Oblivious Adventures

The sun was setting when Val and I set off to make our way down through the mountains. I knew the journey would be a very long one and there would be no place to stop and sleep along the way, and we'd be traveling through the dark so I decided to take it at a relaxed pace and walk on my tricorn the whole way and enjoy the scenery. I always do love the view from high up in the mountains.

I soon unexpectedly came upon a tiny settlement of a chapel of some kind and a small dwelling.

The weather had grown cold and stormy (as stormy as it can be in the winter) and snow had been falling since we left the druidic place so the scene was quite serene and surreal when I curiously made my way there. This picture does not do it justice for how it looked.

I tried the door on the settlement first, thinking it would be more polite to talk to the people who lived here than to just go barging in to buildings.. but it was locked. I'm not surprised since it's so late at night, everyone has probably closed everything for the night and gone to bed. I tried the chapel, it too was locked. I couldn't even get into the building that lead to the crypts.. I wouldn't want to sleep in there but would if I had no other option. I walked my tricorn around the place once while deciding what to do. I really wanted to sleep this night but not out in the cold. Eventually I came to the decision to cuddle up with my tricorn and Val behind the dwelling against some tall grasses and sleep. (Of course the game doesn't allow this, but I pretended to do it while "waiting" for a few hours).

I awoke before anybody else was up (Not including Val) when the sun had just risen and the crisp chill of the air still froze your lungs with each breath. With a shiver I walked around the dwelling to try the door again, still locked. That's how I knew nobody was awake. I leaned against the stone walls of the dwelling and waited for about three hours (really, there's nothing else to do.) for someone to FINALLY come out. I spoke with him eagerly but he didn't seem to have much to say. After I buttered him up with highly skilled speechcraft he went into the large chapel just up the steps. Needless to say I was very disappointed there was nothing more interesting that he had to say but I followed to find he had kept the door locked behind him. Grumbling to myself about rude people I waited another couple hours, until finally I found the dwelling was unlocked. I helped myself in to find very simple humble means with nothing worth taking inside... not that I would. There was plenty of food but I didn't want to steal from respectable monks.

Inside the chapel the three monks were kneeled in front of a large statue praying. There was a book on the pedestal in front of them, so curiously I just marched right between them and read it. It's pretty interesting! This is the first two pages:

So apparently this is the order of the ancestor moths, moths are very sacred to them and they believe they are ancestors. They also believe they alone are gifted the wisdom of the elder scrolls. The continuing pages go on to describe how the monk that reads the scrolls gradually becomes blind, and then is taken care of by others while he holds the knowledge of what he read. Well it's all well and interesting, but I think it's time for Val and I to get going.

Here is one of the many beautiful views on our way down the mountain:

Along the way I happened to be confronted by a bandit. I didn't really feel like killing people so I was avoiding stumbling in to their camps.. but this guy just wouldn't let me avoid him. So Val and I had to kill him and then I looted his body. I took the most valuable armor, which unfortunately for him was most of it.

And yes he is anatomically correct. I spared you the ugly of his wiener by keeping the picture small, but I wanted to show proof. I didn't choose to undress him to nudity, I took his clothes because they were worth over a hundred septims! I swear!


Here... here is another pretty picture to clense your eyes from the last:

When I reached the AU I spoke with the arch mage and he gave me the quest of checking up on a couple of mages in a near by cave leading to alyied ruins. I didn't take any pictures of my adventures here because it was pretty straight forward and I was able to get through it quick. There was a noteworthy adventure though. Basically the two mages there researching the ruins and hoping to learn from them were stuck. They didn't know how to get into this room so.. without spoiling you future adventurers out there.. I helped them by figuring it out, opening the room and going in.

There were your usual floors dropping to a spike filled pit below that I avoided.. and the unexpected opposite which is floor suddenly smashing into a spike filled cealing which I accidentally was a victim of but survived thanks to my wonderful reflexes to jump backwards when taken by surprise (the spikes whisked in front of me again, nearly missing my chest). Val... I don't know HOW you survived that simply by remaining in a crouched sneak stance in the middle of those spikes... *grumbles* Crazy fool.

There were no enemies until the very end. A solved puzzel revealed some steps leading to my prize, a "special" helmate of some kind. I don't know what was so special about it.. it looked ugly, had no enchantments and only a protection armor rating of 2.. Oh well, lucky for the researchers then. If it had been much better then they would not have recieved it from me like they wanted. >:D
When I was up on the high platform picking the helmate off it's stand though, I heard a rukkus and leaned over the edge of the platform to peer down curiously at what it was.. A hoard of skeletons had rushed in and attacked! I watched as Val rushed forth to meet them and dance with them in that deadly way he does. "Good Val, You fight them.. i'll just... go, over, here..." I said to myself as I skillfully lept off the platform allllll the way to the floor without using the steps, took one look back at the fighting, mobbed Val, and hurried back down the tunnel the way I came like a snake. Really I felt bad for Val, really I did.. but I just didn't want to stay and fight a hoard of skeletons for something not even worth my time.
It was only after I ran through a couple of doors quite a ways from the platform room I got the helmate in that Val suddenly realized I was missing and followed! I had to chuckle to myself as, hearing the familiar sound of Val's loud armor behind me, I turned to find he'd rushed through the door panting heavily and out of breath. I could just picture him panting heavily leaning his hands on his knees all bent over and leaning against the door he'd slammed shut behind him upon entering... and speaking out of breath too  "Where did you go?!".  I gave the helmate to the thankful researchers. My next stop is the IC again so I can tell the arch mage what happened.

