Pia needs all dungeon skyshards now, though she has most of the above ground ones. Inga needs them all; I don't think she has gotten any yet! So I'd love to go too. As a group we can take on any area, lol.

Bold: on Abiene's hairstyle!

The Alik'r is my absolute favorite Province, I love it!

I like your armor set-up; really thinking about trying that Hundings Rage. Misa used to use Night Mother's Gaze; and I loved it = Not sure why I stopped using it; but the last set I had of it was level CP110. (so she was wearing it when she tackled Molag Bal).





At the time when you were grinding for those IC tables = I had no clue how hard it was to do. Back then I was doing Master Writs to get those blue and purple furniture plans; never really thought about it till I had to actually DO it. I wish I had known then; would have sent you donations toward your sets like you have sent for these I was getting. It is a huge grind, and I hugely appreciate what you went through to get them now!

Feng-Do is also wearing Hundings Rage. It’s a good DPS set.

When toting bows and stamina, Buffy wears Hundingsx5, Spriggansx5 and Selenex1. Works pretty well.

Werewolf? There wolf- there Camlorn...

Trey managed to defeat the Foul Chew Toy (without even dying once!- having better equipment and being level 26 helps).

He did die quickly at one of the 3 dolmen- (should the singular be dol-man? And where are the dol-women? Maybe that's what has the dolmen so angry.) that the Fighters so kindly asked him to "investigate." (See earlier post about the apparent definition of "investigate").

Crafting and decon continue apace (thank you haute!) Finding new mats in the world now- and getting some plans and recipes from containers. I am dumping duplicates in the Guild Bank- please anyone who needs, feel free to take them...

Trey somehow managed to stumble into helping save the Queen of the Dominion from an assassination plot- he wonders if he should not perhaps have been on the other side? So it goes. It did allow him to find all the skyshards on Khenarthi's Roost, though. And (with a little help from some people wandering by) he called a really grumpy bear near a cave in Glenumbra.

Heritance dogs!! If any group will be responsible for the Dominion Queen’s death, it shall be the Covenant!! For High Rock, Hammerfell, and mighty Orsinium!!!- Trey of High Rock, probably

Been thinking of introducing another planned character to the bunch lately. Unlike a previous concept that was only theoretically introduced into the Squad's world (the Redguard dwemer researcher ah... acknowledged during the Clockwork City dlc) this one is actually playable due to having a concrete fighting style and class (Dragon Knight) and due to certain connections between him and Jo'zira.

Because of those...connections, I might even take him through at least part of the Dominion questline. I got until the big update to decide, but if I were commiting this story to text (highly unlikely, I don't have enough writing experience to pull off the Squad's story) I'd say there'd be an entire arc dedicated to his let's say return.

I should decide on his appearance first. :U. I've actually been thinking about it since finishing the Clockwork City dlc.

Ooh sounds mysterious! Guessing you found the “Dwemer scholar� you had planned unplayable.

Khajiit has a couple of lore questions:
1. Could a Dwemer have avoided the fate of his/her people if he/she was imprisoned in one of the Princes’ planes of Oblivion? If this one remembers correctly, Yagrum Bagarn survived what happened because he was in another plane at the time the other Dwemer disappeared.
2. Could a vampire become the Vestige, that is, does becoming a vampire keep one’s soul intact so that it could later be harvested by Mannimarco?

I would say definitely "Yes" to the first, because we have Yagrum to indicate that possibility.

For the second, to wax pontifical for a bit- they are undying, rather than "soulless". So- there's that. And too, since in ESO-world, the vestige can become infected with vampirism... Short answer- also "Yes."

*Khajiit strokes whiskers thoughtfully*
Since there is no indication that losing your soul is a side effect vampirism, this one thinks you are right and vampires can become the Vestige (if vampires lost their souls, then becoming the Vestige wouldn’t be possible as the soul is already gone).

*Edit* Bleh, gameplay isn’t going to allow for what Khajiit was thinking. Maybe possible with some weaving.

I agree that Yagrum Bagarn proves it is possible for there to still be a Dwemer in that way; but also in another way: The mystery of what happened to the Dwemer has never been solved (except in my first Fanfic, lol). So the point being; since that part of Lore was always left a mystery; until Bethesda clears up that gap (which it is VERY doubtful it ever will) it is left open for us to explore the possibilities. Wherever the Dwemer disappeared to; there could always be a way for one to somehow escape (to this plane?) somehow and still be keeping with the Lore imho.

