@ Grits and Acadian:
This one and Mira sent you both messages, a friend request to Jerric, and Buffy's friend request was accepted. Let Khajiit know if you got them please!

The Chorrolites? BWAAHAA!

The truth is, anyone can start a non-trading guild. Ten members nets you a guild bank account with 500 inventory slots the members can share; but there has to be an understood rule that you only place items/gold in there that you are sharing with your guild members that may need it.

Hearing about everyone on Chorrol playing together is making it really difficult to justify not playing on PC

Misa wants to meet Haa-Rei !!!!!!

It would be so neat if we could have a Chorrol guild in ESO!

Haa Rei and Cirinwe would be great to meet in the Pact. Alise would like to meet Jerric, too.

She is closing in on Level 20 and working on her dual wield skills in her second bar. I'm proud of her progress. Oh, and she got certified in all the crafts, so she can work on crafting writs in her down time. She is also busy researching items that all three characters collect.

Yesterday Mazul and I spent some time adventuring in Wrothgar and Rivenspire with our new buddies Bear and Gray. In the process Mazul leveled up to 48, so getting close to Champion levels! She is likely to be the first to do so. And Julian worked through a side quest in Bangkorai to push her envelope a bit. We've all decided that our Covenant ladies' focus on stamina at the cost of health is beginning to punish us at the upper levels. Mazul's new armor is really helping her, so she is anxious to duplicate the combination in medium armor for Julian.

I really like our new ESO friends. Gray is considerate and kind, and I learned that she is a grandmother of 7 and a baker (Julian would really love her). It shows in the way she'll stop and turn around to make sure we are all staying together (kind of like a kindergarten teacher . . .) while we are running through the countryside looking for the next boss or the next quest. Yesterday we focused on helping her work her way through Rivenspire, and Mazul had to remember how a lot of them went (it was too long ago for Julian to remember). Mazul had cleared the entire southern half before taking off to Wrothgar on vacation, or so we thought. But in going through a previously visited area, Mazul looked at something and found herself with a new quest. Fortunately, it takes her to the part of the map she hasn't yet explored (Northpoint), so she's cool with that. But I don't think Julian got that one!

Bear has a fondness for one-liners and puns that cracked me up more than once! We joke back and forth on the text chat. I found out that he was in the Navy (hull tech, he said), worked as a short-order cook though that was so long ago he only remembers how to cook water, and used to provide IT support. He is supposed to be retired but no one believes it - in fact, he got a phone call while we were gaming from someone with PC problems!

Anyway, we were idly chatting about Crypt of Hearts while looking at its towers through the fog. Bear said it takes at least 4 to do that dungeon on Normal. Veteran levels are really difficult. I mentioned that both Julian and Mazul are Undaunted, but we haven't done any pledges yet because we're not part of a regular group. Bear said Spindleclutch is a 3-person dungeon on Normal levels, so we could do that one. But we'd need four for Crypt of Hearts.

After hearing about it so much from others on this forum, I am really curious about its interior. The exterior is scary enough that I don't want to try it alone! Maybe one of my ESO friends from here would like to join with us and give it a go? One Sunday, perhaps (it's the one day of the week I can count on getting off).

Buffy has sent some goodies to both Jerric (Grits) and Mira (Khajiit) and recieved nice messages of thanks back. Also both of you are now in her list of friends. Welcome to PC NA both of you!

Yaaay!!

Whee, thank you, Acadian!

The mail system gives me fits. With no message saying "message sent" I think I messed up, plus sometimes (like tonight!) my game quits on me and I don't know if it went or just disappeared. I'll get used to it.

hazmick, it's impossible to justify not playing on PC!

Hautee, Sundays are unpredictable for me and Jerric is like level 9, but he'll happily come along if you think he'll help. He is always up for an adventure. I've rigged another fan so I get more time now. I just have to remember to turn them all on. I'd pick me last, though. But at least we'd get to see inside the doorway!

Today was Julian's turn to adventure in company. She started the day (late afternoon, as the server was down all morning and then I had to take Mom to the dr. an hour's drive away this afternoon) with a new set of armor from our friend Bear's crafter. It's similar to Maz's in that it's Hunding's Rage and Song of Lamae, but the jewelry made her smile - Seventh Legion. If only it were the Sixth! Still, she assures me the Seventh was a good team, too.

