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Post by Sniffles on Mar 13, 2024 0:03:55 GMT
Destination, up. Again. A: "Sigh."
S: "Present for you, girl of dragon. A new steed." Right. An elf, a vampire, a misfit human dov and their loyal cow. Truly a legendary epic in the making. Pardon me, and not wanting to sound ungrateful Serana dear, but I think your battle rabbit would be more useful, and certainly much faster.
(I'm amazed at the LOD. High Hrothgar is clearly visible.)
I intensely dislike this part of the main quest. If DB has learned anything it's knowledge is power. And here she finds herself encountering the oldest, wisest being in all of Tamriel and he would very much like to have a long chat. And what does she do? Plonky brains: Kill the dragon, kill the dragon. Tell me the shout and hurry up about it. Paarth thinking .oO(Oh great, average Monday Night ball game fan for brains to save the world. Why do I even bother?)
What is even sadder is in all the games I've encountered, Paarthurnax is by far the best voiced. One could take most of the lore of the entire Elder Scrolls series and pack it in a menu of Q and A. A mod.
Alduin, are you a clompete idiot?? One shout, a brief skirmish and you're going to be spending weeks pulling arrows out. Arrows made of the bones of your cult worshipers no less. And wash, rinse and repeat while I use the shout to convince your loyal followers they are in the wrong camp.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 12, 2024 10:50:21 GMT
Strolling and reflection. Harkon... his demise was inevitable. Letting the scenic expanses of Skyrim to tell them why that was so.
Serana did her best to be stoic but the tales of her and the dragonborn are still being written. On the distant horizon, the throat of the world and the duty to reveal to the graybeards what they learned from Alduin's wall.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 12, 2024 2:09:25 GMT
Sniffles: That bow does sound pretty awesome, even if it does ragdoll enemies a bit too far away! Just rolled my first archer not long ago, never played an archer before in Skyrim (have in earlier games, though). In the falmer city on those slopes and cliffs the ragdoll got utterly ridiculous. Much too fast to grab sceenshots, sometimes blasting the victim right out of the cell to vanish in mid air.
One nice dork of mine in missing a screenshot was sending a troll sailing into Serana who was standing next to a wall. She was staring at the PC with that accusing scowl, wearing a troll skirt. "Smooth move, dipstick. Point that blasted bow somewhere else!"
Daddy: Really like that pic of them in the Bannered Mare loft. That was always such an epic feeling in the early days, renting that room and then being above the rest of the tavern-goers. Agree!!
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 11, 2024 1:31:16 GMT
Okay, here's the general idea. We simply get rid of this PITA bow once and for all. Or at least try to.
S: "You can't be serious." A: "In the long list of your screwball ideas this is really close to the top."
Hey guy. Mind if I toss something on your fire?
Fingers crossed
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 10, 2024 2:23:02 GMT
Never mind
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 10, 2024 1:56:53 GMT
So your PC's a self-portrait then (except for the hair)? Of my partner. In RL our jobs were taking us in divergent directions locations wise so I used Skyrim, so much like our home in the mountains, as the backdrop, and her as the protagonist. Pure sentimentality and the main reason I started playing the game. A little tongue in cheek aside humor, she has numerous female admirers and gets laughs at my playing her being promiscuous. I send her screenshots and saved games. In reality her mood and seriousness is much like in that image. Deadly serious her major character trait. So her being flighty and ahem, available, is very sarcastic.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 10, 2024 0:58:55 GMT
This is with my old video card, unprocessed. Every picture tells a story? Shortly after we met Squishy had taken me for a hike in the Tetons. We made our way down to the river. On the river bank we stopped to talk. Then this random screen shot that startled me it was so real. Instantly draws me back to that precious moment. (Just swap the bow for Kitten, her rifle)
I spent hours learning how to adjust and fix the appearance of the PC down to matching her skin tone and every nuance of her face and expression. Total fail with the hair but same color anyway.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 10, 2024 0:03:44 GMT
Thanks. Hours of tweaking and fussing just about every graphics setting on the computer and in programs. So much fussing and settings I've made a System Restore Point just for the graphics. I still can't get the LOD Sky to not look like ugly fractals sometimes. And the posted shots are only shadows of the images, reduced to 72 dpi 1024 pixel or less. All the pics I've posted recently are just over 10 MB on the hosting site. I'm doing my best to be polite in appreciation for the free hosting.
