Loving Jensa 2.0. She was always one of my favorite characters of yours.

WOO HOO! Jensa! I have missed her, other than Jerric and Darnand she is my fave Skyrim character of yours! She is very pretty, how did you get rid of the "Skyrim female scowl?" (AKA "The Lydia")

Eyebrows need to be high, lol

I know exactly what you mean! They all look like it's perpetually 'that time of the month'.

And sound it too. They sound more manly than the men. All except Serana, lol.

Maybe that's why she's so appealing? She's friendlier looking and acting, lol. The other ladies are all 'RRAAAAAWWWWWWR WHERE IS MAH CHOCOLATE??"

you all are cracking me up here!

The other ones act like they would punch out anyone they saw eating chocolate because it would show weakness.

I am not into that kind of tough women, all scowly and with a strident voice. I mean, sure it is cold in Skyrim, and you have to fight wild beasts - but you have to go home sometime and act like a girl.

I really like the women in Skyrim. The women in Cyrodiil had this whole...soft thing going on, lol. The idea of women kicking butt and taking names really appeals to me.

ROFL !!!

Why's that funny?! I'm so confused!! XD

Skyrim is the PMS Zone.

LMFAO!!!!

That is a Tennessee expression, lol.

*Sees a large group of women talking about female bodily functions, ducks out.*

It's a Texas expression too, lol

Pretty sure it is an internet expression.


Well to stay on topic, Aravi's making steady progress to a certain cave to do some Scroll reading. Just a couple of dragons slowing her down.

I heard that saying before I ever heard of the internet, lol

Oh you were talking about another expression. Oops.

And time for another extract from the diary of Terenna Calmenin.


Dear Diary

I was helpful today! Erandur said he needed somebody with my set of talents to help him solve the problem everyone in Dawnstar is supposed to be having with bad dreams; I wasn't getting any bad dreams myself, just my usual visions of fire and bloodshed that I see when I sleep, but apparently everyone else was and it gave them trouble sleeping, so they wanted it stopped. I don't blame them, and I usually get grumpy when I don't get much sleep either.

So we went to an old building called Nightcaller Temple. People there were sleeping, and when we woke them up they weren't nice so we had to make them sleep again. Some of them were mages like me and they all cast lightning spells at me, which hurt and made me sad, but then I sent fire back at them and it was alright because fire makes bad people go away. [Mustard's note: I hate lightning spells so damn much!]

Erandur wanted to destroy a staff in the temple, which had supposedly gave everyone in Dawnstar bad dreams, so we went down through the temple to destroy it. At one point I had to drink a potion that put me in a dream, and I saw some of Erandur's old friends during it, and I walked to the other side of a magical barrier and opened it from the inside. When we went down some more, and wemet Erandur's friends, only they didn't want to be friends any more so they started fighting. Boys can be so silly sometimes! All they should really do is pretend to be friends but then talk about them behind their back, as that way nobody gets directly killed as instead you drive them to suicide or an eating disorder!

Anyway, they were hard to kill and didn't want to die [Mustard's note: seriously, that fight was absolutely impossible; I'd already lost count of the amount of times Terenna had died at that point, and the only way I actually managed to complete it was to open the control console and switch God Mode] but they died soon, and then Erandur said itw as time to destroy the staff. He was about to, but then I heard a voice in my head telling me to kill him because he'd use the staff to kill me, so I did. You should always trust the voices you hear in your head. They only say good things and if you don't do what they say then they get angry and that's bad.

So now I have a shiny new staff that eats dreams and makes bad people go away. Forever. And it is good.

Aahhh... too real XD

Terenna sounds adorably...mean, lol

Sounds like your average 16 year old school student to me.

You hate getting hit by them or using them?

I gotta say that quest in Nightcaller is without a doubt one of the trippiest videogame experiences ever. I used to think Mario and Luigi eating mushrooms all the time was pretty trippy. Bethesda actually puts us in the midst of the trip itself, though.

That was the sort of thing I was going for. Albeit one with undercurrents of severe psychological damage, but a 16 year old school student.


