Good to know, Fawkes, thank you!! I’m trying to figure out where in Jorrvaskr is safe to store stuff. Decisions, decisions.

Allek is travelling with Marcurio right now. I love his snarky comments.



ETA: I know who Godfrey reminds me of, Falk Firebeard! He looks great!

Haha, I just noticed he does look like Falk xD, Also love Marcurio's comments ^^
Not sure about a safe place in Jorrvaskr, there are mixed opinions around the net'
Also I believe than if you move in with someone, things still respawn inside it, I'm still testing it within Balimund's house though.

My suggestion? Do the test, empty every container from Jorrvaskr then wait 30 days outside of the building

I could do it for you if you want though, I have allot of free time

I tested the Jorrvaskr Harbinger quarters, and all but the barrel and chest in the bedroom are safe. That means the chest on top of the wardrobe respawns. Yeah, the place where you’d put all of your treasure. Argh! Also in the whelp quarters the wardrobe and dresser are safe, as well as the furniture in the main hall. Not the barrels or sacks. I don’t know if any fellow Companions will take anything, but it seems that living there if you marry a Companion (see, I finally got to the point) would be feasible. I didn’t check any of the owned containers.

On the subject of courtship: I don’t know if it’s the beast blood or a bug, but Jensa has had her wild heart broken. Here’s what happened:

I went through Rorikstead today, instead of going around like usual. I don’t know what possessed me to put on my Amulet of Mara. Well I do, but it hurts to admit it.

Sure enough, there was Erik right in the middle of town, keeping one eye on the sky and the other on the hills. He lit right up with that smile when he saw me.

“Good to see you, friend!” he calls out. “You’re keeping well, I hope.”

We chat for a moment, and he tells me how they’ve had less trouble now that a few of Rorikstead’s sons and daughters stand armed and ready in the street. I say it looks like his axe is good and sharp, and he gives a whistle when he checks out my Skyforged blade. Then I say farewell and hit the road before the tears start falling.

Dammit. If he didn’t want me before, he sure won’t want me now. I could do worse than having a man like him call me friend. I’d better not go through Rorikstead again. Friend is how I’d like him to remember me.

It's a bug, a very bad bug. You can only fix it if you're on the PC, us console owners will have to wait for Beth to fix it :/

Oh, poor Jensa.

So as for my poor Cushla... I'm feeling particularly crushed... I spent my days and nights with the companions and decided after purifying Farkas and Vilkas that Vilkas was the one who really held away over my heart. I purified myself... I asked Vilkas to follow me to now beautiful and flourishing Gildergreen that we healed together... I donned the amulet of Mara and spoke with him... He romantically proposed and I agree it would be he and I together until the nine divines would take us... Take my time and arrange the wedding he urged and we parted ways... I couldn't wait and left for Riften and within a day we were wed... He suggested his place but I thought we would do well to occupy Breezeholm... We left to activate the Warriors stone nearby and return home after fending off a dragon attack.... Arrive home... Lydia is in our room... I try to rest with him and there is no love... No lovers comfort... What did I do wrong?? Sighs... Perhaps Vilkas and I were not meant to be... *sobs*

URK !!! There could be one of two glitches affecting the marriage. The first: There have been some issues with going straight to your home. Change that by going to his home (or bed) and spend the night. After spending the night there, then move to Breezehome again. Spend the night and see if it has fixed the bug.

If that doesn't fix it, there is another bug - sometimes the effects of the werewolf in blocking Lovers Comfort are unfortunately permanent until a patch fixes the issue.

Oh no, Cushla!! I hope the honeymoon in Jorrvaskr idea works.

Me too. I saw that fix on the unofficial bug list over at the BGSF, so it is ligit. (but may not work if the problem is the permanent-werewolf bug).

You are brilliant and my Cushla is rejoicing in the comfort of her
Lover's Embrace!! Ah if only I could stay there until eternity!!! We made amends and moved to his home.... Granted I could not stay in his bed but apparently he stayed in mine?!!?

So the story is my real hubby destroyed my PC a ways back and replaced it with a Mac... Which I know nothing of... I missed Oblivion on pc and am playing PS3... And now have a virtual hunny that is to die for! So my friend made me his pic on the PC so I could keep it close to my heart!!

My Vilkas

SPEW !!! Now THAT is a good friend !!! - and I'm so glad that worked and you are getting your "Lover's Comfort" perk now !!! WOO HOO !!!!

