Yup, got the HP I was telling you about. Got it 2 weeks ago. It's been a blast. Windows 8 is kinda strange, but holy crap this is the fastest computer I've ever used. i also got a wireless mouse + keyboard and an Xbox-style controller for PC, although I haven't figured out how to get this controller working yet. I'll figure it out, though, even if I have to hire someone.

Congrats! I wish I could help you with the x-box controller, but I don't have a clue about getting those to work. I have Windows 8 on my tablet, and I agree that it is kind of strange! Its like Windows 7, but with a phone OS look laid over the top of it.

Thanks! I'll figure it out eventually, and if I can't I'll literally hire somebody. Gaming's that important to me. I often game in bed, so having 2 devices at once (mouse & keys) while playing Oblivion or Skyrim just won't work.

OH and On-topic: Kahreem of Weet has left Leyawiin.

Raven (<--pic) is sitting in the Great Chapel of Arkay in Cheydinhal.

Where's Kareem headed?

Wow, a close up of Raven with no hood. He looks like a tough customer!

Raven looks like an actor I've seen. wow, he looks determined.

Acadian: he was on his way to Bravil, but then he realized he's supposed to take the ring to Ahdarji, not S'krivva. Oops.

The Weet bandit is sometimes a little confused, huh?

As for the Nordic Dunmer, he has of now withdrawn to the Imperial City. It´s time to take things a little slower in preparation for his return to Bruma. He did however go to the Ayleid ruin west of the Waterfront where he fought off a bandit and got himself some nice things to sell to fatten his coin purse.

Yup, Buffy knows what that chill in the air means for Lothie!

The heavily fur-bundled tree elf did get all the way up to visit a guild sister who lives at the tavern in Falkreath. She sweet talked the guards there into letting Superian into the guard tower for the night - out of the cold, you know. She's dungeon crawling now, clearing several of them between Cheydinhal and Cropsford. I figure after the snow up north, she's likely headed for the delicious warmth, mist, ferns and willows of Blackwood.

Oh wow, seems like he just left there.

So which months does he choose to 'hibernate' in Bruma, then? I finally looked at how months correspond from Earth to Tamriel recently.

Buffy´s in Skyrim!??? When did her transition to that province happen!????


Time really flies, doesn´t it?


Mid-November till the end of March. However it´s not written in stone exactly what days he decides to travel, but some time around those dates.

Buffy's Skyrim visit is reaching Falkreath via the Jerall Mountains (all thanks to Ghastley's Falkreath mod!)!

I've downloaded the mod too, and can't wait for Maxical to visit Ghastley's Falkreath (Maxical has been to Skyrim, but she prefers to remain in Cyrodiil and only visit Falkreath and the buxom waitress that Ghastley hired to run the inn, lol).

Oh, so ghastley has his own Skyrim mod for Oblivion? Didn´t know that

His mods are AWESOME, he is highly respected on Nexus. Here is what Ghastley said about his Falkreath Oblivion Mod:

There's a bit of clarification needed here. My Falkreath mod (or the same thing in the other mod) just adds the town of Falkreath in the land that was already present in Oblivion beyond the invisible border. If you turn borders off in your game you can go there now, but you just won't find a town where Falkreath is supposed to be. It doesn't add any more of Skyrim, and if you go much further north, you'll still fall of the edge of the world.

I added a few houses, tavern, chapel, jail/guard-tower, and appropriate inhabitants on approximately the right point on the Oblivion map. The standalone mod has a single quest just in (actually under) the town. Gweden gets a another quest or two that have you go there, and expands the standalone mod's quest a little to fit in to the Red Dragon Club quest line. The townsfolk do the usual trading, the guards will arrest you if needed, etc.

It was made to be part of the Gweden mod, but there seemed to be interest in just the town, so I made the separate one later, and trimmed down the quest a bit.

