Jessica awoke out of torpor in Skingrad to find a vampire disguised as a Legion guard attempting to kill off one of her cattle. She went off to check on the status of the others. First stop the Imperial City.

I think they both look very good and it would be a shame to hide them behind lots of clothes, wouldn′t you say?

And thanks Renee for finally giving us the bearings of Ann Thraxx! How will she manage in the great and wonderous Imperial City? I guess we′ll find out

Perhaps her husband left her for another man? That's enough to crush most women. Then the bank/chapel/moneylender foreclosed on the farm, and she was left with nothing.

My decrepit avatar and Vilja are in the Leyawiin Fighters Guild, where they went to change into civilian attire after having completed all official business. Rats! I just realized they forgot to turn in Black Bows...it's the second time they neglected to do so with this batch of bows. Poor Groucho.

-Decrepit-

Kira had a nightmare last night that she died in a Necromancer's cave, north of the Roxey Inn.

(((OOC: In other words, my glass cannon "shattered" due to sloppy play by yours truly. I RP that deaths are nightmares and then start again from the save after my character's last night of sleep.)))

Exactly!

When I find something decent for her, I'll see if she likes it.

Thing is she doesn't do a lot of melee so armour isn't an issue...

Don't be silly. Riften is immortal. (It feels so weird writing that after Skyrim...)


Ahhh good to hear about Ann Thraxx! I was wondering when she'd share her tales in Cyrodiil with us. I assume that's her in your new avatar? I like it!


That's a really good way to play. Gets around the immersion-breaker of having to reload a save and losing game-time and any loot you'd found in the intervening period. Clever.

My first thought would more likely be for another woman. Makes more sense I′d say...

Red Rose Manor, an evening stop on the way to Clavicus' shrine.
Vilja doing the cleaning, Niamh sitting about watching.
(Seriously, there are pix)...

But then she only has to deal with rejection. If it is for another man, she also gets the extra baggage of thinking that she was so bad that she completely drove him away from all women in general. It is a double-whammy.

Man, that is bad!

Cheza is finally making a name for herself in the Thieves Guild and is resting in Chorrol reflecting on the past year and how much her life has changed. Not too long ago she was a naive young girl who ran away from the family farm and her over bearing father. She had big dreams of making it in the city when she arrived at the Imperial City riding the horse she stole from her dad.

Things didn't work out quite the way she had planned and as it turned out she had to trade her horse for a place to stay. One night she was wandering the docks, wearing rags, with no money in her pocket and no food in her belly. This is when she stumbled upon Armand Christophe holding a Thieves Guild meeting. Being a thief is something she had never considered before, she had only stolen once before and that was from her father which hardly counts, but she was desperate and they were seeking a new member so she had to go for it.

She had become quite proficient at picking locks and using stealth as a youth sneaking out of the house. So she put these skills to work for the guild and quickly made a name for herself. Cheza has made it to Master Thief but has had to make some difficult decisions along the way, she still regrets having to kill a mage in order to get his key shaped arrow head but he attacked her on sight and gave no chance for discussion so what was she to do?

(OOC first fiction of any kind I've ever written. I kind of like this)

Sometimes it is necessary to steal. My character, Rayn, dabbled in thievery too. Once she got another job and became more well off, she quit it. She still takes care of all the beggars though. Slips food into their pouches when they aren't around, and gives them coins anytime she sees them. She figures it's the least she owes, after how much the guild helped her.

Speaking of Rayn, I had a little time with her tonight. Since we were heading in that general direction, Rayn wanted to go and see where she was born- the banks of the Panther River. She didn't know exactly which part of the river she was born on, but figured she would 'know' when we got there. She did. We stumbled upon the place at sunset. There was definitely a 'feeling' about it. Here's a screen I took of http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l528/Lady-Mara-2/Rayn14.jpg I couldn't resist.

Jerall Mountains, dawn

Lothran decided to hike west as he felt the trip would do him good. If he only knew what was gonna happen, he would have left much earlier.

He went out the north gate and wandered off. He passed Capstone Cave and soon Applewatch. It was a lovely day, the snow was falling and the icy wind was not so strong. He stopped and just took it all in for a while, when suddenly he heard the release of a bowstring! He listened, and there it was again! And again! What was happening? Was he under attack??
He soon understood that he was not the target, but also that someone else might be in danger! He pulled out his own bow and rushed to where he heard the sound.
It came from an Imperial Forester who desperately fought for his life against no less than two ogres! Lothran quickly released his poisoned arrow at the ogre that was closest to the forester, and then another arrow at the second one. Then another arrow at the first ogre again! But it was too late. The forester had already been too badly wounded and as Lothran released yet another arrow from his frost enchanted bow, he saw the brave man fall down, dropping his silver bow to the ground.

When he returned to Bruma later in the afternoon, people asked him how his quiver came to be so empty. It had been full when he left? Lothran turned his head while walking to his house and looked at them, but said nothing.

Back beyond Applewatch on the road were two ogres, completely perforated with frost poisoned silver arrows bearing Lothran′s mark.

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1345962-even-more-oblivion-screenshots/page__view__findpost__p__20285432

Aww, that is so sad. We're very relieved to hear that brave Lothran was not injured though.

The whole thing reminded us of Buffy′s encounter long ago, back when she tried to help a brave member of the Legion..

Oh, it reminded us of that as well. The wild horses and rogue lion. And the brave Legion rider named Gaius Rulician who gave his life saving Buffy and Superian back in Episode 43 of her Journal.

JC Denton is creeping across a rooftop in Hell's Kitchen, hoping to sneak past the NSF guard with the sniper rifle on the adjacent roof.

Oh, wait... Wrong universe...

