Whoopsie, didn't see your edit.

Sorry, disregard that post.

EDIT: I've just updated the posted files with the new readme contents.

I really like it, but it catches me off guard when I go out at night. “Whoa I can't see! This is cool!” It is that All Natural mod by the way. I forgot I installed that.

That silverware cost enough. Its a gamble letting Vilja go shopping on her own.



Wait what? How do I get her to start a garden?

AAAHH!!! I forgot to play a little in 3rd person in this next one! Sorry! I wonder if there is a mod for better 3rd person cameras...



Sorry about the strange start I was just excited about going outside in the middle of the night and not being able to see at all!

Heh. Aravi doesn't entertain guests very often so all that means is that she doesn't have to do dishes for a while.

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Aravi was sent to investigate a Spire in the Chorrol area and stopped in Northern Goods and Trade to pick up some supplies. Instead of heading out to a Spire Aravi couldn't say no to Seed-Neeus when she asked her to search for her daughter in a village to the south called Hackdirt.

http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/9549/hackdirt.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znwifTc7X3U


APPROX TIME: 11.5 min

How interesting, I just visited Hackdirt today for that very same purpose!

Very, erm... interesting townfolk, eh?

Oh, I heard if you DON'T let Vilja shop with at least 200 S regularly ... she becomes angry and verbally abuses you.

I loved this vid, it is my absolute fave of all !! Did you hear Vilja soothing Seed-Neeus ? That was AWESOME !!!

And then you hit her with your blade a few times and she says, "Hey, watch it!" and glares at you !!

And then in the Chapel she said something to Aravi, and Aravi answered back with "BORING!" - that was hilarious! I played it back 3 times at that spot to hear their little spat !!

Oh, I loved this vid best !!!

Wonderful! Everything that mALX said!

I must confess that I love seeing Aravi travel and adventure with Vilja. This was so much fun to watch and listen to. Well done!

They are the friendly sort that's for sure.



lol, it's good that Aravi regularly lets her go buy stuff then.

That part in the chapel was pure coincidence and was absolutely perfect I had to put it in! I was so glad I was recording when that happened!



I'm glad you and mALX are enjoying her so much. She gets on Aravi's nerves... a lot. lol
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Update!

Into another Spire...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZIVanADBQ
APPROX TIME: 8.5 mins
Once you get to the part in the video with the diary you might want to pause and read it. I've included the pages here:
journal update

pages 1-2

pages 3-4

pages 5-6

pages 7-8

pages 9-10

page 11

the note found in the desk at the end of the video

What fun to watch! I love to see things I’ll never get to do in the vanilla game. The AG building was really neat, especially how the desks were arranged like believable work spaces. And some fun Nord behavior from Vilja, leaping into battle. What’s behind that door?!

ETA: In Hackdirt Vilja was so funny and engaging (although Aravi seemed like she’d had enough of her chatting!), then at the end of the video a townsperson said something like, “Drrr, I saw a mudcrab.” Too funny!

Well this adds some intrigue to the quests, is Rythor the man you've been working for all this time? GAAAAH !!!

I see trouble ahead for Aravi !! I wonder if you'll own those nice quarters if you kill him?

Awesome Vid - but with frightening implications for Aravi !!!!

Yes he is. He took that cool sword that Aravi recovered from the last Spire. Surprise surprise.

And now we know what happened to that Shrine from a previous video as well.

More of the beautiful Lost Spires mod!

I imagine Vilja can be some trouble, but I love seeing Aravi adventuring with her.

Aravi continues to use her command spells well to thin crowds. At one point, she again demonstrated her superb ability to trade arrows for spells with a ghost while deftly sidestepping his spells. Also, she is doing very well at not hitting Vilja.

I really enjoyed the bit of third person view you gave us of the barefoot kitty.

A very cool warlock torch!

I'm glad you are enjoying the videos.

Aravi would have been content to just shoot arrows down at that guy, but when Vilja jumped into battle unexpectedly Aravi had to go down too.

Hackdirt really showed Vilja well. She won't be in the next video unfortunately.



