Sundas, First Seed 3

Days Passed: 189.

Foggy and cold outside, but also daytime. Renee grabbed Fel, then put on her Imperial armor. Headed back to Seridur's place and barged her way inside. Hmm. Seridur was asleep, right in the middle of the day. And he had nothing to say (after Renee awoke him) about his habit of day-sleeping. Both Renee and Fel had their suspicions, but there was nothing they could do though. He may be guilty, but they hadn't any evidence to just attack the guy, just for sleeping during the day.

After going back to visit Roland's place, and seeing he was not home, Fel reminded Renee that she's supposed to go talk to Phintias, over at First Edition Books. :facepalm:



Phintias did indeed have some info on Seridur, but would only divulge this after some sweet-talk, charming, and finally, gold. After this, he told them that Seridur would sometimes go to a place called Memorial Cave. Which is where the party will head eventually, after going to Fort Homestead to deal with the extortion guy.

Renee also got up her courage to ask the Redguard about her mother, Renee Gade II*, and amazingly, Phintias is the first she's spoken to who knows this name. Many more knew of her famous grandmother, Renee Gade the first, who'd killed Jagar Tharn nearly 3/4 of a century earlier, and Dyan phor a'Cauz (the usurper of Umaril the Unfeathered).

Phintias recommended that Renee & friends head up to Bruma, where he told them Dyan still lived, retired for over 20 years now. Phintias also advised Renee to try speaking to either of the innkeepers about Dyan, about where to find her. "If Dyan is like other Nords, she'll be visiting the taverns regularly, right?" Phintias pontificated.

Late in the day Renee returned to Maple Cottage, to gather Syssi and Gabs. Time to head south, to Fort Homestead. But but by the time everybody was ready it was getting dark outside, and the fog had rolled in, really thick and cold. Not a conducive environment for those who were trying their best to see enemies, before enemies saw them.

They got as far as Wawnet Inn, before calling it a night.



* Asking merchants (especially book-sellers) any info about her mother prompts the "Main Quest" in Renee Gade III's game. And I'm going to make a very rare book (maybe it'll have a less-than-1% chance to show up in loot if I can figure how to make this work), about what happened during Knights of the Nine. It will mostly describe how Dyan's role during KotN, but will only mention Renee's mom once.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 8 2016, 04:27 AM

I like Renee's search to learn more of her mother's past. Nice touch that Phintias directed her to retired Dyan. I assume you'll actually add modded Dyan in Renee's game?

I didn't know that you can talk to Seridur about Roland. I guess my characters always headed straight to Phintias and then to the Memorial Cave.

Gosh, Renee. Seems like you've done a wonderful job of customizing your game just for you. How neat to incorporate the histories of some of your other characters into things. Oh, and great to hear about Maple Cottage and Gabs as well.

Acadian: Yes, Maple Cottage is her main home. It is added by the lovely and talented Emma.

Lopov: There are several ways to do the Virtuous Blood questline. Even if we attack & kill the guy, I believe this will shortcut the entire quest so that .... well, this isn't the spoilers section. And yes, I believe Dyan is already up in Bruma, complete with her own schedule. She lives in the Player House up there, since she was the only one who bought this house back in my PS3 days.

Time for one of the shortest updates ever. The next one will be longer because it'll have pictures, but I don't feel like dealing with imgur tonight.

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Morndas, First Seed 4

Days Passed: 190

Clear skies but cool air. Party left Weye early, headed south. Arrived in Pell's Gate at about noon, rented a room, and did nothing important for the rest of the day & night.

No story for Cain, but he is walking the Green Road south, past Bravil. Heading towards Leyawiin as he makes his grand tour around Cyrodiil.

Sounds very Lothran-esque


Speaking of whom; I´m still miffed we have full on winter now and he´s not in Bruma yet. He will as usual travel there by the end of the month though.

I decided that I wanted to see all the cities and just mill around before i jumped into the Main Quest, or joined any guilds.

*sigh*

I've been telling Lothie for months to get back to Bruma!

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Tirdas, First Seed 5

Days Passed: 191

Location: Pell's Gate, friend.

Pleasant skies outside, and also it's warmer. Overnight, most of Cyrodiil bloomed into spring!* Party went across the way to Fort Homestead, to find the guy who's responsible for the troubles in the Market District, this 'Cork Nuts' guy. Took Syssi and Fel, but left Gabrielle behind with the usual instructions: DO NOT follow us. Just like on the Xena show, the Gabrielle NPC can be too much to handle sometimes. She also doesn't get along too well with the other followers, and sometimes prefers to hide behind Renee during fights.

The siege into Homestead went well. Took care of the baddies in there, and found Cork Nuts the extorter guy, who suffered some sort of complications right before our eyes, without even touching him.

On this day, Syssi mysteriously vanished, just after leaving Fort Homestead. No way to get her back, and Renee did search for her rather extensively. Maybe she just didn't enjoy being with the group.

Next? They'll head to Memorial Cave, where Seridur is rumored to be hiding.

*Betty's Springtime Overhaul

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And here are the details to Test Quest 11: The Extorter. Jensine often has her ears open, and tends to pick up work for Renee & her party

This time, it's a red-haired lady named Miss Terri, who has a job them.

But she wants to find a quieter area of The Feed Bag first. (this is a rather complicated bit of scripting called an Escort package. Basically, the NPC leads our t00n to another location. Sounds easy but damn, it's not. I experimented with this so I could make stuff happen a certain way in Sarah's game).

