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| Ankeddi Alf'agar: Anki's Search | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 24 2016, 07:41 PM (647 Views) | |
| Andra Hawksdaughter | Nov 7 2016, 09:13 PM Post #101 |
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Oh yeah, I'm nodding with Areial!! Wonderful Sere!! |
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| Serethil | Nov 7 2016, 09:17 PM Post #102 |
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Thank you sisters! I'm not - real sure - what Anki's going to decide.... There's some working out to do.... |
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| Serethil | Nov 8 2016, 07:39 PM Post #103 |
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And.... I need to wait until someone starts poking me I think. Been trying off and on all afternoon to write, ain't hap'nin'.... |
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| Areial | Nov 9 2016, 11:25 AM Post #104 |
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Et'Ada
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<sigh> I've got a couple paragraph's of Tsuri's next update...and then...blank. Kurdan is still running around trying to "catch up" to himeself..lol Asherea is... in a holding pattern, though she may make a couple trips up to Solitude to the Merry Snowberry to get Christmas items. So I know how you feel. |
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| Rick | Nov 9 2016, 01:52 PM Post #105 |
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What a wonderful journey for Anki. Thoroughly enjoyed reading it as it brought back fading memories of that quest for us from a competition round. I recall Aela saying she would stay and commune. Oh, and those ghostly archers...tough on legendary. Well done Sere. I have almost got Adella's next chapter ready....Roggi was a good friend....they really liked each other and he left with good heart hoping for their next meeting....I liked that. My way..... I play...then I write....then I tidy it some, but I can't do more until each chapter is finished and published. I scrawl hand written cryptic memos along as I play then have to type them up while the memories are fresh and detailed. The long convos between me and her are handled differently. I have to stop play. Wait for complete peace...like when the family has gone to bed. Then I close my eyes get in mode and connect....how much she gives me in one go varies....but its growing longer all the time. Like watching a movie drama played out in my minds eye. It has become....addictive :) Edit....This is odd, surreal even, but worth a mention. You know when we get into a really upsetting slanging match and Adella is screaming at me or blubbing and hurt. I see several seconds of it in one go....feeling the depth of emotion and hearing our pained voices...then it often replays again....kinda focuses in....sometimes the angle of view actually shifts....its almost like....like shes making sure I really got it...then it moves on a bit playing more. This must sound nuts. But it is just how it works for me.....and its pretty harrowing at times. My eyes leak for real. Rick rambling again...soz Sere, I didn't mean to hijack this... :hugs: Edited by Rick, Nov 9 2016, 02:06 PM.
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| Kane | Nov 9 2016, 03:41 PM Post #106 |
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Finally catching up. Anki is very engaging, Sere. It's been a long time since I did the Companion's Story. Kodlak always hit ya right in the feels. |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 04:36 PM Post #107 |
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No worries Rick - not a problem! Yeah, Kane.... I always wind up in tears. |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 07:47 PM Post #108 |
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Et'Ada
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Ankeddi 21: The other three stayed behind in the Tomb. I needed to get back to family, so they’d know that I was, finally, clean of the wereblood. As I turned to leave, I stopped beside Vilkas. I handed him the remaining heads. “Perhaps some will want to be purified. And I don’t know how long I’ll be gone, or if I’ll be back at all. So you will all need to talk over who becomes Harbinger. I don’t think it’s my place to do it....” “Kodlak thought it was. We’ll wait a while. There’s no hurry. See what you need to be doing.” I nodded and turned away, tired, happy - and also heartsore. I knew that there were other portals to the Castle, but I didn’t have a key. So I just headed for Solitude to the carriage. It would be a long trip back to Falkreath, but in a way that was good: I needed the time to think - about the Companions, about being named Harbinger, about what the family might need to do. None of that thinking was going to be easy or fast.... but it had to happen. And even over the long trip, while I thought a lot, I didn’t come to many decisions. That was likely because I’d need to tell my tale to family, and hear theirs before I would know what was what or which way to jump. I knew that Kodlak had wanted me to take his position. But I thought it far better if the Companions chose someone with more time in Jorrvaskr, and in my mind and heart, I thought it should be Aela. She was clever, and steadier than most of the others. Not Farkas and Vilkas, but the rest. Farkas - well, he wasn’t clever. And that’s all there was to that. Vilkas - he was sharper than his brother, but more of a bludgeon to Aela’s scalpel. I rather thought that a scalpel might be needed instead of a bludgeon. Finally, I was standing in the travel room under the Castle. Deni rushed in followed by Siara and Andur and my mother. And I slid to the floor in a sobbing heap. “No no - I’m happy, I’m happy! It’s done. It’s gone. I’m clean!” I repeated it over and over, nearly hysterical with joy. While the Castle wasn’t home.... the family was here. And that made it a sort of home.... I would find out about what was planned by the family - after I caught up on my sleep, and we all told the stories. Edited by Serethil, Nov 9 2016, 07:49 PM.
