Is it possible that we don't have a thread for this yet? Someone please speak up if we do and I missed it.

This thread is in the Spoilers area, so be advised that there will be spoilers.

So, screenshots from Skyrim. If yours are snapshots of your TV screen (like mine), don't be shy. I want to see them.

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Here are some pictures I took of the spider scrolls (Dragonborn content) for mALX. They feature Jensa and Stenvar with some cute little pets. If you don't want to see spiders, don't click.


Flaming Spider in the hand, first person.

Flaming Spider and Jumping Spider (I think) dual wielding, first person.

Flaming Spider on the ground (cast).

Jumping Spider on the ground (cast).

Jensa dual wielding spiders.

Jensa dual wielding spiders in different light.

Jensa and Stenvar with Flaming Spider on the ground (for scale).

Jensa and Stenvar with two spiders on the ground (because they're cute).



This post has been edited by Grits: Sep 28 2013, 09:27 PM

@Acadian - despite using AFT and setting that followers can't permanently die, it apparently doesn't function always. As Vigilance got swarmed by Witchmen that attacked him with ice magic, he simply died. I experienced this before with other my characters, I think it has something to do with spells / weapons that deal damage over time - such attacks can kill our followers regardless of the settings.

@SubRosa - Beyond Reach is creepy AF!

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In the screenshots below it's a story about the little orphan named Dusk who wanted to stroke the griffon, the revered guardian of the Kingdom. Her carer Garth is taking her to the Griffon's Peak and hires Jenassa along the way to keep them safe. However, Garth has vile intentions and often brings children to the griffon so the "guardian" can devour them. Jenassa recognizes the menace on time and intervenes, killing Garth and wounding the griffon until it escapes. Then she accompanies Dusk to the Chapel of Mara, on a way there teaching her how to defend herself.

Looking for a mercenary

A wish for wings

Menace

A worthy opponent

Fire!

Punishment for Garth

This isn't over yet...

Watching over Dusk

Time to teach you a lesson

Practice begins

Shelter for Dusk

And some more:

By the lake

Shrine of Stendarr

Liria the Vigilant

Waves

Silat the Redguard

That sounds like a neat quest. So the child wants to pet a griffon (yikes, what the....? ) and this turns into an adventure for Jenassa. A good-natured one too, in the sense she gets to save the kid from the monster's belly.

The griffon has feathers! Probably mentioned this before, but griffons also appeared in Dungeons & Dragons, although they were rare. No matter. Jenassa saves the day.

Look at the cloud formation above the winged monster in "This isn't over yet".

The mudcrab is bigger than the orphan!

Who are Silat the Vigilant and Liria the Redguard? Oops. Got them backward. Liria the Vigilant and Silat the Redguard?

That is a cool hawk thing with the long tail.

That menace is quite menacing.

The sky in This Isn't Over Yet is really cool.

I agree with everything said above by Renee and SubRosa. Looks like a very cool mod with a great story. A mage who likes to turn children into birdfood gets his fiery comeuppance.

We have griffons in ESO as well. https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Gryphon

Good idea to practice on a mudcrab - albeit a very big one! I saw one the other day. Nasty creatures. They say the meat is good though. . . .

@Renee - Liria is the Vigilant of Stendarr and she accompanies you on a quest to banish some ghost. Apparently the mod author intended her to act as a follower after the quest but he never fully realized his plan.

Most Redguards in Reach are hostile because they belong to Dragonstar mercenaries - pirates and plunderers - Silat was also one of them but after rebelling against his superior, they kicked him out. Also, Silat claims that the gryphon exists also in Hammerfell but that his appearance there is different. He gave Jenassa some bolts to bring it down easier and he promised to be there when she'll battle the gryphon for the final time.

@SubRosa - the sky may look cool, but it was the gryphon who caused that change and Jenassa would often get struck by lightning bolts during the battle.

@Acadian - on my first playthrough of Beyond Reach I never got the gryphon quest, looks like it glitched out or something.

I remember gryphons from ESO, there's more of them there, and a pair of two act as world bosses in Summerset IIRC.

The mudcrab meat is tasty and their chitin has some uses as well.

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Evermore, the capital city of the Kingdom

Sigmayne, the King of Evermore

A ghost was there

Reanimation

Manyfingers

Sload

Jenassa

Dissenters' Rise

Shadow

Mora's minion

Ghost of the Direnni Mage

Apocrypha

Black book

Evermore, the capital city of the Kingdom (at night)

Reanimation is a neat shot as that blue-eyed skeleton rises.

Many fingers.

Interesting depiction of a sload. I think Jabba the Hutt is a sload, yes?

A classic Lopov shot of Jenassa.

One thing I’ll give Mora is being consistently unlikeable across all Elder Scrolls appearances.

I see your Battle of Evermore, and raise you The Battle of Evermore

Neat sparkly ghost tracks.

That finger thing is creepy.

That Sload is grody. Like gag me with a spoon.

Great Lopov Shot of Jen!

Apocrypha is quite apocalyptic.

Those black books really do deliver on the creepy magical grimoireness.

