Acadian:It looks like almost an entirely new game with the QTP textures! That is the Fine Steel Claymore alright. Of the low level claymores, it goes best with her outfit.


King Coin: I looked at OBGE a few times, and I it just looks meh to me. My Oblivion install was pretty old too, and filled with lots of loose files from old mods. So I did a new install and added only the mods I am using. This time I used OBMM to make .omods of every mod with loose files. That makes things a lot neater, since it will do all the work of deleting those loose files when I get rid of a mod.


The sun sets on the Arimer Empire

Darkness falls

War, war never changes...

I only used OBGE for the 'god rays' effect, nothing else was really worth using in my opinion. Here and Here are a couple of examples.

Also, Nexus has released their own mod manager that will work with Skyrim, Oblivion and Fallout, and functions the same way as OBMM.

Onto the screens:

First one is definitely my favorite. Love the lighting, love the pose. Aravi had some screens taken at that same spot long ago.

Astarte's storming Oblivion! That one turned out very nice too. Her bright armor contrasts well with the hellish landscape.

I'm torn between these two as my favorites - both powerful depictions when you take into account Astarte's background story. One can only imagine what she must have been feeling, but in these it is written in her expression and posture - all are great, but especially LOVE these!

I have to choose these two as my favorites, though was excited to see her in an Oblivion world in the third. These set a mood, like how she spent the night after finding the ruins of what once was her home.

Is that Ayleid ruin a mod or vanilla? I didn't recognize it! Awesome shots, all!

I believe it is Beldaburo

Heh, I can imagine Astarte asking you to boost the stats of that Fine Steel Claymore as she levels and just keeping it. Glad to see you using a mod installer. Although I have WB installed, I just use it for utility functions and have not ‘graduated’ to BAIN. That is, my install is pure OBMM and I’ve always been very happy with it. It’s all magic to me however and I simply say a thank you prayer to Mara every time I start the game and, somehow, there’s Buffy ready to play!

Your three screens each carry a haunting message of their own and are very artistic. The sun setting behind Astarte is stunningly neat. In darkness falls it's always neat to catch that magic hiss as the sun drops into the Abecean each evening. And the 4000 year old Arimer reflects that, yes, the essence of war never really changes.

Thank you all. I spent a lot of time and effort to set up those shots, especially the first two. I am glad they worked out!

King Coin: I think the Nexus Mod Manager only installs the files for you though right? Or will it delete the files when you remove the mod? What I like about OBMM is that you can take any mod with loose files and turn it into a single .obmm file. Then you can just make a backup of that. When you activate an .obmm it pulls out the files and copies them to the appropriate folders. When you deactivate it, it deletes all those loose files automatically. That is what makes it so nice to use, especially with mods that have thousands of files. It also lets you sort your mod order, and will give you the first two digit prefix of every mod's formid. So it is really a mod user's bonanza.

mALX: KC called that ruin, it is Beldaburo. It is the only Ayleid ruin on the west coast, at least without KOTN, so it is the only one where you can get a sunset across the ocean. Looks like both of you got fooled by the third pic though. That was not in an Oblivion realm, but rather at the front door of Kvatch. The great gate is just a few feet off screen to the right.


Acadian: Astarte is using a silver claymore now. Its colors go well with her armor. I added a mod called Blade of the Haunted which adds a magic claymore. She will probably eventually get her mits on it, but I have to start the quest associated with it first.

I actually stole the title for the third pic from Ron Perlman's narration of all three Fallout game's openings. But I thought Fallout 3 had the best intro and ending


Ready?

The Queen of Silorn leads an army once more

This is more like it

Her footsoldiers are eager for battle

But know enough to stay out of her way

Too late to save Goldwine

Still, the sun shines once more over Kvatch

It seems that even though Hirtel could not stop for Death, Death kindly stopped for him.

HA! You fooled me, I thought that was an Oblivion realm! I knew where you got the "War never changes" from, I LOVE the way it was done in Fallout 3 - you really keep striking me to play it again, and I don't have time to breathe right now, lol.

These first two screens really seem to accentuate her light against the dark armor and dirty faces of the troops - as if she really is from another time and place and just glows with the aura of another realm. Awesome shots, all these! I especially like the filthy faces on the soldiers eager for battle and Astarte kneeling beside Goldwine! Awesome shots, all !!!

