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[King Coin]

Wow, the view outside of her front door is great! I don’t think Aravi’s been to Windhelm yet. She has the marker, but hasn’t actually been there. This screen shows that she needs to change that!

Love the sight of Azura’s shrine too. The jaws screen is really funny!

Aww… poor mammoth. Nice to see the giant’s not squishing Bendis though.

[SubRosa]

Grits: Her frost resistance is nothing compared to her 90% fire resistance, from her Dunmer blood, and a necklace of 40% fire resistance. Only lightning can really hurt Bendis.


Acadian: That mod that makes Azura's statue viewable from a distance is one of the best I have downloaded. Not only does it look marvelous, but it also makes navigating around that part of the map much easier. You just have to look to Azura to know the way to go.


King Coin: From a purely nuts and bolts perspective, Windhelm is one of the best cities to base a character in. There are three general merchants, a smithy, an alchemist, a court wizard, and a food seller. Most are all clustered together in the market district, and outdoors. The latter is nice, because you do not have to go in and out of a lot of buildings to go from one to another. Niranye even has an arcane enchanter behind her stall, so you do not have to go to all the way to the palace to use the court wizard's.


I downloaded the scenic carriages mod, that allows you to actually ride in the carriages between cities

Bendis cleans up the last Dark Brotherhood blood from her blade. This place is now purified

A very short vid of a strange encounter Bendis had in Eastmarch

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 10 2012, 09:53 PM

[King Coin]

Do you get attacked while riding the carriage? That's a very pretty picture by the way.

Aravi came across that door… She hasn’t figured out how to get inside yet so she can do a purification.

I had a bear do something like that… except it kept doing the walking animation. The dead bear just marched in place.

[Grits]

That carriage mod looks great! What a pretty sky. That picture cleaning her blade captures a job well done perfectly!

Nivoniel has moved to Windhelm. She's presently shacked up with Revyn Sadri. I imagine a doorway by that snowdrift every time she heads home.

[Acadian]

I love the carriage! It looks like dear Button might have made it from Bravil to Skyrim!

Can you take out the DB in Skyrim? That would be kinda neat.

That dude in the vid seemed dead on his feet, yes?

[SubRosa]

King Coin: You do not get attacked while you are in the carriage. So somehow it makes everything non-aggressive. However, no one moves out of the way of it either, and when the carriage plows into someone, they go flying! Or get squished.

The only way to wipe out the DB is to start the DB questline, by talking to Aventus Aretino in Windhelm and doing a job for him first. Bendis got ticked when a DB assassin tried to kill her, so she decided to get some payback by wiping them out.


Grits: That stained glass window in the DB Sanctuary was just too cool looking to pass up taking a pic in front of it. Like you said, what better than to clean her sword in front of it to show a job well done?

Can Niv sleep in Sadri's house? I did not think you could do that without mods.


Acadian: You can take out most of the Dark Brotherhood. There are only two characters you cannot get to (I don't want to give away spoilers). It is nice though, given that their assassins tend to always come after you, they give you the chance to get some payback. I just wish you could do the same with the Thieves Guild and Raven Black-Brian. It would be nice to play a law-and-order type character and clean up Riften.



Bendis was getting stale. I tried doing the main quest with her, but just could not get very far. So I started a character who has been kicking around in my head for a while.

Shakti is a music fan

I am creating a mod that converts shouts into spells. Kyne's Peace was one of the first.

Shakti does not like Draugr

With Fus in one hand, and a sword in the other, Shakti hunts the undead

Slayage ensues

Skhakti greets the morning sun with drumsong.

[liliandra nadiar]

Ohhh.. such a fierce looking kitty. Hope you can take this one further then your other girls.

[King Coin]

Khajiit! Love her already!

That's an excellent idea, turning all the shouts into spells. I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. I bet Animal Allegiance is pretty high on your list too.

The drumming screen is my favorite. Which mod added that?

