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[King Coin]

Hadvar was it? I don’t remember his name very well. I don’t think I’m going to play the civil war anytime soon. None of my characters so far care about it.

The hottest man is an Argonian? I like the character, and he's got a nice voice, but really?

Flavia’s dress is Aravi approved.

Dead Man’s drink has an Argonian and a Khajiit? Aravi’s going to have to make her way to that town again.

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It’s always exciting: She looks totally BA in that screen!

Lol @ the elk. Should have ran! I’m surprised you have to siege Whiterun, I was under the impression the Jarl favored the Empire.

[Acadian]

Flavia looks very much at home fighting in this new and frozen land.

I love the pose as she ponders the map and her progress toward rebuilding the Roman Empire.

[Grits]

I love the first one! Shock energy and a draugr in mid-resurrection? Good times.

Aw, the poor elk. And also LOL. My favorite is the last one.

This post has been edited by Grits: Nov 7 2012, 03:49 PM

[SubRosa]

King Coin: Hadvar it is. Aravi went through Helgen with him. Most of my characters go with Ralof, since he was the one who was not going to kill them a few minutes before. But since I was planning on going the Imp route with Flavia, he was the natural choice.

Dead Man’s Drink does not normally have an Argonian or Khajiit. They are some of the trainers I added to the inn. So do not get your hopes up.

When you play the Imperial side, you defend Whiterun from a Stormcloak attack. It plays out similar to the SC side, but is over a lot quicker, and stays outside the gates the entire time. It is a lot more fun from the SC side, since you get to fight all the way up into Dragonsreach.


Acadian: Flavia is getting used to Ultima Thule. Fighting a war makes it much easier. Thanks to her father, conquest is something she knows all about!


Grits: Mecrutio has a way of blasting someone with lightning just as Flavia gets the killing blow in. Then they go flying across the room. Once she shield bashed someone, and he timed his blast so well, that it looked like she shield-bashed the guy to the other end of the fort!

I still have no idea how that elk got itself killed, and ended up on that tower. It certainly wasn't there to begin with!


Flavia has gone undercover to intercept some Stormcloak documents and replace them with a forgery. Looks like her disguise as a simple mercenary is working.

Flavia is pretty sure this guy is a liar...

After borrowing a few horses from Fort Dunstand, Flavia and Mecrutio met this fellow on the way back to Solitude.

This is a little favor that Flavia did for the Jarl of Falkreath

Now she has a new homestead near the city.

There is still a lot of work to do.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 8 2012, 02:51 AM

[Acadian]

Almost didn’t recognize Flavia without her Roman duds. More decapitation! I really laughed over the last one; fixer upper with optional walls and roof.

This post has been edited by Acadian: Nov 8 2012, 01:41 AM

[Grits]

Nice to see Flavia settling in to Skyrim. I love the one with the two of them riding!

[King Coin]

Oh wow, that iron helmet is really ugly! It looks alright on a big ol’ Nord, but not on a fine lady like Flavia. I’ll take the Roman helmet over that any day.

Big guy’s blocking the road. I remember a Khajiit caravan ran into one of them once. I had to reload because they were getting a really close look at the moons thanks to Skyrim’s physics glitches.

She popped that bandit’s head right off!

Aravi’s going to have to start Hearthfire soon here. You did get my hopes up with the Khajiit and Argonian. Aravi’s already aimed to go past that little village. I suppose she can respond to the offer she got by the local Jarl there to get some land.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Those last two are from Hearthfire. Instead of buying a full built house, you just get the plot of land, and have to do all the construction yourself. It is a lot of work!


Grits: Flavia is indeed getting used to things in Ultima Thule. She even has three new swords now that she might switch to sometime. Two were gifts from Tullius - both enchanted elven swords. She used one as part of her disguise. One was just a lucky find in a dungeon - and ebony sword.


King Coin: The iron helmet is ugly. It is probably my least favorite of them all. The front of it just looks weird. They actually had no troubles with the giant. Most of the time my characters can walk right past them without them becoming hostile. Usually it is only when they are in their camps that they get mad.