I had also considered adding Elinhir, which is in Hammerfell just over the other border, the three provinces meeting just outside Sky's Edge Cave, which is a location in my Rumple Mod - the one with the Bear Riders. I just haven't come up with an idea for a quest into Hammerfell yet. The one I did have resulted in Haballa coming to Cyrodiil instead. Elinhir still might happen, if the muse strikes.

Darnand and (NPC) Jerric took a stroll north of the border. They're spending at least another day in ghastley's Falkreath. They arrived at sunset just in time to relax in the tavern. Darnand managed to annoy the proprietor, possibly by looking at the wrong big blond while I took the picture. After he scrounged around for things to sell so that he could bribe her they finally had a nice chat. Darnand definitely needs to invest in a Charm spell.

NPC Jerric did very well on the way up. He likes to summon Slim (skeleton) pretty much every time a rat sneezes at them. Darnand's only AR comes from his leather gauntlets, so overkill is fine with him.

I have never turned off the borders before, so this is pretty exciting. Hmm, Elinhir...

Lothran continues to coronate people in the Imperial City. No less than six tonight and at least two more are to follow
He´s also been selling some items collected from killed bandits, but he didn´t get so much from that.

Today a lot of time was spent at the University and for the first time since his novice days, Lothran was wearing the appropriate attire; a Mages Robe he had in his home. He could have gotten a White Mage´s Robe or something else more fancy than the standard robe to demonstrate his rank, but that´s not him. Even as a Warlock he´s never felt superior to the Scholars and Apprentices and he wants that to show. He also knows that as a mage one is never fully trained and in a way, he´s still a regular Scholar and feels he should be dressed as such.

While at the University he took the opportunity to upgrade a couple of spells as well as claiming one of the beds upstairs at the Mage´s Quarters. He got the one in the corner on the right, passed the big book shelf.

I saw on the other forum that you were going to try that (mage's robe at the University). I'm glad you and Lothie are liking it.

You know that Buffy calls the University home (even though she's in the bowels of Fort Linchel at the moment) so they can be sometimes neighbors! Buffy uses a mod that King Coin made for her called 'Buffy's Apartment' - it's in the attic above the Mystic Archives.

Buffy did eventually get her issue green bag tailored to fit properly so she doesn't trip over it and can find her hands. Then she had the useless enchantments replaced with one to repel water. So. . . her green bag does occasional double duty, when the weather is cool, as rain gear and a nightgown. Oh, and sometimes she wears it when mixing poisons (the rain repellant enchantment is handy vs spills/splatters as well).

Yes, we both feel that the Mage´s Robe is what he should wear while at the University. After all, the clothes makes the man Dunmer mage!

Any particular reason Buffy´s at Fort Linchel? Or is she just taking care of some necro- or conjuredudes?

My new, and currently only, character Alvar Dren(a Dunmer Sorcerer born under the Atronach), has just earned his first recommendation from Chorrol. I've no idea where he'll decide to go next, depends which school of magic he wants to shop for first.

And I think I'm going to swipe the rule about robes from Lopov too.

Buffy's a voracious dungeon clearer. She traveled via the main road from the University to Anvil. Then, after visiting friends there, went north overland up to the Brena River. Now she's clearing selected dungeons from there overland to Skingrad. Then, it'll be overland to Chorrol and the road home to the University from there.

Update: She's killing bandits in Talwinque now (still enroute to Skingrad).

CT: Good luck with your new Dunmer! After he dries off from the Chorrol recommendation, let us know what city he tries next.

Early this morning Lothran decided to head out and do some treasure hunting. The two new spells he recently made dug a deep hole in his pocket and he needs at least some Septims in order to recharge his gear.

Two places came up on his agenda; one Ayleid ruin (Sardavar Leed) and one fort (Alessia). He didn´t clear them out completely though, only the first floor/room and that was enough. He amassed so many armor parts and weapons he suddenly couldn´t move any longer! At that moment he was glad he had kept his Beast of Burden spell which made his muscles much stronger than normal.

Besides selling all that in the Imperial City the same afternoon he continued his coronation tour with close to twenty more royalties. Oh, and prior to that he also visited Cropsford where same rituals were performed

(Soon enough there won´t be any mortal left in Lothran´s Cyrodiil!)

