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[Lopov]

Joan of Arkay spends this entire day in Skingrad's Chapel. Tomorrow she will do some buying and selling (because we can't do these things on Sundas, right?) and then head toward the Kvatch area. She will turn her hooved beast in a northerly direction then and try to find Camp Ales, a place north of Kvatch. There, she is supposed to retrieve some Dwemer artifacts from some bandits who somehow stole these items from the Arcane University.

Joan is doing the Orrery quest - nice! I did it in Raven's playthrough, though he rarely used "quest rewards", it was nice having a functional orrery in the Arcane University.

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Master Sinderion now has a new apprentice - Jes. The young Breton agreed to bring nirnroot samples to the elder alchemist so he'll be able to brew elixirs of exploration. Jes doesn't particularly care about the elixirs but he likes to collect nirnroots. "Search by the water," was the only but also the best advice from Sinderion about where to seek nirnroots.

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I use a mod that makes nirnroots grow back in time because I don't want them to disappear permanently when picked up.

[Renee]

I approve of that mod. It would suck if Nirnroots never grew back, and their song is therefor absent because Jes has picked them all.

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Mornings Star 8, 3rd Era 435, mid-day

Joan of Arkay discovers Shetcombe Farm as she was headed toward Camp Ales. She searches around the place, looking to see if anybody's home, so she can buy some food, perhaps. But nobody is there. Because of her Lawful Good nature, she won't just loot the place. So there's no real reason for her to stay there.

As she gets back on her horse though, the wind picks up, and a huge rainstorm ensues. There is no further point looking for Ales, then, with visibility cut way down.

Maybe it's better to stay at the mysterious Shetcombe Farm after all.

[mirocu]

Aah, the infamous Shetcombe Farm. Why infamous? It's because it was at that place the ugly Abomb showed its face for the first time, ruining my gaming experience since I didn't know what the frack was happening.


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Guard shift is over and Lothran is now resting at Jerall View. I think next adventure will be to travel to Azura's shrine.


Edit: But it wasn't! Instead he took to the west and visited Mr Mora's shrine. Very boring trip, btw. Only one ogre bothered to show up and then it was just bears.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 8 2018, 10:06 PM

[mirocu]

Now however is Lothran at the shrine to Azura. No Buffy, sadly, but a night in the tent makes wonders to an elf and as morning raises over Cyrodiil, he will soon make his way back home to Bruma. Previous evening was spent inside Silver Tooth with the usual shenanigans

[Acadian]

The Shrine of Azura is a beautiful spot to camp!

[Renee]

Sundas, 4:35 pm, Morning Star 13, 3rd Era 435

Days Passed: 140
Level: 7

Since this is Sundas, and she's in Skingrad (which has its own chapel) this means Joan of Arkay does absolutely nothing, other than visit the chapel, and space out while entertaining visions of .... whatever visions she garners from the Gods. All of this in real-time, too. No wait button.

Her goal lately is to find a place called Camp Ales, but she keeps getting distracted. On Fredas for instance, she was on her way out to the West Weald but noticed a purple beacon of light shining down from the sky at one point. She knew what it was. Since Joanie will be my main character in Morrowind, she knows quite a lot about matters such as this.

And she just couldn't resist a plunder into Fort Istrius. Those necromancers fought for their right to practice their dark arts, but Joan prevailed over all. And now they have to answer to Arkay, in their fatalistic doom.

[Lopov]

Fort Istrius...the very same fort which played a very importnat role in Sarah Phimm's game. Looks like necromancers under leadership of Tayka Byte came after Joan cleared the fort.

[Decrepit]

My decrepit avatar and his ward are about to exit Bravil - where they only stopped long enough to deliver Merchants Guild package and grab a quick meal at Silverhome on the Water - and resume their patrol of the Green to Leyawiin. (For once Vil was neither hungry nor thirsty. My avatar gobbled a ham & cheddar sammich and muffin, washed down with Dragon Fire Lager.}

The ride between Weye and Bravil was fairly uneventful. They encountered one bandit at a bridge early on, then nothing aside from three bears.

