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[King Coin]

Eris is better looking than Riddick.

Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve visited. Things have been… weird lately.

Tuonetar looks nice. I have no idea what any of those DnD numbers mean though!

I love her Skyrim look. I vote the steel armor with some cool script around the edges.
If Tuonetar is a necromancer, you might like this mod: Corpse Preparation


I am a fan of the black hair too.

She summons a weapon, and a minion to hold it for her.

The Triss outfit looks too ‘good’ for herin my opinion. I like my necromancers in something that screams “I’m Evil!”

That greeting looks kind of like… “Hello morsel…”

I read somewhere that skeletons and draugr can only equip iron shields. Unfortunate. I bet with a lot of work you could get them to equip others, but I don’t think it would be worth the amount of work.

[Acadian]

I'm so glad you're enjoying the BG saga in all its EE glory! I did play through Icewind Dale once; it was okay. I never (dunno why) touched NWN. It is probably just me, but some of the Skyrim dungeons remind me of BG in their rich, loving detail and even sometimes the isolated creepy strands of music that you hear.

Anyway, glad to see Purse Phone taking a break to knock some little white skulls around the graveyard! I presume Darryl was her caddy?

Speaking of Darryl, every time Buffy gets a kill cam on a draugr and sees the blue color streaming out of their eyes as they are propelled back by the power of her bow, I remember how cool I thought that was when I very first saw it in in your vids/screens.

[Grits]

Grits: I do plan on releasing the Skeleton Array in a new version of Undead Summoning. But I want to spend some time play-testing all of the new Skellies before I upload it. Would you like to be a playtester?

Oh yes, please! I would also love to have Aela teach her Absorb Health spell to Abiene plus your Deadwalker Race for my future awesome dead chick. Thank you so much! Yay!!

It’s really neat to have non-Nord/draugr remains for a non-Nord necromancer to summon. (A note from Darnand: “I am not a necromancer.”)

Also once Abiene got in touch with her Breton witch self and started summoning her sabre cat familiar from your Nature Summoning I renamed the hostile “witch” mages, inspired by your Witches to Cultists mod.

Persephone on the Skeleton Coast, that’s great! I’ve spent a lot of time off the 16th fairway at Harbor Town Links. I wonder if you can see the house in the game.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: Thank you! You just gave me the clue I needed to figure out why my Skeletons would not equip the other shields. Now I can go and make some elven skellies.

If I do, I might do some changing to Tuonetar's background, and have her wear the Reclamations Robe instead of the Purple Triss.

I remember the corpse preparation mod. Thanks for linking to it. I am not sure if Tuonetar wants to have an army of permanent servants though.


Acadian: Darryl would have to be PursePhone's caddy. Or maybe his brother Darryl. It has been a lot of fun playing Links again, after so many years.


Grits: I got a little tired of how the game throws around the word Witch for every evil spellcaster. I wonder how people would have felt if Bethesda had named them Christians instead?

Harbor Town is one of my favorite courses! I like the wide fairways, the water, and the short holes (I can usually get a birdie on a 3 par hole). Virtual of course. I have never played real golf. But it is a lot of fun on the computer. Not to mention cheaper.


See any place familiar Grits?

A short vid of Persephone playing the 16th hole at Harbor Town. (it is a little slow and jumpy. Fraps really slowed the game down while I was recording).

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[Grits]

Oh that’s neat! On the tiny map that pond on the far right is very familiar. There was a gator in it for years until he got too big and was moved. Imagine bluebirds flying around on the fairway too, because there are nesting boxes on the trees.

Seventeen is a fun hole, too. The water that you hit over connects through the marsh to the sound, so there are always birds hunting it. And of course eighteen is gorgeous. I don’t play but I’ve walked the back nine a lot. Thanks for the pictures and video!

[Acadian]

I'm not a golfer (at all), but that game looks very neat. I love the sound effects and voicing. Not bad for dead girl!

