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[SubRosa]

King Coin: I thought the vanilla Ghostblade was useless too. So I modded it to do more damage.

Funny about the armored troll. I never actually used it either. I just wanted to see what it would look like.

Everyone does look good in Elven Armor don't they? I guess we know which race thinks looking good is important.


Acadian: Darryl is a lot better than a many guys. He does not go out drinking all night. He does not sleep around. OTOH, not much of a looker though...

I never noticed that the Falmer's quiver was upside down! Now I wonder if any other ones are like that too?

The Dawnguard DLC adds armored trolls as animal companions you can buy. I actually took that and made a summoned version too. Though I have not used one yet.


Grits: That cavern is the one you go to in the Malacath quest, with the chief of that orc tribe. Revansch went there without doing the quest. It is a much quieter place.

That is the Ghostblade from Ansilvund in that pic. Like I said to KC, I modded up the damage quite a bit, to make it worthwhile. I thought it worked perfect for her, being undead and all.


Off with his head!

Evening coast

Darryl has been upgraded to a Draugr Lord. He Shouts now!

Down goes a dragon priest

Revanch feels like she is a member of Raczak's Roughnecks

Forgotten Vale

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 18 2012, 12:47 AM

[King Coin]

I wonder if Aravi should start using a bound sword. I just love the way they look.

Wow! The coast is such a beautiful screen shot!

That orc is so screwed. Armed only with a wood chopping axe. Darryl looks intimidating with his horned helmet. That helmet is not a welcome sight to Aravi.

Ugh. Aravi hates the chaurus, winged or not, as much as the spiders if not more.

The Forgotten Vale! Looks familiar to Aravi!

[Acadian]

More head severing if slow motion! Evening coast is chilly but beautiful – is that an errant Shade of the Revenant (coming down from the sky just left of center)? If so, how appropriate for Revansch! Oh, Darryl is looking pretty impressive now. And a couple nice action screens with unfamiliar foes. Forgotten Vale is beautiful with those jellyfish trees.

[Grits]

Woo, nice decap on Gian the Fist! He has actually killed one of my characters. Oh wow, Darryl looks very scary. What a great view of a chaurus hunter! I am always in a panic when I see them, especially since they ate my Nivoniel. Say, Revansch is avenging some of my fallen in this set of screens!

I like that view of Forgotten Vale very much. It's one of the spots that really feels like a magical world.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: The bound sword is good as an early weapon. But it gets outclassed at the higher levels because you cannot upgrade it, or enchant it. I have been modding the game to make the Dawnguard specific locations explorable without doing the questline. The Forgotten Vale is one of the places I was working on.


Acadian: I had to sever a lot of heads just to get that one good pic! That is not a shade of the revenant, thankfully. The necromancers in Skyrim do not have it so easy.


Grits: One of these days I am going to play a Falmer Hunter. Looks like Revansch is getting extra revenge now! She is more than happy to oblige.

I went back to Cyrodiil and Astarte for a while

Posing in the valley between the IC and Arcane University

To war

Taking the stone

I also took the time to climb into the cockpit of one of these and blast some rebel scum!

[Acadian]

The shots of Astarte look great and welcome back to Cyrodiil!

The Valley of Horses never looked so nice as with Astarte posing there!

That armor looks fabulous. Wonderful to see her doing the MQ since so few have the stones to undertake such dangers.

Uh oh, we’ve got Darth Rosa right on the tail of our X wing fighter!

[King Coin]

Back to Oblivion is it? I’ll be back there sometime. Does not look bad at all with those texture packs. Love the sky in the first one. I might have to check out the Skyrim version of that armor as well, it’s very good looking.

Taking the stone: I can imagine her saying “Miiiiiine” in an eeevvil voice.

Rebel scum this!

[Grits]

Great to see Astarte and Cyrodiil! I love the ones with the water. Very pretty.

[SubRosa]

Acadian: It is nice to get back to Cyrodiil again. I was in the mood for its bucolic atmosphere for some time. I was surprised to find the Valley of Horses filled with a pond and waterfall. It must be one of the additions from Unique Landscapes.

