Jerian finally retrieved those books for Urag - only a month late! He then met with a Psijic monk, who informed him of the dangers of the Eye of Magnus. After seeking out the Augur of Dunlain and consulting the Arch-Mage and Mirabelle, he's preparing to search the ancient ruins of Mzulft for the Staff of Magnus. He's asked his fellow apprentice, Brelyna, to join him - she almost seemed pleased the invitation!

Currently he's sitting in his room at the College - Brelyna is asleep in her room, and Jerian is intrigued by the book he was given by Urag, written by Hannibal Traven. He's also working on his second bottle of Alto Wine ...

Having served 16 days in Whiterun prison, Veronica has gone back to her regular ol' goody tweener two shoes.

Jerian is about to enter Labrynthian, with the Wabbajack in his hand and Brelyna by his side. He's terrified of what he might face, but he needs to find the Staff and save the College - and perhaps all of Skyrim.

Currently walking from Winterhold to Riverwood via Whiterun. I just dropped of my 7th dragon priest mask in my tower in the college. I just met a very interesting character en route there... Cicero

Ah, good old Cicero! He's a very clever character. And a bit of a nutcase.
Which reminds me, I need to make my way down to Riverwood from the College ... I need to infiltrate a certain embassy, and FINALLY return that darn golden claw to Lucan!

Got Frost. Awesome. Then some time later, mid fight, he either died or disapeared. Either way, he's not in the game.

A dragon fell out of the sky dead and I took it's soul.
Fought a aincient dragon in Solitude. First time for that.

Made dragon scale armour, awesome. I like light armour best. It looks good and you don't sound like you are dying when you run.

Killed Vittoria Vicci while she was giving her speech. Took her wedding outfit. Then paid the fine.
Astrids funny when talking about it, lol.

Helping the imperials crush Ulfric.

Bought the solitude house. it's the nicest overalll. Nice place, nice house.

Saving money for the 100,000 gold trophy.

Tried out who you can kill in the nasty sewer pit that is the ratway tavern. Theres one. Dirge. No one else. Bloody stupid. Dirge will die.

We are currently in Mzulft, it's proving to be quite an interesting trip - Niamh can't help but think that like it or not her destiny may be tied up with it somehow.
That said it's (currently) a breeze compared to the HORRENDOUSLY lethal fort she found herself in the night before. It wasn't going too well then anyway since she hadn't long found herself in an abandoned shack with a mysterious woman in a catsuit - not that she'd have minded under other circumstances, but considering that went to sleep she was in Windhelm...

Sadly, the time has come for http://i1122.photobucket.com/albums/l528/Lady-Mara-2/Achilles2.jpg and I to part ways. He was my first Skyrim character, and we've had some good times, but his game has pretty much come to an end. He rose through the ranks of the companions in order to win the heart of the lovely Aela, whom he married, completed the main quest and joined the Imperial Legion, all with the help of his trusty bodyguard Lydia. There's a bug in the Legion questline and he can't go any further, but it felt like a natural point to stop, anyway.

I guess I'll load him up sometime when I want to visit him, but I won't be playing much with him anymore.

Here's to you, Achilles!

Jerian has sealed away Morokei, the Dragon Priest who wielded the Staff of Magnus, in the depths of Labrynthian. After clearing the ruin, he cast a rune on the trapdoor, sealing Morokei's chamber, and did the same with the main entrance. This was more for RP purposes than anything, but it like something he needed to do. He regretted doing so, however - his fellow apprentice, Brelyna, died fighting the draugr, and when he sealed the ruin he destroyed any chance of paying his respects to her again.

He then returned the the College, Staff of Magnus in hand, and defeated the traitor Ancano. After being named Arch-Mage by the Psijic monks he retired to his new quarters.

Mara: farewell Achilles! How far into the Legion questline was he?
Phon: Did Niamh take up the catsuit lady's offer?

Morokei is a tough opponent. Recently my mage, Flying Snow, had a lengthy battle with him (20 minutes IRL!) and nearly lost her husband Marcurio in the process. He'd somehow dropped all his weapons, had no magic left and fell helplessly to his knees. Only a staff Flying Snow had saved his life, though by the time the battle was over it had lost all of it's charge. She was so relieved when the two of them could breathe in the cold, fresh air again. As her name suggests, she hates being cooped up in caves and dungeons. She thrives when she can feel the sunlight on her skin and the wind in her hair.

Achilles was in the middle of "Reunification of Skyrim", just before "The Battle for Fort Dunstad". The Legate at the Pale Imperial Camp would not give him the mission.

Started a new character (read my signature) and he is level 3 gone to solitude dont the lights out! quest and joined the empire... also invented an olympic sport.... mudcrab hurling.

Collecting things (books specifically, at the moment), confirming collections (do I have all the unique items I could possibly have?), and exploring all locations haven't been explored (still have plenty that haven't been featured in any quests).

