So Lothran performed a service for the only sane resident of the Shivering Isles, it seems. I like that quest and I like Hale in general, especially the poet guy, wish he had more rhymes to tell.

Where did he place his tent, right inside the inn? Or on the roof? IIRC there's plenty of space up there.

How about acquiring a uni, I mean a unicorn, this time?

Morhame turned out to be a dud. The object Renee & Mimi are looking for wasn't there, and Morahame itself was full of mostly nuisance creatures, some gold, nothing really of significant value except a Rugged Cuirass (+5 Endurance). Since RG3 does not wear heavy armor, she gave this item to Mimi. Next stop: they need to go to some cave (can't remember its name) located in the middle of nowhere, but somewhere toward the Jerall Mountains.


well uni ran ,away . never too be seen , again .

Lol, Mimi is the name of my son's stuffed hedgehog toy.

Hedgehog toys need to be called "Spiny Norman"! Just ask Dinsdale.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jul 27 2015, 06:07 PM

I bet your son's hedgehog is cuter than Mimi.

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Turdas morning, Frost Fall 4, 4E 420

As usual, Renee Gade III, Gabrielle, and Mimi are sidetracked. They needed a place to sleep after Morahame, and wound up at Crestbridge Camp, which is where the Cropsford clan once was forced to stay at, long ago. They spent the night at this camp, and when they awoke, they couldn't resist the temptation of raiding that lonely fort right across the river. But Renee (Xena) commanded Gabrielle to stay behind.

Gabrielle's not suited for this sort of adventuring, she's much better at the safer stuff, like picking locks and darning socks. This is what Xenagade and Mimi want to believe, anyways.

When they get inside Fort Cedrian the next morning, first enemy they met was a criminal wanted by the legion. This was a named NPC added by either Maskar's or Imperial Bounty Hunter, not sure which. Anyways.... Score! Because if one of these NPCs is found, and his / her token item (in this case, a magic helmet) is brought back to a guard, RG3 gets paid. A lot of these enemies roam randomly around too, which makes them hard to locate.

Gaming with this group is much different than with Lady Saga. Saga is all about stealth, arrows, stealth, one-shot. RG3 and Mimi prefer to fight together, and make lots of noise doing so!

This post has been edited by Renee: Jul 28 2015, 01:39 AM

Although modded hairstyles usually don't appeal to me, I like Gabrielle's, because it looks natural.

Is that some donkey behind Xena and Mimi?

I remember Fort Cedrian and IIRC, some parts of it can only be accessed by unlocking a rather hard lock. Or with the console.

YES, that's a donkey. It began following them around, and would not stop! Was kind of funny at first, but became a problem whenever combat occurred, because there was no way to tell this horse to WAIT somewhere, like we can tell RG3's new horse.

Obviously related to Kuertee's Command Horses somehow.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jul 29 2015, 12:29 PM

You can store your stuff on your horse? Wow, I didn't know about that!







BWAAAHAAA!!!! I LOVE the donkey !!!! Great screens !!!







SPEW!!! It just started following you around? How funny! Do you have apples in your inventory? It might have that "Donkey Loves Apples" AI package, I gave it to all my horses so they would follow the player for vids and stuff, all you had to do was dump the apples to get them to stop. I have forgotten to dump the apples in the barrel a few times and had the unicorn follow me into the house, lol. (got screens of it in case some one says "screen or it didn't happen")






This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 29 2015, 09:38 PM

mALX, yes, there's a mod called um.... Simple Saddlebags? which lets us store stuff on our horses. As you can see, it also puts a saddle, some bags, and some other items on the horse's back, but we have to own the horse first before we get all the cool stuff. I love this mod a lot.

You know what, I do believe RG3 had an apple or two in her inventory. XD Dang, that explains it!

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Frostfall 6: The RG3 trio arrives in Blankenmarch, according to one of stories I wrote long ago, during this phase Mimi was complaining about being in the wilderness so long. But at least this time, Renee found the item she was looking for: a set of bones, wanted by one of the merchants in Bravil.

Next stop: Leyawiin.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jul 30 2015, 01:31 AM

It´s the year 437 and Lothran has just revisited Dire Warren. He also discovered that the Pyke´s Medallion he found earlier was a fake; Pyke had already gotten his medallion back in 435

Ooooh, thank you so much for the link! I love that idea!











That quest, urk. It seemed never ending! lol.

