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Pretty! Again I like the blurriness. Those seem more like cell pics than PC screenies.

Here are some new Mycharonna pics.

Hungry for blood (I tried to capture the mood in this one, I don't think it comes through in this pic, but I still like it anyways).

A Spider's View

The Listener Listens

Ma'iq is tired now, go bodder somebody else

Mycharonna has a fondness for Khajiit, so Ma'iq is safe with this one.

Thank you.
Yeah I like the effect as well - Sweetfx and inebriation! (amongst other things)...

Some more:

On protection duty - (long story, well there's a history here).
Please don't hurt her!
Negotiating...
Curiously observing.
Sapphire.
In for the decision.
Eilidh, I'm not surprised, you were always Brynjolf's...
Riften under clouds.

Walking with Bronjolf...
...there's a lot going on here. Bronjolf is going to set some people to help locate Him, Eilidh is going to lend a hand with "Business", and both of them will have someone warm for the nights. It's not a popular choice with the rest of the Guild - Eilidh is perhaps Bronjolf's Yoko Ono, but the rest of them can F**K Off as far Bronjolf is concerned.
Eilidh is not a thief, but she's the next best thing.
Bronjolf and her are not "A Couple", but they are as close as the two are ever likely to get.
The net draws on her attacker, and she's thankful for that. Riften has always been home to her and none more so than now, it seems.

It seems.

Waterfall
Sunset at Fort Amol
In Clearspring One and Two
Sneaking in the dungeons
Torch
Sneaking, face closeup
Torch, front

Nice screenies Phon!

Elidh's in mine and Ravos' favorite part of Skyrim. The scenery in the woods at the edge of the Volcanic Tundra make for good screenshots, and of course Elidh looks 100% badass..

Up to no good
Under the meadery
Through here, I think
Whiterun
The long walk back
Under new management...
...Another shot
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The wine is calling, I think...

(New episode now up on Eilidh's fanfic thread.)

Here are a few from recent adventures:

Ninette redecorates the Hall of the Elements.

Lildereth in the Barrrow (as an NPC). She quite likes this outfit. I’m sure she’ll want it in her own game.

Bannor reinvented as an archer (plus Nature Summoning, yay!). His mage version was a little too fond of the library.

I just thought this was funny.

Grits, when I first saw Bannor in the title of that screen, I was looking for one of the gang's horses!

Oh, that is a funny one about the necronecronecrodude.

He does not look very happy about being the Novice's Apprentice!

For comparison here's Banner taking his ease in rainy Lakeview. As you can see he put on a little weight during the trip from Cyrodiil.

I can only imagine how pleased that Novice must have been at the opportunity to raise his superior as a zombie. Death would not be very peaceful for a necrodude!

I forgot to mention, I like Lil's outfit. What mod is that from?

That’s the Boiled Leather Cuirass from Common Clothes. It’s craftable on the Tanning Rack under Imperial. She’s wearing it with the black gauntlets and boots from the Thieves Guild set that I made unenchanted and craftable as 'Forester' gear.

S'Krawni, my Khajiit thief, has been assembling a Shrine to Dibella in the basement of her Lakeview home. The candles were a lucky find. A thief that got himself killed in Riften had them in his inventory and I happened to drop them and discover they were lit. So I gave her a few more and she arranged them on the shrine base with the statues and stuff.

That actually looks really nice!

Being the new Guild-master and a Nightingale and all that, she'd really have preferred a shrine to Nocturnal instead. However, the only statues in the game are the Dibella ones, and Hearthfires provides a shrine, too. I discovered that although there is only one base form for the statue, it gets placed at a number of different scales, so they aren't all the same size. I she wants more, I have to get them from the right place to get the right size.

I've been considering making a miniature version of the Nocturnal shrine in the cistern for domestic use, but haven't got around to that yet. It will need to be a misc item to allow it to be picked up and dropped and re-positioned, and the cistern shrine isn't one.