Being hit by them; it drains Terenna's health and her magicka and as she's got the Apprentice Stone it can kill her really, really, stupidly quickly, whilst she can do next to nothing about it. So bloody annoying...

And yeah, that quest was weird at points.

Like Liz said, raise the brow and I think widen it a little. Plus I chose a non-frowny mouth and some of the only straight eyebrows. Most of them started off looking angry!


I would have been here for the PMS discussion, but I was too busy dipping my french fries into ice cream and yelling at people.

Oh yeah, I hate that too. Oblivion's lightning bolts are too easy to avoid (just step out of the way) but the ones in Skyrim are instant. Speed of light!

But did you scowl while you yelled? ROFL !! I know you didn't, your face is in a perpetual smile!

Thank you so much for these tips! I have wanted to try a human character just to test out the different face mods for females. After seeing how pretty Jensa looks, I may send them anonymously to King Coin for his human girl character. She has a frightening face, scares me just looking at the screenshots, lol.

Lol, who could yell (Oops, I meant) scowl while eating ice cream?

Fortify your nerves before you launch into character creation! It can be scary!!

Thanks.

I'll bet! I always wished I could give Lydia a Cadburry creme egg, see if that could put a smile on her face, lol.




She looks like she could take down an army single handedly, and is in just the right mood to do it, lol.

Considering the amount of abuse that most players seem to direct towards Lydia, I think she's probably justified in scowling a lot.

And now I want to mod Cadbury's Creme Eggs into the game. Sweet delicious Creme Eggs...

Ah, but she scowled at me first. Told me she wasn't a pack mule to be carrying my burdons.

OH! if you do make that Cadbury egg mod, can you do something for a reaction (like after giving it to them, they smile for 10 minutes)? That would be Awesome!

Just have it raise their disposition.

That's a great idea!

Hey, I only ever gave her things she could use, lol!!

Oh really? With me it was something along the lines of "ah, some new valuable, but heavy loot. Oh packmule!" or "Hey, a new spell/dragon shout to try out. Oh packmule!" or "Is that a cliff I see before me? Oh packmuuuuule!"

I'm pretty sure Lydia hates all of my Dragonborns.

You're so mean, mAlX lol

Er, what's mALX done that's mean? She's advocated the giving out of Creme Eggs. That's basically the most unambigously nice thing you can do!

Only out of guilt!! Poor Lydia! XD

Ah OK. Still strikes me as weird that you call that mean when it's posted only a few posts above my description of the multifarious ways in which I abuse Lydia.

That's because on my phone, I can't see who wrote what clearly, and when I got on the computer, I didn't bother to check my work when I responded saying mALX was mean. I was really confused on why you were like "What? She's not mean!" and I'm thinking "But Lydia! Dragon shouts!! Pack mule!!"

For clarification, mALX is the one suggesting giving Lydia a Creme Egg, and I (Colonel Mustard) am cataloging the numerous ways in which I abuse Lydia. Draw your conclusions as to who of us two is being nice from that.

Yeah, I know that now.

Sorry, mALX! You're not mean!!! Mustard is!!!! XD

Just to clarify, I wanted to give her the Cadbury egg because I thought she was PMS'ing by her "personality" and hoped the chocolate would...help her mood. (before I "shouted" her off a cliff like Mustard did).

In Oblivion I found at least 100 ways to kill the Adoring Fan. In Fallout 3 I found at least 300 ways to kill Moira (especially effective viewing through VATS). in Skyrim (thanks to the shouts) there are unlimeted ways to kill Lydia.


Lydia can't sneak:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGR_2tt3GM


The Lydia Parodies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGpoTBUXlLs


Gotta love Lydia - watch through till end, there is a short after the credits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtPheENmdrw


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Man, those videos crack me up.

They captured Lydia so well, lol.

Wow those are great. Thanks for sharing. It really brings the annoying bits of Skyrim to life.

Look at the one where she's eating the food, lol

Lmfao just saw it. That's how it goes.

Pause combat, sit down for a snack, kick ass.

I love how they picked out all Lydia's glitches and irritating actions. I saw a real gameplay vid once where an assassin character was trying to sneak along a dock with Lydia in tow - it had me in hysterics!