On the other thing; I don't know. I never knew if vampires/undead still had a soul. I'll bet DE would know.

Well Khajiit believes that, being a disease, vampirism affects the body and not the animus (soul). That said, it could be that the soul gets “pushed aside� when the animalistic part of the disease takes hold, which is why many of the vampires we come into contact with seem horrified when they realize what they’ve done (specifically there is a healer in the first little village you come to in Rivenspire that seems to not realize until after she’s committed atrocities that she is a vampire, and supposedly Lamae feels remorse after slaughtering the Nedes who originally tried to help her after Bal assaulted her).

For now. Maybe if a class that's a right fit comes along? She's always been "low combat" anyways, and suddenly jumping into combat can be seen as the result of training of sorts because it's needed. lol

Anyways, in regards to your questions:

1. Yeah, totally. Yagrum apparently tried to seek more out but found none, but there could always be a few either hiding out or trapped in a hard-to-reach place. After all, Yagrum ended up contracting Corprus. They'd have a good reason not to show up if that was a danger.

2. I don't recall reading anything on the subject, but from what I gather Vampires' souls (their animus, specifically) are already Molag Bal's property whether or not they're immediately given to him just how Werewolf souls are Hircine's. It could be that different strains treat the animus differently, as the vampire curing quest in Oblivion requires only white soul gems (empty at that) to concoct a cure where Skyrim's requires a filled black soul gem, which could be interpreted as either offering that soul in exchange for yours or as fuel for the ritual.

If anything, being sacrificed probably just expedites the process of ending up as a Soul Shriven in Coldharbour. After all, Angof is undead and he was there regardless.

(Disclaimer: by "animus' I mean the "core" of one's soul that alongside the energy that runs everything and is stored in Soul Gems makes up the whole of the soul in a living creature. I can't remember if that's the correct term lol.)

Hmmm, Khajiit had not considered that the vampire’s soul already belonged to Bal regardless. This makes sense. Like maybe when a vampire suffers final death it’s soul goes straight to Coldharbour where it undergoes the whole soul shriven thing.

I don't think it's ever really been confirmed for non-Volkihar strains (course I've forgotten a large chunk of the lore I've read lol) but that's certainly a nice hook.

Cat Man Dhou told me "This one has four of the Armor of the Veiled Inheritance set. He would like to complete it." So we went off looking for that fifth piece.

So now he wears seven. Once we got the fifth, everything that dropped was part of the set. And that's not counting pieces he can't wear at the same time. There's two more of those. He has only a couple of other set pieces and they conflict, but if he finds more, there's a lot of room for re-combining.

Meanwhile Unna is making herself pieces of Death's Wind, since she can make them in the Orc style she likes. So far she has Cuirass, Sabatons, and Belt, and she's researching more. Blossom and Laurie Craft are doing their own research, and know where to make pieces for her when they can.

Wizwen is busy learning to be a healer. She doesn't have her Twilight yet, but she's trying to help her Clannfear do the tanking for her. He does a decent amount of damage, but she needs to contribute most of it. We're trying to collect a range of staves, to see what works best. The mix of staff spells, and hand-cast ones available is confusing still.

Yes, keep learning those traits. Our favorites are Song of Lamae combined with Hunding’s Rage. Phae has Torug’s Pact instead of Lamae, and she likes that combo really well. I’m not sure about Argis, I think he has Vampires Kiss? In place of Lamae.

But everyone except Maz uses Hunding’s for the backbone of their crafted gear. It’s solid stuff.

Man, the server has been poo today.

Ugggh and it just cost us an alchemy survey

OH gross. I remember losing an Enchanter survey to that. It sucks because you never know when you're going to be dropped.

Anyways, posting in that other thread inspired me to seek out the now-rare cp150 purple recipes because Fjotreid has hit 50 in Provisioning and he's starting to get master writs. He's not going to do these daily but like, I want him to be able to do them should the opportunity present itself.

Okay, I got 6 crates:

16 gems for potions/food/drink I returned

The AKAVIRI Motif full set !!!!!!!! (I only needed 7 pieces, but they were 50,000-100,000 each!)

