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[Grits]

Whoa, it jumped up onto the rock!! That was a surprise. It was nice to see Varla circle a little, I sort of wondered if she was going to back off of the cliff. Awesome victory stomp. I like her spirit!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: My characters gave up capturing souls, or magicka, a long time ago. Recharge mods make it superfluous. Varla's sword has a 10 point Absorb Health for 1 second. I never saw any problem with is not working even when she moved away. It always kept the visual effect no matter how far away she moved. But granted, this was only for one second, so it might vary with a longer effect. I found it worked very well for Varla. With her low health, the constant healing it gave her helped tremendously.


King Coin: That was a good fight. It was one of the reasons I took Varla there. I wanted a real challenge.


Grits: Jumping up and down on the corpse was Varla showing her enthusiasm! It was a really good fight, and a wonderful swan song for Varla.


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Oblivion grew stale while playing Varla. So I decided to give the game a break for a while. I went back to playing Morrowind. It is fun to explore new lands again.

Artemis found a slaughterfish in an odd place, and put it out of its misery.

Night in Suran. I love the architecture in Morrowind.

Another pic of Suran in the day (lower left), with Vivec in the background.

Artemis meets Umbra, but turns down his offer to fight.

A video of Artemis and Azura's Quest.

[Acadian]

I'm glad you and Artemis are enjoying Morrowind. Thanks for sharing! Artemis must be tired after all that running!

[King Coin]

Oh my gosh, I would not be able to play that game without better running animations. Are there mods out for that? Other than that, it doesn’t look as bad as I was expecting. Are you using graphics mods?

Azura making a wager with Sheo? That’s so funny! Artemis seems pretty good with the bow. The Golden Saint took quite a few shots, but the other critters fell quickly.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: She is not tired at all. Look at her Fatigue bar!

King Coin: If you think the running animation is bad, wait until you see the one for swimming! Or just regular walking. All the animations in Morrowind are terrible, even for its day. At that point Artemis had a skill of 100 at Marksman, and an Agility of 104. Combined with her Daedric bow, she almost one-shot killed every wild animal she came upon. It was only the Daedra and NPCs who could survive beyond the first arrow.


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Artemis was the character I created to get to know Morrowind, and find out the ins and outs of how the game worked. Now that I have a better feel for the game, and have added or created mods to make it more playable, I have made a new character. A Dunmer sword fighter and destruction mage named Prytania. I am going to try doing the main quest with her, and probably take her through bloodmoon and tribunal afterward.

Prytania has just gotten a full set of bonemold armor

[Acadian]

She looks wonderful! What a pretty face and beautiful ears!

[King Coin]

So that's the face of Aravi's savior. Like Acadian said, she has a pretty face and ears.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jan 14 2012, 06:28 PM

[SubRosa]

I think she was from one of Emma's headpacks. She was originally going to be an Altmer, but the vanilla Altmer heads and hair were all too ugly. So I fell back to a Dunmer. I still need to look for some hair packs though.

Prytania has made it to Ald-Ruhn and joined up with House Redoran. The House smith Under-Skar sells some different styled bonemold helmets, so Prytania decided to get one. She does not normally wear one, but it is still part of the ensemble after all, and maybe once in a while it might help for dramatic effect.

However, she is having trouble choosing which one.

There is the Chuzei style

Or the Armun-An style

Right now I am kind of leaning toward the Chuzei style. The Hlaalu guards all wear the Armun-An, but so far I have not seen anyone in the Chuzei. It also looks a bit more feminine, as it is more slender. But it kind of makes her look like an Xenomorph though. I keep waiting for the second set of teeth to snap out. That would be handy in a melee fight...

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 15 2012, 02:44 AM

[Acadian]

I like the Armun-An style better because it looks like an assassin from Star Wars instead of The Predator. Lol. Seriously, it looks more like a helmet to me.

Hmm. . . if it is more commonly worn however, that is a drawback and I have no idea how you feel about Hlaalu guards.