Congratulations to Cushla and Vilkas!!

That's hilarious!


Put Windows on that Mac. Your husband will be in for a surprise next time he turns it on!

My Vilkas
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That's hilarious!


Put Windows on that Mac. Your husband will be in for a surprise next time he turns it on!
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OMG didn't know you could even do that!!! Hahah that would be terrific! And I'm probably the more geeky between us and able to pull it off too hahaha!!! I miss my PC maybe will get another when I can afford it and not let him touch it

Thanks for all the 'grats!! Now am starting to do quests with my dearest Vilkas and enjoying every moment!!!
:^*

Say hello to my little friend!

Well, not my little friend, I have a PC. But as I understand it, using bootcamp to set up a Windows partition is not very difficult at all. One of the other forumers - hauteecolerider, did it last year.

Blimey...People are so clever... ...

Although, there's a danger these days in going anywhere near links that ask you to say hello to their little friend is there not?... ...

That is AWESOME! maybe there is hope for my gaming addiction?! Will have to check it out but until then I will travel abroad with my dearest Vilkas... He is so dreamy I could die!!!

I liked both him and Farkas, but Farkas had a deeper voice.

I married Malborn. I had to use console commands to make the marriage option available with him.
Here's the pics of our wedding...

at the altar


after the ceremony


leaving the temple of Mara together


Unfortunately he never moved into my house in Whiterun, he just stayed at the tavern in Windhelm. But he does say all the cute marriage lines like "Hello my love. Back from some adventure?" and gives home-cooked meals and a store profit.
I tried to make him a follower too with console commands, but it didn't work.

OMG, I love that hat she is wearing !! Is that Cicero's hat?

If he has a quest active his AI may be stopping him from being a follower, have you completed his Windlhelm quest yet? After that he may start following.

Also, there has to be a representative race/sex follower for the "follower dialogue" to become avialable - (I don't know if there are other Bosmer male followers, someone else may know).

Congrats on your marriage !!!!

If I complete his quest by telling him the Thalmor assassin is dead he just takes off for Morrowind and never returns. So I've left that quest unfinished. He does have all the follower dialog and options, but just doesn't follow me. However, I haven't tried finishing the quest after adding him as a follower. I'm going to try that. Maybe he'll finally follow me.

Make sure to save beforehand, I'm afraid you'll lose him otherwise. Maxical lost Quaranir that way. Once the Creation Kit comes out that will be fixable.

Oooohhhh!!! Your wedding drakkenfan is soooo nice!!! My Vilkas practically ran off! If I could mod on the PS3 I might have tried for Hadvar lol!! it is nice having my hubby on the road with me

Great wedding pics, drakkenfan! Best wishes to the happy couple!

Ooooh and I love the hat sooo want it!!!

The hat is easy to get during the Dark Brotherhood quest line. I think Cicero had some extra jester clothes sitting around at the other sanctuary and I picked them up.

Anyone still single? For your consideration: Roggi Knot-Beard. Roggi lives in Kynesgrove. He’s friendly, loves mead, and his job as a miner has made him easy to look at (according to Jensa). Of course she immediately covered him up with steel for their adventuring, but here he is in his regular outfit. OK, in that one he looks a bit vein-y. Roggi is a great archer. He does not seem very happy on the road, though, even when you give him his favorite mead from Riften. Oh, also he has good hair.

He looks great cleaned up, but...not so great in the screen of him at work. Add to that he complains every time he has to go out somewhere with his wife and is picky about his beer mead habit ... I think he is really from ETN !!

Aravi is unimpressed.

No love for Roggi!! That is hilarious! And the first thing Jensa did was dress him up and drag him out with her.

I guess that’s why I couldn’t find any videos for “Roggi Knot-Beard’s Wedding.”

That guy? Talk about settling for less. I have noticed that the Petty Soul Gems in Morrowind look like sex toys. I suggest one of those instead.

ROFL !!!! Or slip under Haelga's bed and steal her ... apparatus. I think 97% of the male choices Bethesda provided for marriage belong in that "Lowered Expectations" singles dating club, ROFL !!!

Sorry. To be fair, Aravi isn't interested in finding a mate yet.

I’ll know she’s lonely when she names her horker tusk.

ROFL !!! Maybe she was naming the strapping apparatus, lol.

