Today In Skyrim (Spoilerific), Like the other one, but with added spoilers!!! Options

[Acadian]

Grits, how neat that the Valdi and Erik are doing dawnguard! The couple that slays together, stays together.

Hmm, SubRosa has a good point about Serana. For at least 1000 years, she’s had no. . . warm companionship. Now all of a sudden she’s human again with all those neglected human needs like eating, sleeping, humping, drinking. . . . No wonder she’s cranky!

Returning to the Soul Cairn to notify Valerica was a nice touch and I’m glad she returned to her laboratory at the castle.

Valdi and Serana on their multicolored flaming steeds make for a magnificent screenshot! As you know, the flaming steed for Serana is added by Convenient Horses. I knew that if you asked her to change to a normal horse, Serana told you pretty much to mind your own business. What I very recently learned is that after the DG main questline is completed, she will then honor a request to use any normal horse and tack that you ask her to.

Then some dragonslaying for V&E. Valdi doing the shooting and Erik lighting the way from the rear with his torch. Erik looks great in DG armor and that’s quite a snazzy bow that Valdi’s using!

[Grits]

I can imagine Serana hitting on someone she fancies in a tavern. “Good evening. You have a delightfully fragrant neck. Not long ago I would have torn – Where are you going?”

Valdi covered Taking Care Of Your Living Body: The Basics with Serana, but romance (and birth control, yikes) was too awkward to be mentioned at the time. Valdi can’t imagine how Serana deals with being the ex of Molag Bal. This might be a job for Abiene! That woman will say anything if she thinks it needs to be said.

Acadian, thank you ever so much for the tip about Serana’s Convenient horse! Serana told Valdi off a long time ago when Valdi pointed out the danger, so she would never have thought to bring the subject up again. The exploding horse has been a sore point on their travels.

Hopefully the wisdom of her elders will trickle through to young Valdi and she will realize that Serana needs something warm and alive between her legs. A real horse!


(Valdi’s bow is the Forsworn bow from Real Bows. I use the version that is not a replacer, so my characters are the only ones who get the awesomest bows.)

[Grits]

Chases-the-Fish had an adventure on the return trip to Whiterun that unsurprisingly landed him in prison again. First he tried to rob a couple who were on foot, but they gave him a sob story and he ended up giving them five Septims. Some Nord ran up and gave him a pair of steel Nordic gauntlets with an alchemy enchantment, score! He said he would be back to get them, but Chases plans to tell him that another guy robbed him and took the gauntlets. This is a bold move since Chases immediately put them on.

Anyway then there were some butterflies to catch and then a rich noble to rob. The noble’s bodyguard was frightened enough to give up his weapons, which made it easier to kill him when he had a change of heart and came back with his fists. Chases also had to kill the noble. So now he has a slightly soiled but very fine set of clothing.

The noble’s horse tried to fight for him, but somehow in the scuffle Chases managed to mount the horse, which calmed him down. They proceeded on to Whiterun at a brisk pace. Chases willingly gave up the alchemy ingredients along the road in exchange for not having to walk this way yet again.

Until a bounty hunter ran up and attacked. Chases dismounted and tried to fight back but the guy clobbered him a couple of times very, very hard. The horse was disappearing in the opposite direction. Chases ran him down, mounted up, and led the bounty hunter to his death at the nearby giant camp. Then he was pursued by a mammoth and a giant most of the way to Whiterun, where a guard ran up to him and demanded his surrender.

Chases willingly accepted the armed escort back to the Dragonsreach dungeon. Where he broke out through the sewers, collected his things, emerged in the Jorrvaskr living quarters, strolled nonchalantly out the door unchallenged by the Companions, and was arrested again on the steps this time with 100 more Septims tacked on to his bounty.

He served his time puzzling the whole while on how these events might have come to pass.

Upon release Chases bought three water destruction spells (mod) from Farengar. He had pretty much forgotten why he was returning to Whiterun. (To rat out Saadia.) Right now he’s splashing around in the Dragonsreach pools practicing his new spells.

[Acadian]

The madcap adventures of Chases the Fish are great fun to read because he does just about everything radically differently than Buffy (who's never seen the inside of a jail or had a bounty). I hope he's enjoying playing with his new water magic.

[mALX]

Lopov, that fun surprise rescue quest was a radiant quest from the game. I’m afraid I’m not knowledgeable enough to write quests (yet).

Some old and new business from newlyweds Valdi and Erik: The pair along with their fellow vampire hunters and the newly mortal Serana finished fixing up Castle Volkihar and established a Dawnguard presence there. Serana had been more grumpy than usual toward Valdi. The question of what to do about Valerica weighed on both of their minds. It was decided (not by Valdi, thank goodness they did not put her in charge) to allow Valerica to return to her study at the castle where she could watch the portal to the Soul Cairn and in turn be watched by the Dawnguard.

