Alarrah Playthrough
Posts pertaining to my playthrough of Alarrah the Bosmer
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In Which the Dragonborn Continues to Aid the Dawnguard
So far i’m finding that the plot for Dawnguard does not lend itself well to pausing and coming back to it later, the way Skyrim’s main plotline does. This may be because Serana is a required follower for a good chunk of this storyline, and if she’s immediately on hand urging you to do the next necessary thing, it does not seem narratively appropriate to blip back to Whiterun to hunt or craft or sell things!
Which means: I’ve made pretty fast progress through the main quests of this storyline. As of last night it looks like I have only three quests left in the main Dawnguard plot, though there are apparently side quests I could also do? We’ll have to see if the opportunity to do those arises.
Highlights and details behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Joins the Dawnguard
As promised, my defeat of Alduin was not the end of my adventures in Skyrim! With this post, I commence Alarrah’s next overall Skyrim adventure: running the quests for the DLC Dawnguard.
Details and highlights behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Defeats Alduin
This is not my last Skyrim post—this is only the one in which I finish the main plot, and there is still the DLC stuff to play through, for Dawnguard and Dragonborn. Plus, chances of a second playthrough are high, as there’s still a lot of stuff in the game I haven’t done yet, just because I didn’t feel like those quests quite fit with this character as I played her.
But this is the one in which Alarrah does defeat the World-Eater, Alduin, and as such it’s definitely a milestone!
Details and screencaps behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Enacts Her Plan
More major plot advancement in this session, with a break in between for visiting a bit of Labyrinthian I hadn’t seen before!
And since this too is chock fulla spoilers for the tail end of the main Skyrim plotline, everything goes behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Adopts a Child
So a big part of this session involved getting both Ulfric Stormcloak and General Tullius to agree to show up for the Graybeards’ peace conference. But I also did a bunch of side things, and I think most importantly for Alarrah’s general long-term life plans, I finally adopted Lucia, the orphan who’s been begging in Whiterun!
Highlights and details all behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Goes to Valthume
Last night’s session was a shorter one as my Skyrim runs go, and I had time only for one goal: going to Valthume and getting the Shout word from the Word Wall there. And oh yeah: defeating my fourth dragon priest!
Spoiler alert: not a good dungeon for arachnophobes, though.
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In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for Crimson Nirnroot
After the big excitement of the last session I wanted to take a break from the main plot, so I went to do the side quest triggered when I found the crimson nirnroot down in Blackreach. Which meant needing to return to Blackreach! And after that, I went to High Hrothgar to have a word with Master Arngeir about Current Events.
Highlights and details behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Takes on Alduin, Round One
This was a big crunchy run too, not just for length of play time yesterday, but also for big significant plot points that got carried out. And big significant bugs that interfered with my ability to do that, even though I did finally make it through the buggy parts!
Skyrim is a ten year old game at this point, but I know of at least one player now playing it on the Switch who hadn’t ever played it before. So for the sake of hiding major game plot points, I’m putting everything behind the fold.
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In Which the Dragonborn Discovers the Oghma Infinium
This session was basically all about these goals:
- Improve my carrying capacity as this is an ongoing problem
- Finish up the Discerning the Transmundane quest
- Burn through more of my excess building materials by building more things!
This was a very scattershot sort of session, though, since I bounced around all over the place. And I’m not sure I have everything in exact order. That said, highlights and details behind the fold!
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In Which the Dragonborn Hunts for an Elder Scroll
This session was another long crunchy one, because on the night before a PTO day, I can stay up till stupid-o’clock playing Skyrim! 😀
The main goal of this session was to find Septimus Signus and learn from him how to find an Elder Scroll. This required me to first find the guy, which was itself kind of challenging. Then I had to follow his request to take a Blank Lexicon to a particular Dwemer ruin, get it filled with data out of the Elder Scroll there, and bring the Lexicon back to him!
I’m going to go ahead and put even the highlights list behind the More tag, because the bullet points by themselves are long and spoilery!