A while back, Jordisslave introduced me to "An Illusionist In Skyrim," which is another good playthrough, even if it ended in the death of the protagonist. I'll miss you, Sarah the Implausible. Anyway, there's a part in there where the main character casts a Frenzy spell in Solitude, leading to multiple deaths, and she's charged for committing a minor crime akin to assault.

The broken nature of Skyrim's crime and punishment system is the subject for a rant at some point, but here and now I'll simply reiterate... it's broken.

p.s.

Speaking of Jordisslave, if anyone wants to see nude, bare, undressed, naked pictures of her in her birthday suit, I suggest you check out The Devious Manual.

It's some great ogling material.

Sorry about the puns.

It feels a little late to be blushing now but there you go, it's not just the booze making my cheeks warm...

I have a carriage just outside Dawnstar but I thought that had always been there, completely lost track of my mods.

C&P problems are the reason I can't conjure the things I'd choose (and never use Unrelenting Force or Cyclone unless there's no one friendly within five minutes' walk);

the Flame Bitches are a great shot firing at dragons in the sky but routinely hit friendlies whenever a clusterfuck starts.   the Frost Fuckers' slam move seems to have an area-of-effect that causes the same trouble. 

At least the Dremora/Klingon Lord only uses his sword, I just wish he'd shut up. 

"I smell WEAKNESS!"..."It couldn't have ended any other way" - Congratulations.  That Skeever really deserved such drama, he was so threatening we should conduct a funeral for our worthy adversary. 

It feels a little late to be blushing now but there you go, it's not just the booze making my cheeks warm...

 

I have a carriage just outside Dawnstar but I thought that had always been there, completely lost track of my mods.

 

C&P problems are the reason I can't conjure the things I'd choose (and never use Unrelenting Force or Cyclone unless there's no one friendly within five minutes' walk);

the Flame Bitches are a great shot firing at dragons in the sky but routinely hit friendlies whenever a clusterfuck starts.   the Frost Fuckers' slam move seems to have an area-of-effect that causes the same trouble. 

At least the Dremora/Klingon Lord only uses his sword, I just wish he'd shut up. 

"I smell WEAKNESS!"..."It couldn't have ended any other way" - Congratulations.  That Skeever really deserved such drama, he was so threatening we should conduct a funeral for our worthy adversary. 

You made me laugh while drinking, and now my shirt and keyboard are wet! :)

I know what you mean... I don't like Familiars because A they're weak and B their AI acts like wolves, so they do a lot of running around and "circling" that eats up half of the summoning time. I like Flame Atronachs, partly because they look hot (see what I did there?) and partly because of the ranged attack, but they do tend to fuck things up in melee... and I once lost a companion when my summon exploded on death while he was down on one knee. I would use Frost Atronachs more, but they're just too damn big and they tend to get stuck in doorways and stuff... I downloaded a mod once that made them smaller, but I can't seem to find it anymore. Storm Atronachs have ranged attacks, but they suffer the same problem as Frost... too big.

And yeah, the Dremora are too damn chatty.

If you have the Dawnguard expansion, the Conjure Wrathman spell is almost as powerful as a Dremora, plus he gets the bonus from the Conjuration perk that boosts undead health, and most importantly he's quiet.

"I smell WEAKNESS!"..."It couldn't have ended any other way" - Congratulations.  That Skeever really deserved such drama, he was so threatening we should conduct a funeral for our worthy adversary. 

I hope it wasn't a sugary drink; sticky-keyboard is a nightmare.

I think the immortal goal from Goat Simulator would be a good addon, no Dremora or Legendary Dragon could match that flappy-tongued sandbox muppet.

Just thinking back to Fawkes keeps making me laugh now, all of the Super Mutant voices in FO3/NV sounded like they were recorded by people straining to lift a sofa, or go to the loo.

Might open the CK tonight and make goats essential, have already made slaughterfish non-aggressive so I can do safe skinny-dipping.

Won't be writing it up but started another playthrough (with a reasonably lore-friendly name this time) and with DG and DB installed there's a load of historical revisionism going on: conversations, people and islands that weren't there before go unremarked upon except by me.  To the screen.  I suppose it might have been too immersion-breaking or meta to include conversation options for people who owned vanilla and then legendary editions.

PC: "I'd like to hire your boat"

Dawnstar Boat Guy: "Where would you like to go?  Solitude, Windhelm or an island to the north of..."

PC: "Island?  What island?  That wasn't there before, a...erm...race sent me up there, that's an epic conjuration spell or something."

DBG: "I see, a cheapskate.  You waited for the Steam Sale then?  DLC not worth your gold?"

PC: "Fuck you, I paid full PC price for this on 11/11/11, I'm not paying that much for more BITS of game."

DBG: "Don't want to support struggling digital artists..."

PC: "Drop dead, I'll walk, you cunt.  You're lucky there are so many guards around."

PC: (much later to self) "Wait, what?  Boat Guy?  Where did he come from?"

Might open the CK tonight and make goats essential, have already made slaughterfish non-aggressive so I can do safe skinny-dipping.

 

Won't be writing it up but started another playthrough (with a reasonably lore-friendly name this time) and with DG and DB installed there's a load of historical revisionism going on: conversations, people and islands that weren't there before go unremarked upon except by me.  To the screen.  I suppose it might have been too immersion-breaking or meta to include conversation options for people who owned vanilla and then legendary editions.

 

PC: "I'd like to hire your boat"

Dawnstar Boat Guy: "Where would you like to go?  Solitude, Windhelm or an island to the north of..."

PC: "Island?  What island?  That wasn't there before, a...erm...race sent me up there, that's an epic conjuration spell or something."

DBG: "I see, a cheapskate.  You waited for the Steam Sale then?  DLC not worth your gold?"

PC: "Fuck you, I paid full PC price for this on 11/11/11, I'm not paying that much for more BITS of game."

DBG: "Don't want to support struggling digital artists..."

PC: "Drop dead, I'll walk, you cunt.  You're lucky there are so many guards around."

 

PC: (much later to self) "Wait, what?  Boat Guy?  Where did he come from?"

It was a terrible time. I was but a young lad, but I remember it well... east fought west. Neighbors warred, brother fought against brother, sometimes sister, and occasionally cousin as well. The time of troubles, of trials, of tribulations, and of something else beginning with the letter 't' to continue the alliteration trend. Trend, that's it. Good word there.

Listen well, younglings, as I, an old man now, relate to you the story of what these modern historians are calling the "DLC Addon Period," and how it reshaped the very land itself.