The Pocket Mammoth pet that I wanted so badly !!!!! (Britta will be grabbing it soon)

A Senche Tiger Cub pet !!!!!!!!! (Misa has this one out right now)

A turquoise Nixad pet!

A costume "Mages Leggings Outfit"

A "Mechanist" Tiara

(then purple lipstick; an ugly rebreather hat; and 2-3 ugly face markings)


** So overall = I am VERY happy with my crates today !!!!

Congrats on the motif!!

That's a great haul, mALX! Congrats!

Did you just use up all the luck we had coming?

Oh, and I forgot to mention that red spiked hair that Jerric got and the 4 Crown XP scrolls, lol. The spiked hair is a big "No," unless Bubba likes it = just like the purple lipstick, lol.

But honestly = I was due something good, since all the last three free crate events netted me nothing worth even writing about, lol.

Opened one crate- nothing to write home (or here) about, so moving on...

Trey went to Rivenspire to hunt a rogue lizard and do a little fishing- he now has 3 rare fish to his credit- well, he did have, but sold them since after being caught they are just inventory clutter....

He then continued the most excellent tour of haute's Homes of Tamriel, which was a most enjoyable experience. The Velothi house made him homesick, but then the simple elegance of the Cyrodiil home was a tonic to the weary soul- a quiet refuge to leave adventuring behind for a time and to remember the important things in life.

Only one? You didn’t get 6?

Khajiit thinks it would be cool if they made special containers for your house that you could put fish into and it would show up on like a plaque, similar to how weapon displays worked in Skyrim. Ooh! Or maybe a special container you could put the fish in and it is like an aquarium and you could see the fish swimming around!

opened my crates this afternoon

Got a lot of useless stuff plus stuff I already got in the last crown crate giveaway, which then were automatically converted to gems.

Ended up with 164 crown gems.

Used them to get the stuff I really wanted for my gang - the Arctic fox (well, it's not the fennec, but still), a new leopard cub for Phae, and a couple of other things I really can't remember now . . .

Anyways, I had fun showing Trey around the Pact and Dominion homes we own. Alise's Velothi Reverie is coming along quite nicely, and even though the Cyrodiilic Jungle House is far from finished, it is a lovely place to sit on the porch and watch the rain. I'm glad Trey enjoyed the tour, it was a lot of homes to see!

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Maz was out Tuesday night picking up surveys. One took her to Reaper's March right next to a WB. We realized she has not yet cleared all the WB's in Reapers. A quick peek at our friends list showed that my friend Bear was online with Walks. Maz has adventured with Walks before and knew he is a reliable fighter. So we pinged him with our magical whisper spell and asked if he wanted to help us with that boss.

Walks responded fairly quickly but while Maz was waiting behind the boss (a vampire lord, if i recall correctly), got tangled up with a dolmen and another WB on his way to us. Maz got nervous waiting and decided to go ahead and start the fight.

Took us a while. But we beat that sunuvbutch into the ground. Walks showed up in time to see the dust settle.

It was then we learned that Walks had not yet tackled any of the WB's in Reapers. As Maz still had three more, we decided to team up and work our way around. Maz also got that last dolmen she needed.

Two tanks adventuring around taking on all comers was quite fun. Well, Maz technically isn't a tank, but she has high survivability these days thanks to her Thunderbug and Warrior's Poet set. And she welcomed the chance to work on her resto skills.

One was a near perfect takedown - the WB site held a boss lurcher and a boss strangler. Walks took on the Lurcher and kept him in place next to the strangler, while Maz tackled the carnivorous plant. It allowed her to lay down her healing AOE and keep Walks buffed while wearing down the strangler on her own. She finished up one shot behind Walks. It was kind of like having simultaneous orgasms!

Anyway, Maz has now officially soloed two WB's and a dolmen. What's next? We are thinking public dungeons.

Congrats to the Mighty Maz! Buffy's adventured with her a couple times and can certainly attest to how tough she is!

They do have a wooden plaque that you can put a fish on sort of like a wall trophy = Haute has done it at her Autumn's Gate house. I was going to do it at the Guild Hall right before they came out with those wall trophies; so I ended up using them instead.

As far as the fish tank goes = you can make one, but it takes several house slots up:


https://imgur.com/a/rgwQS







WOO HOO! Congrats, Haute!!!

Frickin game booted me twice today! The second time was during a dolmen battle! Urrrggh!

Urk!