NMM doesn’t create a single file like an Omod, what it does is installs all the mod files whether the modder packs them loose or uses a BSA. It will also uninstall the mods and remove all installed files associated with each mod. When you add the mod, you just add the compressed (zip, 7zip, rar, ect…) file and it installs the contents from that. You can set load order within that, it tells you the load index, all that good stuff.

I missed the trees on the right side of the screen! Oops. It did look like Oblivion. I’m impressed that she kept so many of the soldiers alive! Those idiots always get themselves killed when I play. She looks like a natural leader with all her troops in those pictures!

Great screens! Like you, I love it when that trio of Legion soldiers show up in the chapel. Astarte really captures the mood in Castle Kvatch, and looks perfectly natural sitting on a throne. So sorry that, once again, Ormellius didn’t make it.

Whew, I fell behind here.

“Sun Sets” and “Darkness Falls” are just lovely in every way. Beautiful, SubRosa!

How fun to see Astarte in charge at Kvatch! She looks very commanding, and a natural on the throne of course. Is that Rilian still on his feet at the end with Merandil and the three legion soldiers? Nice work, Astarte!!

I love the way you composed “Too Late.” These screenshots really told the tale!

mALX: Wanting Astarte to look out of place was exactly why I went with such an anime look for her. I am glad it works!

King Coin: NMM sounds a lot more useful than I had imagined. I will stick with OBMM though. It does everything I need, and I know all of its ins and outs. It was not easy keeping all of those idiots alive. The trick is to make sure you have a healing spell that works on others. Then after every fight you have to go to each one and heal them up to full before you move on. It makes for a slow and tedious experience. But at least they do not all get slaughtered. I think that is why with FO3 and Skyrim the devs used scripting to heal up your followers back to full as soon as combat ends.


Acadian: One thing I miss about Skyrim is the slouch that you do when sit on the thrones there! It looks so natural and relaxed. Things never work out for Count Orm. He's the only one who did not make it!


Grits: I had a lot of fun setting up Sun Sets and Darkness Falls. I saw that sunset over the ocean and knew it was the perfect chance to take some good screens. That is Rilian alright, and Merandil. The other Kvatch guards were waiting back with Savlian in the great hall. As far as I know, none of them died in the battle to retake the city.


It appears the law of gravity is not enforced in Cyrodiil...

A long time ago I replaced the bound armor and weapons with the Ice Morrigan gear.

A nice evening in the Deadlands. It was all quite by accident. It was one of the worlds with two gates. Astarte went in one, and went out the other to see where it went to. Then she went back inside, and the Cyrodiil evening sky followed her!

Standing with the mountains of Morrowind behind her.

All are great shots, but these two are stunningly effective! Awesome shots! The blue sky in the Oblivion world has to be a rare glitch, to have captured it was amazing! The shot of Astarte on the border - just gorgeous!

The weapons and armor she has in the second screen are awesome. Clearly nothing Aravi would use, but they look great on your character. The mountain picture is very pretty too, it is unfortunate that the LOD didn't load correctly.

I like your bound weapons much better than the Daedric ones. The sword suits Astarte’s otherworldly look. How strange to see the Deadlands under Cyrodiil’s skies! I like the mountains one best. The silver claymore goes with Astarte’s look very well!

I can almost hear Astarte: “It seems this boulder has learned to levitate – demonstrating that it is quite a bit more clever than the mages of this era.”

I’ve never cared for Daedric armor and her choice in ‘bound wear’ looks ever so much better. I don’t mind the Daedric claymore so much but Astarte’s definitely looks better.

Nice capture of a clear day in Oblivion!

mALX: One of the nice things about the Cyrodiil sky in Oblivion is that it lets you see a whole lot better! I could not even see halfway across the map with the original Oblivion weather.

King Coin: I really like that Ice Morrigan gear. It is a bit exotic for me too, that is why I used it to replace the Daedric stuff you get at the standing stones.

Grits: I like having bound weapons that don't make you look like you are consorting with monsters. I prefer to think of these as being Aedric, rather than Daedric.

Acadian: I am pretty sure that rock is from Unique Landscapes. I downloaded a bunch of them, and it is not the only thing I found floating in mid air in them.


Another Daedra vanquished

Snowing in Bravil?