Trouble is right. This is the final mission in this quest line.

I don't know about the quarters yet, but if so, those caskets in the closet have got to go!


Vilja is trouble alright. That's guaranteed considering she's a blond Nord

Command has become her favorite spell! I'm so glad she learned about it from Buffy! And as a Khajiit she's naturally agile.

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This episode starts directly where the other one left off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=equVo897oeg


APPROX TIME: 10.35 mins

You are...er...Aravi is really an archer and a half !!! Holy Cow, the way she rapid fires arrows and dodges hits without missing a beat is amazing !!!! And she switches between magic and the bow with ease like it was nothing !!! It is so exciting to see her in action in a fight, my character has never been able to do these things !! AWESOME !!!!!

Oooh, that Soothsayer was saying a Sooth !!! I couldn't hear what it was over the fire fight, lol.

ROFL - tricking the zombie into running into the trap !!!!

So the Soothsayer wasn't Rythor? Rythor will be harder than him? Holy Cow, that was some fight !!! That is among my top fave vids, watching Aravi fight that Soothsayer was something else !!! I wish your journal would update and tell you what he was saying though, it would have to be a prediction of something going to happen in her future, right?


AWESOME VID !!! One of my Top Faves so far !!!!

More fancy foot and bow work! Even some staff use! I quite like those etherial imps. I wonder if they make for good imp chips? I heartily agree with mALX (always a wise choice by the way) that luring the zombie into the dart trap was priceless!

Aravi is starting to get more bow hits without getting detected. Good job!

Seeing daedric arrows in her inventory, I'm guessing she is level 20+ now? Or do you have some mods that would affect that?

That was one bad assed Lich! Yikes! What did you put, 60 arrows into it?

Lol thanks for the compliments. I will pass them onto Aravi. Aravi is pretty good at close and medium range shooting, but she can’t compete with an archer of the caliber of Buffy. We were feeling pretty good after that fight with the Soothsayer though. And no I have no idea what he was saying lol.



I’m not sure what an imp chip is and Aravi doesn’t know either so we can’t answer that question lol.
She is level 21 I think. That’s what it was at the last time I checked anyways…
Thanks for the compliments!


I don’t know lol. Too many though. Luckily most of the high end types were recovered so we’re happy.
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OK this is a big one I know, but I really couldn’t cut anything out. I had to split it up into 3 videos to keep YouTube happy, and to keep Windows Movie Maker from crashing. This picks up right where the last one leaves off. That means Lost Spires for those that don’t want it spoiled.

I know this might seem unnecessary to say, but please watch them in the order I have them in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJJqHXu7fI
APPROX TIME: 2.68 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUiRAdJqe7E
APPROX TIME:11.67 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuA61k6FKc
APPROX TIME: 4.36mins

TOTAL APPROX TIME: 18.71 mins

1. GAAAH!! Rythor's robe and hood were zero weight and you left them !!! I was surprised how quickly he was killed ... and OMG, the Avatar would be the big enemy, worse than that lich yesterday and Rythor put together !!! And to use the sword Aravi will have to fight close in !!! ARGH !!!

2. OMG! GAAAH!! It threw Aravi across the room !!!

3. Wait, do you get Rythor's quarters? And what were those Posters she was selling?


In vid 2, I don't know how Aravi made it out alive !!! I'd like to know the condition of that "Horn" blade when the battle was over, I'll bet it was toast! I know it had no charge left from the very beginning of the battle !!

Aravi should have held onto that Varla stone she took off Rythor's desk yesterday so she could have used it in todays battle, lol. HOLY COW !! Vid # 2 is my fave of these three - HUGE !!! Awesome job you are doing on these vids, KC !!!

Some good news for me, I've finally saved Kvatch in my game and got the Oblivion Crisis underway, so I can expect Kvatch Rebuilt to pick up rather soon.

I still don't want to do Lost Spires without at least one weapon skill at Expert, but I'll be moving in on Kvatch Rebuilt soon enough.

