Because Every Rose Has Its Video, Rosa's Vid Topic Options

[SubRosa]

Grits: Illia's fire is coming from The Staff of Hag's Wrath. Illia gave it to Scylla for helping kill her mother, and Scylla gave it back to Illia because as a mage, it is more up her alley. It creates a really nasty wall of fire, that hangs around for a long time. The only downside is that I often can't see the bad guys in the flames.

I also disabled friendly fire, so Scylla does not get killed by it. Or that Illia does not get her head lopped off by Scylla's axe.

Lately Illia uses her own magic more. She's a really amazing ice mage. She tends to literally send people flying! She is the perfect complement to Scylla's axe.


Acadian: That was one of the more difficult fights I have had. Which is why Scylla could not resist the teabagging dancing on the dead guy's corpse.


King Coin: I have found that a lot of the bad guys in this game hit you once, and there goes 80% of your health. It makes the game a lot more nail-biting, because you never know when you are going to run into a wuss you can kill without breaking a sweat, or if you are going to be dead two seconds after first cross axes.


As King Coin noticed, Scylla is now decked out in Orcish armor that she made herself. I really like the look of the all the orcish gear.

Part of a big fight in the bowels of one of the forts.

Scylla goes berserk and kills everything.

A very short vid of my favorite trap in the game

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 4 2012, 11:44 PM

[Acadian]

The ancient Klingon orcish armor looks great on Scylla, as does Illia by her side. And *WooHoo* - is that Button in the background hooked up to a wagon?

I really liked the second (Through the Flames) screen.

Berserking comes naturally to Scylla I presume?

Heh, I can see why you like that trap so much. That was both effective and hilarious!

[King Coin]

Holy crap!! That flame thrower is impressive!!
Kharjo would love to get his paws on one. Even though he’s not a mage, he loves using staffs.

Those traps are awesome! Aravi’s used them to her advantage too. I’ve busted out laughing when an enemy charges right into one.

[Grits]

Orcish is my favorite heavy armor. It looks perfect on Scylla, and somehow also suits my petite Imperial. Very cool that Scylla made it herself.

I did wonder how Scylla was not getting crispy in that fire. Neat that it won’t hurt her. It is, after all, magic fire!

That trap video made me laugh. Bandit: Gah… Fun!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: That is indeed Button. Her wagon will take you to any of the major cities in Skyrim, for a modest fee. I thought that was an excellent addition to the game. So far Riften is the only city I have found with such a service though.

The Orc Berserk power is much better done in Skyrim then in the previous games. It doubles the damage your character does for 60 seconds, and halves the damage they receive. It turns them into walking wrecking balls. My only problem is I never think to use it.


King Coin: That staff is impressive. Head down to the southern edge of the Rift. It is in a tower down there.


Grits: I still have not seen many of the armors, but of what I have the Orcish and Elven are my favorites. Scylla had to make it herself, and her axe, because she could not find the pieces for sale. They did have plenty of the other Orc gear for sale though of course...

The bandits in Skyrim are just as fun to kill as those in Oblivion. I just love how they taunt you right before you kill them with one of those special moves: "Is that all you got?" Speckt!


Scylla and Illia encounter some strange flying lights along the coast, east of Winterhold

Scylla looked for Luke's ligthsaber, but it was nowhere to be found.

One angry bear

Meet the Falmers

The Shrine of Azura

Inside Azura's Star

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 6 2012, 05:28 AM

[King Coin]

Those Wisp Mothers are really nasty for a melee fighter aren't they? Once Scylla got in range though, she took it down pretty fast.

I see you found Luke! He should have brought his lightsaber instead of that metal weapon lying on the ground.

Wonderful screenshots, Azura's quest was very cool wasn't it?

[Acadian]

Those wispies are initially beautiful!

That bear does not look like our dear friend Barenziah! Yikes, Toto, we’re not in the Niben Valley any more!

Ice mer! What would one expect?

