Adventures in Skyrim VR
Skyrim VR... Day 412023-08-29— A bunch of cheeky spellcasting cultists had set up shop in this deep dungeon. I call them cheeky because they seemed to see me while I was doing my sneaky-sneak. They got off some lucky spells to the extent that I was frantically trying to remember the gesture to heal myself and panicking a little when my shout gestures didn't work!…
Skyrim VR... Day 402023-06-27— I had another bit of a hiatus from VR, but finally strapped myself in to continue my adventures... figure I should try and finish this game before they get around to making Starfield VR…
Skyrim VR... Day 392023-03-19— A short stroll down the hill from the spider crypt is Dumzbthar, the ancient dwarven city that Lucien has been harping on about since, well, since I first met him to be honest... he's been tagging along this whole time because I said I'd take him to study those ruins…
Skyrim VR... Day 382023-02-27— I woke up refreshed in the afternoon and got off to a lazy start... enchanted every single piece of jewellery I had acquired over the last week or so, and levelled up my enchanting skill. Did the upgrade dance, upgrading my followers with my cast offs, and then went out to sell the rest…
Skyrim VR... Day 372023-02-24— Having been badly distracted on my trip to the headwaters (what's new, Skyrim is good at distracting you), I thought I'd better actually get there... and I did! And dealt with this wooden tree thing and grabbed its taproot to soak in the headwaters so we could fix wizardy mcwizardface's mushroom house…
Skyrim VR... Day 362023-02-21— Just down the road from the freshly liberated mead hall was a quaint looking village. As I approached, I noticed it was covered in a swirly white shield. I was immediately sus…
Skyrim VR... Day 352023-02-20— As you do when you go back to town, I turned in a bunch of quests, got a few new ones, offloaded some of my loot on the vendors, and tried in vain to search for a new assistant for his-wizardyship…
Skyrim VR... Day 342023-01-10— Welllll, I got a new SSD for christmas, so reinstalled windows and it took a while before I got VR streaming things back up and running… had some particular trouble because the new windows install decided to assign ‘e’ to my games drive instead of ‘d’. And apparently some of the mod stuff baked in the d:\ and cracked the shits over not being able to find stuff. So there was a night spent in vscode updating all the stuff and troubleshooting… but we’re back up and running again…
Skyrim VR... Day 332022-12-20— The blacksmith back at town (who seems a bit of an ass) wanted me to go get his ancient nordic pickaxe from the old man who had borrowed it. So I headed to the nearby mines and the old man was having a domestic, he wanted to go into the mines and find out what happened to his father, but his missus was like ‘no, you’re too old you’ll get killed’…
Skyrim VR... Day 322022-12-19— I forgot to write in my journal for a while, so my memory of events may be a little bit shot… it was well into the next day when we emerged from the castle and back into the ashy wasteland, massively overburdened by loot. Luckily my cheaty modded NPC Sofia doesn’t have a carrying capacity, so I handed all those ingots and heavy armors to her to look after until we get back to a vendor…
Skyrim VR... Day 312022-11-29— I got a little sidetracked with sidequests, and found myself taking a boat to Raven Rock…
Skyrim VR... Day 302022-11-08— There was a giant nearby that someone had asked me to deal with, so we headed in that general direction. There was a hungry bear and a couple of snow cats that charged out of the forest looking to make a meal of me, but they will make some nice leather armour next time I do some crafting…
Skyrim VR... Day 292022-11-03— Nearby there was a shrine to some random deity. I clicked it, because, that’s kinda what you do… though tbh even in a fantasy game where gods are real I still don’t usually get the whole religion thing…
Skyrim VR... Day 282022-11-01— I waited around until dusk, and then we set fire to the king…
Skyrim VR... Day 272022-10-29— Well, I headed back to Whiterun to turn some quests in that I had been meaning to, plus it was on the way to drop off the puppy… and while I was there I was like, hmmm. If Sofia and Lucien are followers-but-not-followers, I might as well see if my housecarl will tag along too…
Skyrim VR... Day 262022-10-27— Where were we? Oh yes, in the mind of some lunatic…
Skyrim VR... Day 252022-10-25— Sofia had been going on about a tavern in Solitude for a while, and since we were in the neighbourhood, it seemed reasonable to go pay the town a visit…
Skyrim VR... Day 242022-10-22— I was reading about improving the archery experience in Skyrim VR and reddit suggested the following .ini file settings… I don’t know if they actually helped or if it was just a placebo, but it seemed I was missing less? Maybe?…
