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Post by Sniffles on Mar 2, 2024 0:54:55 GMT
Dawnguard onward! Both wondergals have been carefully outfitted to compliment appearance and match their upcoming roles in the vampire epic. None of the barely surviving each encounter crap - they are 101% arse kickers.
Riggsy darling, PUHLEEZE don't shed that gear. I'm not pretty screaming, ripping my hair out and banging my head against walls.
(A delightful paradox, cute clad in skimpy pure tank. Over the top stats.)
Serana just plain rocks in the exotic dancer style. Sheer perfection. Just imagine her in a venue belly dancing surrounded by drooling groping drunken schmucks. Hey guys, fair warning, watch for ice spikes embedded in your anatomy.
Prelude. Enjoying the trip out into the Rift to the max.
Exkuuze me? Just what good is a head high logs and spikes fortification in front of one hundred foot high battlements? Isran my dear, have you finally gone round the pipe?
He has.
In the depths of Volkihar Serana has an existential moment. (Location caused rendering issues - art scenes)
It's possible the Ideal Masters sorely underestimated a vengeful saucy vampiress recruiting more than capable assistance and turning the dearth of Soul Cairn into our playground. (Riggles the miniature maniac disposed of two of the guardians before we even started that part of the quest. Not bad with a bow as well.)
Bring it! Meet Azura's wrath, schmucks!
Addendum: Serana's revised (revamped? wince) dialogue is superb! Over the top. Mature, brilliantly thought out as she works her way through a family crisis, a lot of introspection, serious self realization, and as cake frosting almost in shock as she discovers romance still dwells within.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 1, 2024 23:57:35 GMT
Sniffles: regarding disappearing NPCs, are they mod-added? If so, sometimes this can be fixed by making sure they've got a Persistent Reference in one of the game's cells or worldspaces, usually wherever they started. Does this help? I think my saved game cleaner is a major culprit. I park a follower and after a while it ham fisted comes along and thinks the NPC, or a vital bit of data regarding the NPC is an unattached instance. For example, I parked several NPCs in Lakside and went off to do the entire Rigmor quest line. Going back to the house Serana was missing. I got her back and just noticed Vilja is missing. But it's no problem at all to fix. I just make a save, then open an earlier save where I know the NPC is present, get the ref number, close that save and open my most recent save, then console, moveto player, and all is well, NPC back and fully functional.
So figure it's really the game engines fault, being a right pig about leaving messes around that will eventually cause serious issues. Best is to refresh NPCs. A problem can arise with this I suppose in that if I bring back an NPC their quest line may be broken. So damned if I do, damned if I don't. Eventual garbage overload and game crashes or mangled quest lines?
In Vilja's case, I got Tindra moved into a house and the only additional part of her quest is Sindra becoming available. Hasn't happened in over 50 hours with Vilja active. No big loss there as I don't think there is any more significant developments in her quest.
AS for Serana post Rigmor, when I did a moveto her quest line continued right where we left off. No problem at all.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 1, 2024 8:05:59 GMT
cumbersum The leveling system is the MOSTEST MAJOR GRIPE everyone has with Oblivion. A Mt. Everest plummet below fetid garbage. The reason why I gave up shortly after starting a new play through several years ago. I'll let others better informed than I to offer suggestions.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 1, 2024 1:23:16 GMT
Knights, new plan... no wait. Awww snit. The general idea is continue on with the Dawnguard quest line, but new and improved. Serana with her new upgraded dialogue and Rigmor to discover what she is like outside the box of her mod. Serana handles the magic, Riggly with her smithing improved Azura's Bane sword the tank and DB with her bow. Simple. Except Rigmor's mod ate TWO sets of gear I had custom made for her, I'm royally burned out smithing and enchanting, and all my resources are scattered between three homes with no fast travel available anywhere near them. Serana's gear had been borrowed from and Riggly is makeshift at best and inappropriate in public. Sigh. long treks just to round up smithing and enchanting equipment, now seriously depleted.
Finally, build the requisite gear, dump everything on Riggles, see what she will and won't wear, take notes, reload the save, make just the gear she wears, then wash, rinse, repeat with Serana. Two days postponing Dawnguard and messy confusion.
Uhhhhhhh................ no. I'm not an average hack and slash pound out a quest gamer. We are exploring all the nuances of our interactions and sight seeing with major emphasis on enjoying the environments. The quest is byplay.
And almost ready! Just hand Riggles her new gear, and game crash. Just the pre-spiffying saves and I've forgotten everything.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 29, 2024 2:59:01 GMT
Sniffles : Do you mean syrupy melodrama? Why, it's almost as if you've got this mod figured out! Memories. Squishy had never watched TV or saw movies in her life - ultra objective. We went to a theater now and then. The third time we went she exclaimed, 'This is the same goddam movie'. She predicted the entire plot and plot twists then dragged me out in the middle of the final syrup dose to get eats. The only place open was MCDouche. She fed the meat stuff to a stray dog and we stuck the pickles to a window and had races as to which would slide down the fastest. More interesting than the movie.
