Nice to have Lothran back on volunteer guard duty. I'm sure the Brumites appreciate it.

So what was this year's final ogre tooth count from the Pale Pass expedition?

Another day, another Septim


It was 17, with four I think from the Serpent's Trail

Lothran is again standing guard at the north gate with patrol routes around town as an occasional break.


When another guard comes to the gate, that'll be the cue for Lothran to go to the barracks and sit down for awhile

Wow, a friendly ogre. That's really bizarre.

Yeah I was quite stumped when it happened, and when it happened again


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Lothran is now off his shift and is currently sitting at home. Soon he'll be paying a visit to Capstone Cave and Plundered Mine again, as well as Silver Tooth Cave on his way to Azura's shrine.

My decrepit Cyrodill avatar and the gang are paused after having crossed the short bridge they consider the halfway point between Bravil and Leyawin. It's evening, a rather dark and stormy evening I might add. Visibility is poor, relieved somewhat by Vilja's torch and frequent nearby lightning strikes. My avatar berates himself for not having the sense to call a halt for the day in Bravil, where they had stopped for a meal. In his defense, there wasn't a hint of inclement weather when they departed the city.

This stretch of their patrol is almost a non-event. As luck would have it, they ride a short distance behind a small legion patrol, who are handling most of the combat unaided. They hope to reach their destination before calling it a day, but don't rule out pitching their tent and camping until morning should sleep overpower them.

As for myself, I upgraded to the latest version of Wrye Bash, then rebuild my Bash Patch. This new version incorporates noticeably more esps into the Patch than did my old version. That process came off without a hitch. Updating from OBSE to the recent xOBSE is another matter. Three launch attempts in a row ended in the game returning to desktop within seconds, never reaching the opening screen. Next launch lasted a bit longer, gave promise to reaching the game itself, then froze solid, requiring a RESET of the computer via its case button. That out of the way, the next attempt actually reached the game opening screen before terminating. The next attempt succeeded, displaying two OBSE update messages in the process. My hope is that whatever needed to update itself was what caused all those fails.

I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had hotkeyed DropLitTorches_OBSE. I swore it was "O". Nope. That failing, I tried a number of keys a random, then gave up and left illumination for Vil to handle. At the session's very end, it finally dawned on me that the hotkey is not "O" but "0".

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Jan 4 2023, 08:36 PM

The decrepit avatar is once again patrolling the roads of Cyrodiil? Can this be true??

Oh thank Akatosh! We were worried, you see .... the Daedra.



This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 4 2023, 10:01 PM

Lothran is now performing his primary duties whilst in Bruma; clearing caves and mines. He just did Plundered Mine and is on his way to Silver Tooth Cave, also clearing the roads of course.

He planned on recharging his primary weapon at the Mages Guild before departing but Volanaro apparently needed a sleep-in today so Lothran went home and switched his mace for Goldbrand which was fully charged.

Lothran keeps keeping the Jerall roads clear. This time he's headed westward a bit past Hermaeus as usual, smacking down ogres along the way. No bandits yet but perhaps on the way home he will spot one or two.

And the daedra met up past the stairs by Mora was a Daedroth. Man, those things are weak compared to an ogre. At least if the time the Spriggan's fight lasted is any indication

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Today was spent selling looted weapons and armor, recharging own weapons and most importantly; making potions and poisons. Lothran does this once a year and he has a few recipes since many years back that he uses, and some that he doesn't anymore. He mostly focuses on two potions and three poisons.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 14 2023, 06:05 PM

Lothran has an Iron Bow set aside at the Fighters Guild in Bruma. He uses that to target practice using the dummy whenever he feels like it. Along with that he uses iron arrows. He doesn't shoot that often and so it takes a great while before the bow breaks down and has to be repaired, but just that happened today! I think it's two years since last it was repaired so now I reckon we have until 2025

That is true. Lady Saga has a bunch of bows, but sometimes she'd use just one exclusively for awhile, maybe for an entire dungeon or some such. Its Health (or whatever) would barely get affected. Maybe it'd still be in the 90s. Then again, it was rare she'd need to use it to block an enemy. Most enemies simply get nowhere near my elf.

See, but it's nice to know how long a cheap iron bow can last before it needs attention.

The Forester



East of Bruma, at the bend in the road before the long straight towards Dragonclaw Rock, is a forester. He's been patrolling that area for around ten years now, and I'm not exaggerating. He arrived on scene after having chased a deer and then stuck around. From time to time though he's been edging his way out of that spot whereupon Lothran has always coaxed him to come back.

Today the forester was nowhere to be seen. Lothran made a sweep of the immediate area but to no avail. Not giving up, he made his way up towards Serpent's Trail but could only find the minotaurs he slayed upon exiting the Trail from this season's hunt. But making his way down towards Dragonclaw Rock, there he was. Apparently he had followed another deer, killed it, and then decided to patrol this new area instead. Well, we can't have that, can we? So Lothran had to once again coax the forester back to his spot, and now all is well in Cyrodiil again

NPC management...rather like herding cats?

These days I allow myself some NPC management, yes. As with the weather in Cyrodiil, if I can control something then I will

Nice, what a beautiful little story, mirocu!

Thanks, Renee!

Capstone Cave was cleared yesterday and today it was Plundered Mine's turn again and as most of the times something interesting happened in the lower section.

As always Lothran ran through it all whilst attracting the attention of all the goblins and when he came to the big cave at the end he summoned his Spriggan to let her and her bear have some fun. Not always but often enough, and true about this run, the goblins started an infight! Well, either that or there were goblins from a rival tribe present, I can never tell really.
The goblins started out by attacking the Spriggan and a couple went for Lothran. Summoned shield in hand, he was ready, but the first blow sent him down in a paralyzed effect and before he even got back up again the goblins ran away to fight the shaman! They all did! It was like six or seven regular goblins against one shaman so it was quite good fun to watch.

This spectacle went on for some time but Lothran prevailed in the end, thank The Nine. And now he's back in his home in Bruma with the spoils consisting of a gold amulet, a gold nugget and of course quite a few gold coins and some lockpicks so not too shabby

Very nice, especially the gold nugget. 🪙

He can summon spriggans? Hey, let me ask you this. Is there any magic schools that he does not touch, or does not use as often? I'm guessing Destruction is one he doesn't use. I don't remember any mentions of him throwing fireballs and such.

Or is he an actual Jack-of-all-trades? I'd imagine with a game lasting as long as it has (a decade and a half!) he's probably touched on a bit of everything at this point, if only to see what he likes, or not.

Yeah, and he has for some time thanks to SubRosa's Witchcraft mod


That's one of the schools he uses the most But not so much fireballs as he tend to use his own mix of Touch based spells where indeed Destruction is very much present.
I was gonna write here what school he uses the least but after a bit of research I can conclude he uses all schools about equally with Destruction being on top. Heh, shows what I know!


That's him for sure. He uses weapons as well as offensive spells, lockpicks as well as the spell variant, armor as well as shield spells; you get the picture. As you say, after all this time he's bound to have tried most everything, if nothing else out of curiosity