But 2 days ago I did... I downloaded the following mods...
-SkyUI (Improves the user interface)
-Skyrim Script extender (needed for various mods)
-Monster Mod (Adds new enemies into the game)
-Skyrim Flora Overhaul (Improves the foliage in the game)
-Tundra Defense (Allows me to create an outpost and defend it)
-Animated Prostitution... (For humor value alone)
(It somehow broke though)
I am attempting to play skyrim with black metal or folk metal music playing in the background rather than the original soundtrack... I chose the following bands to listen to:
Wintersun
Windir
Moonsorrow
I could not believe how much better this made skyrim "feel".... The original soundtrack was too happy... Hearing atmospheric black metal like the forest seasons by Wintersun and Nordic folk metal like Windir playing in the background made it feel way better... I felt like I was really a viking...
This is what my character looked like... He was inspired by the Valfar Follower but he looks like the Real Valfar did...
It maybe a little bit off but it looks close at least...
I spent something like 12 hours in skyrim with black metal music playing in the background. It made the game a hell of a lot more fun.... This is what I did...
Day 1 (Done late at night)
-Created my character..... "Valfar"... Yes that's right, I am playing as Valfar in skyrim..
-Escaped the initial dragon attack
-Went with hadvar
-Escaped the dungeon
-Explored some of the pale
Day 2
-Reloaded my save saved right after the escape from the intro dungeon
-Went to Riverwood
-Talked to Alvor
-Went to Whiterun
-Talked to the Jarl, Got troops sent to riverwood
-Took the quest to get the dragonstone
-Went to riverwood and took the quest to get the dragon claw back
-Went into Embershard mine to get a free pickaxe to mine minerals with
-Went through Bleak falls barrow, upgraded my sword to an ancient nord greatsword
-Gave the dragonstone to Farengar and killed the first dragon, became the first Black Metal Dragonborn!
-Went to Bloated Mans Grotto and retreived Bolar's Oathblade
(I believe this is what this foresty indoor area is called, it's w/s/w of whiterun somewhere
near brittleshin pass)
-Bound my spells and guns
-Journeyed to high hrothgar
-Trained with the Graybeards to get fus-ro and whirlwhind sprint unlocked
-went to ustgengrav and got the become ethereal shout
-Solved the puzzles there
-Met with delphine but put it off
-Got the Fus-Ro-Dah shout from the Graybeards
Day 3
Part I:
-Journeyed through a blizzard to dawnstar
-With tundra defense on, started building my outpost near dawnstar
-Placed the water well, bound markers, hq building, barracks, etc
-did the first raid
-shut off raids
-Needed more money so...
-Killed a mammoth and got the mammoths tusk
-Trained my smithing to 30 by...
A) Stealing items from the hidden crate near the dawnstar mine... This crate is underground but you can reach it by crouching. It contains all the items Akhari (Traveling Khajiit Merchant) Sells...
B) Selling the weapon and armor items to the blacksmith
C) Bought leather strips and iron ingots there
D) Crafted iron daggers till my smithing was as high as I could get it.
E) Sold all iron daggers to the blacksmith and all other valuables to Akhari or Belethor
Rinse and repeat...
-With smithing at 30....
A) Mined some Quicksilver ore just east of whiterun near battleborn farm (in the hills)
B) Journeyed on a long long trek west of whiterun to get to Soljund's sinkhole... (W/S/W of
rorickstead)... Mined Moonstone there...
C) Constructed the Elven Greatsword!
D) Improved the greatsword at a grinder
Part II:
-Went on a long dangerous journey to Riften to go to the ratway to get the scavenger box for tundra defense
-Placed the scavenger box it but didn't activate it... (Will tommorrow)
-Kept on using the hidden dawnstar crate mentioned above to raise enough money via selling items
in it to get the house in Whiterun
-Bought the house in whiterun and some Additions
-Gave the Mammoths tusk to ysolda
-Somehow found an amulet of mara in random loot (this helps alot for the next step)
-Got Ysolda to "Marry" "me"
-Attended my "wedding" in the game
-Killed the second dragon for Delphine, to try to get a dragon soul to unlock become ethereal for
later... VERY important for a certain part I am doing next day I skyrim..
-Had to fight not one, but 2 GIANTS PLUS 1 mammoth attacking my outpost... Took several saves
and running around healing to kill all of them... Don't ask how I survived..
-Worked some more on my outpost
-Got the mine for the outpost.
-Moved in the first 3 civilians to the outpost
-Collected taxes
-Tried to Have Sex with ysolda using the animated prostitution mod but it didn't work :(
(All of that for nothing!)
Day 4:
-Explored some mines in the Falkreath Area and Mined some minerals there
-Did some more exploration around Helgen and found the gates to cyrodill
-Kept on working on my smithing by:
A) Talking to Akhari (Traveling Khajiit merchant)
B) Looting the hidden crate near the dawnstar mine containing Akhari's Inventory
C) Selling the items to Akhari/Rustleif/other vendors
D) Buying tons of iron ingots and leather straps with that money
E) Crafting iron daggers with them
Got my smithing to 50 with this method. Having an outpost to feed me more money per day
helped greatly thanks to tundra defense!
Day 5:
-Found the steed stone west of Solitude that boosts your movement speed and carying capacity
-Leveled up to Level 15
-Went to Volunruud, killed all the enemies and obtained the sword Eduj! The Fight with Knevel the tongue was quite hard, he does tons of damage, but I had become ethereal and it worked!
-Improved my smithing to 60 by doing the same method as on day 4
-Imrpoved Eduj to make it flawless...
Day 6:
Installed the following mods:
-Ultimate Lush Overhaul
-Climates of tamriel
-Immsersive Weapons
Explored all of the areas (holds) to see how the mods affected the game...
Tried to install Skyrim Redone and Verdant grass but they had big problems, for
SkyRE it crashed due to incompatibilities, verdant caused too much slowdown for me to use
Day 7:
-Looked around in the reach, got my ass kicked by minotaurs, all in the hope of finding a really
good sword I found around there in a tower... Random generator refused to give me the right sword...
-Using the following method, I boosted my smithing to 70
A) Sold tons of weapons to rustlief
B) Looted the secret chest near the dawnstar mine that contains Akhari's inventory
C) Sold the valuable items to merchants
D) Used the money to buy iron ingots and leather strips
E) Crafted iron daggers till my smithing was as high as I could get it...
-Added stone walls to my tundra defense outpost because I have never fortified it....
