Ysani Playthrough
Posts pertaining to my playthrough of Ysani Demers, Breton mage
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In Which Ysani Does General Adventuring
This post covers play on Tuesday 3/8 and Wednesday 3/9, and basically is a lot of me wandering around doing general adventuring, killing time till I’m able to proceed on the Potema plot.
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In Which Ysani Foils a Conspiracy and Adopts a Second Daughter
This is a double session post, covering play done on Sunday 3/6 and Monday 3/7. Aside from the usual building and crafting, the main action in this post is running the Forsworn Conspiracy plot. But with a hefty side helping of major dragon attack at Left Hand Mine near Markarth—and my adopting a surprise second child!
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In Which Ysani Acquires More Stones of Barenziah and Interrupts a Summoning
Quested my way through both Rannveig’s Fast and Sunderstone Gorge–and once done with that, settled in to run the quests to take down the Wolf Queen Potema in Solitude, so I can work on getting two of the three remaining Stones of Barenziah! And getting the thaneship of Haafingar while I’m at it.
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In Which Ysani Destroys the Dark Brotherhood
Acquired three different Stones of Barenziah this session, grabbing both of the ones to be had in Windhelm–and capping off the session by running the questline to destroy the Dark Brotherhood! Which got me access to a third stone!
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In Which Ysani Steals a Horse and More Stones of Barenziah
This session continues my campaign to get the rest of the Stones of Barenziah! But with some careful judicious horse theft as well. Though arguably, really, is it actually horse theft if the owner of the horse knows in advance that I’m stealing it?
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In Which Ysani Becomes Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild
Critical Thieves Guild activity in this session! First and foremost: got officially proclaimed Guildmaster. But I also formalized getting the Khajiit to work with the Guild, and launched my campaign to get the rest of the Stones of Barenziah!
Meanwhile, did a lot of building at Heljarchen Hall, and got my Smithing up to 100 and unlocked Dragon smithing!
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In Which Ysani Gains Windhelm for the Thieves Guild
This session was almost all Thieves Guild action! Got in a bit of side questing first, before finishing the required jobs in Windhelm to gain Niranye as a fence and get Torsten Cruel-Sea’s aid in giving the Guild a foothold in the city. Then I moved on to Markarth to do the same! Finished the required jobs in Markarth as well, and made it as far as recovering Endon’s silver mold to open up that city for the Guild as well.
Also, let’s pour one out for the horse bought at the beginning of the session, who didn’t even make it to the end of it!
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In Which Ysani Goes on a Thieving Spree
I had thought I’d hit the Thalmor Embassy in this session. But Paul pointed out to me quite correctly that that is a thing I really should savor, so I think I’ll be keeping that for the weekend when I have time for longer play sessions! So in the meantime, that’ll let me finish up all the stuff necessary to become Guildmaster of the Thieves Guild!
And with that goal in mind, I finished up Solitude and started in on Markarth’s jobs!
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In Which Ysani Acquires Mehrunes’ Razor
Very eventful session that saw the conclusion of the Pieces of the Past quest–and the unfortunate end of Silus Vesuius, as Mehrunes Dagon orders Ysani to kill him to claim the Razor! See below for how I confirmed the bug that let me play this out without getting an option to spare Silus!
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In Which Ysani Becomes Thane of the Pale and Winterhold
Getting all the side quests done to become thane of both the Pale and Winterhold took longer than I expected, so that became the overall main action of this session! But in the meantime, I also did preliminary Small House building at Heljarchen Hall, finished up the Alteration Ritual quest, and kicked the ass of Rolff Stone-Fist in Windhelm on general principles.