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In Which Shenner Visits the Greybeards and Acquires Silver Armor
This session on PC was a mix of familiar stuff and new stuff. On the familiar side, we have visiting High Hrothgar for the first time, running Shroud Hearth Barrow, and moving the quest In My Time of Need further along by talking to Saadia. On the unfamiliar side, we have the quest to acquire a suit of Silver Armor!
Also, I have commentary behind the cut about my current mod list (it’s short), and my current FPS performance.
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In Which Faanshi Hunts Bandits and Draugr
This session had two overall objectives: clearing Silent Moons Camp for the bounty on the bandit leader, and then clearing Shroud Hearth Barrow! Plus, I got onto the radar of the Jarl of Falkreath, and greatly increased my arsenal of available spells.
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In Which Ysani Joins the College of Winterhold
Getting the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller is going to have to wait a bit! I have important magical training to get started on. ;D
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In Which Ysani Goes to the Greybeards
Major action here: finishing off the Halted Stream Camp bounty run, acquiring a bunch more spells, making it to High Hrothgar, and beginning the run through Shroud Hearth Barrow!
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In Which Delga Visits Falkreath and Clears Embershard Mine of Bandits
In this session the biggest thing I learned was that Delga is not yet ready to deal with hagravens! So instead, I decided to go get set up for becoming thane in Falkreath. Which meant clearing out Embershard Mine!
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In Which Merawen Flees to Riften
This session pretty much amounted to doing the rest of the preliminary work to get Merawen established enough as Dragonborn that I could get to the point of failing to find the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller… and then bailing to Riften.
Highlights and commentary and such behind the fold!
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Skyrim status update: Almost to level 8
Twitter thread from May 6, 2021, in which Alarrah discovers Miraak cultists, and runs Shroud Hearth Barrow near Ivarstead. Also, she is arrested for lockpicking!
Skyrim status update: Almost to level 8. Significant things accomplished today:
1. Tried to return to Whiterun, got found by cultists who screamed at me about being a false Dragonborn, and promptly fried my ass a couple of times
6:45 PM · May 6, 20212. Then went “okay FINE guess I’m not going back to Whiterun for now”, at which point I went back to Ivarstead and got found by the cultists AGAIN, but this time I backed off and let Lydia and the Ivarstead guards kill them
6:45 PM · May 6, 2021HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot · @rmd1023
And then Lydia was grumpy about it?
6:46 PM · May 6, 2021Angela Korra’ti · @annathepiper
(I SEE YOU BACK THERE PRETENDING NOT TO YAWN, Ms. “I’m Sworn to Carry Your Burdens”!)
6:49 PM · May 6, 20213. Took a few tries trying to figure out how to actually get into the lower part of the barrow, and I did finally resort to looking up a spoiler, at which point I went ‘derp’
4. Also had to look up a spoiler to figure out how to get past the last puzzle in the barrow
6:45 PM · May 6, 20215. Frost spells don’t seem too bad as long as I’m blocking with my shield!
6. Seriously, Lydia honey, GET OUT OF MY WAY
6:46 PM · May 6, 20217. Finally cleared Shroud Hearth Barrow, which took a few tries, as I had to figure out how to not only pick off skeletons from a distance, but _also_ keep Lydia from getting killed
6:46 PM · May 6, 20218. Also, what’s this “I’m sworn to carry your burdens” shit when I’m trying to give you better armor and healing potions because I like you and would like to keep you alive, mmkay?
2:34 PM · Apr 17, 20219. Realized I also had to try to find Klimmek in Ivarstead to report back to him and finish the “yes I took your supplies up to the Greybeards” quest. Made the mistake of trying to lockpick his front door, and got my ass arrested by guards and sent to Riften, oops?
6:47 PM · May 6, 2021But I paid the fine and Lydia and I were free to go and now I can fast travel to Riften, yay?
10. But I did also find Klimmek and got 500 gold from him
11. And I also have a piece of a Shout for clearing the barrow
6:47 PM · May 6, 2021Saved at this point, and probably will do the quest next to go get the horn that the Greybeards want me to fetch. Then probably follow Paul’s advice and buy a house in Whiterun, sell a bunch of loot, and then spend some time out on the plains getting better at archery.
6:47 PM · May 6, 2021Notes
- This post was originally written on 3/16/2022, but backdated to the time of the tweet thread for organizational purposes.
- Updated post on 12/27/2022 to reconstruct the original Twitter thread, including replies, here in the post body. Removed all links to Twitter.