She'd also taken Haelga's more elaborate Dibella statue, and tried using that, but it seems that it won't stay where it's put. That's probably because it remains the same formid after passing through the player inventory. All the stuff we placed after dropping it gets an "ff" formid, and retains its location. The Hearthfires Dibella shrine activator is placed by the DLC, and I haven't tried to move it after making it at the workbench.

I didn't make a mod for this, it's all done using SetAngle and SetPos command through the console, which is laborious but reliable. But the lack of choice in candles, and statues, may make me do a mod eventually.

ghastley, that looks great! S’Krawni, lol. Excellent find on the thief candles. Marius will keep an eye out for those.


Here’s one of mine from a little while ago. Otto (the redhead on the right) was taken to jail as a result of Vilja and Erik the Slayer “murdering” two Thalmor while Otto was occupied at the Word Wall by Meridia’s Beacon. I guess he was reported by a bunny or something. The surprise was upon exiting the prison he found two of their horses waiting inside the city.

Shortly after that they had a big quest glitch. That part should not have been surprising.

Do I know any of these guys?

Grits, Eeep! I hope Marius doesn't hear a quiet voice behind him saying, 'You're next.'

Looks like there's a new sheriff in town!

This is kind of a neat area. It's a tower near Falkreath. Notice there's no floor here: all this stuff is floating in the middle of air!

Is that Bannermist Tower?

I believe so. I'll have to check Mych's map next time I see her.

Just a few scrnies of Hess


Camped just inside the gate at Whiterun.

The big guy knock Hess out with an axe, it really pissed her off.

Another assassin...ah...Hess...I think he's dead...Ok?

Hess finally crafted and enchanted some nicer armor. (Mostly enchanted for warmth, Skyrim's weather is hard on Redguards)

Hess spent the better part of the night cornered on a boulder by two bears. Then upon resuming her way north saw this...she took the better part of valor choice (exit right...very quickly)

runlykhel -

If I may ask, what mod are you using for camping?

Hee! I can see why that new armor needs some serious resist cold enchanting!

Hess (I keep thinking her first name is Rudolph, wacky history girl I am) looks very cool behind the campfire.

Stacking the bodies on the fire is hilarious!

I think that new outfit will need an awful lot of resist frost enchanting!

Yes...lots of frost enchantments here. Don't want her to catch her death just to entertain the GOTC (God of the Controller)

I'm sure this is a little warmer.

Hess felt this goddess was a kindred spirit.

Meet the new leader of the thieves guild. (She says she can't breath and is heading home for something more comfortable.)

Acadian; "Camping Kit of the Northern Ranger", comes with two types of camp setups and a store outside of Riverwood.

Glad to see Hess is having fun with thievery!

Oh, thanks for the name of that mod. I pulled it up on Nexus and do believe it looks better than what I'm using.

Hess gains power

Hess made her way to Ivarstead and set up camp for the night. One of the villagers laid down in Hess’s tent, then realized the error of his ways and left- probably saved his life. Hess stared at the flames for a while thinking.

The next morning Hess started up the 7000 steps.

Hess gets accepted by the Greybeards.

Then walks out to the high point and surveys the world at her feet.

A few days later Hess finds a family of kindred spirits.

Note; Hess loved her little leather outfit, but the Redguard in her just couldn’t keep warm enough in the northern part of Skyrim. For some reason she really likes the Vampire armor over the DB or TG armor- and arguing with Hess seems to be hazardous to one’s health.

I agree - the vamp outfit looks good. Buffy just can't bring herself to wear it though. Similar story with the Imperial light armor and the Stormcloak officer armor - both look good. But all that stuff has too much baggage.

Hess goes to college

Last job before school.

Making breakfast before the trip to college.

Put it somewhere else, I'm NOT sharing a room.

I'll be right down, NO I wasn't lost.

This was supposed to be a field trip.

I have no idea.

Which led to this and this.