I see our Lady Azura has not overly changed her depiction.

This looks like such a dangerous land. I’m glad that Scylla is. . . sturdy.

[Grits]

Neat to see a wispmother in a video instead of yelling aaaaaaaaaargh while fighting one. They really are beautiful.

Excellent ice circle against the Falmer. Looks like good teamwork.

Scylla looks ready to take on whatever she finds inside Azura’s star!

[SubRosa]

King Coin: Azura's Quest was very well done. It started out seeming like your standard dungeon crawl to get the mcguffin quest, but the second part inside the star was pure genius! So too was the choice the game gives you on whether it will be a regular or black soul gem.


Acadian: I really liked the Wisp Mother too. Well, in appearance that is! I am going to have to get to work on a friendly animals mod soon. However, I have noticed that the normal animals like bears and wolves have a proximity threshold, and will only attack you if you get too close to them. So you can often make your way around them. If you see them first that is.


Grits: Scylla and Illia make a perfect team (maybe because they both have two ll's in their names?). Scylla crushes anything that gets near, and Illia either roasts or freezes whatever tries to keep away. Scylla really missed Illia inside Azura's Star! That was a really brutal fight without her.


I started a new character a few days ago. I wanted to see what it was like playing a pure mage, so I created Aradia, an Altmer magician.


Aradia shortly after being rescued by the dragon, not far from Riverwood.

Trying out the Jarl's throne.

I found a mod that removes the tinting and desaturation, so you can see Skyrim in its true colors. It is nice to see a sky that is blue again, rather than battleship grey.

Outside of Solitude

Aradia with her new pet, a Flame Atronach.

Aradia stumbled upon Meridia's Shrine. I think you need to have a filled soul gem to activate it.

Aradia and the Sea of Ghosts

Here is a vid of two of the fights in Broken Oar Grotto.

[Acadian]

You did a nice job with Aradia. If you jumble the letters around some, you could almost call her Acadian.

That vid was fun! A pure mage looks pretty neat in action! Love her hot partner.

This post has been edited by Acadian: Feb 10 2012, 04:38 AM

[liliandra nadiar]

Pure mage was/is pretty mean in several cases. Cameron could rip things apart. Even more so when she went out with her wife. Two mages, a flame and a frost Atronach could put a respectable about of hurt out.

Should get my high elf Aquila (conjuring focused battlemage) dusted off.

[King Coin]

I was wondering when you were going to post her!

Aradia looks natural in that throne. Not getting too comfortable is she?

It’s definitely brighter. I’d prefer a mod that changes the saturation based on weather.

The Sea of Ghosts one is my favorite. I haven’t found that shrine yet!

The video:
that oil is effective!

She’s really thrashing those bandits! I kind of lost interest in my mage character, but now I’m wanting to either get him out again, or start a new character!

[Grits]

Wow, Aradia is amazing! She never runs out of blue! What a fight in one of my very favorite lairs.

I agree with KC, Aradia looks like a throne is her natural environment.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I think you would like the Ascadian Isles region in Morrowind as well! I actually got the name Aradia from the book by Charles Leland.

The Flame Atronachs got a really huge makeover in Skyrim. They seem to fly around on invisible rollerskates, do somersaults while standing still, and are just generally a lot weirder and more entertaining then in Oblivion.


liliandra nadiar: I had a lot of trouble with Aradia in the first few levels. But after a while she has really gotten quite powerful.


King Coin: Aradia is a high elf, of course she feels comfortable on a throne! The oil is something I have been trying to take advantage of, when I see it. I think you can even knock over lanterns and spill oil out of them. But I have not tried it yet.


Grits: She used to run out of blue a lot. But I found out that Skyrim reduces the magicka regeneration rate to 33% of normal when in combat, and completely turns it off while you are casting a spell. So I made a mod that puts the regen rate back to full all the time, and now she almost never gets down to empty.


A vid of Aradia's rescue of Thorald Grey-Mane from the Thalmor's clutches.

