The 'What You Did in Skyrim Today' Thread

Mattbott · **Posted:** Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:14 am

Rook has found Calcemo in Markarth who shares his interest with the dwemer. He investigated the ruins there with C's permission, and recovered a dwemer schematic for the Dawnguard, one more to go.. He has heard rumours of a vast underground dwemer city and has found a shard of Aetherium so there are leads to investigate. He's being attacked by dragons, forsworn and vampires on a pretty regular basis so might enlist Serana's help again and go hunting.

Mauin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:21 am

Vara grew tired of working for the Daedra and instead decided to pursue rumors about a boy and the Dark Brotherhood in Windhelm. She found herself getting kidnapped soon after, and in a moment, decided to destroy the Dark Brotherhood.

Other than that, she also started the College of Winterhold quests.

I also did a lot of modding on the side. Mostly just textures.

Finn Wolfshorn · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 2:29 pm

Main quest continued (Alduin's Wall spoilers):

Spoiler:

Jun Satou · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:49 pm

Played on the greatest buggiest game ever again today, the Companions story-line on my other profile for the trophies. (Thank goodness it was only for the trophies).

Long, and stressful:

Spoiler:

Never. Again. Approaching. Companions.

Dohva. · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:03 pm

^^ Whoa! What an adventure.

I've been playing my assassin in an alternate universe which is basically sticking to whatever happens in this game-no matter what. Unlike in her other games. The moment of truth came when Onmund was killed in Nchuand-Zel: do I stick to my original plan of letting things be as they are or re-loading? I decided against re-loading. So Felina is devastated. Not only did her troll run away after a couple hours (she loved him!) but her husband lies dead in a Dwarven ruin. I don't know how she'll be able to handle another dwarven ruin again. Sigh.

So she went home to steward Brelyna and gave her a few hundred gold pieces to take care of the boy while she's gone. And so she went to meet Serana to help her find Valerica. When asked about her family life, Felina lied and said her husband was still alive, just gone for a while. *tear*

Hrolf Alfblod · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:07 pm

Dohvakiin2012 wrote:

I've been playing my assassin in an alternate universe which is basically sticking to whatever happens in this game-no matter what. Unlike in her other games. The moment of truth came when Onmund was killed in Nchuand-Zel: do I stick to my original plan of letting things be as they are or re-loading? I decided against re-loading. So Felina is devastated. Not only did her troll run away after a couple hours (she loved him!) but her husband lies dead in a Dwarven ruin. I don't know how she'll be able to handle another dwarven ruin again. Sigh.

So she went home to steward Brelyna and gave her a few hundred gold pieces to take care of the boy while she's gone. And so she went to meet Serana to help her find Valerica. When asked about her family life, Felina lied and said her husband was still alive, just gone for a while. *tear*

I thought Brelyna was dead already. Anyway, did Felina take a bunch of skooma after Onmund died?

Dohva. · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:50 pm

No, she didn't. Actually, Brelyna is still alive in the game. And I ended up reloading...the grief was too much.

Torapa · **Posted:** Tue Jul 30, 2013 8:09 pm

Stinky-Fingers the Argonian bruiser released some mouthy dunmer who happened to get himself all caught up in some spider's web (Bleak Falls Barrow), had to run him through before he got two steps though. Stupid eejit, you shouldn't call a burly Argonian with a Skyforge steel greatsword a fool when he's standing right in front of you! Found a nice sparkly golden claw on the eejits carcass.

Gbaji · **Posted:** Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:47 am

Mauin · **Posted:** Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:54 am

Vara did some more work at the College and was randomly pronounced Arch-Mage.
Other than that, she helped Onmund solve a problem of his.

Didn't do too much today. Most of my time was spent testing ENBs. Right now, I'm going to do a quick texture test. Then I'm done.

Finn Wolfshorn · **Posted:** Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:28 pm

^^^Dohvakiin, I know exactly how you felt. I recently had Cosnach and Aranea bug out on me and turn against each other after an extended fight with Markarth guards; nothing I tried could break them out of fighting, and in the end he killed her. I remember staring at Cosnach on the screen and yelling "What have you done, you idiot!" while at the same time racking my brain for a plausible roleplaying rationalization for what had just happened. After a minute or two I gave up and reloaded.

(Perhaps the worst thing was that she reverted to her original blue hooded mage robes in death. The enchanted headdress, black robes and cloak I had given her, her daedric dagger, the jewelry I had made and enchanted for her, every trace of my coven sister was gone and just the plain vanilla character left - I mean, everything was still in her inventory, but I couldn't even make her wear it for a proper burial. Some things are just too brutal to be borne.)