Hah, Alvar ran into one my favourite glitch for Atronach characters. He walked into the Chorrol Chapel for a blessing to restore his magicka, and found the Dunmer who's usually walking around near the Oak and Crosier activating one of the lesser shrines.

Again

And again

And again.

Free refills!!

So he took the opportunity to get in some practice, bumping his alteration skill(a minor) from 25 to 35, and restoration(a major) from 30 to 35.

Then he took a look around Crumbling Mine, which took a little finding. For some reason it doesn't seem to be marked in the right place. He killed the bandits there, but considering how many potions he went through, health and magicka, he pretty much got his ass handed to him.

Well, you know what they say...

Any one you can walk away from.

@Mirocu: Still running around making everyone essential? You need to learn to let go. Then you can start a new character

Oh wow, I didn't know about this glitch you speak of, CT.



I've tried. Believe me, I've tried. I have a feeling that someday he'll eventually crumble and create character #2, but it's going to take a lot of Willpower and maybe a bit of Charming to convince the Talking Crow.

I started singing "Kahreem of Weet" to the tune of Amazing Grace out of boredom, am then I finally got the joke. I just stood there and kept saying "oooooooohhhhh" out loud

Actually, I could use some insight here. What´s the joke?

There's always a joke in Renee's character names. This one is, I believe;

Cream of wheat

I didn't get it until just now, because of what Rohirrim said.

I really wish he hadn't said it.

I know, but I still don´t understand this one. What is cream of wheat?

Always wanted an excuse to do this

Couldn't resist

It's a breakfast cereal similar to oatmeal (but not as 'grainy'). It's got a smooth texture made from wheat. I love it; have had it at least once a week since I was a kid. Or maybe once every other week. Mmm.

Some people put strawberries or blueberries or mangos or (whatever) in their CoW, but I just prefer good ol' butter + brown sugar. Mmm.

Anyways, BOT. Kahreem of Weet has just killed Alval Uvani. He's spent a lot of time in Leyawiin, and was eager to leave to go back north to Bravil (where he's been living in City Swimmer's home), but now that he's got Uvani's housekey, he's curious which door it opens. :whistling:

As night fell Lothran decided to revisit the old cave just outside Talos Plaza district. As is his custom nowadays when revisiting old places, he went in with all covers blown, courtesy the Starlight spell, and with no holding back on the stomp-stomp-stomp.

He came out with a few weapons to sell and some coins that were laying on the ground in the first room. He has of now amassed around 14000 Septims which will come in handy when his weapons have to be recharged at The Mystic Emporium before his journey up to Bruma.

Only 14k? don't your pockets feel a little light?

Oh, 14K is much for Lothran these days. He usually has less than 5000. He doesn´t need money that bad anymore, mostly for recharging and making new spells/enchantments

Jerric is presently in Anvil. He’s agreed to travel to the Imperial City for Emperor’s Day (Frostfall the 30th). He’ll have the whole crew (Darnand, Abiene, and Lil) with him, plus Shameer. I expect some shopping, spellmaking, and perhaps a tavern tour. It should be a fun trip.

I hope Jerric and his entourage had a fun day celebrating in the Imperial City But maybe they should cut down on the ale, starting to see things, they are

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Lothran is preparing to leave for Aleswell in a couple of weeks. Lots to do before then, I can assure you. Coronations, talking to people, visiting the many inns and last but not least, racking up those Septims to recharge his many weapons, including the one he will use as his main during his travels up north. Oh, yeah! That´s right! He hasn´t decided which weapon he´ll use to vanquish his foes with yet during the upcoming trip!

What are his weapon choices?

A wooden club, a Dwarven mace and a sword or two. All self-enchanted. I think he´ll go for the club or the mace. It really isn´t that big of a deal as he also has his Dark Dagger and a vast array of powerful spells. But still, a Dunmer better come strapped

Renee, you and Kahreem the Breakfast Boy have our thanks for taking out that nasty Alval.

