Director: "That's good! Now I want snow over on the Brownstone street for the next scene..."

Thanks to all. I thought you'd like Isaac's transformation. He only did that one time.



ha ha yea, this is true. And if we look in their inventories, they never spend this gold.

Pretty lights, Gritsy! Thanks for the links.

In the four years since starting Skyrim I have never progressed far enough to have either dragon or vampire attacks in towns (Dawnguard has never sat on my hard drive). I have decided to 'allow' these moments into my game for the first time on my new character. I hope I do not regret the decision.

I came to love the Oblivion gates opening, but these attacks, I am not sure.

I read something about avoiding fast travel. Or at least setting up the stables as the point.

Correct, you'll want to avoid fast travel. FT (including travel by horse-carts) can trigger some attacks.

The vampire attacks aren't so bad, matter of fact I welcomed them when I was gaming on Xbox, because they happen randomly, whereas so many encounters in Skyrim's base game are static, which gets old. I like the surprises Dawnguard adds.

On the other hand, once you start DG, you'll want to keep it moving during early stages. The worst thing about the vamp attacks is they can sometimes make their way into towns, or around stable areas. Named NPCs can sometimes get killed. But if you keep the questline moving, in-town vampire attacks will eventually stop. Only the wilderness ones will continue.

Dragon attacks are annoying to me, but some folks don't mind them. If you're playing the vanilla game, dragons will show up every 3 days or so. Nothing we can do about this. Bethesda set it up this way so we can b3@t da game with our t00n, collecting all the Shouts in as short a time as possible. But to me, fighting dragons should be special and rare.

Thanks Renee! I will make sure that I keep DG moving as soon as I start it.

Jerric and friends had a great time over the holidays. Here Vignar stopped Jerric on the street to give him a Saturalia present. It was an apple pie. LINK.

Jerric, Lil, and Darnand took Rhano out for some Whiterun area adventures. As always Ulfe was with them, or she was supposed to be. Here Jerric is saying “Where’s the dog?” and the others are saying “I thought you had her.” They do not like to move into new sections of dungeon without tracking her down. (She is a non-combatant and runs away from fights, sometimes very far away.) LINK.

Jensa and Stenvar returned to Solstheim to continue some business there. Neloth is still a source of amusement to Jensa. Here she is again waiting for the action while a mage makes his big fuss. LINK.

So nice to hear that Jerric and friends enjoyed their Saturalia. Gosh your game looks wonderful - a real tribute to your taste, choices and knowledge when it comes to mods.

So Viggy's got a soft spot after all, eh?

Who's got Ulfe watch? What a great idea having her set to run from combat. I've used some critters like that and they do pretty well at eventually catching up.

Jensa definitely has that 'Oh for the love of Talos!' look. She's probably thinking, I could hit someone six times with an axe before this wizard gets done casting his spell.

Vinegar Vignar actually did something nice for someone? To most of my character he just says stuff like "In my day, we used to fight 15 miles to school, uphill, each way!"

Maybe Ulfe found some tasty bones to chew on?

Let me guess, that's how Neloth makes popcorn!

Speaking of Jerric, has he been on Mothership Zeta recently?

I must confess that when SubRosa posted that screenshot previously on another thread, it did conjure thoughts of Jerric.

Ha ha ha that mage is making quite a fuss, right? He's getting all riled up.

Aww, thanks Acadian! It’s good to be back with the crew after the holiday busyness.


Oh my goodness, I laughed so hard!

Jerric is on a space ship?! Sure sounds like it. That’s awesome! He’s probably been sampling alien meat. New mod idea: carbon filter underpants!

Renee, that mage always cracks me up. He is not nice at all, but he’s one of my favorite NPCs.

Acadian, I love your screenie for January. Two blonde bards, see how they play! Also, cheese! There’s a lot for a Nord to love in this picture.

I spent some time in Skyland with Persephone and Darryl

What's for dinner?

The Pale Lady vs. The Paler Lady

Old Blue Eyes is back

Woot! Great to see Persephone and Darryl back in Skyland. I love Darryl’s sword and, of course have always loved his eyes. Battle of the Pale Ladies – very cool!

Yay for Persephone and Darryl! What great shots! I love the last two especially. The dark and light contrasts look beautiful to me. It’s great to see Persephone back in Skyland!

Pale vs Pale will be my laptop's new background.

What kind of mask is Persephone wearing?

Her armor and helmet are from zzjay's wardrobe

And now for some White Wizard pics.

