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Murderface Goes on a Selfie Binge
In lieu of an adventure writeup, because I'm at a point in the game where I'm trying to min/max all of Murderface's perks and equipment which leads less to hilarious adventure and more to picking quests because of the loot or XP they'll bring, here's a bunch of photos he's taken and commentary.
Well, maybe a story or two. And not that many selfies.
Tiring of the hunter's treehouse he'd been squatting in, Murderface bought the house next to the blacksmith Claudia Christian in Whiterun. Almost immediately thereafter, he decided to build a house instead, so he ended up not actually putting anything into the house, but I suppose real estate is a good investment. Until the Stormcloaks storm Whiterun for siding with the Imperials, that is. Wonder if protecting his investment might be a reason to finally pick a side in the upcoming civil war?
The hood he's wearing in the above picture is available through a mod that expands the armor available, I believe it's a ranger's hood. He's already upgraded to enchanted glass armor, though, which will probably appear in subsequent pictures, if I haven't gotten bored of typing by then.
Murderface 2.0 hasn't committed to dragons yet, but he has committed to something: fighting vampires! While I installed a mod to prevent random vampire attacks in towns, because I was not having fun when they did that, they'll still attack out on the open road.
So he's joined the Dawnguard, an old organization dedicated to eradicating vampires from Skyrim. Now, while Murderface is generally not down with vampires, there's a few he doesn't have problems with, about which more later. But what he is down with is crossbows, because he can produce more mayhem with a crossbow than with a regular old bow, plus you can make EXPLODING BOLTS.
Murderface is exceptionally down with exploding bolts. you can't get exploding bolts without following the Dawnguard questline at least a ways.
This photo he took of Isran, the leader of the Dawnguard, teaching Agmaer, a young recruit, how to shoot a crossbow with an apparently limitless supply of steel bolts.
Murderface was assigned his very own crossbow and 50 bolts, but discovered that if he stood next to the boxes young Agmaer was using for target practice, he could harvest the bolts, so he easily doubled his supply that way.
While waiting for Agmaer to shoot some more, he took a selfie.
Some time later, while adventuring around, he got another Word Wall. And took a selfie in front of it.
This next sequence of photos is Murderface's current loadout, as of the events in this post. (He has since leveled up more and cosntructed much more awesome stuff.)
Yes, he's carrying two crossbows at this point, because he hasn't gotten the Dual Enchantment perk, so he can only put one enchantment on an item at a time.
The above crossbow looks like two enchantments, but it's just one, "Fiery Soul Trap."
Shock/Lightning damage drains your magicka, so especially useful against magic users.
A classic.
This axe could be better--if Murderface 2.0 decides to start the Companions questline, he can get Skyforged axes, but I'm so tired of that particular opening FedEx quest that he may not bother.
One always need as much help as one can get for hauling loot.
The next two have plain names becauseI Murderface forgot to name them at the appropriate point in the enchanting process.
And in case you ever wanted to know what the inside of a cave bear looks like, here you go:
Anyway! So, while Murderface is not particularly amenable to the idea of vampires in general, he does not have a problem with individual vampires if they don't have a problem with him. Which is good, because meet his current companion, Serana:
Serana is an ancient vampire who was walled up deep underground. Isran, the leader of the Dawnguard as you'll recall, sent Murderface off to see what was up with vampire interest in Deephollow Crypt. Murderface obligingly went along--vampire robes can be sold for a lot of money and nobody asks questions about any holes or mysterious stains they might contain-- discovered Serana's crypt, and revived her.
And then promptly got lost in the cavern where her crypt was located because he couldn't find the exit. It was a rather large, monumental exit, too, inside a large, open cavern that had a single room. To be fair, he'd explored the cavern, but had done so at ground level looking for chests and other loot-containing creature or objects and hadn't looked up. If he had, he'd have spotted the exit, accessed by a ledge.
Serana refrained from commenting.
On his way out, he decided to go looking for a particular dwarven artifact (part of the aetherium quest, for those of you in the know). On the way, Murderface and Serana found the Lovers' Stone, one of a number of different stones scattered across Skyrim that grants you certain advantage. The Lovers' Stone makes all your skills level slightly faster, so he took it.
Shortly thereafter, Murderface rather embarrassingly fell over a waterfall and killed himself.
Upon resurrection, he again found the Lovers' Stone and he and Serana set off, giving the waterfall a wide berth while he avoided looking Serana in the eye, and found the artifact without much fanfare.
This selfie was in front of dwemer (dwarven) ruins, taken while Serana complained about the weather. Murderface thought she was one to talk, given that she wasn't affected by the mod that made rain and frost cling to him.
Inside, bandits had ingeniously set a spitted skeever to roast in a flame trap. Murederface approved, although he still killed all the bandits.
They also ran across another Word Wall, guarded by hagravens, which fell quickly to Murderface's crossbow and to Serana's KILL-STEALING spells.
Also, Murderface was hovering just to the side of the stone altar there.
