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Tiercel's Peregrinations
Topic Started: Jan 10 2017, 09:00 PM (4,163 Views)
Serethil
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Does he send thugs after the character? I've never had that happen....
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Yeah, he will IF you send the dude that's in debt to him to the Wizard.. and then refuse to pay him.. which I generally don't...cause.. J.A.... on 360, I did that once.. but as he's essential.. it sucks.. I have yet to do it on PC, but IF I get the right character.. I will and he's toast.
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Hmm. I might have to consider that....
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Mar 20 2017, 08:47 PM
I'll have to look into that for my next one.. this ones on it's last leg's anyway... Thankfully I don't have to transfer much over.. just Resumes and some addresses and such.. Bad part is going to be passwords..
Are, if you have Gmail, the Google drive is wonderful for that kind of stuff. You can upload it there, and access it from anywhere. :)
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Kane
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Ooh, another trip into the mine! I think I will be making my way to Solstheim in the coming competition for sure!
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Mar 20 2017, 10:03 PM
Yeah, he will IF you send the dude that's in debt to him to the Wizard.. and then refuse to pay him.. which I generally don't...cause.. J.A.... on 360, I did that once.. but as he's essential.. it sucks.. I have yet to do it on PC, but IF I get the right character.. I will and he's toast.
Tier and Var aren't going to be getting that far - because she's not Dragonborn, that was her grandmother. But I may play that out on one of the girls I'm using LotD on and see how it goes. I'll let you know!

@Kane, I really love that particular quest. So I do it on everyone.
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It's interesting (seeing different viewpoints that is), if a bit confusing having two well-told stories occurring in Solstheim at once... but well-done in any case! :)
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Sere, good one! If I do nothing else on the island, I will always do that one. *grin* It changes the whole attitude of the townspeople, and I like it!
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Yep, Sis, thanks - as a recipe for getting a whole town to love you, it's like a choc layer cake with dark choc frosting!

Thanks neil! Glad to see you back, hope things are going okay.... or as okay as they possibly can considering.
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59 - There’s that something wicked again....

After skeever and spiders, and sighs about having to kill that sort of thing, we set off into the deeper mine. There was an odd area - seemed a dead end.... but....

“Look Var. The boards there - it’s not really a wall. Here, we should hammer at them a bit!”

“What, you want me to use Darksight on a wall?”

“Uh. It’s a greatsword. It’s not made of paper....”

“Hmph. Women....” But he unlimbered it - her? - and whacked the odd area a few times. The boards dropped away, revealing an opening into another part of the mine.

And there was a locked iron gate. Crescius was not wrong - at least, not so far! We also found an odd locked strongbox there. I twiddled the lock and when it popped open, found a few minor gems, some gold and a very strange necklace. Looked like good gold, so I stowed it.

We unlocked the gate with the key the old man had given us, with sober glances between us. So far - the old miner had been.... spot on.... So - what could possibly be going on below us, as regards this old ebony delve, a dead archaeologist, and a locked section of a formerly viable and productive mine.... I was pretty sure it was going to be ugly.

And Var’s thought echoed mine. “This.... is likely going to be a lot messier than we thought....”

“Yes. There will be draugr no doubt. We should hope for nothing worse....”

Eh, yes. Draugr. Mostly the common sort. But as we forged deeper, more of the - I don’t know what you would call them - elite? - sorts. The ones with finer armor, better weapons, and magic.... I wasn’t sure how long we’d been down the mine when we saw a huge wood door before us.

“Var. Let’s move back up above the water, and rest a bit. I’m - tired....” It hurt my pride to say it, but - honesty was more important.

“You too? Divines, I just want this over with.... but I could drop where we are, water or not, and sleep....”

“You’d drown. Noisily. So. Back up a bit. By the alchemy area. I know a few minor things - I can set some wards. We need food - and sleep.”

So that’s what we did. My sleep was - restless, disturbed. Something nasty was scrabbling at the edges of my mind, trying to send me into nightmare. I finally sat bolt upright, yelling “NO!” - only to find I had my fist under Var’s nose.

“Ach. I’m sorry. Bad dreams. And that’s an under.... Oh. Bal. He’s followed....”

“Well, that WAS the point, wasn’t it?” Var seemed a bit snarly....

“Yes, it was. So ma could be free of something she couldn’t fight, but I can. And - because if we can’t deal with Bal.... we can’t be together. I’m going to tell you this, once. And then I don’t want to talk about it again.

“I thought I was in love with Vintan. And - as a first lover, he was.... fine. But of course, he left, and I got over him. I’ve had other lovers since - not many, but enough. I never truly loved anyone until you. Ah sure, I loved my family - when they didn’t get on my nerves to the point of sending me running for the hills! But you I love with every bit of my life, my heart, my body.