Flavia goes on a second undercover mission, this time to Riften

Reporting back with her intel

The conquest of Fort Greenwall

They need to get more barbarians than this to stop Flavia

Night battle at Fort Amol

Finally, the Battle of Windhelm

This barbarian lost his head

Missed the vitals

Into the Palace of Kings

Flavia likes the feel of the throne.

First Skyrim, then Tamriel. Muhahahahaha!

The fires of war

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 9 2012, 08:07 PM

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Night battle at Fort Amol

Note the trajectory of the arrow. Apparently they know that knees are especially vulnerable in this game.

[Acadian]

That is neat that you can build a house like that!

More bloody, head-severing conquesting for our Roman! I really like the expression on her face in ‘First Skyrim, then Tamriel’. Looks like she has plans for the Flavian Empire.

[King Coin]

Lol! I love the ‘undercover’ screen shot! The map table is very cool. I think if I make a house mod, I’ll put a wall map in it. Fort Amol is very pretty with the auroras.

General Tullius with a bow?

Watch out Tamriel, Flavia’s looking comfy on that throne. Wonder what Tullius thinks?

Finally, Fires of war. A great shot of her and damage wrought.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Building a house in Hearthfire is a lot of work! I almost feel as if I am really doing it myself. It is nothing like buying a house in Oblivion and just paying for the upgrades. That is a good thing though, it really makes me feel like I am getting my money's worth. Instead of just plunking down some cash and having your house presto, saving up the money to buy materials gives you a goal while you are building. You can even some of the stuff dungeoning or exploring, like the iron or stone.

The Flavian Empire indeed! Unbeknownst to Flavia, her father founded a line of Flavian Emperor's back on Earth. If only the game would have the option, my Flavia would be doing the same in Tamriel...


King Coin: The maps are very cool. Besides the simple version you can stick on a table or wall, you can also put one up between two supports, like Farengar has in Dragonsreach.

I was surprised at the bow as well. Tullius used that for the entire Battle of Windhelm. I think he only drew his sword when he and Rikke were fighting Ulfric at the very end.


Flavia has pretty much gone to the end of her story with the capture of Windhelm. So I moved on to something completely different.


Now there is an eye-opener

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Meet Amaterasu, priestess of the Nine Divines

Amaterasu gives thanks to Kyne, for calming the savage beasts

She also gives thanks to Arkay, for providing her the arsenal to smite the undead

More smitage

Amaterasu prays the spirits of these unfortunates will now know peace

Looking off into the distance

There is a lot to look at

Offering thanks to Talos

[Grits]

Is Amaterasu a Bosmer? She's so pretty! She looks a lot like my wood elf sized friend Jackie.

There is a lot of smiting duty available in Skyrim. Is Amaterasu going to pursue a particular questline? Skyrim Jerric is presently apologizing to a few of the Divines. It would be fun to map out the Aedric shrines and make up a pilgrimage. That would be a lot of walking!

[Acadian]

Yikes! How did dragons get through the SubRosa anti-dragon firewall and into your game!?!

Amaterasu’s a looker with nice elven eyes – is she an elf or are using a human and going for eyes like her Japanese namesake? Like Grits says, she looks rather Bosmeri but I can’t see her ears and I’m not that familiar with the visual differences between the races in Skyrim.

I’m guessing she’s a pure mage perhaps using magic that relates to the Nine?

[King Coin]

Dawnguard has the perfect spell for Amarterasu! Sunfire belongs to restoration school and only harms the undead. You can shoot it at anything else and it will be unharmed.

HOT!- Great screen of Alduin.

Amaterasu is gorgeous! I love the screens of her on the mountains. Beautiful. She might be interesting to make into a strict no killing character. Calm spells, paralysis, that sort of thing. Undead would be open to destruction I would think though. Grits has a wonderful idea of finding all the Shrines.

[SubRosa]

Grits: Amaterasu is an Altmer, my favorite race in Skyrim. I am using a new face texture mod with her (and was with Flavia). This one adds more detail to the skin when you zoom in close.

