I think I had 40 hours in Oblivion within the first two days



Joanie needs to be careful if she´s gonna last through two counter resets, but at least she got a little something with which to buy Strong Restore Health potions with

Paladin Joan of Arkay, Order of the Quick Feet.

Today Lothran decided to have some fun with the vampies at Bloodcrust Cavern. Usually he sneaks through the cave and lets his Spriggan deal with them in there but today he ran inside, threw his Scout spell (AoE) and then ran outside again to let his Spriggan deal with them there instead. In the sunshine...

"Hey, brother vampire! Don't bite that spriggan on the neck! We're not sapsuckers you know!"

"Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Damn sun!"

Lothran is now traveling the Colovian Highlands. He has visited (but not re-explored) Infested Mine, Fort Ondo, Fort Dirich and other places on his way to Chorrol which he just entered.

He has enjoyed his latest hobby of entering caves etc, throwing his Scout spell to attract the "companions of fun" inside and then run out again where he summons his Spriggan and enjoys the show from a safe location

It is fun the games we sometimes invent within our games. When Buffy encounters a Legion Rider, she slows Superian to match the speed of his horse and rides along, helping, healing and repairing gear for the soldier as he makes his rounds.

I always liked that part of her stories. A clever way to show her kindness and support to those who need and deserve it

Did they actually chase him outside? What spell is that?

They sure do. The spell is an electric one that does 10pts of damage over 70ft. It´s not designed to be a heavy hitter but rather, as the name suggests, to scout and get the attention of enemies

Went for a wander with Severan near Skingrad, he had to get his recommendation after all.

I'm noticing more and more differences between this Severan and his previous incarnation. This time around he's not bothering with nighteye, at least he isn't yet, and I think he's favouring his bow a little more than he did before. Fighting those deranged zombies he'd open with a sneak attack, then follow it with a weak fireball, then two arrows, then another fireball(by that point the effect had worn off). Made a real mess of those things.

That is so cool! One of the things I've always enjoyed so much in Oblivion (and actually in Fallout 3 too) - is the ability to gather stalkers who will hound you wherever you go to kill you - the Bleak Mine Guards; that IC Guard Captain; the Khajiit (though I never double-crossed him, so never had him stalk me); Umbra; the King of Miscarand; Sithis; etc.

I wish the Talon Company and/or the Regulators in FO3 would follow you inside like the Oblivion stalkers do. I think in FO3 the only stalkers who follow you inside are (that ghoul and those Brotherhood of Steel guys).

But I really enjoy when that happens, they suddenly wake you from a sound sleep to attack and have you surrounded in your bed, etc. If I know it is coming, I like to plan ahead to make the most of it - like keeping the three Oblivion gates outside Skingrad open or Aarkved's Tower - great places to lure them into tough battles with enemies to make their stalking of me make their lives miserable first, lol.





This post has been edited by mALX: Apr 28 2016, 09:26 PM

Severan got a little restless on his way back from Skingrad.

He started at the Ayleid well, and spotted a ruined fort a little way off, Fort Vlastarus, and decided to poke around. He ended up killing off a few rats, wolves, and vampires without any real trouble, except for one rat that charged as his detect life spell ran out, and disappeared in the dark. Not only did it get him, but it infected him with Blood Lung.

After that he got curious about Ceyatatar, and went Conjurer hunting. The scamps proved more dangerous than the Conjurers were, since most of them died to a single arrow from the shadows. The adept right at the bottom was more difficult to kill, because she kept hiding behind tables and stuff. Unfortunately there were no spell tomes to be had, which he'd been hoping for, but he did find some enchanted items, including two sets of fortify fatigue trousers.

And finally, on his way back to the Imperial City, he stopped off to plunder Fort Virtue. Which wasn't really worth the effort.

He's currently in the Imperial City, level 4, with a little over 3,000 septims. And even better, since he stopped off at the Tower Stone, he's got a couple of new and very useful powers to lay with. He even found The Master's Hand useful, since with it's bonus to armorer he was able to repair his bow when it was pretty worn down. He was able to fully repair it without breaking the one hammer he owns, so he thinks it's a very useful power to have.

You better get Severan a Cure Disease spell if he´s gonna keep spelunking, Thorn

He actually found a couple of potions, but prefers to keep a couple of pieces of mandrake root handy.

Just cleared out Barren Cave on the road to Cheydinhal for the first time. Imagine, two caves just beside a major road and Lothran has not searched them until now

O-ho-ho yes! Barren Cave is intense. Vampires, right? That is some of my characters' favorite places to clear.


Ha ha this sounds fun!

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 30 2016, 10:56 PM

It´s fun indeed


After a short visit to Cheydinhal Lothran is now back in the Imperial City. He has just made a new spell called Firestorm after finally realizing he didn´t have a good AoE fire spell. Well, now he does

It´s not as costly as his other AoE spells and frankly I´ve thought about deleting one or two. Decided against it though for reasons I don´t understand. Lothran rarely uses them anyway.

CT, how's Severan coming along?

mirocu, does Lothie lower his spell cost by lower damage over longer time instead of big quick damage?

Yes, that is usually the preferred method. However that is not always the case.


He has one spell called Massive Blizzard which does 50pts over 50ft for one second and was made as a dash-and-run kind of spell and Frost was chosen for its lingering effect.

Firestorm does 40pts over 20ft for 2 secs. It could have been made doing less damage over a longer period of time, I know, but we didn´t want to make it 1pt over 120 secs either and had to draw the line somewhere


Edit: As I will move to the cottage next week I have parked Lothran at Silverhome-on-the-Water for the time being. I most likely will return once in awhile and roam the countryside with him but it will be much less frequent now.

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 7 2016, 07:49 PM

Well, Lothran has worked hard all winter keeping Bruma safe. He deserves a bit of a rest/break and Silverhome is a nice place for that.