I'm not bothering with lockpicking because all it really does is saves on lockpicks. Which I have plenty of anyway. Seems like a waste.

I won't read that cos I've not done much in the thieves yet :O

That headless horseman thing sounds wicked :D

Here is a picture of me practising my sneaking:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/132841/TESV%202011-11-15%2009-30-55-55.jpg

I don't think headshots count but I'm not sure.

That's pretty sneaky.

 

I was thinking last night that my character must look like some kind of psycho to a watching NPC. I'd get into a fight with three heavily armed guys. There'd be arrows flying everywhere, axes being shoved into people, magic all over the place. Eventually, I'd be the only one left standing, on the edge of death and covered in blood. Then I'd suddenly start chasing butterflies trying to catch them. Fucking nutter.

Which one's your character?

How do I spin the camera round to face my character?

Ahahaha :D

It's strange that I'll happily murder someone for hiring thugs to beat me up after I robbed their house. But consider taking butterflies immoral.

:(

Boff: The crouching one with the quiver on the back.

Caer: hold down ... F I think.

What, the guy on the far left??? He doesn't have arrows?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/132841/TESV%202011-11-15%2009-30-55-55e.jpg

Why have you drawn a yellow circle around some empty space?

There's no one there?!

This joke isn't going very well...

I'll not only catch them, I'll even eat them to see what effect is has.

 

It does make me giggle when I eat a load of ingredients to find out what their effect is, but nothing really happens until I've left the menu and my character exclaims just how disgusting eating all those things were.

I see where your subtle humour was leading me now! Well played, sir.

Aye, that is funny.

I've stopped doing it though because I think levelling up alchemy is a bad idea (increases my level without increasing the skills that matter (i.e. stabbing))

I did find it somewhat unrealistic in Morrowind that you could get out your alchemy equipment and ingredients mid-battle, set it all up, concoct a health potion then drink it, then continue fighting.

Level it up loads then apply some lethal poisons on your blades :D

Yeah but: 30 levels and 15 perk points spent in alchemy to put poisons on my blades.

Vs.

30 levels and 15 points on stabbing shit.

The poisons do sound cool though! Poison arrers!

They would be cool if they lasted for (significantly) more than like 3 shots. I would use them mainly for wizards. Some anti-magicka potion and then see how they like fighting me.

So you apply them and you get about 3 arrows with poison on? Can you separate them out of the normal arrows? Can you enchant arrows? I LIKE ARROWS.

Yes and no and no. Not sure about enchanting.

Poisoning is rubbish. There are perks to make the poisons last for more strikes/arrows etc. but... it's not enough. If I could poison a whole quiver or /permanently/ poison my blades then yeah, sure. But no. So fuck you alchemy.