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TO BE CONTINUED...

After spending several hours re-working some old mods, I've created my own vampire overhaul. Vampiric progression is essentially reversed, causing vampires to become stronger as they feed, and receive buffs to health, stamina, and access to more abilities. Where my overhaul differs from others is in its integration with spicier mods. Vampires gain a major amount of arousal every time they feed, or consume a blood potion. To prevent vampires from being ridiculously overpowered, In addition to becoming very aroused every time they feed, they also lose access to a lot of their more powerful vampiric abilities until they've reduced their arousal, whether by having sex, or by masturbating. It creates a vicious cycle, making them more depraved with each feeding, and the longer they continue as a vampire, the more orgasms it takes to satisfy them. 

 

Followers can be asked once a day to be fed on, and recently slain enemies can be fed on to quickly restore some health. Health, Stamina, and Magicka do not regenerate in sunlight, and prolonged exposure to sunlight without wearing a hood, or helmet will result in bursting into flames, and soon after, death. No more running around naked during the day. No food, or potions will affect vampires, other than blood potions, and failure to feed for more than 96 hours in game makes vampires essentially kill on sight in any town, or city. 

 

For this playthrough, I started Nadja at Shriekwind Bastion as a regular vampire at level one, with very basic armor, and a sword that's roughly the equivalent of a nordic steel weapon. She has to make it back to Castle Volkihar and accept Harkon's gift, after which her goal will be to become the champion of Molag Bal, by acquiring the Mace of Molag Bal, recruiting various vampire followers to join her, and eventually taking over the Volkihar Clan herself. Along the way, she will be hunted by Vigilants, Dawnguard, and a number of modded characters I've added in who view her as kill on sight.

 

I will eventually be releasing a public version of my vampire overhaul for anyone who might want to give it a try. I'm not currently using SSE, but I'll probably convert it to SEE anyway, assuming all the other required mods are available on SSE.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Apologies for the somewhat confusing timeline, but this little series within a series tells the story of how Freja discovered she was Dragonborn, so this entry begins on the 20th of Last Seed, 4E 201. The last entry jumps around a bit, but I promise it will all make sense after you've read this, and the next chapter.

 

In this chapter, we get to see Freja slay her first dragon, and Aela the Huntress' creative "screening" process for certain women who want to join the Companions...

Larger entry coming next weekend. This one is a bit short for a lot of reasons, mainly because I spent a lot longer than I'd intended on completely redoing my HDT physics setup to make boobs more realistic and making all collisions work properly, which also included making my own version of a UNP Special body... So yeah... There goes a good ten hours, but hey... At least Nadja's tits look fantastic, right? This entry is mostly lewds to make up for it being so short.

I had planned on doing a good, long chapter this weekend, but I spent most of the weekend patching the LE port of Northern Roads to work flawlessly with the LE port of Shattered, and the dozens of other landscape altering mods I've been using. Camp Argentum was going to stick around, but I would have had to completely rebuild the camp in the CK due to the mod author positioning it where he did, so yeah... They're moving to Fort Greymoor, and the story must go on!

 

I wish someone would port Project Proteus to LE so I didn't have to use Familiar Faces, or manually turn my other characters into in-game npcs just so Ash can talk to people like Marius, and Freja. Familiar Faces has broken just about every save I've ever used it on, but maybe I'm just really unlucky. I'm going to attempt to turn Gorlok into a mod sort of like the old Sinister Seven, where he'll hunt the PC throughout the game, appearing where you least expect him, or sending undead minions after you. Someone needs to make addons for the LE port of Shattered, right?

 

Aside from using it for the blog, I've actually been having a lot of fun playing through a shattered Skyrim with the slightly absurd load order I've put together. It's definitely a challenge when you're fighting a bunch of low level creatures to clear an area, only to have a modded creature that's twenty levels higher than your character show up and force you to use every trick you have just to survive the battle. Demonic Creatures is a fantastic mod, and I've customized it to fit the shattered world perfectly. I've also customized SL Defeat so there's still a chance my character will die, especially if she can't get away after the lewdness is over. Poor Eva barely made it out of Bleak Falls Barrow, which I added a few high level vampires and gargoyles to.