[SubRosa]

Grits: It sounds beautiful. But it is Hilton Head after all right? Right afer taking that vid, I bogied the 17th hole! I hit into that water, and had to drop a shot right before it. I love the lighthouse at the 18th, and how you can see it from the nearby fairways.

Acadian: I'm not a golfer at all either! But I am a pretty good computer gamer. This 2003 version looks a lot better than the original version I played back in '94. Wow, that is 20 years now...


An undead golfer is not afraid of a little lightning

Thanks to KC's comment, I figured out why my Skellies were not equipping elven shields.
Tuonetar and her Elven Skeleton Guardian

Double Whammy

Skeleton Hero

Now I have to decide if I want to add Dunmer Skeletons as well, with Bonemold Shields. My inclination is not to, as that would require all the users to have Dragonborn. I prefer to keep things as vanilla as possible. I might create a separate mod for Bonemold Skellies.

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[King Coin]

Neat that you figured out the skellies. I guess it wasn't as difficult as I was thinking to get them to equip them.

[Acadian]

Let's not feel bad about not being golfers. Everything Buffy and I know about horses, Superian taught us. Similarly regarding archery and the teachings of Master Daenlin.

Afraid of the lightning? Heck, looks like Purse Phone CAUSED the lightning!

Toon Eater’s bony buds look great! I love how they have the same blue eyes as the DrugLords. Actually, your screens are the closest I’ve seen a SkySkellie. They are such fragile targets that they never get within 20 paces of Buffy’s bow. Looks like Tuonetar’s are lots tougher. Oh, and that’s a fabulous looking blue shield Tuonetar’s using.

How’s the limiting her ranged ability to summoned skeleton archers going. Seems like that could be quite a challenge facing nimblespeedy mages and teleporting magic users.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: Turns out it very simple. The Armor Addon for every item specifies what races can equip it. I just had to make a copy of the elven shield's AA and add in the Skeleton Race, then make a new Elven Shield using that Addon and give it to the Skellies.


Acadian: I can imagine Persephone shouting "It's Alive! It's Alive!" during the lightning storm.

I did enhance my Summoned Skeletons. The base ones have a little more hit points than normal, though still not a lot. I wanted them to be on par with other Novice level summonings. The new Skellies are much tougher. I tried to make them roughly equivalent to the Flame/Frost/Shock Astronauts. So they can take a licking and keep on rattling!

So far I am liking summoning up a Skeleton Archer to deal with ranged issues. They are pretty good, at least so far. In an encounter with a bandit archer that was giving Tuonetar some trouble, the Skellie Arch drew his bow, and dropped the bandit with one shot. He must have been a Bosmer Skeleton.

Tuonetar by firelight

Skeleton Army (the Elven Skeleton Champion on the right summons the Elven Skeleton Guardian on the left)

Tuonetar's Champion smites a bandit mage


Persephone is still enjoying her R&R. Here are two of her greatest hits

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[Acadian]

That firelight beautifully draws out the subtle blue lighting inherent to Tuonetar’s armor. It really showcases why you selected that armor.

Wow, the dual skeletons look comforting indeed! The glowing one is epic!

A great shot of Bones in action!

Congrats on your great 'summon bones' mod. I'm so glad it's working well for you and it clearly adds much to Tuonetar's game.


Woot! And Persephone nails two holes in one!

[Grits]

I had the same thought as Acadian, it looks like the lightning is part of Persephone’s good shot celebration!

Tuonetar looks beautiful by firelight. The detail in her cloak is gorgeous.

I love her skeleton army! The Champ is lifting his chin as if to acknowledge his own awesomeness.

Smiting is my favorite one. I love how the skeleton’s mouth is open.

Nice chipping! That first shot was 25 yards!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: You know me, I always spend hours work hard at designing a character's look before I ever play them. It does pay off though.

The glowing Skellie is the Skeleton Champion. He has a Frost Cloak spell to make that white effect around him. He's definitely my favorite.


Grits: I guess Persephone is a lightning rod for interest on the green.

Tuonetar's cloak is the Pearl Cloak from the Velvet Robes and Cloak mod that you so graciously pointed out a while ago. It fits her armor perfectly.

