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

[King Coin]

I do not envy the orc in the first screen.

That Dibella quest was fun. Aravi did it as well.

I like the road pictures. The merc must like her job. Who’s the big guy always maintaining a respectful distance?

Who has the pet Skeever?

[Acadian]

I see what you mean about the hood and how much it adds to the robe with its attractive scarfing and caping. Yes, too bad you can’t have a version with the hood drawn back onto her shoulders.

A nice tour of life on the road for the traveling Priestess. Happy helmet –

It was neat to see Amaratsu communing with a sprig – I love them!

[Grits]

How funny, a smiling helmet! It looks like young Erik is finally getting to see the world. What a gathering by the bridge! Is that Amaterasu’s tame skeever? How does she get along with her fellow crusaders for the Eight or Nine, the Vigilants of Stendarr? She doesn’t look too thrilled with them in the picture.

I love the one with the spriggan. I’ve always wondered if spriggans would battle porcupines and beavers that go after their sacred trees.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: The big buy behind Amaterasu is Erik the Slayer. Ama hired him on to help her take on the hagraven at Orphan Rock. That skeever is a wild one. Ama Kyne's Peaced him to make him non-aggro, and while she and Erik and Maurice were standing beside it, the 'Cloaks came along. I found a mod that lets you play as a Draugr, and I am thinking of creating a skeever companion for her.


Acadian: One thing I like about Skyrim is that its roads are a lot more lively than those of Oblivion. In Ob, the wilderness is pretty much devoid of anything except monsters. In Skyrim, you find more travelers of one stripe or another sharing the road with you.


Grits: Ama is not thrilled with the Vigilants. Their manners are atrocious! The need to learn a thing or two about decorum.

I have never seen any beavers or porcies in the ES games. Or woodpeckers. So I guess the Spriggans did not like them!



A tree grows in Brooklyn Whiterun

Hooking up a ghost with his girlfriend

This guy gets all the chicks!

Amaterasu teamed up with this babe magnet to save Dawnstar's dreams

That is going to leave a mark...

Spriggan after dark

A vid of Amaterasu's College field trip to Saarthal


This post has been edited by SubRosa: Nov 21 2012, 04:57 AM

[Acadian]

Screens: Pretty how that tree catches the light. Aww, helping a ghost. That’s a good shot of the scarf/hood thing on that guy – the same one that Amaratsu wears. Who knew that gurls dig guys in dresses with hoods? At least he and Amy go to the same clothier - Fashion Boutique of the Eight perhaps? Whoa, she’s going to catch a snowball in the face! The sprigs are. . . interesting; they sort of remind me of Oblvion glass armor.

Vid: Amaratsu’s style is unique. She seems to charge ahead full of high powered spells with nary a thought to her own defense (except killing the baddies quickly). Best defense is a good offence, I gather. Oh, there she goes – she did wisely back away from the dude with horns on his hat to avoid getting hit and use her range advantage. Ugh – puzzles. That would have sent us for either the exit or the wiki straight away – hate ‘em. But Amaratsu figured them out very cleverly. I couldn’t follow what was up with the big dude at the end who seemed indestructible – then got killed. Fun to watch though!

[Grits]

I loved seeing the sapling in Whiterun as it is supposed to look. My games have the bug where the old tree doesn’t go away.

I found myself scanning the sky over Amaterasu’s shoulder in the picture where she is talking to Fenrig. Between the dragons, the wolves, the giants, and the mammoths it seems there’s always a little excitement there. Gjukar really did pick a bad place to camp!

Babe magnet, LOL. That’s a great picture.

Wow, thank you for the excellent look at Arkay’s Wrath! What a neat spell! I love the blue smoke when the undead go back to dead. Plus it looks so pretty in Amaterasu’s golden hand. How liberating to have a character who doesn’t loot. My favorite moment was carefully moving the draugr leg to get at the Blisterwort.

Oh that deathlord’s sword looked cool! Glowing runes!! I was rolling when Ama stood up and un-spelled when those puzzle pillars kept moving.

Did she find the amulet and staff?

[King Coin]

When I did the quest for the tree, Aravi opted to restore the tree. Knowing what happens now, I think the sapling option is a better one.

Who’s the ghost? I don’t think I’ve seen him before. Looks like those plains west of Whiterun too.

@ the ‘babe magnet.’ I remember everyone complaining about his voice when I showed that quest.

I really like the way the spriggans look in Skyrim, and how they sometimes just step out of trees.

Does the ward actually help against physical attacks? Aravi’s always cut through them pretty easily with her bow or swords. Maybe her opponents are sufficiently weak that even after the reduction they pack plenty of punch.

I love your custom spells. I have an idea, make one with the little magelight spell that you can stick to undead and it burns them and anything near them for however long the orb sticks around. I might have to do that myself as well.

Idiot Tolfdir, stomping around and setting off the traps that Amaterasu avoided. I was a little surprised she wasn’t interested in the book.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: I think they got their clothes from Divines Elegance. Amaterasu's playstyle is sort of like Renee's style with Dyan P'hor A'cauz. She does not sneak around. Instead she just boldly strides in with the power of the Nine Divines at her back, and smites evildoers. The puzzles in this game are not that bad. If you just look around enough, you will always find the clues you need to figure them out.


Grits: That tree is bugged in everyone's game, including mine. I had to use the console to disable and remove the old tree, and then enable the new one. Amaterasu does loot, but not in tombs. That would be disrespectful. She does pick plants for ingredients though. Indoors is the only place she will do that. My characters never pick plants outdoors, because it makes the world look less pretty. I wish there was a mod that would keep the plants looking in their original state after you harvest ingredients from them.