I don't blame you, it looks extreme. I am dying to DL it, but want to hone up a bit myself before attempting it, lol.

Nice work. That was a very long fight! For mALX, the robe and hood each weighed 3; it is the value that was 0.

So Aravi's the head of the guild now!

Oops !!

good choice. Lol. I recommend you start working on some other questlines though because rebuilding a city takes a long time, and you will want something to fill that time with.


She got tossed around quite a bit. Neither one of us was thinking we would win.


Yep!

They sell copies of those posters that are hanging in the guild hall (wait have you been able to see any of those?) You need a separate mod to hang them in your home though so I have not bothered with them.


I don't know how either. I wasn't sure what was going to happen when we ran out of the instant heal potions. I've said it before, my hands were tingling after that crazy battle. The Horn actually held up pretty well. It was at 79% and none of Aravi's armor broke either. Must have been because all the Avatar's attacks were magical.


She use it in that same episode that she found it to give all of her weapons a full charge before going into the hidden tunnel.

That middle video was tough to edit and I'm pleased with how well it turned out. I really liked the intro of the lights swirling around Aravi and then the camera zooms into her for the fight.



Almost 12 minutes of fighting. I don't think this is Buffy's kind of fight!
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Just a leisurely walk through Aravi's home. Aravi wasn't interested in fighting for a while after that battle in the last episode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MYSS5xK9S4


APPROX TIME: 4.38 mins

That it does. Bringing Martin to Cloud Ruler definitely passed about two days of time, and I'm likely to spend the next several game days dungeon-diving to increase my skills and gain some riches...

And in the meantime, I'm also learning how to model for this game, which meant I spent most of my time today working with NifSkope and Blender working on collision boxes (that's as far as I need to go for now).

This is pretty fun.

I am trying to avoid watching any more of the Lost Spires vids, because I eventually want to play it. The Aleswell cottage was lovely though. Was that a bathtub in the basement?

I have to wait and watch this when the fam is up, lol.

ah, darn. It is a very good questline, you won't be disappointed.




And yes that is a bathtub.

What a fabulous walkthrough of Aravi's home. I really enjoyed that! It has some really neat features! Enchanting, repair, bath etc. Where's Vilja?

Oh I love the Aleswell house !!! Is that the Warlock Enchanter from Rythor's desk? That Forge is Awesome, and I love the hot bath feature too !! There are enough beds in there for an army of followers too !! Awesome vid !!!

What a battle! And I love Aravi's cottage!! The plants make it look so pretty.

I told myself that I'm going to wait for Skyrim to learn to mod, now I just think I will just wait until finals are over with lol.



The home came with a few features. The anvil, an apprentice level set alchemy gear that is built into a shelf (Aravi owns better instruments that she uses instead), and a pot in the fireplace that can be used to make soup if you have all of the right ingredients. The fire places can be lit and smothered the same way the portable camp fire is. The bath was added by a bathing mod.



The warlock enchanter was recovered during a quest, I do not remember which. See my response to Acadian for more description.



Thanks!
It is my favorite home in the game.

Here's the link to it: http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=28702
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When I did this I either lost or never recorded the conversation with Vilja before hand. Vilja has an “option” (she gets mad if you don't let her do this from time to time) to lead you somewhere. Aravi just said take me somewhere and surprise me. This video is dark but I didn't think that subtracted from it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKO9WzAGWM


APPROX TIME: 6 mins

I loved this!! How fun to tag along behind Vilja. She has an excellent sense of location and it was kind of Aravi to let her lead.

After a couple times of "I'd kill for a sweetroll right now," I noted with a chuckle that Aravi got hungry!

Nice display of the portable campsite.

I'm going to put these up here before I forget.

I really like her expression in the first one

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8035/cuteface.jpg

http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/4898/cuteface2.jpg

She's bloody beautiful! And more importantly, her eyes match her armor!

I loved the vid, it was pretty dark in a lot of places though, lol. Vilja sure was quiet (non-talkative) in this one!

