Rosa: Nope, no friends in Addamasartus.
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I am glad she won't make friends in enemy locations, just because I want my videogame experience to be edgy and dangerous!
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I got used to lack of
magicka regen after playing Arena for a couple years, but I understand what you're saying.
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I just wanted to make up some sort of explanation why there's Mana Regeneration in later games (earlier years), but not Arena, Daggerfall, or Morrowind.
Lopov: Yes, that bloomin' elf didn't have a chance once Joan figured things out.
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Last Seed 21 (Day 6), early morning![IPB Image](https://i.imgur.com/Ga7nMNB.png)
Joan of Arkay leaves the hamlet of Seyda Neen, heading east toward Pelagiad. It takes but a few hours to reach her destination. The journey goes without incident. No bandits, no hostile creatures. Interesting to Joan, who has heard how dangerous Vvardenfell could be.
She walks into town. First person she speaks to is an Imperial Legion. "The Empire built a little fort here to guard the roads between Vivec, Seyda Neen, Balmora, and points north," he says. "And then some veterans took their mustering-out pay and built themselves some little farms here."
"I see," Joan quips.
"And pretty soon," the Legion continues, "there's a few shops and a tradehouse. It's a pleasant little village. If you didn't know better, you'd think you were in Daggerfall or some other High Rock town."
Joan finds Pelagiad to be much more suitable to the needs of the wandering traveler. Pelagiad has a merchant, a smith, and an inn. The town had been built upon a small hill, with a fully-functional fort to guard it. Joan learns that the Imperial Legion can be joined, which piques her interest.
For 10 gold, she rents a room in Halfway Tavern, the town's lovely inn. She has a meal of crab meat topped with a bit of heather. She spends some time speaking to some of the inn's residents, mostly learning things she already knows. Then she goes to bed.
Early eveningJoan barely falls asleep, before being awoken by a loud noise. She scrambles out of bed, and immediately readies her sword. It seems trouble is afoot!
She can
feel the sense of evil, which has suddenly pervaded the inn.
"Ordain mine person!" she calls softly.
"I inquire upon the graces of Arkay, might these graces assist." She picks up her shield with her left hand, then opens the door to her room. Up the hall, the Khajiit named Ahnassi seems agitated. He's running for the stairs, but something (or someone) is blocking his way.
"You will die!" Someone calls out in a gravelly voice! This someone is downstairs from Joan's floor, she thinks. Whomever he is, he does not attack Halfway's other guests, nor do they attack him. This can only mean one thing. Joan of Cheydinhal uses her mind to ready a healing spell, one which will guarantee she'll have a good chance at surviving whatever is to come. She rushes down the steps!
But the intruder is nowhere to be seen. Joan dashes around from room to room, unable to find him. Finally, she determines he must be located in one of the inn's rooms, which is locked. She has Drelasa Ramothran, Halfway's owner, unlock the room's door. *
"Stand away," Joan says to a lady standing nearby. "For you musn't be assalted."
Finally, Joan sees the intruder, standing just inside the room opened by Drelasa. He wears all black, just like somebody from the Dark Brotherhood.
How did he get in? Joan thinks.
Why are not the guards trying to rid him? ... The intruder throws a knife at her, but misses his shot.
"Come hither!" Joan calls, slicing silver at the man in black. The man in black slices back!
"You will suffer greatly!" he says.
Who is he? Why is he attacking only her? Joan puts up a good offense but after multiple attempts at attack and defense, her health begins to falter. So she jumps over a bed, then readies her mind to heal herself while the intruder rushes towards her. She casts a spell of brilliant star-blue. Though she suffers a few blows from the man as she does so, Joan's health returns to full.
Now the man hasn't got a chance!
"You n'wahhhh!"
"I shall banish ye, miscreant!"
After several more moments of combat, Joan's life energy, her fatigue, also begins to fall. She hasn't got a spell (nor any potions) for this yet, so her only option is to move into another room, and wait a few moments to catch her breath. She winds up zooming downstairs again, closing the door behind her. This causes the intruder a few moments of confusion, for it takes a few moments for him to find her downstairs. By the time he does, Joan is back at it! Both of them begin swinging, while the inn's guests mosey about calmly. Joan is careful not to hit any of them, as she rushes back upstairs again, and back into the same room where the fight had begun.
But Samia, the lady wearing blue, is in this room.
So finally, Joan stomps back toward the stairs. As she moves down them, the intruder meets her halfway.
"Fall before me!" she calls quietly, crashing and bashing the intruder with her shortsword a few more times. Eventually, the man does exactly this, falling down a couple of Halfway's stairs.
"Yooo want somethinnnng?" asks Ahnassi, apparently nonplussed about all the ruckus going on.
Joan of Cheydinhal struggles to catch her breath, wondering what the Nine was that all about?
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Walking to PelagiadCome hither, miscreant!Fight with AssassinYou will suffer greatly!Swish!
Assassin's GreedNotes: * I had to use the console to unlock the door, because Joan can't pick locks, nor would she.
Note 2: This fight lasted several in-game hours! Joan went to bed around 7 PM, and the final save I just made is around 11 PM.
Note 3: A lot of my characters will loot the assassin (the man in black) of his Dark Brotherhood armor. This is easy money once the guy has been pwned!
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Joan chooses not to do so, however. She wants nothing to do with the Evils of the world.
This post has been edited by Renee: Sep 5 2021, 07:34 PM