Does Lothran repair his stuff by himself or takes it to armorers?

When he wants something being exactly 100% he uses an armorer and he usually only have that requirement on collectibles. His day-to-day stuff he keeps at 125%.

Does your stored stuff still disappear if it is fixed to 125% or have they fixed that issue with a patch?

Disappear?

It was a known glitch in the game; items repaired to 125% used to disappear when put inside chests/dressers/etc. (at least on the 360 they did).

After losing some favorite swords I slowed my armor repair skill as soon as I was able to repair enchanted stuff; never again let it reach the point where I could repair to 125.

I never knew if that glitch got patched or not, didn't want to chance losing an item I cared about again.


Here is one of the WIKI articles on it; 3/4 of the way down the page titled, "Weapons Disappeared From Inventory"


http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion_talk:Armorer

Huh, don´t think I´ve ever heard about that one.

I do think the glitch where anything could disappear if too many items were put in a single container happened but definitely not more than once or so. Lothran has a lot of things in a lot of containers and whenever I´ve checked, nothing is missing.

Maybe they fixed the glitch! It might also be because you are on the PC; it may have been a console glitch. I don't know if it was ever fixed or not, so just didn't take chances; and since I've been playing on the PC - just never tested it out, I was already used to stopping that skill from raising over 50.

Today Lothran made his way up to Imperial City from Bravil. Now he will make final preparations before his move to Bruma for the winter. Lots to take care of - selling, buying, perhaps create new spells and enchanted items, talk to the people, and so on.

Well while Lothie is heading north, Snaat Rayag is in jail! He wound up with some sort of huge bounty, over 4000 gold, probably enhanced by some mod, although at this point, I'm not sure which one it could be. I'm not sure what he did this time; chances are he accidentally murdered some innocent.

Anyways, let's see how long his sentence is this time. Currently Morndas, Evening Star 24.

Do you want to just serve your time?

Yes

Lordy. Sun's Dawn 7. That's not so bad, actually. Evening Star = December, and Sun's Dawn = February. That doesn't seem very long for such a huge bounty. Hmm... Anyways, now he is in Skingrad, hoping to see his Tomato Lady girlfriend. He sold all his skooma before going to jail (skooma is illegal in all my games) so he's got 1170 gold to return to. He'll be heading toward Bravil next, to buy more skooma, and also search for any new recruits for Gweden Brothel.

I´m sure Kahreem scoffs at such a low bounty and short prison sentence

Lothran’s final travel preparations make me feel like stacking firewood, because surely snow will follow!


I’m sure Snaaty’s jail term was long enough to make him want to see the Tomato Lady as much as she always wants to see him. “Need me some skooma…”

Yup


Today the Dunmer actually talked to a totally new person in the Imperial City! Helvo Atius was his name, and the reason Lothran has never met him before is because he´s always behind his locked door. Well, today Lothran wanted to see who it was and very carefully used a spell to unlock the door...

There are apparently a lot of NPCs who remain behind locked doors

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand inside Silverhome on the Water, where they just delivered a package to the Merchants Guild representative stationed there. They will eat a lite repast then depart for home, though depending on circumstances they might spend the night at their property in Faregyle.

My avatar woke at his accustomed time (circa 0600), slipped on a pair of soft shoes, breakfasted (Cider, crab meat, cheese, egg, muffin, fig) on his third-floor private balcony, returned indoors, dressed for his walk to the Imperial City, looked in on Vilja (still asleep), left the Manor, battled an inept assassin, crossed Talos Bridge, entered the City, entered White-Gold Tower, received his patrol assignment, returned to the Manor, grabbed Vil and Wolfgang, untethered Groucho at the stable, mounted, and began their patrol of the Red-Ring / Green to Bravil.