What I liked best about this vid was the two women walking together talking through Cyrodiil. Aravi mentions the beauty of the trees, and Vilja mentions that Aravi isn't very talkative tonight - that was AWESOME !!! I love the combination of Aravi and Vilja together - especially that one in Hackdirt where they got into that tiff in the chapel !!!

AWESOME VID !!!


PS: I see you've posted another one, I'll catch it a.s.a.p. while we have power still, lol.



EDIT: PSS: What night-eye mod is that? I searched all over TESNexus for it and couldn't find it !!! I like that so much better than the blue light !!

They are both cute, but my fave is the first one !! How beautiful are the green eyes !!! Are they modded?

Here it is mALX! I use the filter called 'Desaturate'



I am using a mod for the eyes, when I get home I'll look up the name for you.

EDIT: Cosmetic Compilation Revived - EE

Another Screen!

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6479/readym.jpg

Oh, that's a great one! Aravi looks wonderful. That elven armor really suits her.

That one does look outstanding! You have just the perfect hair for her, it really complements her face. The vanilla Khajiit hairs are all blah. Also as Acadian said, the elven armor is excellent for her. It does make me wonder though, shouldn't there be Khajiit Armor? And what would it look like?

What an AWESOME idea !!! (hint, hint), lol. Just kidding.

I agree with you about the vanilla Khajiit hair too, the only one I liked was the braids.


@ King Coin - I agree the Elven suits her nicely, the green enhances her eyes and the red of her hair bring out the brownish tints in the armor. Nice gauntlets and sword! Are they part of that mod?

Great screen, KC !! Er... where's the vid????? Lol.


PS: Thanks for the mod info !!!

I’ll be making more in this style since you both enjoyed it.







I really liked that pic too. The elven armor is the best I’ve found so far (based on looks anyways) for Aravi.

@ SubRosa thanks for the compliments on the hair. It’s the best I could find in the mods and I agree it looks great on her.

I was thinking of trying a new color for her. Agree? Disagree? color suggestion anyone?

I did go on google and Nexus to see if I could find any Khajiit armor mods and from what I could tell there are not any. That said I didn’t spend a ton of time looking. There might be some buried deep in the internet somewhere.

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This is another video with Aravi interacting with Vilja. There really isn’t a purpose other than to show more of her. If you want battle, skip it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgOoXNfKg9s

APPROX TIME: 5.83 mins


And I have a correction to make. I now know that the alchemy equipment built into the shelves actually level with your character.

Don't touch it! The color is perfect for her. The reddish color really goes well with her eyes, and compliments her fur color fabulously.


The new vid with Vilja as wonderful! What fun she looks to be. And another visit to that wonderfuful Aleswell Cottage. I really enjoyed this vid!

I love Aravi's hair color as it is, but you can go into that on the console and check out different hair colors and styles - if you find anything you like just save and reload (don't click 'done' !!!).


I think she looks cute and the red hair suits her nicely.


Make the vids you like to make, I enjoy both her adventure ones and these quiet ones too. - it is like seeing Aravi in total, (not just the fighter but the person she is at home with Vilja).

I enjoy these vids a lot, and the screens too. You have such a knack with the camera that you make it look like it should be easy to do. It is NOT easy at all (as I found out, lol), which shows how much talent you have.

The smooth junctures overall - I don't know how you do that !! I finally edited a screenie in those places and put titles on it to keep from having a jarring change - but even in the battle scenes you never had any jarring changes !! You have a real knack for doing these !!


** I loved this vid, the author could use this as an example of Vilja's personality and sayings - telling Aravi she worried about her, complaining about the mess and asking Aravi to hire a maid !!! ROFL !!! Oh, and the sweetrolls - I read that in the read-me and determined when I load that mod to start carrying them around, lol.

It still looks to me like she took the bigger bed, (I thought that was really funny !!!) - but for her to get up and sweep - that was cool, especially since she complained the whole time she did it !!!

Ha ha! Ok I won't! Hands are off!