Astarte Verlander winds up for a pitch

Among the ruins of Bawn

My curiosity finally got the better of me, so I installed Morroblivion. Meet Anat, a new prisoner who has just stepped off the boat at Seyda Neen

Eeep! Snow in our Bravil! That Silverlight armor looks wonderfully appropriate for your Arimer; I’m glad you chose the version with mail. Astarte looks so at home in Bawn. Anat looks great! Corean makes simply beautiful hair.

How neat to see elements of Morrowind and Oblivion together! Anat really looks great!

Now she’s in Oblivion. I stand by my comment; the armor looks even nicer in that bleak wasteland than it does in Cyrodiil.

Aravi had snow in Bravil once as well. Are you running any weather mods? I see she can’t stay away from the ruins of her former domain.

Do share more on Morroblivion. Does it follow Morrowind closely? Are the quests the same?

Are you going to try Nehrim (sp?) sometime as well?

Acadian: I don't like the version of the Silverlight without the mail. It looks like lingere, not armor. While exotic, this version still covers your character from head to toe in steel.

Grits: Thanks to the Oblivion engine, Morroblivion improves on a lot of the annoyances in Morrowind: like the horrible animations and boring combat. Some of the things that made me give up playing Morrowind way back when.

King Coin: I was using Max Tael's Natural Weather in that snow pic. It was snowing everywhere! Eventually I figured out it was the mod, and stopped using it.

So far, Morroblivion does seem to be as close to a carbon copy of Morrowind. So far as I know, all of the major questlines are there. I started the main quest, and it is working so far. I have only been in the south-western part of Vvardenfell so far, but everything I remember is there. The same dungeons, shipwrecks, towns, etc...

The only real downsides I see to Morroblivion are the CTDs, and lack of level scaling. The game can CTD on you at any time when are outside and walking around. It always turns out to be be something in particular areas, because it will do it every single time you try to walk there from the wrong direction. But walk there from the opposite side and no problems. So far I have found 3 places like that.

The lack of level scaling is a carryover from Morrowind, but seems even worse here. It means that you walk into a dungeon right off the starting boat and are fighting guys with 200 health, and you can do 2 points of damage. You can guess how that works out. In Morrowind it was not quite so bad, because your weapons did variable damage, and that damage was greater than in Oblivion. Your first level Morrowind character might do 1-8 points of damage each hit. Where you 1st level Oblivion character is probably going to do 2, maybe 3 every hit.

You pretty much have to stay out of the dungeons until you are 7th level. Or be prepared to run out of them a lot. But even the rats and mudcrabs are lethal. It takes about 15 hits to kill a rat at 1st level. I am not exaggerating, I counted. Mudcrabs are slightly less tough. Anat has been killed by rats more than once, well into 7th level. The only thing that has really made it possible for her was that I picked my modded Undine birthsign for her, more by chance than anything else. It gives you the same regeneration that Grummites get in water or rain. The starting area gets a lot of rain, and is on the coast with lots of little islands. So Anat spent a lot of time dashing out of dungeons and leaping into the water to heal up, or just stood there in the rain and slugged it out with much more powerful enemies, regenerating like Wolverine all the time.

The Morrowind player's most hated enemy

Balmora, home of House Hlaalu

Anat has seen the Silt Strider

Looking over the West Gash in her new Bonemold Armor

Standing atop the Dwemer ruins of Arkn-something or another

Slugging it out with a Dwemer Centurion (they are much tougher in Skyrim)

Apparently they missed a few things...

It’s fun to see Morrowind through Oblivion eyes! Working through Tamriel – one province at a time.

Oh wow, I’ve used that mod and it never bugged out that badly. It did snow in Bravil, but it was brief.

Those problems with crashes and level scaling sound pretty bad. I was thinking of trying it, but it doesn’t sound like it would be a very enjoyable experience. I’ll stay clear of it. Makes me wonder if the Skyrim versions will be worth playing either.

Despite that, the game looks very interesting based on the screen shots. Reminds me very much of the SI and I’m sure the SI reminded you of Morrowind.

The Dwemer are stronger in Skyrim? Here I thought the ones in Skyrim were quite fragile.

These are great, SubRosa! How fun to see Morrowind this way!

Acadian: Maybe one day I will try out that Elsewyr mod you have? With Skyrim, that will make nearly have of Tamriel.

King Coin: I fixed the level scaling by creating a mod that adjusted the health of the creatures. In the process I also found out that they had doubled or tripled the health of nearly every critter in the game. So I set them back to the same health that they had in Morrowind. So now just walking around is not a lethal proposition. The Dwemer automotons seemed weaker because they had the same stats that they did in Morrowind. So they were unbuffed.

