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[SubRosa]

Grits: Darryl definitely does not fit in on the homestead! At least none of the kids never brought home a draugr for a pet.

It was fun doing the DG questline with an undead character, but not a vampire. It is too bad there are no other options to play a living dead character in the vanilla game. It would be neat to have a The Crow 'race' for a PC. But then, that is basically what I created with my Deadwalker Race.

Even after all the names I have used, I still have some left up my sleeve to pull out. Abnoba, Flora, Terra, Antheia, Aranyani, and Feronia were close competitors.

Persephone did no shooting at all until acquiring Auriel's Bow. I suppose that is what got me thinking of an archer again. It is different playing a character who has to dodge attacks (Persephone just put up her ward and shrugged every ranged attack off), not to mention one who eats and sleeps!


Acadian: Buffy was actually one of my inspirations for playing an archer this time around. Her other MOS is Illusion, mostly muffle, frenzy when she is sneaking at a distance, and fear when a baddie gets too close. But Illusion seems a lot less powerful in Skyrim. A lot of creatures are immune to it. Undead dungeons can be really difficult for Arduina.

What is he doing in there?

Slugging it out with a necro

The Sword of Damocles

Ducks and Nirnroots

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 15 2014, 12:11 AM

[Acadian]

I’m so pleased that Buffy (and Persephone) helped provide a touch of inspiration for Arduina. Like Grits, I looked up her name and, as ever, you sure can pick ‘em! It's fun to know that Buffy has helped inspire several characters. Just as Buffy has most certainly been influenced in her evolution by Lil, Teresa and several other wonderful archers.

I agree that the illusion mind control spells are harder to work with. I’d happily trade fury, fear and calm for simply the command effect from OB. As far as undead, atronach, automatons etc, the high level illusion perks render those vulnerable. Another thing I found is that dual casting illusion’s mind control spells increases the level of foe they will work on – slightly more than doubling the effective level.

Buffy’s real vulnerability is melee – and she relies on detect life/undead/aura whisper to avoid it and a bow bash/summons to deal if forced into it. And she has to keep shooting to make what hurts her die and stop hurting her.

By focusing on magic resistance (Breton father, Lord stone, alteration perks) and having big bow damage, she can stand off and trade arrows for spells with a mage (or dragon) and come out on the winning side of the exchange. I love when a mage puts up a ward spell; it means their offense is down to one hand and, to an archer, the ward itself mostly serves to nicely illuminate the target.

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That Imperial stuck in the ground reminds me of the funny places the Legion in Cyrodiil could sometimes find themselves. Oh, I love Arduina's ponytail!

Slugging it out with a necro. I see Arduina seems to be using an alteration shield spell (or is that maybe just the muffle glow)? I’ve found those necros like to reanimate things. Since Buffy’s big on conjuration, she’ll sometimes try to ‘use up’ the dead bodies and deny them as assets for the necros.

Sword of Damocles. So pretty, yet so useless to an archer. I’ve found several weapons ‘hanging’ around like that. Is it just me or does it seem to happen if you come back to an area where the game has cleared out the bodies but not quite finished clearing out the weapons yet?

NirnDucks. Aww, what a nice touch to see ducks. Given how fast most of the rivers move, I chuckle to think of ducks getting zipped along in the white water over the falls. That duck sure looks at home in a quiet pond though.

[haute ecole rider]

Like Acadian, I too noticed the little duck. I had just found the cool mod on Skyrim Nexus that adds ducks and swans to the game. They look absolutely stunning, but I wonder if they do more than float?

In case there are those who haven't yet guessed, I loaded up Skyrim on my laptop May 12th and have been playing it pretty intensively since then. It's all vanilla, with a character I played in Oblivion on the XBox. Here is where she really shines. Where Julian of Anvil owns Oblivion, Alise Sudmeri owns Skyrim. So I'm looking at mods, but haven't yet gotten around to loading any yet. All I've done so far was load up the patches for Skyrim and the DLC's.

So I haven't been visiting this too much lately because I want to discover places in-game, not here on chorrol.com! Though I enjoy SubRosa's toons immensely - they always have such great stories.

[King Coin]

Sun rises is a pretty good screen. Something about the sun and the moon, the ice, and her eyes.

Arduina is pretty! Though when I saw her name I thought of a computer…
I like archery, though I’ve never tried it without help of swords.

Wow, Tullius lose a bet?

Lol Damocles. There will be times on the road on the site of an old bandit attack that I’ll see a sword and shield just floating around.

A mallard! Is this part of birds of Skyrim now?