Grits, I hope Jerric and Co had a great trip to the IC! I'm going over to the other thread to look for the screenies!

mirocu, I see Lothie is going through his final preps before he heads north to hunker down for the winter in his precious Bruma. Any of his weapons should work fine. . . well, maybe not Snowflake as a main weapons.

Buffy just spent several days being bored in my world as we traveled away from home. Upon our return, she wasted not a moment diving right back into a long list of awaiting dungeons and reveling in some long range shadowy slayage. She gets cranky when she doesn't get to use her bow and, well, the powerful weapon was not exactly made for hunting deer and rabbit.

Anything is deadly in the hands of a Master


Poor Buffy I can only imagine her boredom in this world which I would classify not fit for elven consumption
But she gave me an idea! Maybe Lothran should use a bow too on his journey up to Bruma? Mind you, he does love close combat with the shield and all... We´ll see what he says. After all, the bow is Buffy´s trademark!

I'll bet Lothran would make a great bowmer! But doesn't he know how to cast strong lightning bolts and stuff? Buffy uses her bow partly because she was born to it, but also in part because her destructive skill with the elements is so poor. When she chills an ale for Lothie or lights a campfire, that is about as deadly as her fire/ice/lightning gets. Well, Lothie well knows this, since the weak frost enchantment on Snowflake is the best Buffy could manage.

Buffy's only real skill in destruction is weakness to poison; Boderi Farano drilled that into her as both essential to a mystic archer and as a way to help Buffy pass her destruction classes at University. Fortunately, drain attribute (like speed) was moved by the Board of Arcane Academics from the school of destruction to where it belongs - illusion, since it acts by controlling the mind - if you stop the mind, the body ain't goin' anywhere. As a grandmaster of illusion, Buffy can easily bring the mind of a foe to a complete temporary stop - very handy!

Speaking of destruction, Buffy does have a new destruction spell! I'm afraid that it's no more potent than her others, but what it lacks in lethality, I think it makes up for with cleverness: Frost damage 3 x 1 second x 100 feet. She casts it into an area where she sees the pink glow of a single foe that she can't get a clean shot from safe distance (like right around a corner or over in a tight cubbyhole type area. She backs off and casts that spell. Her foe gets mad and comes running - right toward the business end of her bow. It's been quite useful to help her keep that priceless distance that she craves.

Oh, so Buffy's just getting ready to leave Sercen at the top of the Red Ring Road. She just came down from Bruma. When on that route, she and Superian often spend the night inside that Ayleid Ruin. Bandits seem to like the small ruin, but they don't share well at all so Buffy has to invite them to leave before she and Superian can enjoy their hospitality and cooking fire inside. She's now going to ride Superian across the surface of Lake Rumare to the Imperial Isle and make her way (via a couple dungeons of course) home to her wonderful apartment at the University.

Ah, a very nifty spell indeed. Made not so much to cause harm as to draw her foes out. Lothran approves!

And yes, Lothran does have a few very strong Destruction spells he can use instead of a bow. But what he can´t do with a spell is deliver poison, plus it cuts back on his Magicka use a bit. But what was Buffy doing in Bruma now?

Oh, wait. She came down from Skyrim, wasn´t she?

It was a rather long expedition to deliver empty soul gems and scrolls from the University (where they're made) to the western and northern guildhalls (for the guild stores to sell). Buffy took the road through Skingrad, Kvatch and Anvil, then overland to Chorrol and on to Bruma. She's happy to be home now, but already starting to retrofit for a similar visit to Cheydinhal. She's probably a bit overqualified for the delivery missions, but they do give her an excuse to feed her need for dungeon crawling along the way. And as much as she loves hanging out with her guildmates, she is truly never happier than when on the road with her precious mare.

She is actually traveling to Cheydinhal with another Lamp Knight however who has some Dunmeri family in that city. This other knight rides a beautiful blue roan gelding.

Pixies?