The random CTDs outdoors is apparently a problem with cell buffers overrunning. Supposedly you can fix it by walking everywhere instead of running, turning of distant land (F* that!), and using a buffer clearing mod. I am trying out the buffer mod, I will have to see how it does.

Taking those things out, it is a lot of fun. It is much better than playing Morrowind. There are a lot of things about the gameplay of Morrowind that I hated. Oblivion fixes all that. But at the same time, all the things from Morrowind are still there. The music, sound effects, voices, places, even little things like the cups and plates.

Grits: It is a lot of fun playing Morrowind, without playing Morrowind. You should try it.


The monsters from Morrowind are all here, including these Bonelords

One of those reminders of SI. A lot of SI seems to be just copied and pasted from Morrowind.

Another view of Balmora, one of my favorite cities in Morrowind.

Daedric Shrines are lot different in Morrowind

The residents are much less friendly than in Cyrodiil as well. Here is a Morrowind-era Daedroth

Red Mountain and the Ghost Fence

They must be keeping Kong in there...

The Ghost Gate, the only way through the Fence.

Those are great screens! That must be a lot of fun indeed, playing MW with the comfort of OB mechanics. I think V-wood may be on our list before the provinces of M-wind or Sk'rim, so it is wonderful to see this through Anat's eyes.

Morroblivion does look like lots of fun. The CTD’s would be the killer for me. Why the heck did they choose to increase the health on every critter so dramatically? Sounds like a very poor choice. I would not play without either using your mod or making one of my own. Did they leave the Khajiit and Argonians alone or did they change them?

The pic of your character standing outside with the mushrooms behind her is very pretty. The picture of the town is my favorite however. That looks like such a cool place. Daedroth looks much more intimidating in Oblivion. The ghost gate looks like it should be bigger than it is.

How neat to see the places I have read about in stories. The Ghost Fence is huge! Anat and the shrooms is my favorite. She's very pretty.

Acadian: Are there any Valenwood mods out there? It would be very cool to try one out. If not, Buffy should mosey on over to Vvardenfell once she is finished exploring Elsewyr. It is an interesting place to visit.


King Coin: Those Cell purge mods seem to help with the CTDs. I have still had a few since I started using them, but not as many. I have gotten a feel for when they are going to happen. The framerate drops, and things start to stutter. I just stop and wait a few moments till it clears up, and it runs without the CTD. But as a long-time gamer, I am used to quicksaving constantly, so even when it does crash, it does not set me back by more than a few minutes. It really does not bother me anymore.

The Khajiit and Argonians are the same as they are in Oblivion. All of the races have the same bodies and textures as in Oblivion. One thing they really did a really good job on is the faces. There are not many NPCs I would call ugly. Many are quite easy on the eyes in fact.

I prefer the Daedroths from Oblivion too. They are bigger, and feel a lot more menacing. They are using the Oblivion version of the Flame Atronachs, but I think they are the only Daedra that they are. The others I have seen have all been the Morrowind style.

Balmora is one of my favorite places in Morrowind. I love the Spanish/South-Western style to the buildings. Anat is spending a lot of time there since she joined the Fighters Guild (they have a chapter there). My other favorite place is Ald'Ruhn. I love how it is made out of big bug shells. Unlike Balmora, it has a completely original look and feel to it.


Grits: I always liked the GhostFence, it is half force field, and half suspension bridge. You should download it and try it out. Your comp will run Oblivion, so it will do Morroblivion. It is much better than Morrowind. Oblivion is a much user-friendlier engine to play imho.


I expect that her name will be familiar to more than one person

Ald'Ruhn, the seat of House Redoran

Anat came upon one of the rare tame Guars

This Nord seems to have lost his clothing. The result of Witches no doubt.

Anat was spending so much time in Balmora, that I made her a house

The interior is small, but comfortable

Nothing but the best for Anat

The rooftop has a nice view of the merchant's square

I think Anat made a friend at the Mages Guild

Who can resist a sunset?

Caught in an ashstorm

Anat found the Resident Evil inside one of the Sixth House bases.

Good to know on the Khajiit and Argonians. I was wondering if they would have changed them to look more like they did in Morrowind.

Hey, isn’t Boderi supposed to be in the Arcane University?

The structure for the house Redoran is very cool looking. Kind of run down though, are they not very powerful?