Jensa and Stenvar are engaged , but they haven’t set a wedding date yet. They also haven’t posed for a formal engagement portrait. Here they are on the way to kill a rogue giant. I think that’s as close as we’re going to get with these two.

Stenvar seems a little unapproachable at first, but he has quite a bit to say once you get to know him. He jokes a lot and actually smiles. I think that’s how he won Jensa’s heart. It’s a grim world out there, and so many people say, “What do you need to take?” when all you want is to give them some healing potions. Not Stenvar.

He was staring at Aravi in a really creepy way... Just saying...

She had to move, I remember!! He even freaked me out a little in that video! Jensa will have to watch him around the Khajiit ladies.

Jensa is officially off the market. Here is a picture of Jensa and Stenvar on their wedding day. He was in his default armor for the actual ceremony, but I’m not quick enough to get that picture and still operate the controller. Skyrim weddings resemble a foot race.

Stenvar is not terribly romantic. He says “dear” like he’s not quite sure what it means. But hey, he’s Stenvar! Also he got stuck beside a rock on the way from Riften to Windhelm. Luckily Jensa was walking along behind him (checking out that view for a change ), so she saw what happened. Otherwise he would probably still be standing there, and she would be both heartbroken and homicidal. I will recommend to my future brides and grooms that they either walk along with their new spouse or take them as a follower right away.

I was about to ask if he took off just like the last one did.

Congrats to Jensa and Stenvar! All I've got to say is...it's about time! WOO HOO !!!

Allek and Marcurio. At first I was skeptical. This is going to end with an Imperial mage in a pool of blood, I thought. So I asked Allek about it.

“I don’t have any reason to kill Marcurio,” said Allek, genuinely puzzled. Hmm. Not quite reassuring, but good enough.

Before the wedding Allek went to great lengths so that he could improve and enchant some gifts for Marcurio. He had never previously enchanted anything. It took some time for him to find suitably powerful bandit souls for the enchantments. He also took Iona off into the wilderness and murdered her, because Marcurio didn’t like the noise she made when she chewed. (They live at Honeyside.) Actually that may have been an excuse. We all found that annoying. Of course he didn’t tell Marcurio. He still thinks she’s visiting her mother.

On their wedding day Allek chose to wear festive Mythic Dawn robes. Marcurio must have found that slightly alarming, because he mysteriously armed himself with a bow and glass arrows for the ceremony. The picture is from later. I wish I had caught him with the weapons. It was surprising.

Marcurio is snarky, arrogant, and impatient. Much to my complete shock, he is also charming and romantic. He really sounds pleased to see Allek, happy to cook for him, and quite proud of the profits he shares. Of course when Allek gave him his gifts after the wedding, he had his usual abrupt reply. He hasn’t sold them at his “store” yet. Gods help him if he does.

So now we come to the tale of Mikke’s wedding.

First I should mention that Mikke of Green River is a werewolf. Here’s picture of her back in the Dawnguard days with her best buddy Torvar. She loves to travel with Torvar because he’s funny, he doesn’t judge, and he usually smells worse than she does. He doesn’t mind when she wolfs out and eats a bunch of bandits either, even though one time she almost accidentally ate him.

Mikke went through some changes when she travelled with the ultra-feminine vampire Serana. She spent some time thinking about what family meant to her, and what she had been willing to do without. When she met a street urchin in Windhelm, everything became clear. She set up a household in the previously abandoned Windstad Manor (I made the abandoned part up) so that she could provide a home for Sofie and Alesan (another hardworking street kid). Her friend Lydia lives there with them (steward) along with the Housecarl, bard, and carriage driver. After all, Mikke is often busy with the world-saving. She did grow her hair out and ease up on the war paint so she wouldn’t scare the kids. Here’s her new look.

So anyway one snowy afternoon Mikke and Torvar walked out of the Windhelm gates and into a dragon ambush. It took ages to kill the thing. They worked up a powerful thirst. Mikke said they could drink all night when they got to Riften.

They didn’t get far before Torvar convinced her to stop. Kynesgrove was right there, they could just run up the hill for one mead, he said. Mikke agreed.

In the Braidwood Inn, Mikke met a man named Roggi Knot-Beard. Now, I have heard a lot of dialog from Roggi, but I never heard the things he said to Mikke. Maybe it was the way she kept standing there and talking to him, but he had a lot of nice things to say to her. She was smitten.