Ok, this is spooky.

You! you think you can beat me? Yep.

Well, I did need some more troll fat.

It felt really good to shove my hot blade into his dirty Thalmor chest.

Oh...but the fun didn't stop there. (Yes, Hess is really smiling.)

The newest Archmage in her new quarters.

Hello Skyrim...

Nice tour of the College. Looks like Hess enjoyed herself. I bet it did indeed feel good to get rid of that Thalmorian 'emissary' to the College.

Just a quick screenshot of Velith Telvanni - a.k.a. Vicuña because she's soft, silky and VERY expensive. This is with Ethereal Elven Overhaul, from which I need to determine how to extract the morphs, normal maps etc. so that she can look the same as an NPC. Coincidentally, she's just become Arch-mage too. Now she's studying further with Master Neloth on Solstheim.

The skin shade and hair color are standard, but that face may be hard to reproduce as an NPC. Dark elves get baggy eyes whatever you do until the normal map is replaced, and I'm not sure if that's possible for a single character. Her eyes are Karliah's, except that I had to clone them before I could use them. Still trying to figure that restriction out.

Thanks to a mod I found, she has carpet matching the drapes. You'll have to take my word for that.

Wow, purple eyes. Gold hair. Sweet!

Hess; Dragonborn, Thieves Guild Master, Arch-mage, Listener-Leader of The Dark Brotherhood, and part time blacksmith-craftsman, is enjoying herself.

Hess slipped into Markarth, killed the cook who knew the Gourmet, and was leaving…it was the perfect crime until…A Thalmor walked into the Hall… (No, Hess, No…face-palm) Hess put a poison arrow through his chest, then ran out into the street heavily pursued into this. Hess surrendered to the nearest guard, bribed him for half her fine, then walked nonchalantly back inside and looted the body to recoup some of her fine. (The GOTC went to get an adult beverage, and could be heard muttering, “Hess…Hess…Hess…”, and shaking his head.)

Um…Hess…you don’t look like an Orc…

Shadowmere is not sure what to think of his new master digging in the dirt.

Finding an opening in heavy armor, this one lost his head over Hess, and then Hess takes a much needed rest.

Hess arrives at the Dawnstar sanctuary to check on her family, then made a stop at her house in Whiterun to make some repairs to her armor and weapons, then on to Riften to make some arrangements with her guild to repair the Dark Brotherhood’s new home.

Hess needed some R&R so headed north…looking forward to some quiet time in her college quarters.

ghastley - Velith indeed looks expensive!

runlykhel - Those Arch Mage robes and Shadowmere really suit Hess. Love the glowy eyes on Shadowmere.

ghastley, Vicuña looks great! No trace of the facial lumps and bags that plague less expensive Dunmeri lasses. I love her coloring.

runlykhel, the picture of Shadowmere watching her Dragonborn, Thieves Guild Master, Arch-Mage, Listener mistress mine ore made me grin. A blacksmith has to do her own dirty work! I love the picture outside the Dawnstar sanctuary. The clouds, aurora, and Shadowmere’s glowing eyes look awesome together.

I've been adjusting the texture on Vicuña's outfit, and I think it's about where I want it.

The original version senn in her portrait before and here used desaturated versions of the Vampire and Telvanni outfit textures, so was basically greyscale. I tinted that with a bit of purple, and got this and this. Still fairly subdued, but with a bit of her own hue.

She's wearing Black mage boots with it, enchanted to carry more. The circlet and necklace were given to her by Savos Aren, the Arch-mage before her. She inherited his robes, but I moved the enchantment over to her own.

ghastley, I love the new color on Vicuña. It looks great with her eyes, if anyone actually looks at her eyes. I also like her silver and blue jewelry. Very nice!


Added: Here are a few from my recent game maintenance efforts. (Hmm, it seems that Imgur has changed something. Sorry about the messy pages. I'll see what I'm doing wrong.)

