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Siara N'Gola: Siara's Song
Topic Started: Jun 27 2016, 09:43 PM (4,198 Views)
Serethil
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Let me tell you up front.... If you have issues with horror movies, do NOT play this mod.

Serious.
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My favorite holiday is Halloween... bring on the horror....as long as they don't have baby doll's in them, those do give me the creep's. ( I was not a girly-girl )
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Nope, no baby dolls in this one. Now, I have to say that I'm NOT a fan of horror stuff. But.... this mod is so well done, I highly recommend it (if you're not creeped out by stuff like that).
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This is so scary. And so exciting! Yikes, I can’t wait for more!!
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:pop:
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Muhahaha :evil:

Sinister is much worse than overt horrific.....it eats at the nerves, creates paranoia, builds threat upon tension and makes every move a chilling risk.

Its not what you see...its what you don't see
Its not what you hear...its what you thought you heard
Its the smell of death.....
Its the taste of fear.....

Sorry...ran out of cliches ;)
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Siara's Tale 49:

I forced calm upon myself. I hadn’t lost my composure in that way - well, since Fenbaggan melted into the flood. And in truth, that had been a different sort of loss - not just my own state of mind, but the entirety of my life, my family. And with all that, this was somehow worse. For one thing, I had blithely got us into this - because I wanted to get the coin to operate the mine so that we didn’t have to consider ruins-delving - be honest Siara.... so I wouldn’t have to go into those ruins alone (well, I wouldn’t have it developed - as I would have had Andur along - but I didn’t want to be responsible for any damage to his soul or his beliefs no matter how much he indicated it wasn’t a problem).

It would have been even more awful - I might not have lived over this at all - had I been alone. But now I castigated myself for allowing Andur to companion me. He had vowed to me as Liege - and I had brought him into a danger that might be the death of both of us. I told myself that I must keep control - no more emotional outbursts. So far, we were both still alive. The - apparition had done us no real harm - beyond frightening us. It had, however, been very good at doing that....

We finally stood from the ages-old dust of the floor, to go on. I remembered just then what the smell in here reminded me of: the tombs of my long-kin.... grave-dust. Once you smell it, you never forget it. We had gone to make the offerings to their spirits on the Day of the Tricky God, and of course, that meant going into the dry, dusty tombs. I shuddered - I’d never felt good about dealing with those long dead spirits, and the smell in here brought all that back. I thrust thoughts of anything besides out situation away. This was not the time.

We started forward - again in a corridor - which wound around and back, over open areas and finally.... into rooms, cysts, halls.... filled with bones. I couldn’t even imagine how many bones there were - more than the stars in the sky, I deemed. Mostly, the bones didn’t rise and walk - but those that did we put down quickly - and truthfully, that was much better than a shade or apparition which stalked us and moved through us....

Andur killed the last walking bones that rose in a room which contained beds. “Here then Lady - let us sweep away the dead bones, and take some rest here. Not on the beds, oh no! But here we can have a fire, and spread bedrolls....”

And I made the tea. I wasn’t going to add probable poison to the issues I was dealing with!
Edited by Serethil, Aug 19 2016, 08:11 PM.
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very good read... varying degree's of the dead moving around, I agree though, animated bones are much better than shades.....
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I like how Siara found strength in her responsibility for Andur’s well-being. She is right, this is no time for bad tea! The pace of this adventure with rest and reflection between stretches of terror really draws me in. *takes notes*
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To see Siara, who has been mostly composed and in control, lose it in great fear, truly brings the level of her terror through! Gave me the shivers! The bond that continues to grow between man and liege lady through this is great to see, and I can't wait to see what happens next!
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Thanks y'all! Truthfully, the first time I ran a girl through this mod, it literally scared me into screaming aloud a couple of times - and stopping for a bit to get my heart rate back to normal was a necessity (which is why I extrapolated that Siara would need to do something similar). Husband was not amused.... of course.

I really have never been into the horror genre - but let me tell you, I wouldn't give this mod up now for all the tea in China!
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I downloaded it on the 18th before my Data change for the month... I had enough left..with a couple armor mod's and one update.
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Yeah, I need to get the updated version myself. I can do that this morning....
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Aug 20 2016, 09:34 AM
Thanks y'all! Truthfully, the first time I ran a girl through this mod, it literally scared me into screaming aloud a couple of times -
You ain't a Nord !

When Adella makes screams....its from other people's mouths :P

But, you're making me want a pc, very much......
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Siara's Song 50:

We ate a little, drank tea, slept. Coffee - both of us wanted it, but we hadn’t many beans with us, and were chary of using what we had. Tea had to do us. When I woke, I knew it was some hours on, but since there was no light in here other than occasional torches (and how then did they continue to burn? I didn’t know - and I was pretty sure I didn’t WANT to know.... since anything such as that stank of magic....)

