CHAPTER 6: DROPOUT Wherein our hero decides that college just isn't for him. Previous: Chapter 5, Winner of the Smartest Mage in the World Contest
Okay, Ancano the Thalmor is being a generic badguy. I never would have expected a high elf to be evil. Who would have thought? Everyone else in the college is a two-dimensional caricature of a real person. You've got the "overworked administrator," the "leader with a heart of gold but a dark past," the "evil traitor who will OBVIOUSLY inevitably b
CHAPTER 5: WINNER OF THE SMARTEST MAGE IN THE WORLD CONTEST In which our hero finds a glowing orb of light truly irritating. Previous: Chapter 4, How Did They Move That Big Blue Ball?
There's a trap door in the Hall of Countenance that leads to the midden. By the name, I'm assuming it's a dumping ground for magical trash - half-finished sub-critical spells, flesh golems that didn't quite work out right, defective staves, and the like. It isn't, though. It appears to be a bunch of mage's work
CHAPTER 4: HOW DID THEY MOVE THAT BIG BLUE BALL? In which our hero meets the one person in Skyrim he actually likes Previous: Chapter 3, College Guys Gone Wild
I get back to the college, and Arch-Mage Aren seems less than fascinated with my news. Look, dude, there's a big glowing blue ball thing, and an undead wizard dude, and magic walls tied to magic necklaces, time warp spells... and... uh... chanting walls. Really, it wasn't my imagination. The walls were chanting at me. I'm sure if you
CHAPTER 3: COLLEGE GUYS GONE WILD In which our hero explores life in the dorms. Previous: Chapter 2, Of Jesters and Snow
Well, not really. It's not a sty, per se - there aren't piles of trash lying around or anything. It's just that Winterhold the town consists of a couple of intact houses, a bunch of busted houses, and that's about it. There's a tavern, a store, the Jarl's place, and some other guy's house along the main road up to what I can only assume is the college. I pretty much ignor
CHAPTER 2: OF JESTERS AND SNOW Wherein our hero finds a funny man unfunny. Previous: Chapter 1, To Helgen and Beyond
Out of the city, I can see that there are basically three routes to get to Winterhold. There's the overland route, over mountains and down canyons, and probably full of monsters. And there are two roads. One passes through Windhelm, hometown of my execution-cart-buddies Ralof and Ulfric the Muffled, bastion of a bunch of racist bastards who are trying to shatter the empire, t
9/22/14
After a year and a half of unemployment I've got a job! Took long enough right? Anyway, I'll be saving for a new computer and get something really good. I had some savings for it but things happened and now I don't.
Anyway, personal stuff aside, I'm going to be laying out the character bios in a blog called Darkwater Raiders.
9/14/14
This is just an update for those following my stories and wondering why I'm jumping around. Well, I'm not really. I've left some clues, some subtle
Harsh Realities - Chapter 6 - The Giant, the Sorceress, and The Seal
If you missed chapter 5 : http://www.loverslab.com/blog/182/entry-760-chapter-5-full-circle/
Alania spent the day pouring though volumes of texts. Urag finally came up and asked her what she was looking for and she described the symbol from her dream.
"That sounds a bit familar." He came back with an old book and placed it on the table. The title read "Mysteries of the Primal Goddesses." Urag said, "This book
I put my wood elf, Arianne, back together again recently.
I find her beauty very inspiring...
Not crazy about the lighting in the last one above but I do think it's kinda sexy...
Here are some older pics of Arianne.
I've put hundreds of hours into this game. If I add Steam and Raptr counts into it, I'm sure it's over 2000 hours. So it's always a pleasant surprise when I come across a place I've either never been to before or don't remember exploring...
Grabbed a couple of pics of one of my reconstituted Dovahkiins, Kaeti, while she relaxes in Severin Manor...
Had a little breakthrough recently, thanks to some help from Daftlover9103 pointing me in the right direction. I'm a fan of (most) of Oden's poses but I've never been able to get his most recent sets to work for me. Today I did...
So here's a photoset that is definitely NSFW as Kaeti gets some unexpected company in her bath.
And here is more of Kaeti back
Chapter 5 - Full Circle
if you missed chapter 4: http://www.loverslab.com/blog/182/entry-754-chapter-4-hard-reminders/
Alania returned to camp. Her heart sank as she approahed. Everyone in the camp was dead.
