Skyrim

Every time I have to do business in Windhelm, this guy seems to just follow me around and repeat that line unprompted. Just walking around town, muttering his madness mantra.

Every year or two, I do a winter playthrough of Skyrim and set different rules to try to keep the game feeling fresh.

This year, I'm doing a rogue character so have focused on stealth, pickpocket, and generally avoiding battles as a primary method of completing quests (granted, you can't really do a "no kill" playthrough). I've avoided wasting perks on Enchanting this time around (rare for me) and have mostly made due with the stock special armors (Nightengale armor, Dark Brotherhood shrouded armor, etc).

As for my gameplay rules, I went for a sadistic approach. Some of these were decided on before I started the game and a few others I added as I went along.

• Play by the "Yes, and..." philosophy. Talk to every random NPC and say yes to every quest offer no matter how mundane.
• No fast travel except by carriage. This has forced me to stack and "traveling salesman" my quests. I also saved up and bought a horse very early in the game.
• If a place marker comes up on the map, go explore. Even if I'm en route to a quest objective. I've found locations I've never visited in any prior playthrough this way.
• No waiting like a psycho in front of a store until it opens. If I need to pass time, either go rent a room in the inn, sleep in a campsite/abandoned shack/whatever, or if I only need to kill an hour or two, go to the inn and sit in a chair while listening to the bard.
• If I can steal something, steal it (I am playing a rogue, after all). I have all three Hearthfire houses, and pretty much all of the building materials were stolen while also leveling my smithing skill (now lvl 100)
• Only steal what I can use directly or launder. e.g. It's too much effort and wasted skill perks to fence every stolen gold ingot or flawless diamond, but I can smith those stolen materials into legit gold diamond jewelry and, while leveling my smithing skill, make a nice profit.
• No console commands unless there's a major glitch and loading a save doesn't resolve it. If Frost or Vigilance die, they stay dead. I've reloaded saves many times to bring both of them back to life, though.
• Don't abandon my family like I always tend to do. I made it a point to visit the family home every so often.
• I'm not using the mod for this (the game is unstable enough in Wine as it is), but I make myself eat food at regular intervals, most of it I cook myself in-game. My inventory has about 50+ salt piles at any given time.
• Every time I come across a group of Imperial soldiers with a Stormcloak prisoner, pickpocket all the equipment from the solders, give it to the prisoner, and free them. They're on their own from there.
• Don't kill and soul trap Heimskr and put his black soul gem on display in my house like I do in every playthrough. I did pickpocket his clothes, so now he's raving in his underwear.
• Quicksave and load are permitted

So far, I'm at level 59 and have just started the Dawnguard questline. Aside from the main Alduin questline and the civil war quest, most all of the major side quests have been completed. Haven't decided which side of the civil war quest I'm going to do this time because they both suck lol. I usually alternate, but will probably do Imperials this time. I don't owe Ulfric shit just because we escaped Helgen together, and he's pretty insufferable with his self-righteousness.

Edit: I forgot. I did allow myself one console command: fov 90. That zooms the view out slightly and gives you better peripheral vision and just makes the FPV a little less claustrophobic.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/739150

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/31875214

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/715304

Not my OC though it would have been had I not found this one when I was scouring for source images. But hey, using someone else's is totally on theme here 🤷‍♂️

Focusing on stealth, pickpocket, and speech this time around.

Edit: Dayum. Arcadia don't fuck around. Pickpocketed her shop key, came back and robbed the place, made a bunch of potions, and sold them back to her. No bounty (so I didn't get caught) but she sent an assassin after me the first time and now the Dark Brotherhood.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37301575

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37106137

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Edited - It has nothing to do with the crown. I am keeping what I wrote below but it is that wearing 5 pieces of azerials actually cause the four piece buff to disapear. -

So I am playing the special edition with no further mods and am at the point where I have alchemy and enchanting at 100 and going back and forth to get the bonuses to diminishing returns. Anyway I was on the second round and my enchanted gear was a percent down. it was driving me nuts and I could not figure it out but then recalled I was wearing the aetherial crown with the steed stone before as I was doing stuff in between and had carried a lot (my main use of the aetherial crown is to hold the steed stone) and you only need four pieces of azerials (im sure im butchering the name). So I swapped to it and low and behold I went a few percent ahead. No idea why this is but I have not seen a mention anywhere about it. Im not sure if having five pieces of azerials maybe messes it up or if its the aetherial crown or I guess the steed stone.

So, I killed the spider, got the key. I go in, look around. No issues. I go into the lab, and touch nothing and I'm getting whacked on by a guard, and I've got a bounty on me. What'd I do?

Skyrim: Anniversary Edition on the Switch

I've followed all the directions and the numbers do indeed go up. WAAAAAY UP! Problem is, the enchantment numbers don't stay up.

I make sure that I've got my Fortify Enchantment potion in the multi thousands using the restoration loop. So, it's in the high 10000%. I go to create a Fortify Alchemy headband. Everything looks good, I hit enchant, and the number stays way up......until the 30 seconds is up. Then it's only improving my alchemy by like 68%

1. I do the Fortify Restoration loop.
2. Make sure my Fortify potions are increasing the skill by the tens of thousands of percents. Specifically Fortify Enchanting.
3. I ingest Fortify Enchantment potion, while the fortify restoration loop is still active.
4. I choose headband, Fortify Alchemy, Grand (or larger) soul gem with a Grand soul in it.
5. I enchant and the headband now has fortify alchemy in the 10,000% range.
6. 30 seconds goes by from first ingestion.
7. Headband now only improves Alchemy by like 68%.

What am I doing wrong chaps?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29222299

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43512829

Close to the Sarethi farm

Looks like no new post about Skyrim has been made here for several months. As a big Skyrim fan, I feel this is just wrong. So, I will post about Skyrim until I get an echo from the void...

I will kick off by being controversial. Many Skyrim fans mock Nazeem. I just feel sorry for the guy: he had a good life, full of purpose and satisfaction, as a Skyrim farmer. Then he sold his farm, retired to Whiterun, where he is wasting all his hard-earned money by trying to slime his way into high society, dressing like a knob, and talking down to people that are still living the kind of life he left behind. His wife now despises him, he has no friends, and the toffs he fawns on all laugh at him. He doesn't even have a pet dog. He is a lost soul. He needs someone to tell him to buy himself another farm before he loses his last septim and get back to living a life that gives him dignity and happiness. His wife would probably back that 100%. Do Skyrim fans care? Nope, they are all down on the guy because in his misery he mocks them. It is just projection, I tell you. His projection, and the fans projecting back at him. People in this category all need to live better lives and find self-respect.

On the other hand, no one ever criticises Hod, the work-shy lumberjack in Riverwood, who encourages his son to sexually abuse farm animals. Nope, that is just a regular guy doing normal parenting /s. This scumbag gets no pushback from his nasty wife, who simply looks the other way while her son turns into a psychopath with dad's help. Hod is even looked up to by his dog, Stump. How is that not making you nauseous, fans of Skyrim? Plus the poor cow he keeps in his garden for his son to abuse... are you just going to shrug and walk away? Me, I always kill Hod, and often adopt his son to give the boy a chance to grow up normal away from his evil parent. Moo-Moo and Stump live on in Riverwood, happy and safe. It is how it should be, fellow Dragonborns! Hating Hod is the only honourable and healthy way to be,

So, fellow Skyrim fans - who do you think worse? Nazeem or Hod? Or can you name someone worse than Hod? Convince, I think not.

Skyrim doesn't get any more skyrimy than this IMO