The patrol itself is pretty much what you would expect. A few wayward mages outside a ruin, numerous minotaurs, a few beasts who strayed too near the roadway. They stopped en route to gather taxes due at Faregyl Inn and made a brief courtesy appearance at the Inn of Ill Omen. They eventually reached their destination, received credit for both the patrol and completing yet another patrol circuit, dropped off a package at the local Gold Horse Courier office, walked to Silverhome, and delivered that package, which brings us to where this missive began.

Mirocu - I hope Lothran enjoys his final fall preparations in the IC before the last leg of his winter migration.

Decrepit - Now that's what I'm talkin' about! I have indeed missed the never-ending patrolling adventures of Hamfist Hamfat Your Decrepit Avatar and his Viljan apprentice - along with Wolfgang, Groucho and the horses. Great to see you adventuring with them again.

It´s always fun to prepare for a long journey


Agreed!

-Welcome to the forums, Decrepit Avatar and gang!

Today while moseying around the Imperial City market sewers, Lothran disabled his seventh Abomb. I think it´s his seventh, my notes says so anyway. He also bought a few ingredients at The Main Ingredient and chatted with a few people.

It´s getting close to where he´s about to head to Aleswell. This is the last weekend in Imperial City

Huh? What is an Abomb?

What? Have you never played Oblivion?


The animation thingy where fire and doors stutter.

l played Oblivion since 2006 - never had that happen. How do you fix it?

You´ve never had fire/spell/door animation freeze in Maxical´s game? That´s odd. It usually happens after 200-300 hours or so.

I fix it using a program I downloaded years ago, others fix it via Wrye Bash. No fix on consoles though

Maybe it is because on the PC I spend most of my time modding and not playing; or that I've had to reinstall the game so many times from computer crashes. But my first game on the console was well into 900 hours and I didn't have the problem on it either. I guess I was just lucky?

I think it has to do with the number of times you save so the more often you save, the more prone you are to encounter it. I think...

Maybe it was quick-saves that cause it, I know they caused other issues. But I never used quick-saves even once. Never had the problem on my console games or on the PC.

Never use quick-saves either.


Anyway, let´s not wander off-topic too far. PM me if you wanna talk about this further

If it happens to me in my game I will most def PM you immediately on it !!! Both my and my son's 360s broke; and on the PC in Oblivion I used to just fiddle with making mods, haven't really even done that in a while other than Persephone's Tower so I could play with SubRosa and her character Persephone.

With Oblivion - I played so many games of it that I knew every enemy spawn point; every word of dialogue. I'm just taking a break from it so the next time I play it will feel fresh.

mALX: I think you were on Xbox as well as PC, right? You won't see the A-bomb on Xbox probably until after 400 hours per game. PC it happens more frequently, but I've noticed that it happens more with characters who use lots of magic. Each time we cast a spell with some sort of visual effect, this is what builds up the A-bomb counter thingie.

I see the Abomb more frequently on PC (maybe every 200 hours), but this is because we can add lots more stuff to the game which adds adds adds visual effects. But it's very easy to reset the counter on PC, it literally takes a few seconds.


Crap. Well don't worry, I'm about to play some Oblivion later tonight, I'll edit something here later.

That might be what kept me out of having problems; Maxical literally never used magic.

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand in the foyer of Weye Manor, armed and armored, Wolfgang at their side. They are about to untether Groucho at the stable, mount, and begin their patrol of the Gold to Anvil, with stopover for package deliveries and lunch in Skingrad, and a brief pause to gather taxes-due at Gottshaw Inn. If he remembers, my avatar means to have Tamika remind him where she needs her wine crate delivered. They hope to reach their ultimate destination by bedtime. If not, they'll likely sleep at a roadside camp site.

Their return from Bravil was relatively uneventful. My avatar had thought to spend the night at their property in Faregyle, but elected to press on straight to Weye instead. They stopped only twice en route, once to dispose of two vermin near a pool-with-waterfall just off the Green, once to handle a bandit near Pell's Gate. The gang arrived home circa 2330. Late as it was, my avatar went straight to his bed, leaving Vilja to her own devices.