That idea of visiting all of the wilderness shrines has been in my head, though I don't have a map showing them all. At least not in the same map. The UESP Skyrim map lets you zoom in to see them, or do searches on each Divine's shrines. But I have not seen anything that puts them all together in one, easy to view map. Not like there was for doing the KOTN pilgrimage quest in Oblivion. She has visited two Talos shrines already, and made the long walk up to High Hrothgar. I also plan to try to do all the Divine-related quests in the game. Right now she is doing the Mara one out of Riften, which I have never done before. I can see her doing the Dawnstar quest with Erandur, the Dibella quest in Markarth, the book fetch quest for the priest in Falkreath, etc...


Acadian: That one dragon is part of the tutorial. He is the one who rescues you from certain death at the hands of the Empire. Though of course that was not his intent, just a fortunate side effect... The only way to avoid him is by using an alternate start mod. I like doing the tutorial though, and I do not mind dragons in the game. I just do not want to have to kill them all the time.


King Coin: Way ahead of you. I used the Turn Undead spells as a template to create a series of fire-like spells that only harm undead. Holy Flames, Holy Bolt, and Arkay's Wrath (a holy fireball). They mix the effects of the Turning and fire spells, and work really well with her RP. I am thinking of seeing what else I can do, like possibly making a spell version of those Bane of the Undead Scrolls. I also have an idea for one that combines a light spell with an area effect undead-only damage spell, and call it something like Arkay's Brilliance.

Amaterasu is not a pacifist though! She is a priestess of all Nine of the Divines, including Talos. That very quickly led to bodies marking her passage. She is actually rather similar to Renee's character's Dyan Phor A'Cauz and Lord Haaf-Mersey, noble types who smite evildoers for truth, justice, and the Tamrielian way. Amaterasu just uses more magic than them.


The sun sets

Meditating atop High Hrothgar

Praising Kyne

This son of Talos has found his way to Sovngarde

Praying in Mara's Temple

Getting to know the other clerics

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 16 2012, 04:24 PM

[Acadian]

Ah, Arimer Altmer it is then. I do like the elven look to her eyes very much. Just need to get her out of that hood a little more often so we can see her pretty face! Her fashion sense does seem to trend toward the brown bag look just a bit. Oh, well, I’m sure ‘tis fitting for a Priestess of the Nine to go light on the bling.

What a beautiful temple of Mara! Mara’s gift is love. She hates only those who hate and will not tolerate only those who are intolerant. My fave of the Nine for sure.

[King Coin]

Wow, those mountain screens are awesome! Makes me want to take a trip to see the top of some real mountains. The aurora’s are so beautiful in the third one. You get that color more than I do. The road is littered with bodies! Our priestess’ doing?

I love the sound of your spells. That sounds like fun actually, creating some new spells for the game.

[Grits]

Neat. There’s also Kyne’s Sacred Trials. I love your new spells! I just tried Turn Undead for the first time. It looks so pretty.

The sunset in the mountains is my favorite. Beautiful!

[SubRosa]

Acadian: You will not see Amaterasu in much bling. She is but a humble pilgrim smiting evildoers in the name of the Nine. Unfortunately her robes look better with the hood. I like how the cloth gathers over the shoulder and drapes down her back. I just wish there was an option to move it back from her head, but keep the cloth around her shoulders.


King Coin: I use a mod called No Tint that removes the desaturization of color from the game, so that might be why my auroras seem brighter.

One good thing I do have to say about Skyrim modding is that creating new spells is easier than in Oblivion. There are tons of new magic effects, and you are not limited in creating new ones. Just find an existing effect that is close to what you want, and tinker with it.


Grits: Kyne's Sacred Trials is one I am leaving out. That quest makes no sense to me. You are supposed to honor Kyne by killing her sacred animal spirits? That is like Jesus' Sacred Trials being to kill the ghosts of the Apostles... It ought to be something like going around and killing all the hunters in Skyrim instead. Then you would be protecting Kyne's animals.


The animals of Skyrim owe their allegiance to Amaterasu

Doesn't his arms ever get tired?

Amaterasu takes the blessing of Dibella

A priestess meets all kinds of people on the road, starting with these Vigilants of Stendarr

Then a mercenary. Her helmet looks so happy.

This was quite a collection of travelers

Amaterasu praises Kyne for her blessings