[King Coin]

They both look kind of bizarre. If the teeth don't pop out of Chuzei style then just headbutt them.

[SubRosa]

I found mods that port Rens and Corean hair to Morrowind. Since the game crashes whenever I try to use the racemenu to, I decided to restart Prytania so that I could use one of Ren's hairstyles.

Just off the boat at Seyda Neen, and she found some nice new duds on an Imperial Tax Collector's body

Rest assured, Prytania 2.0 has not forgotten to free Aravi from slavery

The slavers provided her with a hodgepodge of armor. It does not look like much, but it stops swords better then cotton.

She had a nice swim on the way back to Seyda Neen to report the tax collectors murder

[Acadian]

Wonderful news on the hair mods. Ren & Corean are wonderful!

Yay!!! Free Aravi! *twirl*

[King Coin]

I really like the new hair. She's very pretty with it.

Thanks for freeing Aravi! (again)

That mixed armor doesn't look bad. I liked mixing armor up in Oblivion. I understand there are more pieces to be collected in Morrowind than there was in Oblivion.

[SubRosa]

Morrowind can still look good, if you use enough mods with it! With Better Bodies, Better Clothes, the various headpacks by Emma and others, and now with Rens and Corean Hair, it really does surprise me. You would not think it was an 11 year old game (at least that is how old I think it is).

This is something I had to make a video of. It is sort of a Morrowind Rite of Passage.

[King Coin]

You see him die trying it, so you figure, "hey let's give it a go."

I saw a video recently of a very heavily modded Morrowind that was quite pretty

[SubRosa]

That one is using MGE XE as its base, plus a bunch of other mods. Unfortunately XE requires Direct X 9, and will not work with the new versions of DX. So it will not work for me. (I have tried twice). The makers claim that you can install DX9 alongside a more current version of Direct X. But that strikes me as just playing with fire. I use the older MGE 3.8 instead. At least it works, and won't frell my system up.

You can use the Icarian scrolls and survive (video)

Prytania has once more acquired a suit of bonemold armor. She joined House Redoran afterward. (pic)

While traveling on her first mission she decided to investigate an old Dunmer fortress. She found a patrol of her Redoran brothers slaughtered inside. Bloody vengeance followed. (pic)

Her return to Ald' Ruhn (video)

Finally, I created a home for her there (video)

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 17 2012, 12:49 AM

[Acadian]

Heh, I'm glad to see you enjoying Morrowind!

[King Coin]

The jump: you weren’t kidding about the swim animation! Now, can you get to many places by aiming for lakes? Or do you have to stick to the coast when using it?

Ald 'Ruhn: I didn’t think that was a building. And those people inside sound like robots. Is this Tatooine? (payback! )

Home: Nice house! I like the central stairs.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Jan 17 2012, 02:20 AM

[SubRosa]

Acadian: It took me a long time to adjust to Morrowind after Oblivion, but now that I have either gotten used to things, or modded them out, I am having a good time with it.


King Coin: The only safe way to use those scrolls is to aim for the ocean, and hope you do not end up too far from shore. Unlike Oblivion, you cannot change your course when you jump. So once you go up that is it. So aiming for something like a river or lake is impossible. The view is fantastic though.

I really love the Redoran-style houses like Prytania's, with the stair in the middle that doubles as a stove in the back.


Prytania takes a Silt Strider Ride Normally when you do it is just like fast travel in Oblivion. You just teleport to the destination. But I found a mod that lets you ride along in real time, so you can see everything that you pass along the way. Prytania is taking a ride from Ald' Ruhn to Balmora. But for the some reason the driver goes way out of his way, and takes the long way around. The very long way around. But at least it lets you see a lot of Vvardenfell.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Jan 19 2012, 01:10 AM

[Acadian]

Heh, between the music, creature noises and visuals, that reminded me of a cross between ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ and Jurassic Park.