Three thugs just because of stealing some food? Will they send a dragon after him when he steals a few gold coin?

So he met his ManiPulating brother and is now off to Riften. Yeah, I imagine there'll be plenty of things to do there for someone like Bjorn.

Whew, that 'statuesque' bit means Buffy's off the hook - wasn't her!

Wow, Bjorn sounds like he can really handle himself when it comes to fightin'!

I'm so glad your Renee-made mods are working well for you.

While we're on the subject of statuesque women ...

I created a Skyrim version of Heidi, my pneumatic blonde character from the Oblivion mods. She's still a large woman in a small dress, with a big claymore/great-sword on her back, but less round-faced, and with a new hairstyle.

I noticed that when she finally got a set of steel plate armour (minimal coverage Rider-style in her case, but with stats the same as the regular kind), that she actually was finding combat harder than when she was just wearing zero-defence clothing. I figured out that the difference was that she'd replaced a set of hide bracers that boosted her two-handed skill with the plate gauntlets, and that the best defence really is a good offence.

There must be some kind of roll for initiative - i.e. which character gets their blow in first - and she was getting the nod more often. Since she hadn't been using Heavy Armour, the skill was low, so wearing some made less difference initially, too. I've played a few characters that stayed un-armoured with dual-wield one-handed or two-handed weapons, putting all the perk points saved from armour into weapon and smithing perks instead, and it does seem viable that way, until you run out of levels and can't advance offence.

This was the first time I switched from un-armoured to armoured in the same game. It makes me wonder where the break-even point lies, and whether a different balance of Health/Stamina would have changed things.

It's a good thing her Dremora housecarl is softening them up before she reaches melee range now. His spells are getting stronger each time she summons him.

Is Heidi statuesque, or is perhaps voluptuous a better word for her? I'm sure she's a natural for Skyrim. Does she have a bear to ride?

Heidi's a brick house. Mighty fine, lettin it all hang out. Ow!



Oh Buffy's not in his sights, I imagine. I get the feeling Bjorn likes strong Nord women who can put up a fight.

Interpreted for Acadian:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EmnQp3V48

Sundas, Last Seed 24, 4th Era 201 -- Bjorn Tubewyyld has started Thieves Guild quest, and has done all the required "persuading" to shopkeepers he's supposed to do from Brynjolf. I tried TG long ago with my Mighty Khahkhayre dark elf guy, and even though Khahkhayre was pretty much an A-hole, he just wasn't right for TG at all. He had problems with the shopkeeps.

Well, not Bjorn. I swear, it's like this quest was made for him. He has no problem being a bully, and I have no issue from a RP standpoint at all.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 4 2016, 01:06 AM

I have a feeling that Bjorn didn't persuade them by words.

Well, he will not fight a woman, but other than this, yea, he got tough with the one guy he encountered! The bunkhouse lady was tough the first time, but when Bjorn went back to speak to her she simply caved in. Gave in to what the TG wants.

the Argonian was the toughest. She not only refused what the TG wanted, but she refused to serve Bjorn at all after he encountered her. There was no more option to rent a bed or buy food (etc.) But then, there's a way to make her change her mind, but it's non-violent.

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The long-haired man wearing red cuirass was sitting by the campfire outside Ustengrav, the shield with an emblem of the wolf placed right beside him. A symbol of the dragon was carved both in his bracers and boots and if anyone saw the man, he'd probably think that this guard of Solitude is out on patrol.

But a distance west of Ustengrav, outside Folgunthur, there was a dead man lying in the grass, stripped of his armor. And in the dungeon of Castle Dour another Imperial soldier was lying dead in the kitchen, stabbed right through his chest.

Because the man by the campfire wasn't any kind of a guard. He was the worst possible kind of man, and this afternoon he escaped from Castle Dour, where he was put after being found as an immigrant on one of the merchant ships.

The man called himself the Rat, and there was a hefty bounty of 1,500 septims on his head. Not that he cared - he'd rather die than go to prison again.

Between Bjorn the Bully and The Ratman, it is looking like an invasion of the Bad Boyz in Skyrim.

Oooh, impersonating a Solutude guard. That'll jack up his bounty some more I bet.

@Acadian - the Rat got rid of the uniform quite quickly, he figured it's better to walk around in something less obvious.

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One of the Dawnstar guards heard a piercing shriek as he was passing Irgnir's house. He rushed inside and witnessed a gruesome scene, one that he couldn't forget until his peaceful death many years later. But the hooded man responsible for butchering poor Irgnir was still there, and the bloodied scimitar in his hands was a good enough proof for the guard to attempt to arrest the murderer.

But the Rat was too fast for justice and before the guard could alert his friends, he was already running out of Dawnstar. However, two men spotted the Rat- the first one was the famous bounty collector who's been searching for him ever since he killed two guards in Solitude. He's been trying to catch him for a while but the trail's gone cold close to the burned down shack about halfway between Solitude and Dawnstar. But the bounty collector was convinced that this was the man he's been looking for - his outfit gave him away. Because the Rat was wearing robes of restoration along with a knapsack and two days ago the bounty collector found a dead Vigilant of Stendarr - whoever killed him, took everything from him except for one thing...his amulet of Stendarr. Since Vigilantes have been wearing the same outfits, it wasn't hard for the collector to recognize the 'fake' vigilant.

The second man who joined the hunt on the Rat was a shady merchant called Sam who always enjoyed a good fight. He unsheathed his pair of silver swords and went chasing the Rat. Dawnstar guards saw the trio disappear in the snowstorm and figured that the murderer would be punished soon enough.

