Yes, I know how to do it now but when Lothran got back in, one of the Conjurers had actually opened both gates. Funny how they couldn´t do it while Lothran was inside


After another day in Chorrol the Dunmer is now back in the Imperial City for his usual business of buying ingredients and offloading stuff. Some will be kept in the shack and some will go to Bruma next winter. Oh, and today Lothran did some spring cleaning and threw out some weapons and trinkets he didn´t want anymore.

My decrepit avatar and Vilja stand inside the Bravil Fighters Guild Hall, where they changed out of battle dress in preparation for a meal at Silverhome On The Water. Their beasts rest at the city stables.

My observation of their activities began in Weye Manor at 2016 the evening prior, the gang's business for the day over and done with. It was a bit late for dinner in the Imperial City, and my avatar didn't feel up to facing the crowd normally gathered at the Wawnet that time of day. Instead, he opted to eat supper in front of Foyer fireplace, while Vil retired to the dining hall for hers. He ate only the main course indoors, then had a strawberry tart and a bottle of milk on his private balcony while watching a meteor shower over the capital. He retired to his bed a few minutes prior to 2200.

Next morning he woke circa 0600, donned travel clothes, roused Vil, rode to IC (with Vil in tow), gathered assignments, replenished blessings at the Temple of the One, and breakfasted at All Saints Inn. They returned to Weye long enough to grab Wolfgang and Groucho then patrolled the Red Ring / Green to Bravil, where they received credit for yet another patrol circuit completed. They delivered two shipping assignments and, as mentioned, changed attire in the Fighters Guild.

Meteor shower? That sounds nice.

Lothran is now in Skingrad and that´s where he´ll be during Easter. Exploring the West Weald is very enjoyable

Explored a fort near Skingrad tonight that apparently hasn´t had Lothran as a guest yet. And surprisingly, neither had Derelict Mine! I´m genuinely shocked that we haven´t been there yet!

I don't think I've ever been to Derelict Mine either. I know where it is and all that stuff but never bothered to look inside.

Which fort did he discover for the 1st time?

Vlastarus, so it wasn´t some remote fort either. Just like Derelict Mine. It must be because they are too accessable that we ignored them

Isn't that the one you go into in the Fighter's Guild questline?

Don´t know


I´d look it up if I wasn´t straight out of bed, i.e tired

Heh, I've never been inside Vlastarus either. I discovered it for the first time in Manuin's game when he was riding from Bravil to Skingrad.

After a tour in the magnificent Great Forest and the Colovians, Lothran is now back in Skingrad and the Fighters Guild. A few trinkets were found in the ruins and caves he visited though nothing really worth mentioning.

Sounds beautiful, and this is his time of year for that!

It sure is


More ´sploring the Skingrad/Kvatch county. Found another female Khajiit bandit behaving like a Highwayman. Though Lothran decided to remove his Stockholm Syndrome and get his Septims back this time

I fired up Severan's game earlier. He was taking a stroll in the Temple District of the Imperial City when he was approached by a Dunmer woman, on behalf of her husband. He went chasing that down, and is about to head out for Memorial Cave.

But I've hit something of a problem with his game. He's got more than thirty thousand septims, and at least another five thousand worth of enchanted items(mostly armour) to sell, and Frostcrag Spire is now fully restored. Which is where the problem comes in:

I don't know that he's got any motivation to continue traipsing around Cyrodiil anymore.


I also put in a little time with Ralyn. He's killed off some mountain lions, and now has the tedium of watching Quill-Weave to deal with, so I've left that for later.

Well, once he's raised a bit more, he can consider Imbel Manor, assuming he's prepared to do the quest. The mod is on the Nexus

And Severan's game is on my Xbox 360

Urgh, pissed off.

Took Severan to Memorial Cave today.

There, he added a new enemy to his "Cyrodiil is scary" list.

A faded wraith.

It killed him.

Ouch. Severan must be quite a low-level

He was level 14, but his strength and endurance hadn't been increased, and he didn't have an enchanted weapon. So getting hit by it meant his strength and endurance were both halved, so he couldn't move. He survived a couple of those spells by chugging a healing potion and turning invisible.