So Valdi and Serana returned to the Soul Cairn where they caused a bit of trouble before giving Valerica the good news. Valdi thinks this was possibly a big mistake.

Serana decided not to move home, at least for now. The three (Valdi, Erik, Serana) rode back to Riften to check in with the boss before heading to Windhelm and then on to Solstheim. The trip was to report that Darnand had been rescued unharmed from the vampires, but also Valdi wanted to test out a theory on the way before she had to make another decision. She does not complain and neither does Erik, but they heard a lot of Let’s get inside, no I’m sick of caves, now the weather is bad, now it’s too sunny, let’s get inside, not here I’m sick of caves all the damn time. To Valdi’s dismay she discovered her hunch was true. In Serana’s new life she had become an even bigger nag.

Valdi knows what it feels like to be pushed aside. Though she and her sweet warrior honey are discreet (ha ha, or so they think), Serana must often feel that three is a crowd. Perhaps her unbearable complaining is Valdi and Erik’s fault. So they parted company for a time, with Serana returning to Fort Dawnguard and Valdi and Erik riding on toward Windhelm in the rain.

A dragon attacked as they passed through Shor’s Stone. What a rush. Valdi is not going to go dragon hunting, but her marksmanship has really come a long way and she was fearless. It’s their custom to walk down the hills to the edge of the tundra since that area is prone to ambush by predators. Valdi led the way as usual. Most of the time Erik’s crossbow stayed on his back.

OMG; these screens of Serana's britchiness are hysterical !!! You had me rolling with these !!!! SPEW !!!!!







This post has been edited by mALX: Jun 25 2015, 10:30 PM

[Renee]

Your stories are making me laugh tonight, Gritsy! ... and those Serana faces are priceless.

[ghastley]

I've been playing Prizna, my female Dremora character from Oblivion, by making the Dremora race playable in Skyrim. I had to fix a few things in the CK (like making the horns playable, and increasing her carry weight to match other races), and I added some glowing red eyes to match the Oblivion norm. RaceMenu helped change her skin tone and facial shape to look different from a Dunmer. The vanilla race is basically a clone with a face tattoo.

She can't wear man/mer clothing or armour, but Prizna didn't before. I did have to give her something to count as body wear to eliminate the comments, so the carpet matches the drapes. Her armour is all Alteration magic for now, but she will be able to don Daedric armour once she can Smith that. None is lootable until way too far into the game, so so she's Smithing up Lydia's gear to raise her skill level as fast as possible. She's grinding out jewelry and Dwarven bows, too. It's also helping to provide her backup weapon (two-handed axe) enough clout to keep up with her main offensive skill, which is Shock spells (Destruction). Without any Fortify Destruction enchantments on her non-existent outfit, she needs a Plan B for when she runs out of Magicka.

She's done the College of Winterhold quests, and now has the Archmage's Amulet. I had to fix that to let a Dremora wear it. It provides enough magicka regeneration to make her using the axe quite rare now. Two-handed skill is falling behind.

She doesn't have the DLC's in her game, and she's not going to High Hrothgar. How can she be Dragonborn, when she wasn't even born? Though that dragon soul thing does happen ... We couldn't avoid some MQ overlap with the quests she is doing, and she does encounter dragons at their walls.

[Acadian]

Prizna wearing nothing but a little piece of . . . carpet.

[mALX]

Prizna wearing nothing but a little piece of . . . carpet.

But does the carpet match the drapes? BWAAHAA!!! ... Oh wait, Ghastley already confirmed that they did ... OOPS !!!








This post has been edited by mALX: Jul 13 2015, 07:06 PM

[ghastley]

Prizna wearing nothing but a little piece of . . . carpet.

To be fair to her, she is wearing the Archmage's Amulet, and possibly a ring.

[mALX]

Prizna wearing nothing but a little piece of . . . carpet.

To be fair to her, she is wearing the Archmage's Amulet, and possibly a ring.

Is that Lydia looking jealous in the background?

[SubRosa]

Looks to me like Lydia is checking out Prizzie's assets...

[ghastley]

Has anyone been doing significant fishing in Skyrim?

During my testing of Ilinalta Den (the Argonian Hearthfires home) I've noticed that the fish and dragonflies seem to spawn very rapidly near the entrance. The pair of Slaughterfish that guard it don't come back unless you've been away for a long time, but the regular fish must be on a daily respawn or something. I'm wondering if they do that everywhere. I didn't notice if the ones near Greenspring Stronghold did that, but they were swimming around the door there.

[Grits]

Dar-Ma has shown me Bleak Falls Barrow in a way I haven’t quite seen before.

First she sneaked in to check out the situation and listened to the bandits talking about Arvel, so she knew that a dark elf had the claw. She kept walking up to the bandits to reason with them even after the first ones were not nice people. Dar-Ma will never let herself be taken captive again after her Hackdirt experience, so when she’s attacked, it’s on.

