That armor looks even better when it's been buffed up.

TheCheshireKhajiit: They came out well, better than I had hoped for.

I don't think we have seen Brenna in a while. I think you had her here before.


Renee: It is kind of nice having a real world idea to try to cleave to, or at least be inspired by. It gives me some focus when I creating the faces.


Acadian: Ryo is enjoyable to play. I can get into his head pretty easily, thanks to how well I know him from the Stormcrow fic.


macole: I really like that Dragon Aspect shout. But because it is a once per day, I rarely think to use it. I am always saving it for later, so that I never actually use it.


This does not look like the Go Kart track by January's house

Feeling out of place

"Over the shoulder a piano falls, crashing to the ground...

Rats, why is it always rats?

Sunset archer

Uh oh, Skyrim new game. Who's this now? January?

That's Ryo!

Haha, I figure it is the rarity of you playing a fellow. When I saw Ryo, I just saw a generic soldier and was looking for your gurl.

Acadian: It is a stretch for me to play a male character. But I know Ryo so well, playing him is almost second nature.




Speaking of which, Avery has entered the chat

Skyrim has a weird Uber

Larry, Darryl, and Darryl

Avery is geared up in the Gadget Armor

Ah, I've got some pictures to share, too. Keep forgetting...

Avery looks fine, rockin' the DG armor. Compliments his skin tone.

And from earlier pics: whoa, is that Ryo? Yeah it is. I've been picturing him with that slight bit of facial hair.

Love the sunset pic. ☀

Avery looks good. SubRosa playing boyz? Heavens to Mergatroid!

Dwemer armor is the ONLY choice for Dragonborn Gadget - was there ever any doubt?

Renee: The Dawnguard armor made for a nice temporary outfit, before he could craft himself the Gadget Armor.

Both Ryo and Avery have a little bit of facial hair, thanks to their inspirations also having the same.


Acadian: Heavens to Megatron indeed! I know Avery and Ryo so well thanks to the Stormcrow fic, that they just feel normal. Plus they have been mainstay party members in the team-based games like Icewind Dale and Pillars of Eternity.

I tried the other armors to see how they would look on Avery. But Dwemer is the only one that looks even close to a suit of powered armor. Sadly the helmet hides his face, even with the Open Face Helmet mod I have. I tried another mod that adds an open face Dwemer Helm, but it just does not look right.


Avery thinks this guy is full of fake news

No one escapes from Cidnha Mine, until now...

"Um.... hi Forsworn dudes. I'm not going to ask any questions about these dead bodies you are standing over."

The Stormcrow has returned to Skyland as well

Is this my ride-share?

January thinks this guy is full of fake news

January's new foster son brought home a... mudcrab?

At first glance I thought Avery's helm was a snake wrapped around his head.

M'aiq rules!

Cindha Mine, that's the Markath quest, right? I remember playing that on Xbox, getting REALLY excited to be a prisoner, for some reason. But it was not as immersive as I thought it'd be. It was too easy to get out of.

That'd be a great mod idea, if someone hasn't done it yet. Really flesh out the inmate experience! 🔑 Have fist-fights occur, and so on.

Is Avery allied with Forsworn? Love that pic of them all gathered around.

And there's Miss Stormy. She's the one who's game became too easy, right? Those sort of games are still fun, at least for a couple hours. It's fun being an Uber for awhile!

Kids can bring home nasty mudcrabs, yes. Maybe you can go Photoshop and paint its carapace some pretty colors.

I recall that boys may adopt a mudcrab or skeever, and girls have a rabbit or a fox. Homeowner decides if they go or stay.

The fun part is the Hearthfire houses can get infested with skeevers, and that takes no regard for whether there’s a pet one in the house at the time.

Really? Wow, never seen that.

That would be fun if we could get a Predator animal into a Hearthfire home. Put those skeevers into the Prey Faction. There'd have to be some sort of cleanup script, I guess, to clean the corpses.

What would a TES game be without M’aiq the fake newster?

Those Forsworn are snappy dressers. ESO did a good job differentiating those of the Reach from regular Bretons – the former all speak with a Scottish brogue and it really ‘fits’.

Welcome back to January as well.

Saw a mudcrab the other day. Nasty creatures but brought it home anyway.

I think it may be different on consoles. I remember the boy in my game bringing a fox home, and the girl indeed wanting a rabbit, and I wasn't all too sure how that would go if both were allowed to stay...

macole: I didn't like the Dwarven helm, so I swapped it out for an Elven one, since it is also golden.


Renee: That is the Markarth quest, where you uncover the Forsworn plot with the Silverbloods, go in the mine, and either help Madanach escape, or kill him (or both!).