But when night fell and the snowstorm calmed down, guards went searching for the hunters because neither of them have returned. A distance west of Solitude they found their corpses, both of them stabbed through chest. The murderer has escaped and because of the snowstorm the trail after him has gone cold yet again.

Farther to the west, in the deck of the wreck of the Brinehammer, the Rat was lying in a dirty bed. His breathing was shallow because each breath caused him immense pain. He barely survived the fight with his hunters, and heavily wounded made his way back to his hideout - the Brinehammer. He will get better but it'll take some time. Such a shame that the Dawnstar guard interrupted him when he was about to have some fun with dead Irgnir.

"When you accept the new level—which updates to the highest level you have currently earned—your character is fully healed, regaining any Health, Magicka, and Stamina that was depleted." UESP wiki.

You don't have to pick Health to get restored in health, but of course choosing that when it's low gets you most benefit as you restore to the new higher level.

Yikes! Ratty really is a bad boy as he cuts a bloody swath westward from Solitude across the frozen north.

I do agree that the Vigilant outfit should serve him much better than a guard uniform.

@ghastley - thanks, I didn't know that.

@Acadian - not to mention that Vigilant's outfit with a mod-added bear cloak is much more warm than the guard's uniform.

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About halfway through High Gate ruins Anska began doubting that the man for whom she supposed to be a mage from the College because of his robes, was in fact of any use to her. Not once, and she really meant it, not even once, did he help her fighting off Draugr, as soon as a fight started, he hid behind a nearest pillar and waited for her to deal with undead. Even when they meet Vokun, the guardian of the ruins, the "mage" left her all alone and hid somewhere in the main hall until the dragon priest was turned to ashes. But Anska didn't care too much because she trusted in her own skills and hopefully she taught the "mage" a thing or two about combat.

However, once they returned to the main hall, the "mage" showed his true face and while Anska may have defeated Vokun, she wasn't a match for the Rat. There were a lot of useful healing and magical potions in High Gate, a lot of them the Rat placed in his knapsack, careful not to break any bottles. But the biggest treasure was the staff of fireballs that belonged to the dragon priest and of course his mask which now found a new owner.

Well-equipped, the evildoer from High Rock wandered in the direction of the swamps.

Aww, poor Anska fell victim to the Dirty Rat.

Goodness. What happened to your "test" character?

9:39 AM, Middas, Last Seed 27, 4E 201: Bjorn Tubewyyld is in Fort Greenwall, doing some smithing. He's not very good at it yet, he's not a "Haaf-Mersey" yet, but he'll eventually get there. On his agenda today WHOA....

Ha that was cool! Just after getting done smithing one of the bandits says "I'll skin you alive!" and another one said some other typical one-liner. Fort Greenwall was under attack! Bjorn grabbed his trusty battleaxe, expecting some group of adventurers or something, but it was merely a couple of giant spiders!

.. phew. On his agenda today, he's going to Riften to try to figure out who Maven Black-Briar is, because she has something she wants the Thieves Guild to do, I assume. After that, it's off to Whiterun, where Vex wants him to do something as well. There are two types of jobs in the TG, each handled by an different NPC. One type of job seems more "white collar", equivalent to deception and fraud here on Earth, while the other is good, old-fashioned break-ins and rough stuff. Bjorn is more of a rough stuff type of guy.

7:41 PM, Fredas Last Seed 29: Bjorn is in Whiterun, doing a couple TG quests. I must say, although I don't like a lot of the things Bjorn is doing in this quest, they're not as "innocently fun" as TG was in TES4, I am impressed with the writing in this questline. It does make me think a lot.

But that's not the reason I'm posting really. Right now Bjorn Tubewyyld is in Bannered Mare, having dinner and a chat with Mila, the little girl who helps her mother sell fruits and vegetables, it's fun most days, but hard work, whatever she says.

... you have to understand. Mila is standing there staring at Bjorn. She walked right up to him as he's sitting drinking his mead, and is literally staring at him. I took a couple pics of this, it's bizarre behavior.

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Looks like Bjorn is making quite a career in the guild of thieves.

Children often stare at unusual people, that's why Mila is staring at him, I guess. In other words, this is the game's way of complimenting Bjorn's looks.

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Hadring, the proprietor of the Nightgate Inn, wondered where had the rich Orc disappeared. He's been staying with him for weeks and had paid a lot of gold in advance so it wouldn't make sense for him to leave just like that. He wondered whether he made a mistake by telling some passing traveler about how rich that Orc was - because the very next day both the Orc and the traveler left the inn yet neither of them returned.

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"...fifty bloody septims...that's how rich that bastard was!..." the Rat cursed in the Nightgate Inn cellar after counting gold from the Orc's wardrobe. "Blasted Orc! Hope he rots with fishes." The Rat grabbed another bottle of wine from the Orc's room and put it in his backpack before leaving the cellar by the ladder, thus avoiding the main room where Hadring was cleaning mugs.

Once outside, he made his way a distance north where he met two adventurers earlier this day and they agreed to explore some Draugr ruin together. There were two of them - a lizard and a Redguard - the Rat intended to repeat the same game with them as he did with Anska but he'll keep the Redguard for the last. She was quite pretty.

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Renee – Sounds like Bjorn is enjoying his travels and doing thiefy stuffs. And it looks like little Mila has a crush on him.

Lopov – How dare that orc not have more gold than that after Ratty went to all the trouble of dumping him in the pond! Uh oh, going to try the Anska maneuver on another pair of dungeon divers. . . .