But then it hit him from up close(both his nighteye and detect life spells had run out during the fight, so when he tried running, he did so blind), then followed up with its silence spell. The dispel potions that Severan was carrying simply weren't powerful enough.

It's okay CT, he died in action, and that's only fair. Must have been intense, right?

The last few moments certainly were. Nothing I could do but sit and watch the faded wraith kill him, after everything else failed.

I think I'll delete his save files and restart him, with a few changes. Firstly, I don't think reddish hair looks right on a Dunmer And I think he'll have to put a little more emphasis on getting through the recommendation quests. I don't know that that kind of character can afford to rely on finding enchanted weapons after level twelve or so, when the nastier critters start appearing.

And turn undead spells might be worth looking into...

Well, you know what they say: Another day, another restart

And turn your difficulty down too CT, if you've got it cranked to the right


Really, you too? Oh my, but you've come so far, mirocu.

One night in Anvil makes the Dunmer happy,
the town is nice and so is Flowing Bowl.
You´ll find the port to be a little shabby,
but castle´s nice and so is the lighthouse.

The Count is gone, where could he be, I ask.



-Thank ye, thank ye...


Yes, the Dunmer is living it up in Anvil County! He´s currently stationed at the Flowing Bowl, it´s midnight and rain is pouring down outside, as it has all day. Before going to the Bowl, Lothran took whatever few items of interest he had left in Benirus Manor and proceeded to give County Anvil its deed and key. He has officially nothing more to do with the Manor

Nice poem, mirocu!

The Flowing Bowl? Why Buffy was just there recently.

I hope I won´t get any copyright strikes...


Yes, I believe Lothran made himself heard as well as Buffy. "Shuddup!" is usually not ignored...

I've now recreated Severan and gotten his new game going. What's interesting is that I'm already noticing some differences:

Obviously, he doesn't look quite the same. Since I'd long since overwritten the save at the sewer exit I had to redo the tutorial, so his face isn't the same. And his hair's black this time, though it's the same style as before.

What surprised me is his birthsign. I was going to select The Mage, but I got a very strong impression that The Atronach was the right one to pick, so I went with it.

And unlike his previous incarnation, this Severan seems to favour robes:

When in darkness or shadow, robes are useful. They blur the figure somewhat; making the outline less distinct, and so more difficult to discern or recognise, and easier to ignore or dismiss.

I wasn't expecting him to be this different, so this should be interesting...

Giving up that nice manor?


*mALX hurries to Anvil with a blank check in hand...*


"Come on, Maxical! You said you always wanted to live in Anvil!"

Maxical would be a great, new owner to the Manor


Funny how Severan this time around prefers robes. Lothran doesn´t wear them but he collects them

Maxical doesn't like wearing robes, however she does have several black ones that weigh nothing which she has enchanted in various ways so she can carry several of them for certain situations that may or may not pop up in her line of work.

What line of work, you may ask?

Uh...er... Well, she is just an adventurer

I didn't even know that Lothran owns the Benirus Manor. I mean, owned.

Well, he did


And now said Dunmer is back in Skingrad, en route to Imperial City with all the spoils he´s gathered so far. I reckon he´ll be back in the Great Forest and the West Weald as soon as his load is lighter

And I can´t for the life of me figure out why so many road bandits are friendly to Lothran these days!

Besides the road bandits being BFFs with Lothie these days, another strange thing happened tonight.


Lothran is currently in the Imperial City and as night fell he thought he was gonna have some fun with the sewer bandits in the Market District. Well, there weren´t any down there but as he tried to attract attention from beyond the door he suddenly got a message saying that Ontus Valus was unconscious. I didn´t even know he ever went down there!

But that´s not all. Suddenly the guards on patrol came down and kept running against the door. No battle music though, and as soon as Lothran spoke to them they returned back up again, only to once again come running down.

After awhile the message stopped appearing and Lothran went up too, and lo and behold there was Ontus, chatting away like nothing happened.


I love these little mysterious happenings in Oblivion

So nice to see Lothie back in the Big City after his visit to Skingrad. It's fun sometimes when the game shows you that is can sometimes act as oddly as we sometime do.