They got off a bit late, due to my avatar's indecision over what to do with the day. He originally thought to inspect a cave on the Imperial Isle, cleansing it of miscreants if necessary. They ought to have done so. But stuck in a rut as it tends to be, it just didn't sit well with him. (I swear he sometimes seems as dedicated to routine as I am.) In the end cave disinfection went by the wayside and two rode instead so the Imperial City to gather the Leyawiin patrol and associated tasks.

As luck would have it, their upcoming tax gathering assignment is to Drunken Dragon Inn, perfect for this patrol.

Whether or not he cleanses Rockmilk this trip remains to be seen. I suspect he will. But I'm not the final say.

(I swear I observed them travel the Green from Bravil to fairly near Leyawiin. Then POOF, the world went dark. It must have been a dream.)

[mirocu]

Yay! An update from The Tireless Crusader™ and Gang®!


I wonder if Hamfat can resist a Rockmilk dive, considering they usually get pretty decent loot from there if memory serves me right

[Renee]

Okay, THAT's what been wrong lately. Phew. I knew something was a little off in Cyrodiil lately. It's because there's no Decrepit Avatar wandering around. Well, good thing he's back in action.

Renee Gade III did get up to Bruma lately, but it's a Bruma maybe 15 years in the future (compared to Lothran's Bruma) so she didn't see any platinum-haired elf pulling guard duty. RG3 did meet Dyan phor a'Cauz though. Dyan lives in the Bruma House For Sale, and has been living there for the past 20+ years, since she bought the place after Knights of the Nine was done. Since Dyan knew RG3's mother, she's been some help in guiding Renee to find her mother's grave.

But first, she must go to Underpall Cave, where yet another vampire menace has been afoot.

[mirocu]

Renee Gade III did get up to Bruma lately, but it's a Bruma maybe 15 years in the future (compared to Lothran's Bruma) so she didn't see any platinum-haired elf pulling guard duty.

It all exists simultaneously, yet in different times

[Renee]

Renee Gade III did get up to Bruma lately, but it's a Bruma maybe 15 years in the future (compared to Lothran's Bruma) so she didn't see any platinum-haired elf pulling guard duty.

It all exists simultaneously, yet in different times

No way! Kahreem saw Lothran a couple times (year 433-434) but we have yet to see your elf in 4th Era Year 21. Granted, he may simply be out goblin-hunting and we keep missing him ...

[mirocu]

Renee Gade III did get up to Bruma lately, but it's a Bruma maybe 15 years in the future (compared to Lothran's Bruma) so she didn't see any platinum-haired elf pulling guard duty.

It all exists simultaneously, yet in different times

No way! Kahreem saw Lothran a couple times (year 433-434) but we have yet to see your elf in 4th Era Year 21. Granted, he may simply be out goblin-hunting and we keep missing him ...

Just now he took a tour to the west, killing ogres until he reached Mr. Mora's shrine. He went past and continued up the stairs and killed off the Storm Atronach who was there, collecting void salts afterwards, and then he went back to Rielle where he's patiently awaiting my return. Better not be away for too long, I think he wants to go to the Tap and Tack


Playing like this is interesting. I have it constantly snowing to get that full winter feel and because of that, the rest of Cyrodiil can't be seen. It's like it doesn't even exist! This is what allows me to get that "new car smell game feel" again when Lothran leaves Bruma in spring

[mirocu]

Current project: Getting the Ruined Akaviri shield down to 100% instead of 125%

This task is a bit complicated. Since Lothran is a Master in Block, no damage is taken to the shield so he can't just walk up to any foe and let them hit him to bring it down. No, this requires a bit of strategy.

While fighting a bandit when out trekking, Lothran found a Daedric warhammer that does damage to Armor. This is great, but since he can't use it on himself he will have to find someone that can. So firstly he will have to find a bandit who can use weapons.
But in order to make them pick it up he will either have to wait until the bandit's weapon is down to zero, which will take quite awhile, or wait until the knockback effect happens that in turn could disarm them. Both these options take time and a bit of luck, and since we both are a bit impatient we will have to use an item that Lothran has back home to quicken things up; a staff that damages weapons. Now we only needed to find a bandit.