Jerric!

Love Anat’s house and clothing. Scotland? Is that within the Shivering Isles?

Anat’s friend is pretty. Ash storm? That’s pretty cool. What’s the ugly thing in the last screen?

King Coin: I guess Boderi moved from Morrowind and became a battlemage at the Arcane U. Or maybe Bethesda just reused her name without thinking about it. They reuse a lot of names between games.

Redoran is one of the Great Houses in Morrowind, one of the top five ruling factions in the province. The outside of their houses look like that because they are giant bug shells. I am not sure if they are from Silt Striders, or some other kind of critter. The main Redoran HQ is that big one in the Ald'Ruhn pic, it is made from a giant crabshell.

That critter in the last screen is a Lame Corprus. It is the result of someone catching the Corprus disease, which is basically Lorkhan's essence, straight from his heart in Red Mountain. With a little extra seasonings from the Big Bad, Dagoth Ur, who was driven mad from tapping into Lorkhan's Heart to steal some of his power (just like the Tribunal did).

A Morrowind style Frost Astronaut

And a Storm Astronaut

I call these Bonelords 'Slim'

Two Dremora squaring off against a Golden Saint (I think the Saint hit one by accident while they were all trying to get at me)

Anat found a really ugly helm that she will never wear again

Edit: Forgot one
The dining room of the Ald'Ruhn Fighters Guild. The Redoran buildings may look rough outside, but they are stylin' inside.

There is indeed an OB mod called Valenwood Improved and a patch so it flows smoothly with Elsweyr. It’s on our list, along with the glimpse of Skyrim that ghastley provides with his Falkreath mod. MW is perhaps a distant someday. So many places to visit, so little time!

Woot! I realize Boderi's a completely different character in MW, but Buffy surely loves her University mentor. Fabulous shots of MW and a wonderful little house you made for Anat! You really have a nice touch with houses – I was so impressed with the nice touches and details I found in the cottage you made in OB for Morcant. I love that bonemold helm in the ashstorm – Buffy got one in Elsweyr and finds it indispensible during the sandstorms there. Those clever Dunmer knew what they were doing when they made those helms all right. I see Anat has a good eye for the mages; and Anat is certainly a looker herself.

Nice to see the MW astronauts and golden saints. I confess to loving the look of the OB frosties. Eeep! Oh, Anat – good choice to probably not wear that helmet again!

Edit: Oooh! Just noticed your new one - Stylin' indeed!

Huh, the Morrowind frost astronaut (lol) looks kind of strange. I prefer Oblivion’s. Skyrim has the coolest astronauts so far. I wonder why they have always chosen rocks to serve as the body of the stormies? I would prefer something that looks like clouds or something like that.

The bonelords look very creepy. I approve!

Nice of the Golden Saint to help you out.

No matter what game, the mask is always Vile.

I peeked at this earlier, I’m glad I waited to comment else I would have missed this one! You are right; the interiors make up for the ugly exteriors of the Redoran homes.

I love this one best!

Wow, Bonelord! That guy is creepy. Fun to see the Morrowind astronauts.

Acadian: I looked up Valenwood Improved. I'll have to try that one, and the Elsewyr mod, sometime. Things like ashstorms are what that helmet is mainly for. I like how that version has the cloth wrapped around it. It makes it look like it would be good for keeping the sand and dust out.


King Coin: That was not the Clavicus Vile helmet. It is just a helmet you can find in one of the dungeons. It is called a Demon Helm I think. It looks very Japanese to me. I am not sure if Vile's Mask is even in Morrowind, to be honest.


Grits: That naked Nord made me think of Jerric. If he and Skarsgard hook up to form that stripper team, they could call themselves The Bonelords...


The Hutts are in Morrowind as well.

Meet Dagoth Cthulhu

This dreamer is no longer awake...

One of the Telvanni tree towers.

Wow, Jabba is right! Those guys look straight out of Star Wars.

Oh, you'll be happy to know that even though Buffy only uses the helmet for sandstorms, you can get full bonemold armor in Elsweyr.

It remains great fun seeing MW through this OB filter. It looks interesting - a different kind of bleak than Skyrim.

What the heck? What’s that Hutt supposed to actually be?

The second guy actually looks scary. Is that a random monster or is it something special? I just looked it up. He looks a lot different in the original game.

Lol, the dreamer can go back to dreaming.