She screamed out in rage and pain, "Noooooo!" She ran up to her mom and shook her. "Mom please wake up!" She yelled in the giant tongue as well but the giantess didn't budge.
Alania fell down on top of her mom and wimpered, "Why do I keep losing family.."
She
I've decided to post a sort of playthrough journal that I started writing a few years ago, then stopped writing due to a profound lack of interest. Hopefully someone will get a kick out of it besides me. It's divided up into "chapters," some of which are longer, some are much shorter than others. The short ones generally go for about 600 words or so, the long ones upwards of five times that many. EDIT: Nope, I cut them into bite-sized chunks. No sexlab content is included, because there are a lo
Chapter 4 - Hard Reminders
If you missed chapter 3: http://www.loverslab.com/blog/182/entry-743-chapter-3-home-sweet-home/
Tolfdir walked with Alania into the college. She recieved a few stares from various people. When they reached the gate, a woman named Colette
sneared at her. "Now we're taking in strays I see. And what is the little savage here to do?"
Tolfir repremanded her, "That is no way to treat or guest. She is the only nord I've ever heard about living with giants. She could
Because I want to do this right, in a way that satisfies my own sensibilities. "Road map" might be overselling it a bit, really, but I'm gonna take a stab at this anyway.
I'm a designer by education and I think about characters in a particular way; I believe appearance should be a reflection of function and of character.
Heavy armor, especially, should - by default - be "protective" looking. In most respects I feel like it can safely be pretty much identical to the male variation (women
So I thought I'd make a blog, given I see so many other people posting them on here. This will help me keep track of things I've promised to do, and progress I make on them that doesn't require updates to my files. Do note, I only work on Skyrim mods, as of yet, not Fallout or other games featured on here.
My projects, with summaries:
-----SexlabDeviousKhajiitGags:
This project started as me stomping my foot and going "Why can't Khajiits wear devious gags?! Everyone neglects the furr
Had to restart the Temple Of Black Rock dungeon this morning so I could finally complete it... It's a very long, very hard dungeon and if you don't follow the right path, it's nearly impossible to get out of there without cheating with console commands. Every time you try to backtrack into an earlier cell, everything resets so you have to fight the same mobs of monsters all over again. It borders on infuriating... but I wanted to finish it without cheating so I could fight the last boss and get
Was redoing my armored bikini conversion from scratch and realized that bikini-trouble used the same meshes, so...
Changed the bottoms to use slot 52 for better compatibility/standardization between mods. Should be ready to post them in my download section later - today or tomorrow. Along with a revised version of the armored ones.
Update - My regular job is kicking in high gear until October 1st at least, so I won't around much for the next two weeks.
I am still working on changes to the relationship system between master and slave in SD+, but the pace of work will dramatically reduced for a while.
I am hoping to spend a lot more time on this in October, with hopefully a Halloween release like I did last year with Alicia.
My plan is to finish the next stage of updates for SD+ in October so I can spend Novembe
Texture WIP.
I really miss feeling like I'm allowed to be happy about shit like this. Unfortunately my home life isn't exactly friendly to the whole 'happiness' thing.
I do what I do and I put it out here because I'm between jobs, kept too busy and tired to actually find one, and because this stuff - modeling, texturing, converting, tweaking, developing new skills, whatever - this is the one thing that actually uses my brain and relaxes me a little.
But the second I try and talk abo
What a mess.
So... I happen to like game concepts pertaining to love, and relationships. Meanwhile, the typical game is more about killing and violence. Oh, and life is insane, in how we deal with all of these issues.
So never mind that. My blog subtitle looks like a mess.
So never mind that... I shall ruminate, instead.
When I first played skyrim, there were various conversational issues which I wish had played out differently. I wanted NPCs to admire me. Or, failing that, to re
Chapter 3 - Home Sweet Home
Here is chapter 2 if you missed it: http://www.loverslab.com/blog/182/entry-739-chapter-2-small-and-wounded/
Alania had spent almost a year with the giants and her former life was a fading memory.
She traveled and hunted with them and even learned how to handle mammoths but by giant standards, her methods were a bit unorthadox.
Over time, word had gotten out about a human girl was living with giants and ocassionally an adventurer would try t
