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Round V: The Hero of Skyrim; A Dead is Dead Competition
Topic Started: Feb 3 2017, 09:00 AM (2,795 Views)
Kane
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The competition has officially begun!

You have forty hours or three weeks. Deadline is February 24th.


Post your characters name, race, and gender!

[Example]:

(Player Name)
(Character Name)
(Race)
(Gender)
(Difficulty)



General Rules

- Starting point is from no later than the first tower (with Ulfric and company)
- Mods are allowed, see below. If you are new to this or added mods since the last time you played, send your mod list to me (Richard).
- No reloading previous saves, even if character did not die (unless a glitch occurred).
- No map based fast travel. Boats and carriages are allowed.
- Once in Helgen Keep, DiD rules apply.
- Update at least once every 3 days (if possible).
- You may restart your game (restarting/starting point is from no later than the first tower [with Ulfric and company]) or create another character after you die. (Various forms are: Human, Zombie, Wraith, Ghost, Shade, Whisp [Every time you die, you must drop down at least one difficulty level, if possible.])
- No mods that add storage (this includes mod houses).
- You must level up upon attaining a level, at the first safe opportunity (cannot do it in combat). You need not assign perks immediately.
- The player highest score is the only one that counts for the round, meaning someone that has become a Wraith may win over a Human, if their score is high enough.
- You cannot make skills legendary
- Quest companions like Serana and Barbas have to be taken directly to their quest destination, with minimal side trips.
- No exploits. See list below for the common exploits. Ask if you are unsure about one that you've found. In the event of disagreement, a majority of the players enrolled in the round will decide.
- Be honorable and don't cheat. We do this for fun!


Forbidden Exploit list
Spoiler: click to toggle


A window of prep time is allowed for this round:

20 hr prep-time

- 360 & PS3 allowed to become Thane of Whiterun and buy Breezehome
- Other platforms not allowed to do any Thane, C.W., or Bounty quests
- Must be Expert, Master or Legendary to use Prep Time

May do an "Alternate Start"

- Inn Patron, Left for Dead..
- May not use Alternate Start with Prep Time

500 Bonus points for "Complete Vanilla Start"

- No bonus points when using Prep time


Regarding Mods

Mods will be allowed this round. This is obviously a trial run and, if everything goes well, we'll allow them in the future.
Send me your mod list and I'll see if everything is balanced out.

- mod list posted in a spoiler tag
example:
0 KS hair
0 UNP body type
+ Deadly Dragons
- Wearable Lanterns
- A quality world map
+ Immersive Creatures
* this is a Null .. meaning the mod's that make the game harder are evened out with "advantage" mods.. while it may not seem that a better map type really helps if it didn't...then it wouldn't be needed..
*Rules for Mods.. they may NOT make NPC's essential, they may not make Horses, dog's, followers essential or change their stat's
* so you can't have a horse mod that make's it run faster or harder to kill)
* A follower can't start with higher stat's than a vanilla follower.. AKA I could not use Ash, as he start's out with health and stamina of a lvl 40 character ( weapons also





Skill Points

You may choose up to six skills for your build of choice, (based on Classic TES builds) plus Speech as a freebie and another skill of your choice...

- Freebies ARE NOT perkable, but you may use them without incurring penalties.


* 5 point grace on non-drawn skills

-250 for each point that accrues for the 1st 10 after that, then -500 accruing for each point their after.
(ex: Alteration if it starts at 20 for your character)
21-25 = 0
26-35= -250 (per skill raise)
36+ = -500 (per skill raise)

Scoring

Quests

Civil War Quest's = 1000 point's each
Thane Quests = 250 points each
Becoming a Thane = 500 point bonus ( once you buy the house )
Bounties = 100 points each




Difficulty Multiplier

Legendary - 1.75
Master - 1.50
Expert - 1.25
Adept - 1
Apprentice - .75
Novice - .50

