[Anna Beattie]

tmr; I'd like to second what Glarg said, the girls really spice up the day, thanks.

[Ana]

Thanks again for all the comments. It looks like you’re stuck with Baa and Mooch as long as the baling wire, bubble gum and spit holds their game together. They never seem to get tired of coming up with something else to do. And even when a girl gang gets called up, Mooch is still always there in the middle of things. Baa was my fifth character. I started her after playing the game for 1500 hours, then I abandoned Baa after about 500 hours and created Lodi. After another 500 hours with her and finishing the MQ, the internet finally reached my swamp and I got into mods and eventually created Mooch (she started out as a Vampire ). I developed Mooch in Baa’s game because I was fearful of messing up Lodi’s game with my noob mods. By the time Mooch and other mods were kind of done, Lodi was a distant memory and another 500 hours away. Playing Mooch with Lodi just didn’t seem to work. The chemistry was all wrong. Lodi’s kind of lazy and because she knows all the answers and shortcuts, she plays that way. A little of that goes a long way. So, that’s why you’re stuck with Baa and Mooch rather than Lodi and Mooch. And I kind of like it that way myself.

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Day two of Baa and the girls’ Valenwood adventure begins with them a third of the way down the province. They have that much more left to go before reaching their base at the Hideout.

http://i.imgur.com/ioXQOzF.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ylvPxFh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/JLXBWKM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KhbUYUp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6JhRB52.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/R5eR8Ba.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/25hhfRk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A7mE1KX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NZBGcBH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DJ1j237.jpg

To be continued.

[Lou]

Thanks for the update on the adventures of Baa and Mooch.

[christelle047]

Indeed. You have quite a legacy to live up to now, tmar

[Gwen]

Great set of V-wood shots, tmar. That 'dense forest' one was amazing. Just enough of Baa (sword hand), Lacie (one eye) and Mooch (both eyes) to see who they were. You make it look easy, but I'll bet it took some careful positioning to capture that moment. Great job!

[michael danso]

Your wonderful Valenwood screenies are making me itch to install that Valenwood mod, tmar! I have a Bosmer character waiting in the wings who, I'm thinking, might be a good character to take there. Great shots.

[Euan]

Thanks everyone.

Acadian: Believe it or not, that shot was spontaneous. They had just killed something while inside all those leaves, don’t know what because Baa never found it, and when Baa turned around, that’s what she saw. The leaves were swaying so the pic was shot just as some eyes appeared.

PW: Thanks. Valenwood is a very scenic place and well worth having just for that. It also has some interesting and challenging dungeons, and if you like big fights, it can provide more than a few of those. However, the Valenwood Improved mod was never completed, but there’s more than enough there to make it worthwhile. It’s a great place to explore.

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Day three in Valenwood finds the girls arriving at the Ayleid ruin where Lacie will get to see an active Ayleid Arched Gate for the first time.

http://i.imgur.com/qmM2FMz.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NkAdU6Y.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iE09qPp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fNbZH7q.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2EqSOSD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L7NZDOe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lOxUzCl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KWZXEpM.jpg

To be continued.

[Jaylene Brower]

tmar - Oh, I remember that ruin (or one like it) in V-wood. Great shots!

[Sophie Miller]

Acadian: Thanks.

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Deep inside the ruin of Erethalier, Lacie gets to activate an Ayleid Arched Gate. The screenies:

http://i.imgur.com/PRYJcRy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3eRPl4B.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XWPWjqA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ATYxr9F.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kab4WAm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1EHwEUH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GJFbwpm.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2I7b6zw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TZK9Bc7.jpg

The lost episode is up next.

[Karine laverre]

No living Ayleids? I′m disappointed..

So cool to see working ruins that are.... Well, not really ruins

[dav]

After all the teasing, Lacie was disappointed, too.

The adventures of Baa, Mooch, and Lacie lost deep in the Ayleid ruins of Avar Lidh, Valenwood.

http://i.imgur.com/DFMlEea.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lsSiaBS.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RFd1B0J.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gDiN60D.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/6R9ZGRB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8pbMaBo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iRwpgoB.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nCxJxlL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/zHTCbOg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1lIxA3S.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/a6EcFhu.jpg

(The Hideout is a free player home with lots of safe storage. There’s also a similar place about a day’s walk to the west.)

More to come.

[Sunny Under]

Love following their adventures!

Whatever happened to Dakota btw?

[Beat freak]

That was some big ruin! Loved the banter among the girls. Baa's got them figured out though. Keep Mooch in line via her wig and Lacie via her good eye.

[Jah Allen]

mirocu: Dakota is back aboard the Marie Elena on the Waterfront. Baa has to swap around and bring some of the other girls adventuring occasionally, else they get all moody and jealous.

Acadian: Sometimes the talking back and forth seems better than a bunch of dry captions for the shots, particularly when the image is self descriptive. How's your comp?

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The Valenwood adventures of Baa and girls on day five as they start south again.

http://i.imgur.com/LmR2ovf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5jbuCgx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hqdhEPH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cuSOWjC.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Tz4IZbl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/omJHv2F.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oI9HTY8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/xqXtHcM.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/hNp0ZTV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/qPI0ZGi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IuXO3cy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EXAZfyQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/c9aaPu8.jpg

To be continued.

[Dj Matty P]

Once again some amazing shots, and some very nice scenery

No, I didn′t just mean Mooch! Btw I really didn′t like seeing her on the ground like that!

[Wayne W]

Agreed, The fan club hopes that Mooch is fine.

Get well soon Mooch, we love you.

[Austin Suggs]

I love all the beautiful shots of Elsweyr and Valenwood. I uninstalled VI last month, so it brings back fond memories for me to see it again.