Those chips are my pride and joy. I added another chip in the other day, that I am saving up for another video.




Persephone is still enjoying her vacation.
Playing in the sandbox


I dusted off Lonesome Dove's FONV game for a bit too.
Lonesome Dove enjoys the planet show at the Repconn Headquarters

She found this west of New Vegas. It is a map of the province.

Relaxing at a micro brewery

Dealing with a badman

[Acadian]

Nice to see Purse-Phone taking on Scottsdale!

Lonesome Dove visits the Orrery!

I’ll bet carrying that map around would be uncomfortable. I see they haven’t yet invented quills, ink pots and parchment out in those badlands?

I smiled as, at first, I read the brewery shot title as ‘Relaxing with mirocu at the brewery’.

Dealing with a bad man – Lonesome’s a tough Dove!

[SubRosa]

Persephone likes Scottsdale. It was a really nice course.

That does look like the Orrery! I never thought of that.

I don't think they have any quills, ink, parchment, or anything else out in the Nevada desert! But you would know better than anyone!

Lonesome would not mind drinking at Mirocu's brewery. Would that be the Raven's Eye brand of beer?

Lonesome is definitely one tough Dove. As Teddy Rosevelt said (and I paraphrase), she prefers to talk softly, and carry a big sniper rifle!


I am still passing some time in the Mojave Wasteland.
Jawin' with the Chief Ranger

Mosying a ways with a prospector

Lonesome rescued this family of geckos from a pack of Giant Radscorpions

Dove keeps this popgun for the smaller varmints


But I have also been playing Neverwinter Nights 2, where I created Antheia - a Ranger specializing in archery.
From left to right - Antheia, Neeshka, Khelgar, and Asena the Wolf

Antheia and Khelgar taking on some bandits with some help from Varahi the Boar and a summoned Dire Wolf

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[Acadian]

I like Lonesome Dove and it is fun to see her screenies of life in the desert.

I’ve never played NWN and really enjoy seeing it through your eyes/screen. The characters look bigger than the tiny characters in BG?

[Grits]

I love Lonesome Dove’s look. The map is neat!

I really like the look of Neverwinter Nights 2. The animal companions are particularly appealing.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I bet you like seeing what your home will look like two hundred years after the nuclear war! Sort of like Renee playing Fallout 3.

The NWN characters are bigger. The NWN games are a generation ahead of BG. Where BG is a 2d, isometric game, using sprites for the characters. NWN is a fully 3d game, so it is has fully 3 dimensional meshes for everything. Though it is still basically that same isometric layout.


Grits: That was a really cool map. Apparently it is from a comic that came out with the game, though I have never seen it. That is what the Fallout Wiki says at least.

NWN2 does look very pretty, even for a game that is now dated. I wish the animal companions were stronger, as they tend to die a lot. They level up along with you and get more powerful. Artio is dying less these days than she did few levels ago. There are a few spells you can use on them to buff them up as well.


Antheia teamed up with a Lizard Man to rescue his fellow tribesman from some undead (and broker a peace between them and the local village)

A closer up

A color spray and fireball

Deekin the Kobold merchant (a recurring character from NWN1 as well)

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[Acadian]

Heh, you are right. I do recognize some of the names and places in FONV because I live out here. I also recognize quite a bit of the DC Debris from FO3 screenshots. My last duty station before I retired was the Washington Navy Yard. I’ve imagined, as you say, that Renee is comfortable with the FO3 setting as well.

NWN looks great! I’m glad you’re enjoying it and that it clearly has enough flexibility in character creation to support your tastes. And Antheia looks fabulous. Oddly, I found that Diablo II allowed for a great mystic archer when playing a bow-only amazon. But I agree that bow + summons makes for a good mystic archer. Kobolds! Oh I remember those little things from BG!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I loved the Bowazons from Diablo II too. That was the first type of character I played in D2.


Sephiroth, Drow Paladin

Down on the farm

After the battle

Now Sephiroth has a bigger sword

Treasure