I have been tempted to reinstall X-Wing too! That and Tie Fighter have always been my favorite air combat games (well, if you can count space ships).


King Coin: Between QTP3 and Unique Landscapes, Oblivion almost feels completely new again. The quests are the same, but the world looks so much different.


Grits: That water is thanks to the Enhanced Water mod. I love how it looks too.


Astarte has her first glimpse of Silorn

What has become of her home?

A bittersweet homecoming

The necromancers within will feel the wrath of the last Queen of the Ayleids

Astarte does not have the heart to take up residence within the decrepit stones of her palace. Instead she sets up a tent outside.

The interior is not spectacular, but cozy

Astarte's heart is assuaged by a friendly citizen of nearby Skingrad

Falanu has put a smile upon Astarte's face

In the process of clearing the undesirables from her domain, Astarte found the aftermath of a battle between two goblin tribes

This bandit was well camouflaged

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 22 2012, 03:33 AM

[King Coin]

Aww... Her home is nothing but a ruin.

I had a feeling that the squatters were going to be forcefully evicted from her former home. What a neat tent! Is that a mod off of Nexus, or did you make it?

Astarte is Falanu’s type isn’t she. The bandits don’t even leave the (un)dead alone. That’s one thing I don’t miss, every bandit being Khajiit.

This post has been edited by King Coin: Dec 22 2012, 07:09 AM

[Acadian]

Again, so nice to see you back in Cyrodiil! Astarte is a great character and suits you well. Great screens all, and you really capture her bittersweet homecoming.

[SubRosa]

King Coin: The tent is from one of those portable tent mods. I took the meshes and textures and used them as a static instead, and created a new cell for the interior.

In Skyrim every highwayman is a Dunmer!

Acadian: It was nice to get back to Cyrodiil. But I got an idea for a Sky character, so the visit was short.


Unto the breach once more

Slugging it out with a Daedroth

Meet Aja

Aja enjoys a song from a wandering minstrel and wastrel

Dorthe is having fun

It seems Dawnstar is plagued by nightmares

I was going to use the Crimson Ranger armor with Aja, but I noticed that it has a hole in the neck, leaving the skeleton underneath exposed. So I am trying out new outfits. I am thinking of the royal vampire armor.

Brown Thieves Guild armor

Scout Armor

Eisen Platte

I am thinking either the royal vampire armor or the brown leather. The Scout armor is too green, it does not go with her skin. The Eisen Platte is pretty, but that is the problem with it too. I do not like the monster-faced choker the vamp armor has. Otherwise I think it looks good. OTOH, the brown TG armor is perhaps just a bit too plain. But it's color goes with Aja's skin, and it fits the setting very well. I toyed with some of the Triss color variations, but they look too much like clothing and not enough like armor. Same with the Alvin Hew (Roadstroker) outfit.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 25 2012, 05:41 AM

[Grits]

I like how the fire is reflected in Astarte’s armor.

Aja looks great! I love the Thieves Guild armor on her. I like the last two very much as well, since they cover up the stabable parts.

[King Coin]

Oblivion gates. That is one thing from Oblivion I don’t miss. Never liked how they ruined the scenery. Plus I was pretty young when I first started playing Oblivion and they freaked me out. Those are some good shots, especially with the daedroth.

I recognize Aja’s armor. I briefly considered that one for Aravi, but I think I found a problem with it like you did. On Aravi anyways, there was a gap just under the belt. Too bad, because it looks really nice.

What a funny glitch, seeing the child up there!

Not a fan of the Vamp armor. Looks ok on your character, but it looks totally bizarre on Aravi.

Depending on her role, I vote for TG or the scout armor. Eisen Platte looks too ornate for my taste. I guess it would work if she was a royal body guard, or royalty herself.

[Grits]

I like the Royal Vampire armor as an outfit better than as armor. Nivoniel sometimes wore vampire armor as clothing but switched into TG when she might get dirty. She didn’t want blood and sweat trickling down the cleavage. But with her crossbow Aja might not have that problem. (Niv still got hit a lot.)