[SubRosa]

Acadian: General Tullius in the ground is a funky side effect of my home made alternate start mod. He was at the same location where he starts the game intro, and he kept trying to mount his horse, which of course was not there, and then after every attempt he fell halfway into the ground. It is the first time I have ever seen him there, even though several other characters have gone back that way. So I fired up my Helgen Starts With Bandits mod and removed him and all the other starting character references, like Hadvar, Ralof, the wagons, etc...

I was using a mod called Possessive Corpses that helps keep the clutter down from things getting killed. It stops people from dropping things when they die. So that way when the game cleans up the corpse on the next cell reset, you don't get their sword still laying there on the ground afterward. It does a lot of other stuff I don't like though. One is that it stops raised zombies from turning into ash piles when you kill them. So it leaves an endless amount of corpses for necromancers to continually reanimate. I killed most of the people in that pic three or four times apiece. After that I modded the mod, and took out all the scripts dealing with ash piles, and cutting down on the number of arrows in a cell (that was driving me crazy too. As an archer I like to recover my arrows. But it was preventing more than 5 arrows from existing loose in a cell).

I got that sword of Damocles after saving, exiting, and then reloading. It was hanging there in mid-air afterward, and impossible to pick up or interact with. I get that a lot in Oblivion and Skyrim in the cases you cited. Leaving a cell and coming back later. Sometimes things get turned into statics for some reason.


haute ecole rider: Welcome to my fashion thread! You found the same ducks. They just float around. You can kill them for duck meat, the same as you can the dragonflies and fish. But I wouldn't want to do that. I am not sure if I am going to keep them or not though. They are pretty, but they don't have any animations at all. So after a while they start to look like a hunter's fake duck decoys, rather than the real thing.

Glad to hear you are having fun in Sky with Alise Sudmeri. Any chance of seeing her sometime soon?


King Coin: That sunrise pic of Persephone was wonderfully symbolic. After completing the DG questline, and becoming Skyrim's champion vampire slayer, Persephone has stopped pretending to be 'normal'. Before she always wore the cloak and hood whenever she was around the living, or a full-faced helm. Now she doesn't try to hide what she is. Undead and proud!

The duck is part of a new mod up on the Nexus, that adds ducks and swans. It should still be on the front page, as it is really popular. Oops, it is not anymore. You can get it here.


This pic has me giving a lot of thought to playing a Forsworn character

"Move along, there are no Forsworn here!" - says the guards

Arduina + Melka = Lots of shiny new eyeballs!

Now where did those cats get to?

Skyrim's version of the stairmaster

Arduina likes the elven armor

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 17 2014, 01:35 AM

[haute ecole rider]

I had to laugh out loud at Arduina on the waterwheel. My thought was actually something along the lines of a hamster wheel, but yeah, the exercise benefits are the same!

I have not yet found Melka, though I took Argis the Bulwark and we went through quite a few dungeons in the Reach. I think Alise feels the same way about Dwarven ruins that Julian does about Ayleid ruins - they're too spooky! But we really hated how the Forsworn are more rabid than the bandits wolves bears necros . . . uhh, you get the picture! Otherwise I found the background on the whole Forsworn thing to be quite interesting.

[Acadian]

The Forsworn armor (less the headpiece) does look nice and primitive. Too bad the Forsworn are so mean – makes it hard even for a half-Breton elf to feel too sorry for them.

Oh, that’s funny – ‘No Forsworn here.’

Arduina + Melka = Beauty and the beast.

Where’s those Khajiit traders when you need them. I simply love having them in the game.

I really had a laugh seeing Arduina on the hamster wheel!

I think SkyArmor in general is very nicely done – including elven.

[SubRosa]

haute ecole rider: What is funny is that if you set your speed to walk you can move along the top of the waterwheel at almost perfect speed.

My Nord Hrafngoelir hated the Dwarven ruins. They did not exactly creep her out, so much as made her feel that the Dwemer were profane blasphemers, who turned their backs upon the gods, and tried to make themselves into gods instead. She was quite pleased that their pride came before their fall.

In the previous games they mention the Witchmen of the Western Reach, but didn't go into much detail. Except that all the other races hated them with a passion. From what I gather, their 'Old Gods' are Daedra Lords, though I am not sure exactly which ones. They also worship Hagravens, who are their equivalent to a clergy. The Forsworn seem to have a hatred for nature and animals, given that their idea of decorations is mutilated animal corpses, and the bodies of spriggans. The Hagravens and Spriggans are deadly enemies, and you can get random encounters of them slugging it out with one another. That love to slaughter animals makes me think Hircine is at least one of the gods. Mehrunes Dagon would seem to fit them well too. Being that Dagon is not only about destroying everything, but also overthrowing governments.