He woke circa 0545, breakfasted on ham, cheese, egg, muffin, fig and stout on his third-floor private balcony, changed into travel clothes, looked in on Vil (still asleep), crossed Lake Rumare afoot, picked up a Skingrad delivery assignment at the Waterfront Gold Horse Courier office, entered the City proper, dropped off gathered tax at White Gold Tower census office, accepted a Gottshaw Inn tax-warrant, grabbed their road patrol assignment, picked up a Skingrad shipping assignment from the Merchants Guild, exited the City, crossed Lake Rumare, gathered Vil and Wolfgang, and as stated above is about to depart with the gang for Anvil.

Busy busy the Decrepit avatar is. Go go go ...

Mirocu - I hope Lothie enjoys the rest of his time in the IC. Next stop northward: Aleswell!

Decrepit - I have indeed missed your updates. What I have always admired about your game is that it so nicely supports a 'neverending' playthrough. A wonderful collection of repeatable taskings and a nice crew in support.

Onward to Aleswell for Lothran! It’s fun to follow his seasonal progress.

Decrepit, it’s great to hear that your Decrepit avatar and crew are keeping the roads clear and Tamika’s products distributed.

As is known his game is quite slow, but I like the feeling of building up to something. Even if it´s something that´s been done before..




Dito!

I´m glad to know that even though your avatar is decrepit, Decrepit, he´s still going strong!

Thanks for your interest in the gang's mundane affairs.

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand in the first-floor Foyer of Weye Manor, almost exactly where we left them last report. Only, in the interim they patrolled the Gold Anvil, traveled to Chorrol, and rode home, which they just entered when I left them to their own devices.

The first leg of their travels was eerily peaceful. Neither beast nor miscreant was encountered between Weye and Skringrad. Not a one. At Skingrad they delivered two packages, picked up two transport assignments to Anvil, ate lunch, and had Tamika remind them where her wine was to be delivered. This last proved to be Pell's Gate, which they had passed twice the day before! Oh well, they can drop off the crate during their patrol of the Green to Leyawiin, which happens to be next on the rotation roster.

They were not so blessed during the second stage of their journey. Foes abounded. None posed a serious threat.

Not far outside Skingrad the gang encountered a road traveler, a member of the Fighters Guild, clad in civilian attire, a steel sword at his side. This seemed odd to my avatar, who asked to inspect his gear. It proved to be several pieces of leather damaged beyond wear. My avatar repaired and returned said items, a service he oft provides to travelers in need. All's well that ends well. Well, not quite. The guild member was traveling the same direction as they. He kept getting ahead of them, and running in to evil of every sort. A few such encounters later he was again clad in street attire. My avatar rummaged Groucho's packs, retrieved a complete set of mithril, including shield, and gave it to the man free of charge.

As planned, they stopped at Gottshaw to collect taxes-due. As almost never happens, Vilja was left outside with the animals. For whatever reason she bears a grudge against a poor refugee lad housed in the inn. It's best to keep the two separated, lest things turn unpleasant rather quickly.

After dropping off their two supply shipments in Anvil, they walked to Benirus Manor to find the door barred! Turns out my avatar let real-estate tax payments fall a week behind. He returned to the city gate and gave the guard on duty six week's worth of payments. The door was unbarred. They entered their abode. My avatar drank a grass of milk (along with a sweetroll) by the fireplace to ease his stomach, then hit the sack.

Next morning they rose, dressed, picked up two shipping assignment for Chorrol, ate breakfast at Count's Arms, rode to Chorrol, delivered packages, restocked their Seond-Hand Sales Shoppe with spoils from Groucho's packs, and returned to Weye. If all goes according to plan they will soon head out for the dinner in the Imperial City, unless they decide on the Wawnet instead.