 

Now that all the patching and sorting the load order is done, I should be able to spend enough time actually playing the game to have plenty of screenshots for a new chapter next weekend.

Someone finally backported shattered Skyrim to LE, so I'm able to do what I had always envisioned for the future of this series. This chapter begins a decade after Freja's escape from Whiterun, and the massacre at Stendarr's Beacon. All of Skyrim, save for a few tiny settlements I've added in is now hostile, and filled with creatures from Demonic Creatures, high-level vampires, and a few bandit camps. The normal, humanoid enemy level list has been changed to draugr, and both the Bloodlet Throne, and Castle Volkihar are overrun with high-level vampire enemies.

 

While I do have an overall story in mind, everything you see from here on out is what happens to Ash during my playthrough. If she dies in game, she will die in the story, and I'll pick things up as one of the other characters.

With the mortal population dwindling, all manner of creatures have emerged to reclaim the land.

This one was meant to be just a short introduction to a new, recurring character before I take a little break and get back to writing the next, big chapter.

Fair warning... This one is so lewd, it would give Molag Bal a raging erection...

I may have gone a little overboard and added a totally unnecessary lewd scene with a certain lovely redhead follower, but I managed to get the story back on track.

 

This one picks up immediately after the last entry left off.

Meanwhile...

Yeah... Things are not looking good for the Volkihar Clan right now... As you may have guessed, Serana and Valerica have fled to the Soul Cairn, after leaving the others to their fate. Aside from the mother/daughter duo, Freja, Vimar, and a certain fledgling you haven't seen yet are the last of Clan Volkihar. I really didn't want to kill Fura and Hestla, but I can't see them not staying behind to defend the Castle against the Knights of Stendarr.

 

Freja is going to be forced to either unite Skyrim's weaker vampire clans and fight back, or spend the rest of the Fourth Era in hiding, and since it wouldn't be much of a story if she did that, I think we all know where things are going from here...

 

I'm not sure when I'll be finished with the next entry, because it's going to be a long one, and I have to remove/replace quite a few mods to cover the changes to Skyrim (No more fancy sanctuaries in cities, or vampires living in lavish Castles) in the aftermath of Sir Darius' vampire purge. I also need to show Nadja's predicament, and that means making edits to the torture room in Fort Dawnguard. The next entry will end with a scene that would give Molag Bal a boner.

Raven Castle has fallen to the Knights of Stendarr under the command of Lady Victoria Carrow. The remaining vampires of Raven Castle have fled to Falkreath and Riverwood, pursued, and cut down by the Knights of Stendarr.

 

Lady VIctoria's father, Sir Darius, a Paladin and Master of the Knights of Stendarr has come to Skyrim with the full authority of the Elder Council in Cyrodiil to purge Skyrim of its vampire plague by any means necessary. In response, Serana sends a dozen Volkihar vampires to Whiterun in an attempt to deal with the threat.

 

The Garnet Tower in Eastmarch has fallen, and Freja demands vengeance...

Fair warning, this one is full of lewdness... And a very disappointed Yarl Balgruuf...

Yes, I brought back Conan, because reasons... 

The only child of a proud and mighty Thane of Whiterun and a mage of Winterhold, Fjorna had already surpassed her mother's skill in magic by the age of merely twenty. At twenty-one, she served the Imperial Legion during the Great War as a battle mage--a war that claimed the lives of both her mother, and father.

 

Returning to Whiterun after the Concordat was signed, Fjorna married the much older Imperial General and newly-made lord of Winterstone Castle, Quintus Marius Antilius. Although Fjorna's marriage was largely unhappy due to Quintus' frequent trips to Cyrodiil, the couple would have two children--a daughter, born less than two years after they had married, and a son that followed.