Ebony Dragon · **Posted:** Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:02 am

Today was a wonderful time. My Dunmer mage was having a relatively slow and uphill battle, as she's trying to acquire Breezehome. She bought a Dwarven Bow as an upgrade in Windhelm for her Orcish one, then ended up giving it to Calcelmo because the Reach was generous enough to give her a Forsworn Bow replacement.
Then it all was downhill from there.

Side note: Encountered a wierd glitch that almost got Lydia killed before I enlisted her service. It was wierd. Like, everyone randomly dogpiled on Lydia and I as soon as I entered Dragonsreech. I had to shoot a horse with a couple of Ice Spikes and spend a couple hours in the jail to fix it. Luckily, Lydia survived. Though, Proventus is being a butt and is always not in the throne room now.

Mauin · **Posted:** Thu Aug 01, 2013 1:12 am

Vara married Onmund and adopted two children: Lucia from Whiterun, and Sofie from Windhelm.
She then wandered around and did some stuff before going to Solitude. There, she has started the process for joining the Legion.

Funnily enough, I can walk around the rest of Skyrim just fine. No CTDs or anything.
However, on the road between Whiterun and Solitude, I always get a CTD around Dragon Bridge. Doesn't happen anywhere else and it doesn't seem to matter how long I've played for. Something's up in that area. I just don't know what.

Vara's save is only 10MB, and the CTDs don't start until around 14 or 15MB so I doubt it has something to do with her save. Meh. Whatever. That's what fast travel is for.

Edit:
Forgot to mention Vara's wedding.
I had the most guests show up out of any of my characters. Mostly because Vara has done more than the others.
She had Brelyna, Valdimar, Jarl Idgrod Ravencrone, and Jarl Skald the Elder. Two Jarls. The people of Skyrim like her. Heck, in all of my characters (and 2055 hours), that's the first time I've had any Jarl show up to a wedding.

Gbaji · **Posted:** Fri Aug 02, 2013 2:35 am

Fram gets over his horror of Chillwind Depths, Serana tells Alva to put her grapefruit away, and the butcher's bill finally comes due:

29th of Rain's Hand, 4E 202 - Serana's Diary
30th of Rain's Hand, 4E 202 - Fram's Journal
1st of Second Seed, 4E 202 - Serana's Journal
1st of Second Seed, 4E 202 - Fram's Journal

Finn Wolfshorn · **Posted:** Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:31 pm

^Kudos for unflinching roleplaying, Gbaji! You're more consequent than me. That was a very moving last journal entry.

Sylvaine and company travelled from Markarth to Morthal via Bruca's Leap Redoubt and Karthwasten; on the hillside between the road and Dead Men's Respite we fought an assaulting Storm Dragon. Thanks to Sylvaine's good magic and elemental resist gear she withstood its shock breath and storm call very well, but once or twice only Become Ethereal saved her from the worm's jaws; finally it was vanquished with the help of an ice troll who happened to come along the way and joined the fray on our side.

Being so close to Dead Men's Respite I thought I might as well clear it but kept getting more and more frequent CTDs the further I intruded (may be due to vestiges of Immersive Creatures which I recently uninstalled, IIRC it changes King Olaf); in the end I reloaded outside the front door and went on my way - wasn't going to do the Bards College quest anyway, and I can do without the Word of Power.

After a brief stop in Morthal, where Sylvaine thanked Jarl Idgrod for her assistance at a recent festive occasion on enemy territory but politely declined the offer of a thaneship, we carried on to Labyrinthian and entered it at last (College of Winterhold spoilers ahead).

Spoiler:

Jun Satou · **Posted:** Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:45 pm

I completed the quest Promises to Keep on my Dunmer (Jun) account.

Spoiler:

In other news, the quest (I believe it's called Infiltration), I could not be bothered to assist the man as I already cleared out his cave, so after starting the quest I killed him. Not marked as essential and also doesn't fail your quest so now I've a permanent assignment... -_-. Oh well, I pushed his body to the loading screen area/back-end of the cave and he moved slightly below the ground which renders any function for his corpse unusable and unreachable.

Edit's date (Since there's no point in posting again after myself)...

