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haute ecole rider
post Aug 18 2010, 03:46 PM
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Here is the first of a third thread for Old Habits Die Hard. I appreciate all of you staying with Julian and I this far, and hope you stick with us to the end!

For those who want to go back to the beginning, here you go:
Old Habits Die Hard Chapters 1 - 7
Old Habits Die Hard Chapters 8 - 13


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Olen
post Aug 30 2010, 10:01 PM
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I think I've said it before but I'll say it again anyway - the way you work previous events into the story is brilliant and gives it a sense of continuity as well as cause and effect. It's good to see rescueing Jeelius again helped Julian and again made itself known.

Claudio was a good character too, after just one section what we know of him is rounded and suggests there's a lot more unrevealed (quite a feat, especially if the rest of him is an illusion). I suspect we may see him again after this quest. Certainly using his first conversation to build a trust between them made his decision to look the other way very natural.

All this question about drapes (and cleverly done there) has me thinking - would sunlight burn a vampire through a window, certainly it's impossible to get sunburnt though one (unless it's made of fused silica which seems rather unlikely in TES). Still I'm sure 'it's magic' more than suffices here.



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haute ecole rider   Old Habits Die Hard Part Three   Aug 18 2010, 03:46 PM
haute ecole rider   Now Julian has to confront her old nemesis. *****...   Aug 18 2010, 04:04 PM
D.Foxy   Strange that I had just watched, and liked, ...   Aug 18 2010, 04:23 PM
hazmick   Hurrah for Carandial. Hurrah for Marz. Hurrah for ...   Aug 18 2010, 04:27 PM
SubRosa   So Carandial is sweet on Julian! *imagines all...   Aug 18 2010, 05:07 PM
Acadian   I'm glad that you displayed Neen-Zun as an exa...   Aug 18 2010, 06:08 PM
treydog   Another wonderful entry. And you capture the comp...   Aug 18 2010, 07:55 PM
Olen   Good show on that chapter though I suspect that th...   Aug 19 2010, 05:30 PM
haute ecole rider   @Foxy: Thanks for pointing out that even old women...   Aug 20 2010, 04:03 PM
SubRosa   Poor Ursanne, going back to face her is always so ...   Aug 20 2010, 04:16 PM
haute ecole rider   Thanks, SubRosa. I just wanted to let everyone kn...   Aug 20 2010, 04:26 PM
SubRosa   That comes out much more organically. The added de...   Aug 20 2010, 04:40 PM
hazmick   No, I don't have a twin. Why do you ask? All...   Aug 20 2010, 04:47 PM
Acadian   I went back and read the revision of Neen-Zun. Yu...   Aug 20 2010, 05:03 PM
treydog   A sad but necessary task, telling Ursanne that wha...   Aug 20 2010, 05:07 PM
mALX   Well I for one always thought Julian was beautiful...   Aug 20 2010, 05:56 PM
Destri Melarg   Chapter 14.1 Skooma Cravings Neen-zun’s story is ...   Aug 20 2010, 06:42 PM
haute ecole rider   @SubRosa: I’m glad you liked the rewrite of ...   Aug 22 2010, 07:11 PM
treydog   I wondered how the cool, rational Julian would far...   Aug 22 2010, 07:28 PM
hazmick   would that be the occupational safety and health a...   Aug 22 2010, 07:43 PM