She thought Arvel might have stashed the claw somewhere, so she peeked into all of the containers as she went along but didn’t take anything. Then she courageously defended Arvel from the spider even though she was reasonably certain he was the claw thief. And then she chased after him through the barrow to tell him it was dangerous to run in there! Even when he woke up the draugr she tried to defend him from them.

Putting draugr down was not an issue for her. She believes that dead things should stay dead. (Of course she hasn’t met Persephone. ) Also their dead-dust when she shoots them is gross. Dar-Ma is going to be bathing a lot.

Not wielding a weapon in melee makes her quick. Dar-Ma kept her cool in the main burial chamber and managed to dodge all of the draugr’s Shouts. She did peek into the boss chest, but she didn’t take anything. After all, that stuff belongs to someone else.

It was very dark when she left the barrow. She spent the night with Lucan and Camilla and swam down some of the falls toward Whiterun in the morning, but she chickened out at the big one. I have no idea what she’s going to do for money. Bounty quests are not her thing. She may spend a lot of time chopping wood!

[SubRosa]

Oooh, Dar-Ma has pretty red eyeshadow eyescales.

Awww that is Dar-Ma, chasing Arvel to tell him it is dangerous to run with scissors!

Given how nice she is, I don't think Dar-Ma has anything to worry about from Persephone. It's people with big mouths like Maul who end up headless within seconds of meeting the Living Dead Girl.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 26 2015, 03:19 AM

[Grits]

Darnand and Jerric have just left Winterhold. They have business in Riften with Brand-Shei and with Vex. I know Vex, but Jerric does not. I wonder if the Riften Guard will get involved if you kill someone in the Ragged Flagon.

After Riften they plan to return the Lexicon to Avanchnzel. That’s why Darnand is along on this trip. He can’t resist a Dwemer mystery.


I’m still pondering what I can do for Dar-Ma. Maybe some kind of made-up trade or delivery quest. I probably shouldn’t worry about it. There are a lot of help quests in Skyrim, and she will want to do every one.

[SubRosa]

The Riften Guard did get involved when Persephone killed Maul and half the Thieves Guild in the middle of Riften. But she only received a 40 gold fine. So even the guard does step in, it might not cost much...

Dar-Ma's ma is a trader back in Cyrodiil, so it would make sense to me that she might be a chip off the old block scale off her mother's tail. Maybe she could go into the traveling merchant business, buying and selling, or turning ore into jewelry for sale. Trade Routes looks like an interesting mod that says you can buy low in one place and sell high in others. It might be perfect.

[Renee]

That’s why Darnand is along on this trip. He can’t resist a Dwemer mystery.

Oh yes, isn't he an "expert" on subterrenean dwellings? Something like that.

[Grits]

SubRosa, thank you for that mod link! It does look perfect for her. I’d like to keep her as a trader like you suggested since it fits well with her Oblivion story, and that’s a way to make it work even at low levels. Plus it would get her traveling where she will meet other Argonians.

Renee, that’s right, Darnand is an ‘expert’ in a lot of things. Mostly he knows just enough to get him in trouble. Someday he will realize he has to focus his study if he wants to master anything!

Dar-Ma has some more business to take care of getting her world set up (Jerric’s crew installed in Breezehome, picking Blossom up in Markarth), and then she has a bunch of Whiterun’s citizens awaiting her help. She wasted no time introducing herself to the locals. She looks cute in her outfit (Ciri’s getup from The Witcher 3 plus hide boots and bracers). Her water spells are pretty neat. It’s not a surprise, Dar-Ma is a pure delight to spend time with.

[mALX]

SubRosa, thank you for that mod link! It does look perfect for her. I’d like to keep her as a trader like you suggested since it fits well with her Oblivion story, and that’s a way to make it work even at low levels. Plus it would get her traveling where she will meet other Argonians.

Renee, that’s right, Darnand is an ‘expert’ in a lot of things. Mostly he knows just enough to get him in trouble. Someday he will realize he has to focus his study if he wants to master anything!

Dar-Ma has some more business to take care of getting her world set up (Jerric’s crew installed in Breezehome, picking Blossom up in Markarth), and then she has a bunch of Whiterun’s citizens awaiting her help. She wasted no time introducing herself to the locals. She looks cute in her outfit (Ciri’s getup from The Witcher 3 plus hide boots and bracers). Her water spells are pretty neat. It’s not a surprise, Dar-Ma is a pure delight to spend time with.

Dar-Ma was always one of my all time favorite Oblivion characters, and boy does she look cute in these pics! And getting Blossom too, this is Awesome!

You should make a mod of this, everyone would love to see Dar-Ma in Skyrim !!!! And you have made her so cute!!!








This post has been edited by mALX: Aug 29 2015, 11:09 PM