Got skeevers a few times the last game I played, interestingly, all in the house with adopted kids.
Haven't got a kidnapped spouse either, then again, when your spouse is a badass himself/herself...
Skeevers tend to favor undeveloped basements. I haven't seen them since I finished the basements in all my homes. I don't have kids.
As for the spouse being badass, it's not supposed to be relevant. Though admittedly, some of those warriors are only gonna get kidnapped if a dragon lands on them. And only then if it crits.
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Found another black book in some barrow guarded by some guy named Duskoon or Ohuul or Sam or whatever. Dude's dead again now, so doesn't really matter. Read his stupid book, it was filled with gas or something and lights or some b#+$*+&*. All it needs to trigger Dead Money PTSD was a quickening beep beep and a few more blind turns.
Fauzzie is regreting his life choices. Had a simple job, steal a business ledger, ask questions of pirates in Dawnstar. Now Fauzzie is assaulting a fortified island with orders to kill a powerful wizard.
and then they start bombing the place while Fauzzie is still there
Fauzzie has had enough of these fellows, he takes his pay and now travels to Riften to solve problem of old lady the not so kind.
but what is this....Courier killed by spiders. He has a message, not for Fauzzie but it speaks of treasure. It is a shame the note will never reach it's destination but Fauzzie is more than happy to retrieve the treasures.
Old Lady can wait for another day.
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Today's missions:
1) Continue to upgrade the shipboard luxuries of my new ship, the Scarlett. I need some more dwemer scrap metal (none of which may be bent).
2) Looked at the job notice board. Decided to go slay the undead someone wanted dead. Who wanted them dead? The priest of Arkay in Falkreath's graveyard. Where at?
All the way in Falskaar!
What did those draugyr ever do to him? The dragon priest, sure, okay, but really? Falskaar?
So I go back to Falskaar to a set of ruins I'd never bothered much with, slaughter everything, pick up some stuff to sell. Come back to Skyrim. Get attacked at random by a robed monk just as I get to the graveyard. Said monk regretted getting too close, if briefly, as I slammed my forehead into hers a few times.
Next idiot wants gold ore. I already have enough, but apparently it's not shiny enough or something. So I get some iron ore from the smith, transmute it. Stop by Lakeview, drop off some stuff, mine up more ore, transmute it. Hope this idiot does what he says he'll do and teach me in smithing. If not....
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In one playthrough, I actually caught a bandit named Rochelle the Red and her gang in my house when they showed up to kidnap my wife. None of them lived to regret entering my home.
I've only actually had one spouse kidnapped so far. Vampires took my wife, Sylgja, to Cragwallow Slope, a cave of conjurers near Windhelm. Agmaer, a fellow Dawnguard member, accompanied me and Meeko into the cave where we exterminated the nest with extreme prejudice spilling grey matter and vampire fart dust with my Danwguard Warhammer and his pa's iron axe which I'd enchanted with fire magic.
The leader of the mages, a Master Conjurer, summoned a frost atronach to murder my helpless wife while she was tied up on the floor after he saw me shout his ally, a Master Vampire, into ash. Agmaer and Meeko were somewhere behind me slaying mooks, I needed more time to recharge my shout and equipping my crossbow would take too long so I had a choice to make: charge the atronach and pray I made it to my wife in time to save her or chase the fleeing conjurer and kill him to dispel his summoning magic.
As I began to sprint forward, I heard Meeko's excited barking over my shoulder. The dog was beat to hell, but he leapt from the tunnel behind me and somehow managed to corner the conjurer as I calved the atronach like a glacier.
I turned back to see Meeko cowering in front of the wizard, too wounded to continue to fight, and I drew my silver sword as I chased the conjurer up a flight of stairs. The wizard tried to drop another atronach between us as I closed the gap, but he was too slow and the creature appeared behind me. He blasted me with lightning as I slashed at him and, before he could heal himself, I grabbed his shoulder and forced his throat down onto my blade until he turned into a unicorn.
I cut Sylgja loose and the brave girl confidently told me she'd be okay to walk home alone, but I sent Meeko with her. I don't know if she's just a really good person or if she got a little Stockholm Syndrome but, while I was looting the cave, I found Sylgja kneeling next to a dead mage and commenting on how sad it was that he died.
Well, the stupid wannabe Dead Money book has been conquered. Made my attack skills 10% more bad ass.
