lordandromeda

Yeah your location description is Morthal, but it doesn't seem... swampy to me. Meh.

Intense. I donno if the setting is exactly what you want, but there's a burnt out house that has always interested me along a path southeast of Riften (the swamp town you likely forgot the name of) which is actually STILL on fire when you discover it.

Your character gave me the shivers .. But at least it shows that Paarth is loved by all, both evil and good alike. I take this as high praise indeed. Thank you <3

What bugs ME most about bandits, is every single one ALWAYS thinks I'm lost. Even when I'm wearing daedric armor that glows red with magical enchantments. It seems that, to a bandit, being an idiot who somehow got lost in a corner of the world far from ANYTHING makes much more sense than a greedy power-hungry treasure hunter.

As long as you don't screw it up the way I did, you'll love the windhelm house. Fairly large, 3 mannequins, some nice weapon racks, and it's not VERY ugly. It's just not "enough" if you know what I'm saying. I'd be THRILLED if I stumbled upon a vanilla quest to buy a castle for like 500k, even if it took me an in-game YEAR to save the cash. Until then, I guess all I can do is wait and hope.

When I first played the game, I seem to have befriended an imperial, but something happened I honestly can't remember, and that save was lost. SOMEHOW, I ended up in an entirely different sequence of running away from the dragon events, and followed a stormcloak to riverwood. I roleplay as much of "myself" as I can put into the game, and for me that means obsessive about the bigger picture. I am always a dunmer. Always. I forget why, but ever since Morrowind I have always felt DEEP animosity towards the altmer. I hate them, to my very core. High elves disgust me. As a dunmer, formerly known as the GODLY CHIMER, I have always and will always side against those awful creatures. This made my choice even easier, when I learned that the legion is friends with the Thalmor. Though I was still very very sad the day Ulfric ordered an invasion of Whiterun. As my first Jarl, and the first hold I was named Thane of, I did feel a bit of indebtedness to him, but Ulfric DId offer him a peaceful option to ally with the cloaks, and he refused. Denying the offering of that blade was his worst mistake. LONG LIVE THE GREY-MANES!

From the very depths of my soul, I hope you're right.

The people of Morrowind basically stood in one place for all of their lives though. Skyrim's NPCs have lives, those lives can be dangerous. I for one don't want to be walking in the wilderness when all of a sudden a message pops up that I failed a quest because some NPC decided it would be awesome to jump into the mouth of a dragon. Though I do wish I could kill some essential NPCs... Maven Black-Briar does need to learn her place though... Maven: "Don't cross me or I'll send the Dark Brotherhood after you..." Dovahkiin: "Bish, I AM the Dark Brotherhood! >:O" all I can say is that they were good enough to make the traveling merchants in FA3 survive 95% of the time. you'd think they could have given SOME kind of provision. Maybe a killing blow from a shout being able to do them in. And that doesn't explain how or why they think the legates need to be immortal for a stormcloak dovakiin who's finished the war and won it for Ulfric. It kind of grinds my gears that I was given free reign by Ulfric to go slaughter the legion, and yet here I am, unable to so much as steal ONE legate soul.

My bugs are unique, and I've forgotten most of them as time goes on, but I too have had many issues. The dagger cases in the windhelm bedroom wont give me my daggers back. Daedric greatswords seem to have clipping sizes of mammoths when mounted on any weapon display. There have been far too many incidents where things just don't seem to add up in battle. Was it REALLY intended for a level 3 Thu'um to be defeated by a simple ward spell? Why, even before patch 1.2, would the occasional dragon fly butt-first? Is it really intended coding for a Dragon I hit with Dragonrend to then decide his #1 priority is to kill that wolf 300 yards away? What's with that guy the black-briars had imprisoned being stuck in the ground outside Whiterun? Why does The White Phial duplicate EVERY time I try to use it when it's empty? Why do they hate magi? I can;t even cast flames around an ally without there being a 65% chance they'll turn on me, even if I don't THINK I hurt them. There were others but I can't think of them no matter how hard I rack my brain. The point is; WTF Bethesda? I can;t remember a SINGLE big in Morrowind. The only ones I ever saw in Oblivion I think were horse-related and I hated horses anyway. I mean, it's obvious this one was designed for consoles, which enrages me, but even still. How does that give them license to make such a big heaping pile of trash, where there SHOULD have been nothing but diamond-encrusted GOLD?

Not exactly early-game stuff BUT Dragonscale armor, not plate, is probably the best craftable light armor. Looks... okay, a little odd for me but then I'm not happy with any skyrim armor designs. Once level 30, you're gonna LOOOOOOVE the Boethiah quest. She wants everyone killed in a VERY stealthy way. I'm actually trying to level my chanting and such so I can craft a suit or armor just to boost my skills to take them on.