Knee Deep

Stone Keep

Fire Creep!

Arch Mage's Heap

Eeep!

Looks like WW stood in that freezing snow without a peep.

His frost protection must not be cheap.

Looks like he helped those mean old draugr sow what they reap.

Then home for some well-deserved sleep.

Since Doom (the real Doom, from 1993) was my first computer game, when I saw Knee Deep I thought Knee Deep In The Dead. Well, The WW is knee deep in something, that is for sure!

The Third Pic

That is quite a heap!

Wow, that's knee deep indeed! He seems to be rather unconcerned about it, though, looking white wise as ever.

Oho, Isaac got his own quarters and a staff now that he's the Arch-Mage.

Ha ha you folks are funny! Nice rhymes there, Acadian. Rhyming is a lot of work sometimes!

Ha, knee deep indeed. And now Isaac has gotten a look at how the Arch-Mage lives. That's such a neat chamber.

Some screenies

Lissa with a new face texture mod. My favourite by far and definitely a keeper!

What a wonderful view!

Bit of bridge walking!

Riverside bridge

Daredevil!

Lissa looks yummy! I hope that long free red hair doesn't get in her way when she's palatrissing?

Aww, nice of her to get poor Goldie out of his family's crypt. Buffy tried traveling with him but got real tired of his 'What do you want, little elf?' comments - like she's never heard that before, lol.

Heh, I see Goldie was not right behind Lissa as she daredeviled over the falls!

I said that the Skyrim Heidi has taken over, and here's proof. She's had me make custom outfits for her, as nothing vanilla seemed to fit.

Dress

Armour

The hairstyle may change later. With Apachii, and KS, there are just too many to choose from.

Rihanae, Lissa is beautiful! With her red hair and piercing green eyes, she has striking looks. I love bridge pictures, and these are great!

ghastley, Heidi looks like she’s going to get everything she asks you for! Her hairstyle looks great and is practical. She won’t accidentally give herself a haircut while she’s fighting.

It is wonderful that Heidi has that Nord blood. That way she can wear as little as she likes and still not get cold! That opens up whole new vistas in fashion. Heh, I know what you mean about hairstyles. That's why the only hair mod I allow Buffy has just a small handful of styles to choose from and they are all ponytails.

As ever, Heidi certainly knows how to fill out her clothes/armor!

Love the pics, Rhiannae! Wow that second one is so stunning.

I can see one of mine wanting Heidi's dress in that first pic! Maybe I'll make a harlot at some point.




Handsome Man

Have you heard the one about that guy who wrote a book about a chicken?

Skull & Bones (White Wizard's first undead summoning spell).

Streamlined Skyrim Gaming Action pic!

Wow! Simply fabulous screens, Renee! That first one does a magnificent job of showcasing WW's craggily interesting face. You did such a wonderful job when you created him.

I made the mistake of letting Buffy see that Summon Chicken spell tome. . .

This was her first reaction:

Her second reaction was to not only ask for it, but for a summon bunny spell as well to go with the summon butterfly spells she already has.

Renee, these are great! I agree with Acadian, The WW has a face that I like to look at.

Isaac the Gallimancer!

I love that summoned skeleton.

Great action shot! The magical effects look cool, and that staff looks badass.

Thanks you. I used a mod for his beard, but now I can't find the name of it.

Whoa, Buffy can summon butterflies?

But of course!

The WW looks like a real wizard, great job with his overall appearance. His eyes seem to be magical, like he's seeing some things that are obscure to the rest of the world. I also like the pic with Isaac and his summoned pal at the top of the College.

Yes, he looks like a Hollywood wizard, as well as a real wizard. Well now I'm going to show you folks how Isaac wrapped up Labyrinthian.

Here he is, being stealthy. Sneaking up on somebody.

Wisp Mother Attack. Ooooh. The warrior guy trying to make it die is Hugh Mann, a custom-made warrior guy.

I caught him casting this spell right in mid-cast. Sort of like one of those pictures when somebody blinks.

What the--?

I don't know what that is. Some kind of strange magical device!*

.....strange ... bizarre!

The evil frozen wizard comes to life.

Direct Miss!

Bzzzt!

Crystal Beth gets a shot

Isaac the White summons some help

Big Boss gets involved. Uh oh...

Fire!

Matching wits (we got lucky because Isaac just happened to have a few homemade Resist Magic potions, along with some Resist Shock. This guy threw some wicked chain lightning spells).

You're fired!

