Started a new character with a new race Options

[ghastley]

I like to play any new NPC's I'm planning to add to my mods as characters, to get an idea of their quirks and stuff. So I created a Nocturnal race.

Nocturnal has a night-eye lesser power like a Khajiit. Low strength, and agility, but high Magicka, or she'd have no offense at all! She takes sun damage at a lower rate than a vampire, but unlike them, has no way to turn it off. I gave her white (Order) eyes for contrast.

My character is born under the Thief, of course, and I gave her the Skeleton key as starter equipment so she doesn't raise Security or Alteration. High Sneak, and having really dark skin (darker than shown in the picture of the outfit), and a black outfit, makes her hard to see. That also makes for poor screen-shots.

She's currently doing the Mages Guild Recommendation quests, as access to spell-making will be useful. I considered giving her a way to do that without joining a mortal's guild, but decided it was too much effort, and the quests were a useful test. She's been caught out by the dawn a couple of times, but she can let herself into any building quickly enough not to get too badly hurt. Fast travel needs planning, but she's at the stage where she hasn't found most places yet.

She's still picking up her arsenal of spells as she goes around the Mages Guild chapters. Since the game gave her Flare and Absorb Health, and summon skeleton, she's used those so far, but will consider Illusion spells when she gets them.

I know I may have to reconsider the sun damage, but so far I haven't found any quest that she wants to do, that is prevented by it. I'll keep going until I hit a road-block with that, and figure out something when it happens.

Her cape is still being worked on. The sides between the arms and the body are proving almost impossible to weight to the standard skeleton, and may will require extra bones. She's currently using a makeshift one with those sections removed, which doesn't look quite right, but isn't too glaring an anomaly.

The sun damage thing may also mean I need to make her immune to Vampirism, but I'll just keep taking the Mandrake rather than build it in. I haven't played a Vampire character for long, so can anyone who has point me at the quests where the sun damage makes it difficult?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jun 14 2013, 02:14 PM

[mALX]

PS - The Wizards Tower has both spellmaking and enchanting stands if you have it. On the sun damage - I played one game as a vampire (just to have tried everything in game possible) and fried so many times it wasn't funny - fast travel was definitely out, but I've never used that much anyway. It was really bad for me, I tried hiding under bridges (still fried), etc - and not a lot of people want vampires dropping in to get out of the sun, lol.

Well, I couldn't wait to do the Vampire Cure quest, everything worked with no glitches till I got to the Lost Chamber in Skingrad Castle (which I had modded already, meaning Rona's comatose butt was long gone). Fatal crash when Janus went to give her the potion. I ended up having to start a new game after all that, lol.

[ghastley]

... - fast travel was definitely out,...

I found that she could fast travel under a few specific circumstances. It only worked during darkness, so it was typically done just after 8:00PM to go somewhere she'd arrive at in darkness, or else just before dawn to get home. I use Map Marker Overhaul, which adds markers for player-owned homes, and she was able to fast-travel home, as she could immediately go indoors when she arrived. A Vampire should be able to do the same. However, she still has to check the time before leaving any dungeon.

She's now reached a stage where she can use the starter healing spell continuously, as she regenerates magicka as fast as that spell uses it. So she can walk across town in daylight if she keeps casting as she goes. I ended up not giving her cloak any powers other than looking good on her. I haven't finished with that, it still clips when she casts, with her hip poking through.

[mALX]

... - fast travel was definitely out,...

I found that she could fast travel under a few specific circumstances. It only worked during darkness, so it was typically done just after 8:00PM to go somewhere she'd arrive at in darkness, or else just before dawn to get home. I use Map Marker Overhaul, which adds markers for player-owned homes, and she was able to fast-travel home, as she could immediately go indoors when she arrived. A Vampire should be able to do the same. However, she still has to check the time before leaving any dungeon.

She's now reached a stage where she can use the starter healing spell continuously, as she regenerates magicka as fast as that spell uses it. So she can walk across town in daylight if she keeps casting as she goes. I ended up not giving her cloak any powers other than looking good on her. I haven't finished with that, it still clips when she casts, with her hip poking through.

That was probably my issue, not timing things correctly. The witch Melisande threw me out of her house (got really mad I was lingering) - I was just waiting for nightfall. Well, I burned to a crisp trying to find shelter there on that river. Everytime I fast traveled I fried.

There is a ring (quest reward, I think you get it from the "Order of the Virtuous Blood" quest) - The Ring of Sunshine? Anyway, like an idiot, I put it on without looking at the description. It gives you sun damage. I traveled overland by night to Echo Cave to take on Mannimarco, now it is daylight so I'm trying to get into the cave quickly.

Well, Echo Cave has a "doorman" that won't let you by without a fight. All he had to do was look in my direction and I was dead, I couldn't figure out what was going on!

So after several times of hitting "Continue" I got looking into my active affects and was taking Sun damage at an unbelievable rate! It was like Vault 87's original door in Fallout 3 with the radiation - through the roof.

Well, (it took a while, but I finally realized it was the ring + full blown vampirism causing the issue). Took the ring off and made it into the cave anyway, lol.

My son was in hysterics when he found out, "Didn't you read its effects?" (...er, no?). He likes watching me play so he can call up his friends afterward and get them all laughing at the stupid things I've done in game, lol. Urk.




This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 25 2013, 11:51 PM