They shared bout the scroll, but as for weapons, you can "force" them to be removed by mounting them on weapon racks. Just be careful if you intend to turn in such a quest item later. The 2 dagger chests in the windhelm house bedroom will lock any dagger put in and never give it back.

I have done horrid things while playing this game. I am a proud servant of Mehrune's Dagon, Molag Bal, Boethiah, ANY daedra lord I can find really. ANY. I sacrificed my windhelm housecarl to Boethiah because I didn't like the way he talked to me. I quicksave so I can fire breath any guard who talks smack. To decide Paarthurnax deserves death because he worked for Alduin during a time when there was NO CHOICE BUT to work for Alduin, is to decide that I, the dragonborn, hero to the world and thane of ALL of skyrim, also deserves to die. Esbern can lick my taint.

All I know for this is for some reason the console sometimes decides it hates me. Sometimes even 5 minutes into loading the game, I can't toggle clipping anymore. tcl wont do jack squat. Yet, when I save, exit, and reload the game, BAM. It works again. You might want to try a clean load of the game to see if you can do it form the instant you exit the loading screen, and if that doesn't work, I can only assume that certain things were improperly coded into the game's framework itself. Traditionally I would blame your installation, and just say reinstall from disk, but it seems like Bethesda has REALLY dropped the ball on bug fixes for this game. Probably the only option is to cross your fingers that it gets covered in a patch.

For some reason Bethesda wanted to change the rules. It used to be, in Morrowind, you could "accidentally" kill even the most important NPC in the game, Vivec. I guess one too many people cried about it, because now even semi-essential characters are unkillable. Even people you might lust for the death of will all of your heart. I hate Maven Black-Briar, and I hate the piece of human garbage who coded and designed her. She sent DOZENS of assassins after me. She's performed the black sacrament, maybe THRICE in my name. And yet AND SON OF A BITCHING YET NOT ONLY CANT YOU KILL HER, THE GAME FORCES YOU TO WORK *FOR* HER! *foams at the mouth*

I can't be sure what part of what you're on, but here's how events went for me. Maybe it'll help. I know we're in the spoilers section, but still. THIS POST IS GOING TO DROP SPOILERS. EDIT: Just re-read first post. You might want to do like me, and just chat everyone in the inn the f up. I made the bard sing me both songs a few times, think I bought some meade. You might also want to "meet" the creepy museum dude. Maybe get a tour of his museum. Maybe pickpocket him for his key, steal his journal from the chest in his loft. I walked by the hall of the dead, and some chick I talked to in the inn was dead on a gravestone. People were freaking out, and after talking to a few of them I got the quest to solve the murder. Upon nearing the home, Hjerim, I got the quest update to "gain access" to the house. I put it off for a long long LONG time, but eventually decided eh what the hell, and lockpicked my way in, Blood stains, mysterious journal, and a pile of flyers written by some old lady, and I had gathered evidence worth telling some folks about. I think the strange amulet is somewhere in the house too, and it's imperative to the quest. If you talk to the idiot who runs the strange museum in town, he will accuse the castle mage of necromancy. DO NOT BELIEVE HIM. I did, and nearly SCREWED myself entirely. If it weren't for the player.placeatme command, I'd have ruined my chances of "finishing" the quest entirely. Talk to the castle mage, I forget his name, and, if I'm right, he should tell you that another murder is expected to happen VERY soon. Wait until midnight (preferably while still in the castle) and then head to the market district. I'm not sure if the direction you come from matters, but just to be safe you might want to take the path that runs form the houses to the market. You can get there from a path to the right of the castle, some sort of strange side-road that took me DAYS to learn about. If things work the way I expect them to via my experience, you'll catch that jerk from the museum planning to shank some chick, but when you get near he will sheathe his weapon and start to walk away. If you follow him, after a few moments the quest will update and tell you to apprehend the real killer. I'm not sure if you can "talk" him into anything, as I simply blasted him with a dual-cast incinerate and killed him instantly. You should then be able to turn the quest into the steward or whoever, and have things properly settled. If you do it the fail way that I did, there WILL be a second victim before you stop him, whereas the way I think I described might save the second from death. Whichever route you take, as soon as someone is jailed or killed for the crime you can purchase Hjerim, clean up the killer's mess, and enjoy the house. IMO it's the best vanilla house in the game, though after certain actions I did (explained in the modding section. Not that I expect anyone to care enough to hunt down my post just to know what stupid crap I did) it's fairly ruined for my purposes. I would suggest being careful what you move where, and I would also warn you that the dagger cases in the bedroom, unless patched, are bugged, and upon leaving the house, will stop counting said loaded daggers as existent. I am very lucky that I used crappy common daggers to fill them, instead of my precious daedric lord gear, like Mehrune's Razor. I stored that in the proper armory room, and it worked perfectly. A final warning, for some reason the daedric greatsword is coded to consider itself as large as a giant's full body, and so if you mount it on a weapon rack outside your bedroom, there is a chance it will make it impossible to enter your housecarl's room. Not that you ever need to go in there, but it's still lame. I hated that housecarl anyway. Always threatened me when I entered my own freakin home. So I sacrificed him to Boethiah.