Anyway, the new weapons (sword and dagger) only pushed her to finally make the switch from sword and board to dual wield. After Alise's experiences with this combo, Julian is all too anxious to try it with her NB build. And it works very well for her! She took on Fallen Grotto, a side quest in Bangkorai that involves dealing with different aspects of Hircine. She (and I) liked this quest a great deal, and I found it more satisfying than the Hircine quest in Skyrim. Here we see Hircine more as a Native American Great Spirit/Wiccan Horned God type of deity than the patron of werewolves we see in Skyrim. As someone who is not interested in the werewolf quest line, but interested in the old pagan traditions of different cultures, I really appreciated that this shows Hiricine as more than a patron of lycanthropy, and more a part of the cycle of life, which does include the hunter and prey.

Bear and Gray were there to give her support via group chat even though they couldn't be present with her, as they were not doing the quest. Still, they were able to help her figure out how to use her new abilities to their fullest, and she discovered that she could handle two bears at the same time. Maybe they are underpowered in ESO, but they certainly didn't seem that way to Julian!

We also went into Spindleclutch. Boy, were we happy to have those two along. I think we died three or four times fighting these bosses (five!). It wasn't easy with just the three of us. Now I want to do Crypt of Hearts, but only with four members in the group! There is no rush on this, Grits, if you want to join us I know Jerric would fit in well! Bear plays great tanks - I can't believe how much damage he can take. Gray's Provisioning Master is no minor player, either.

Anyway, Julian leveled up TWICE today. She is very happy!

Grits, I was also having trouble with the email the other night. I think it's related to the recent patch and part of the reason why they took it down this morning for more fixings.

This post has been edited by haute ecole rider: Dec 14 2016, 06:53 AM

Sounds like good times! Khajiit is a big Hircine fan for the reasons you pointed out, not so much the werewolf stuff. This one has always associated Hircine with Herne the Hunter and Cernunnos.

Rider, I'm so glad Julian has found some friends to party quest with! Your pals sound great - and very helpful.

Buffy's first exposure to Hircine was in Oblivion. Kill a unicorn? Not then. Not now. Not ever.
She next met him in Skyrim. Kill a ww that tore apart a child? You betcha!
She's not yet met him in ESO.

Wait, does this mean Julian is a werewolf now?

Interestingly enough - since they represented Hircine this way; there was a segment of the Native American culture that believed in shape shifting; believed they were able to become not just wolves, but birds, bear, etc.






This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 14 2016, 03:00 PM

No, Julian would NEVER be a werewolf!

No, what I liked about the Fallen Grotto (not to be mistaken for the Undaunted Fungal Grotto) is that there were no mention of werewolves at all - only the Wyrd Sisters trying to reclaim their sacred grove back from the corruption of the Reachmen. And the emphasis was more on the nature of the hunt rather than on the cool factor that seems to be associated with lycanthropy.

Mira is now a certified blacksmith! After getting certified, she made 2 greatswords, 2 pairs of iron boots (sabatons), and 2 pairs of iron gauntlets. Hope some lucky soldiers of the Pact enjoy their shiny new imperial gear!

Congrats to Mira! Doing Writs is a great way to gain skill levels in the crafting disciplines! (not to mention a great help to the war effort in Cyrodiil)







This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 14 2016, 06:26 PM

Lol, yep! She laughed at the Woodelf's puny test! A dagger? Pfft! She's made a sword, leg armor, a helmet, and pauldrons way before learning about getting certified!

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 14 2016, 06:50 PM

Today Mira received a couple of motif books, a Nord book from Jerric and a Bosmer book from Buffy! She then promptly used them to fulfill her second blacksmithing writ by making 3 Bosmeri swords, 2 Nordish cuirasses, and a set of imperial greaves.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Dec 16 2016, 02:14 AM

Yay!

Jerric has been enjoying the New Life Festival. He would very much like to get together with his friends and do some of the party events. Particularly the Nord one.

Mira was going to head that way but she got sidetracked by joining the Fighter's Guild and investigating the Daedric Anchors.

This thing is a blast! Other than trying to fish with 100 other people in one spot, they have all been too easy/just plain fun!

Misa's favorite was the dancing too; but LOVED throwing mudballs! Also loved belching in other player's faces!