The crossbows are a really cool weapon! I'm guessing Kayla will love

Oh, she would, lol

She better bring a ton of healing potions though!

This is KAYLA we're talking about, lol

But Harkon is more dangerous than you think. The character I used when I first did the quest was level 81. I was playing in easy, and I died three times

O.O Oh. XD

The only trouble Helregin had with Harkov was getting him to stand still long enough to paste him with her hammer. That and constantly having to pull out Auriel's Bow to blast off that force field he likes to hide behind. It was a long fight because he would not go mano-a-womano with me. But it was not that difficult.

KOB's characters are a mess, though lol

You know those ruffians dressed in scavenged Legion armor who try to shake you down for 100 gold in random encounters? Well when that happened to my Imperial soldier she got a new (to me) conversational option.


Random Orc: That will be, uh, 100 gold. Pay up, citizen.

Prefect Rowan Varrus: I’m with the Imperial Legion, and I’m damn sure you’re not!


Woooo hoo! I’d do the whole Civil War questline just to get that line of dialog!!

GAAAAH !!!!! I LOVE that !!!

It was truly a stand-up and cheer moment of awesome!!

I think that def makes it worth joining the Legion just to hear it! (actually, Maxical was going to anyway - she just never got around to it).

It is not a new thing, but it just occurred to me today that every city which is in its own cell (i.e. that you have to go through a loading screen to get into the city), has a scripted scene that plays out the first time you enter. Whiterun has the Battleborn hiring Adrienne, Windhelm has the two drunks harassing the Dunmer, Markarth has the attempted assassination on whats-her-face, Riften has Mjoll and Mr. Friendzone talking about the Thieves Guild, Solitude has the execution.

If you marry Mjoll, Aerin follows her to wherever she is. I think she cheats on you. XD

......

Nah, she is never giving it up for Aerin. He's in the friendzone for life. If he was smart, he would move on to something he has a chance of tapping.

Dude, the only thing he's tapping are his feet... ...

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

Really? is he useful in combat?

Right, so you know those little alchemy fish? You can kill them with spells! Then they float up to the surface.

You can also attack bugs with weapons and spells, and they'll die. The ingredients you get when you "harvest" them will fall on the floor!

Really?!

Oh yeah, I watched with great pride as my boy sliced several butterflies with a greatsword... ...

Though, he did stop and collect the wings afterwards... ...

You must be so proud

Holy *censored* no way! Seriously I had no idea. This is going to be so much more fun than trying to "harvest" them.

I've never seen a dungeon specific follower sneaking when I do...It was ace!!...There's me, J'zargo (obvs ), McSphereson (who I've found out is actually classed as a pet) and this new girl, Freya from the MQ in Dragonborn...

She sneaks!!...Yay!!...

Ulfdis was standing in the middle of Dragonbridge when a guard walked by her and paused. "Heard there are wolves up north." He said, the moved on.

In all my time playing Skyrim, I have never once heard that line of dialogue. It was even better considering that I was playing Ulfdis.

Today (tonight, actually) I realized just how dynamic the "dynamic lighting" is in this game. A guard walked by Mycharonna in Whiterun. It was night and he was carrying a torch. I happened to be looking downwards into some water as he walked by, and for the first time noticed that the water was reflecting the torch's light in a different manner than the stone walkway was.

Gaming has come a very long way!

I am still amazed at how the light from torches and fires not only dynamically flickers and changes, but how the shadows they cast do the same in concert.

I just noticed that in Windhelm, ice-cycles hang off the roofs of some *of the houses

I just found that the Magelight spell sets off bear traps and tripwires.

Really?? I like to cast it onto people and have them light up, lol

WHAT//. Sorry. WHAT???? Seriously, I would have never guessed this!

Did you know that some traps can be picked up and moved?

What?! Really?!

You can move bear traps. I never remember to do it though.

There would be more of a point to do it if they were more useful.

I just learned we can make previously improved armor & weapons stronger. In other words, I had no idea it's possible to make superior-strength items into exquisite-strength ones!

EDIT: a couple vampires attacked as LHM and Mjoll stepped outside of Lakeview. I noticed as the attack was going on that another NPC was fighting the vamps, but it wasn't Marcurio and it wasn't Mjoll the Lioness. Who the heck is that helping out?

Turns out it was the carriage driver! LHM has a permanent carriage located in front of the manor house. I had no idea the driver can get off his carriage and help out with fights.



EDIT 2 (I'm having a gaming marathon today!) You were right, Grits: followers do use generic potions. I've been keeping track of this, Mjoll just drank 4 of her 8 minor health potions after a good fight.

Really?...You've never got to Epic and Legendary ones?...It does depend on your smithing level and the perks you've got, but yes...Another "interesting" fact about the smithing levelling...If you have a sword, say Dwarven longsword and keep improving it as you go up through the levels, it will do more damage than one which you just pick up and improve at said upper level, simply because it's had the added improvements as you go up through...

Also, I think there should be new states beyond Legendary...I've got some of that smithing enchanted armour and rings and stuff...And if you put one item on and improve, with some of them, if you put another item on, you can improve again, then again, and finally with the blacksmith's philter potion, you can do it again...

This is why J'zirlo's weapons and armour is rated so high...*Sighs* ...I love Smithing... ...

That's going to be the one I do with the 1.9 Legendary perk reset thing...*Rubs hands with glee...No...Not the show...*...

Oh I knew weapons could be improved, but I didn't know an improved weapon could be improved again. I had assumed we only get one shot at it.

And yes, I am noticing in Haaf-Mersey's game that his improved weapons seem to be getting stronger than most of the standard enchanted weapons we can find. But I didn't know what you just said: that if we improve the same weapon over time, it winds up being stronger than a 'new' weapon we find and improve.

...phew...my head is spinning.

What a world, right? XD

Yeah, so true...I think I need to start gaming today.

That I didn't know. Weird.

I think it's to do with the added weight of the extra ingots that have been added through the improvements...

I have always wondered how five 1 pound iron ingots and three .1 pound leather strips make a suit of armor that weighs 30 pounds!

I saw the carriage driver jump off his bench once and run for Whiterun. I turned to follow but then some vampires showed up. Being a Dawnguard with overpowered flaming everything, I showed them the light naturally. I never did find out where the driver stopped running though and waiting didn't bring him back so I had to take the slow route to Riften. (For clarification. I'm using mods that make normal citizens run from dragons and vampires instead of boxing with them. Doesn't work for Adrienne though)


And something tiny I 'discovered' when I was making my new character concept for potential fanficcing. We all know captain blowhard who insists on getting her daily quota of executions despite not having any idea who you are and why you got picked up. (Seriously, they even know Lokir! But you're a big blank and almost feel like an afterthought.)

We also all know that she has different responses to the player's race. From casual racism (lizard, cat) to rather neutral stuff. What I didn't know was how pissed she gets if you're an Imperial. "Next, the renegade from Cyrodiil!" I guess she doesn't like having 'her' kind help the Stormcloaks. It is a tiny detail and the captain vanishes from the game within two minutes, but I like that bit of character it gives her.

Different colored wolves. Not the ice wolves, the regular wolves. I saw two reddish ones along with the usual black.

Has anyone else seen this?

Yep!!

OK, then I'm glad I didn't tear the house apart looking for a camera to take a picture of my TV with the RED MIRACLE WOLVES on it!

Seriously, how have I never seen these before?! Still finding new things!