mALX   I love this quest! Can't wait to see the ...   Aug 22 2010, 09:51 PM
Acadian   Fun and variety! Ah, the dilemma of not qu...   Aug 23 2010, 01:29 AM
SubRosa   Hmm, now I am wondering if Julian will meet Wrothk...   Aug 23 2010, 01:33 AM
Olen   That quest is by far my favourite, brilliantly fun...   Aug 23 2010, 11:31 PM
Winter Wolf   I am still here, reading along, and enjoying this ...   Aug 24 2010, 01:57 AM
haute ecole rider   @treydog: For a long time I wondered how Julian wo...   Aug 24 2010, 05:00 PM
hazmick   living in England, I'm not that knowledgeable ...   Aug 24 2010, 05:27 PM
Olen   I enjoyed the conversation at the end, it did well...   Aug 24 2010, 05:43 PM
treydog   Adding in the concern that Paint might be in jeopa...   Aug 24 2010, 06:29 PM
SubRosa   Poor Julian. I never liked that quest either, for ...   Aug 25 2010, 01:07 AM
mALX   I'll bet that is a hard quest for you to enjoy...   Aug 25 2010, 01:46 AM
Acadian   Superbly done, Rider. Initially that quest seem...   Aug 25 2010, 02:28 AM
haute ecole rider   @hazmick: Yes, both Julian and I would feel less g...   Aug 26 2010, 02:48 PM
treydog   Now that is Julian at her scary, ex-Legion best...   Aug 26 2010, 03:09 PM
Acadian   Thanks for breakfast in Weye, and glad to see Pain...   Aug 26 2010, 03:11 PM
D.Foxy   Hautee.... Ever consider a career as a bill coll...   Aug 26 2010, 03:23 PM
hazmick   I wouldn't want to mess with Julian, powerful ...   Aug 26 2010, 04:06 PM
SubRosa   I thought you all call me sage because I remind yo...   Aug 26 2010, 04:33 PM
mALX   I thought you all call me sage because I remind y...   Aug 26 2010, 06:25 PM
Olen   I had wondered how you would resolve that quest. ...   Aug 26 2010, 04:56 PM
haute ecole rider   @trey: I see you thought the relationship between ...   Aug 28 2010, 05:27 PM
mALX   Woo Hoo !!!!! Deep Throat, hu...   Aug 28 2010, 06:47 PM
hazmick   I was just playing through this mission this morni...   Aug 28 2010, 06:54 PM
treydog   Little to add to what has already been noted. Jus...   Aug 28 2010, 07:11 PM
Olen   I like this quest, and I suspect Julian will too, ...   Aug 28 2010, 07:27 PM
SubRosa   As Julian admitted herself, she just cannot say no...   Aug 28 2010, 10:13 PM
haute ecole rider   Now there's a tempting thought! No, hones...   Aug 29 2010, 12:00 AM
mALX   Now there's a tempting thought! No, hone...   Aug 29 2010, 12:06 AM
Acadian   Julian has really good spider senses and and power...   Aug 29 2010, 02:15 AM
D.Foxy   Deep throat... I wonder what that is??? I am SO...   Aug 29 2010, 03:06 AM
mALX   Deep throat... I wonder what that is??? I am S...   Aug 29 2010, 03:09 AM
haute ecole rider   @mALX: There were things I didn’t notice whe...   Aug 30 2010, 04:37 PM
mALX   Oooh, you have really made this quest personalized...   Aug 30 2010, 04:55 PM
treydog   You capture the oppressive atmosphere of Seridur’s...   Aug 30 2010, 04:59 PM
mALX   [b]the underclass (Khajiit and Argonians in th...   Aug 30 2010, 05:03 PM
treydog   [b]the underclass (Khajiit and Argonians in t...   Aug 30 2010, 05:23 PM
SubRosa   Poor Julian, found out as the Hero of Kvatch once ...   Aug 30 2010, 05:02 PM
hazmick   good chapter, once again. It's good to see Ju...   Aug 30 2010, 07:02 PM
Acadian   I'm getting quite swept up in this! It...   Aug 30 2010, 08:03 PM
Remko   I always enjoyed killing Seridur...... slowly........   Aug 31 2010, 03:43 PM