Jerian's battle was less dramatic, but incredibly difficult. He perched himself on the highest, most central ledge, took care of Morokei's captors and began hurling fireballs at him. He then had to change his tactic, when he was hit by one of Morokei's deadly lightning bolts which almost killed him. He conjured a flame atronach, which Morokei promptly cast a spell on to make it attack it's Conjurer, Jerian. Fortunately his Banish Daedra spell took care of that. He then just blasted Morokei over and over with the Wabbajack, until he exploded spectacularly into a shower of gold coins. Jerian is similar - he prefers the fresh air, but at the same time he loves to sit in the Arcaneum, reading up about magic.

It's a shame about Achilles - the final battle is very fun. Sounds like he had a good life though!

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Jerian spent a few days at the College and the surrounding area. He found one of the mages Phinis mentioned had gone missing - Rundi was surrounded by Ice Runes just below the town of Winterhold. He then travelled to Riverwood to speak with Delphine, fetched Esbern Fromm Riften and led them both to Karthspire. On the way, they we're attacked by both a dragon AND an assassin, both of whom they made short work of. They then wiped out the Forsworn at Karthspire Camp and made their way to the long-lost Sky Haven Temple, where they learned the secrets of Alduin's Wall.

Jerian then climbed High Hrothgar, his new companion Marcurio at his side, and spoke with Paarthurnax, who told him go find an Elder Scroll. Back at the College, Urag told him of Septimus Signus, who Jerian and Marcurio then met in his home to the North of Winterhold. But instead of continuing on to Alftand, Jerian dismissed Marcurio and headed to Riverwood. There he visited his old friend Camilla Valerius, wearing his Amulet of Mara, and the two were soon wed in Riften.

Jerian is now in Riverwood, at his love's home, where he stocked up on potions. He's decided to collect Lydia from Whiterun, and together they will be exploring Alftand for the Elder Scroll.

After dealing with the exceedingly underwhelming menace that was Alduin, Eyes-Of-War attended a wedding in Solitude. He felt that it was time the Imperials felt the true menace of Skyrim in all his glory. Arriving at Solitude via carriage at midnight, he was greeted jovially by the gate guards ("All hail the Dragonborn!"). "Save your laurels until you know why I'm here," he muttered as he entered the Winking Skeever. He rented a room for the night and woke up at 8am to attend Victoria Vicci's wedding ceremony, which was getting started as he arrived. He spoke briefly with the bride and groom and some of the guests, including Jarl Elisif, who seemed a bit on edge, almost as if she could sense the impending bloodbath. As Victoria made her way to the balcony to address her guests, Eyes-Of-War made his way up to the paraqet overlooking the festivities.
As she thanked everyone for coming to celebrate her glorious day, the wrathful Argonian fired a fury spell at her husband, who didn't react as planned and instead charged down off the balcony to attack his would-be mother-in-law. Not one to be outdone by fate, Eyes-Of-War launched another Fury spell directly at the bride, who then flew into a murderous rampage of her own, attacking husband and wedding guest alike. By this point the local law enforcement was up in arms about the procedings, but the Argonian was tactfully positioned away from the majority of them. He looked up into the sky and Shouted at the top of his voice "OHDAHVIING!!!" just as his brother in arms Veezara came up to him, telling him that he was here to help. "Good, let's do this." Eyes-Of-War responded quickly and began incinerating the guards who were starting to make way to his position, despite Jenassa and his Storm Atronach.
Then the dragon arrived. Ohdahviing generally held position hovering above his new master, breathing fire on Solitude guards and civilians alike, while chaos reigned freely below the two. This continued on for several minutes, and one guard even managed to sneak up behind the Dragonborn almost killing him, before being promptly incinerated like all the rest. With no apparent end of guards in sight, even with the assistance of a dragon, Eyes-Of-War used another trick he had up his sleeve, he Shouted at the sky "Strun Bah!" which translated to Storm Wrath, and the very heavens themselves came to his aid as he jumped down off the paraqet to clean up whatever was left of Solitude's law enforcement. Between Ohdahviing and Eyes-Of-War hurling fire, Veezara running around stabbing people, Jenassa firing arrows at everyone and the sky hurling lightning down, they made quick work of the remaining guards and anyone else who was outside that morning, just for good measure.
As he was making his way to the side exit of Solitude (so as not to have to deal with the gate guards) he encountered Jarl Elisif all by herself looking askance. He belted her in the face with two blasts of fire, and left the city out the side tower, jumped in the water, and swam away, perfectly content with his 7,200 septim bounty and a job well done.

My breton Jelissa is out word wall hunting for the moment. Right now she's a bit upset due to the fact that Marcurio went missing in a ruin :/
Next, she'll be heading to Solitude to sell some loot. Then she has the TG questline to finish. Being Dragonborn is busy!

robbed white runs vault yesterday
had to make more than one trip due to carry weight
who knew steel bars would be so heavy lol

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/grits29/JensaSummer-Song.jpg is relaxing in the Reach with her man Stenvar. Here’s what she says about it:

Stenvar and I are camped up in a hanging valley looking north toward Dragon Bridge. The trapper who lives here calls it Cliffside Retreat. I don’t know what she’s retreating from, but we’re sure on the side of a cliff.