She did find the Gauldr amulet, but did not take it. Amaterasu only wears Nine Divines medallions.


King Coin: I have only done Danica's way once, just to see what happens, and I did not like how it turned out for everyone in Sanctuary afterward. The ghost is part of the Mara questline you get from the priestess in Riften. You have to reunite him with his dead girlfriend. The wards do help against physical attacks, although it never seems to block it all. I think it works the same as armor of the same value. So some damage always gets through. Amaterasu is my first character to really use them a great deal, and I am kind of iffy about them. The sticky Holy Light spell is a neat idea. I might try to make that one.


I did a little experimenting with a mod that lets you play as a draugr

The end result was Hela

She is very tomb-sheik

And likes to relax in the cool mountain air.

I am not really sold on the draugr mod though. It has a lot of bugs, which probably really cannot be fixed. The first person view has weird lighting issues, and you often see parts blurring around the top or sides, which I think are your character's teeth. The glowing eye effect is in the right spot for a male draugr, but is too high for the female version. So it looks like she has glowing dots in her eyebrows. I tried to offset that by using the console to add the regular draugr glowing eyes (which is in all my pics), but that also puts a black field around the character. If you wear a helmet it never appears, instead your hair vanishes and you look bald. Finally, even though you can equip any armor, you always look like you are wearing the Ancient Nord armor, even if you are wearing nothing at all. I had been thinking that Hela might wear a suit of armor or robes that completely covers her, with a full face helmet, and go into town in disguise that way. But it won't work. I think there are some other undead-type character mods out there that I might try instead. Whenever the Nexus starts working again.

[Acadian]

Old news: Shopping at 'Divines Elegance'! I love it!!!

Hela: Finally, you make a blue-eyed blonde and she’s dead? Eeep! Scary eyes indeed. I see she’s got some weaponry with glow in the dark blue markings to match those eyes.

[King Coin]

That's certainly something I haven't thought of, playing as a Draugr. I think I prefer the characters that haven't died once already. Too bad the mod isn't working as well as you thought it would though.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: Blonds do have more fun! Even from beyond the grave.

King Coin: I came upon the playable draugr mod by chance, and it got me thinking about it. I figured it would be a great opportunity to play a revenge-driven character, come back from the dead to get even with who or whatever killed them. But the mod has too many issues, so I am not going to continue her.


Instead I got the idea to try something slightly different. I went looking for some Snow Elf mods, and found a pre-Dawnguard one that adds 4 new elf races, including the Snow Elves. They were kind of blue-skinned, so I Photoshopped the skin to be white. I changed the name and their powers and the end result was my undead avenger.

I am still undecided on a name. I am probably going to still use Hela, but I am hemming and hawing over some other ones:
Hrafngrennir - "Raven Feeder" The Kenning term for an unburied corpse
Krakeit - "crows" A slang term used for the valkyrja, who were sometimes said to wear cloaks of crows feathers.

[King Coin]

I like her much better than the Draugr anyways. I love the glowing tattoo things.

[Acadian]

This new character looks like her flesh is in ever so much better condition. I dunno on some of the potential names. . . Krakeit sounds too much like Crackhead; isn’t that one of Renee’s characters?

[SubRosa]

King Coin: She is slightly better looking. I loved the tattoo things on the body too. Check out the mod it comes from.

Acadian: The new character is fresher. I am sure Falanu Hlaalu would approve.

With some help from Grits, I have decided to name her Revansch

There are wolves about...

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

After playing her for several hours, Revansch revealed to me that she was a dual-wielder, and insisted upon using these ancient Nord swords (which do go perfectly with her new outfit)

[Acadian]

You have a neat concept going with Revansch and I like the name, cleverly inspired by the appropriate word ‘revanent’. I imagine the climate of Skyrim, with its preservative temperatures, is very comfortable for this cool girl. Love the cape, and black is definitely her color.

[King Coin]

Love her look, of an undead woman anyways. I see you are using the tracks mod and the birds mod. How are they? I thought the birds one might be too much if they have any AI. Her armor and swords are perfect for her.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: It took me a while to figure out what Revansch was going to wear. Then it all came together at once. It is good to have a character wearing the Nightingale armor again, it is probably my favorite vanilla outfit in the game.

King Coin: I have not any performance issues with either mod. Tracks just uses decals, the same as blood, so the number of them and duration is dependent upon your game settings. If the vanilla decals are not slowing you down, these will not either. I am actually using two bird mods. Birds of Skyrim which adds all sorts of birds that walk around on the ground, and Birds and Flocks which puts more birds and bats in the sky. As far as I can tell, neither of them use an AI. They are the same as the salmon or hawks in the game. I like them both, as they add more atmosphere.

Revansch found a little lost dog (who helped her kill some vampires)

Bigger than the moon!

Dead girl-talk

Revansch is the reason you should not go out on the moors at night

Dinner is served

[King Coin]

Good to know on the mods, I’ve downloaded them and will try them.

I hope the pooch lasts a while. They are fragile.

That’s a neat shot of the moons and the ribbon of light between them. Oh and the giant I guess. I wonder what a female giant looks like; they must be invisible or something.

Brilliant screen shot of Revansch in the marsh. My favorite shot of her yet.

[Grits]

Wow, Revansch looks awesome while still definitely looking dead. Her outfit and swords look great! I love the Moors picture the most. You got a very Crow feeling in that one!

[Acadian]

Amazing shot of the giant! Loved ‘Dead girl-talk’. Oh, and the red glow in her hands in ‘Dinner is served’ is neat as can be!