I´m so glad your avatar is still up to par

Having the skills (and inventory mods) to repair the gear of fellow travelers is wonderful. I know Buffy will always repair the gear of Legion Riders after they help her on the road.

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand inside the Inn of Ill Omen, where they collected taxes-due. They are about to exit the building and resume their patrol of the Green to Leyawiin. They have already delivered Tamika wines to Pell"s Gate. Next stop, Bravil for shipping deliveries and a lite meal.

As my avatar suspected, the patrol proper has been uneventful, they having cleared the Green between the Imperial City and Bravil only a few Nirn days prior. Things should get more lively, for good or ill, once they leave Bravil and enter the Barrowfields. They hope to reach their destination ere sleep overtakes them. If not, camping gear is stored on Groucho.

The night prior they walked to the Imperial City where they picked up shipping assignments, paid their respects to the Dragon Statue and renewed nearly expired blessings at the Temple of the One, and ate dinner at All Saints Inn. They were home slightly before 2200, allowing my avatar a full eight hours sleep.

He rose just before 0600, ate breakfast on his third-floor private balcony, dressed in travel attire and walked to White-Gold Tower. He handed in collected taxes, accepted a new tax warrant, changed into officially recognized Legion armor, accepted the Leyawiin Patrol, returned to Weye. Gathered Vil (who was just finishing breakfast with the Manor staff) and Wolfgang, untethered Groucho, mounted, and began their patrol.

Nothing new about any of this. Those familiar with my avatar can likely post an account of the gang's daily activities and, provided it's kept reasonably generic, be guarantied 90% accuracy. As all know, at this stage of his career he has become, above all else, a creature of habit.

One incident might be worth expanding on. Approaching White-Gold Tower he had a premonition that not all was well within. Though armored only in greaves and cuirass he brought his sword and shield to the ready, then entered . . . to be greeted by a battle between Tower Guards and bandits, with a goblin thrown in for good (or bad) measure. The raiders stood little chance, their corpses soon strewing the floor. My avatar healed two wounded guards, gave them first-looting rights (as is common practice) and continued on to the Census and Justice Departments. On his way out he gathered whatever worthwhile spoils the guards had left untouched, which seemed to have been most everything. He doesn't understand why they don't take at least some of the better gear for themselves, unless it is against regulation.

ACADIAN: As you prolly recall, it was you who turned me on to the inventory mod several years ago. It has proved a great addition to my play-through, giving my avatar yet another useful function of the sort he is naturally inclined to perform.

Your avatar is not the only creature of habit, Decrepit. As you may have noticed over the years my Lothran always follows the same procedure when preparing for his winter stay in Bruma. He also has many other things he does on an annual basis, such as staying at Pale Pass over Christmas

I´m glad he has the ability to foresee trouble! That´s a very useful skill that can aid him to a long life


Back to Lothran who has just finished his first leg of the journey to Bruma and arrived at Aleswell. After just having been there a short while he was met with a frightened and heavily wounded Imperial mount. It turned back when he encounterd my Dunmer is if by saying "Help me, come this way!" Though Lothran was quick to respond, all it took for the chasing ogre was one more hit on the steed and its life was ended. Lothran made sure though the ogre wouldn´t live very much longer himself..


Special thanks to mALX who made the mod that disables many NPC:s to follow around! Among them is the Dunmer brother in Aleswell and I was ready to have Lothran use the demoralize spell to chase him off as per usual, then I noticed he didn´t follow around anymore and I remember he was added to the mod list

Today whilst in Aleswell, Lothran took out a few undead in the nearby Fingerbowl Cave and re-visited Ancotar at his place down in the ruin. Otherwise it was a pretty uneventful day

My decrepit avatar stands in Rockmilk Cave, having just reentered after loading Groucho with spoils looted from the corpses of criminal scum scattered throughout the nearer section of the caverns. (He SHOULD have cleared out the entire first level before I left him, but the game crashed while battling what would have been its final mob.) Wolfang and the mounts remain tethered at the Leyawiin stable. Vilja has been left to her own devices in the city.