Weirdness at Lakeview Manor. This guy showed up inside the house and played a dialog scene with Valdi and Abiene. (The one about the big strong man.) Lil followed him outside to find out who he was. What the heck?!

Traffic jam in Rorikstead.

Marius catches some rays.

Abiene lets her hair down.

Jerric checks out the goods at Beirand’s smithy.

Flash puts his two Septims in. Everyone loves the conversation bench at Lakeview Manor.

Ha I love the traffic jam. All they are just admiring the dragon bones? .. Jerric checking out some booty cracks me up.

And in general, all the Lakeview pictures remind me of Lord Haaf-Mersey surrounded his women. Mjoll motormouthing 'What do u need, my love?' over and over, and then glitching out and walking backwards. Rayya the Overkiller standing around, impatient for her next adventure. Lucia wanting to play tag or hide 'n' seek.

Abienne looks like she's got dreadlocks. What mod is that?

Yep, the townsfolk all came running up after the dragon battle. It was pretty funny.

That’s an ApachiiSkyHair style that Abiene gave herself with The Hairstyler. It’s the same curly style that Valdi has, it’s just hard to see the curls with dark hair. (Channah had dreads from that mod.) The hairstyler mod uses a spell to give the character a wig. You can use it on NPCs as well. I’m delighted to be able to give Abiene her “real” hair in Skyrim. She tames it most of the time, so her usual and NPC style is the falling-down bun. Though there’s a different bun she’s going to try the next time she’s in Riften, since that face sculptor is also a hair stylist.

What is Skaggi doing in Abbie's house!

I love the traffic jam. Imagine what one fireball could do...

Looks like Marius is waiting for the sun to go down so he can get to work!

It's about time Abbie let her hair down!

I see Jerric is definitely checking out the goods!

It looks like Flash and Jerric are having a conversation.

Thanks for the wonderful screenies, Grits!

Haven’t touched Hearthfire. As Buffy rather whimsically says, “Everytime I think about putting down roots, my wings get in the way.”

Wow (Rorikstead) – No doubt some of Jerric’s handiwork drew that crowd.

Marius looks every bit the thief that I imagine he is!

Neat to see Abiene’s hair down. I went back to your first screen (Weirdness at Lakeview) to review, as it shows a real good view of how Abiene’s hair looks when it’s up in the bun.

No doubt about what Jerric’s lookin’ at!

Aww, horses always steal the show, don’t they? And my two faves – the paint and palomino. Of course, after staring at the horses for more than a few seconds, I finally noticed little Lil over on the right side of the picture.

From the better-late-than-never department: Did you start a conversation with him before fast-travelling home? I've noticed that NPC's will continue conversations - especially ones they've started - across cell changes. So guards that are remarking on your skills will follow you indoors to do so. Since the game sees no difference between any cell changes, no matter the logical distance/time difference, they just keep chatting.

Nope, but thanks for mentioning the possibility. Lil had never seen that guy before or discovered his mine location. She had been in and out of the house for a little while picking vegetables and such and not fast traveled to get there, which is why I was so puzzled. Didn’t know he was there until she heard him talking to Valdi and Abiene. I’m thinking it might be some mod madness where someone didn’t mean to alter him. Lil's game has survived a lot of changes.

I’ve also had a Legion courier run through the interior of Lakeview Manor while my character was inside, but that was in a game with more random encounter mods. Thankfully he was not pursued by a patrol of Stormcloaks.

Acadian, the palomino and paint are also Jerric’s two favorites. The palomino is a slightly blonder and significantly thicker Kip in his world. Abiene rides Kip when they’re traveling. She has the sense not to ask to borrow Flash!

Aww what a beautiful shot of the crew out on the road!

Abie looks wonderful on her golden giant! And I love the ghostly Sabrecat following behind.

Uh oh, Marius. Better bring backup.

That is great how the game picks characters like that! First it was Lildreth, now Jerric!