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Ever the avid student of the arts of Magicka, Lothran spent yet another day at the university, re-making spells into better versions as well as crafting one or two new ones. Amongst the new spells were Burning Blizzard and Frostfall, Target and Touch based respectively. As one can tell, he´s specializing in Frost based magicks but it might surprise one or two that he didn´t actually major in Destruction when graduating the university at Warlock rank.

Oh, and he´s just assigned his weapon of choice for the journey to Bruma. As it has a useful Light enchantment it was the most obvious choice for the darkness the long winter has to offer; Targetfinder. A Dwarven mace also enchanted to do Fire and Frost based damage.

While Raven is very fun to play and Mages Guild questline intriguing, I've been with him almost daily in the past two months and I already had a need to create someone new, someone with whom I would play Oblivion in a slightly different way. Raven will remain my primary character but occasionally I'll switch to my new character that I created yesterday. Let's meet him, shall we? Some locations and persons in the update are added by Better Cities mod and as you'll notice, I use a custom start as well.

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First Mate Sentza, a Redguard from Stros M'Kai, definitely didn't expect that his life was about to change so quickly and radically. What was supposed to be a routine voyage from the Abecean Sea to the Imperial City, carrying goods and passengers, turned out into something else - not only was First Mate Sentza kicked in his groin, punched in the face but he was also violently thrown off the ship that he was working on!

And how did it happen?

There really isn't a lot of explaining necessary. The ship captain, Sentza's immediate superior, caught him banging his wife. On his ship. In his cabin. In his bed. Now that he was thinking of it, Sentza was lucky that the captain didn't kill him. Perhaps he would if he knew that he did the same things to his daughter back in Stros M'Kai. So, wearing nothing but a pair of braider leather sandals, belted braies and a shirt with suspenders, he was thrown off the ship in the Waterfront Docks.

"And what shall I do now?" thought former First Mate Sentza as he got up on his legs and saw the ship on which he had served for six years, slowly disappearing in the distance, under the large bridge over Lake Rumare, heading back to his home island. "There are many ships docked here...some noble, some poor...I bet they need a helping hand. After all, I'm a man of many talents.

But it turned out that Sentza's help wasn't needed. At two ships he didn't even found any sign of its crew so he assumed that they were drinking in some tavern. One ship, elven by design, was too elegant and he didn't even dare to approach it. The last one was populated by hostile pirates, whose First Mate, Malvulis by name, screamed at him and threatened to kill him if he wouldn't leave.

"So pretty yet so grumpy. What a waste of potential," thought Sentza as he was hurrying away from the angry Dunmer and her crew. The last place where he tried his luck, was The Bloated Float but its proprietor, Ormil, wasn't interested in hiring him. Instead he told him that his ship is the finest inn in all of Cyrodiil and also informed him that Dovyn Aren still teaches alteration.

Sentza didn't understand how could he benefit from this information but perhaps Ormil was just trying to be friendly. "Or perhaps I look like a mage. It could be, why not? I can cast a flare and heal myself. Ha! Not everyone can do that." Not having anywhere not go, not having any idea what to do with himself and not having a single septim in his pockets, Sentza took a walk through the shoddy Waterfront. It reminded him of a small fishing village on Stros M'Kai where he grew up and he quickly began to like the place.

He chatted with some locals, most of them acted like he's been among them forever while some didn't show any interest in sharing rumors with him. Not that he cared about it, he just wanted to find some bed or some gold. In which order, it didn't really matter. Not long after, he saw a man lying on the beach. There were bottles of beer scattered all around him, so Sentza went to investigate.

It turned out that the man was dead, obviosuly drinking himself to death. "A pity but you won't need these septims anymore, will you, friend?" he said as he took seventeen septims from the dead man's pocket. When he noticed a man with a bandana suspiciously watching him from above, Sentza quickly pretended that he's just checking whether the man's alive or not.

"I wouldn't want to be called a thief. Is taking from dead a crime? I don't know, I never read about it. So I guess it's not. By sweet Lady of Wayrest, what's this shining thing over here?" Sentza leaned closer and saw a beautiful silver ring on the man's left hand ring finger. "It looks valuable. Sorry, fella, but if I don't take it, someone else will. So it's better if I do it, just to be make sure that nobody else does."

