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In Which Kendis Clears Fort Hraggstad and Slays Sahloknir
Kendis’ two latest sessions, in which I cleared out Fort Hraggstad finally, killed Sahloknir with Delphine, returned the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller to the Greybeards, acquired the stolen Lord’s Mail, took out the dragon and dragon priest Krosis at Shearpoint, and got herself a unicorn!
Whew! Busy sessions indeed.
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In Which Harrowhark Gets Some Houses
This session picks up immediately where the last one left off, partway through Shroud Hearth Barrow. Action also featured: running Redoran’s Retreat to retrieve Amren’s sword, doing the In My Time of Need plot, getting silver armor for Lydia, getting the Hedge Mage Armor for me, and last but not least, acquiring both Hendraheim and Breezehome.
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In Which Kendis Goes Bandit Hunting
Still doing a lot of the quests originating in Whiterun, before I finally set off for the Throat of the World. This session featured hitting Redoran’s Retreat and Valtheim Towers.
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In Which Shenner Goes Adventuring for the Dawnguard
And now, some catchup in regular Skyrim! I’ve gotten in periodic Shenner sessions while playing a bunch of ESO, advancing her through the Dawnguard plotline when I can.
So here’s a catchup post about going to Ruunvald with her to rescue Florentius, returning to Castle Volkihar and running the Soul Cairn, retrieving schematics for Sorine, and then running Ancestor Glade to get the location of Auriel’s Bow.
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In Which Faanshi Finds the Location of Auriel’s Bow and a Lot of Schematics
I had thought I was going to proceed onward to Forgotten Vale in this session, once I got the location of Auriel’s Bow in Ancestor Glade. I was mistaken! Instead, I ran the rest of Sorine’s “find me a schematic” quests.
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In Which Faanshi Becomes Thane of Falkreath and Hunts for Hircine
This was a big, busy session! Major action here: becoming thane of Falkreath, clearing Embershard Mine, running the Ill Met By Moonlight plot (Hircine’s Daedric quest), and buying Breezehome in Whiterun!
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In Which Delga Slays Bandits for Whiterun and the Companions
This being a Sunday night session, it was comparatively short. Both main goals for the session were along the lines of “go kill bandits”, for a Whiterun bounty as well as a job to get an Orcish Warhammer back for the Companions.
And the Companions job, conveniently, advanced me in that plotline!
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In Which Merawen Quests All Over Skyrim for the Dawnguard
This session was all about the side quests for the Dawnguard, with a mix of quests from Sorine, Gunmar, and Florentius. Kidnap victims were rescued! Vampires were plammoed with crossbow bolts! Lost Dawnguard relics were acquired!
And through it all, Merawen boinged back and forth to several points between Markarth and Riften, all over the map. Most of the locales I hit in this session were places I’d been to before, either as Alarrah or as Merawen. But a couple of them were brand new to me, and that was fun!
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In Which Alarrah Drags Her Housecarl Off on a Cross-Country Jaunt
Twitter thread from 5/15/2021, in which Alarrah and Lydia jaunt cross-country, follow up on a Letter from a Friend pointing at Dead Men’s Respite, and battle hostile vampires and ghosts along the way.
In Which Alarrah, After Finally Getting a House, Promptly Drags Her Housecarl Off On a Cross-Country Jaunt, Which Means They Don’t Actually SLEEP in the House:
1:21 PM · May 15, 20211. Decided my next goal, after getting the house in Whiterun, would be to knock off another item on the miscellaneous quests list.
1:21 PM · May 15, 2021I’d gotten a mysterious “Letter from a Friend” via courier, which was one of the ones you get with a hint about where to go to find another Word Wall with a Shout word on it. This one said I should go to Dead Man’s Respite.
1:22 PM · May 15, 20212. So Lydia and I set off again! And this was yet another quest in the vicinity of Morthal–this time a bit southwest-ish of where we’d killed the dragon on Eldersblood Peak.
1:22 PM · May 15, 20213. More miscellaneous hunting on the way. Also more spotting of, and VERY DELIBERATE AVOIDING OF, a distant giant. This one had two different mammoths, I think.
4. Also spotted another airborne dragon, though this one didn’t actually get near us? So we didn’t go after it.
1:22 PM · May 15, 20215. Instead of following the road this time, I decided to go cross-country and see if I could get to the destination just by keeping a laser focus on the arrow. This more or less worked, though I discovered several times that I had to circle around geographical obstacles.
1:23 PM · May 15, 2021Also got to practice my jumping, which is good since that’s another of those two controls at once thing, moving forward with the left lever while hitting X.
1:23 PM · May 15, 20216. And, since this was cross-country, sneaked my way through almost all of the jaunt! Sneak is now 53 as of this writing, definitely my best skill.
1:24 PM · May 15, 2021Guards are periodically telling me “Hands to yourself, sneak thief” when they’re not going “Could you really be the Dragonborn of legend?” Lol.
1:24 PM · May 15, 20217. Discovered a couple of miscellaneous locations on the way that I’m _pretty_ sure were bandit lairs, but did not elect to investigate them. Maybe later. (I’m pretty sure the locations were Orotheim and Redoran’s Retreat? I’ll need to doublecheck the names.)
1:24 PM · May 15, 20218. After it got dark and we were traveling well into the wee hours of the night, we got jumped by a vampire fledging. The damn thing hit me with Sanguinare Vampiris, the disease that leads to vampirism in the game.
1:25 PM · May 15, 2021Not being in the mood to turn into a vampire, I nabbed a potion of Cure Disease back from Lydia and sorted that problem!
9. We also took down a couple of bears. _Two_ bears at once.
1:25 PM · May 15, 202110. Not terribly long after the vampire fledgling, we also spotted a couple of ghosts! Which was a new thing, and notably, the ghosts had lines like “I don’t want to do this!” and “This is not my choice!” as they came charging at us.
1:25 PM · May 15, 2021One got near enough to Lydia for me to see her kill it, at which point it disintegrated into a pile of ash. _Interesting_.
11. Finally found Dead Man’s Respite and started working our way in.
1:26 PM · May 15, 2021Became obvious pretty quickly that this was another draugr nest, and it didn’t take long for me to find another Dragon Claw key thing, this time a Ruby one.
1:26 PM · May 15, 202112. _Also_ spotted another ghost. But this one didn’t seem hostile, or at least if it was, it didn’t seem like it saw us? But it did walk off further down into the barrow, in a possibly plot-relevant “this is where I need you to go” kind of way.
1:26 PM · May 15, 202113. As we went further down into the place, we took out more draugr (and I clobbered a Restless Draugr with one blow, which was satisfying). We also took out a couple of Frostbite Spiders.
Tonight’s adventuring will pick up again from here!
1:27 PM · May 15, 2021Notes
- This post was originally written on 3/18/2022, but backdated to the time of the tweet thread for organizational purposes.
- Post updated on 12/30/2022 to reconstruct the original Twitter thread in the post body, and remove links off to Twitter.