At first I wasn’t sure about sleeping close to someone who wants to live so far from company. Often these folk are alone for a reason. Then she told us how her man got the brain rot so bad he knew it was going to be the end of him. He went off one day with just a skinning knife, and she never even found his bones. Now she has to find a good death, too, so she can see him again in Sovngarde. When she said that, I saw Stenvar get all misty. That man has a soft spot for romance stories. Anyway I guess she’s not going to cut our throats while we sleep. If she does and someone’s found this journal, her name is Freja. Feel free to murder her for me.

Freja told us where to find a deep pool to swim in, but first we had to catch the slaughterfish. I went in to wake the fish up so Stenvar could shoot them. We played in the falls for a while and then on the moss at the edge of the pool, and then we finished up with some more swimming. When we got hungry enough we climbed back up the rocks and grilled the slaughterfish for dinner. I saw a couple of good nests down there under the water. When those eggs hatch, there will be a whole lot more slaughterfish.

After dinner I asked Freja how she was coping with the dragons. She said they don’t bother her, but she’s having an awful time with the sabre cats. She can see from her porch how the dragons hunt elk in the valley. They eat a lot of them. So now the elk don’t need to come up as high to browse, and the sabre cats are moving lower to hunt. The farmers are losing cattle, too. Sometimes one cow is all that gets a family through the winter. Damned dragons. I guess if Alduin is bringing about the end of things, he’s not too bothered about balancing predators and prey.

Up here under just the sky I feel a peace inside me. Soon enough there will be another barrow to crawl through and walking bones to fight, but tomorrow I want to stay right here. We can climb back down to that pool and swim some more, as long as we have thistle stems to chew against the chill. I’m going to lie down on that moss again with Stenvar and hold him all day if he wants me to. Hells, if it rains we can roll in the mud. I saw him smile today with that old lightness about him. Every step we take brings us closer to sorrow, that’s the only way happy can end. Maybe we can stay still for just a little while.

I am trying to get a character up to level 50. Trying, but failing. I play very specific role-plays and all my characters (over 10 now) are done by the time they are 30-40 level.

I started over again with my favorite character, a very straight forward Nord, light armor, sword and shield, smithing. She has bashed and slashed her way up to level 20, but sadly I already feel like I'm running out of steam.

I think I just need to take a month long break from Skryim for a while. I noted I've logged in over 535 hours now. If FONV UE would just go on sale I'd be all set.

Nice.

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h361/grits29/JShanjisThirdLife.png has adjusted to his third life quite nicely. (First one died, then I restarted J’Shanji 2 at the 100 hour mark for being too rich and powerful.) He’s still a warrior, this time unarmed for melee with a bow for dragons. Restoration spells and all the potions he can find. As he said two lives ago, “This one is no flower picker.”

We had a pretty fun trip with Faendal from Riverwood to the Meadery yesterday. There was an awkward gift from Camilla, a giant, a dragon, and some wit from M’aiq. Here’s the retelling in spoiler tags for scrolling convenience.

Getting my Conniving Khajiit Bard/Thief into as many in-town non-dungeon shenanigans as pssible

Lydia was having a hard time so Kiir Srinna took her back to Breezehome and she retired from the road. Now she's resting and eating bread. Then Kiir went to Markarth and now with Argis the Bulwark is going to Valthume because she got a Letter From A Friend. She likes those letters and wonders who her friend is?

I was in Fort Katsav when my latest character, Tepes Bathory - a Breton, became a full blown vampire...

His first victim was a mercenary who couldn't be persuaded to hand over the bounty letter. Conjoured a flame atronach and drained the mercs life away before feeding on her corpse using the Ring of Namira. Went into the nearest village - Anga's Mill - and satisfied his vampiric bloodlust on a young woman named Aeri. Then it was back to his lair...

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...it's located in the basemant of Anise's Cabin and has an apothecary's satchel that doesn't reset, an alchemy lab and an enchanting table - perfect for my build. It also remains classed as tresspassing so followers will go down with you, but turn hostile when you try to interact

His MO is to lure hapless adventurers to his lair and have his evil way with them. Hannibal Lecter said, "How do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet?...No. We begin by coveting what we see every day."

Who's Tepes Bathory been coveting in this sleepy little hamlet then? Muahaha-hahaaa

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Sven? Or Faendal? I'll let you guys decide who his first victim is..

Here's perk distribution at my current level (22)

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Main form of attack is conjour flame atronach then bound bow and swords + drain

Just started Imperial character, level 6 right now. My plan for the guy: http://skyrimcalculator.com/#116702

Fighting 3 frost trolls on adept. lol Plan on using these 2 fire storm scrolls to kill em off. lol

Now my Devious Khajiit is going to become a skooma dealer...as soon as i figure out how to make it...dont do drugs children