“If Bal causes me to lose the love of my entire existence..... I will never truly die, because I will spend the entirety of this world’s life trying to end him. You’ve given me - something I never truly understood, seeing g’ma and g’da, ma and da.... But now I know. And things will never be the same.”

Tears ran freely down my cheeks. I couldn’t help them, didn’t want to. I knew inside me somewhere that we would die down here - that Bal would have me - that I would never be Var’s wife, nor even his lover again.

He simply looked at me while tears of his own ran down his face. “I will never give you up. Not to Bal. Not to anyone. Believe. As I believe.”

We held each other as close as two people can. I had to hope it would be enough.
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Very nice!! They are right.. they should never give up on each other.
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Right in the feels, Sere. Right in the feels.
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Thanks, you two. Yeah, I even made myself cry....
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Oh Sere, they can't give up, and I know they won't! Now ya made me all sniffly....like Kane said too!
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Eh.... well, sometimes.... you just have to go there. Thanks, Sis....
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It was perfect!!
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60 - Don’t even THINK about it, Molag Bal!

We settled back into the bed rolls, holding hands, and I shifted far enough toward Var that I could lay my head on his shoulder. As I drifted toward sleep again, I felt that “poking” around the edges of my consciousness. I put up a wall - literally. In my mind, I built a wall of solid hard bricks, all around the center of my “self” as I thought of it. The poking ceased. Good. But how in all the hells was I going to make Bal go away for good? And that was my last coherent thought for quite a while.

When we woke again, Var dragged some bits and pieces of food out of his pack. “This hadn’t better take much longer. This is all we have....”

“Oh. Hmm. I think I might have some bits too, let me see. Eh, not so much - just some bread and cheese. Still.... we’d better save some of it, do you think?”

“Yes. Let’s split it in half, and then we’ll each eat half of the first. Water’s not a problem....”

“True. We should hope it’s not going to get deep beyond that door though.”

It wasn’t. The door opened into a smallish area with a waterfall, some stairs, and a bridge from one side to the other. And two draugr of fairly high “rank” as I’d started thinking of it - better armor, less shredded I mean, and ebony weapons. Var charged at the first one while I peppered it and the other one with arrows from range. They didn’t last long - his Darksight was a far better weapon, wielded by a warrior fully alive....

We found a locked door just behind the waterfall. I twiddled the lock open, getting an odd glance from Var. “Eh.... I pick up things.... learned that from a thief turned miner a while back.”

There was a bluish - stuff - in an upright coffin opposite the door. It was very strange stuff at that. It looked like - and felt like - ice. But beating on it with my little hammer made no dent in it. “What do you think, Var? It’s really.... odd.”

“Hit it with that pickaxe you got from the old man. Maybe your hammer’s not heavy enough?”

I pulled the pickaxe out of his pack, and took a swing at the blue stuff. I about dropped my teeth when it shattered into chunks and fell to the floor. “What IS this?”

“I don’t know. Maybe the old man will - or the blacksmith.”

I put the bluish chunks and the pickaxe back in Var’s pack. There was a - fully dead - draugr underneath where the blue stuff had been. I shuddered; as a way to keep someone dead, it seemed - excessive.

We went back to the half-drowned room, and up the stairs. There was a gate into another section to the right, but no way to open it. So we crossed the bridge, and had to kill a third draugr, one of the “lesser” sort. On top of a plinth was a turn-bar. Var shrugged, and moved it. The gate across the way opened.

We moved into the next area cautiously. There wasn’t much there - a fireball trap powered by a soul gem - which I was able to knock down with an arrow placed just so; and some pressure plates set at angles so we had to be careful not to step on any of them - which for me wasn’t so much, but Var’s larger feet and stride made it awkward for him. Halfway through the bunch of plates, there was a very small opening in the rock wall to the left. Var’s shoulders brushed the sides, and his head threatened to bump the ceiling. He grumbled about stooping....

When we reached a huge open room, I gasped. It was something totally different than the mine. There was water rushing everywhere, and massive groupings of tall rock spires with regular angles. And as we jumped down into the room, I realized I could dimly see a couple of skeletons - lying near a huge arched - doorway - with oddly pulsing, bright red areas spread over it in a pattern of some sort.

Nothing moved here, other than the water and the red slashes on the door....
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Oh.. just perfect!! Love it... just waiting on the next chapter!
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Thanks Sis!

I just LOVE Raven Rock Mine. As quest areas go, the dev who made this one deserves MAJOR kudos. It's - different. Enough different that I still remember the first time I did this quest line - I was on tenterhooks the ENTIRE time - because I'd never seen anything like it before.... and I was seriously concerned about living over it....

Now THAT is the epitome of great quest line development - not to mention storytelling!
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It is.. and It's still up in the air if Tsuri and Ash are going to get there or not... they have not made it back to Raven Rock as of yet...so. Writing the next chapter, it's coming easier, but slow.. family left this AM.. and work...blah!
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