Etta is approaching Dunroot Burrow, wary of the oddly-glowing elytra she sees near the entrance. She has deep misgivings about this whole mission, and a warning voice in her head is fairly screaming that she is again being used, and that it will go badly in the end. It always goes badly in the end.

It always seems to come back to the same thing: Once a slave, always a slave. Free isn't free. Everybody has an agenda. The more they promise you, the more they expect.

The elytra notices Etta, and scuttles towards her, surprisingly fast. Etta draws her silver longsword...

After Baa closed the first 25 Oblivion gates, she just wandered around for a while not doing much of anything. Collected a few more Shadowbanish Wines and did a couple of dungeons. I think she was bored, so I sent her to bed early and went and woke up Niko, the one who finished the main quest back in December.

Well, Niko was really fired up to do something new, so as we got reacquainted, we checked her journal and found she had not done the Arena or Henantier’s dream thing. Her Ring of the Viper Eye was not permanently attached, so I thought the Henantier thing looked promising for things to do. But Niko objected, saying that the Dream World quest was too cerebral for now and that she wanted something else. I never understand these women, so I just go along with what they want most of the time. “We” decided to do the Arena.

So, she went down and signed up to fight in the Arena. They gave her little blue uniform that looked kind of cute on her, then she went up to the Arena and got all bloody - well, not really, I made that up. She one shotted the first opponent, got nervous and took six arrows on the second. Then she settled down and finished off the rest of the challengers easily. Niko defeated the 26 opponents with 33 arrows. Only two got past the center circle.

Then she ran into the Adoring Fan (I had forgotten about him and how uggle he is) and she told him to go away. Now she has the big head about being Grand Champion and won’t shut up about it.

I think I’m going to wake Baa up and take her to the Tiber Septim Hotel for dinner.

Well, It was an interesting day for the Breton heroine without a name. She had been going around the Skingrad area, helping keep it safe. She decided to clear out an Ayleid Ruin. Apart from finding some armor to protect her, for she was only wearing a fancy dress before this, she found the inhabitants to be rather weak. Until the final room. She charged in, seeing only two low level outlaws. Easy, she thought. When all the sudden, an arrow flies into her arm, causing her to drop her shield. Which in turn resulted in two other bandits to attack her. She took a few blows to the face with a warhammer enchanted to shock her. Needless to say, she didn't last long.

Ah! The wonderous adventures of the noble JC Denton

Bring ′em down, I say! Bring ′em down!

Did the quest-giver tell you the previous person he gave this mission to drowned in a most horrible way in that cave? Paralysed and helpless, throttled by an elytra. Poor, poor R'isa. If you see a dead khajiit in a watery grave, that will be her. Be careful now!

My decrepit avatar stands beside his third-floor private apartment bed in Weye Manor, having just woke from a peaceful night's sleep. Vilja likely remains asleep in her second-floor apartment. Wolfgang prowls the manor's first-floor foyer. Their mounts and Groucho are tethered at the stables across from Wawnet Inn.

Their plan for the day is to visit the Imperial City to drop off gathered taxes-due and pick up assignments, then patrol the Silver to Bruma.

Their recent return from Leyawiin was uneventful, soured only by Vilja's insistence on assuming leadership at the worst possible moment. My avatar humors these requests circumstances permitting, but must draw the line when they interfere with ongoing official Council / Legion assignments as was the case here.

-Decrepit-

Lady Saga left Lord Drad's Estate to go off adventuring with Erthor once again. She took one of the slave houses, and Erthor currently dwells in the other one. He's not so happy. He's always [censored]ing about wanting to "get back to Skingrad soon", and the truth is Saga might just take him back there soon.

Saga has a calm animals spell of some sort, which she never gets to use as Erthor is gung-ho about destroying every wolf and rat they meet. Sadly, Saga might just wind up becoming a solo wanderer. She likes wildlife, being a wood elf and all, and Erthor just doesn't seem to "get it".

Anyways, the pair wound up going to Fort Hastrel, a cave (I forget which one), and an Ayleid ruin (Vornando). Saga prefers a simple iron bow for a weapon, and uses http://uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Rockshatter for backup. Rockshatter is deadly to any enemy who dares get too close. It's nice having Erthor around when dungeon-diving, Saga has to admit this. But Saga is very much the explorer, Erthor is very much the whiner. Saga uses lots of Detect Life spells (Minor and Major versions stack) and is born under the sign of the Lord, which helps because as she's being attacked, her health gets restored constantly during such attacks, as long as she remembers to cast the appropriate spell.

Nothing much to report with their travels though. The Fort had a few undead and vampires, wheras the cave had a bunch of imps.

OH, actually...deep in that cave, Saga did wind up finding some sort of very RARE robe. I've never heard of this one before, and I'm forgetting its name now. It fortifies Merchantile, Speechcraft, and some other skill, and is worth 2000+ gold! Since Lady Saga is only Level 2, finding this was amazing, especially since there's an attitude amongst gamers that there's "nothing special to find" in the vanilla game at lower levels. Saga just proved this is false.


Actually, it's clear to me now Ann just came to the IC after Kvatch was destroyed. Makes total sense. Her "farm" would have been somewhere up there outside the city gates.


Wow, cool.



danke meine fraulein Mara.

After the traumatic incident yesterday, Lothran decided to go out again so he wouldn′t become unwilling to go adventuring in the future. He went to Plundered Mine this time and got rid of a lone goblin. Afterwards he went north, just a little bit into Skyrim. He then continued east-south in a wide circle and vented some frustration on a couple of stray ogres.

By this time it was mid-day and he strolled back to Bruma and Jerall View for a meal and some nice conversation. Maybe now he′s ready to talk about what happened to that forester. Oh, how he wish Buffy was still there...