Killed so many spiders getting there. And those stupid pouncing flaming burst from the egg sac and charge and die little f!%#ers, they sure were hilarious.
Had my blizzard cloak spell up, blast the sac with frostbite and club em with my soul trapping Shilmista mace.
The basement was fully upgraded... might have been caused by a mod or two, or having a coffin in there.Skeevers tend to favor undeveloped basements. I haven't seen them since I finished the basements in all my homes. I don't have kids.Got skeevers a few times the last game I played, interestingly, all in the house with adopted kids.
My coffins don't spawn skeevers. Time to check the foundations, maybe you've got a crack? LOL
@Velcro: I've met Rochelle. I don't remember how I put her down in this playthrough. The story of the vampires and master conjuror is excellent!
Stumbled across some barrow while I was walking across the water, found some Helm of Yngol or something.
That was after stomping through a huge den of NOT pathfinder goblins in Shilmista, and killed a few Horkers guarding the coffins I wanted to mine.
My night: a whole lot of running around in dwarven ruins, being annoyed by those moronic Falmer, to get stuff for Farengar. Which really means Farengar is likely to go and bribe Calcelmo when my back is turned. And it meant swatting a lot of Falmer and some automatons. On the other hand, I mined a lot of ore, made a lot of jewelry, and continue to improve my legendary smithing skills. Next quest: find five specific books. Too bad I found a copy of one in Calcelmo's workstation, but oh no, it's not the right one, too beaten up or something. I will take this annoyance out on bandits and draugyr later. At least I got some dwarven scrap for shipbuilding out of this.
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"Do you want to be steward of Tel Mithryn?"
A tale of patience and Elven A@!##@@s, coming soon to bookstores, and bandit fortresses of Skyrim.
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Fauzzie has decided to follow up on letter about treasure. It is a shame it will never reach the man it was intended for but it would be poor maners of Fauzzie not to go and collect the treasure that is just sitting around.
Fauzzie should have known better
Rannveig's Fast is near White run so Must first return there by carriage and then sell my merchandise or bandit goods.
Setting out across the plains towards the place .... Fauzzie is seen by a Dragon. No place to hide, no way to escape. My weapons do nothing. In desperation we run towards a pack of Mammoths
Turns out 3 mammoths do a pretty good job on a Dragon. Fauzzie gains new Dragon Soul and continues on his way. Dragon hunting is not so hard after all.
Arriving at Rannveig's Fast the problem spoken of in the letter becomes immidiately apparent. The place is full of Ghosts. The treasure is easily found, very obvious infact.... and there is clearly a trap door in front of it. Also there is that strange chanting noise Fauzzie heard in Bleakfalls Barrow (Fauzzie gains Kyne's Peace shout). Fauzzie is not stupid, he avoids trap and discovers....no treasure at all.
There shall be much vengance for this outrage
Fauzzie searches every nook and cranny and finds secret stairs and sinister lair of evil necromancer. Quietly we slits his throat and reads his journals.... He placed fake treasure to lure poor fellows to their deaths.
Fauzzie feels no remourse but is sad that he has no treasure. Will need to make do with all the things he looted off the bodies in the necromancer's prisons. They will not need those things after all, plus their fault for not seeing such obvious trap door.
Is a sad day for Fauzzie
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Fauzzie has recieved a letter
It is from a Jarl
That is right, Fauzzie is person of great importance now, Jarls come seeking him. Very Proud
Jarl once worked with bandits and now his arrangement is no more. He asks Fauzzie to deal with them. Jarl is wise because Fauzzie has become expert at this sort of thing
Camp is in mountains they have watch towers and traps. They are also too strong for Fury spell to work...this is very concearning, it means Fauzzie must do his own killing. Fortunately Fauzzie is stealthy and good with a knife
Not stealthy enough
Much screaming and running and yelling and fire and Summoning of Dogs with Fauzzie's new magic spells.
Glad that's over with.... Fauzzie returns to sneaking and enters mine to find bandit chief.
He is right there, in bright light, back to the wall and staring right ahead in Fauzzie's general direction.
Not a good day.
Fauzzie must think very hard...But wait..Floor is strange color oil?
oh yes it is oil and Fauzzie has one other spell he just bought
Summon Flame Atronach
Is a good day after all
Return to Jarl collect money and take him up on offer to buy land (Fauzzie's 9000 gold is getting heavy)
Spent the rest of the day building and furnishing my tiny hideout at Lakeview.