haute ecole rider   @mALX: I knew that about the Brotherhood. Vampire ...   Sep 1 2010, 02:13 PM
hazmick   A good portrayal of ardaline and varmori, a slight...   Sep 1 2010, 02:31 PM
treydog   The scene between Vamori and Ardaline was just won...   Sep 1 2010, 03:21 PM
D.Foxy   Two words, Hautee. Only two words. HELL YEAH...   Sep 1 2010, 03:23 PM
D.Foxy   And ESSS for YOU, Trey, all I can say is what the ...   Sep 1 2010, 03:24 PM
Remko   Aaah, now we see Lerus' "incompetence...   Sep 1 2010, 04:32 PM
Olen   A most satisfying part. The resolution to the bra...   Sep 1 2010, 05:29 PM
mALX   OOOOHHHH! A deviation from Bethesda's min...   Sep 1 2010, 06:57 PM
Acadian   Two wonderful segments. :P Ardaline's staf...   Sep 1 2010, 09:43 PM
SubRosa   Don’t worry, the Brotherhood quest will be complet...   Sep 1 2010, 09:46 PM
haute ecole rider   @hazmick: Thanks for the vote of approval on the f...   Sep 3 2010, 04:47 PM
Acadian   Well done. Very powerful, and very Julian. You ...   Sep 3 2010, 05:49 PM
mALX   BWAAAAH! After all she's done they are go...   Sep 3 2010, 06:34 PM
SubRosa   On Lerus, I do not see how she is recruiting Julia...   Sep 3 2010, 07:24 PM
hazmick   Wow, powerful stuff Haute. I'm on the edge of ...   Sep 3 2010, 07:38 PM
Olen   Well first all from head and not influenced by the...   Sep 3 2010, 08:13 PM
treydog   A part of me wants to wring Jauffre's neck- a ...   Sep 3 2010, 11:08 PM
haute ecole rider   @Acadian: I’m glad that you are enjoying my ongoin...   Sep 5 2010, 04:52 PM
hazmick   Jauffre! that sly fox, he knows more than he...   Sep 5 2010, 05:38 PM
mALX   ARGH! Finally she is going to get her knee fi...   Sep 5 2010, 05:45 PM
Acadian   Lots of background filled in here. I'm impres...   Sep 5 2010, 06:16 PM
SubRosa   formerly a munifex in the Legio I This little pass...   Sep 5 2010, 06:24 PM
treydog   You managed to save Jauffre from a fate worse than...   Sep 5 2010, 09:05 PM
Olen   Now there was some development of Julian. I liked...   Sep 5 2010, 09:17 PM
Remko   Pfff. tell me about it, dislocated my left shoulde...   Sep 6 2010, 11:06 AM
haute ecole rider   @hazmick: You’ve nailed it! Jauffre plays his ...   Sep 7 2010, 02:38 PM
hazmick   *Thud* Ow, that was so intense I fell out of my ch...   Sep 7 2010, 03:04 PM
treydog   Oh my. The “dream sequence” (or was it something ...   Sep 7 2010, 03:19 PM
SubRosa   That dream sequence was not only beautiful, but it...   Sep 7 2010, 04:48 PM
mALX   ARGH!!!!!!! Don...   Sep 7 2010, 06:54 PM
Olen   Now there was a part which really shines out even ...   Sep 7 2010, 08:09 PM
Destri Melarg   Okay, I’m back with my obligatory wall of te...   Sep 7 2010, 09:37 PM
Acadian   Magnificent, Rider. Powerful, beautiful, revealin...   Sep 7 2010, 10:59 PM
D.Foxy   This was so good, I have even exiled Mr. Dhertee I...   Sep 8 2010, 01:43 AM
Remko   The dream sequence part was very vivd. It felt a l...   Sep 8 2010, 11:47 AM
haute ecole rider   @hazmick: I hope you didn’t have to go to the ER...   Sep 9 2010, 03:11 PM
Remko   I liked "Gladiator" entirely but that...   Sep 9 2010, 03:40 PM
treydog   Yes, there are all kinds of “safety” and “comfor...   Sep 9 2010, 03:54 PM
SubRosa   A nice simple segment that both brings us up to sp...   Sep 9 2010, 04:02 PM
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