Here are some recent shots:

Dude… ditto. (from Jerric)

It’s a great day for fishing.

Still a great day for fishing.

Sometimes people will come along and take their shirts off, too.

Jerric loves fish. (That’s Ulfe on his left.)

This time I lost more than my shirt.

Lil’s favorite outfit.

Lil and Hassim in Vulkhel Guard.

Lil gets a lot of attention. Also from that day, a gentleman named “DatBootyClap” (or a close variation).

Naughty Sugar Paws. (They are looking at a butterfly.)


Lil and Hassim had a falling out with Sugar Paws because Alfiq does not ever shut up. This sounds like meowing in-game. They sent her to hang out with Darnand. Now Lil is taking care of Pip the vermillion scuttler, and Ulfe (the golden retriever) is with the Nord. Darnand does not mind Sugar Paws’s constant commentary. She speaks Ta’agra to him and he speaks Cyrodilic back at her. It seems to work for them. It helps that Darnand likes cats.

‘Though we seek to cause no offense, you simply don’t intrigue us in that fashion.’ Hey, that sounds like a line that Lil should remember for the Booty Clappers.

Love the Jerric fishing shots! And his little baby clannfearian pet!

Wow, Ulfe looks great as a golden retriever.

Lil looks magnificently yummy! And I love her big riding cat - and little Alfiq too.

Is that really Lil's favorite outfit, or someone else's favorite for Lil?

I get the feeling Jerric likes to fish. Maybe it has something to do with its magical shirt-disintegrating properties?

Wow, Jerric really lost weight at the Vile Clavicle shrine!

I think Lil's favorite outfit is a lot of other people's favorite as well! I can just imagine Jensa wearing it!

Got to love those lore-friendly names, Troublemaka, Smokey, and Mr. Clap.

I love the cat's expression in Sugar Paws. Someone studied how cats study little, moving critters!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 20 2016, 01:14 AM

Lots of great shots, Grits. That first fishing one in particular looks so calm and relaxed.

Jerric and Lil are looking good, and Hassim is such a handsome cat!

Thanks, everyone! The lads agree that they enjoy ‘Lil’s favorite outfit’ even more when she’s wearing her open-toed shoes.

Here are a few recent ones:

Lil and Pip and a ghost ship. (She has faith in her feet. That fall would have been fatal.)

Auridon is lovely.

Lil has a thing for golden males. She was quite taken with this guy, even though he was Altmer rude.

Auridon is still lovely. And Lil likes to find the high places.

Darnand views a mage party. Anyone know what that light dome is? He wants one.

Darnand meets the biggest airhead in Glenumbra. He has just finished another adventure that involves this guy. Darnand was happy to see him, even though the guy had caused a mess doing something heroic but stupid. Darien reminds Darnand more than a little of a light-hearted Jerric.

I’ve always loved Lil’s darkly exotic look and that carries wonderfully into the ESO version of her.

Her little Pip is adorable!

Aww, good luck to her with the fellas; at least Altmer don’t have a tragically short life span like humans do.

Yes, that Auridon place looks lovely indeed!

Woot, a mage parteee!

Darnand’s airhead is even more of an airhead than Count Cheydinhal’s son in Oblivion?

The Altmer cherry trees are lovely.

Looks like that one fella was just dying for that view...

Acadian, that airhead and Farwil are cut from the same cloth. Thank you for your kind words about Lil. I think the elves in ESO look great, especially the Bosmer. Lil has so far been disappointed by the Altmer of Auridon. They look all kinds of heroic and gorgeous like that high elf Hero of Kvatch Merandil, but then they open their mouths and ruin it!

SubRosa, that’s what I thought! There are skeletons like that all over the place, many with fun stuff to be found in their packs. It makes me nervous to let anyone sit down.

Here’s the latest crop:

Jerric cleaning up toxic waste in Shadowfen (in Black Marsh on the Morrowind border). This is the type of terrain that made him find a guar mount.

The Atronach Stone! Funnily enough the blessing increases magicka regeneration in ESO! Jerric feels his magicka is cursed enough by the MMO mechanics, so he took the blessing anyway. (There is no spell absorption benefit.)

Lil and Ulfe in the Elden Root (Valenwood) Outlaws Refuge. There is a campsite in there that Lil uses. The guy who has his laundry hung around the fire doesn’t seem to mind sharing. He is another cute Bosmer.

Have Baa and Mooch been here?!

Afwa and Rinces in their tree house.

Ulfe looking cute in Grahtwood (a jungle region of Valenwood) with Lil. Laeloria is the name of the nearby ruin. That terrain is pretty typical of what she’s seen so far.

Lil let this handsome woodster sweet talk her. I have a feeling that she is going to want to skin him before her ‘great opportunity’ is over.

Elden Root mist and sunrise.

This post has been edited by Grits: Jan 30 2016, 11:15 PM

Jerric is cleaning up toxic shamans in Shadowrun? Sounds like some of the SR games I played in back in the old pen & paper days!

The Astronaut Stone increases magicka regeneration? That sounds like quite a stretch from how it prevents magicka regeneration in all the other ES games! So then what does the Magician do, increase your total magicka? Can all the stones be found in each Alliance? Or do you have to go to other Alliance's territories to get to certain ones?

Is the Outlaw place from the Thieves Guild dlc? Or is that part of the vanilla game?

