ulfric is such a whiney baby

i haven’t played skyrim’s quest “season unending” for a long time, and in total I’ve maybe done it only twice in previous runthroughs? One thing i don’t think I had previous done was do the meeting without joining either army...

Season Unending is where you have to bring the two major war sides into a room for a yarn and get everyone to agree that giant eldritch literal reality-warping angels laying waste to and incinerating the landscape is probably more important to take care of than a civil war at the moment, and we should put the war on hold for the 5 minutes it’ll take until dragons stop eating people.

The problem comes with the game seeing only one way to handle the negotiations, and assumes a singular outcome no matter what actually happens.  The game lies to the player about their agency in such a ridiculous nonsensical obtuse way.

lonG POST under the readmore

just....... i guess completed a playthrough of falskaar. 

not great. not great.

skyrim misadventure for the day, featuring a second playthrough of the Wyrmstooth mod!

trying to decide of my skyrim!me character should invest heavily in wards.  i was rudely reminded -thanks miraak cultists- today that my vampire self cannot just stand there and take fire spells anymore ;_; 

holy fuck i’msoflammable

you ever get personally offended when you’re parading around your companion doggo in skyrim, and there’re all those npcs bumping into it spitting ‘stupid dog’ left right and center?

more misadventures in skyrim, domesticity edition: 

i was just playing as ethel in skyrim, and i came across that orc stronghold in the rift that’s always being attacked by a giant... only i was like 100 meters away from the stronghold and the giant bolted for me and my follower ;_; 

ANYWAY, with the giant dealt with, went up to the stronghold to get the quest for it, and as two orc women argued over whether an outsider like me can be trusted, as their dead orc brethren lay strewn about, my follower, good ol’ shitty cosnach, waltzes up, stops right behind me and asks why we’ve stopped.  He then notices he’s standing on a muscley orc corpse, looks down at it and casually yet almost concernedly asks “Oh.. what happened?”.  As the consequences of what happened were being argued about right in front of us.

sometimes the ai dialogue timing is spot on.

freaking skyrim. 

i was playing as my bomber orc, and i decided to finally give in and visit solsteihm again -y’know, the fire place of fire where all my fire-based exploding bolts and fire-enchanted crossbow won’t be effective in the slightest- to solve the problem of constantly spawning ashspawn (rather than them only spawning once in a while outside the town, rather than never giving the guards a break) by doing the undead general ashspawnthingy quest.  So i got teldryn sero to be my fire-resistant darkelf shield and we went to town on the fort and completed the quest. All’s well that ends well right? AND i got a ton of ingots to craft bullshit with, so that’s a plus.  

not so, because solstheim aka morrowind doesn’t want to let me go, and the game REFUSES to load whenever i try to get back to the mainland.  I tried fastravel teleporting.  No dice.  I tried paying Captain Whatshisface the unnecessary funds to sail my ass back.  Again, no loading.  I try going back into the winking skeever to re-hire teldryn sero in an attempt to please the game, assuming ‘hay maybe it just wants me not to leave without him; maybe i SHOULD carry this particular fire-resistant follower around rather than looking elsewhere’, but evEN THAT DIDN’T WORK.  

morrowind, let me goooooooooooo

that skyrim feel when you’re running around in morthal and decide to go to the inn... 

only to come face to face with an honest-to-goodness werewolf INSIDE the inn, howling/roaring and attacking everyone as soon as the game loads the little internal cell. 

i mean... i really like the moonlight tales mod... but............. inns aren’t safe anymore apparently.

Skyrim misadventure of the day

I just remembered I accidentally sold all my lockpicks to Babette last time I played. All of them. All 60+ lockpicks. I’ve been stumbling around cursing at chests and doors in Markarth for like an hour. 

I finally remembered I had “buy back your lockpicks from that vampire child you shit” on my mental to-do list, so just before I decided to finish playing, I traveled to the dark brotherhood sanctuary to fix my dumbass mistake.

only to find Babette had 11 lockpicks for sale. 

11 

where’s the OTHER 49+ BABETTE? DID YOU EAT THEM? 

this game is against me, i swear.