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| Adella's Way; A survivalist trial for masochists...chuckles | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 14 2017, 09:20 AM (6,926 Views) | |
| glargg | Aug 1 2017, 05:56 PM Post #421 |
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This sounds exactly like me, a few years back, before I finally quit playing MMOs. Grind, grind, farm that spawn point, grind, do the same handful of dungeons over and over, grind, farm that spawn point, grind. I hated it, but I kept doing it because it was my job. Except that it wasn't my job. It was a stupid game, and I was addicted to it. Skyrim is killing you, but even worse...you're killing Skyrim. You're going to spoil the game for yourself. And for Adella. I like what Areial said here. You're putting Adella through a lot of crap, and she deserves better. |
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| Rick | Aug 1 2017, 09:33 PM Post #422 |
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Well one more bit of crap just happened. Which just adds to the rightness of the good advice already received! I thought instead of waiting until tomorrow...get going again now whilst its still 1st of the month....a nice day to start...the beginning see. So after four hours I am just getting the final chunks of ore to do the necessary smithing bit (i.e. getting it to Dwarven skill 30) and went into Embershard mine. Now Adella was admittedly in just iron armour, but these are very low bandits at level 6. Killed the first one losing only about 1/4 health so not worried about the second one. He came upto her and she did that involuntary wobble thing that plays just a second before he took her f'ing head clean off. I was dumbfounded....he shouldn't have been able to do that! Not at least until she was down to like 15% health. That is the second time a basic bandit has decapped her despite her having good health. I can only assume he had an extra damage perk in operation which boosted his kill power. Well....that finished off my night :( Looks like Adella's Trial really is tougher than I give it credit for....or....I'm getting worse instead of better. ;) I wonder how many restarts I have done in six years? My very first foray into Skyrim was on Adept and Ulda died a fair bit even then...I remember when I first hit level 50 back then....it seemed like a huge achievement at the time. But I used healing, on Adept, and followers. Jeez if I could have seen me now! Ah well. Yes....I am probably killing Skyrim inside and probably not doing Adella's personality a lot of good either. This is a path of self destruction....yes....just like an addict.....its what I have become isn't it....a Skyrim DiD junkie. Ok...ok...maybe I will spend a day not pursuing the Trial.....maybe just roam.....let Adella torture a few bandits however she likes.....take her to Eldergleam Sanctuary with copious bottles of Argonian Bloodwine and let her bathe in the hot waters for a good long time....I find it relaxing just watching her likeness chilling out.....and she likes it too. We could cheat room her to a stupendous level and marmalise a few top bosses on Solstiem....that does wonders for her self esteem. Yeah......a vacation......partly on screen and partly in mind. A holiday break for both of us! Just for a few hours before restart number umpteen billion and three ;) |
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| Serethil | Aug 1 2017, 09:46 PM Post #423 |
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Rick. I remember your RP posts about Adella, Lakeview, the sunsets as she smoked and drank sitting on the upper deck. THOSE were lovely. Your self-flagellation/destructive addiction with this sort of thing - isn't. I thoroughly enjoyed Adella's posted adventures in text (well, other than the seriously sadistic ones - sorry, just SO not my thing) - and if I had the bandwidth I'd have enjoyed the vids of those adventures. This thread - well, I've read it. But.... it's.... a type of masochism that makes me cringe. I'd like to have the original Adella/Rick pairing back. |
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| Rick | Aug 2 2017, 05:05 AM Post #424 |
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Ah, yes, fond memories for me too. Of course she still does sit on the roof decking to smoke and imbibe her favourite Argonian Bloodwine......not just in mind, but I still actually do sit her there and then kinda daydream with her until she's ready to get going. We chat there too....I think to her and let her answers flow back as they formulate.....exactly as in her biography. But this is usually no more than an occaisional few minutes between quests. Hmmm, yeah, she still does those unspeakable things to captured bandits....I could just shut it out....not think of it.....but shutting her up is not our arrangement...so I let her nasty side play out in mind as she presents it....then try to quickly forget what I have seen. Of course you know it must come from the darkest corners of my own mind....I know that...its where she lives. Trying to get my head around it all still gets confusing......so I just take her as she is.....warts and all. So.....we are going for a short break....to nice places....I'm going to show my lady some much overdue love and appreciation. Like we used to.....maybe a pub crawl....haven't done that with her in a while. Oh wow! She's picked up on this already.....feeling kind of big smiles going on inside....she can't wait. Jeez...she's jumping all over my mind...picking outfits now.....I can't write and keep track if what she's doing all at the same time....gotta go.....I'll get back :) |
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| Areial | Aug 2 2017, 07:26 AM Post #425 |