I think I got all the crates- I am just opening one per day- kind of like a "The Half-Dozen Days of Going Back to Work after a 2-Week Vacation" treat....

Trey did some more work in Rivenspire- and is still adjusting his thinking to accommodate "Not ALL Vampires = Evil". His own less than completely legal past makes him a bit more willing to believe in redemption- or at least more flexible in his morality...

Khajiit is glad you are open minded...

tbh, as interesting to see the mechanics of Towers explored in a game (especially considering the Adamantine Tower zone and quest was scrapped) Rivenspire's storyline wasn't the best.

Anyways, it's been a long time since I've even attempted a Dolmen. Are they harder than they used to be?

Hooray! Pocket Mammoth! Was really hoping for one! And a Radius Mask- which is... (shrug) because I hide helmets...

They got harder with One Tamriel. I used to be able to solo them with Misa = haven't been able to since One Tamriel. In the same patch they made the World Bosses beefed up too; and suddenly she couldn't solo them anymore either.







WOO HOO! Congrats!!!

Spreads thinks they're hard. When she noticed the one at Zabamat (in Stonefalls) opening up, she wandered over, to see if she could help. Nobody there but her. I think she died five times before she succeeded. Fortunately the Wayshrine's not far away. I wonder if we have a record for the longest time one stayed open? There should be an achievement for that!

And then she discovered her inventory was full.

BTW she's seen the new Argonian outfits in the Crown Store. I should have created more male characters.

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Unna, meanwhile, has collected her final skyshard for the Stonefalls set, in Crows Wood. Like Spreads, she found herself doing a group job on her own, as there weren't more than two or three other players in there, and they kept going in different directions. However, she's ten levels higher than Spreads, and has better equipment, so it was less onerous than the dolmen. She still didn't manage all the bosses, but did complete the quests.

Nothing new today but BretonBlood’s character and mine duked it out. It was an intense duel.
Irvana-my character-lost.

WOO HOO! I love to watch dueling! But ... you need to add some details here, like what race and class each of you came in with = example: was one a DK Imperial Tank, was the other a Wood Elf Warden? (etc). Details !!!

Welp, the other day Khajiit did something he swore he would not do: he allowed another crafter into his crew. The idea for this character popped into Khajiit’s mind recently and the more this one thought about it, the more he liked the idea. He’s a very... unorthodox character but this one believes he is interesting and, as far as this one knows, his story doesn’t break any rules lore wise.

Razak Mezalf, The Artisan
(Note: not sure why his eyes are showing up as whitish in the pic. He is a vampire, and his eyes are mostly red.)

Story-

He looks Awesome!

Crate 3- some potions (eh), a Fiery Orb memento, a Flame Pixie memento, and (appropriate for Trey) the Outlaw Style Motif. Good one.

Grand evening of Glenumbran adventuring- knocked off all 3 dolmen and something like half-a-dozen world bosses, all thanks to the incomparable haute. (Bows down). This is the first MMO I have participated in- I always shied away because I am not good at "meeting" new people. But because of the excellent guild we have, that problem is negated. It has been so much fun getting to know the ESO world and I would not have done so without all the help I have received.

Ooh that motif was a good score!

Trey, I'm so glad you're enjoying ESO! Oh, and I think your idea of opening one of your crates each day is very neat.

Khajiit wishes he had that kind of restraint

Khajiit, I love your new avatar! A warm welcome to Razak. He sounds like he will bring an interesting perspective to his game.

treydog, what an excellent haul! It's fun to find out what you got each day.

Today was the first one that was almost completely "meh".

Trapping Poison
Crown Lethal Poison
Crown Experience Scroll (which I need to remember to use next time I go on one of haute's patented "World Bosses of Tamriel" tours
Inferno Ink Marking- well someone may use that- but Trey is weird about tats and Izinami already has his Maori style markings...

Later will be more Rivenspire, as well as tracking down the last 3 Glenumbra Shards...

So Trey got almost all of the Glenumbra shards (and there are a lot of them). And by doing that, he has gotten through most of the delves there also.

And then it was time to deal with Hangnail the Wedding Singer in Cath Bedhead... what, is that not right? He got hit on the head a few times and his ears are still ringing.... But he got some spiffy armor and is now the Crampon of Penultimate... still not quite right... May need to go back to the Lion and rest on his nice Khajiit crescent moons rug.