Acadian: The Forsworn are almost as bad as the Falmer. At least they are only in the Reach.

I have found the Khajiit traders standing there without their camp before. Now I found the camp without them! I do love how they move around too. It can make for a pleasant surprise to meet them on the road. Plus it gives you some more options to sell your loot. Especially when you are between cities.


Arduina in her Forsworn armor inspired me to roll a Forsworn toon - Morigu

Morigu calls on some otherworldly backup

Witchwoman of the Western Reach

Studying a Reachmen Map

Morigu has made friends with the Orcs

She's no friend of the Forsworn however, she's a forsworn Forsworn

Morigu tries a new facepaint

I bet this guy wishes he hadn't become a courier

Carnage

Morigu has entered Markarth disguised as a common mercenary. "There's no Forsworn here" - says the guard to her.

[Acadian]

It’s great fun to see what you’re going to roll next!

I heartily agree that while the ‘close to nature’ and wearing skimpy furs is appealing, the Forsworn's wasteful butchery of critters makes them easy to put on the ‘target’ list. I can see why Morigu turned against them. I must admit that the foes Buffy enjoys killing the most are mammoth poachers – for the same reasons. As you know, Buffy and I ascribe to the way of the plains Indians; if you’re going to kill a buffalo, make sure to honor the animal by using every part of it to sustain your tribe.

Morigu’s story does sound compelling though and I do like the whole Reach area. I’m glad to see her comfortable in the orc strongholds – I really like orcs. I also see you’re having great fun with her trappings and make up! Oooh, and even some secret spy stuff inside Markarth.

[King Coin]

LOL! No foresworn indeed.

The Khajiit forgot their camp! D:

How did you get on the waterwheel? And did you actually have to walk?

I like Arduina in elven armor.

Morigu is cool looking. I assume a Breton. Anything else wouldn’t be a forsworn!

I love finding scrolls of summon atronachs. Lets someone like Aravi play with the cool spells once in a while.

She’s changing her face paint a lot. Kind of a neat thing to try messing with. I always found opening the race menu wiped out all of Aravi’s colors and I would have to redo it all.

[Grits]

“There are no Forsworn here,” lol. Arduina looks great in that armor! Most characters just look silly.

Yikes, Melka. I find her to be so interesting.

I love how the Elven armor looks on Arduina. It’s gorgeous and I’ve had very few characters wear it. Arduina has a versatile look.

Morigu! Wow, she’s hot. It took a little digging to find her name. Another inspiring choice!

A forsworn Forsworn is such a great concept. She can embrace her daedric heritage and the game’s distinctive Forsworn fighting style without the spriggan slaughtering and goat decapitations. Awesome.

Is that Druadach Redoubt? That’s the only spot I’ve been able to use for Forsworn business due to vanilla limitations. Morigu’s flame atronach makes me think she might have cleared it of Forsworn rather than moving in with the locals.

Great idea to befriend the orcs. Morigu would have few allies in the Reach without them. Ainethach is another great choice since he gripes (legitimately) about Nords and the Forsworn.

I like her new facepaint. It is very grim.

What a pile of bodies!

Ah, so that’s what Morigu’s hair looks like. Nice. Those Markarth guards, lol.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Tbh, The Reach is one of my least favorite areas in the game. It is all so bleak and brooding, even the trees look stunted and twisted. I prefer the bright snow and ice of the northern part, and the warm lakes in the south.

One of the main reasons I made Morigu a forsworn Forsworn is that if I put her in the Forsworn faction, there would be no one for her to fight in the Reach! Seriously, I think 70% of all the baddies there are Forsworn. It's hard to find even an honest bandit.


King Coin: You can get on the waterwheel by jumping down from above. If you leave Understone Keep, go out to the walkway and turn right. That will take to the waterfall directly overhead of the smithy. Just take a running jump from there, and you will and on the smithy roof. The wheel does turn, so you have walk forward to offset it. Walking speed is almost exactly perfect to keep up.

Morigu is a Breton. Like you said, what else could a Forsworn be? Though there is one Forsworn Orc in Cidhna Mine.

It is funny you mentioned scrolls, because Morigu got that Storm Astronaut from a scroll she found in her first dungeon. It is a good thing too, because I don't think she could have killed the Hagraven without it.

I usually don't change my character's appearance much after get it down to how I want it. Like you said, when you do the Showracemenu command it wipes out all your color choices. But Morigu's are simple. I just have to reset the eye shadow, liner, and tint to the far right (darkest), and her lips to the far right. So I can put her back to normal pretty quickly.


