Bosmer Hearthfires?, Little Treehouse of Horrors Options

[ghastley]

So I'm currently playing a couple of Bosmer archers from the Gweden mod, who've made it to Skyrim. Darwen, who is very slender, with a dancer/gymnast's body, and Enilwen, who's a bit larger, rivalling Nords. Although they're taking different approaches, hunting bears and dragons respectively, they're both doing the usual sneak/archery/smithing thing for max damage, with little or no defence except RUN!!!

They'd each like somewhere to live, but haven't found anything they like. Darwen has taken over the Alchemist's shack, because it's in bear country, but she's not happy, because it's made of wood. Enilwen is sleeping in taverns, and has no fixed abode.

Dead wooden construction offends their Bosmer heritage, and neither has been to Solstheim to see Telvanni mushrooms. The options are pure stone, which isn't the best choice in cold climates, and living wood, which just doesn't seem to exist here. So I'm considering whether the latter can be fixed.

The CK has vines for wall and floor use, and I'd expect to use a lot of ivy for fill. There are bone and hide pieces that might be adapted as furniture, and mammoths have larger bones than most creatures, so their bones can be used for large items. Pelts everywhere, of course. Iron items from draugr ruins would be hauled in where they'd be useful. Even though they're not Bosmer-traditional, this is Skyrim, and they're available.

Can anyone think of any other stuff a Bosmer would use?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Apr 11 2016, 06:31 PM

[ghastley]

I'm attempting to find the real minimum level for this quest. Funwen is only level 6 and she's started on the second round of guardians for the Kyne's Sacred Trials. She had to deal with a Sabre cat (her first) not far from Froki's hut. At least it had a bone for her. The round one guardians (wolf, mudcrab, skeever) don't.

She went for the Mammoth first. It's easy to get up above it, out of reach, and shoot down until dead. However, at her low level, it took about thirty-plus arrows, and the mammoth retreated all the way to Halted Stream, where it may have fallen down the pit. She did get the stage completion.

The bear was next, again because it's possible to get above it and snipe from safety. The bear runs off out of range, and she has to chase along the cliff to keep it in sight. It ends up hiding from her behind the burning wagon nearby, and taking damage from the flames.

She now has to travel to Winterhold and go hunt the Sabre-cat. When Enilwen did that, she ran into a wispmother on the way, so route planning is essential. We might go and clear the Troll den at Greywinter first, so there's only the one enemy at the end. May enchant her bow with fire damage to help that too. The Sabre cat is level 12, and the troll is level 14, so they're not as far above her level as the other two (38 and 32) but she won't have the high ground advantage.

Only half a dozen bones collected so far. The whole den will take around 30. Neither of the second-round guardians provided a bone. The mammoth fell somewhere she couldn't reach it, so no way to tell if she missed one.

Edit: She finished Kyne's Sacred Trials at Level 8. That makes this a bit easier than the Orc one, where you don't even get a chance to attempt it until level 9, when the giant spawns outside Largahsbur. The hardest part was the Ursine Guardian running away and hiding. That's smarter than the average bear!

However, since 30 bones means ~100 kills at present, I'm thinking of making it a 100% drop instead of only 30% and leaving the recpes alone.

Son of the return of Edit: Some of my problems with Funwen turn out to arise because the quest was marked to start enabled, so aliases I added weren't filled. I'll have to start a new test character to find out.

This post has been edited by ghastley: Jul 21 2016, 03:38 PM