She added new lyrics to her favorite refrain. A take off from 'I can see clearly now the rain has gone.' She had altered that as a slogan for an STD clinic, "I can pee clearly now the pain has gone." And altered it again upon seeing the vapid drooling of the audience over a boring movie, "They can see clearly now their brains are gone."
So you should have been drowned at birth? Allow me to fix that little mistake.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 28, 2024 5:50:15 GMT
Hint: When the final battle against the big New Order boss comes about, you'll be on top of a tower. Just make sure that he's between you and the parapet, and when he's done with his pretentious monologue, nail him with an Irresistable Force shout. He should go tumbling over the side to his demise, and you can follow the quest marker to find his carcass! I should have used the shout. Just as he was about to jump he sort of got an arrow in the back of his noggin. Skytrim fizzicks is a little fooked when bows get sooper dooper plonked up. almost sent him out to the You Can't Go That Way. Is that it? Pack her back to the cabin, chat up Sethri, collect another couple of useless melee weapons and escort her to the border? Or keep her on as a banana slug follower rivaling Serana without any interaction? I ask because I had to disable-enable and ResetAI about five times to move the events along.
I'll move her up to the departure point I suppose and see if there's one of those GAG BARF departure scenes with a choice attached.
Edit. So bye bye and summon ability. Here's hoping she's got some interesting dialogue. I've got several boat anchor melee fighters that just make my sightseeing miserable most of the time. Next up, Rig(or)mor(tis) does soul cairn.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 27, 2024 1:19:39 GMT
Hint: When the final battle against the big New Order boss comes about, you'll be on top of a tower. Just make sure that he's between you and the parapet, and when he's done with his pretentious monologue, nail him with an Irresistable Force shout. He should go tumbling over the side to his demise, and you can follow the quest marker to find his carcass! GAG. Of all that's unholy, the dreaded evil villain rant. I would mash the shout key through the back of the keyboard the moment I saw it coming. I like Squishy's getpos setpos z + 200 or so. They fall and kersplat in front of you.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 23:44:05 GMT
Sniffles : I can imagine the scene: Rigmor trying to fire up the crowd, a few random "RAH! RAH! DOWN WITH THE THALMOR! SKYRIM FOR THE NORDS! LOOK! A BEAR! GET THE BEAR! Get the bear! Get the bear!" Nod nod nod.... Since the PC is converted into a mouse clicker throughout most of the slide show style melodrama it affords the player many opportunities to be an on site news reported recording events in 3rd party perspective.
I'm up to and dreading the upcoming major battle. Providing my wuss comp can handle it, 1, it's ultimately a foregone conclusion scripted event (no doubt with chocolate, peanut butter, cream cheese pastrami sammitch melodrama) 2, and the PC actions will have no effect on the outcome, 3, I really have no idea how to handle things. Just unleash Zephyr's full fury at random assuming the good guys are all set essential as it's going to be mass destruction, beef up the missing shouts to contribute to the mayhem (wussy garbage stuff for level 50+ PC), or maybe round up some additional assistance such as complete Serana's gig out to Soul Cairn, engage the final confront, then go TFC and grab shots of Durnheviir and some summoned undead getting in on things. That would be very protracted - but so is the entire mod - but make for a lot of interesting screen grab byplay.
I've got 40 or more saves throughout the entire mod, and since all events are scripted, it's very tempting the completely weird things out during the various predictable moments. Squishy once completely frapped a scene with Vilja where her and PC were sitting at a table with a non hostile spriggan and a live rabbit as the apparent entree.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 22:05:56 GMT
Foops
Riggly delivers a pep talk to the huge army. Interrupted by a bear wandering into camp and her speaking to the empty wilderness.
A bad idea making a save here at the new beflowered camp outside Ivarstead. Upon reload the game was missing a few things and Drags-on gurl found herself a couple thousand feet above Whiterun without terrain details loaded.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 2:53:19 GMT
I don't remember all those Rigmor scenes the way you show them. Maybe the mod's been updated? Or maybe I just fast-traveled my way through some of 'em. It's the 'Reboot' version, August 2020.
My game play mode may make things look different. I mega beefed up and armored the PC so I could ignore enemies as a general rule. Then it's all about sightseeing, watching the followers antics, lots and lots of picture taking, never hurrying and weather and time having a say in what I'm doing. No quest orientation, blast through and get it done. I get a quest, I guess where the location is, then weather and time permitting set out. I only use the map en route to get my bearings as I have a lousy sense of direction. Basically, the difference between someone getting jobs done and a tourist ogling the world about.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 26, 2024 2:04:43 GMT
Rigmor Rescue (WrecksYou) Draggingburn pre child psychologist
Lets see. Ackolytes stabs her to death... I can fix that.