 

Having discovered the secrets of Winterstone Castle, including the vast, underground sanctuary that was once home to a clan of powerful vampires, Fjorna began to study the darker aspects of magic. By the time her children had come of age, her husband was dead, and Fjorna was already both a powerful necromancer, and a devout worshiper of Molag Bal. Her daughter went off to join the College of Winterhold, but her son, Marius the younger remained with her at Winterstone, and became part of the small cult of Molag Bal worshipers his mother had formed.

 

As the second century of the Fourth Era began, Fjorna was in her early fifties and had spent much of the past three years searching for a way to become immortal. It was then that she and her son Marius devised a way to gain the blessings of their lord, Molag Bal. As an Officer in the Legion, and Lord of Winterstone, young Marius used his position to have dozens of young women, including several virgins arrested on false charges, and brought to the Castle to be offered up to Molag Bal as sacrifices on his summoning day in the hope of both she and Marius being made vampires.

 

On the 20th of Evening Star in the year two hundred of the Fourth Era, a macabre festival of sacrifice was carried out by Fjorna and her son in the Castle's underground sanctuary, during which Molag Bal was summoned. Along with the virgins, whose bodies were the first to be defiled by the Daedric Prince, Fjorna disrobed and offered herself to Molag Bal in the hope of becoming a daughter of Coldharbour. Forced to endure a harrowing night of unspeakable acts of carnality for the amusement of her Daedric Master, Fjorna would wake three nights later as a daughter of Coldharbour.

 

Unbeknownst to Fjorna and her son, the sheer amount of blood and carnage during the ritual summoning had also awakened one of the ancient Castle's original occupants, Countess Svetlana the Devourer. Amused by the mother and son duo's dedication to becoming vampires, Svetlana would remain with them for much of the rest of that year, teaching them to use the night powers and master the gifts of Molag Bal. Unfortunately, the presence of the three vampires did not go unnoticed for very long due to Marius' constant desire to hunt the Mortals of Riverwood for sport.

 

In the year two hundred and one of the Fourth Era, Freja Ironside was sent to Riverwood to put an end to such risky behavior, and it was then that things descended into utter chaos. Believing themselves superior to the thousand year-old Freja, Fjorna and Marius spurned her offer of diplomacy, leading to a brutal confrontation between Freja and Marius. A renowned shieldmaiden, and veteran of a thousand battles, Freja easily slew the much younger fledgling vampire, severing his head as his mother watched in horror.

 

It was only the return of Alduin that prevented Freja from staying to wipe out the entire bloodline, but this allowed Fjorna time to plot her terrible vengeance. Using the amulet of Mannimarco and her skill in the dark arts of necromancy, Fjorna performed a ritual that raised an army of the undead--an army which she turned loose on the citizens of Riverwood and Whiterun.

 

Alterted to the peril in which the small village had now found itself, and with more of the undead descending from the hills and moving dangerously close to Whiterun itself, Yarl Balgruuf sent a small army of his own guardsman, aided by two members of the newly-formed Dawnguard to put a stop to Fjorna once and for all.

 

Winterstone Castle soon fell under siege by the combined might of Whiterun, Falkreath and the Dawnguard, its gates finally being breached during the early morning hours. Inside, more than a hundred corpses were discovered--many of them missing citizens of nearby towns and holds. Fjorna herself had fled, leaving the ancient vampire, Svetlana to fend off the attackers. Weakened from centuries of laying dormant in a crypt, she was no match for the vampire hunters, and was horrifically tortured in the hope of learning Fjorna's location.

 

In the days that followed, many adventurers, including the vampire, Sonja, and several members of the Companions would continue to fight off the army of undead abominations until one day, the remaining undead thralls simply crumbled to the ground. It seemed as if whatever power had re-animated them was no longer in effect...

 

Broken under seven days of torture, Svetlana would eventually tell Isran about the hidden entrance to the underground lair where Fjorna was hiding. Despite more than a dozen guards, and two members of the Dawnguard being killed in the attempt, Fjorna would eventually be brought in chains to Dragonsreach, where she would face the Yarl's justice. Our story begins there...