So, Been playing Skyrim for a while. Level 40 something, and I've amassed a pretty large collection of stuff. Something like 130 dragon bones, 95+ scales etc. In total I have about 6k pounds in stuff, and if it weren't for godmode letting you fast travel I'd be screwed. I've been using the Windhelm house which really isn't bad, but then recently I bought the one in Solitude. I thought "Hey, 25 grand is the highest price yet, surely it's a better house." I was so so very wrong. The storage space is terrible, there's one LESS mannequin than in WH, and honestly, it's pretty ugly inside. This of course leads me to the disappointing conclusion that the WH house is the best one available. Why does it disappoint me? I kind of looted EVERYTHING from my WH house when I moved my gear, and trashed it in some fairly lame ways. Sure I could just pick up the stuff on the floor, but that wont change that every single decorative item (food, ingredients etc) have been removed, and for some reason Bethsoft NEEDED to make moving items WAY more bothersome in TESV. Even if I bothered spending 1-2 hours replacing everything it would never look the same, and this has left me feeling... a little discouraged. I looked on the nexus site for skyrim and there's nothing in Palaces/Mansions/Estates yet, which I suppose is understandable giving the age of the game, but nevertheless. Is there anyone who shares me cynical disappointment in the homes? Maybe someone who doesn't suck as bad in the editors as I have, who's planing a nice beautiful home? I don't care WHERE it is. Even if it's tucked into some crack in the wall near a useless down like Falkreath, I just want something.... nice. Maybe a nice sized armory... 6+ mannequins (I really like making each set of high-end armor and displaying them all) and an equally over-the-top number of weapon racks, A few dozen or something within the house. I couldn't care less about a kitchen but it is a nice aesthetic. But what really matters to me is a library. The bookshelves are SUCH a cool idea, yet they barely make use of them at all! I get maybe 4-6 bookshelves in even the largest homes, and that's barely enough for a third of the books I've amassed as I travel. I try to collect 1 of every book, just for the sake of doing so. An Alchemy/Enchanting area could be inside the library, or even in a hidden place like with the WH house. I always loved the secret door idea, but it was way too hard for me to understand back in Morrowind. For those who don't know the reference, the world editor for TESIII had a tutorial that taught you a form of hidden-entryway making, but for some reason it was always beyond me. I could NEVER make that freakin bottle of skooma open the door. I don;t even care if the armory is on it's own insanely convoluted basement floor that you have to do crazy stuff to get into, whatever makes the one designing it happy really. But until someone does go and make a godlike house with glorious furnishings and enough weapon racks and cases (preferably not BUGGED ONES like in the WH bedroom) so I can store all my daedric gear and other choice items, I'm not even sure I can will myself to play anymore. I load up the game, notice I have 5500 pounds of crap on me, and immediately get depressed. Reminds me of how depressed I got in World of Warcraft whenever I logged in only to see that disgusting zone "Silithus" Just remembering the name almost makes me gag. So... um... yeah. I can't offer much as far as world-editor skillz are concerned, but if someone making such a glorious thing has any ideas of what I COULD do as a thank-you for the if and when of a finished home, I would be glad to help. Even if all that means is a dedicated friend to play payday: the heist with or something. Or.... someone to pwn in SC2 or something (I barely ever play proper ladder games so I'm nothing like I was in SC1, but I still enjoy myself) I'd be glad to be a videogame minion. Otherwise, I offer my undying adoration and worship of anyone who makes a house that meets my needs, and I expect there are thousands of people who will be right there beside me praying to you like some sort of nerdly mecca. I hate using godmode, and I love just enjoying games as they were intended, but bethsoft really seems to have dropped the ball on areas of Skyrim that are VERY important to me. But you guys can't fix the random desire for a dragon to run like a scared little girl, or make it so the most illogical thing of all, THE VOICE OF A DRAGONBORN being blocked by a simple ward spell, makes more sense, but even still. A nice house. That would make my preparations to ride Odahviig much easier. (plan is to finish my enchanting training with the last 2 level points I need for what I want, and then make the best dragon-slaying gear I can come up with.) Until then.... I'll be playing Skyward Sword. Maybe a little AC:R.