My present theme; taking advantage of beating my video card into submission somewhat for scenery. Then entirely random situations that deserve some sort of title that could explain what might be going on. And stupid moves like trying to travel at night with realistic darkness. We did travel from Lakeside to that tavern trying to follow the road to stay in Falkreath for the night. Could not find it. Found Lake Inalta and followed it's shore instead. All night trek. Then the Chancery isn't effected by the Springtime mod thus the snow.
Entirely natural occurrences and underlying super stupid blunders. For example, that Serana naked in Lakeside. I had collected all my resources from all the houses - two hours of game play trekking. Went through the huge list of items I could make going entirely by appearance, made and remade Serana's gorgeous outfit, another hour, searched out the best lighting, indoors, lots of indirect light from multiple directions. Then clicked the wrong menu selection on Serana, had the perfect stately casual pose, and FLUG! Then my usual stupid move I saved over a save instead of loading a save and all that effort went poof. Completely fed up I just wanted to travel, as it happened, in the pitch black night.
As for gear, hours upon hours of smithing with a rigid criteria. The most smithing improved to Legendary of the mod outfits, ultra weapons from mods also smithed to the max while skimpy attractive, (A major headache) but for a specific purpose. Anduniel and Serana 2000 armor rating and ultra lethal, and Dragonborn a series of compromise after thoughts. Crappy armor rating with everything poured into bow to cope with dragons. Then glitch time, she developed advanced vampirism for no reason in certain locations, repeatedly. I had to check every few minutes. Used the console to remove it and console said she didn't have the condition! So I swapped out smithing and armor gear for gear that resisted disease which seems to help But left her even more wuss.
The whole plan being the followers cope with any and all enemies affording me the opportunity to take screenshots. This is that pitch black pic with post processing brightness cranked through the roof. Just a taste of the insanity I undertake getting nice shots. I knew there were nice flowers there, but I had blown all the daylight doing smithing. Guessing in the dark. Of course I've taken dozens of art pics reminiscent of many of the great masters but NSFW+++ that I can't bring myself to censor. One of Serana in bed that looked a living so perfect revisiting of a Modigliani that merits printing and framing. (Since when is playing ANY game suitable for work?)
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 9, 2024 12:13:38 GMT
(Dragonborn proves she has some human failings and frailties.) Onward we plod. The mages college failed to go to hell in a bucket but made up for it by installing the least competent or interested person in all of Tamriel to be the new arch mage. May it slide gracefully into the sea of ghosts. And then the intrepid misfits finally visited Dexy to get the scrolls read. No luck there and the fate of the world is now depending on how well Girl des Dragon is able to attract moths. In actuality, she is much better suited to this job description as she has been attracting things, foul and fair, for most of her life.
Post Lepidoptera communion the major plan is to find their way out of a cave and go to Andi's tavern for a most welcome break. As daylight waned, the girl of reptiilian pollution stops enroute at Lakeview to further refine her bow fueled by the elixir she recently found.
Okay okay. Maybe we should have stayed the night at Lakeview, but do any of us want to take the chance of waking snuggled up to Sofia? Damp yellow sheets anyone?Entirely missing Falkreath we managed to find Andi's tavern by the simple method of walking north until our feet got wet then walking westish until we stumbled across the place around abouts dawn. Alive if not exactly rested up the alleged supposed hero out of legends explains her brilliant threefold strategy. Okey dokey, Meets up with what's left of the Blades and check out Alduin's demise as carved into a wall. Akaviri wishful thinking and we're screwed so keep a positive attitude. Next we swim up a few miles of river and pay our disrespects to Darkfall cave to find the end all be all bow Serana's daddy has been having wet dreams about. And best of all, we take time out to try out my new spiffed bow with some light dragon hunting.Serana is less than enthusiastic. (A pose similar to the one I botched) We set out, saying hello to the weakest kidneys in Skyrim. This guy has been taking a potty break for over three months. Then it was a absolutely beautiful day for a stroll through foresworn infested canyons.To at last arrive in a falmer housing development during a blizzard. A: "Bubbles for brains my dear, that bow utterly sucks. How are we supposed to loot the corpses when it keeps sending them off cliffs or sailing over the horizon? And by the way, since we are on yet another save the world from the vile and contemptuous quest, how exactly does the great hore... err hero fit in with all the moral fiber of a very limp noodle. As in wife, two sisters in law and two kids in home B, roughly eight girlfriends in homes A, C and several taverns, and you're combining world rescuing having a fling with an undead strumpet."
