Wow! 300+ hours. That is really neat. I rarely go past 200 hours before I want to try a new character. Hopefully I will stick at it this time. Have you seen the A-bomb glitch now you are over 300?

Glad to see those pesky vamps sorted out. The ruins in Oblivion are huge, aren't they. And heaps of fun.

Braden is up to no good in Anvil. I will post another update soon!

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 22 2017, 10:41 AM

So far this season Lothran has re-visited two locations he hasn't been to in years; Cloud Top and today the Ayleid ruin of Lindai. Really fun to see these places again, and just to complete the trilogy he will later this year re-visit Nenalata

Ah, Lindai...that name rings a bell. I think one of mine has been there within recent history ("recent" meaning within the last 8 months, lol).

Wolf: I am usually really lucky with characters, most of them last a long time, it's rare I lose interest. But 348 hours is about the time I'd see one of my older games on PS3 bite it, since that's when the A-bomb showed up (twice) on PS3. The A-bomb shows up more on PC, but luckily it's pretty easy to get rid of.


Awesome. Braden seems rather mercurical, ha ha.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 23 2017, 12:50 PM

Today was a rainy day, so Lothran decided to go dungeon diving.

First one was a re-visit of Narfinsel, the Ayleid ruin. Then he thought to re-visit Fort Carmela, but it turned out to be a first visit! I'm surprised we haven't been there before!

Fun it was either way, as it was full of vamps Found a few things of interest plus a bunch of vampire dust to add to the collection of course.

WHAT? You've never been to Carmala? Sheesh, should I also as if Lothrean has ever been to Hackdirt? Lol.



Sundas, Second Seed 5

Day two of Nornalhorst, a brilliant, sunny day too. Good. Today turned out to be the day that Nornalhorst's leader was taken down. Another signet ring collected (three out of three) so now the party was ready to return to the Imperial City.

But today is Sundas, and it'd been awhile since they had been back to Kvatch. After taking a vote, the party decided to head to Kvatch first, before going back to the I.C. They'd stay overnight in Skingrad, but would head toward Kvatch on the morrow. And stay there until Middas, so Renee could participate in another arena match.

First thing to do though after this exhausting day would be to head to Skingrad's chapel, and pray to the Nine. Renee was sick with yellow tick and (once again) polyporic hemophilia.

On Morndas, it was time to leave. You know you've been in Skingrad too long when even Gunder manages to run out of money.

This post has been edited by Renee: Mar 25 2017, 06:36 PM

Actually, I do think that Hackdirt is a reason he's never been there; too close to the nutjobs


Speaking of whom, he's currently in the Colovian Highlands on his way to Skingrad. Taking his time, of course

Lol. When I play I tend to just role play the character, some grabbing heaps of gear, others leaving most behind. A friend of mine who played Oblivion in crazy amounts (2008-2010) had compulsive behavior to grab everything. He played a sneaky Orc in steel boots who would back stab every creature and grab all their gear after the battle.

I remember watching him pile everything up outside and then fast travel 3-4 times just to sell it all. He must have completed over 75% of all dungeons in the game- a lot of fast travel. Gunder must have had a field day with him.

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Good luck in the Colovian Highlands, Mirocu. Just watch for bears!

No worries; they are his friends


Another place not previously visited in the ten years I've been playing; Fort Wooden Hand. Not much to say about it, pretty mediocre dungeon although some interesting layout. Also, the Marauders are pretty tough, even for my Spriggan. They knocked her down several times and that never happens usually.

Lothran is now in the Imperial City. He has just done some business in the Market District, including repairing some weapons to 100 at Stonewall Shields, and he's now resting at said place.

Rain is pouring down so he's in no hurry to get back out

I hope Lothie enjoys his respite out of the rain in the IC. Mebbe when it lets up he can stop by the Mystic Archives and say hi to Buffy's pals Tar-Meena and Boderi Farano.

Middas Second Seed 8

Overnight, much of the bloom of springtime suddenly ended*, and this day was quite warm. Summer was coming.

By now, the party was in Kvatch, and it was Middas, the proper day to do an Arena fight. But first, Renee Gade III buys & sells, and also picks up a new task from the castle's steward. Apparently, outlaws have returned to Fort Wariel (this is yet another of my quests, lol), and though they are not causing trouble for Kvatch directly, there have been rumors of highway robbery, with the occupants of Wariel getting fingers pointed at them as the culprits. Once again, if the party goes to Wariel, rids the outlaws, and finds proof of their misdoings, Renee and her team will earn some sort of reward.