Sentza took the ring and also found a small hourglass in the man's pockets which he took too, after all, it was always helpful to know exact time and date. He hurried away from the corpse, hoping to find a buyer for the ring. But it was getting late, and most shops in the Waterfront were already closed. He tried selling the ring to some ugly Orc innkeeper but she rudely told him that she wasn't a jeweler.

He tried his luck with some old Dark Elf who told him that he's retired but still hasn't removed the sign outside his house. Then he tried selling the ring to an Argonian scribe but she wasn't interested in it all, being occupied with forging some documents for some Guild. His last stop was a tavern, led by a lovely young lass named Rosana that was a Redguard too. She wasn't interested in the ring but Sentza'd feel bad if not buying something, so he bought a beer for five septims and drank it while chatting with Rosana.


When he came out of the tavern, it was already getting dark and Sentza felt tiredness too. A lot of things happened in one day. If everything went smoothly, he'd been sailing back to the Abecean Sea, sipping good wine with captain's wife but alas, his life on the ship has come to an end. Not that he cared about it too much. "I'll do well for myself. As always. Somehow. Somewhere. Someday."


He found an empty cellar with a dirty bedroll under some abandoned house that was in fact not abandoned but was occupied by a man on the lam. Luckily, the cellar was truly abandoned and except a small rat, there wasn't anyone else living down there. "I'm sorry, rattie, but I can't sleep knowing that you'll be creeping over my smooth body." Sentza stepped on the rat and then opened another bottle of beer.


He raised the bottle and sang his favorite verse: "Ho hey, sweet lady of Wayrest! Ho hey, sweet lady of mine! Oh I'll see you again, yes I'll see you again, sweet lady of Wayrest so fine!" Then he added: "I wish that you'd watch over me, Lady, just as you did from my birth onwards. Thanks to you, I'm more durable and willing and I hope I'll stay like that." After emptying the bottle, he felt slightly drunk and decided that it was time to go to sleep.


He put his shirt with suspenders on the wooden chest, took off his leather braided sandals, blew out the candle and crawled in the dirty bedroll. After long time, Sentza spent his first night on the dry land.

So you have a new character, Lopov? Interesting. Could you give me the bare basics of him cause you know me, I rarely read lengthy updates and a summary paints his picture effectively

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A slow day in the Imperial City. Lothran wandered around and spent most of his day chatting with the people and visiting inns; a small indication as to what awaits him when he gets to Bruma

He can feel the chilly winds coming down from the north....

Has he paid a visit to Dorian yet?



Yeah, I felt like I needed to play someone else on occasion. Here you go, mr. Mirocu, just for you an update in your style:
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Name: Sentza
Race: Redguard
Birthsign: The Lady
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Sentza is a former first mate that was kicked from the ship on which he had been working on, because the captain found him banging his wife. After an unsuccessful search for a job in the Imperial City Waterfront, he found a valuable ring on some corpse but hasn't been able to sell it yet, because all shops in the Waterfront were already closed. He's currently sleeping in an abandoned cellar (under the abandoned house). Other minor things that I've so far discovered abotut him are that he likes beer, finds himself a man of many talents and doesn't seem to be a troublemaker.

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I've only played one day with him so far, but he seems a funny chap.

Just for clarification, the corpse with the ring, shops in the Waterfront and the abandoned cellar are all added by Better Cities.

I don´t know where people get "ugly characters" from. He looks really good!


Yeah, other than

Awesomeness! I am looking forward to his tales

Thanks, my GF also likes him a lot, I had to fire up Oblivion today just because she wanted to see him once again. She said that he's much more good looking than the other pale, depressed-looking guy I usually play with. She meant Raven of course.




Oh, I haven't even noticed the contradiction. I have a feeling that he'll be often punished for trespassing.



Thanks, for you there's a longer story posted above.

That´s one way of putting it!