Fauzzie sleeps well in a bed of his very own
Long may you enjoy the fine fruits of your labors, Fauzzie. And the view from the rear deck is excellent you'll find.
Which Jarl was that.
I'm thinking about expanding into destroying the real estate market.
On account, it's still f$&#ing raining here!!!!
Sounds to me like Falkreath's Jarl, given that he was a touch shady and Fauzzie now has Lakeview Manor.
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Long may you enjoy the fine fruits of your labors, Fauzzie. And the view from the rear deck is excellent you'll find.
No deck just yet, just built the little starter cabin. It's actually pretty nice once you have it fully furnished.
Hopefully the place won't get cursed/glitched this time.
One of the Rules I've set for Fauzzie is no Fast Travel. Tried it with my previous character and couldn't hold to it so I figured I'd try again. It's interesting the sort of stuff you run into when you walk everywhere.
Course the other thing for Fauzzie is trying to avoid combat as much as possible while still killing everyone. He's 15th level now and his One-handed Melee is just pitiful. Archery is only slightly better. Most of his perks are either Stealth or Illusion magic. Plus a little bit of pick pockets and lockpicking.
Plus Fauzzie is incredibly loot happy. When he leaves a bandit cave there is nothing left but corpses in their underwear. Slowly trudging his way back to town while carrying twice his weight limit. Whole reason I got summon Familiar was to have something to guard him when I use Auto-run/walk so I can go get a drink or something.
It's a very different experience but strangely fun
I finally joined the ranks of homeownership! It's pretty big, has a smelter, a garden, a bunch of straw I can't use, a grand hall, second floor, almost no furniture, and a big floppy dragon skeleton that flops around my outside work area.
The weird part is, I never killed a dragon there...
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Not sure how many people know this, but you can give your home better lighting by dropping torches all over the place. The torches won't usually be lit when you drop them but, if you leave the load area once or twice, you'll return to find everburning torches laying wherever you dropped them. Then you can just move them around with your grab command and set them up to provide more light. I like to drop them into kettles to create little firepots or drop of a bunch in my forge to create a bonfire effect.
One of my characters dropped some onto all the beds in the house and came home to find his wife and kids sleeping peacefully in the flames.
The everburning torches work everywhere so you can leave a trail of them or use them to mark locations. Sometimes, I'll just dump a bunch of them off a mountain and watch them roll and bounce downhill. Then I'll come back later to see where all the little flames are burning.
I finally joined the ranks of homeownership! It's pretty big, has a smelter, a garden, a bunch of straw I can't use, a grand hall, second floor, almost no furniture, and a big floppy dragon skeleton that flops around my outside work area.
The weird part is, I never killed a dragon there...
Where's the new home? I always like to stop by and see flopping dragon skeletons.
Long may you enjoy the fine fruits of your labors, Fauzzie. And the view from the rear deck is excellent you'll find.No deck just yet, just built the little starter cabin. It's actually pretty nice once you have it fully furnished.
Hopefully the place won't get cursed/glitched this time.
One of the Rules I've set for Fauzzie is no Fast Travel. Tried it with my previous character and couldn't hold to it so I figured I'd try again. It's interesting the sort of stuff you run into when you walk everywhere.
Course the other thing for Fauzzie is trying to avoid combat as much as possible while still killing everyone. He's 15th level now and his One-handed Melee is just pitiful. Archery is only slightly better. Most of his perks are either Stealth or Illusion magic. Plus a little bit of pick pockets and lockpicking.
Plus Fauzzie is incredibly loot happy. When he leaves a bandit cave there is nothing left but corpses in their underwear. Slowly trudging his way back to town while carrying twice his weight limit. Whole reason I got summon Familiar was to have something to guard him when I use Auto-run/walk so I can go get a drink or something.
It's a very different experience but strangely fun
I understand the fun of no fast travel, but I'm also very impatient. That said, I did have a quest for bear pelts from the Notice Board. I wandered all over the Rift for cave bear pelts. Ran into the revelers again. Got caught up in 2 fights with vampires vs. vigilants. Lost track of how many vampires tried to kill me. A couple more run-ins with the Wardens of the Wheel (who've picked up where the Dawnguard left off). Always fun. Given my patience (and lack of need for money), I pick only choice loot: scrolls, gems, items worth 1000gp or more, and a few odds and ends. I loathe being too burdened to run unless I'm safely at home crafting stuff.
