I am sworn to carry your burdens - Skyrimming for fun and profit

all my problems with macro picture aside, the micro stuff is just way more absorbing and engrossing than any other game i've played. just doing miscellaneous crap, taking out little mines and ruins filled with fuckos, making stuff, all way more fun than advancing the story

lol I tried going beastmode once and while it seemed like I could soak up more dmg I didn't like that I couldn't loot anything

I did like chomping fallen foes tho, and being immune to diseases is kind of hot, also the lolsome guard comments like "why do you smell like a wet dog?" and "is that FUR coming out of your ears?"

loot rule of thumb: if it is not a. practically useful to me or b. worth at least 20 gold per point of weight, it stays where it is

yeah i was gonna say something like that :)

here's another why-don't-they-have-real-writers-write-these complaint: you have gold ore and ingots. you are a master crafter. the world's currency is gold. anyone else see an opportunity here?

one thing i do not like abt how they did this is that there is never anyone in any cave or dungeon or ruined castle or whatever that isnt dead set on killing you - i went through the first few waiting to shoot at people until their intentions were known but quickly realized that they were never anything other than "KILL U DED!" which has at least a few times made zero sense, ie the hapless scholar lost in a ruin that immediately charged me once i got in the room.

i stopped doing the companions quest basically because i dont want to be a werewolf? can you dump the werewolf thing after becoming one or are you stuck with it from there on out?

yeah, i avoided the werewolf thing so i am not sure why the silver hand want to kill me so much. however, i understand you do get the chance to unwolf yourself if you do go that route

one thing i do not like abt how they did this is that there is never anyone in any cave or dungeon or ruined castle or whatever that isnt dead set on killing you - i went through the first few waiting to shoot at people until their intentions were known but quickly realized that they were never anything other than "KILL U DED!" which has at least a few times made zero sense, ie the hapless scholar lost in a ruin that immediately charged me once i got in the room.

hah I cured myself of that very quickly by going "oh hey Mr. Giant, how are you toda- *squish*" early on in the game

i stopped doing the companions quest basically because i dont want to be a werewolf? can you dump the werewolf thing after becoming one or are you stuck with it from there on out?

just fyi there is literally zero downside to being a werewolf that I've noticed; no one treats you differently and you don't have to transform if you don't want to AND you are 100% immune to diseases, plus there's a strong hint that it's reversible if you really can't live with it

The only ppl you end up wilding out on are the Silver Hand anyway, unless you are like me and use it as an opportunity to try to eat some guards.

yup, npcs have no apparent purpose other than try to kill you until their last breath.

or tend their shops and give you their problems to solve.

xp i think there is a final optional quest that allows a cure.

xxp wait are there times when you go wolf uncontrollably? vs the silver hand dudes?

if you are a wolfman you get no XP bonus after resting. also, no skill increases while in wolfy mode, for obv reason.

lol no, I'm just not communicating clearly

those are the only ppl I tried beast form out on because I was killing them anyway

oh resting gives an XP bonus? ;_;

I kind of wish this game had a real manual

is it ever 'worth it' to let an npc go if he asks for mercy? or does he just heal up enough to come at you again in a minute? i have soul trapped many a begging man.

btw soul trapping, how sick is that, when you think about it??

that's why black soul gems are considered evil i guess

i haven't figured out the distinction btw which souls are 'black'. is it all people, or just important people?

all people. i read a book about it in game. animal souls are white, ppl souls are black.

yeah i feel weird that a bandit is trapped for eternity inside my boots, but it is the easiest way to get a grand soul

our fallen nature and all

xp lol tell me there wouldn't be some lord with a black soul slave farming operation to kit out his knights. does nobody consider basic incentives when they dream up these worlds...

dlc idea

the only creature i have found that gives a grand soul is a mammoth

Haven't had the heart to kill a mammoth yet.

Haha so I have been practicing FOUL ARTS because I've been soul trapping ppl who attack me?

Oh shit I just skyrimmed for five hours straight.