Capstone Cave has bandits, but since that place was recently cleared, a better option would be the camp to the east of Dragonclaw Rock. There was one bandit there. Lothran initiated the battle with the Damage Weapon staff and when the bandit's Elven mace was done with, Lothran dropped the warhammer and she picked it up and began whacking. After a short while it was apparent that the enchantment had worn off and so the one starting the fight, ended it.

And it worked fine; the shield was down to 107%. Not quite there, but a recharge and another "volunteer" and the quest is accomplished!

[Acadian]

Thing is, I know exactly what Lothie was doing.

One mission Buffy assigned herself was to take Umbra's sword from Umbra without killing her so Lenwin would be free of Umbra's curse. To shorten a long story, this involved damaging Umbra down to zero (by spells, not letting her hit Buffy!) so Umbra would stick it in her pack (she won't drop it) and start fisticuffs. Then run away and pickpocket the sword from her pack (can't pickpocket it if Umbra still has it equipped). So Buffy can sort of identify with this mission that Lothie did.

[mirocu]

Yeah, it seems Buffy did what Lothran is doing. Except the getting hit part

[Renee]

Cripes, look at all that text! Oh man, I gotta sit down for this. Brew some tea.



Who are you and what have you done to mirocu?

[mirocu]

Cripes, look at all that text! Oh man, I gotta sit down for this. Brew some tea.



Who are you and what have you done to mirocu?

[mirocu]

Project Akaviri shield 125% to 100% update


The second part of this needed a bit more work. Lothran checked out Capstone Cave after a good night's sleep and sure, there were a few of them inside again. First bandit got lured out with a blast from the Staff of Ruin but once outside, even with both his dagger and bow completely destroyed, he wouldn't pick up the Daedric weapon with the Disintegrate Armor enchantment. He just wouldn't and instead opted for his fists. And by now the Staff of Ruin was depleted so Lothran had to go back to Bruma to recharge it before having another go.

Second attempt involved the Dunmer doing his usual routine; running through the cave with full light on, attract all the bandits and summon his Spriggan. After running up to where he had his back to a wall, one of the bandits attacked him so Lothran focused on him. And this attempt was successful. The bandit got his weapon ruined whereupon he picked up the warhammer Lothran had dropped. And when the fight was all over, the Akaviri shield was down to 71% - yay!

So upon coming back to Bruma, all that was needed was having it repaired up to 100% by the Fighters Guild porter and the quest was done!



-Sorry, Renee. I hope your tea didn't get cold.....

[Renee]

No, don't apologize, I think it's great! My brain is smoking though,. Still not sure if that's mirocu on the other end.

Well I spent yesterday dealing with a crisis, which I'll describe over in TK's Modding thread (wherever he is). I'd describe it here, but I'm not sure if the guy who's been writing Lothran updates lately is cool with going off-topic in the Today thread. [AHEM]. It took me frickin' 6 hours to fix my game yesterday though. Actually more than that.

Once it was fixed, Renee's game was back in action. She was in Chorrol, where she did a quest to take care of the bandits located in Crumbling Mine. This is a quest I wrote, and it revolves, so that every 3 days, there's a potential Talasma will tell her the bandits have returned, and something must be done! But the cool thing about this quest it it's not given every 3 days just like that. The dialog which leads to the quest shows up randomly. It's like... .my new thing with quest-writing. This dialog leads to a visit up to the castle, where an agent eventually pays RG3's party 300 gold once the job is done.

Dang. Off-topic. Oh well. Once the bandits of Crumbling Mine were taken care of, and some loot sold, *Wow* ... RG3 now had close to 3,000 gold on her person. Which is rare. Time to head to the Imperial City, where she'll try not to blow it all at Goddess Store, and other such ventures.

This post has been edited by Renee: Feb 11 2018, 01:57 PM