Lothran has just visited Ancotar and helped him slay some invisible animals. He also read the book "The Doors to Oblivion" again, another annual tradition.

Last night was spent inside Fingerbowl Cave. Quite a lot of undead becoming fulldead, plus some necrodudes.

Middas, 12:00pm, Frost Fall 31, 3rd Era 434

Days Passed: 66

Joan of Arkay left Battlehorn Castle, and began walking toward Chorrol, completely forgetting that she doesn't have to walk anymore, now that she's got herself a paint horse. XD

Joan is a generally questless character so far, but she's looking for something to do, and so I looked back at all the DLC I bought a few years ago and realized I've never done Mehrunes Razor, or Deepscorn Hollow. These two seem like they'd be perfect for Joanie to look into.

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Phon: I like how you describe goblins not as goblins, but as green, scrawny things, as though Kallis doesn't know what they are.

mirocu: one of these days you should make an entire Lothran schedule. Like, put down all his habits. Put them on your thread over at fanfic. I'd be fascinated to see his 'schedule' all at once.

Phon – I think those scrawny green things are primitive cave mer. Just look at their ears!

Mirocu – Ahhh. Won’t be long before all the little Brumites can sleep easier at night.

Renee – I think you’ll enjoy Mehrunes Razor – it's a massive dungeon crawl and very fun.

Maybe I´ll do that



Ugh, today was a nightmare. Kept getting CTDs again and again and again etc. I suspect it had something to do with a legion rider entering the cell, or spawning because Lothran waited an hour twice and there was always one of them there afterwards. Dunno.

I hope it doesn´t do that anymore now, it was virtually unplayable

That's weird, it's not like you have a thousand mods or whatever.

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Morndas, First Seed 11

Cold, rainy day. Left Cheydinhal about mid-morning and headed toward the Imperial City. Despite the weather, roads were quite busy with travellers.

By about noon, the deluge had not let up, and the party of three (Haili had not been located in Cheydinhal) voted to stop at the Roxey Inn. After lunch, everybody wanted to go up the hill, to see if anyone bad had re-inhabited the cave above this inn. And yes, they had.

But it took an entire day to get in there. Renee noticed that Felrika's armor was getting too bashed up, and this led to a 6-hour smithing festival just getting prepared. By the time this was over, it was time to get some rest.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 24 2016, 09:47 PM

Mehrunes Razor was the first DLC I tried and I liked it, not only is the location where it takes place, interesting, but there's a compelling story behind it as well.

Deepscorn Hollow is an interesting place to explore. I had one character that briefly used it as home. I'm curious what will Joan's "reaction" to the place be.

Quick update:
Kallis is continuing to journey east and south from the Imperial City to Bravil, although currently she's only recently left the immediate environs of Lake Rumare and the - (actually quite magnificent) - tower at the center of the capital still dominates the skyline.

Her journey, whilst now brisker than it was - (she's showing a marked reluctance to hang about, as it goes) - is nevertheless delayed at irregular points due to the necessity of gaining both money; "Septims", and repair hammers.
The theft of most of Kallis' belongings during her arrival in Anvil has left her actually quite short on funds, and prices in the Province are really quite high, added to the fact that most vendors clearly and openly view her with suspicion, to varying degrees.

It would be of little comfort to know that the woman she is ostensibly looking for also had similar issues. The difference between them is that, unlike the Princess, Kallis has no real qualms with regards to poking around in places, and ferreting out gold, nor indeed committing acts of burglary and theft of one sort or another - (it has been a part of her survival training, after all) - though that said, her one attempt in the IC ended unspectacularly when she discovered that the residents of the City have very little free cash - (or at least very little in their houses)...

It's frustrating but necessary, Cyrodiil has an overwhelmingly cash-based economy, more so than hers, and its a crumbling and faded place to boot, with very little to pick from. Much as she's more than capable of getting by on her own, if she needs to get anywhere constructive, it seems like she's going to need gold.

Ah, yes. The eternal quest for gold that we´re all forced to do. No skipping the MQ here


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Lothran has now returned to his hometown of Bruma. It's been eight months but it's like he never left; everything is just as it ever was with the execption of his fireplace, but that has been lit now.