Next, the Arena. Miss Gade took Jada (her dark elf archer) with her this time. Together they watched a match in which some other knight fought and killed one of Kvatch's "traitors." This fight took maybe a minute or two, then it was Renee's turn to go down into the Bloodworks and arrange a fight of her own.

Unlike the Imperial City, Kvatch's arena has no rules against wearing specific armor, but RG3 wore official arena armor, anyway. Brought two swords (Claymore of Jolts as a primary 2-hander, with a 1-handed Longsword of Diminishing for backup). Her opponent was a Khajiit who had performed some sort of crime as a Mythic Dawn agent in the Imperial City sewers. He brandished a bow which did some sort of magical damage, some of which was reflected by one of the rings Renee had just happened to be wearing. Still though, she took a significant amount of damage.

Her opponent managed to hit her three times before she finally got to him, so it was a good thing Jada was also getting some shots with her silver bow, from the far side of the Arena. By the time Renee got to the man with her greatsword, which had been poisoned to drain the cat-man's fatigue, all it took was a few blows and a few side-steps, and he was done.

The crowd cheered as Renee Gade III then looted the Khajiit (outlawed in the Imperial City, but allowed in Kvatch) of the man's magical bow, which she gave to Jada, and a magical daggar, which would simply be sold.


You mooove like a pregnant ahh!

The successor


* I uninstalled Betty's Springtime Overhaul because it makes it feel like summer is coming! No more flowery fields, but Cyrodiil is still pretty.

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 1 2017, 02:10 AM

Renee teamed up with Jada Pinkett!

Have you posted some pictures of Kvatch when it's rebuilt, Renee? Otherwise I would love to see some, including the arena. I'm not too frequent in the pics thread so I might have missed them..

Lothran has now entered Skingrad. It was a nice walk from the Imperial City which included a few fights and nice weather, last thing courtesy of fw 38eee 1

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Since rain poured from the sky, Lothran decided to go have some dungeon fun. First up was the necro lair Fort Linchai. Fun fun fun. Then as he was walking back to Skingrad he came upon Miscarcand and decided to re-do that one as well.

Turns out though, he has never been there either! I don't know why but this year Lothran seems to knock one unexplored dungeon after another off the list.
A very interesting dungeon, to say the least. A few fights were going on as he entered the different parts of the ruin between goblins, Bitterfish goblins and various undead. A lot of nice loot as well with the Grand Prize™ of course being the ultra-rare Great Welkynd Stone! Lothran had only heard rumors about it but here it was, up for grabs! The Miscarcand King didn't like it though so he went off to have a talk with Lothran's summoned Spriggan who, needless to say, won the argument

After all this it was finally back to Skingrad and the Fighters Guild. A good night's sleep was just what Lothran needed

This post has been edited by mirocu: Apr 5 2017, 07:30 PM

SubRosa: I am busted. Indeed, I have Jada Pinkett Smith in my game. Will is nowhere to be found, but I am planning to add Mary-Kate and Ashley as hobbits.

mirocu: Okay, I will put some Kvatch pics in the screenshot thread. Miscarcand is pretty immense, right? I've only been in there a handful of times.




Turdas morning, Second Seed 9

Days Passed: 256
Level: 13

Location: Kvatch

Gathered the entire party (Felrika, Jada, and Arraya) but left Kendrel the vampire hunter behind. Kendrel refuses to equip anything. And from what Renee remembers, she also does not really fight, instead choosing to hide behind those who do fight. Gabrielle also performs this odd habit. So both of them must stay behind.

Party got to Fort Wariel by late afternoon. At times, rain had been coming down torrentially. This rain managed to blind the party, so that they wound up on the wrong side of Kvatch's hill ... Instead of finding Fort Wariel, they found Shetcombe Farm! X(

Party killed most of the inhabitants of Wariel, and spent the night sleeping in this fort. Found lots of goodies, too many things to take. Felrika got some magical gauntlets, plenty of gold was found, plenty of gems and jewelry...right now Renee's horse is carrying just over 2,400 gold, which is rare.

The best item of all though was a shrouded hood which allows the wearer to have constant night eye. Renee snatched this up, of course. No more blundering in darkness, especially during combat, with only a ring with a weak light spell to see by.

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 6 2017, 03:52 PM

I was just watching the Matrix movies a few weeks ago, and she was in the last two. She was really cool. And she has been awesome in Gotham.

My decrepit avatar and his ward are about to exit Inn of Ill Omen and resume their patrol of the Green to Bravil, last patrol of their current cycle. My avatar likes to pot his head into the Inn each Bravil patrol to make sure all's well. This visit he also replenished their booze supply.