Avery is definitely not allied to the Forsworn! He walked up to find them standing over those dead guys, whom I presume they had just killed. For some reason they did not turn hostile upon Avery. Just one of those weird glitches ES games get when the bad guys don't attack for some reason.

I always eventually have the problem of the game getting too easy once my characters get too high level. So I have been adding more difficulty by capping how high I take the Enchanting skill, and I stopped using a mod that allows you to skip over perks that you did not want to take, but have to in order to unlock other ones higher up the tree. That sort of thing.


ghastley: I think I had the skeever infestation happen once with the Lakeview house, years ago. If I recall correctly in the process of killing the skeevers, I also killed my kid's pet skeever as well, because I could not tell them apart.


Acadian: That's interesting that the made the regular Bretons Scottish. Usually Bethesda goes with a mix of Gaelic and French names for the Bretons. Since Breton = Brittany IRL, and the people there now are the descendants of those who migrated from south-western England a long time back.

Both January and I were thinking the same thing. Okay kid, whatever you want.


Burning for you

Valhalla Awaits

Relating the Saga of King Olaf

Disco Inferno

Lopoved

A game at dinner

Valhalla awaits, indeed. Plenty of "Valhalla" moments in this game.

Whoa, there she is, right in Laprima's home! Yeah, that has to get worked into the story, somehow.

Looks like someone got King Olaf alight. Wonder who that could be?

In my gameworld this was originally Lord Haaf-Mersey, long ago. But the thing is, LHM didn't join Bards College until later, well into the Year 202 perhaps. But it looks like Jan actually got the party going well before... Spleck!

What's going on in the final picture? Unfamiliar to me.

The last picture is from the Sheogorath quest. That is him on the right. It was... really lame. Now I remember why I usually avoid that quest.

Old news: Sorry for any confusion - ESO used the Scottish brogue on the Reachmen and it suits them really well. Regular Bretons talk like. . . regular Bretons.


The combat shots are great, replete with Stormcrow being stormy.

I'll bet Laprima is relieved to know that Stormcrow took care of that naggingly dangerous bard questing and burning of King Olaf's effigy stuff for her.

I resurrected Mzthlft, my Dwemer ghost character to tesy some new stuff for Forsworn Hearthfires. Or should that just be brought back, as she's still a ghost?

Anyhow, I liked this screen shot.


You look pale. Are you sickening for something?

That is a good one. Not often you encounter a friendly ghost.

And when you do, they always have a quest for you that turns out harder than you expected, right?

Really pretty, that ghost is.

I've always had a bit of an idea to play a ghost, a spectre, a lich, whatever. Way on the back burner. What does Mzthlft do, other than test mod stuff?

I think that's probably all my characters do! I'm playing her as a pure mage. No armor, no weapons, just magic.

Mzulft has a rather complex puzzle needed for a quest. You cannot even enter it otherwise.

Wait, was that a real question?

EDIT: Sorry, it's Mzthlft, not Mzulft. A woman, not a dungeon... Never mind.

Where the girls are

Red Dead

Sneaking

Jan meets Andre the Giant

All praise the mighty Carbohydrate!

Dragon flight

The Dark Brotherhood has fallen

Lotsa ladies in one place!

Neat coloring in Red Dead.

Andre the Giant – isn’t that one of Darryl’s cousins?

Yes, those Skyrimers sure like their bread!

Dragon flight is a beautiful shot. Love Jan’s shield.

DB – Good Riddance!

Acadian: I guess January is just a chick magnet! Not!

The Red Dead is January using a Detect Life spell that I made. Hostiles all glow red.

Andre is probably Darryl's great-great uncle.

I made January's shield using a raven banner clipart logo that I found online, and then put into a viking shield mod.

The Dark Brotherhood made the mistake of picking on Jan. She picked back harder.


Jan and the teacher on a school field trip

It's an anime villain and a banana-man!

Is this an Elf thing?

Hot helmet

Time for some double-fisted magic action!

Shocking

Rocking out with a fellow bard

Falling

Falling

Falling some more

Falling with water

Still falling

Have not stopped falling yet

Water Landing!

I am for sure not touching that helm.

How deep is that pit?

The Psijic Banana!

Shocking? Well that happens when you are called Stormcrow.

That’s a long fall indeed!

macole: I did not touch the helmet either. It looked so nice like that, I didn't want to disturb it.

That is probably the deepest pit in the game. It is in Kagrenezel. It is quite the drop.


Acadian: Apparently the Psjic Order are big Bananarama fans...

Lightning is never too far away where Stormcrow is involved.


Old Blue Eyes is back

Mother and Daughter

What is it? Dragons!