S: "HEY! She just added some class to her.... umm, forget it."
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 8, 2024 12:17:08 GMT
I have done little adventuring with Sindra in tow. She isn't as talkative as Vilja but she'll fight anything that gets too close. Of course, Sindra doesn't have magic skills or bard chants she can use. Tindra, if you bring her, will summon a familiar to fight. Well, Vilja's magic ability is as much of a liability as an asset. And the chants are useless. More useless than most of the shouts. The most useful shout as far as I'm concerned is animal friend. Walk the length of Riften woods without slaughtering a couple dozen animals.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 8, 2024 12:12:24 GMT
Sniff, reference top photo: Are you using a foliage mod of some kind? That shot's pretty striking. A combination of Springtime for Skyrim and a video card that overdoes that mod much much. Turned out my ultra GREEN problem was that mod and my card conflict.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 8, 2024 7:58:50 GMT
A: "That whirlwind sprint would come in very handy.................." Well, it certainly came in handy the other night when I discovered that slaughterfish casserole was a little ancient. A: "Did the cure disease potion help?" Of what little I was able to keep down only seemed to expedite matters. I'd rather not think about it. How about we just enjoy the view?
QUICK! Serana in the perfect pose with a new very beautiful outfit. So graceful! SLAM THE CONSOLE BUTTON! Now, TM, hmm, TFC, and TAI too... Ack! I better back up a little... AGGHHHHH!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Dammit. (Genius girl turned the AI off on the bed. Screen grabs can be SOOOOO!!!! frustrating)
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 8, 2024 7:39:38 GMT
wotan Two astoundingly boring sessions in taverns and I have Sindra in tow. The only problem I have is I feel I should have Vilja along as well but she is stuck repeating the same comment over and over about once a minute. I've tried everything to get her to expand her dialogue including her reset. No dice. I'm wondering of advantages and disadvantages of having just Sindra along and Vilja parked. Does Sindra have the same capabilities?
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 7, 2024 5:40:35 GMT
Conference time. Okay, go are we whereing? Serana, want to go back to Dumbguard, get this scroll read and snuggle up some more with Isran? S. "Right after I chew broken glass." Hrrm. Well.... Andi, how about another visit to Wintermold? A. "Hasn't that place been through enough without a slightly insane dragonized wacko wreaking more havoc with Magnuts stupid stick?" S. "Brilliant idea. Maybe be standing in the middle of the college when that putz Thalmor or you or the both of you deliver the coup de grace and everything does the ocean plummet." Well, what then? Go home and see how much wine we can pour into Soppy? S. "How about we go home, lock the sop in the cellar and check out Andi's new tavern while you take Vilja to the BC and get the assignment of caterwauling in taverns across Skyrim?"
A. "Just stay away from my place. I don't need screaming customers in agony dashing for the doors and dragon skeletons all over the landscape."
Is this a commentary on my beautiful singing voice? S. "If it wasn't for those shouts I'd draw a comparison to the frogs by the lake."
Wagon driver. "I'm feeling myself age here."
Love those carriages. No breast strap on the horse. Slap the reins and it strolls off dragging the carriage driver and leaving the wagon behind.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 7, 2024 2:04:16 GMT
Off topic-icking, way back in my library, Sea of Death by Gary Gygax, signed copy from him.
I read his book while I was in involuntary residence at Changi Airport. Maybe should reread it in a better frame of mind.
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