her back, Alise decided to give it a try. She stopped at the Riverwood Trader, where she learned about the theft. Now committed to heading up the mountain, she and Argis stock up, then head out. They cleared the bandit tower on the way to Bleak Falls, and spent the night there.

Again Alise and Argis worked well together, Argis waiting for Alise to snipe, then moving in on any that survived those deadly glass arrows. There weren't that many.

Once again a word wall (this time Fus) laid Alise low. This time she was grateful that Argis was with her, because before she fully recovered, the biggest badass ever popped out of that box!

Somehow they ended up fighting a dragon outside Whitereach, picking up Lydia, and counting (or trying to) the 7000 Steps. On the way to find some magic Horn, Alise decided to let Argis find out for himself what having a fort to himself is really like. So the three of them took on Fort Dunstead, after she did some serious sniping from the rocks just to the southwest. Argis and Lydia were happy when Alise put her bow away and got up close and personal with the survivors. Lydia turned out to be quite the solid fighter, even with her low level steel gear. The three of them made quick work of the fort's interior. Not a single bandit could withstand the terrible trio.

And that is where I left them as of last night. Hope you enjoyed the screenies!

Love those red eyes in the decided picture!

Good team indeed! I'm glad that Alise has friends to travel with and help her. Thanks for the update and great pix!

I love them, too! They're from Hale's Iridium Eyes.

Holy Cow! Your rig has some Awesome resolution! What is your setting, Ultra? Great shots!

Thanks! Installing the new graphics card in my 7 y.o. Mac Pro has really made all the difference in the world. Even Oblivion looks (and plays) totally awesome on it. Going from 512 MB to 2 GB of VRAM has made this old beast into a new puppy again. I can't get over how smooth it plays, either. On my laptop, with just half the VRAM and no high resolution textures, I routinely got fps around 30. This one, even with all the texture mods I've thrown at it so far, is chugging along at a zippy 60 fps. The only time it slows down is during the loading screens - 30 fps there!?!?

Honestly, I have no idea what the settings are. All I know for sure is that Skyrim is playing at my monitor's native resolution, which is 1920 x 1200. And it all looks so stunning. I'm really happy I took that risk and put that graphics card in this old Mac.