The Lady and the Vamp

The Mothman Prophecies

Goldeneye

Dragon Battle

Showdown with Harkon

Hit me with your best shot

Disintegration

January met a guy named Darryl...

Mother & daughter, nice! They actually do look related. I assume one is Raven, who's the other? Hmmm. Serana's probably one of them. Can't tell which vampire, though.

Hit 'im with your best shot, indeed. Pat Benatar, whoo!

Love the dragon shots. I've been playing Skyrim this whole winter, getting my gaming fix with Claire Voyance and Sir Vyvoor, while occasionally gaming with Laprima for the story, yet I haven't been taking too many pics. Kinda wish I had been.

Harkon gets owned. That'd be rad if you could make a Hierophant NPC and pwn him, too.

Yay, Darryl's back!

'What is it? Dragons!' is a fabulous shot of that dragon - and of Stormcrow with her signature shield.

I vaguely remember battling that pair of dragons out on the ice.

Corvus and the Crow

White Fell gets a Lopov shot

Looks like gravity is just a suggestion around here

Nice! I see Blood Raven from Boston (aka Corvus) made it to the land of the Nords.

Yes, Branwen/Raven is Corvus now. 🦇 I do not remember White Fell, what her role is, but I do remember her name. Love the softness of her face in that Lopov shot. Like a camera filter from an old b&w movie.

Ha, look at that wolf! Call Dave Letterman, we've got a candidate for Stupid Pet Tricks.


I've been playing Skyrim too with a high elf named Celeste Yael, whom I rolled in 2020. She looks sort of like Steffi Graf, especially those eyes. Anyway, I rolled her on Xbox, thinking she'd do all the stuff my others never got around to finishing. But that didn't take. So I swapped her over to PC at some point. She wants to be a healer.

It was only a year ago before I began to formulate the idea for what Celeste really wants to do in life, which has become a weird mod in which she travels with other NPCs, who lead the way to a variety of towns (rather than her/me/the player-character leading). This idea is going to be crucial in Laprima's game, so I've been working hard on it for months. Anyway... nothing too wild or crazy...

DnD Party of Three (Celeste is the one in black robe, with the ram-horns hairdo).

"Hey, that felt GOOD!" (Healing pic)

"Ma'iq does not understand all the fuss about shouting. Ma'iq can shout whenever he wants."

Started a new game recently with the intention of making a vampire character (never bothered before).

Linneá, just starting out and not yet afflicted

A quick break for a prayer to Kyne (Wintersun mod)

Warming up after a long day of travel

Reading a book before turning in for the night

Masser, because moon shots are always beautiful

Welcome to Linneá!

Don't do it! Vampires suck!

Linnea looks awesome!

The last time I played a vampire in Skyland I did not use the standard game rules. I don't like how Bethesda does vampires. Instead I made my own. I made the character one of the normal races. I created a set of spells and weaknesses, and put the spell tomes for them in Helgen, next to Gunjar's body. I also made a little quest that runs automatically and assigns the undead and vampire keywords to the player. So people use the appropriate dialogue with you, like remarking on how your skin is so pale, and your eyes have a hunger to them. I also made a separate mod that makes the Vigilants of Stendarr automatically hostile to you.

I'm going to use the Sacrosanct to overhaul the Vampire skills and class. I also have a mod that lets you regen if you're covered up in the daytime (like Serana).

Vampires in Elder Scrolls games always end up making me wish I were playing a Vampire: the Masquerade game instead, lol

Exactly! I won't say they did it right, because, vampires. But VtMB did it well, and made playing a vampire cool.

Relaxing at home (Elysium Estate)

Heading south

Secunda through the trees

A wintry day for travel

A cozy night Inn

Storms over Solitude

Something is afoot!

Very nice shots, Kane! Skyrim certainly has a nice 'atmospheric' look.

Lin is looking good in her outfit. I love the lightning strike!

Escort Duty

Home Sweet...Castle

A New Path to Walk

I really like the Storms Over Solitude. I don't remember ever seeing lighting strikes like when I played Skyrim. Very nice.

Is Serana gonna teach Linnea how to resurrect bunnies?

That is a creepy picture of Castle Volkihar in the distance.

I guess Lin won't fear the reaper anymore!

Weather mods. Cathedral Weathers, Storm Lightning, and Wonders of Weather.

I've got a few Serana boosters installed to mitigate that annoyance, lol. Goodbye bunnies and ice spikes, hello summons and lightning spells!


The fog set in just in time for that shot. The weather was clear when they went into Steepfall Burrow.

Linn and Serana will definitely visiting the Reaper's Lair.