Well, I had to let Gideon go. As much as I wanted to play a Nightblade, Gideon was just too unstable. Trying to get in the right frame of mind to play him was just insane.

So, continuing the theme of necromancy, I've dragged another of my old characters from the grave: Sarel Maladas, an ex-Telvanni Nightblade fleeing Vvardenfell after several of his enemies joined forces against him, even managing to secure the services of the Morag Tong.

More from him later... right now, actually


The Journal of Sarel Maladas
Date: Unknown
Location: Aboard a ship somewhere between Vvardenfell and Cyrodiil.

To think it has come to this.

Days ago I was a Spellwright of House Telvanni, one of the most powerful members of that august House, now I am a renegade, wounded and fleeing for my life.

House Telvanni has always been about survival of the fittest, the most cunning, and the most powerful. Sometimes that means taking out those above you, other times it means fending off those below. And rarely, so very rarely, it means both at once. The highest compliment a member of House Telvanni can receive is to be targeted by those above, because it means they have begun to fear you. It was a compliment I received, and that led to my downfall.

I had trained as a Nightblade, risen through the ranks of House Telvanni, and earned my Stronghold at Tel Uvirith. And like any Telvanni, I sought to rise higher. And those around me sought to do the same, and those below sought to take my place. One night I awakened to the sound of fireballs and shattering wood. My stronghold was under attack. After waking I found my bed empty, the two eager underlings who had joined me both absent. Neither had sought to wake me, nor had fallen to treachery, so both were complicit. My rivals' reach, it seemed, was greater than I had thought. I was not surprised to find my equipment missing, in light of their betrayal, though I did take some small measure of satisfaction in seeing one of the pair, Eldrar, face-down outside my vault. His delicate features had been seared away, leaving only the tattoos on his back to identify him.

But, while the trap had claimed him, Sienna had obviously escaped. All that was left to me was the daedric shortsword, kept concealed in a secret compartment grown into one of the vault's walls, shielded from magical detection. The blade's enchantment was potent, just wielding it made me faster and stronger, but it came at a price. Even a novice would be able to cast a detect enchantment spell of sufficient magnitude to track the blade now that it was no longer concealed. But with nothing else left to me I had little choice. I threw on some robes and boots I'd yet to enchant and made my way to my library, the door still locked tight. Opening it, I spent a moment I couldn't spare looking at all those books, some my own, others rare and hard to replace. But I did what needed to be done. I couldn't take them with me, nor spare the time to pick what would be best to take. A single fireball denied my rivals their spoils. Long habit had led me to leave caches throughout my stronghold, concealed both magically and physically, and I emptied two of them containing gold and gems, potions, and a spelllbook, before leaving the upper floor, knowing I'd need them. I barely had time to cast my recall spell before my rivals' forces broke through the door.

The world had barely regained focus before the blade dug into my side, mere fortune saving me as the slash caught my spellbook, robbing the blow of much of its force. I drew my blade as I staggered backwards, confronted by an assassin of the Morag Tong, wielding a dagger in each hand, both gleaming with enchantment. I was outmatched with the blade, that much became clear immediately. My shield spell kept me alive, but even the enchantments of my blade could not grant me sufficient speed to match that of my attacker. And my time was running out. The magic of my assailant's daggers shone with every strike I blocked, his blades gouging notches into mine each time, such was the potency of their enchantment. Illusion magic was of no help, he carried some item of detection that let him see me even when invisible, and my summoned allies were of no more help. A ring on his right hand glowed each time I summoned one, a bolt of magic striking me and dispelling it before it could aid me.

I grew desperate. My blade weakened almost to the point of failure, I landed a kick against his stomach following a parry, knocking him back a step. Before he could recover, I launched an overhand blow at him, throwing everything I had into that one swing. Unable to move aside and lacking the position for a parry, he blocked with both his daggers. And their enchantment snapped my blade, the greater part of it following its original path, cutting deeply into his face. As he reeled, I rammed the broken haft of my blade into his ribs, and staggered away, towards the docks.

It cost me most of my coin, but the Marie Elena carries me to Cyrodiil, its crew more than willing to get me there quickly and quietly, though I do not trust them in the least. Not while I'm still wounded. That assassin almost killed me. His blades were swift and poisoned, and though my potions countered it, it has still taken its toll on me. It will be weeks I think before I will be able to cast another spell of any significant magnitude, or regain my former skill. But in time I shall recover. In time I shall return. And in time I shall reclaim what was taken from me, and more besides.