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Vacation... find a nice quest mod, do something completely different. Their are some nice ones for x-box 1... but with the trial you will never get to them..take the time to do something completely different. |
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| Serethil | Aug 2 2017, 09:35 AM Post #426 |
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Et'Ada
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I'm with Areial - time for some R and R! |
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| neildarkstar | Aug 2 2017, 10:14 AM Post #427 |
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yeah, take advantage of Pentagon funding... they spent $80 million bucks to fund a study that discovered the best way to keep casualties down is to keep troops out of combat zones... ;) |
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| Areial | Aug 2 2017, 11:32 AM Post #428 |
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《Snicker 》I would not doubt it at all. |
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| Rick | Aug 2 2017, 01:30 PM Post #429 |
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Jarl
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Hmmm, a short quest that's not related to her Trials.....I will have a think. Well, in the meantime.....today....we had a very nice time. I prepared her in Cheat Room....gathered up loads of wine and materials to fuel her vices....then we headed out to Eldergleam Sanctuary. She swam and paraded about in outfits, and relaxed in the clouds of steam. I watched her partially on screen and partially inside. I hummed tavern melodies to her as she drank and smoked. We were both very happy there. This went on for hours....in the morning we went out to the hot pools and bathed in the warm waters along with a few npcs doing the same. A big Wooley Rhino eyed us suspiciously, but stayed just far enough away to not make us nervous. Adella loved the bubbling jacuzzi waters and lying full length in the blue mineral waters. I loved just feeling her so content...and she is certainly easy on the eye <cough> After that she was feeling a bit.....naughty! So I took her to Solitude where the execution mod has a special little dagger for sale. Once a bandit reaches 20% health the little dagger can be used to inflict a Ai altering poison. They become placid and follow like mindless pups. She already had a scenario in mind and I took her to capture a bandit Thug from Bthalft in the Rift. The poor sap followed meekly behind into Honeystrand Cave...where she killed the bears so they would not be disturbed. Without getting too graphic...basically she teased him rotten until he didn't know whether to be scared or excited. Then she enjoyed a slow kill using feet, fists and hot things until he collapsed...then she sat on him and did stuff I couldn't see properly and didn't want to, as he quivered his last in excruciating pain I should imagine. But she climbed off the body all big smiles....so I guess whatever she got out of it was good for her. I was keen to get back out to normality and hurried her into Ivarstead where she spent the evening in the Vilemyr with drink and song. When it was time to leave her likeness she looked that odd mix of sad, but content. And so was I :) Pics to follow :D Edited by Rick, Aug 2 2017, 01:34 PM.
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| Rick | Aug 2 2017, 02:12 PM Post #430 |
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Eldergleam Sanctuary Sond seems quite enamoured with our heroine ;) Posted Image Weeeee! Posted Image You can just smell nature in here Posted Image Rick even remembered the ice bucket....perfect! Posted Image Breathing smoke or steam M'lady is equally happy! Posted Image What can I say....hubba hubba :) Posted Image Outside in the hot springs.....making friends Posted Image When laying in water.....it is important to keep two vital things above the surface.... Spoiler: click to toggle Posted Image Girly secrets :pst: Posted Image This is her 'dangerous and unpredictable' look....normally it means trouble, thankfully, not today :) Posted Image Time to go...farewell friends Posted Image Hooooo boy! Naughty time..... :devil: This poor fool doesn't know what's in store....he might be a Thug, but I felt sorry for him all the same. Posted Image A stiletto through the lunch box will bring any man to his knees :ohno: Posted Image And once on his knees.....he might need extra heeling Posted Image Until...he caves in....completely. Yeah, and that torch was not to help her see better.....the poor bastard. Posted Image After I dragged her away from her "fun"....we went to the Vilemyr and after a change of outfit (with no blood stains), we spent a lovely last few hours listening to Lynly play while Adella finished the last of her wine and cigars in complete relaxation. I gotta get her out more often :D Edited by Rick, Aug 2 2017, 03:38 PM.
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| Areial | Aug 2 2017, 03:13 PM Post #431 |
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Very nice! |
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| Trav | Aug 2 2017, 03:44 PM Post #432 |
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I I I think I am in love 😍 |
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| Adella | Aug 2 2017, 03:57 PM Post #433 |
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Why thank you Trav. You have made me blush :$ Adella x :) |
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| Trav | Aug 2 2017, 04:34 PM Post #434 |
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oh God sh sh she spoke to me Edited by Trav, Aug 2 2017, 05:20 PM.
