ghastley: I have the shadows turned up to Ultra. If I don't I get really bad striping of the shadows across the snow fields. But even bugs like that aside, it is amazing how much better the shadows are in Skyrim than they were in Oblivion.


Acadian: It always feels a little odd playing Persephone without Darryl Ulfar making an appearance. But Sigrun has worked into things really well. She feels just as naturally to have back there with her bow as Ulfie does with his shouting.

Red-Handed is indeed Persephone showing off her Deadwalker Absorb Health spell. Two fists of red death! (That sounds like a kung fu movie title! )



I could be your mother...

Welcome home, daughter

Snowhome

Cooking up some blood pies

Home sweet home

Night over Winterhold

Night over Persephone

The last thing a necromancer ever saw

Rest well old friend...

Azura's Mountains

I’m so glad that Sigrun is working well and gets on well with Persephone. Aww, what beautiful shots of her adopting little Sophie and taking her home.

Wow, night over Winterhold and Persephone are a couple of spectacular shots!

Rest well, old friend - those shots are always poignant for Persephone I'm sure. It is wonderful to know that even the necroslaying deadgirl is surrounding herself with some family of sorts in Sigrun and Sophie.

aww, a mother-daughter team in the making. Look out 5th graders.

I love the cooking pic. What do you mean "blood pies? though"

Wow, Azura's Mountain is pretty.

Persephone's gonna have some competition in Skyrim pretty soon by the way, heh heh. After I get to a certain point with Sarah and have more free time on weekends, that is.

Acadian: Sofie is one of the orphans I have trouble resisting, living out in the cold streets of Windhelm. She almost always gets adopted by my characters.

Persephone will always have her dead friends to keep her company. One day she might be summoning Sofie...


Renee: Gilmore Girls of Skyrim!

Haven't you heard of Blood Pudding/Sausage? I guess it is more of a vampire joke though...

Azura's Mountain actually makes me think of godzilla movies, or ones with giant mecha like Pacific Rim. I keep thinking the statue is going to come alive and climb over the mountains.

Is Sarah Phimm going to migrate to Skyland? I suspect the Dawnguard questline would work well for her!


Hello old friend

Sunset

Sunset II

Dancing in the dark

Dance partner

Persephone helps a mage study wards

Heads or tails

In the shade

Chop

Ha ha Gilmore Girls was a fun show back then. And no, never heard of bloodpudding. Um, yuck?

Sarah will not be migrating, however somebody else will be migrating from Xbox to PC. Now for your pixies.

Sunset is so striking. Actually the first four or five look like computer art, which they are, but what I mean is they look like some pics out of a gamer magazine.

Poor guy got a little crazy, but it's not like he lost his head or anything! *snicker*

What exactly was she "chopping?"

This post has been edited by Renee: Oct 9 2016, 01:16 AM

Renee: Gilmore Girls is back, that is what got me thinking of it.

I guess you are lucky not to have heard of blood sausage/pudding/soup, etc... It is more of an Old World dish, from when you could either starve or eat the really disgusting parts of critters.

Are you going to bring Mycharonna over to the PC? Will Khareem be disguising his way through Skyrim? Now my mind is awhirl with possibilities.

I think Persephone was chopping necromancers in that pic. They really put her in a chopping mood.



I suppose the College is to blame for this too?

A murder mystery

Vengeance

Persephone lights the funeral pyre

Who's the Dunmer private dick, that's a sex machine to all the chicks?

Lights in the darkness

Showdown

Thwarting a Daedric Princess

How are those nightmares?

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Ha, did that troll just show up dead on the doorstep? I've had some odd things come over the hill into Winterhold, but never a troll. Funny!

Murder Mystery turned out perfectly, even the angle of Persephone's head is just right. What a sad quest, but I like that you can put Habd to rest. Vengeance looks awesome with the frost and red absorb effect.

Wow, Lights in the Darkness is extremely cool. Who is the lady in the fancy robes in Erandur's party picture?

It is poignant when you think about it. Persephone may very well watch Sofie turn from child to woman to gray to bones to dust. . . .

Dancing in the dark looks like she’s applying her absorb health spell to the crotch of her foe. . . interesting implications.

Since your first shots of wards in use, I’ve always thought they were very neat – photogenic.

I chuckled over the Blame George Bush the College for everything that goes wrong in Winterhold comment.

Oh, I love the Vaermina quest. Especially that you can side with either Vaermina or the Priest of Mara.

Grits: The dead frost troll just appeared in mid air over the steps. I am not sure if it was after Persephone fast traveled to Winterhold, or if she just walked out of the tavern. Naturally everyone walked past it without comment! I have no idea how it got there.

The fancy robe lady in Shaft Erandur's pic is Luciana. She is a Restoration trainer added by my home-made More Trainers mod. I put most of them in the inns, which has the side benefit of making them look busier. Her robes are the standard college robes, they look fancy because of Opulent Outfits. I use the replacer version, so everyone with the college-style robes gets a neat outfit.



Acadian: That is the sad curse of immortality that Persephone lives under. I am sure she has played house countless times with other orphans, watched them grow up, grow old, and die. While she goes on unchanging.



Life-eater

Persephone and Shaft teaming up

Between the darkness and the light

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

The Red Queen

Ice falls

Hot foot

The vigilant and the dead girl

Fallowstone Cave

har har, I get it! M'aiq the Liar! .. I wonder what he chose to fabricate for miss Persephone, hmm?