Overwhelmed

(This was a 3-to-1 fight, but the big boss was pretty damn tough. No way Isaac would have been able to take him down by himself. Even with Isaac, Hugh, and Crystal Beth all attacking him, PLUS Beth's occasionally summoned flame atronoch, and Isaac's summoned restless draugr, it still took what felt like 5 or 10 minutes to take him down. That's a long time for a game on Adept difficulty. Funny thing is when I did this quest for the first time, long ago on PS3, the final boss glitched, and would not attack. So I'm glad he decided to do so this time around).

Incoming

Hugh Mann bleeding out.

Finally. Goodbye to Big Boss.

And hello to the White Wizard

* = durrr...

How exciting to see all this! What a massive fight, and great fun to see. Thanks for sharing. It was especially fun for Buffy and I to see because we usually 'freeze' the CoW questline well before that. Plus, the times that Buffy has done it, the large dark spaces for that boss fight make it an anticlimatic fight for a shadow-hugging sniper.

Congrats to WW and his intrepid gang for having the stones to go toe to toe with the boss and prevail!

That's a lot of great pics, Renee!

The one with the wispmother looks like from some gaming magazine.

Isaac got almost ethereal!

Nice pics of imprisoned Morokei and the cursed mages.

I love the direct miss - even the best wizards fail at times.

Awesome shots of the battle, it really seemed to last a long time as can be seen from different positions of Isaac and his crew. Glad they finished him off together.

He lives up to his name in those white robes!

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Should've stayed in Solitude

Guard no more

Vigilant's outfit suits him better

The Horror of the Brinehammer

Yea Lopov! Look at those action pics! They look like something out of the beginning of a movie. Starring Lee Van Cleef and Jennifer Lopez. Ha ha ha just kidding. Lee Van Cleef does look kind of ratty though.

Ahh look at those poor feet sticking out of some grass!

Renee is exactly right - what a great opening action shot you provided! And his victim's feet sticking out of the grass is pretty sobering.

Yup, the Vigilant outfit does suit him better.

The Brinehammer seems like a perfect base for Ratty - cold and remote.

Kothet's Dremora housecarl has learned to cast Flame Cloak and is becoming quite a hottie.

Kothet himself is trying to find enough ebony to make himself a Daedric Warhammer, and he'll want even more to keep upgrading his armour.

Vokun awaits

Anska against Vokun

Draugr gets some company

Masked

Unmasked

Ghastley - I think flame cloak is a neat spell! Even if it does slaughter little bunnies who pass too closely.

Lopov - Such a sad end for Anska, especially after she defeated Vokun. Nice face shot of Ratty unmasked!

Oh wow, he does look like a rat. This is the first pic I've seen of his face, all the others were pretty dark.

Yeah ghastley I'm guessing she'd make a hot date? .. har har.

Here are some pics from Bjorn's game. The first two involve Alternate Start: Live Another Life, so they show the dragon leaving Helgen, while Bjorn was camping just outside, planning on some sort of crime spree.

What's that? Dragon?

What's that? Human? -- Bjorn's camp is somewhere down there!

Bjorn being stealthy

Note from Manny Palashunn (Bjorn's brother or half-brother, I suppose. Manny is part of my first-ever Skyrim quest, to get Bjorn situated in this province).

Bjorn the Bandit

Well I woke up this mornin and I got myself a beer

The future's uncertain

... and the end is always near.

Oh yes he did...

You can take the Nord out of cold water...

.... but you can't take cold water out of the Nord

Let it roll baby roll!

I was wondering if you had found a urinating animation when I read the tittle of the last picture!

What a neat idea to take a shot from Aldie's perspective! Another bad boy of Skyrim. Being a Nord, he's lucky to just jump right into that cold water without a toe ring of resist frost or anystuff.

The first two pics are funnily captured.

Manny wasn't among the best in his class when it comes to grammar, right?

Bjorn looks great and tough, and I love his rare fur helmet.

Careful on that bridge, Bjorn. I think that Uber Knees's corpse is down in the river.

Uh oh, he jumped!

Wow, that was a nice, almost like a scene from the first movie of the Fugitive when Ford jumps down the dam.

Ha ha no, no urination mods in my games sorry.

Manny's not too bright. Uber Kness was not lucky enough to fall into water.

Evil intentions

The watery grave

The Rat and his Draugr

Clean robes for the dirty Breton

Ratty learns that, not surprisingly, orcs don't float.

And, hmm, I'm gonna hazard a guess that those robes were donated by a dead lizard?

Looks like the Gourmet sinks like the Iron Chef!