I wonder how the Diadem of the Savant looks with the RV armor? It’s classified as light armor, but I’m not sure how it interacts with various perks.

It’s the coloring that I like best about the TG on Aja. I love her skin tone and hair.

[Acadian]

I’m with Grits on Astarte – her armor is so very Arimerishly appropriate for her!

Aja does indeed look great. Whatever she is wearing in the ‘Meet Aja’ (and wandering minstrel) screenshots is by far and away my fave of the outfits.

Tell us more about her!

[King Coin]

Whatever she is wearing in the ‘Meet Aja’ (and wandering minstrel) screenshots is by far and away my fave of the outfits.

That is the one that is broken.

[SubRosa]

Grits: I like the Royal Vamp outfit best of the vamp gear. The cape gives it a neat touch. The thing I do not like about all the vamp armors is how they leave the top of your chest bare. Though granted, the vanilla hide, studded, and fur armors are much worse!

*imagines sweat trickling down Niv's cleavage* Are you sure Niv would not want that? I can think of some situations where that would be really nice. The blood OTOH, I could definitely do without.

Joking aside, Aja is a crossbowwoman first. But she still gets into the thick of things with sword and shield as well. So something that actually looks like armor would be nice.

Diadem of the Savant is over in the Rift right? Just outside of that hunter's shack in the mountains, with the kid who survived Helgen? Amaterasu tried that on once, but did not like how it looked.


Acadian: I like that red and white outfit best as well. The trouble is it this hole in her chest, just under the neck. I never noticed it before, but it was in Neith's pics too. From some angles you cannot see it. But now that I know its there, its all I can think of.


King Coin: I never liked how the ruins of the gates always stay behind too. That is why most of my characters do not do the main quest. Well one reason at least.

I never noticed a gap under the belt on the Crimson Ranger Armor. It is the first mod the creator ever made, which is probably why. It is too bad, because the rest of the armor is outstanding, one of the best I have ever seen.

Now you have given me the idea of playing a princess with another character. That would give me a good reason to use the Eisen Platte. It is just too hard for me to justify a character wearing it. In Oblivion the more outlandish armors do not seem that out of place. But in Skyrim they really do seem too strange to me. I think OB just has a more superheroish feel to me.


I never tried the original Triss outfit. I think its colors look really good on Aja

As KC said before, everyone looks good in Elven Armor. But I also really like how the cloth pieces complement Aja's hair and skin.

It has come down to these two. I love the look of the original Triss, but it does not look very armory. It is more of an outfit for a squishy mage type. The Elven looks good, but with Aja being a Redguard from Hammerfell that seems like an Israeli wearing an SS uniform. Then again, Hannibal outfitted his army with captured Roman armor and weapons after Cannae. And the Romans of course stole most of their best armor and weapon ideas from their neighbors in the first place. Maybe it is a family heirloom, won by Aja's mother in the Great War? I like that idea.

All of this really illustrates what kind of a gamer I am. I sit and agonize for days over what to wear, rather than my character's stats!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Dec 25 2012, 10:55 PM

[King Coin]

I don't remember where exactly the gap was, but I noticed it when I was free camming around the front of the armor. Wish I knew how to do 3d modeling and rigging.

Glad I gave you a new character idea!

Original Triss does look very nice, and it gets my vote. Doesn't look like armor like you said, but it does look appropriate for a crossbow and sword character. Either choice you make, she'll look great.

And looks always come before stats! Just ask Buffy!

This post has been edited by King Coin: Dec 25 2012, 09:56 PM

[SubRosa]

I decided to go with Elven, and in the future she might upgrade to Glass. After all this time of fiddling with mods, I am ending up with clothes from the vanilla game!

Aja has journeyed all the way to Skyrim to visit her older sister Ramati at Frostflow Lighthouse...

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Sudi's Journal

Ramati's Journal

Mani's Letter

Bloodstained Note

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