This post has been edited by Callidus Thorn: Aug 3 2015, 10:40 PM

I wonder what happens next. Will he recover fully? Maybe it'll be a mystery.




This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 4 2015, 02:00 AM

Frostfall 8, 4th Era 20

According to my old stories, Renee Gade the third's next stop would have been in Bravil, but that doesn't happen until the 10th. So she must have done some dungeon-diving during the 8th and 9th, no doubt.

She and Smokey, her new mage companion, are in Undertow Cavern. Lovely place full of bandits and outlaws, just overlooking Leyawiin. I can see Smokey knowing about this place (since he was living in Leyawiin) and then telling RG3 about it. So off they go. Gabrielle remains steadfastly behind with their horse, guarding it against nothing, and wishing she could join her friends underground.

CM Partners has a few glitches, I have noticed. One of these is that sometimes, an NPC will show up with the party, even though we told this NPC to wait somewhere. Gabrielle occasionally does this. In RP terms, it's almost like when Gabrielle was on the show, she was always trying to sneak and follow Xena, even though Xena told her to stay in some village, or whatever.

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 5 2015, 12:32 AM

Frostfall 10-13: RG3 and Gabrielle walked from Fort Blueblood up to the Imperial City, stopping at a couple ruins along the way. They got a few random quests along the way, all of them mod-added, and all of them add stuff like "take down the goblins who raided my caravan" or "Can you find my lost (insert lost item here)? I think it's in X." Renee bought the Waterfront Shack, she had just enough money to do so. And now, she's supposed to perform her 4th or 5th Arena match. Fun times!

Must be raining in Maryland...


Not here, though. And since I´m like Renee it must be raining or at least overcast if I am to follow Lothran around. He´s currently in the beginning of a previously undiscovered Shivering Isles cave, so I want rain now, [censored]!!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Aug 8 2015, 04:07 PM

Succinct! I love this!











An undiscovered cave? In Cyrodiil???

That's quite a walk, IIRC Fort Blueblood is west of Leyawiin, deep in Blackwood. I probably wouldn't remember it if it weren't important for the Leyawiin recommendation quests.

Nice that she finally has a place to call home or at least to store her stuff. She's too much of a wanderer to call any place a home, I guezz.

That sounds fun, a new cave. I wonder what SI caves are like?

Thanks, yes it is succinct, mALX. It's my new 'to the point' writing style ha ha. Easy to implement, for working parents everywhere.

little lopov: Hmm, maybe it wasn't Blueblood. This fort was somewhat west of Pell's Gate. Hmm.

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Morningstar 27, 3rd Era 434 : Kahreem is supposed to be headed from Anvil to the Imperial City, to deliver a letter straight to Hieronymus Lex, but things have gone awry...

...3:00 am: He starts tonight's Xbox session getting chased by a guard.

.... He runs up toward those stragglers at Crestbridge Camp (the one just under Kvatch) and for some reason dismounts.

.. the guard shows up. Which means Kahreem has to bolt out of there, so he gets on the black horse courier horse (THIEF!) and now he's got an entire camp of people pissed off at him. Eventually as he runs away, a wolf shows up. Then a couple trolls. Then he rides by a bandit camp, so he rides into this camp, hoping the trolls will get distracted (they're fast) and they do. But now, Kahreem has a bandit after him.

... He fights the bandit a bit, but Kahreem's only wearing some blue-colored royal-looking clothes, not true armor, so the fight's not going his way. He tries to get on his horse, but the horse is fighting a wolf, so he's forced to abandon his precious black horse courier horse.

... He runs toward Skingrad, hoping to get the bandit to follow, so the guards will fight the bandit. Who knows if the bandit follows though? ...the guards aren't concerned with some stupid bandit, they want the WEET bandit. Kahreem steals a bay horse; he's not going to jail now, no way, he's resisting arrest.

...He rushes off, with several guards in tow. These guys fall behind quickly of course, so Kahreem is passing a pool of water, he gets off his new, stolen bay horse so he can drink. The guards are nowhere to be seen, but out of nowhere, another wolf shows up. XD Kahreem decides to be a man, and fights the wolf. Tired of running. Only problem is, he hits his horse as he's fighting the wolf. The horse doesn't like this.

... so now, it's 7:39 am, and he's in Derelict Mine, hiding from an angry brown horse.

This post has been edited by Renee: Aug 9 2015, 01:35 AM

No, in Shivering Isles


Cave is done! Mighty one, and it contained both Mania and Dementia.