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Eep -- my first installment long enough to trigger the disappearing-background bug!EDIT: Or at least it did on the old site design.Thanks for reading this, all!
"Yes, Kolmar, very nice! I'm sure you were victorious. Again."
Btw, I really liked the pictures in this one. Especially the one of Kolmar skewering a bandit!
Anyway, thanks, wres! Kolmar's never been one to show much mercy to bandits, since they're not likely to show him any.
I also liked that the lads got Arbel the Swift themselves; I have to admit I usually let him run straight into the arms of the Draugr.
Your little touches (like the not about the 92% gold alloy in coinage) really take your story to the next level. I'm a fast fan of your style my dear!
PS if you keep shouting out my Grey-Runner series you may just make me take it up again!!
Regarding Arvel: I always run ahead and get Arvel myself; I've been doing that since my first playthrough, when I didn't know yet that there were draugr beyond. I'll have to try letting him distract the draugr sometime on a future character, though.
Regarding gold: People tend to forget how soft and heavy pure gold is (19.3 x water, much denser than lead's 11.3), probably because few people handle it in quantity. (I don't think I've even held an ounce.) Even if it were plentiful and cheap, lots of things would still be gilded, plated, or alloyed instead of solid for this reason. The softness is also why crown gold and similar alloys were used in real-life coins; they alloyed the gold with something harder so it wouldn't wear off as much in people's pockets.
As for Leif, he seemed relevant to Shorty's comment.
You have also merged your own dialogue very well with the vanilla lines.
I have enjoyed all the chapters so far, Andil and Kolmar are perfectly likeable
If you want to see another take on Bleak Falls Barrow, try jessb81's stories about Stornleif Grey-Runner. They start around page 13 of her pics as I type. Here's the first part, and the next three parts are at Bleak Falls.
Yah, it did take me a while to get everything together. Actually playing the game and taking the screenshots was probably the quickest part.
On the other hand when you do a story like the Wild Hunt one I did ... trust me taking the screenshots is the most time consuming - making mods, tweaking ENB's, testing ... those chapters relating to it took me almost an entire month from start to finish (including the actual posting).
I haven't tried anything quite so ambitious yet, but who knows? I've had some vague ideas for another story about a retired Imperial soldier for quite some time, and I've recently thought of working another character, such as my Nordic elf, into it as a parallel story track. That would require keeping track of things across two different characters' saves, though, and probably NPC follower versions of one or both characters. I haven't decided if I'm up to that challenge just yet.
Still, you've done well so far with Grim's stories. Between you and others (such as Jess, aok, and Basstos, to name a few), I've gotten a lot of inspiration and enjoyment.
I too am inspired by others. I think Nataly's work was the first that inspired me to do something like this. (Not that I have ever come close to the pose ninja and story telling goddess that she is, but it made me think, "Wow! maybe I can do something like that!"
The creative rush makes it all worthwhile!
Yeah, I know what you mean about the creative rush.
Well written and believable fights. Bandits are easy but no so much those giant frostspiders! These two make a good team and fun to see them in action.
Yah, those spiders can be a handful, especially on a squishy low-level mage. Andil is very much aware of his relative fragility here, which is why he brought some muscle along.
Speaking of which, I know what you mean about Kolmar.