That's it for now: I'm tired of typing. Next time...does Murderface actually realize that Serana is a vampire? Especially since she seems to be able to wander outside during the day? Or does he just think she's proactive about preventing skin cancer, given that she's hooded outside and always complains about the sun being bad for her complexion?
Well, maybe a story or two. And not that many selfies.
Tiring of the hunter's treehouse he'd been squatting in, Murderface bought the house next to the blacksmith Claudia Christian in Whiterun. Almost immediately thereafter, he decided to build a house instead, so he ended up not actually putting anything into the house, but I suppose real estate is a good investment. Until the Stormcloaks storm Whiterun for siding with the Imperials, that is. Wonder if protecting his investment might be a reason to finally pick a side in the upcoming civil war?
The hood he's wearing in the above picture is available through a mod that expands the armor available, I believe it's a ranger's hood. He's already upgraded to enchanted glass armor, though, which will probably appear in subsequent pictures, if I haven't gotten bored of typing by then.
Murderface 2.0 hasn't committed to dragons yet, but he has committed to something: fighting vampires! While I installed a mod to prevent random vampire attacks in towns, because I was not having fun when they did that, they'll still attack out on the open road.
So he's joined the Dawnguard, an old organization dedicated to eradicating vampires from Skyrim. Now, while Murderface is generally not down with vampires, there's a few he doesn't have problems with, about which more later. But what he is down with is crossbows, because he can produce more mayhem with a crossbow than with a regular old bow, plus you can make EXPLODING BOLTS.
Murderface is exceptionally down with exploding bolts. you can't get exploding bolts without following the Dawnguard questline at least a ways.
This photo he took of Isran, the leader of the Dawnguard, teaching Agmaer, a young recruit, how to shoot a crossbow with an apparently limitless supply of steel bolts.
Murderface was assigned his very own crossbow and 50 bolts, but discovered that if he stood next to the boxes young Agmaer was using for target practice, he could harvest the bolts, so he easily doubled his supply that way.
While waiting for Agmaer to shoot some more, he took a selfie.
Some time later, while adventuring around, he got another Word Wall. And took a selfie in front of it.
This next sequence of photos is Murderface's current loadout, as of the events in this post. (He has since leveled up more and cosntructed much more awesome stuff.)
Yes, he's carrying two crossbows at this point, because he hasn't gotten the Dual Enchantment perk, so he can only put one enchantment on an item at a time.
The above crossbow looks like two enchantments, but it's just one, "Fiery Soul Trap."
Shock/Lightning damage drains your magicka, so especially useful against magic users.
A classic.
This axe could be better--if Murderface 2.0 decides to start the Companions questline, he can get Skyforged axes, but I'm so tired of that particular opening FedEx quest that he may not bother.
One always need as much help as one can get for hauling loot.
The next two have plain names because
And in case you ever wanted to know what the inside of a cave bear looks like, here you go:
Anyway! So, while Murderface is not particularly amenable to the idea of vampires in general, he does not have a problem with individual vampires if they don't have a problem with him. Which is good, because meet his current companion, Serana:
Serana is an ancient vampire who was walled up deep underground. Isran, the leader of the Dawnguard as you'll recall, sent Murderface off to see what was up with vampire interest in Deephollow Crypt. Murderface obligingly went along--vampire robes can be sold for a lot of money and nobody asks questions about any holes or mysterious stains they might contain-- discovered Serana's crypt, and revived her.
And then promptly got lost in the cavern where her crypt was located because he couldn't find the exit. It was a rather large, monumental exit, too, inside a large, open cavern that had a single room. To be fair, he'd explored the cavern, but had done so at ground level looking for chests and other loot-containing creature or objects and hadn't looked up. If he had, he'd have spotted the exit, accessed by a ledge.
Serana refrained from commenting.
On his way out, he decided to go looking for a particular dwarven artifact (part of the aetherium quest, for those of you in the know). On the way, Murderface and Serana found the Lovers' Stone, one of a number of different stones scattered across Skyrim that grants you certain advantage. The Lovers' Stone makes all your skills level slightly faster, so he took it.
Shortly thereafter, Murderface rather embarrassingly fell over a waterfall and killed himself.
Upon resurrection, he again found the Lovers' Stone and he and Serana set off, giving the waterfall a wide berth while he avoided looking Serana in the eye, and found the artifact without much fanfare.
This selfie was in front of dwemer (dwarven) ruins, taken while Serana complained about the weather. Murderface thought she was one to talk, given that she wasn't affected by the mod that made rain and frost cling to him.
Inside, bandits had ingeniously set a spitted skeever to roast in a flame trap. Murederface approved, although he still killed all the bandits.
They also ran across another Word Wall, guarded by hagravens, which fell quickly to Murderface's crossbow and to Serana's KILL-STEALING spells.
Also, Murderface was hovering just to the side of the stone altar there.
That's it for now: I'm tired of typing. Next time...does Murderface actually realize that Serana is a vampire? Especially since she seems to be able to wander outside during the day? Or does he just think she's proactive about preventing skin cancer, given that she's hooded outside and always complains about the sun being bad for her complexion?