As mirocu says, the issue is at heart a vanilla failing. I do believe that it is, in my case, greatly exacerbated by certain of the mods I run. I also suspect that at least one mod might possibly trigger occasional "friendly" attacks that would not otherwise occur, but have never been able to prove it. I long ago set a Bash-Patch option that allows more "friendly hits" than normal before triggering aggro to "15", its highest value. It seems to be ignored, at least at times. I've seen many an ally fight break out, and swear a number of them started well before the "friends" had a chance to accidentally hit each that many times.

Heh...yeah, this latest report was more to remind folk that my avatar is alike and kicking (to the limited extent his poor knees allow kicking) than a juicy narrative of his mundane exploits.

Speaking of which, I should inform folk that, when I rejoined the gang, Vilja announced she was not hungry. There was nothing for it at that point but to continue their journey. Took only a few minutes to reach home. My avatar bid Vilja good night, consumed a late evening snack (lager - sweetroll) on his private third floor balcony, and retired to bed for the night.

He woke circa 0700 next morning, a whole hour past his normal waking hour, broke fast on the balcony (a breakfast sammich made from a muffin, his last egg, his last slice of ham, and cheddar cheese, washed down with cider and polished off by a fig), changed into suitable attire, walked to White Gold Tower, turned in gathered tax, accepted a new tax assignment, and began the day's major endeavor, a cleansing of the city sewers. He elected to do so on his own, having left his ward to her own devices in Weye. He soon came to regret that decision, running in to pockets of very tuff goblins. (Turns out much of his difficulty with them stems from one of their shaman casting multiple disintegrate spells on his sword, which he didn't notice until after the fact.) Be that as it may, he survived. I left him mid afternoon. He plans to return to Weye, dine with Vil, and maybe go for an evening swim in Lake Rumare. Next day? Likely a tax run to Faregyl Inn. We shall see.

By the way, this was my first chance to check out a new (to me) texture/mesh replacer: Bettys Sewers (Nexus). It comes in a choice of two variants, "wet" and "dry". I installed the "wet" variant and am VERY impressed. Looks to be a very solid improvement over vanilla. Too bad my avatar so seldom visits those sewers. Then again there's no reason why he can't explore 'em more often. Clearing the Imperial City underground of scum seems something he ought to take an interest in. Who knows?, maybe he'll add it to his list of things to do once every (or every other) patrol cycle.

RG3 almost died.

Is she strictly DiD?

I bet that came up the following Monday morning meeting.

He has just woken up and is putting his boots on and is about to go pay a visit to Umbacano´s home to look at the statues.

The Umbacano quest is a fun one.

What friends does Lothran have in the Imperial City? Just curious.

Sun's Dawn 27, 4th Era 21

Days Passed: 185

Pleasant morning. The party has been getting along mostly, which is nice.

Sleeping outside may not have been a great idea though. She originally did this so the single bed would not need to be shared by her, and also to get away from the constant chatter inside Roxey Inn.

But a vampire visited Renee in the night, and infected her with polypyric hemophilia. Easily cured since she has some mandrake, but now RG3 is on a roll for Barren Cave. The vamps there will pay!

But first, Roland Jenseric's cabin.

Long story short: there's no way Roland could be a vampire. He was greeted while awake in his cabin, with sunlight streaming through the windows. Roland explained that Seridur's really the vampire, which makes sense since he only wants to meet at night.

Went to Barren Cave and took care of most of the vamps in there. The final one was toughest, and mostly because when she followed RG3 out of the cave, it was getting dark, meaning that this vamp's health would not fall due to sunlight.* RG3 almost died.

But now it is late night at Cheydinhal Bridge Inn. Renee has healed herself from vampire's sickness again at the chapel, and is about to go to sleep.


* Maskar's has a cool feature which makes NPC vampires die quicker if they're under sunlight

Yes, and that was one heck of a close call!

Although I wrote this update maybe a month ago, I still remember it. RG3 had left her entire party outside the cave (to prevent them from going nuts in there, running amok). Then RG3 would go in, try to kill a vampire while inside the place, but sometimes they are simply too powerful, because they are in their own lair. Maskar's Oblivion Overhaul makes them more powerful if it's dark, you see.

But if they get lured outside, they'll now begin losing health, as long as it's daylight. Problem was, that very last vamp ... she lured it out while the sun was already down. And so even though the rest of her party was fighting the thing, the vampire itself kept focusing on RG3, which made it tough to heal her because she's running the entire time.

Renee´s modding spree almost killed her character. I bet that came up the following Monday morning meeting


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Lothran has just spent a nice evening in the Imperial City. Visiting friends and enjoying the city has been on the agenda and come late evening he booked a room at the hotel in Talos Plaza. It was nice and quiet in the lounge where he sat down for a moment before going to bed. No disturbances whatsoever.

He has just woken up and is putting his boots on and is about to go pay a visit to Umbacano´s home to look at the statues.

Oh, Umbacano only got three before he was axed and there are about two or three Lothran hasn´t found but yeah, the rest he has in his Bruma house

I wish the two quests didn´t conflict with each other, though. Was a bit disappointed when it happened

Wait, are you telling me in all these years of playing that there are any of the statues Lothran hasn't found yet? HOW? And how did Umbacano get axed after only 3 were turned in? His questline doesn't even move to Nenalata till after 6 statues have been found! (although I make sure he has all 10 first to get the full 5,000 Septims)

1. Lothran hasn´t set out specifically to find them all and sometimes when he´s passed a ruin he may not have felt like going in, so there you go

2. Lothran did find six statues but he kept the rest for himself. Then when the other quest came along he simply followed that to its conclusion.



I hope my answers were satisfactory

Well, the first time I played it through was on the XBox 360; and I did lose out on some of the pay for the statues in that one because (like you) I followed that second questline through thinking I could still continue the first.

My first character had like 9,000 hours on her game when that happened!

*hrrm*

Mind if I question that figure?

I don´t think I have gamed for 9000 hours in my entire life so far!