The patrol has gone about as well as expected, except that one time he lapsed into daydreams and rode them smack into a minotaur standing in the middle of the road in plain view.

Assuming they make good time on the road, they will return home rather than spend the night in Bravil. Even should time play against them they are apt to begin their homeward journey and stop en route to sleep at their property in Faregyl Village.

I'm not a Crusader and I know he has his orders, but wouldn't it be a neat idea to also make patrol down to Leyawiin while they are so close to it?

Either way, real nice to know they are out there cleaning up the roads!

You'd think it would make sense, but the Legion doesn't see it that way. Leyawiin comes second in the patrol cycle, following Anvil. Bravil comes last. My avatar has no say in the matter.

Anvil/Skingrad is a similar situation. As mentioned, Anvil is the first patrol of a cycle. Skingrad is the penultimate patrol, just before Bravil.


From a pure gaming standpoint making each pair two separate patrols works out for the best. Otherwise there would be two less patrols to accomplish per cycle, and my avatar is hurting for meaningful tasks to perform as it is. I wish the mod's tax collecting system was more elaborate than it is. That could be a full-time job in and of itself. As it stands, only taxes from the wilderness inns are collected. This works at well when combined with road patrols, but why not add tax collection from the various city merchants? A small complaint...the mod asks too money money from an innkeeper each tax payment. No wilderness innkeeper could earn enough money to owe that much in taxes, not as often as my avatar collects them. I suspect the mod creator set the amount assuming most player might collect taxes once in a blue moon if that often and call it a day. A larger amount makes sense in that case.



Here's a rehash of the patrol, this time covered from start to finish. Lot's of redundancy here. I originally wrote it for posting on another forum <blushes> but don't want to waste the effort on having it seem in only that one place.

​My decrepit avatar and his ward just arrived home, bringing to conclusion their journey to from Weye to the Imperial City to Bravil to Faregyl Village and at last back to Weye Manor. They were of course performing a patrol of the Green as assigned by the IC White Tower Department of Justice. Bravil is the final patrol in the Cycle, its completion earning them another monetary reward. They'll began another patrol cycle in a day or two, with an assignment to patrol the Gold to Anvil.

As for the Bravil patrol, they as normal supplemented it with shipment deliveries to that city as commissioned by the Gold Horse Courier and Merchants Guild. They made decent time on the way out, reaching their destination mid-late afternoon. My avatar would have liked to pause for a meal once both packages had been delivered, but Vilja wasn't hungry. That being the case they began the return journey posthaste. They could not make it all the way back to Weye that day without staying up far into the night, which my avatar had no intention of doing. They therefore stopped in Faregyle Village, where they ate supper at the local inn and spent the night at their Faregyle estate (such as it is). Up next morning at his preferred hour of 6am, they dressed, grabbed a quick breakfast at the inn, and rode home, arriving in time for lunch, which they were preparing to depart for (Wawnet Inn) when I left them.

As to the patrol itself, what can I say? It was a patrol much like any other. Ride, spot criminal scum or nefarious beast, give it a taste of Cyrodiilic justice, rinse and repeat until reaching Bravil. The trip's highlight, or lowlight depending of perspective, was when my avatar got to daydreaming and rode them smack into a minotaur standing in the middle of the road. Not that it mattered all that much. They were in no real danger of being bested by the beast. Almost forgot to mention that they paid a brief visit to Inn of Ill Omen to replenish a somewhat depleted travel-food supply.


This post has been edited by Decrepit: Apr 6 2017, 09:41 PM

I could totally add this, I bet. Well, it depends how complicated and ambitious it gets, but I bet I could add extra tax collection from town merchants if it's just basic scripts and quest-making. What mod adds the tax collector stuff?

SubRosa: I have tried twice to watch the Matrix and I always zone out / have trouble following the plot. Dang.

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Loredas, Second Seed 11[

Days Passed; 258

Party leaves Kvatch, a thousand gold richer, Five hundred from that Arena win, and five-hundred for bringing proof back to Kvatch castle's steward that the ruffians of Fort Wariel were up to no good. Best news: nobody died this time.

Reached Skingrad as evening was starting. The road from Kvatch to Skingrad had been rough, with some scuffles between the party and innocent travellers. This caused either Fel, Jada, or Arraya to get bounties, though Renee was able to talk the guards out of this! **

* awarded from "Another Job for the Party", which was yet another handmade quest of mine.

** a little console help? Yup. I had to!

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 7 2017, 12:43 AM