Grits: I have noticed over the years that most of my characters just look ridiculous in the Forsworn 'Armor' as well. Like Persehpone, or D'Eon did. I was surprised at how well Arduina looked in it. That is one of the things that prompted me to try Morigu.

I have always loved the elven armor in Skyrim. They really got that one right. Best thing, no bird feet like in Oblivion! It is funny because lately my characters are going to a lot of vanilla armors and weapons. Persephone went with a plain steel sword. Arduina moved from Furs and Hide, to Scaled, to Elven, and only wore the Triss outfit a few times in town. Morigu is pure vanilla, with Forsworn gear, and now a Daedric-looking sword.

I think that map was in Druadach Redoubt. That was one of the early places Morigu cleared out. It was part of a quest I think, for the Foregemaster's Fingers IIRC. Morigu definitely did not move in and play nice with the locals! She has trouble doing that with the other children.

Her new facepaint is actually a Redguard war paint (I think). You can see a few days ago I post I made about how to enable war paints. I originally wanted to give her a Forsworn facepaint. Once I figured it out, I added them from all the races. When I was looking through them, I wasn't that thrilled with the Forsworn ones, but loved the Redguard ones.

Morigu is using one of the Ponytail Hairstyles. Ever since installing that mod I have not been able resist using the new hairs from it. Maybe Persephone will even be sporting a pony the next time I play her!

Speaking of those Markarth Guards, Morigu smites a few at the end of Cidhna Mine, along with the Forsworn

Morigu has recovered Red Eagle's Vengeance

In the dark

Slaying the Companions

Thonar Silverblood faces some Reach justice

Morigu meets her first rockstar

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 22 2014, 02:40 AM

[Acadian]

I really like the forest green surcoat of the Markarth guards. Morigu’s delivering some forswearing to that guy!

You did a really nice job with Read Eagle’s Vengeance. I haven’t done that quest, nor the Cidna Mine stuff.

Wow, that ‘in the dark’ shot of Morigu is scary! Her face paint is so appropriate.

Is she killing the Companions? Oh, another one of those wonderful bright Viking shields.

What a great action shot killing that SilverDude. The magical swirlies around Morigu are cool.

I’ll bet the sight of Morigu standing there in her furkini gave the bard plenty to sing about!

[King Coin]

Smite: That is a great capture. Her pose is perfect. Either she’s about to run him through, or she’s pushing him off her sword with her shield.

Aravi has never had a daedric sword before… maybe she will when I download your mod!

Looks like the companions picked a fight with the wrong person.

I remember Aravi killed Thonar as well. That was the first time she killed a ‘non-combatant’ on purpose.

Aravi’s been running into that ‘rockstar’ a lot in her game.

[Grits]

Smites is awesome! It makes me think of the guard’s body bouncing down some steps. What a great shot!

Morigu looks quite fearsome with Red Eagle’s Vengeance in her hand. I love your version of that blade.

OK, she looks quite fearsome all of the time especially in the dark. That looks like the Abandoned House in Markarth. Many happy/creepy hours with Njall there.

Slaying the Companions!! I’ve heard that sometimes people get in trouble with them because they’re in the Whiterun Guard faction. But I guess they probably did something to get in trouble with Morigu!

How satisfying to stick Vengeance into Thonar’s chest. The red effect looks awesome.

Rock star, nice. I hope Talsgar didn’t piss of Morigu!

By the way, you’re making me roll a Forsworn toon to pillage the Reach with. Just so you know.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I think my favorite guard uniforms are the Solitude red and Falkreath blue with the deer's head insignia. I really like the bronze scales on the Riften guards, but the purple just doesn't do it for me.

It took a long time for me to get to the Cihdna Mine quest. It really is not a good one to do with an archer, unless you have the Bound Bow spell (which thankfully SkyBuff has). Markarth is my least favorite city in the game, because of the ugly doings that are unearthed by doing that quest.

That in the dark pic was just begging to be taken, given the lighting in that place, and her face paint. It really brings out her inner killer.


King Coin: I was hoping to get a good pic of Morigu killing Madanach, but none of them came out good. I think that might be his corpse in the background of Smiting though. That pic did come out just right.

This is the first time I have ever had a character who used a Daedric sword too! The Daedric stuff doesn't fit the themes of most of my characters. My archer assassin Ereshkigal was the only one character who used one, a bow in her case. It fit her red and black colors perfectly.