If it can be jumped on, you can bet Baa and Mooch have been there!

mALX changed her name to Rinces!

The Valenwood jungle looks nice. But not as nice as Lil's abs. I wish I had her tummy...

Lil is going to talk to King James Cameron in Elven Root?

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 31 2016, 08:39 PM

What better expert is there on poison gas than Jerric? Just sayin'.

What a beautiful tree Lil is communing with in Elden Root.

Yup, can’t see a pumpkin in Tamriel with thinkin’ of Mooch!

SubRosa is right – there’s mALX sitting on the table!

Gosh, more wonderful shots of Lil!

SubRosa, the Atronach blessing reversal in ESO was a real eye-roller. The Mage blessing increases maximum magicka, while the Atronach increases magicka regeneration. There is a complete set of Mundus Stones in each faction area plus a complete set in Cyrodiil, so no one has to venture onto hostile ground to get a blessing.

The Outlaws Refuge is from the vanilla game. I’m told that the Thieves Guild expansion comes out in March. (Yay!) Right now in the vanilla game anyone can trespass, steal, and pickpocket items from NPCs. The Outlaws Refuge is a place where you can sell or launder your stolen goods with a fence and pay off your bounty without approaching a guard. I don’t know what the advantage to paying off your bounty with a fence is other than not losing the stolen goods on your person, because Lil has only paid off guards. She has also escaped justice and waited until her bounty timed out and she was no longer ‘Disreputable.’ I suppose she could have waited out her bounty in the Outlaws Refuge, but she wandered around having adventures while avoiding guards instead.

I wish I had Lil’s tummy, too! And her butt, and her… The body sliders are great. A lot of characters look similar in the face (especially Dunmer and Bretons), but there is a good variety of body shapes. Although most ladies have bigger boobs than Lil.

Acadian, I knew something was funny about Jerric’s gaseous adventure, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it! I’m sure his tent mates wish he could have kept that Enchanted Poison Gas Collection Container! That tree house in Grahtwood with the Mooch-pumpkin and the mALX-squirrel really made me smile.

That is rather nice with the Outlaws Refuges and way you can bribe guards without being a member of the Thieves Guild. In the older ES games there was no point stealing things unless you were a member of the TG, because it was impossible to sell your stolen items. At least in ESO you can be a thief and not be in the Thieves Guild. I wonder if the DLC will change any of that?

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 31 2016, 08:42 PM

I hope they don’t change the vanilla outlaw content! I doubt that they will. There are a number of achievements already in place based on breaking the law, and forcing players to buy DLC or have their original game content removed would be a boneheaded move. So far these guys seem to know how to keep customers happy by enticing purchases with cool stuff rather than squeezing money out of players. I haven’t encountered idiocy on the scale of Dawnguard’s random vampire attacks or the way the Dragonborn DLC quest is required to enjoy Solstheim. That is to say I have not seen Mr. Howard’s signature style in ESO. Most of the things I dislike (and there are several things that I strongly dislike) are simply related to the limitations of a multiplayer game.

I’m particularly happy that the Thieves Guild and the assassin DLC (Dark Brotherhood maybe, I have forgotten already) will be separate. They would have to make a pretty neat questline to get me interested in assassin stuff.

Hire are some fantastic screenshots Grits. The ones with Lildereth in Valenwood are great. By the way how big is Valenwood and if you're part of anther faction can you do quests of that region? Miscellaneous quests?

Thanks, DE! I’m not sure how big Valenwood is yet, because Lil has only explored a small part of one of Valenwood’s regions. (Grahtwood, home of the tree city Elden Root.) I know that the Greenshade, Malabal Tor, and western Reaper’s March regions are also in ESO, but I’m not sure what else is.

I’m told that once you finish your faction’s questline you can go do the quests in the other faction areas, so you don’t miss anything.

So far Valenwood has been just amazing.

Cheesemonger's Hollow - An area of The Shivering Isles.

Standing Stone - In Stonefalls, Morrowind. The air is thick with ash from a nearby volcano.

Full View and close up of an Argonian style two-handed sword.

I am surprised that the Shivering Isles is in ESO. I thought it was just Tamriel and parts of Coldharbor. Can you find Old Olroy in the Cheesemonger's Hollow?

The Argonian sword is a Macuahuitl! Very cool, I always thought those were neat weapons, very under-represented in video games.

Sheogorath is the (sort of) antagonist of the Mages Guild quest line, and you visit different locations within the Isles with him. Lots of references to encounters with him in previous games -searching for the Fork of Horripilation, meeting Uncle Leo.


As for the sword, yeah lots of the Argonian style gear has a Mesoamerica/'Aztec' feel to it. Looks fantastic. Interestingly, the daggers and one-handed swords resemble Kukris.

hazmick, that sword looks fantastic! I can imagine it tearing through people with bits of their meat hanging off those jagged edges.

That’s a fabulous shot of Cheesemonger’s Hollow. Lil was just there today. She left most of the residents undisturbed, but she did start one fight just to play in a waterfall afterward.

That’s a neat shot showing the pretty tree and the ash. I love Stonefalls. Jerric still travels all the way back to Davon’s Watch when he needs a bank.


SubRosa,

I’m sure there will be more. I’m interested to see which ones.

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This post has been edited by Grits: Feb 5 2016, 02:21 AM