@Acadian - Renee would probably be more creative than me and come up with some name from ManyFingers like Manny Pheengers or sth. similar.

Jabba is definitely similar to a sload, but I'm not sure if they as such exist in the SW Universe or do they go under a different name.

@SubRosa - when in Apocrypha, I'm always slightly afraid that my characters will fall into that gurgling black mass with tentacles.

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Forlorn

Arnima

Jesters

Safe travels

Enjoy the view

This post has been edited by Lopov: Jan 13 2022, 12:51 PM

Some hauntingly beautiful pics! I especially like Arnima.

Arnima is lovely.

Safe travels looks like a pirate flag.

Thank you both!

Evermore

Tebandra

Some people again upset the Lord of Arnima...

Mados, the revered hero of the Reach (left) - Rados, his grandson (right)

Jenassa

Rados

Team

Shadow

Forbidden idol

Gorgon named Whisper

Moonlight shadow



This post has been edited by Lopov: Jan 15 2022, 10:44 AM

Eh Lopov, slow down!!! I can't keep up with you! Some of us have jobs!

Wow, look at Evermore. Beyond Reach resembles Skyrim, but it's even more grim.

History fact: Evermore appears in the original Elder Scrolls: Arena game, when there were only two devs making the entire game, until Todd joined them as a bug tester. Yup, that was Mister Howard's original job: squashing bugs. Even that name EVERMORE sounds sort of Lord-of-the-Ringsy, like something a dev would have thought up on-the-spot because he had to fill up a map full of town's names. "Hmm, Evermore.... yeah that fits. Who cares if it's derivative? We need to make The Elder Scrolls: Arena sell copies!"

People hanging from the gallows...

Cool, I assume that's Jenassa attacking Rados, who (I assume) is a really bad guy, right? One of the supporters of the orc-torturing, child-murdering king?

"I am the Shadow at your back..."

Wow, look at that Gorgon... Does that thing run on four legs?

Shadow bathes in the final pic.

Jenassa is looking badass with her two axes.

Forbidden idol is creepy. So is the rest of the Reach.

Cool Gorgon!

Are you playing as Jenassa?

Nevermore.

Tebandra is pure Skyrim in how it looks/feels.

Mados and. . . oh, wait! Is that nirnroot to the right?

That Gorgon doesn’t look quite dead enough.

Moonlight shadow is a beautiful shot.

@Renee - Rados is the good guy, he's the grandson of Mados, the hero of the Reach. He fights at your side during some quests that are relevant to the main plotline.

The Gorgon can fly or walk/crawl, Jenassa always has some enchanted bolts that make flying creatures land, at her disposal, so she quickly forced the Gorgon to land.

@SubRosa - Jenassa started off with two swords, then she used two axes, her current setup is a Daedric mace and a nordic war pick.

@Acadian - yes, I'm (role)playing as Jenassa. My first character during this season was Verdil and Jenassa was his follower. As he was killed by some bandit chief (dead-is-dead), I "jumped" into the head of Jenassa and continued playing with her in the same game world. Quite some tweaking was required to make it work, and the console helped immensely as well.

That's indeed nirnroot, I haven't even noticed it in pic.

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Mortifayne, the Lord of Arnima knows a unique spell...

...able to decapitate people without a blade!

Welcome to Oblivion

Red

Many have fallen

Ayleid Warden

Wounded

Zenalata, the Witch of the Reach

Yikes, that is quite the top-popping spell Mortifayne has!

The Ayleid Warden is creepy AF.

As is Zenalata.

Thanks for the explanation on playing Jenassa. Still Skyrim but your mod package certainly adds some ominous and dark themes. Very moody shots. I've found pretty much most Reach Witches to be pretty creepy.

Really like Red and Manyfingers looks wicked.



Yes, this too. Robert Plant was heavily into Lord of the Rings at this time. There are a bunch of LotR references in some of the songs from that time.




Technically Sload should not appear outside of watery, marshy areas. They are supposed to be slow-moving, barely-reacting beings which must support themselves with water. They aren't supposed to be able to move on land. It'd be like putting a whale on dry land.

Mod author: fail.

Not sure if I would call it a fail. In Redguard for example the Sload N'Gasta, a nasty necromancer, lives in a wizards tower on a small rocky island west of Stros M'Kai named Isle of N'Gasta, it is also rumored that N’Gasta once lived and studied on Vvardenfell. So the adults do seem to get around well enough to cause problems.

Weird. I just went on UESP and what you say is there, macole. There are sload who aren't mere slugs who can barely move, apparently. This is the first I've ever heard this.

Usually when I read about sload, it is in some thread in which the OP wants to know why can't play as one. And the answer is usually...

Due to the corpulence of the adult Sload's slug-like humanoid body, they spend much of their time wallowing in shallow lagoons and move very slowly.[7] Sload supposedly have a poor grasping ability, making it difficult for them to use tools. The integument of Sload can slowly adapt to objects and surfaces, which allows them to climb surfaces like slugs

... something like that. Quoted that also from UESP. So it seems the sload-lore I've read so far in forums is just as inconsistent as Cyrodiil being a jungle.