Thonar really has it coming. Most of my other characters who have done Cihdna Mine were just too 'good' to assassinate someone. But Morigu is not hampered by a conscience. Or at least she has not noticed it yet.

I see Talsgar a lot in my games. He is one of my favorite NPCs. Most of my characters stop him and pay for a song. I just wish there were more to choose from for him to sing. I keep looking for mods to add more, but no one has ever made any.


Grits: I had almost a dozen pics of that battle at the end of the mine. Smites is the only one that turned out decent. That is how it typically goes. For every pic I post, there are about ten or so I delete.

Thanks for another vote for the Daedric version of Red Eagle's sword. When I made the mod, I was not sure what kind of sword I was going to use. I just wanted something that was not Nordic. When I looked through the vanilla swords and saw the Daedric, it was like Darth Vader seeing the power generators at the beginning of Empire Strikes Back. "That's it!"

That is the Abandoned House in Markarth indeed! Morigu is the only character of mine to ever complete that quest. Not that she has any use for a mace.

I am not sure what happened with Morigu and the Companions. When she first saw them, they were beating up on a grizzly, and some of them were taking a knee. She got her bow out and was going to kill them, as that is often her first reaction upon seeing anyone when out in the wilderness, with no prying eyes around to tattle to the guards. But she decided they were not worth the arrows, and put her bow away. Then they finished the bear, and immediately came after her. At that point, it was on.

If Talsgar had not been a rock star, Morigu would have killed him. Him being a Nord and all. But hey, he's a singer, and she is a girl after all. Even a stone cold killer can get stars in her eyes...

The more Forsworn the better! There are some mods out there with Forsworn questlines, that let you really be a member of the Forsworn Faction and sack Markarth. But that just never appealed to me. As much as I dislike Markarth, the Forsworn camps are even more disgusting. Besides, if you are on the Forsworn side, who is there to fight in the Reach?

"The hills are alive with the sound of music!"

This is what happens when they broadcast Nascar in Skyrim

Morigu is not worthy!?!

We'll see if Mehrunes Dagon thinks she is worthy

Silas has out-lived his usefulness

Morigu proves her worthiness

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jun 27 2014, 02:35 AM

[King Coin]

Aravi isn’t the assassin type either, but by the nine she was mad at him. I agree with you on needing more music too!

Great caption for the first one.

I really want to get Aravi through that door. The only way is to talk to that kid though. Not really something she’s going to do.

Oh I haven’t found all the pieces of the dagger yet either. I have a feeling someone’s blood will be spilled soon. Not hers.

Wow is that a dremora? And she popped the top off like a cork!

[Acadian]

Love the shot of Julie Andrews singing! Morigu doesn’t look too impressed though.

Nascar – those guys just all need a beer in their hand.

Not worthy?!? I bet Morigu could teach those wannabeassassins a thing or two!

Here, let me try out this nifty new dagger on your neck. . .

. . . and it works on Dremora as well!


You have a pretty good knack of making darker type characters (Persephone and Morigu for example) still seem rather lovable – in their own way of course.

[Grits]

Morigu does not look thrilled with Carlotta, lol. I guess not every singer is a rock star.

Nascar, omg I spit tea.

Morigu looks like that door was made for her! Does it say you’re not worthy if you don’t know the password?

Yikes, I could almost feel sorry for that idiot Silus, but not quite.

Whoa, heads were rolling at the Dagon shrine! The sky made a beautiful backdrop for all of the red-themed violence. I like how the Forsworn leggings look with fur armor.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: There might be some mods out there to skip killing Grelod to kick off the DB questline. Or you might just use the console to automagically skip through the questline up to the point where you can go in and clean 'em out. I did that with the Dragonborn DLC, to get that Miraak business out of the way and make the beds in Solstheim sleepable again.

That last decapitated guy was a Dremora indeed. They look really good in Skyrim. Or at least their armor does. I never did get a good look at their actual faces!


Acadian: I guess Morigu is not into musicals. She is lovable in her own way? I will have to work on that! Seriously though, without a little humor I do not think I would much like playing a really nasty character. Persephone at least is not bad. She's just drawn that way. Morigu is bad!.


Grits: It does say "You... Are Not... Worthy!" if you do not know the password (i.e. have not done the DB questline up to that point). It makes me think of Spike "Someone Wasn't Worthy..."

I can never feel sorry for Silus. Like you said, he is such a moron. Of course Dagon is going to kill you, you idiot. Except for a few like Azura, that is what all the Daedra Lords do in the end.


Red Dance

Here is something I do not think I have ever seen before

Putting Mehrunes Razor to work