The stretch of Green between Inn of Ill Omen and Bravil was a pleasure to traverse. Gorgeous scenery, perfect sunny weather, not a foe in sight. Bravil was Bravil. The Barrowfields were strangely peaceful . . . one troll near the sheep pens and a Dreugh just prior to the bridge that marks the Barrowfields' terminus. The sun was low in the sky as they crossed the bridge. Barely on its other side a drizzle set in. Within minutes rain was falling in sheets, and continued to do so the rest of their journey. They began to encounter will-o-the-wisps and dreugh. All were spotted in ample time for my avatar to bring them down at distance with his bow. Strangely, not a single outlaw was seen, not even in those places one expects them to lay in ambush.

They reached Leyawiin circa 2245, stabled their beasts, entered the city, delivered packages, and had a nightcap at Three Sisters Inn. (They had consumed a full meal in Bravil.) My avatar then walked Vil to her bed in the Mages Guild basement and backtracked to the Fighters Guild where he spent the night.

He rose circa 0600, dressed, breakfasted at Five Claws Lodge, untethered Groucho and walked to Rockmilk which, as you know, my avatar is currently in the process of cleansing.


My avatar hasn't passed by Aleswell in ever so long. He has no official reason to do so. It's on no patrol route. Nor is it a time-efficient pathway for shipping. Once in a blue moon he takes that stretch of Red-Ring on the return from Bruma, assuming he has no pressing business in the Imperial City so can travel straight to Weye. Even then there is little if any time savings over crossing the North Bridge and following Perimeter Road to Talos Bridge. Still, it wouldn't hurt him to clear that stretch of Red-Ring every now and again. But that is of course his business and none of mine.

Still, he might wanna consider it. Lothran has met many a Legionnaire in dire situations on that stretch of road.



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It´s winter time; Lothran is in Bruma!

He left Aleswell in the foggy morning and made his way up to the frozen town, arriving around mid-day. Along the way he met a couple of ogres and down at the ruin by the junction two bandits. All quickly disposed of.

Upon entering Bruma he went to his house (I could actually almost feel the smell from the cabin!) and lit the fireplace. He then began to offload the many items he had collected during the past year. Every item was put in their respective container and among them were one (1) Ayleid statue! I don´t remember where he had found it but it´s fun to add another to the collection. This particular one now decorates the right side of Lothran´s bed.

Pics in the pic thread!

My avatar's just-ended scouring of Rockmilk took longer than any previous cleansing I have been privy to witness . . . and I've observed most of 'em. Reasons are several.

First, there was an extraordinary amount of spoils to be plundered, more so than most such cleansings. This necessitated at least two additional walks to the cave entrance to offload pilferage onto Groucho. Such trips consume time, especially those that fall deep within the caverns.

Second, survivors of the various rival gang combats contained a disproportionately high ratio of archers. Battling archers is serious business, fraught will peril (thanks to Duke Patrick's Combat Archery). To the point, most such encounters consume a good deal of time, and generally end with one or more pieces of armor in desperate need of repair.

Despite extra trips to Groucho, my avatar was fairly selective on what he grabbed. Some good pieces were ignored during the cleansing. His plan was to scour the entire cave system, then make one final spoils run for the lesser pieces. Only, as he approached the cave exit for what would have been his penultimate offloading of spoils who should appear but . . . Sir Mazoga. My avatar simply could not leave her empty handed. He therefore forwent taking any remaining high quality loot and all unclaimed lesser spoils. He vowed to split Black Bows 50/50, leave her scare at the Lodge for her to hand in at leisure.

I left him ready to exit Rockmilk and begin the trek to Leyawiin.

I´m glad our characters spread out to take care of opposite sides of Cyrodiil, Decrepit

I know that winter is knocking at the door when Lothran arrives in Bruma. Will he get a Christmas tree this year?

