Unofficial Quests, made-up quests that enhance our gaming Options

[Lady Saga]

I'm gonna share one that probably a lot of you already know, but it's something I just realized during the massive gaming marathon I'm on.

Supply the locals with better weapons & armor

I always wondered how people 'spam' smithing and get really good at it. I've tried with Gunter, Son of Talos and Lord Haaf-Mersey. The problem always comes down to costs. Smithing supplies can easily destroy the budget if one wants to get good at it, and it takes forever to get from Steel to Dwarven. After months, LHM still hasn't been able to move on to Orcish. I am getting impatient. I wanna see him in the best there is to have, and so does he.

My crusader did the Grimsever quest tonight which is in Mzinchleft (however you spell it). Dwarven ruins, basically. And I realized there's TONS of material in here to use for smithing, and it's completely free to loot. I suppose in the case of iron and other metals, we can just mine the heck out of some ore shafts, but I haven't had a character who's a miner, yet.

Some of you are probably like "duh!" but I take my games at a slow pace. I'm gonna be with Skyrim for years I am sure. Why rush it?

So my crusader's first unofficial quest: supply the local village/town with superior armors and weapons. As he takes dozens of cogs, levers, and other dwarven materials to melt, he's going to bring it all back to Falkreath on his poor horse, melt it down, and then sell some of it to the town, and donate the rest (he'll just leave some dwarven things in the Jarl's court or guard barracks, perhaps.

Anybody else got some unofficial quests they'd like to share?

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Jan 27 2013, 04:45 PM

[Grits]

My character Shuvesse was a skooma addict, so she had an ongoing quest to manage her addiction in addition to whatever else she was doing. Here are the details, reposted from a long time ago:

I’m on a console, so instead using of a mod I’m going to manage Shuvesse’s habit on paper. She needs one vial of skooma per day while she’s addicted. If she runs out, she’ll have to put 300 gold per day into a respawning container in a hold capital to simulate buying from another addict. She is an alchemist, so she can cook her own from nightshade and moon sugar. I’m thinking one each per day eaten together to substitute for a vial. Last thing, she can get clean at a temple for 5,000 Septims. The catch is that the next time she meets someone with skooma for sale (or finds some), she’s hooked again. I want to make her addiction a major motivator without making all other goals completely unreachable.

Her skooma habit means that before she undertakes a mission like the pilgrimage to High Hrothgar, she’ll either have to get clean or lay in a good supply. Also she will not be able to keep a follower while she’s using. That means those roadside dealers will cause her to dismiss her follower, loot and all.

Here’s another one: Crook Tooth has the made-up quest of looking for his friend Derkeethus. He’s exhausted all leads so far, but he’ll have to stop in at Darkwater Crossing to ask about Derkeethus every time he passes near there. Eventually someone should give him the right dialog which he’ll follow to the official quest. My hope is that by that time he will be able to survive what follows. If he does, bonus! Derkeethus as a follower plus he gets to live another day.

Also Darnand is on the quest Thane of the Reach (to get Argis into his game), reimagined as Get Jerric Out of Prison.

[Destri Melarg]

My character Shuvesse was a skooma addict, so she had an ongoing quest to manage her addiction in addition to whatever else she was doing. Here are the details, reposted from a long time ago:

I’m on a console, so instead using of a mod I’m going to manage Shuvesse’s habit on paper. She needs one vial of skooma per day while she’s addicted. If she runs out, she’ll have to put 300 gold per day into a respawning container in a hold capital to simulate buying from another addict. She is an alchemist, so she can cook her own from nightshade and moon sugar. I’m thinking one each per day eaten together to substitute for a vial. Last thing, she can get clean at a temple for 5,000 Septims. The catch is that the next time she meets someone with skooma for sale (or finds some), she’s hooked again. I want to make her addiction a major motivator without making all other goals completely unreachable.

Her skooma habit means that before she undertakes a mission like the pilgrimage to High Hrothgar, she’ll either have to get clean or lay in a good supply. Also she will not be able to keep a follower while she’s using. That means those roadside dealers will cause her to dismiss her follower, loot and all.

Here’s another one: Crook Tooth has the made-up quest of looking for his friend Derkeethus. He’s exhausted all leads so far, but he’ll have to stop in at Darkwater Crossing to ask about Derkeethus every time he passes near there. Eventually someone should give him the right dialog which he’ll follow to the official quest. My hope is that by that time he will be able to survive what follows. If he does, bonus! Derkeethus as a follower plus he gets to live another day.

Also Darnand is on the quest Thane of the Reach (to get Argis into his game), reimagined as Get Jerric Out of Prison.

This sounds a lot like my khajiit, U'baasti. Right now she's at level 12, and she intends to travel with Ri’saad's or Ahkari’s caravans until she hits level 20. She gets money and levels by hunting wild game with her bow and by protecting the caravans from Skyrim’s indigenous wildlife... and bandits. She sells the pelts, weapons, and armors to Ri’saad or Ahkari and, whenever she’s flush she splurges on Speech training with Dro’marash or Sneak training with Khayla.

Like Shuvesse, U’baasti is a skooma addict and must procure at least one vial a day to support her habit. Most of the time this is done by purchasing the drug from Ri’saad or Ahkari, other times she is forced to scramble. When she gets and takes the drug she must spend at least three hours mindlessly hunting butterflies (or Luna Moths if it’s nighttime) throughout the countryside and, since skooma drains agility and intelligence (In Oblivion and Morrowind at least), she can’t use her bow or cast a spell while she’s ‘high.’ That means she has to run from anything that looks at her cross-eyed until she sobers up.

I love that you can get Shuvesse off the stuff, but if she finds some or meets a dealer she's hooked again! I also like that she can't have a follower when she's using. I'm going to have to steal that.

This post has been edited by Destri Melarg: Jan 30 2013, 12:52 AM