[Grits]

Yep, Niv did a favor for Sadri, so now she’s welcome in his house. Including the bed. Of course she got his pickpocketed key taken away by some guard, so now she has to break in every night. A lot of NPCs will let you take inexpensive stuff and sleep in their homes if they like you. Jensa crashed at the boss’ place plenty of times during her Stormcloak days, and I’m still not sure how Achille got access to Mikael’s bed at the Bannered Mare. Most places have safe containers, so there are a lot of options for the vagabond. Big D was my pioneer in this area, until he met Sylgja.

Shouts as spells is such a great idea! I could do that as an imaginary “mod,” just pretend that Shouts like Aura Whisper and Kyne’s Peace are spells for my non-Dragonborn mages! Denelle has a ton of dragon souls, since we don’t unlock the occasional Words she finds. This is going to be great!! Thank you, SubRosa!!

Shakti looks awesome! I love her coloring and facial markings. I think Slayage is my favorite for her ears-pinned fight expression. Drumsong is a another favorite, though. So peaceful. I really enjoyed these screenshots!

[SubRosa]

liliandra nadiar: I take them all as far as they go. *shrug smiley* Some character's stories last longer than others. Some just unfortunately get all that they want too quickly, and have no more reason to keep risking their lives. And some just get so powerful, that playing them is just boring.


King Coin: I figured you would appreciate seeing another Khajiit. I think I have now played every race in the game at least once.

So far I have converted Unrelenting Force, Kyne's Peace, Animal Allegiance, and Clear Skies. I also just did Aura Whisper and Elemental Fury, but have not tested them out yet (so there is probably still more tweaking to do on those.). It is a lot more work than I first expected. The trouble is that being shouts, there are no regular spell visual and audio effects for any of them. So that all has to be added in manually. And there are over a dozen different variables with those.

The drumming pic is from Puppeteer Master. It has a lot of poses, including all the ones for playing musical instruments. I tried a mod that lets you play instruments and even use them as weapons, but it CTDs whenever I try to start the game.


Grits: My characters do favors for NPCs all the time, but I have never thought to see what that would get me from them. They just spend the night at the local inn, etc... instead of breaking into someone's house to sleep there. I guess I am too used to Oblivion, where you cannot wait or sleep when you are trespassing, and everyone immediately calls for the law as soon as you step in their door.

In a bad mood

A cat and her rat army

Shakti does her first big job for the Thieves Guild. She has to break into Goldenglow Estate, steal the contents of the safe, and burn 3 of the bee hives.

[King Coin]

Another aquatic kitty! So that’s what’s on that island. Strangely enough, Aravi’s never gone there.

Lol! Apple pie, some drums and a flute! Some of those cheese wheels make food that is very useful for magic users. Aravi makes stews and soups when she can.

Nice taking out that guard with a Khajiit’s natural weapons.

Hard to tell which torches can be taken and which cannot. Why not use the nighteye? Oh I see, the torch was for the hives. Snatched a salmon on the escape!

I like the rat army screen shot. She looks like she's wearing the foot wraps in that one.

[Grits]

It was fun to see which items Shakti considered to be loot-worthy. I’m guessing that she likes Elsweyr fondue. Hide bracers are an excellent choice for her Khajiit claws. I loved to see her use them! The salmon catch on the way out made me smile.

Rat Army is great! I like the foot wraps, too.

[Acadian]

I’m with Grits in really liking this kitty’s facial markings – the tabby ‘M’ works in and extends down below her eyes so nicely!

If she’s going to be modest and swim in her armor, she needs a converted whisper (certainly called desert breeze) to magically dry her gear out when she climbs out of the water. Or perhaps just shuck her duds around water the way woodsters do.

I see that like all SubRosa trademarked characters, this one is a grasshopper, bouncing from rock to rock. Oooh, a TG quest. . . *quietly singing ‘Khajiit like to sneak’* Hee: stealing cheese to catch some mousey snacks, I’ll bet.

During my recent travels, my son showed me how lock picking works in Skyrim, so I was able to easily follow exactly how your lockpick pro mod helps.