I'll do my best to remember to take a picture of my stats next time!

My Vision Realized

Well I decided to follow my vision and see where it took me. The idea of going to Anvil just to tell someone what happened in Skingrad when I should be going back to the Arcane University seemed really annoying to me, to be honest. The travel to the mountains was actually more of a journey, it took forever, but was well worth it. I thought i'd be going somewhere near Bruma, but in fact it was far east of bruma in the Jerall Mountains. First thing I noticed when I started up my game, though, was that my staff looks different. I don't quite know what caused it.. This is what it looks like now:

It's pretty though. I don't mind the change. When I noticed it I turned the staff around in my hand and thought "huh.. look at that..".

On the way, I stopped at the Imperial City to catch up with Shady Sam for five more skooma. I'm starting to run low. On the way I walked through the slums of the city settled just outside the gates. It's actually quite quaint and peaceful there... except oddly enough I found myself walking among a lot of seemingly peaceful goblins..

The rest of the trip into the mountains was pretty peaceful too, even though it was long. I had a good time with Val walking beside me. The view was gorgeous too.

When I finally arrived at the spot... I found this:

A pedestal to place the mushroom offering that was asked of me. So I did. I heard the grind of stone and the door nearby unlocked.

I stopped for a moment to admire the statues on top of the door. A bird and a cat.

Inside Val and I emerged into a large, long tunnel. I immediately went into sneak mode just in case there was anything bad inside. My experience has been caves are always hiding bad enemies. I traveled down the tunnel, and down the tunnel... and down... and down... and down... and down... and down.... it seemed to go on forever, eventually I got fed up with it and just stood up straight, deciding to walk the rest of the way. It's much faster!
Even at this faster walking pace the tunnel seemed to go on forever! I mean we must be a mile under the ground by now! Hours seemed to pass, and my posture slouched and I whined impatiently as I walked.
Then, finally, a light at the end of the tunnel. I nearly fell over with relief when I saw it!

The light was a ghostly, pretty, blue. I was almost immediately mesmorized by it, I love that color! Still, this is a new invironment i'm going in to so I was cautious as I approached the end of the tunnel... But the closer I got to it, the more mesmorized I became. As the opening widened allowing me more of a view of the room beyond that opening my mesmorization gradually changed to open mouthed awe!

The cavern was beautiful with a faint blue, glowing mist decorating the area around me, and there were spirit animals gracing the cavern with a very graceful, silent presence. It was almost as if they were so graceful and serene that they created their own heavenly song that you couldn't hear with your physical ears. As I slowly stepped forward into the cavern a spirit bird swooped silently past me.

I could swear it was looking right at me a second before.

Val and I slowly continued through the cavern, past the animals never being able to take our eyes off them along the way, and eventually submerged ourselves into long stone tunnels. These curled and straightened, lead up and down stone steps.. finally emerging into another room. We were now high up and I looked over the banister to see the giant room we circled. It was breath taking!

There is a beautiful garden down there lighted with faint blue crystals and decorated with large, beautiful statues!

The passage way lead us down some winding steps in to this room.
I recieved these messages:

The top message is the one I recieved when I entered this garden room. The ones below it I recieved earlier.
I then recieved this message:

Yay.. new powers! Little did I know that wasn't the only nor the greatest one I would recieve here.

I began exploring, as anyone would in this situation, admiring and enjoying the beauty of the place. Eventually I walked up to the two large statues one at a time and saw each had offerings to me on them. Each had their own version of druidic armor and weapons. None of them were as good as what I currently own though. There was one leather armor that was better than what Valtierro had on, though, so I gave it to him.

Val looks happy with it.
In front of each statue was a pedestal for offerings. Unfortunately I had nothing to offer the god statue, but when I approached the pedestal in front of the animal statues to my surprise I had the lamb offering that it accepted! Soon as I layed it down I got another message:

The bottom one came first, then the top. So.. apparently I now have the ability to transform in to a stag! Yay! I jumped for joy! I couldn't wait to try out this new ability!
So I did right away! Why not? Might as well get accustomed to this ability and learn how to use it well before I decide to try during battle and make a horrible mistake.
*poof*

Annnd i'm a deer! :D

I was so excited! I galloped and walked around for a minute or so.. then realized I don't know how to change back. I found out I can't use my magic when i'm a deer... so.... great... Val just watched me, also looking a little confused, and awkward. I looked at him... then looked around.. well we can't just stay here all day. Not knowing how to change back I decided we better get out of here. I began walking back through the stone tunnel with val following behind me and have to admit we looked a little rediculas. My partner, Val, a great warrior, following a deer and doing what ever the deer says.
I could just picture us fighting a great battle together this way.. me poking enemies in the butts with my antlers while Val much more heorically slashed others in half with his sword... then me accepting a cash reward for defeating the horrible enemies by taking the pouch of septims from the greatful party in my deer mouth..

Well fortunately I wouldn't have to do that. I walked to the little rest area where mats and stools were layed out neatly around a fire, that we had passed on the way to the garden room, and decided that Val and I should have a rest. When I clicked on the mat to crawl in and sleep for an hour or two I magically changed back in to my old self! "well, that's handy."
After the rest, I happily hurried back out of the caverns..cave.. whatever that was, with my new found powers! This will come in handy plenty of times in the future!.... I think..
*scratches her head, wondering how being a deer will help her fight enemies*