Since it seems to be the general consensus that the red hair is great I will not change it.
Thank you for the compliments, I must be doing something right

You are correct, she did take the larger bed. Typical Vilja.
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Ok this is a new quest mod that I downloaded. It's called Vampire Hunting – Order of the Virtuous Blood Expanded. It's a compilation of several mods that make the Order just a bit more involved.

The mission:
http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9780/missiono.jpg

The first video is traveling to Cheydinhal to get some rooms to stay at. Not much action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB3HyBgKk6Y
APPROX TIME: 8.7 mins
The second video is heading out to look for the vampires. Not much action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwXXbO727U
APPROX TIME: 1.93 mins
Final video is the fight. Action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlAebYy338Y
APPROX TIME: 12.6 mins

I really enjoyed being in town and traveling with Vilja again. And a highwayman attack! Why are they all Khajiit?

Barren Cave has those beautiful waterfalls. How could Aravi possibly pass them by without a swim?

The vampire mod looks like it is working well and seems fun. I like fighting vampires because they are tough and come in lots of flavors (archer, warrior, battlemage, etc). Aravi and Vilja are fighting very well together.

I like those little sceptor/torch things they walked home with. I wonder what that dream means?

I am so excited about seeing this series as Aravi goes through this mod !!! But I sure am worried about those nightmares !!!

I wonder if there is a mod that adds other races to the highwaymen. It kind of bothers me that most khajiit are portrayed as bandits and other criminals. Oh Aravi thought about a swim but she wanted to get to Cheydinhal before dark so that she could get a room rented.


They are pretty scary. Everyone knows what those mean.
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I know this is very quick for an update but the subject is very closely related to the last update. I'm not trying to rush you all, so I'll not update for a few days after this one.
No combat again.

Vampire hunting mod content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvbkEk59qMg
APPROX TIME: 7.6 mins

This last vid is a very powerful statement to Aravi's worry over what those nightmares could mean. The frequent checking of her "active effects," eating the mandrake root for healing, getting the healing cleansing from that device that is like those in the chapels - bathing; these are such realistic reactions and demonstrations of how concerned she is over those nightmares.

The last scene where she stands looking out over the Rumare was poignant and profound, especially when she turns to face the sun, almost as if testing to see if its rays will burn her skin.

I love all your vids, all are interesting and well done - but I think this one has a powerful impact, and I have to say it is one of my absolute faves. Aravi's fear and worry is tangibly displayed and bleeds through to the viewer, leaving us with the same feeling of dread she is experiencing. AWESOME VID !!! And BRAVO for capturing such an emotional scene so clearly !!!

Those vampires were certainly tough. Especially that one with the uber-flame dagger! Aravi should have used that against the other vampires instead of her sword. Vampires have a weakness to flame, and it did 20pts of fire per hit.

That Ayleid Bow of Fracturing looks neat. What mod is that from?

Interesting storyline in the quest, with the differing vampire factions not getting along.

Did that last message when Aravi woke up say that she was hungry, or hungry for blood!

I loved this one! mALX summed it up perfectly! Gulp, now I'm scared for Aravi.

Thank you very much. That was exactly what I was trying to do, I'm glad it turned out well.



Yeah she should have used that dagger. I'm not sure why we didn't... Oh well!

The bow was added by Francesco's mod.

Lol! She woke up without vampire active effects so I'm going to say just regular food!



Thanks! I'm glad you think so as well!
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More Vampire hunting mod content and Vilja!

The actual quest was going around town to look for people to join the Order and that turned out to be a very boring video. So instead I'll just show you these screens and post a scene of Aravi and Vilja in the market district during the quest.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/108/51031794.jpg
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/3659/20179829.jpg
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/9345/47108270.jpg
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/5674/57686223.jpg
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2871/70941758.jpg
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/818/83016745.jpg
Aravi spent most of the day walking around town. Nobody was interested in joining. Except an ex guard captain in prison. Aravi has to go back and talk to him later to see if he's made up his mind about joining (and how he's getting out of prison).

Like I said before, this is just Aravi and Vilja.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb0H-jN6OiM

TIME: 4.65 min