Like you, I’m underwhelmed by the whole Thu’um shouting at your foes stuff – unless you’re a gray-bearded Nord. Or a dragon. I like the change you made to render the effects as spells.

Neat how Shakti was able to flame the bee hives with a torch.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: That is the first time any of my characters have ever been on that island too. I think that it is normally inaccessible. At least by the bridge from the mainland. Shakti picked up the Gloves of the Pugilist from one of the thugs in the Ratway when she joined the TG. That made her unarmed attacks much more deadly than using a weapon when she was at lower levels. She wears the foot wraps a lot, to be quieter.


Grits: I just loved the idea of a cat with a rat army. Shakti was a fun character to play, precisely because of what you said about what she considered loot-worthy. She loves music, so she always takes any instrument she sees. Same with Eidar Cheese (not goat cheese though *blech* she says). And what cat could pass up a fish to go with that cheese and wine celebration afterward?


Acadian: Those facial markings are actually considered war paint by the game. I think of them as natural coloration though.

I have found that a lot of the spells that did not make it to Skyrim are actually shouts. Things like Detect Life, etc... But you can only get the shouts by following the Main Quest, at least in part. So making them spells is my way of putting them back in the game for non-MQ characters, which are pretty much all of mine.


Shakti is now Batman. Erm, Catwoman?

Three Nightingales

With Shakti becoming a Nightingale and returning the Skeleton Key to its resting place, her story is done.

Meet my new wood elf, Hesperia

Having lunch with a spriggan

And some water to wash it down

As with all new characters, the eternal question of "what to wear" arises. I am not sure I want to keep using the green variant of the Triss armor from the last two pics. She might go with the short-sleeved fur

Or the long-sleeved fur

The leather just does not seem quite right

I think she looks good in this modded variant of the Nord Hero armor

But maybe with hide boots instead.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 26 2012, 12:09 AM

[Acadian]

Farewell Shakti!

Another woodster! And (*insert persecuted sigh*) a red head.

Triss is tops in my book, and the Skyrim variant is cut much better than the Oblivion one.

[SubRosa]

I found another Triss retexture, and I think I might go with this one. It is a little lighter in shade, so it looks better in the darker areas.

The only thing about the Triss outfit is the shoes. When I watch her walking from behind her feet look too small. It makes me think she is going to fall over any second...

[Acadian]

The first Triss pictures actually seem to have more contrast to their colors to me and therefore I think it looks a little better than the newest screen. Could just be lighting however. I like the Triss when there is some contrast in the shades. On the shoes. . . oh well, at least they're not those ever so ridiculous (and entirely too common) combat high heels!

[Grits]

I really like the Triss armor! I can’t tell the difference between the two, though. How funny, I don’t think I’ve ever watched my character’s feet! Now I’m going to hate all of their footwear.

[King Coin]

A Khajiit? A thief? Definitely cat woman!

As usual, you did an excellent job on creating Hesperia. Looks like you started her out with some conjuration skill.

I do like the way the Triss armor looks. I wonder how Aravi would look in it?

Nord Hero looks nice, and the hide boot substitution was definitely a plus, but Triss looks most natural on a wood elf in my opinion.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: The first did have more contrast on the boots. The second has a more vibrant tone to it, especially in direct sunlight, so in the end I went with that one instead.


Grits: I watch everything on my characters! Half the fun of playing any computer game is dressing up my characters. That is why I spend so much time working out what to wear, and looking for mods.


King Coin: It was good to wear the Triss outfit with another character. You should try it for Aravi. It is one of the best clothing mods I have seen. Like Acadian said, it is not some ridiculous piece of lingere. It is just clothing, but it looks interesting.


Taking a break

A close up

This was a first for me. Hesperia meets the giant after the farmer gave him the cow. I wonder where the farmer went?

I took a break from Hesperia for a while and rebooted Ulfdis

She went far enough in the Companions to get the Wolf Armor. But even with a retex mod, it still makes her look fat

What a bunch of hippies!

The Ancient Nord Armor is much more flattering