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

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.

http://i.minus.com/jRWvsnxmjzx58.jpg

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

Rule 34

i am watching my brother play this and it is like watching a backwoodsman maniac killer exist in real time, seems boring

It's a bit like all the Elder Scrolls / Fallout games in that there's an awful lot of trudging through wilderness and searching in barrels but it's enormously engaging to play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJ1or56wr0

haha wth

I have two enchanted elven swords that I named Galadriel and Finrod, and just picked up a bunch of two-handed perks. My follower is J'zargo, and he is ridiculous.

u r drizzt

kinda wish there was some online component to this -- but only so bethesda could mine cool stats like what the global race/perk choice breakdowns are. and what dumm names everybody is using.

That fucking dog! Stop trying to push me off cliffs.

dammit I have to get a dog

ugh you guys i dunno how you put up with followers at all. some quests assign one temporarily and i'm like, get the fuck away from me or go die (but please don't bug this quest to shit)

I have a follower because of things like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MTMwjYgJsFQ

er rather:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMwjYgJsFQ

I have Lydia and the demon dog hanging with me at the moment. Demon dog literally knocked me off some dwarven ruin at the top of the world. Luckily I weirdly slid down about 400 feet instead of dying. He looked disappointed when I climbed back up 5 minutes later.

the fanmade humor shit for this is really uh something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYgKeUU35o4

i know this kinda stuff was out there for the fallout games and stuff, idk.

you made me watch that

shut up, you would have posted that shit at some point!

i am not down with nyan cat

man, the thing that gets me about this game is that there's hardly any non-thinking steamrolling in it aside from the wolf attacks; if you don't think/play intelligently when engaged in combat, anything can and will kill you and you constantly have to rethink/refine your combat tactics and properly execute them

I got my ass HANDED to me by the wispmother in Labyrinthian the other day but took her out last night after zoning into a rhythm of dodging her ice blasts and lighting her and her copies up with arrows, all the while managing to avoid Lydia's attempts to kill herself. I started thinking "woo hoo I am getting the hang of combat, check me out" and then promptly got rofflestomped by two duergar ghost zombies.

My absurdly unsophisticated "run up and bash with two-handed sword" method does me pretty well most of the time - although not against the boss at the end of that level tbf.

that seems to be okay with one-on-one encounters but if I get flanked or don't see the other mob lighting me up while I'm bashing away it's game over

also, I think I've said this before but I can't aim for shit, so sometimes I find myself hacking up the wall while a mob chops my neck

Oh yeah, all the time. I put this down to playing with a n00bstick.