I really love the half dark/half light pic. It's almost like a Lopov dead-on facial shot, except it's slightly off-center. Skyrim does that....the closer we get the camera, the more it will offset to the left.

Ha ha ha "Hot Foot" It's been awhile, but I think that is the Dawnguard castle? Persephone is joining Dawnguard? I'm probably wrong. Been awhile, like I said.

Fallowstone Cave and the Life-eater pic are pretty. The Life-Eater one is pretty though, in that sort of way stinging corals are also pretty.

As ever, Persephone’s unique absorb health ability is both fitting for her and colorfully photogenic.

Neat the way you positioned her for darkness and light.

M’aiq. . . too bad he’s essential. . . .

Ice falls is a good reminder how well-suited Skyrim’s climate is for Persephone.

Vigilants of Stendar. You know, I want to like them because of their paladinesque overtones. . . but they basically make liking them impossible with their buffoonozealotry.

Renee: I am a Fleetwood Mac fan, so I could not resist plugging one of their songs (Todd Howard's theme)...

The 3rd person camera is offset in Skyrim. It was in FO3 as well, though there are mods that center it. It is a new thing in games. I think it is supposed to make it easier to aim in 3rd person, especially at things directly in front of you (which would otherwise be blocked by your character's body).

That is Castle Dawnguard. Or Fort Dawnguard. I don't know why everything is always a fort in Bethesda games. It makes me think of old Westerns with the log walls and cavalry inside.



Acadian: I thought the lighting in the Darkness and Light pic was perfect to symbolize the darkness and light within Persephone, so I spent a lot of time getting that picture just right.

Tbh, it is kind of hard to imagine an ES game without Maiq. Is he in ESO?

I never really had any happy joy-joy feelings for the Vigilants. They remind me too much of the Inquisition and the self-proclaimed witch-hunters it inspired.


He's back!

Blue and silver eyes

Dimhollow

Now what could be in here?

You don't see that every day!

Catch

A helping hand

Face to face

Side by side

Red storm rising

In the light

Blood Moon

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Oct 18 2016, 10:35 PM

Oh of course, I love Fleetwood Mac too. I was wondering what M'aiq had to say to Persephone. Sometimes he can say things which directly reflect our t00n. Guards in Skyrim sometimes do this, too.

Oh I didn't know that's why they offset in Skyrim & Fallout, didn't know this. The odd thing is in Oblivion, yes the camera is dead-center behind our character, but I find I have to aim ever-so-slightly to the left.

Oh heck yeah. Persephone + Serana. Sweet. I wonder if Persephone will get along with that motormouth, though. Are you a Led Zeppelin fan too?

Yay Darryl!!! I love Darryl and am so glad you have him back. Old blue eyes is magnificent.

Wow, adventures with Serana. Silver and red eyes. So. . . did you hear the one about the two dead girls who walked into a tavern?

Can’t wait to see how Persephone and Serana Complainsalot get along.

Gosh, Blood Moon is another gorgeous shot!

Renee: I forgot what Maiq was saying that time. I think something about getting in trouble in Riften and fleeing to Windhelm, where nobody cared. I like the guards comments better, like the "The gods gave you two hands, and you use both for your weapon, I respect that."

I am a huge Zeppelin fan! In fact, That song is one of Persephone's theme songs. I am listening to another one of her songs as I write this.



Acadian: I have been saving Old Blue eyes for a while now. Kicking off the Dawnguard questline seems like a great occasion to bring him back.

Ever since creating Persephone, Serana has been one of my favorite NPCs. She and Persephone fit together so perfectly. They are among the few people in the world who can understand one another.

I am using the Shut Up Serana! mod, which curbs some of her more annoying tendencies, like constantly saying: "What did you need?"

I love the moons in the ES games. The Fallout games - and most other games in general - don't have night skies to compare to the ES games.



Persephone has declared war upon the Thalmor

Persephone gets all First Age

Home, sweet creepy castle

The prodigal daughter returns

Welcome back

Say hello...

...To my little friend

Haunted

Yay for Persephone’s war on the Thalmor!

I figured she’d get on well with Serana – they have a fair amount in common. I can imagine they would make a fun and solid team. Especially when augmented by Darryl and Serana’s resurrected bunnies and chickens and deer.

Wow, that big bandit on the ship completely lost his head for Persephone.

Haunted is a good name for your last haunting shot – very interesting and effective shot.

Agreeing with Acadian. Haunted is way-cool. I had to stare at it for a few moments to see the face.

That's nice to see she brought Serana home. Is Persephone doing the Dawnguard quest on the vampire's side? I still have memories of Lord Haaf-Mersey trying to make that initial walk up to Serana's dad's castle, and getting rejected because he refused to join their side.

In the Light is a great song--in fact I've always liked the simplicity of Physical Graffiti...Led Zepplin scaling back.

Since we're getting near Halloween, I'm in a Vampirella mood, but also in an Orc mood, so Jugula was the result.

Jugula at home (where else?)

Jugula in action

She's taken Fjotra to the Markarth Temple, where the young Sybil has some new outfits,

So does Hamal.

There is some logic there. No doubt Jugula certainly distracts her foes which probably makes dispatching them easier. It is a bit tough to imagine hopping and jumping around in that outfit though - ouch!

Oh I love the little outfit you gave the new Sybil! That's adorable!

Jugula! What a fitting name! BWAAHAA! You did a great job on her, and I love the pony tail!





Acadian is just worried her "Jugs" will spill out while she is bouncing around, lol.