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| glargg | Aug 2 2017, 11:47 PM Post #435 |
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:) |
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| Rick | Aug 3 2017, 04:19 PM Post #436 |
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Adella is.....in trouble! We got underway again today and she is now level 12. She just started building Lakeview....the small house was built but unfurnished. Needing bedding straw, she ran through the gloaming to Whiterun and by the time she was returning through Riverwood it was now pitch dark. So imagine our horror when she physically ran right into some unlit travellers who said..... "We're here to teach you a lesson!" She fled south along the rising road, past the Guardian Stones and ended up somewhere amongst snow covered rocks a bit north of Helgen. The map shows a general location....which means nothing on the ground when all you can see are black rocks upto three feet away and some featureless snow piles beyond that! I am scared for her.....the thugs are no longer showing on her radar......but could be waiting down the road! If she goes on to Lakeview...might they come inside or wait by the door? Damn, I don't even know what she stole....but if it's a non essential npc behind the contract....they're dead! :angry: All we can do for now is wait out the dawn so we can see ahead. I don't generally use the 'wait' button....and in this case I dare not..in case it prompts a spawning. We have no choice but to physically wait it out in real time. All the time she is checking over her shoulder. With armour of just 75, those thugs will one hit her dead in a blink! This is butt clenching stuff for both of us...... Edited by Rick, Aug 3 2017, 04:57 PM.
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| Rick | Aug 4 2017, 07:12 AM Post #437 |
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Well.....she didn't die :) As dawn graced the skies with a pretty pink and a light fog took on the candy floss colour, we cautiously crept back toward the last known location of the three hired thugs. Suddenly.....A Thug! On his own, but steel armoured and mean as hell, shouting threats as he ran forward. Adella fled with the thug so close I could see his weapon waving around the bottom of my screen. Into Riverwood we ran, but I knew no one would lift a finger and the guards gleefully announced 'this should be good'. On the edge of my seat, we ran on to Whiterun. Every few seconds the pursuing thug would get extra close and we heard the swoosh of his weapon. Saving stamina, Adella sprinted in short bursts to keep the distance, but oh so close to certain death. I know how this goes you see.....the foe does not stop you and fight...no! What they do is unexpectedly grab a shoulder, yank you back into stagger and run you through from behind.....oh yes! We have been down this road more than a few times! She reached Whiterun. We desperately needed help, an edge, something that could turn the tables. Then....I had it......Woolley Rhinos (mod). These beasts are placid until you get pretty close and they do seem to hate bandity types. They are also immensely dangerous and surprisingly fast! (I suspect they use tweaked Mammoth Ai and mechanics). The difficult trick is to circle until the Rhino is between us and the thug, and with the thug far enough away as for him not to simply circle with us. Patience and daring paid off.....the stupid thug ran at Adella....right past the Rhino's nose. Ooooffff ! That horn had to hurt. Boff ! and the thug was on his knees Dosh! And he's down for good Buuuuut....uuuuum! Well, how could we leave not knowing if this was the thug leader...the one with....the contract! And if so...who paid it? But his body was being snorted over by one pretty annoyed Rhino...how could we get close enough to grab the contract without turning Mr. Angry into a red dot on the compass. Well....its a gripping mini vid over in the standalone video shorts thread :D Main thing is...she's alive....and inside I hugged my girl so tight with great relief :) Edited by Rick, Aug 4 2017, 07:34 AM.
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| neildarkstar | Aug 4 2017, 08:36 AM Post #438 |
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A great tale Rick! That's one for the mead hall, eh? :D I got a little short one I'll tell you, but I'll put it in Holly's "after competition" thread. I think you might like. Eh, I haven't written it yet, so it'll be a while. |
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| Rick | Aug 4 2017, 09:12 AM Post #439 |
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Jarl
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Thanks Neil :) Meanwhile......since The Contessa re-started on 3rd Aug.....I suppose her first two regulation stats updates are due. Tbh....nothing startling here....but I have them in case this run is THE one...I would hate to get through it all and not have the early part of the journey on record....y'know....for the sake of completeness and all that. So...stats update leaving the cave at Helgen...level 3 Aaaand in the usual spot with the usual jangles at level 10 I can't wait to get to the fun stuff after level 30.....thats where it all fits together....the crafted gear....the extra resistances and no more fear of bears and snowey sabrecats....but the bosses are much meaner ;) |
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| Rick | Aug 5 2017, 09:22 PM Post #440 |
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Jarl
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Aaaaand here we have the Contessa's level 20 stats update....although she is currently already level 25 :) |
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