Time for some Lady Saga pics. I gamed with her a few sessions in October. Now that it's November I'll switch to Joan of Arkay, although I won't be playing OB so much anymore because it's cold enough outside for Skyrim. One of these days I'm gonna trip over my own shoelaces with all these games / characters. Somehow I stay true to them all.

So in this gaming session, Saga was somewhere on the Gold Coast I think. She has a tendency to wander a lot, rarely picking up quests. Anyway, this session finds her sneaking up on a bunch of bandits. Since she's mostly an archer, I bet y'all can see where this is going....

Curious

Cutthroats

Cresting

Careless

Candid

Casualty

Confused -- (she can summon bears and rats, and often makes her shots elevated areas where enemies can't get to her. Look at the bandit scrambling to find her!)

Combative

Capering!



This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 5 2021, 03:20 PM

Nice pix, Renee! It is good fun to use a bow and back it up with magicks like summons.

Saga has chicken boots!

Those cutthroats have some really spiffy armor!

Love the pic of the arrow in mid air. Especially that Careless pic! Yikes!

Lady Saga's "Confused" tactic is useful in many situations.

Nice, good job mirocu posting a couple pics! Nice to see the good ol' fur armor is still Lothie's only choice in the world.

He only wears that when living in Bruma. Rest of the time he wears this

Shh Shh let me guess! Okay I am going to guess Huntsman Vest up top. Now let me see if I am right.

Hmm, I was wrong. Actually what is that? Savior's Hide?

Yes, nice to see some shots from Lothie's winter wonderland.

Savior's Hide, warm and good looking too.

mirocu was wondering if I'd post a story about getting into the massive Mehrunes Razor dungeon, which begins in a fort called Sundercliff Watch. No story, but I do have some pictures.

First of all, it took Renee Gade III and her Party of Three a long time to conquer this set of ruins. The entire delve lasted a total of thirteen days! Rain's Hand 5 until Rain's Hand 18. Not because the enemies were overly difficult, but there are a lot of them in the various sections of the dungeon. This meant needing to restock on supplies and get gear repaired several times.

Good news was, the mod-added town of Silverfish Falls was not too far away. The place has a smith and a shop where food and other essentials can be bought. But still, there is no road from Silverfish to Sundercliff. Which meant we had to use landmarks to walk back and forth. Eventually I wound up taking notes just to get to and fro quicker.

Renee Gade III and her party (Renee, Arraya the Ghost, Felrika, and Gabrielle)

Plundering

Flaming Sword!

Sneaking

The thing about Renee (compared to all my others) is that her strategy is to sneak up on her prey, with all her party sneaking with her. Then, she'll strike, running up to the enemies swinging her giant sword. If everything goes well, the enemies are surprised of course, and she'll manage to smash or sometimes stun. As everybody in her party attacks, they are like a pack of hyenas, working as a team. This is unlike Joan or Saga, both who tend to fight alone.

"You mooove like a pregnant Argh!"

Disco Inferno

"Hyaah!"

Shock Damage

The look of Satisfaction

Mehrunes Razor

I really wanted to get a picture of the weapon as it floated in the air, but as soon as she got too close to the thing *poof* it was already in her inventory.

Thanks for the great shots, Renee! I especially like how ms Gade the Third is sneaking with a sword that gives out sparking flames.

"Oh, what's that moving fire doing?"

"Must have been the wind"

Sneaking with a flaming sword!

Do you have problems with hitting the other characters when you are all fighting in a big group like that?

Disco Inferno is great!

So is Hyaah!

The Disco Infernal DJ recognizing superlative dancing when he sees it makes an announcment, “Ladies an gentlemen your attention please to the main stage where our intrepid renegade is burning up the dance floor, carrying her golden torch on the prowl…

Lookin' for some hot stuff, baby, this evenin'
I need some hot stuff, baby, tonight
I want some hot stuff, baby, this evenin'
Gotta have some hot stuff
Gotta have some love tonight!


relly like this one

Nice job creating Blood Raven - you surely got the hair and eye color right!

Whoa, Branwen is in Cyrodiil. Did NOT see this one coming. That is really good you got very first picture after chargen. I always save those, too. Thing is, over time our characters change. Sometimes right away (by simply putting on one of those red Mythic Dawn hoods), sometimes over time.

Will she (or is she) become a vampire? Will she use Drain magics???

Make sure you install Console Commands, if you haven't already. It's at Nexus, and that is exactly what the "mod" is called -- Console Commands. tfc2 can then be used to get awesome, super-duper screenies.

Welcome!



Edit: and thanks all for comments on the RG3 pics.

Yep that's right macole, shake that booty!




The trick for me is to just take a moment. If RG3 can sneak up on the party and attack her own enemy (and the room is packed with other enemies), she usually has free reign for a few seconds to do whatever she wants. If her followers begin attacking first, then she/I usually takes a moment to see if anybody is left to the side.

For instance, if there's a lot of melee going on, we'll look for that one archer, or that one caster who is off to the side, and deal with that enemy. But the trick usually is to just let her followers do their thing first. Don't just rush in swinging her gigantic sword. Still, yeah, sometimes she does hit one of her own followers. Only one of them (Felrika the Nord) usually takes offense to this. The others are CM Partners, which means they have a lot of tolerance for Friendly fire.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 5 2022, 02:53 PM

Thanks for reminding me of the mod name. Recently I've been trying to organize and backup my favorite mods and I couldn't remember this mods name and I use it all the time. How embarrassing.

I was pretty good on the dance floor at the OZ back in the early eighties. Everyone would stop to watch... and laugh.

Very good advice. I use it my self. Avoid AOE attacks and 1st person view for targeting is also part of my strategy.

Blood Raven is a *Vampire* with an asterisk. I don't like how Oblivion does vampirism. So instead of making her one the normal way, I went my own route. I made her a Breton (she is Irish/Danish, but prefers not to think about her father's Danish side of her heritage). Then I recreated the vampire powers and some other undead powers in a new mod, and added them to her. So she started with Night Eye and Detect Life, and Resist Frost and Weakness to Fire, etc...

I do have the Console Commands mod. That is how I got all those action shots of January in Morroblivion. Great Mod!

What I usually do in big melees with friends is restrict myself to using touch destruction spells. Even then however, people can jump in front of you as you are casting.

I reckon Reaper would like this one

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As Lothran is doing his guard duty at the moment, I'm just gonna post some pics of him in his uniform.


Outside Novaroma

Having a staredown with Regner

Lighting up the darkness

"My feet are killing me"