He scared them away, and so they went up to the surface level, and attacked Ontus. They do that sort of thing because they're bandits. It's their job.

When he went back up, they'd have run off again, and Ontus recovered.

The bandits have probably run all the way to Bruma by now.

You've got some strange things happening in your game with Lothran there. Wow. I remember him owning Benirus Manor. Wow.

You guys are fun



Well, Lothran is now in Bravil to put all the necrodude robes and hoods into his collection there. But then I reckon he´ll go through the woods back to Skingrad county. One goal along the way will be the abandoned house that has bandits making.. it.. not actually abandoned... so much...

Visiting Bravil, killing necrodudes & bandits. *contented sigh* It just doesn't get much better than that.

Severan has been busy. After fighting his way out of the sewers, he headed straight for Bruma, or more specifically, for Frostcrag Spire. He likes the tower, but right now there's nothing much that he can do with it, so he's locked it back up for later. He's also started doing his recommendation quests, much to his annoyance. Bruma was too easy.

He's now at Chorrol, has just hit level 2, and has been making use of every Ayleid well he comes across to practice his magic, mostly conjuration. Next up, the Chorrol recommendation.

He also looks pretty good in grey robes, which he favours, and is the first character I've had who's worn them.

Yes, robes .... only certain characters can really wear them and it feels right, very true. I've only had maybe three out of 20+ who could pull off the robe thing.


Lothran has a necro-robe collection?

Sounds like Severan is keeping himself busy. Wise of him to use the wells in order to boost his magical abilities, I don´t think Lothran did that more than once or twice.


Yup. Mainly though to keep score, so to speak

I was thinking collection because COLLECTION!!! Gotta have 'em all!!!

Urgh, I hate doing the Mages Guild recommendation quests. For the umpteenth time.

I'm considering taking this as additional incentive to keep Severan alive

He's paid a quick visit to Chorrol to get his recommendation, and is now heading for Skingrad.

Yes, they do kind of get old after the 28th time playing them. But I do love the Mages Guild questline in Oblivion, so every game I play I end up back doing them all, lol.

I´m sure he´s very happy for that


Hey, same as Lothran!

Said elf has a special report today. While traveling the beautiful forests between Bravil and Skingrad his counter reset for the second time, making him having close to 2400 hours.

Party time? Why, yes!

Ct, nice to see you playing Severan again!

mirocu, congrats to Lothran!

Thanks, Acadian


Not much of a report today, Lothran´s in Skingrad. And that´s all

He spent a couple of nice days in the wilderness between Skingrad and Bravil and visited the Isolated House. Really nice area there and I do like the sense of isolation. Don´t get that in too many places in Cyrodiil, especially after so many years of playing

Isolated house - I presume Lothie is familiar with the waterfall nearby?

Skingrad. Just one choice to make. Does he want to savor the fruity delicate splendor of wine made by master vintner Tamika? Or does he perchance prefer that inferior slop the Surrilies make? Not that Buffy has an opinion on the matter, mind you.

He is indeed. Sadly no Buffy was there, though


If she´s neutral on that matter I´d love to see when she does have an opinion


Forgot to add: today I made save number 22.000

Sweet! This is awesome. Wow, that's a lot of hours.

Let's see. Right now I am with Joan of Arkay. Wow ... 40 hours! Party time! woo hoo!

Joanie just cleared Fort Carmala, and this one orc vampire chased Joan out of there. She had a huge sword which burned fire, and did a lot of damage to Joan, so she simply ran out of Carmala, with the vamp in hot pursuit (har har). Joan tried to throw some fireballs from a distance, jumping on top of boulders occasionally, but it was obvious she was going to need some help.

She ran up the hill to Chorrol, where the dark elf stablehand + the guard stationed outside came to Joan's rescue. Phew. :sweat:

Edit: the next day, she returned to Carmala to loot the place, and found a Base Necklace of Personality! This is great for a Level 4 character. Joan has no use for this item (she doesn't use Illusion, and has no need to be a good schmoozer) so hellooooo paycheck.