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Competitors

Kane
Kiranyae (Withdrawn)
Altmer
Female
Novice

Aireal
A'Riya(Dead)
Nord
Female
Adept

neildarkstar
"Squishy" Fae (Withdrawn)
Imperial
Female
Master

After Dark
After'Dark
Orc
F/M - to be decided
Legendary

Brambleberry
Venetus (Withdrawn)
Breton
Male
Master

Sah
Sah (Withdrawn)
Sah
Nord
Female
Legendary

Glargg (Dead)
Ella Menthri
Dunmer
Female
Adept

NutBurz
Fyn Golfin Noldraran(Dead)
Altmer - Battlemage
Male
Master

Sakiri (Dead)
Arija Winterborn
Nord
Female
Adept

Frank27 (Dead)
Flavius
Male Imperial
Expert
Crusader

Poncho (Dead)
Sascha
Redguard
Female
Adept

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Kane
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Kane
Kiranyae
Altmer
Female
Novice


Core Skills:
Destruction
Illusion
Conjuration
Alteration
Restoration
Enchanting

Freebies:
Speech
Lockpicking
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Areial
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Aireal
A'Riya
Nord
Female
Adept

Core Skills:
2h
Light Armor
Archery
Sneak
Alchemy
Smithing

Freebies:
Lock-picking
Speech

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Mod list
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BTW Become a Bard is back on Nexus
Edited by Areial, Feb 3 2017, 01:40 PM.
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neildarkstar
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neildarkstar
"Squishy" Fae
Imperial
Female
Master

Core Skills:
Block
Destruction
Light Armor
One-Handed
Restoration
Smithing

Freebies:
Speech
Lockpicking

Cart Start,
+20 hours prep
Spoiler: click to toggle


stats at 20 hours for Squishy Fae

I decided that it'd be easier to just show Squishy's stats at near the 20 hour mark in a video. The only non-core skill that's been raised is Sneak to 16, a skill book got her. :)
Edited by neildarkstar, Feb 4 2017, 01:53 PM.
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After Dark
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After Dark
After'Dark
Orc
Female - I decided to use my older female preset.
Legendary


Core skills:
One-Handed
Block
Heavy Armor
Smithing
Restoration
Alteration

Freebies:
Speech
Lockpicking

Cart start
no prep time
Skyrim Legendary Edition


Spoiler: click to toggle


Edited by After Dark, Feb 4 2017, 02:18 AM.
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Brambleberry
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Jarl
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Brambleberry
Venetus - which is Latin for ____. (That's right. Now you have to go look it up or it will drive you mad. :evil: )
Breton
Male
Master

Primary Skills
One-handed
Light Armor
Alteration
Destruction
Smithing
Enchanting

Freebies
Speechcraft
Alchemy

Cart Start
20 hours prep
SSE version
Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by Brambleberry, Feb 3 2017, 12:28 PM.
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Kane
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Venetus is blue, no?
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Brambleberry
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Kane
Feb 3 2017, 12:35 PM
Venetus is blue, no?
Ding Ding Ding and the winner is BLUE :)
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Kane
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Brambleberry
Feb 3 2017, 01:00 PM
Kane
Feb 3 2017, 12:35 PM
Venetus is blue, no?
Ding Ding Ding and the winner is BLUE :)
Thought so. :) I had a short lived Latin class in my schooling years.
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Areial
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Dang and I was thinking about Homer...
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Rick
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Jarl
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Bram,
Everyone knows venetus is blue
We just didn't like to say ;)
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Brambleberry
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Closes the Venetian blinds on Rick! Did you see what I did there? Twice! :meh:
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neildarkstar
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heh, if you go to use mudcrabs to train up in my game, you're gonna die... You'd be better off going unarmed with a troll...
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Kane
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Trolls are easy to kite, too.
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Jarl
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Glargg
Ella Menthri
Dunmer
Female
Adept

*Telvanni Mage*
Destruction
Conjuration
Illusion
Alteration
Alchemy
Sneak
(Lockpicking)
(Speech)

Cart Start
No Prep time
Skyrim Legendary Edition

Active Mods in Competition Profile:
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Edited by glargg, Feb 4 2017, 01:12 AM.
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Areial
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Well the little I got to play today was... not fun... I had added two Mods... Simple Divorce and SMIM .. which I had used before, but not with some of the newer mod's that I have.. CTD... every time I got near Riverwood... SD worked fine in Testing.. so SMIM was the culprit ... well it just doesn't get along with something else.. so I took it out.. <wince> and managed to get to Riverwood...