As far as the curse/glitch, my manor finally got around to uncursing itself. I just gotta keep Serana from leaving too many ash piles. But the neighbors have been really quiet. That dragon hasn't appeared yet, the bandits aren't visiting, even the conjuror down the hill hasn't been up lately.
Where's the new home? I always like to stop by and see flopping dragon skeletons.I finally joined the ranks of homeownership! It's pretty big, has a smelter, a garden, a bunch of straw I can't use, a grand hall, second floor, almost no furniture, and a big floppy dragon skeleton that flops around my outside work area.
The weird part is, I never killed a dragon there...
Lakeview.
I will go out furniture pillaging later.
House building is kind of annoying (on account of having to go back and collect a bunch of s@~# I thought was useless) but also strangely addictive and absorbing.
My wife was heckling my mining technique though. "I hope you're better at adventuring then mining, because you sure do suck at mining!" - My wife, thinking she can do it better than me.
Mining technique? I just let it do its thing most of the time. Once in a while an NPC gets in the way and I personally break out the pick. Gotta be careful I don't hit them and make them mad. I've done 2-pick mining action a few times.
Yes, it's annoying and addictive and absorbing. I have cursed at the need for horker tusks, goat horns, pelts, the right set of antlers, and my current issue, dwarven scrap metal. But getting the iron ingots together, some steel, and forging the parts made me feel more like a smith than all my other crafting ever did.
Miming is fun if you use Elemental Fury and two picks: mine out a vein in a few seconds flat.
Found another black book in some barrow guarded by some guy named Duskoon or Ohuul or Sam or whatever. Dude's dead again now, so doesn't really matter. Read his stupid book, it was filled with gas or something and lights or some b~~+!~!&. All it needs to trigger Dead Money PTSD was a quickening beep beep and a few more blind turns.
Pfft. Bethesda wishes they could make something as good as Dead Money. /snark
All seriousness, I hate the Black Books too, but I was probably underleveled for them, so I just ran through them.
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If you ever tire of scrounging resources for homebuilding, you can always hire a steward and give them money for furniture shopping. You've got to have a completed structure before you can get a steward but, once you have a place to put all your stuff, the steward can go out and purchase all the furnishings for each of your rooms.
I recommend spellcasting stewards like Illia and Belrand because your steward will default to their starting armor when they aren't adventuring with you. That means they'll be at a defensive disadvantage if a dragon or bandits attack your home at higher levels. Illia makes up for her lack of proper armor with Ironflesh, Frost Cloak and blasting everything with Ice Storm. Belrand defaults to Iron Armor, but he has Stoneflesh, Ice Spike and Fast Healing. Eola, the cannibal Namira-worshipper from Markarth, and Brelyna from the Mage College aren't bad stewards either since they can summon Fire and Frost Atronachs. Problem is Brelyna's really squishy and getting Eola as a follower requires you to murder and eat a priest of Arkay. That might be a problem if you're playing a heroic Dragonborn.
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As long as it's only one priest...
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Just a taste...
Had my first bandit attack on the old homestead.
Froze them all with my frost breath and let Halle Berry (the Storm Atronach) take care of them while I quarried stone, or rather, while I tried to quarry stone (shakes fist at not being able to work while enemies are skulking about).
The floppy dragon skeleton has at least flopped out of the way of the front door and my outside work station.
Getting my house in order, found someone to sell me straw, so I now have beds, built a children's wing (the east wing, I believe ) with beds, a table, and a wash basin. All I need to do is find some kids to abduct... I mean adopt!
Floppy dragon skeleton can be their playground, and if they get hungry there's the apiary or the dead naked bandits outside.
I also have a big f+*~ing fireplace, enchanting table, and huge ass dinner table, do it's not like they can't cook or keep themselves busy while I'm out getting cliff splattered by giants or Elder Mega Dragons.
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Fauzzie has fully furnished his new home. It is small but comfortable, however Fauzzie has spent all his monies and must find more merchandise to sell.
Luckily there are always bandits
Many Steel weapons, hide and studded armor, some shields, ah a chest of fine goods, what wonderous and fine treasures these bandits do not need, Fauzzie will surely find a good price for them
"A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON"
Fauzzie touches nothing he swears
"HEAR ME AND OBEY"
please do not shout I am very delecate
and so it was that strange godlike voice demands Fauzzie cleans a temple. This seems like a task Fauzzie would do well not to disappoint as he would like to avoid fiery smitings and other such pain.