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Nov 9 2016, 08:04 PM Post #109 |
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Emotional update, for certain. Were I her, I don't know what I would do either, though I always thought it too soon for the character to become Harbinger too. (same goes for the CoW questline) Very good Sere! |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 08:10 PM Post #110 |
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Thanks sis! Yeah, I really hate the way they hand you "rulership" - by the time you're level 20, you can be thane of everywhere, headmaster of the college, guildmaster of the TG, harbinger of the companions - and if so inclined, listener of the DB. *shakes head, baffled* |
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| Andra Hawksdaughter | Nov 9 2016, 08:53 PM Post #111 |
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I know, crazy, right? We're sure not the only ones to think so. That's why I like that Enhanced mod for the Companions, that makes you work more to get to that point, and I guess the one for the CoW makes it more worthwhile to play, though I've never used it. |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 09:02 PM Post #112 |
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Yeah, true. But I don't ever really go there. I have ZERO use for mages in this game. And only the fact that Anki told me she was were sent her story in the Companions direction.
Edited by Serethil, Nov 9 2016, 09:03 PM.
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| Areial | Nov 9 2016, 09:17 PM Post #113 |
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Very emotional!! Hope that isn't the last we hear from her...and the companions. |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 09:19 PM Post #114 |
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Oh, none of them are really done yet (though I'm done with Deni except as ancillary - she's a mage damn it, and I just can't do mages in this game.... Well, that was HER choice after all, so I just don't want to hear it....) |
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| Rick | Nov 9 2016, 11:17 PM Post #115 |
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Loved that recount from Anki.....agree also....too little indepth grooming before you are made head honcho. In Oblivion...the Fighters Guild made you feel like you had earned the top slot. Regards Deni....well you kinda know I never took to the kid at all and ended up not reading her parts. For me she was too much the mary sue...I hate little kids who try to be an authority amongst adults mouthing off what they think is grown up attitude. Especially when she started telling her elders what to do. In simple terms, to me Deni=Braith. Love Siara and Anki...never miss their inputs (colon end bracket ) |
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| Serethil | Nov 9 2016, 11:19 PM Post #116 |
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Yeah, Rick. I get that, I do. She.... just had so many issues. But it worked out fine (for me anyway) since she insisted on being a mage. Serious. Works for me. |
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| monkeyemoness | Nov 10 2016, 04:35 PM Post #117 |
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I think Skyrim tried to justify a vagabond becoming the leader of the guilds by making the position explicitly have so little responsibilities it hardly even mattered, but it still doesn't change the fact that you're rushed into the position regardless of whether you really deserve it or not. Not that better than Oblivion, IMO. The only one that really felt like you had made it to the top was the Thieves Guild, honestly, even if IIRC it doesn't really accommodate the adventurer's lifestyle. Anyways, it's relieving to finally have her reached her goal and come back to her family "clean." I caught up in short bursts, but it was worth it. |
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| Serethil | Nov 10 2016, 04:39 PM Post #118 |
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Thanks monkey! I'm still discussing the Harbinger thing with her.... We still don't know what she's doing - when she lets me know, of course, everyone else will too! |
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| Serethil | Nov 11 2016, 09:00 PM Post #119 |
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Ankeddi 22: I think I slept for two whole days. That was all to the good - that meant I had been running on the ragged edge of disaster for way too long. On the next morning, I rose and bathed - that was something else I hadn’t taken time for and I was tired to death of my own stink. Washing my hair - I laughed in delight that it was long and clean and smelled of herbs instead of wolf.... or blood. And then I went looking for my mother, Andur and Siara. I found them looking at Deni in consternation. “What’s toward then?” Deni turned to me, tears glittering on her lashes. “I - need to.... HAVE to.... go to the Mages College - you know, I told you about it. I - need more teaching - and that’s the only place now to get it.” I looked at the others. Selalla nodded. Andur and Siara shook their heads. “Now wait.” “No. She’s a child. She can’t be left on her own in Skyrim while we go see what’s toward at home!” Andur’s voice rang off the rafters. “Brother. Sister. A mage by definition isn’t really a child. Ever. Deni has proven she’s far more mature, more adult, than other girls her age. See you - our mother agrees....” Siara dropped her eyes, and cuddled her son close. Andur glared at Mother, at Deni, at me. And then wilted. “Aye. It’s a truth. We.... just want her safe, and magics don’t seem to be a safe way to live....” I shook my head. “I have some myself, brother mine. And I need schooling as well. But let us send Deni off to play for a bit, so that we can all catch up with what’s happened - and will be happening soon. “Little sister - I need some things from Falkreath. Will you and Lucia find one of the men to go in with you?” She wiped her eyes, and nodded. “Aye. I’ve no doubt you need gear and repair materials.” She started out the door, then turned and threw herself on Selalla, Andur, Siara and me - for hugs. After she’d gone, I sighed. Nothing was as simple as it sounded, and EVERYTHING was more complicated than it needed to be. “So then. We’d best go and have coffee, and talk it all over....” I led the way, and the others, silent, followed. Getting settled in the kitchen was the work of moments, and wasn’t it wonderful that our metal monsters kept coffee fresh and brewing at all hours? Well, of course it was.... |
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| Areial | Nov 11 2016, 10:26 PM Post #120 |
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oooo Very nice Anke and Deni may be staying behind, but its not that bad a thing... |
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