Old Habits Die Hard Part Six, some old habits never die Options

[haute ecole rider]

Hello all, and welcome to the final thread of Old Habits Die Hard. Those of you who are familiar with the Main Quest know that we are fast approaching the end game. Only three more artifacts to obtain, then we can recover the Amulet of Kings and light those Dragonfires and see Martin to the Dragon Throne at last. Right?

For those who are coming late to the party, here are the links to the other five threads:

Chapters 1 − 7: From the Prison to finding the Path of Dawn.
Chapters 8 − 13: From Dagon’s Shrine to Bravil.
Chapters 14 − 18: From Sheogorath’s Shrine to the start of the Grand Tour of Cyrodiil.
Chapters 19 − 22: From Leyawiin to Skingrad.
Chapters 23 − 25: From returning home to Anvil to the final Mages Guild recommendation.

Here in this last thread we will see the Main Quest through to its tragic conclusion. Some questions will be answered, including who is the man Julian loves? Other questions will be raised, including what’s next for Julian? Those of you who have suspected a second story in the making, you are correct.

After a year and a half of writing this story, I am happy to bring this to a close, yet I am sad to bid it adieu. Hopefully I won’t let any and all of you down as we wrap up.

This post has been edited by haute ecole rider: Jun 26 2011, 01:10 AM

[Olen]

Ahem: YAY! Julian is back! And for a good quest, and one which may prove challenging I suspect, undead bashing is a different business to daedra slaying.

Filling in the backstory was well done, I was in need of a bit of a refresher and what you provided was just right to get the memories coming back. It got moving quickly too, already we're bashing skelitons outside Sancre Tor (I must have done it at a higher level becuase I remember about a million lichs) and sleeping the night (rather her than me) before going in. Might want a nice hot coco to get to sleep...

Only tracks in the snow showed he had been there.

I liked this, several things have thought better than attacking her which is a pleasant change from the game. In this case the wolf shows good sense when a skeleton rocks up, as I suspect one would.

Nits: I shivered in the chill. Brother Piner had given me a fur-lined tunic, warmer than my quilted tunic and enchanted to resist frost. Still the damp chill and the -- Although not that close together I found the similar sentence structure and repetition of the somewhat unusual word a bit jarring.

back in the Second Era?” I tried to recall my ancient history -- Ancient seemed a bit misplaced here, the battle of Sancre Tor was only 478 years before the events in Oblivion - history certainly but maybe not ancient, it is being rather pedantic though.

Anyway great piece and I'm delighted to see it continued.

And Hammer - Fingers of the Mountain is grossly overpriced magic-wise, you can buy or make ones which require far less.