On a way to Bruma, right?

This season I was quicker than Lothran - I mounted winter tires on my car before he made it home.

Soon enough; he'll depart from Imperial City at the end of November.





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Lothran is now sitting in Roland's house that's on the road to Cheydinhal. Rain has been pouring all the way from the Imperial Bridge Inn and he needed some place to dry up a bit before proceeding to Morcant's cottage for a supply run.

Cheydinhal is quite nice, especially in rain. Lothran is glad to be there right now and has enjoyed a full day both inside and outside of town. A bandit, an ogre and two Dark Guardians (over at Fort Farragut) were disposed of before the Dunmer visited the small hamlet south of Cheydinhal.

Right now he's sitting on a bench inside the castle and prior to that he sold off a bunch of stuff to the local Orc merchant. She seems to be back in town after having been missing for a few years. Wonder where she was off to?

Lothran is now in the Imperial City. It's late and the rain is still pouring down. He left Cheydinhal yesterday and visited Morcant and then Roxey Inn. And today he continued to the big city in preparation for the winter season.

Lena Wolf defeated Jyggalag at the end of another Greymarch last week. And she did it all on her own - without my help! I was only telling the story of her second Greymarch while building Skyrim. She is now relaxing in Crucible (Bernice has a new batch of her Summer wine, and that needs sampling!).

mirocu: Is the Roxey still quite a crowded place in your game? How many hours is Loth up to now?

Lena: Awesome, glad to hear you pwned the jigglelag. What do you mean she did it all her own? Lena's portrayed as an NPC in that situation?

No, I mean that I wrote the stories without actually playing it again. It's fict...shhhh... no, it happened! I was just not there to see it.

Ha ha got it!

Well, there's the proprietoress, the old soldier (I think he was anyway) and a patron whose name I don't remember. Plus a guard drinking on a bench outside as well as a forester walking around. So inside there are only three people now after the related quest.


I simply don't know. I wish Oblivion had the same hour count as Fallout 3, then I would know. At this point I just keep track of how many times the counter has reset and tally up 1145-isch hours times that number, but I don't have my notes at the moment

Tonight Lothran amused himself with his usual City fun; coaxing up bandits from the Market District sewers and have them fight the guards. Upon entering the sewers he saw two bandits sleeping so he cast an AoE spell that revealed a third one more hidden in a corner.

When all was said and done up above though, only two dead bandits were found. Lothran looked all over the Market District but none were found. He therefore opted to enter the sewers again and yes; there was the third one. But when the Dunmer was noticed, the bandit didn't attack. It turned out to be yet another friendly female Khajiit bandit who acted as a highwayman as she asked for gold when entering conversation. And while normally a highwayman can't be friendlyfied with the Persuasion wheel, this one could be.


Oh, and it turns out I didn't have the number of resets written down. Only the number of Abombs

Nice, so if the bandit doesn't attack, there's a chance he/she can live their life. That happened rarely back when I played a pure vanilla game. Every once in a while we'd meet a neutral baddie.

That is also fun luring them into situations like that. I'm sure Lothran has lured a few into traps as well!

He has indeed! The Market District sewers and Bloodcrust Cavern outside Skingrad are the main ones where Lothran does this. Luring out vampires and fight them in the sun is both fun and effective

Graziana, a battlemage by profession, stopped on a way to the Imperial City, where she intended to apply for a membership to the Mages Guild, by the Ayleid ruin of Sercen. Now she can't recall exactly, what had happened there, all she remembers, is that she got attacked by a group of bandits, whose weapons must have been coated with some poison, that was making her fainty with every hit. She remembers some adventurer in fur armor, that came to her aid, and she also recalls a screaming legionnaire riding on his horse in her direction, but the rest of the events remain shrouded in mystery.

As she woke up in a cold jail cell, stripped of her belongings, she didn't even have time to ask, why has she been imprisoned. Actually, she did ask one elderly man, that came in a company of his bodyguards into her cell, and it turned out that this man was Emperor Uriel Septim himself - apparently it was not important, why has she been imprisoned but what will she be remembered for from now on.

A few hours later Graziana is standing outside of the sewers of the Imperial City, the Amulet of Kings in her pockets and stains of Emperor's blood on her shirt.

Um. Lopov. Is Graziana a new character you just rolled? In a game which isn't point 'n' click? But but but....

Sounds like she got duped. She goes to Sercen to try to join the Mages Guild? Yeah, somebody did her wrong.

I thought it sounded like Lopov has a mod, but I think you are more on the mark there, Renee.

It's a new character, yes. The events at Sercen serve as a short backstory before wakening up in the Imperial prison.

I've been running Oblivion this time with only three mods so far. I might install some more along the way but I'll keep it really minimal this time. I did experience a surge of nostalgia after Graziana emerged from the sewers, because when my first character in Oblivion - Amadeus - came out of those same sewers many years ago, his game was also mostly unmodded, except for his hairstyle. The game has a special charm in its intact form.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Oct 30 2022, 02:55 PM

I agree, which is why my mods are only minor things that don't actually alter the world itself but only some minor mechanics behind the scenes. I guess the biggest world-changing mod I have is SubRosa's witch mod, adding Morcant's cottage by the road to Cheydinhal.

So far I've been running Francesco's mod that slows down leveling and makes enemies randomized (lots of other Fran's features remain disabled), Natural Faces mod (to get rid of green blotches) and I plan to install some mod, that adds lights to windows at nights. For the last one I'll need OBSE.

It's also, that I've been running a fairly busy real life and I can't afford a lot of time to search for mods or deal with possible mod conflicts that could come up. Some mods that I was using before, also aren't available on the Nexus anymore.

Last but not the least, I want to learn more of Italian language through Oblivion. Since reading grammar and making online exercises gets boring fast, my Oblivion is now set in Italian. The game has never been dubbed, which works just fine, so I can still understand, what's being said. And I really look forward to reading books in game.

Oooh, get Console Commands! Then you can use tfc2 to get better screenshots (tfc2 freezes all AI).



Absolutely. Leaving those sewers, seeing all that land in the distance. Not knowing if you can go all the way up those mountains in the distance (turns out, you can!).

Nice to hear you're learning another language too... from videogames!

Today Lothran decided to place a bet in the Arena, and it paid off! 200 gold winnings after the champion from the blue team won!

The match was even; both had a shield and a short-range weapon, looked like daggers. Lothran has been to matches where one of the fighters had nothing to fight with but his fists while the other had a two-handed weapon. Not a fair fight