Finally, sighing, I forced my feet forward into the next area - and the first thing was skulls. With glowing eyes. Which somehow rotated to follow us as we moved.... My heart was like to jump out of my chest when we entered a round room - in the center of which was another skull following our movements, and this one had bright blue glowing eyes almost like a huge sun, but the wrong color. I couldn’t get out of there fast enough, and running, I burst through a door - and skidded to a halt, gasping for breath, gasping in fear.

For here, there was - well, it seemed to be water, but one step showed it to be ice - a huge lake of ice - with various dwemer-ish ruins dotted around it. As we stepped onto the ice, the woman in the white dress suddenly slid under the ice toward us. I shrieked and ran for the steps to one ruin not far away - and the damned apparition followed me, under the ice!

Sobbing for breath, and with fear, I collapsed on the floor inside the ruined building. Would this never end? Surely.... it had to. If not.... I would end. I couldn’t continue to die of fright by inches like this.

Andur settled beside me. “Lady. I tried to break the ice. It cannot be broken. So - that.... ghost.... cannot come at us.”

I swallowed hard. “Thank you. I should have thought to try that. I’m - I haven’t been so afraid before. I’m not.... dealing well with this. I’m sorry.”

He laughed. “If you were dealing well with this, I would think you Leki’s stepchild! Let us not go that way, shall we?”

I laughed a bit as well. “Yes. Not a good idea. Well, let us go on. There must be a way out somewhere....” I hoped.

We had to traverse the ice again - with the apparition floating below the ice after us - toward some towers similar to those we’d seen around Skyrim. We climbed up the first, killing skeletons as they rose from the bone piles, crossed a tall bridge to another tower, with more walking bones (at least they are easy to kill....); then there was another bridge - and a dead end so it seemed. But leaning over the edge, I could see that there was an archway somewhat below and to the left - and there might be enough of an area to jump onto without falling to the ice under us.

Before Andur could say caution or that he’d go first, I’d jumped down. Sometimes.... you just have to do something.... He followed shortly, raising eyebrows. “It’s fine. I just needed to move.” Well.... truth. More or less.

We moved slowly into this new area. It was tunnel-ish. A few bone-piles, more torches that seemed to never fail, and a large hall-like room - where a strange sound began to be obvious. It was - like nothing I’d ever heard before. It began to rise in tone and pitch, and wail up and down a scale. The farther into the room we advanced the louder it became. And then the woman reappeared, and this time she pushed into us, causing pain and a little blood each time she touched one of us. We began to run - perhaps not the best idea, but.... well, needs must as the daedra drives after all!

Suddenly, the hall down which we turned began to crumble, dropping us on our knees then scrambling to dodge the parts of wall and ceiling which were falling. We raced away the other direction, and again parts of the building fell sending us tumbling. Again and again, with the ululating screaming noise rising around us. I was frantic with fear, and a quick glance at Andur showed his face as pale as I’d ever seen a Redguard, and his eyes rolling in terror.

We ran and ran, sobbing for breath. I don’t know how long we dodged falling walls, and tried to stop our ears against that horrible sound. I don’t even know when the woman stopped following us....

The last avalanche happened just after we actually found the outside air. The entire mountain collapsed behind us it seemed - I looked at Andur, and felt tears track through the dirt on my face.

“There’s no way back. I’ve led you to your death.” I fell onto my knees before him, sobbing. “I - have failed you, leading you to death untimely. My life is yours to take.”

“Nah then, Lady. We may find other ways. Let us make fire and tea. Or no - this would be the time for coffee I think.” He grinned at me.

I was startled out of tears and fears. “But....”

“See you? We are outside, in the air. Cold air. But then, we can have fire, there is wood here. We will be warm again shortly. And - coffee makes all right again, does it not?”

Aye. It did.
Edited by Serethil, Aug 20 2016, 09:17 PM.
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Dang it Sis, this is like watching a horror movie! The writing is not fancy (nor plain), not complicated...but the freaking FEAR jumps out and latches on to me as the reader. Holy cow....kudos Sis....kudos! Absolutely terrifying!


Edit: and I'm not certain I will play this mod, lol!
Edited by Andra Hawksdaughter, Aug 20 2016, 09:35 PM.
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Yeah. It was. I've skipped over some of it (the whole damn tunnel-dungeon is friggin' HUGE), just hitting the.... um.... "high" spots. And.... while writing this.... I find that my heart rate's up, just like when I ran the first girl through the beta.

This mod.... it drags you in, and it doesn't let you go....

Thanks sis!
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Brilliant! I love it... a plain description, that results in a clear picture of the scenes.
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Thanks! I really couldn't describe the entirety - seriously. So much of it was bounded by the - terror. It was better just - plainly stated....

Andy - yes, it can be very frightening. I was scared out of my mind the first time - but really.... you've got some pre-knowing reading this. You should play it especially if you have a girl who might be just right for the Castle as player home.... Wait until we get to that - it's.... MORE than remarkable.... And the rest of the mod isn't quite as.... horrific.
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Brilliant Sere....its got me by the throat.....

Its sounds like the mod is employing a lot of established horror mechinisms to wind up the tension. Turning skulls watching....Nasties under ice...classic!

Do more...do more :rose:
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