The road to Bruma offered some action this time. A Minotaur Lord and two bandits was on today's agenda and a fun break in the otherwise uneventful walk. The marauders down at Sercen and also the bandits inside the ruin offered some much needed exercise.


Lothran is now resting on a bench in the basement of his house. Next up he will unpack and organize all the things he brought with him from this year's excursions, fix what gear broke in the fights and pick out what weapons he will use on his first tour of the Jerall Mountains.


All is as it should be

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 25 2016, 08:27 PM

With Lothran in Bruma the winter can officially start.

Let is snow, let it snow, let it snow...

Whoa, he finally made it to Bruma. Party time. Time for a shot of this!

Phon: What is she going to do for gold?

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Tirdas, First Seed 12

Days Passed: 198

Slept all night, got up at about 8 o'clock. Roxey Inn was a necessity, because the Requisition Agent inside Cheydinhal had not had any Bandit writs. Which means no fresh gold to spend. Renee had had to sell Malene a semi-expensive potion, just to have money to stay at the Roxey.

Moss Rock Cavern was taken down quickly, with Renee, Fel, and Jada working as a well-oiled team. Two fighters and an archer, basically, surprsing the few necromancers and undead still living in this cave. Most of these necroguys & necrogals were downed within mere seconds...Renee and her followers being very good at blitz-attacks by now.

The day outside was lukewarm, as they finally headed toward the Imperial City, and got there late afternoon. Slept four hours, then headed toward Seridur's house to meet Roland and the others. Roland gave RG3 her reward: a ring called the *edited... no spoilers here*, which would reflect 25% of spells, and resist disease 35%. Very good. Since Renee is in need of gold though, looks like she'll have to raid her bank account, since she hasn't got enough on her person, and nothing important to sell.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 26 2016, 12:17 AM

Phon – Kallis the cash-hunter!

mirocu – Ahhh. Nice to know that Lothie’s settling in for the winter.

Renee – Any day that takes down necrodudes is a good day!

Yup





Indeed! Although it hasn´t started to snow in Bruma yet. Clear blue sky and crisp air isn´t too bad either though

Lothran enjoyed a nice afternoon killing a couple of goblin shamans outside Plundered Mine and in the evening he conducted business with Olav as well as checking up on things in town in general.
A bit of a surprise when he sorted out the stuff he brought with him; there were quite a few Frost things he hasn´t collected before.

And Lothran is now armed with Snowflake once again


@Renee - How much gold does ms Gade have in her account? Just asking

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 27 2016, 08:36 PM

Indeed!
Renee: she's going to "acquire" it...
...it's an irritating distraction, but it's something she's been trained for...

Mid-Year 8, 3E436 - 10:34am

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand in Newlands Lodge, Cheydinhal, where they just delivered the last of two shipping commissions to that city. They will, in all likelihood, lunch in the lodge before returning to Weye.

Their patrol of the Silver to Bruma went well. They encountered two ogres and three bears en route. None posed much of a challenge. My avatar brought down both ogres at distance via archery. Bears were dealt with up close and personal. Once in Bruma they delivered two packages, devoured a quick meal at Jewell View, grabbed new transport assignments and hit the road for Cheydinhal. Departing Bruma mid afternoon as they did, my avatar knew they'd not complete the trip in one continuous ride. This proved the case. As planned, they slept that night at the three-tent campsite a stone's thrown from Sedor. They woke circa 0530 next morning and continued on, arriving at their destination mid/late morning.

Middas, First Seed 13

*note: I switched Timescale to 20 during this session as per the Timescale thread, my attempt to make Cyrodiil seem bigger

Deep into the night after spending time at Roland's place, Renee, Gabs, and Fel were all returning home. A strange man was standing on the path toward Maple Cottage. After greeting this man, immediately Renee could see his red eyes. He seemed cordial enough, but she sensed his true nature. A vampire standing just outside the Imperial City gate? That will not do.

A fight did ensue after a short conversation, and this fight took perhaps an hour to finish. Renee was able to grab her two flaming swords (horse was nearby), but was not wearing her armor at the time of this attack, and had to run inside the Imperial City for help.