This can be considered a non-update, the gang being no further along in their adventures than when last I chronicled them. It might have been otherwise.

My greatest joy as disembodied observer-of-events are those times when I feel myself not playing a game but rather witnessing the life stories of a group of beings unfold as they go about their daily affairs. The more immersive this can be pulled off the happier I am. The game can and does throw major obstacles in the way of immersion. One learns to avoid the worst pitfalls, play to the game's strengths, and accept what can not be avoided . . . to a point.

I had a fairly lengthy session this morning, which saw the gang spend the night in Leyawiin, turn in Black Bows, and travel the road to Corinthe, Elsweyr to collect cheese for delivery to Border Watch. It was a mess. All sorts of little things went wrong, which I got them through in gamish ways. Immersion went out the window. By the time they dismounted in Corinthe I knew I had done disservice to my avatar and frustrated myself. I exited without saving and deleted the one save made earlier in the session (just prior to leaving Leyawiin).

While such action is rare, deleting non immersive sessions of gameplay is not unheard of. As I see it, for my avatar those removed saves never occurred. As for me, I'll get over it. I just gotta get my head on straighter before going back and setting things to rights.

If he can sharpen his Rusty Iron Axe, then maybe


Wow. Actually doing that takes a lot. I don´t think I´ve ever done it, save from a very rare occasion when I simply had to due to serious problems with the game. Lothran was in Bruma but I can´t remember what triggered me to delete many saves and revert back several real life days. I hope I never have to do it again though.

@Decrepit - it happened to me on occasion that I deleted an entire save and continued from the previous one. In my case the main reason was that I gamed too tired and somewhere halfway through I lost interest, and looking back at what happened, I got a feeling like things would turn out differently if I played in a better condition. The other reason was too frequent CTDs which made me lose interest in gaming and I instead decided to reload and continue some other time.

However, now it's been years since I've done this because I usually avoid gaming if I'm too tired or if my mind is "elsewhere", not in strictly in the game world.

What went wrong, Decrepit? Can you give an example?

I have played a few sessions and not saved. It happens rarely, but it does happen. Usually if there's some sort of technical problem or game-breaking roleplay moment or something such.

Well, I returned to Snaaty's game briefly last night, and my first quest works. I made a fetch quest, it's very simple, but the entire thing works, which really makes me happy! Snaaty is in Bravil (the capital of skooma) but he doesn't do very well in Bravil, as a merchant. People in Bravil don't buy his stuff. They don't have to, because Bravil already has its own dealers, who probably charge less than Snaaty does.

But then my dark elf meets Sal Uut. Sal is new in town. He's a Breton skooma-user. The premise of the quest is that Sal shows up in the Lonely Suitor, ready to party with 10 bottles of skooma. But somebody steals all his stuff. Rumor is: an orc is the thief, and there are further rumors that this orc has been keeping his stash of skooma somewhere inside Anutwyll. '

So Sal (who is old and not an adventurer at all) proposes that if Snaaty can find out if the orc has indeed stolen his skooma, and also retrieves the man's skooma, Sal will split whatever Snaaty finds 50/50. And buy him a beer. Silly little quest, but it works. That's all I care about right now, it [censored] works!

Renee´s first quest mod, woohoo!!

So cool you got it to work! I´m betting this makes you wanna create another, eh?

Yes, I've created two and a half so far. The first one was a simple fetch quest, and the next one will be a "find the thief and kill" quest. And the third one is going to be more elaborate. My skooma dealer's going to get sent to Chorrol in that one, and he's never been there before, so that should be neat.

What I like most about it is I can write stuff around my character much more specifically than Bethesda or anybody else can. I can include my character's name in some dialog, and if I share any of these mods with anyone else I can add their name too.

By the way, Snaaty has been looking around Bravil. There's gotta be somebody to recruit for Gweden Brothel, there just has to be; it's Bravil, after all. So far, we haven't found this next person.