That last one is a tree? The buildings are so strange in Morrowind.

Oh my. What are those Hutt things? I saw a sketch on a loading screen but never in the (ugh) flesh.

Wow, another cool and creepy thing. Anat is super cute! The one with the tree tower is my favorite.

Acadian: Neat to hear that bonemold is in Elsweyr. I think there is a standalone mod that adds them to Oblivion as well. But that might be Indoril armor instead. It has been very interesting to play Morrowind this way. Much more fun than using the Morrowind engine.


King Coin: Squid-Face is an Ascended Sleeper, probably the worst kind of ash monster you can face. All of them are named Dagoth-soemthing or another, and are the Big Bad's lieutenants. That is indeed a tree. House Telvanni are a basically a bunch of crazy wizards, and they live inside those big trees. They are hollowed out, and in some areas you can only get around by flying.


Grits: Those Hutts are Ogrims. They are Deadra, I think serving Malacath. But with the way Bethesda is, you naturally find them anywhere, regardless of who the Daedric Prince in charge happens to be.


Morroblivion was starting to get stale, and I began to have a hankering for some horse archery. So I went back to Skyrim for a while. Since there is no horse nomad race in Tamriel like the Sarmatians or Mongols , I decided to go with a Redguard.


Meet Neith (another name for you to look up Grits )

Neith spent some time brushing up her skills with Angi

Neith thinks this Noble is a real jerk. She likes his horse though

The Empire does not enforce the law of gravity

Neith went to Markarth to buy a painted horse (not sure what to name him, perhaps Hidalgo?)

Neith also picked up a stray dog. Here is a mod that turns them into wolves, with a skin that is supposed to make them look like huskies

I think I like the mod that changes the dog followers into foxes better (I hate the vanilla dogs)

Bargaining with a Khajiit caravan

Neith found this slippery fellow on her way back from Bruca's Leap Redoubt

Well a girl that likes horses is very very okay in my book! Welcome, Neith. Love the armor in the opening screenshot. You've got a horse and bow now, and ready to Mongol on the tundra! I like the fox!

I see the fish in Skyrim can suffer from the same confusion as those in Cyrodiil.

Neith. I like her, she’s a hottie. I like her armor; I saw that one on Nexus and thought about getting it for Aravi.

With the noble, I wondered if she was going to relieve that horse of its burden.

That’s a neat looking dog. Aravi’s stray didn’t stay with her for very long as you might remember. She’s left Meeko in Breezehome with Lydia. A fox now? Do they fight like a dog or are they just for companionship?

I love seeing her trading with all the Khajiit! What a funny video of the fish!

Wow, Neith is gorgeous! I just love everything about her look!

The fox is adorable. Somehow s/he really suits Neith better than the huge wolf.

That video was hilarious. You should name the horse Fisher.

Acadian: The mounted combat in skyrim is not all that it is cracked up to be. As if aiming a bow in the forced third person view was not difficult enough, your arrow often does not go anywhere near your crosshairs. Sometimes it is spot on. Other times it goes off in any of the other possible directions. You can also only shoot in a roughly 45 degree arc in front of your horse. Anything beyond that, and you cannot hit them. Likewise with anything too high or too low. Plus, sometimes when you try to turn your horse, it goes in the opposite direction of the key you pressed. It makes mounted fighting a real challenge. But I am trying.

King Coin: I like the Crimson Ranger Armor. It does not have a female version, but I think the male version looks fine on females. It was perfect for Neith. Neith was tempted to relieve that noble of his horse! The dogs to foxes mod only changes the meshes and textures of the dogs. Everything else is exactly the same, including the animations.

Grits: I prefer the fox to the so-called husky/wolf too. A lot more friendly. Maybe I should name the horse Fisher King? I was thinking maybe Cyrus, but that could be the fox's name instead.

Notice the resemblance? I made Ahlam a preset and used her as a base for Neith

Cooking up some vittles

Where did their tents go?

A sleazy little man

Neith now has a Khajiit follower

An example of mounted archery

How funny, I never saw the resemblance to Ahlam, but there it is! Probably because Ahlam has such an unpleasant attitude, none of my characters has gotten to know her.

Great job with the mounted archery! I never considered stopping the horse to shoot. Farkas wishes I had watched your video before Mikke got out her bow during a recent overencumbered ride to Wolf Lodge. Also I didn’t know you could loot from horseback. Cyrus the fox is adorable! I love how Neith and her horse (Fisher King? Kingfisher the Belmont Stakes winner? ) shared a look after the Hagraven fell.