It took several trips back to Kynesgrove, but eventually she got up the nerve to hit on him. As these things go in Skyrim he immediately agreed to marry her.

A funny thing happened when Mikke and Torvar went to Riften to arrange the wedding. While Mikke was talking to Maramal, Torvar was idling in the background. Then when she turned around to leave, Torvar was standing with his arms crossed over his chest, glaring. I have never seen that animation from a follower before!

Maramal said come back tomorrow for your wedding, ha ha don’t be late! It was about 9 bells of the morning watch. Mikke suggested that they work off the pre-wedding jitters by slaughtering the closest bandit clan. Torvar agreed.

At the top of Fort Greenwall amidst a festival of axe mayhem, Mikke had the sudden thought (Quest Failed: Attend Your Wedding Ceremony) that she had screwed up big time. She sprinted back to the Temple of Mara, dripping bandit blood the whole way. Maramal was pissed. Torvar was smug. Mikke was confused.

Back in Kynesgrove she kept the apology simple. Roggi decided to give her another chance. This time she made it on time.

Here is a picture of Mikke and Roggi at their wedding. Here is one that shows an unimpressed Sofie and Alesan, an unhappy Torvar, and some guy in the back row that I don’t recognize. Anyone know who that is?

Married life can be confusing for a werewolf. She and her sweet husband share a bedchamber with the children. She hopes that’s why Roggi won’t put out. (Her beast blood keeps her from feeling her Lover’s Comfort.) Also you can take the man out of Steamscorch Mine, but you can’t take the miner out of the man. Roggi spends his days quarrying rock near the garden. He won’t cook for her either. Also he seems to have closed his shop.

On the plus side, he stoked up (or whatever) the mead barrels. Now the old Windstad place is known as the Ghost Marsh Meadery.

Mikke is traveling with Erik the Slayer now. When she looks at Torvar, she gets the feeling that she may have made a mistake.

I remember Mikke! Her look did ease up when she laid off the dreds. Ha! Torvar sabotaged her wedding! I thought she would hook up with Torvy after that. But no, Knoty still came through. But Erik the Farmer erm, Slayer is in the henhouse now.

You know, none of my Skyrim characters has ever gotten married. The nearest one to ever do it was Hrafn, but her man (Ralof) was of course unmarriable.

Loved that story, Grits! Mikke is very attractive, too, holy compassion. Gives me hope when I'm making some females in the future. I also liked the part where you describe Torvar's glare! And when they wanted to work off their "jitters" by going on a bandit raid!

I've had 2 or 3 characters get married so far. I've haven't yet put much effort into making a huge deal about it (RP wise) but that might change with my upcoming Crusader character: Lord Haff-Mersey Haff-Mersey is totally going to be the marrying type.

So Denelle is once again in the throes of a crush. Two at the same time, actually. Well, three if you count the torch she still carries for Erik the Doesn’t Think Of Denelle In That Way. She also thinks that Argis the Bulwark is quite the man, but Argis does not seem impressed with her. He says things like, “I’ll be back at YOUR house if you need me,” when she dismisses him. Also she thinks it might be creepy and exploitive to make advances on one’s Housecarl. So Argis is also forever out of reach.

Now unlike some of my cheerful sluts, Denelle has kept her legs crossed through many a thrilling adventure. She is definitely lonely, so I think it’s a case of waiting for The One rather than she’s just not that interested. Her last assignment was to get a book for the College, which she did. When she and Argis went into the dorm to crash (separately) for a while before heading back to the Reach, Denelle dropped in to see her mage friends.

To my surprise she invited Onmund to join her. (On her travels. She was not hitting on him.)

Now I, Grits, have always viewed Onmund as something of a weenie. “Oooh, I gave away my necklace because my family made me mad, and now I want it back but that mean old elf is sooo scary!” Ahem. Sorry, Denelle.

Also he made a strange remark about Neloth, which seems to be a Dragonborn bug. But I guess Denelle sees something else in him.

Of course the first thing she did the next day was give him a makeover. Do you recognize this guy?

So we’ll see. After Erik’s flat rejection it will take a lot to get her to dig that Amulet of Mara out of the drawer. So far it’s been good beween Denelle and Onmund. He’s opened up about his religion (a comment he made), saved her little butt several times with his shock spells, impressed her with his smooth use of sword and Ward, and most importantly he always stays out of her shot.

-laughter that turns into a coughing fit-