The streets of Solitude

Dusk along the northern coast

I've got a bad feeling about this...

This guy is a liar.

I used a mod to craft a new outfit for Aradia.

The eagle's view of Riverwood.

[King Coin]

I’m surprised an Altmer would deign to sneak anywhere. My mage never did. Lol.

I really like the fire atronachs in this game. The little flips and twirls are entertaining.

I see you’ve got your hotkeys figured out well. I’m still working on getting mine straight.

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Solitude is a pretty town. Aravi feels more at home in Whiterun though.

Holy crap! That’s a heck of a pile of draugr!

That outfit looks familiar…

[SubRosa]

Aradia sneaks because it gives her time to decide what spells to use. I like the fire atronachs too, they are very entertaining. But it seems that Oblivia wanders away a lot. Half the time it seems she is nowhere to be found when an ice troll is bearing down upon me.

The hotkeys are what make this game playable for me. Thanks to them I rarely have to deal with the menus.

I have been working on the outfit. I did a retexture, renamed it Snow Hawk, made robe and armor version, and put it all in the world in a couple different places.

I like the white better

But I still prefer it without the cowl.

[Acadian]

I quite enjoyed the vid. Pure magery looks fun. Given how quickly a spell can be loosed and its speed of flight in Skyrim, trading fire with an archer seems to favor the mage. What a pair of force multiplying factors! Since I don’t play the game, I have no interest in getting lost in its menus; it is therefore neat how Aradia has sorted out how to change spells without rooting around in her menus. I had to laugh at the fellow talking like Ahnold at the very end.

Great screens. Since I am no fan of scenery shots without characters in them, I like how you almost always retain your character in screens. On the armor, I prefer the stuff she is wearing in the vid.

Thanks for sharing!

[Grits]

Oblivia’s fire and Aradia’s ice make for fun fights. I am not even going to try a pure mage without hotkeys, but I sure enjoy watching how Aradia gets the job done.

I like the Thalmor robes on her, but I’m sure Thorald did not!



Oh, I forgot to say... Whitengale armor.

This post has been edited by Grits: Feb 13 2012, 03:07 AM

[King Coin]

The white armor is very nice!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: A pure mage is definitely a different experience from two-handed axe-wielding orc! There are some downsides to trading fire with an archer. Mainly it is when you are a low level mage. The starting destruction spells have a short range. So often you cannot hit them, but they have no trouble hitting you. Aradia was using a second-tier ice spell there, which has a long range. The other thing is of course the archer never runs out of ammo (at least the NPCs), while the mage has to watch that blue bar. Before I modded the game to make magicka regenerate normally in combat, Aradia was running out of blue all the time. Even now in big fights with multiple opponents, she has to watch her blue.


Grits: The hotkeys are what make this game playable for me. Otherwise the terrible UI would just make it impossible. Thankfully I rarely have to look at the interface though. One quirk of the hotkeys though, is that one press loads the spell into your left hand. Then a second key press puts it in your right at well. But it is always in your left hand first. I cannot figure out why that is.

I like the look of the Thalmor Robes too. Aradia was thinking she might try to blend in and pretend to be part of the garrison. But of course by then she had killed them all!

You know, I am tempted to call the mod Whitengale Armor now!


King Coin: I think of the white armor as snow camo. I like it much better then the default nightingale color.


I restarted Aradia to play with my new Main Quest Disabler mod. She is currently 3rd level again and exploring around Riverwood. Though she will eventually get up the gumption to head up to Whiterun and tell the Jarl about the dragon that rescued her and the Stormcloaks destroyed Helgen.

A vid of Aradia before the restart. I saw some good opportunities for using spilled lamp oil, and could not resist recording them.

A short vid showing the range issues of a starting mage.

A new Aradia escaped from Helgen with Ralof.

She found some new furs to wear...

...and even did a little work in the forge.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Feb 15 2012, 11:00 PM