Neith does not look impressed by Belethor, and he does not look bothered by Neith. I dislike the sleazy little man, but I give him points for persistence in Jensa’s Stormcloak controlled Whiterun. The Girl’s character always knocks over stuff in his store. She’s going to love this picture.

Cooking is my favorite. A great look at Neith’s beautiful face!

I originally tried shooting on the move (like a real horse archer would), but it is just insanely difficult. Besides the third person viewpoint, the problem is the controls. Your horse goes wherever you look, so it is always turning at whoever you shoot. The way it should be, is that the WASD keys would control the horse, and the mouse would control only the character. IIRC, that is how Mount and Blade does it, and it works very well. That way you could ride in one direction, and look and shoot in another. That would let you do a Parthian shot, and ride away from an enemy while shooting them.

Neith can loot from horseback because of a mod I am using. It also allows you to talk to people and harvest ingredients from horseback. Likewise, making the horse sprint does a charge attack to anyone the horse runs into. In the vanilla game those are all impossible.

Nice cooking animation.

I really like the detail in that over the counter match up.

So Neith has a lovely little black and with Alfiq? Do I remember her name as Freya?

Thanks for the vid on mounted archery – it looks much more cumbersome than dismounting to fight. Fortunately the horse’s AI is smart enough to stay put when you dismount instead of trying to ‘help’ (get in the way). I got the chance to see someone doing Skyrim mounted melee combat and it looked quite usable. It was fun to see the little fox trying to help.

I tried having Mikke shoot from horseback again today. I turned the HUD back up to see where the crosshairs were, but there are no crosshairs! LOL. It worked pretty well aiming straight ahead, though. Still can’t get the hang of stopping the horse. Left stick horse, right stick rider, arrow at the skeever, horse over the cliff. Bad idea to practice on the road above Darkwater Crossing. Luckily Mikke’s horse is already a spirit creature. I’m going to stick to two-foot travel and leave the horsing around to Neith!

Also, I forgot to mention Neith’s sweet Khajiit!

Ahlam & Neith, are they sisters?

Looks like the Khajiit are packing up!

That’s a neat pose you got at the counter with everyone’s favorite loudmouth Breton. Aravi’s too short for it.

Khajiit!

Definitely a lot easier to shoot when still. I might have to download that mod that does the charge attack. Aravi’s not very good about keeping track of her horse though.

Grits: I love Ahlam's conversations with Danica. There is one where Danica says: "Look on the bright side, if soldiers storm the city, there's a good chance your husband may get killed." and Ahlam replies: "Ha! Well, when you put it like that, it certainly puts things into perspective. But enough wallowing. And thank you, Danica."

I am always knocking over those candlesticks in the middle of Belethor's store too! Why in Oblivion did he put them right between the door and the counter?


Acadian: Neith is a no-magic character, so cooking is her only way to heal up. I have done a lot of it with her! That is Freya alright, enjoying her new bed. I think she has finally gotten over losing the old CRT monitor that used to sit there. That mod I am using makes the horses friendly to all factions, so critters do not attack them, and they do not attack everything they see. Otherwise it would have been getting in the way as soon as Neith got her feet on the ground!


King Coin: The funny thing is the same day I took that pic of the tentless caravan, there was a discussion on the other forum about people finding their tents, but no Khajiit. Well, I know where they went to! That mod is Convenient Horses. It makes a lot of things work easier for a mounted character.


I had an inspiration for a character the other day, and decided to roll with her. I even created a new race for her.

Meet Flavia Domitilla Minor (she's real too, look her up Grits) Flavia is a RL Roman who found herself in Skyrim (rather than dying at 19 years of age). I am using a little leeway in her background, in that my Flavia was mostly raised by her father, who was Legate of an Imperial Legion at the time. So she learned more about gladii and lorica segmentata than knitting. To her, Skyrim looks just like Britannia or Germania, a barbarian cacat-hole. But she is loving the freedom her gender possesses. I plan to try doing the Imperial side of the civil war with her.

Toto, I don't think we're in Campania anymore

Into the mud scum king!

Slugging it out with a barbarian

Flavia gets the better of it

Going down

Nice! Is that Faendal in the first one? What happened to his hair?

It looks like Flavia the Younger will be able to take the Stormcloaks down on her own!