Skyrim VR... Day 232022-10-18— Dragon Bridge didn’t seem like a particularly friendly town, not too many people looking for assistance or willing to give me the time of day, though one lady did ask me to do something about her hubby’s hooch problem. Apparently he’s stashed it nearish by, but I couldn’t see on the map an easy way to get there, so I headed off in the other direction…
Skyrim VR... Day 222022-10-17— I tried downloading a few different mods to fix my followers' weird armour glitch, but none of them seemed to work… in fact one of them made it worse - the parts that were working disappeared. So in the end I gave up, then jumped back down that hole into the oubliette…
Skyrim VR... Day 212022-10-16— There was a peasant out the front of the house, begging for someone to deal with the monster inside…
Skyrim VR... Day 202022-10-15— The road from Whiterun to Falkreath wasn’t without its surprises, ambushes from assassins, cultists and frostbite spiders… but we made it by the early evening and started collecting quests…
Skyrim VR... Day 192022-10-14— I bumped into a redguard woman called Saadia in Whiterun. She pulled a knife on me and accused me of being in league with some men that were trying to kidnap her. I told her I knew of no such men, and offered to help rid the realm of said ruffians…
Skyrim VR... Day 182022-10-12— So I wasn’t entirely wrong about the cave. I don’t think they were your everyday run of the mill bandit outfit, they called themselves the Silver Hand and were considerably more proficient in their ways…
Skyrim VR... Day 172022-10-05— Where to next? There was a quest marker over yonder, and that was in the opposite direction to the giant who was wandering around with a couple of mammoths…
Skyrim VR... Day 162022-10-03— Whiterun gave me a chance to improve my alchemy but making random potions and selling them, turn a bunch of pelts into leather, and offload a ton of stuff into the chest in my house…
Skyrim VR... Day 152022-10-02— Next sesh was largely a repeat of the bandit cave, this time WITH remembering to save…
Skyrim VR... Day 142022-09-28— So there I was, at a bit of a loose end after the rather permanent ending of my betrothal, but some pretty adventurer-come-peasant had asked me to sort out her bandit problem and their lair was nearby, so that seemed like a good way to pass time…
Skyrim VR... Day 132022-09-27— Last night in Skyrim, I was selling a bunch of my loot and turning in quests when some lady came up to me and asked for payment for the wedding ring I apparently had purchased on credit?…
Skyrim VR... Day 122022-09-26— I woke up in a town called Markath, which was an interesting town built into a cliff with waterfalls and stuff... quite a pretty destination, except when I stepped out bleary-eyed into the sunlight, I witnessed a murder in the market square…
Skyrim VR... Day 112022-09-21— So, where did we leave little miss dragonborn? I think she'd just finished the barrow on the island, and was in terrible need of a vendor, so spent a day in Whiterun crafting and selling, then returned to the foot of the mountains…
Skyrim VR... Day 102022-09-12— I found my way through the mountains, past a seemingly-abandoned cottage (that I looted) and found myself at the town at the bottom of the 7000 steps leading up to that monastery I'm supposed to go check out…
Skyrim VR... Day 92022-09-06— So last night I continued my adventures through the mountains. I met a hunter along the way, sold him some venison I had acquired in my journey…
Skyrim VR... Day 82022-08-30— I went up into the mountains yesterday, got my ass handed to me by a wisp mother. Left that one alone after a few restores…
Skyrim VR... Day 72022-08-28— Last night I was in Whiterun for the whole evening... spoke to some old lady who swears her son had been taken prisoner…
Skyrim VR... Day 62022-08-26— Last night I went to Whiterun, picked a bunch of flowers, met some shady lass in the tavern who offered to follow me around if I paid her…
Skyrim VR... Day 52022-08-19— So, I did some RTFM on the various mods that FUS installs, there's one called blade and blunt which based on the difficulty level you choose multiplies incoming damage and divides outgoing damage…
Skyrim VR... Day 42022-08-18— Barrow was interesting, have to save regularly because of death being around each corner by being 2-3 shotted by whatever is around said corner…
Skyrim VR... Day 32022-08-17— So day three... I picked up some quest to go get a gold claw from a barrow. No problemmo, newbie quests should be fine right?…
Skyrim VR... Day 22022-08-16— Since day 2 was a repeat of half of day one, it started pretty fast... pick a lock, loot some treasure, follow dude, kill baddies. SAVE…
Skyrim VR... Day 12022-08-15— So... last night I was trying to get Alternate Start working but it didn't and I ended up on the cart. So I thought, well, what's the worst that could happen?…
Skyrim VR... Introduction2022-08-01— During the great lockdown shenanigans of recent years, I panic-bought an Oculus Quest 2…