Neil... You know those spiderlings in the Helgen Caves? I know ya do... those little suckers don't stop spawning... A'Riya was trying to get spider eggs and they kept spawning.. good for gathering Frostbite venom, bad ..for... well they weren't so bad she had to worry.. had a 2h by then...
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After Dark
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So, today's update is more talk and less playtime because i need some sleep (i had a 12 hours night shift...)
After countless hours messing with RaceMenu, trying to create a male orc preset, i decided to use my female orc preset that i created first time i installed RaceMenu. It's hard to create something else that compete with that.
She hasn't done much, just got out of Helgen and went straight for Embershard Mine. Some bandits got in her way, but you just can't keep an orc away from some good quality ore.

Play time ~ 50 minutes
Level - 4

I'll post detailed stats on my next update.

Video will be up in the next hour or so, but i'll create the playlist and link in my signature after i wake up (if anyone is interested).
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neildarkstar
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Kane
Feb 3 2017, 03:43 PM
Trolls are easy to kite, too.


Somehow, I've never found them easy to fight unarmed (especially since I rarely have much in the way of armor)... Silly me... :D

Areial
Feb 4 2017, 01:42 AM
Well the little I got to play today was... not fun... I had added two Mods... Simple Divorce and SMIM .. which I had used before, but not with some of the newer mod's that I have.. CTD... every time I got near Riverwood... SD worked fine in Testing.. so SMIM was the culprit ... well it just doesn't get along with something else.. so I took it out.. <wince> and managed to get to Riverwood...

Neil... You know those spiderlings in the Helgen Caves? I know ya do... those little suckers don't stop spawning... A'Riya was trying to get spider eggs and they kept spawning.. good for gathering Frostbite venom, bad ..for... well they weren't so bad she had to worry.. had a 2h by then...


I'll start with the last first... Yep, I'm intimately acquainted with those spideys. Open an egg sac and get three to five spiders of varying size after you. Fun, eh? ;)

As to your CTD problems, I'm having serious issues as well. In fact, I may have to drop out of the competition. I think my game is getting frustrated trying to kill Squishy Fae! Weirdness has been popping up... Bandits covering fifty feet to close with me in an instant and that sort of thing.

A little while ago, I was in fort Greenwall (the tower without the Bandit Chief on the other side) when I apparently ticked off the whole crowd by setting fire runes, running out the nearest door, then going in the other door and doing it again.

So, I was under assault by perhaps six various Bandit Thugs, Bandit highwaymen, and Bandit Outlaws (2 or 3 of each I think). I started for the door and went to drop a fire rune as I ran, but suddenly... I couldn't cast anything at all, or even draw my weapon and shield.

I made it to the door, but the damned thing wouldn't activate... So I turned and ran past a lot of confused bandits (right through the middle of them, in fact) back to the other door! When I got there, it wouldn't open either!

At that point, with the crowd closing in again, I did what any quick thinking Hero of Skyrim would do - I hit alt + f4, closing the game without a save. I restarted my computer, and then loaded the last save (an autosave when I went in the door) and killed them all without a problem (they'd all been pretty well dinged up by my earlier fire runes), but then my magicka wouldn't regenerate.

That's not the kind of game behavior that is conducive to DID play, eh? I guess I'll see what happens from here. Unless of course y'all think my closing of the game constitutes an illegal reload...
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Areial
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IMO no...as the game was glitching, as far as I know, their aren't any lock's on door's in Skyrim. So door's no opening is a glitch.. ie even had Squishy died it would have been caused by a glitch.

And yeah, I've only ever had one spawn before, but that was because after opening one egg sac they killed the 1st wave and then left... because Alchemy is part of her skills she tried to get a couple of egg's... fun times!
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I'll get mine up here later but I'll probably actually get playing tomorrow after chores.

Sakiri
Arija Winterborn
Nord
Female
Adept

1h
Block
Smithing
Heavy Armor
Enchanting
Archery
(Speech)
(Lockpicking)

Cart start

Games been a bit weird post patch(1.4 beta, SSE) so I'm hoping for stability.

Imoras build wasn't working so I'm saving her for later.

I'll get my load order later too.
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