Since I don't have the Elsweyr VI patch and could not get it off the german site, I had been running the patched TWMP Valenwood Improved version by Haldor, along with Elsweyr Anequina (2010 version). They worked pretty well together, but there were some areas in the sea to the south with some odd visual anamolies that TES4ll was unable to fix. I finally gave up on VI because of that.

Now I am running Elsweyr Anequina (2010 version) with TWMP and the TWMP Valenwood Elsweyr landscape mod by Under the Sign of the Dragon. It transitions nicely with Elsweyr and the TWMP heights map. There is not much in Valenwood but a huge beautiful jungle (more lore friendly than VI). The latest beta for TES4Edit (renamed to TES4 LODgen) is required to generate distant lod for TWMP Valenwood Elsweyr, otherwise it hangs when the lod is regenerating.

But I sometimes miss VI and it is nice to see such beautiful photos of beautiful characters adventuring there.

[naana]

Whoa! The shot of Mooch was clean and uncluttered and represented a normal occurrence in their game. Mooch wasn’t killed, only knocked down for a few seconds and that happens several times a day to Baa and Mooch when fighting archers. Mooch is a tough fighter and can take care of herself. Since they look for trouble rather than avoiding it, adventuring is a hazardous business for them and surviving knockdowns is part of the job description. Baa has 23,454 kills and only Akatosh knows how many Mooch has, so they are more than even for the few knockdowns they get from some soon to be dead bandits. And it would be unreasonable to expect anyone to like all 5,647 screenshots that I’ve posted on the Oblivion board. Cheers.

Turija: I don’t know why the VI patch was taken down, but I suspect it might have something to do with steering business toward the other mods, and away from the non-lore shape of the Quin’raw Peninsula between Elsweyr 2010 and VI that bent everybody out of shape - it was added by VI. When I saw the patch had been taken down, I immediately stored half a dozen copies of the patch on various media just in case I have to rebuild my game. As a matter of fact, I keep several copies of everything, game wise. I haven’t tried the TWMP mods or the new Elsweyr 2014 mod as I’m very happy with VI, Elsweyr 2010, and the border patch.

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Today the girls reach the south coast, then start across the water to the Southern Islands.

http://i.imgur.com/5wrGpGy.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lGIxiBA.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/16L3RYx.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/lWYaANf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/wu3H3IJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Rz0dPI2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/q2kxUwH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/96f7RHP.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/8lQwSpX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yAJbPoe.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KFFpNNQ.jpg

Starting tomorrow there will be a four day retrospective of the pics of the mischievous companion Mooch that I’ve been working on for a while.

[Justin]

YOU′RE KILLING ME, TMAR!!

[Nick Swan]

Nice pics.

[Christina Trayler]

Yeah, those last two were the best

[Emma-Jane Merrin]

Yeah, if you've got the patch and are happy with it, no reason to change. If I had access to the patch, I probably would have just gone with that, since it would be a lot simpler than installing the TWMP heightsmap just to get access to Valenwood. Plus, the TWMP Valenwood Improved mod tries to remove the peninsula, for compatibility with Valenwood Improved, but a shadow of the peninsula remains, causing some weird visual affects that were just finally too much for me. So that leaves me with the landscape mod by Under the Sign of the Dragon as my only option for Valenwood.

I unfortunately came to the game too late and the patch was unavailable, so the TWMP options are the only options I have for combining Elsweyr with any type of Valenwood mod. I have not upgraded to the 2014 version of Elsweyr either because it doesn't sound like it is compatible with any of the Valenwood mods. But I am happy with my setup now, and have kind of grown accustomed to having the penninsula and the large and beautiful jungle. If I ever start building my own mods, I will at least have a place to put them, since not many have built anything there.

[marie breen]

tmar - Puter's been back and working fine.

Loved this most recent day you posted. Gotta love the smell of burning bandits in the morning. Then, nothing caps off the day like all three girls in their 'kinis enjoying the sunset. *happy sigh*

[Anna Watts]

Great pics...ahh...sombody send some oxygen over to mirocu

tmr and Turija; My Khajiit, Hjylsyer is standing close to where Baa took that pic of South point, most of the area SE including SP is pretty messed up in my game (as is the borders between VI and EW). Since the Patch is gone- and I've looked , I was thinking to try the TWMP option or just living with the northern half of VI, it seems fine. I'm undecided since both will require a lot of work to fill in or patch.

Turija; is the TWMP version just empty or is there some stuff in there? And do you like it so far?

Acadian; glad your up and running again.

[Channing]

Thanks for all the comments.

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Baa, Mooch, and Lacie are exploring the waters off the beaches of Valenwood’s Southern Islands looking for sunken ships. They are not making many screenshots at the minute because they’re not finding any ships, so here are some retro shots of Mooch to hold our place on the thread.

The pre-Mooch companion that I made in the CS was around for almost two years before she got the name Mooch. She wore clothes only when she was carrying loot, mostly from the 60 Oblivion Gates she helped Baa close. Around the summer of 2012 her physical appearance, which had been evolving, was finalized to what it is now and the remains of her Vampire ancestors were removed. She also started wearing clothes about then after I started posting screenshots here. There are three different Moochs in these shots: the companion, the level 51 player character, and the level 1 player character. Pre-Mooch was born 4Sep2010. These shots start in March 2012 and go up to recently. They are in order of the date.

The many moods of Mooch - part one of four:

http://i.imgur.com/9h13wNJ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/mZNkaar.jpg (Note the black irises.)

http://i.imgur.com/VmDznoa.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0ltA22K.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Qf6k7E6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/nyIsqMi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DCn9kQ8.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/AUx4aZ3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Mm3erf1.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/vdmVGVd.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/oyXNT55.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NN5meWg.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/UWvk5kT.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/RmBDcKK.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/fNwijld.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dqJTbum.jpg