Loaded with merchandise and a new task Fauzzie heads to town
and finds a Dragon on the road. We drop many things vey quickly and run for the village, let guards earn their pay.
After it is all over Fauzzie retrieves the goods he dropped on the road only to be scolded by gaurds for littering.
The beacon sounds like one of my aunts.
It was pretty hard to take it seriously as a goddess after that.
Ugh. No to bacon. Too many riekling chargers while in that half-molten, half-frozen mess that Miraak was hiding on. Normally, yes to bacon, but not when it's been around rieklings. Yuck.
I'm pretty sure I wiped out the not pathfinder goblins from Shilmista.
Turns out Volunruud isn't so bad when you can summon Storm Atronachs and Ash Guardians. Also a good thing I brought plenty of Heartstone, going Old Yeller on Ashey is a good way to put a damper on a kick ass rampage.
Maybe that Deathbrand fellow died because he didn't realize he needed to upgrade his gear.
Well, he's even deader now, and his s#@* can be found spread out across Skyrim's many fine pawn shops.
On the plus side, I got at least twelve grand just in gold from his crypt.
I am so glad I took the time to go home first to unload a bunch of loot before heading out to his crypt.
And my new favorite spell is frost cloak. Between that spell and the super angry Ash Guardian I summoned and his ghostly entourage didn't stand a chance. The only reason he lasted so long is because it was so much fun chopping them down with my Elven Greatsword.
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Fauzzie is travelling North at the request of loud angry Goddess. Fauzzie is Chosen one after all.
The journey has not been easy, far too many bandits who wish to make Fauzzie into a Rug.
Dragons are also a growing problem
In Roriksted there is a bard who sings of a fellow called Dragonborn. Who ever this fellow is I would like to complain that he is not doing his job very well, as there are far too many Dragons about.
Whereas I find far too few dragons. Perhaps Fauzzie could find a way to send a few more my way?
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So, somebody forgot to attune the doohickey for who's it's face. So guess who went stomping back through Alfredo to Blackreach.
On the plus side, I can now take out a Falmer skulker with my bow, Wild Card, B!$!+es!! (it's from Always Sunny in Philadelphia) in one shot.
There is no downside, those f@%*ers don't stand a chance. :-)
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@lathira - I'm not sure if it's available for your platform, but the PS4 has a More Dragons mod. I had to shut it off after I noticed Elder Dragons attacking every town and city I visited every single time I exited a door or got anywhere near the grid section for the town. Also, every "random" encounter suddenly included a free elder dragon. However, it was pretty funny when I ran into the poor, homeless couple wandering the roads after their house was destroyed by a dragon just to have a dragon appear and kill them with fire. It was the like the dragon came back to finish the job.
I was sent from Shilmista to Falkreath to deliver an amulet to the smithy and just as I got to town it was attacked by an Elder Dragon. Just as I'm about to fire my killing shot the dragon reaches out, grabs someone and tosses their dead, battered corpse against a building. It was the guy I'd journeyed all that way to deliver the amulet to.
Now able to drop the amulet, that's exactly what I did.
I'm on XBOne. I'll look for that mod. Could use something to spice up certain parts of the world. My vampire population went up in the Rift and out to the east of Markarth, but really, I need something to kill in the frozen north LOL
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Whereas I find far too few dragons. Perhaps Fauzzie could find a way to send a few more my way?
lol, It could just be the same one Dragon, kind of lost count how often I've died and been sent back to my last save on this journey.
As I've mentioned before, Fauzzie's play style has resulted in criminally low Armor and Melee skills. Pretty much any time he gets into a straight up fight now he dies instantly unless he has one of the Armor spells running
Getting used to seeing my cat get gulpped down the Dragon Gullet
You don't need great armor and melee skills if you can sneak up and snipe someone effectively :)
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Saw two dragons fighting in the distance. I left them alone.
Apparently, the bandits didn't.
I finally discovered Dawnstar.
When I was running away from an Elder Dragon (he kept trying to land next to me to do the ole maul n toss).
Good. Now forget you ever found it. Dawnstar wasn't all that useful to me on its own. I had to get mods that let me sail out of there to make it helpful.