But the good news: now she had her first batch of vampire dust to sell to Roland. Later on she found some additional dead bodies in the Talos Plaza district, all of these fallen vampires--so now she had 4 dust batches to sell.

Went home for a few hours' sleep, then got dressed and headed back into the town. Spent most of the day getting stuff repaired, buying & selling, getting a new steel cuirass for Fel, and finally taking a long soak in the market's bathhouse.

Nightfall now. Walked to Seridur's place, where Roland's promise of gold gold gold was proved to be true. He gave Renee 250 gold for each dust batch she provided, for a total of a THOUSAND, just like that. Now she'd have to return to the bank, just to put some extra money back.


Note 2: I changed the amount of money Roland gives in the CS too. Instead of 250, now it's only 100. I just can't see those guys in the Order having THAT much money to award.

So Renee has her swords on the horse as she's traveling? Or does she wield a non-flaming sword by default?

@Decrepit - Weird there were things left for the avatar and Vilja to clear up on the Silver, considering Lothran just took care of that



@Renee - A good change I think from 250 to 100. Especially when you think about how many vamps there are in Cyrodiil, the Order would declare bankruptcy in a few days!

Mirocu – Nice to see Lothie settling into his winter routine. And carrying Snowflake!

Decrepit – Always enjoy hearing about your road patrols.

Renee – Who knew folks would pay you for dusting vampires?

Briefly, Kallis ended up in a cave system just along from Pell's Gate, it was filled some extremely strange creatures - well, aside from the imps, which were similar to servant creatures in her land.
Glowing balls of light, that set the hairs at the back of her neck a-tingle, and a strange spider-like thing with the body of man, and yet not a man. It was covered in some kind of waxy secretion, and hissed when she shot it

Everything really does seem as if it is trying to kill her.

She's now back in the inn at Pell's Gate, waiting for the rain to stop, before continuing her journey, increasingly though she doesn't think she'll much more than shadows in Bravil...

Lopov: At that moment, she was probably wearing town clothes, probably one of her silly dresses. No weapon either. One of the horse mods I have allows the horse to carry equipment, so her bay has lots of stuff. Food, potions, alcohol, water, scrolls, backup armor sets, and usually about a dozen swords. The only thing is, this horse is used mostly as a pack mule; she rarely rides it because I figure it's covered with gear.

mirocu: Is Lothran pretty much set with money? Is he wealthy? I figure he is after all this time. It's hard for one of mine to get wealthy, mods or vanilla, but the thing is one of my vampire-hunters on PS3 or Xbox would be getting really rich by now, with not much to spend it on. Something I've always wanted to change.

Acadian: Buffy never joined the Order of Virtuous Blood? I figure she'd like them!

Phon: Yeah I know the feeling. Everything's trying to kill me!

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Turdas, First Seed 14

Days Passed: 200

Slept until mid-morning, then headed toward Goddess Store, to get a couple swords re-enchanted, including the all-important vampire-slaying Bane of Kvatch. The Bane sword requires a lot of money to get it re-enchanted though--just over 3,000 at the moment. Renee was awarded this sword after being granted some sort of title in Kvatch. At the time, she had no use for it--it could cut a normal man down in a blow or two. No challenge. But now there's some sort of vampire siege going on, the Bane now is proving its worth! As long as she can afford to keep it enchanted, that is.

Day was pleasant outside. Not too cold or warm. After getting back home, RG3 decided to take off with Fel and Jada and Gabs. Everybody. Headed to the inn in Weye for a late afternoon lunch (early dinner), and then spent the night at Aleswell Inn.

NOTE: after stopping in Wawnet Inn and speaking to Nerussa, Renee got to talking on her "Weye" topic, and apparently Nerussa is a huge gossip about a variety of NPCs who have passed through. At present I don't know any of these names, but we can check in the future.

Since Aleswell was crowded, Renee and Fel slept outside. Fel apparently killed a vampire while Renee slept. She had a vampire "dream", and then when her sleep session ended, there was a message saying "Polyporic Hemophilia removed".