Found dan's dwarvish ruins, full of copious amounts of heavy dwarven artefacts. Unfortunately this was just after Lydia suddenly started refusing to be a beast of infinite burden, and she was already laden down with my ingot collection and a bunch of dragon bones I forgot to sell. However she is wearing a mask I gave her which gives an extra lol every time I ask her to try and carry something more.

The dwarven ruins looked great but were just too big and too samey, as was the mage castle I had to battle through inmediately before. Found both sections a bit of a chore tbh.

i'm so jealous of you guys having lydia - i accidentally killed her within about 20 seconds of the first battle i entered with her.

I really want the potions submenu fixed. All poisons together, all potions together. Then, all magicka potions, all stamina potions, all health potions, etc. Alphabetical order is just a huge chore.

I only ever use beast form to fast travel to places I've not already been to - wolf sprint is way faster than horse gallop.

omg i just figured out something about the alchemy menu

if you go down it's sorted by the effects that you know. but if you go RIGHT from the top of the menu, you go to a list of all the ingredients you have. and you can just mix stuff up blind! which is how you're supposed to learn more effects (apart from eating the stuff). all the ingredients have all their abilities whether you know what they are or not. so by luck (or looking shit up hint hint) you can make a lot of potions right away.

oooohhh...i may try that later. i mainly use alchemy to get restore health and magika potions, because the stores never seem to carry enough and i'm often in dire need in the midst of boss battles.

somehow my heavy armor AND sneak skills are leveled way up. no idea how this is actually working, but it seems nice

if i can unlock the heavy armor perk that makes wearing heavy armor more quiet for sneaking, i should be set there

just letting everyone know.

yeah, experimenting with ingredients is my favourite minigame

especially when you exit the ingredient screen and your dude is like

UUNNNGHHHHHHhhhhh1hh1!!

my character is pretty much always on drugs

It is amazing how little of the main storyline I've done. I just got the last part of unrelenting force push shout last night and I am Level 21.

Anyway, I am two-handed, light armor, conjuring, and focusing a lot of attention on smithing, alchemy, and enchanting. Also I don't sneak nearly enough considering I'm a lizard.

Just fucking twatted a dragon in two goes with force push and then perked up two-handed bashing. That was after dicking around for multiple reloads with a +50 damage fireball staff.

Ooh, good tip. I can never seem to hit with my fireball unless the dude is on the ground already.

Nothing as anti-climactic as a dragon going down quickly though. When I should be "WOO I KILLED A LEGENDARY BEAST" I'm "oh great, more bloody bones to lug back to the apartment".

(Have about 10 spare dragon souls though and nothing I particularly want to spend them on, might feel differently if I knew more words).

Just completed the final penultimate stage in the main winterhold quest, no spoilers but omg lol :D

where does that quest start? i don't think i've done it yet

All mage quests so far:

1) "Dude, we need this special item! Go and get it."
2) I trudge through a dungeon filled with Felons or whatever until I get told that the princess item is not in this dungeon.
3) I go back to college.
4) "That's very interesting. Go try here instead."
5) wash rinse repeat

These quests better get good soon otherwise I'm fucking off to be a singer or a thief or something.

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Trying to enter Leviathianenenion, those frost trolls were really causing me fits until I firebombed one while it smacked the shit out of Lydia, then dragged the other one past the mining camp along the road over to a bandit ambush, where I let the troll kill the bandits whe I firebombed it from afar. Of course, I think this tactic killed an important NPC at the mine but oh well.

The best part was Lydia jogging up 2 min later all "sup, how's that troll doing?"

Mage quests are a bit samey. Taking a break from dungeons for a while, spent all day today crafting up armour for me and my bestest pal Lydia. NB mordy the winterhold quests start at... winterhold!

Lydia got killed during a stormfront attack in my game - i'd switched to another companion for a while. Her body is still sitting in front of the blacksmiths. :(

RIP

Only realised this recently but if you hold down A when you go to search a body (or pick up an item), you can drag it around instead.

Works for all the objects in the game world.

this thread is really fun to read if you have no idea what it's about but badly want to convince yourself it's about some kind of weird rimjob-related meme

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