Oh great, disembodied voice infomercials.
Calamath, allow me to introdouche you to what you are diddling with...And of course, I've been pigging out on dragon souls for months now.
How many times before my banging her head against walls causes severe brain damage?
Whew. Out of there. The was the easy part. (Only fast travel allowed is game provided transportation)
Closest transport would be the boat in Dawnstar. I'm going to have seven foot arms.
Finally! Where you go, darling?
Progress at last! I suppose she might drown if I swim to the carriage.
GASP. Riften my good man. Wake me when we get there.
Another slog? No way. I've been meaning to buy a horse anyway.
Of course. Scammed. No horse.
Straighten out... If only Dragonborning had a job description.
Well aren't you all sweetness and light?
Whoa gal. Take a few deep breaths.
Oh how nice. I'm supposed to talk to a chair. (Glitched again. Riggly went the way of my horse. When did I make my last save game?)
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 25, 2024 4:01:48 GMT
They really aren't that great, are they? Rudi makes sure to upgrade his bows from time to time, and passes them out to his gang as well. Rudi's bows have more punching power than a crossbow and a higher rate of fire, too. Yo, grumpy tunnel visioned old man... let me get this straight. You want me to trade in my 420 damage super speed Zephyr or 508 damage dragonbone soul sucking bow for this piece of crap?
Incite enemies to come charging at you down a hallway. Zephyr, the Skyrim alley sweeper. Oh look! A tasty grand soul for my collection. Hot key 3 and come to mamma you putz.
Dialogues critiqued, with apologies to Janis Joplin.
Oh lord won't you buy them a dictionary, Monosyllabic is getting to me,
I wait for their fluency each day until three Oh lord, won't buy them a dictionary.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 25, 2024 2:00:25 GMT
OldRPMDaddy "Rudi draws a bead with his sweet crossbow, although he soon realizes his bow is actually a better weapon."
Mentioning this because I am already in a foul mood. By the time the average player gets around to Dawnguard with some smithing perks those crossbows are junk
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 24, 2024 10:50:41 GMT
How do I hate thee, countless are the ways. Fade To Black, five times. Controls taken away from the player. Blurred screens melodrama. I extend my sincere apologies, Mod maker(s), but you aren't even a shadow of a playwright. The effort put into the mod is admirable and it is enjoyable. But the dialogue, an uphill slog to droll. Banal, hackneyed, shallow, slopped together in weak attempts to show Rigmor is emotional but fails, leaving her as a childish brat much of the time. The Dragonborn is forced into a somewhat callous even more shallow role of a B- movie plot extra. Unabashedly borrowed from Jaques, I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.
Suggestions: Rigmor, Young at heart, but profound of mind and purpose. Her insights betray her steadfast resolute nature.
Dragonborn, A mighty warrior is known for prowess and skill upon the battle field. A true hero is all that of the warrior, while kind, gentle and introspective when circumstances allow. Shrewd of judgement, observative and sagacious.
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Post by Sniffles on Feb 24, 2024 4:22:32 GMT
Just forking grrrrrreat. Retry #15 or so, chat with Khajit in Mara temple finally worked. Instead of him vanishing I followed him outside and he completed that quest and started the next with map marker. DOWNSIDE, Rigmor befriending a caged bear a couple of quests back has wonked out the wild animals AI. Some bears are non hostile, and when we left Riften all the deer in the immediate area were hostile. After Rigmor chased them across the scenery for 15 minutes I summoned her and she cooled off. So now each wild animal encounter may result in her dashing off towards Los Angeles or Tatooine. PFFFFFTB.
And off we go, following my usual game play mode, bright sunny day and gawking at the scenery...
Well it was sunny about five seconds ago.
Along the way we had a chance to cuddle a bear...
Without near flat terrain Rigmor moved at the speed of a banana slug stuck in the middle of a salt flat. The trip to Ivarstead took nearly an entire day what with retracing our steps every few minutes to move the slug along. No girl, giving me bambi eyes does not make up for your inability to step over a rock smaller than a rabbit.
Along the way I assisted Serana to change into her risque belly dancer outfit and dropped her off at the inn in Ivarstead. Maybe make the place a little less fraught and gloomy, and possibly add some funds to our coffers. Drag-on-grrrl was starting to cop an attitude with a constant stream of frivolous chatter and amorous come ons. Her 'tude grew by leaps and bounds when, in spite of our cautious sneaking, Rigmor-on declared war on a nearby bandit fortress. She was given a justly deserved spanking, Dragonborn style. She can't negotiate an ankle high rock but she can climb the battlements of a fortress?
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