Miss Terri explains that an "extorter" has been illegally bullying shopkeepers into giving him money on the side. This man is known as "Cork Nuts", and Terri knows what's going on because she happens to be a farmer who sells her wares, especially to Delas Fandas. She overheard a conversation between Fandas and Cork Nuts, in which Cork Nuts demanded some money, or whatever. Because of the extortion, merchants are eventually going to be forced to raise prices, meaning that the farmers will probably get less!

This extorter guy stays in Fort Homestead, but when Renee goes to confront the guy, something unexpected happens.

Nooo! Oh well. Guess we've got some good news now, for merchants back in the Imperial City. See ya in Sovengarde, Cork Nuts.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 9 2016, 11:20 PM

A heart attack has to be the most unique cause of death in Tamriel.

Having been named a Knight-Errant of the White Stallions, Cain decided it was high time he make his way to Chorrol with the Amulet of Kings. Along the way, he returned to Skingrad with 10 Nirnroot's for Sinderion, and went along with Glathir's scheme for a bit, before reporting him to a guard.

He was just about to break the Siege of Kvatch when I decided it was time for bed.

Mid-Year 7, 3E436: 6:35am

My decrepit avatar, his ward and Wolfgang are about to exit Weye Manor, reclaim their mounts and Groucho, ride to the Imperial City, grab assignments, down a lite breakfast, and begin a patrol of the Silver to Bruma.

Almost the entirety of their preceding afternoon and evening was something of a downer, redeemed only at its very end. The problem? Too much downtime. They returned home from Chorrol late morning with no idea how to spend to rest of the day. Following a quick lunch at Wawnet Inn Vil mentioned wanting to "go to the Waterfront and look at the ships". They did. Meh. They watched a fight in the Arena, my avatar winning 100 Septims betting on Blue. Meh. (He finds fighting for sport distasteful in any case. It's extraordinarily rare for him to visit the IC Arena. Kvatch Arena is another matter, but that's a separate topic.) That done, still early afternoon, they opted to go for a swim in Lake Rumare. Only, they'd barely entered to water when a thunderstorm moved in. Lightning strikes galore. Fearing electrocution they returned to beach posthaste and called it quits.

With several hours remaining before supper they returned to the Manor where my avatar took a two hour nap. Meh. (He wasn't sleepy, but what else was there to do?)

Supper didn't improve matters. The Wawnet was pitifully short on foofstuffs. It stocked none of my avatar's preferred exotic booze, so that he had to settle for no-name mead. The only solid food fit to eat was a slice of boar, forcing him to dig into his pack and provide the rest himself. They'd have been better off enjoying a quiet, intimate meal at home.

Dining, such as it was, out of the way, with an hour remaining before bedtime, they exited the Wawnet to a gorgeous crystal-clear night sky, in the midst of a meteor shower! They capped their evening strolling around Weye Village, eyes glued to the sky. Back home, my avatar bid Vil goodnight, retired to his private third-floor balcony, watched the meteor shower another thirty minutes, re-entered the Manor, and called it a day.

Not much to say about their visit to Chorrol. It went as well as most such visits go. I will say that my avatar was pleasantly surprised by the number of trip needed to transfer goods from Groucho to their Second-Hand Sales Shoppe coffers. He hadn't realized Groucho carried so much loot, what with them not having cleansed Rockmilk during their recent Leyawiin patrol. (An excellent cleansing of Rockmilk occurred as part of the Leyawiin patrol that had to be scrapped due to corrupt saves. I didn't have the heart to watch him go through that again, knowing that, whatever happened, it could not equal the deleted save(s).)

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 10 2016, 04:23 PM

So Cain is about to save Kvatch and the not so Decrepit avatar is protecting the roads. What more can one ask for?

Renee – Love your mods and Miss Terri’s mystery. Looks like ol’ Corkie kicked the bottle. RiP.

Cain – All Cain needs now to complete the package is to go to Anvil to get a. . . white stallion! Can’t have a proper knight showing up to deliver the amulet without the proper ride!

Decrepit – Always wonderful to hear what’s going on with Decrepit, Vilja and their critters. Sorry your avatar had a ‘meh’ kinda day but it sounds like Vilja enjoyed herself.

Funnily enough, Anvil is the one city I haven't made it to, yet. Started at Cheydinhal and wrapped around the lake towards Bruma, and then all the way down to Leyawiin.

Lothran has spent a day at the University. At first he didn´t think he had anything to do but then lo and behold, three old spells deleted and one new created.
Two of those old spells had actually never been used, ever. They were just taking up room in the spellbook. The third one has been quite useful and would have stayed if Lothran hadn´t thought of upgrading it just a bit by adding 100 points of Willpower for 10 secs.

Lothran is now sitting in the captain´s chair onboard the Marie Elena, contemplating his new spell and the goblins in Plundered Mine who has kindly volunteered to test it

Maybe he'll run into Kahreem! Were there any pumpkins on the deck of Marie Elena?

@Decrepit - ships indeed aren't interesting to look at if they stand still.

@Cain - looks like Cain the Knight-Errant will soon add more titles to his name.

Lothie on the Marie Elena. Well, that is a step in the right direction for this time of year. Next, I figure will be Aleswell before heading up to Bruma?

No, I reckon Mooch has taken them back


You know him far too well, dear Paladin. I have nothing else to teach you

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 13 2016, 08:56 AM

This caught my eye too, and I was thinking "but that's Kahreem's home!"

Decrepit avatar caught up in the eye of the storm, with not much to do and nowhere to go, until the meteor shower. Even road patrols must have downtime.

I´m sure as fellow Guild members they can share it. Lothran is only there a few short days per year anyway


Today shallst be known as Coronation Street Day because Lothran has crowned a few more people in the Imperial City. I reckon at this point the Crowners in Cyrodiil should outnumber the Commoners