Jun's Dark Brotherhood Storyline approach:

Spoiler:

No surprises for me

Dohva. · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 5:45 pm

I hate Volunruud. I always know better than to send my characters in there, but I'm always tempted by the lure of adventure and gold. Fighting the boss, Felina got so overwhelmed she ran into the room where Amaund Motierre and his bodyguard were hanging out. It did not go so well....

Finn Wolfshorn · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 9:16 pm

Sylvaine reconciled two quarrelling friends over a bowl of horker stew (Callen and Gorr from Interesting NPCs*), cleared White River Watch for a place to sleep and killed the Guardian Troll for Kyne's Sacred Trials. Just a normal day in Skyrim.

(If you're playing on PC and have a thing for character interaction, good stories, witty dialogues and the occasional new quest, do yourselves a big favour and download this mod. You won't regret it, promise.)

Dohva. · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:27 pm

^^ I may have to check that out. Freaking Climates of Tamriel is AWESOME. Fighting dragons in a dark, heart-pounding, pouring down cats and dogs thunderstorm is surreal.

DikaSmausha · **Posted:** Sun Aug 04, 2013 11:52 pm

Dohvakiin2012 wrote:

I hate Volunruud. I always know better than to send my characters in there, but I'm always tempted by the lure of adventure and gold. Fighting the boss, Felina got so overwhelmed she ran into the room where Amaund Motierre and his bodyguard were hanging out. It did not go so well....

Speaking of Vulunruud, I went there today, cleared it out it gave me a dwarven shield as the boss loot. Disappointed.

Mr.Argonian · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:34 am

Started up a new Argonian, a necromancer named Huzei. Reached about level 5 and just finished Bleak Falls Barrow. Been a while since I've played evil, all my recent characters have been good. I've missed it.

dzio · **Posted:** Mon Aug 05, 2013 2:23 pm

Started my Nord warrior lady, Skyndi Red-Shield again and this time I'm having much more fun with her. Mods really make a huge difference.

I'm on my way to Bleak Falls Barrow, but had to take a break and let my computer cool off for a while (video card reached 99 degrees Celcius). That's what happens when you try playing Skyrim on a low-end computer during the worst heat wave this country has seen this century.

Anyway, I have big plans for my two ladies now, S'Kirra is about to jump into the Civil War questline on the Legion side, while also commiting every petty crime she can get away with (I just dealt with the Broken Oar Grotto bandits and am wearing the fantastic looking Vagabond Armor I took off that treacherous Argonian).

And Skyndi is going to deal with some small quests around Whiterun, gather some decent gear and then join the Companions.

Zephyr · **Posted:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 2:37 am

I started a westward sweep for several quests, after adding J'zargo as a second follower (after Marcurio), and giving him the Runic Spellbinder armor I picked up. Salma and Beem-Ja were apparently too eager for some treasure. In the first fight of the quest, they hit one of my followers, and the two mages killed them. Merla's more solid now, but the fight with Gathrik showed that there's still some strain. She did get a cool sword, the fiery souls enchantment, and the ability to have two summons at once. Up next will be Dawnstar, Ustengrav, and Solitude.

Mauin · **Posted:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:13 am

I felt like messing around, so I created a new Nord character. In my typical fashion, I cannot remember her name. All I can remember is that she is a Vampire, and is going to eventually join the Stormcloaks and whatnot. She went through Bleak Falls and started the Main Quest. I've used the Timing is Everything mod to push the start of Dragonborn after Dragonslayer, so I am free to continue the Main Quest without starting Dragonborn. I'd probably do the Civil War first, though.

I want to go to Solstheim with this character to test a few things before I go there with one of my main characters. The closest main character to Solstheim is Vara. She is on the Civil War. After that, she does Dawnguard and then the Main Quest. She isn't too far from completion.

Other than my messing around, I did some modding earlier. I was bored so I created some "big cat" style eyes for the Khajiit. Didn't turn out too badly considering the only other eyes I've done were for Werewolves (and they aren't very good at all). I might try making some Argonian eyes next.

skullclutter · **Posted:** Tue Aug 06, 2013 4:26 pm

Kadlin, my Bad Guy, decided to check out the Dawnguard, and on her first mission, ended up rescuing a Vampire. She seemed a lot more pleasant than anyone at the Dawnguard, so she agreed to escort her home. Once there, she was happy to accept the gift Lord Harkon offered. They sent her out again on another mission, but Kadlin was more interested in testing out her newfound powers. She used her latest Dark Brotherhood mark as her guinea pig. It went well, but she's still getting used to her new self.

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