XaldinVii

Been playing a lot of Skyrim Special edition with mods, a lot of em are hunting related mods, I felt like playing a more RPG centered game and add survival aspects to it to make it more realistic, yet still let it remain a magical RPG  

Gotta love all the hunting mods that exist for it. I love TLD, but right now, the amount of mod content that Skyrim has allows me to get more satisfaction in there. I do plan to come back to TLD eventually of course

Voyager continues! 

Not sure where I left off, but at day 52 Ive spend most of that, running through the PV, trying to reach the mystic campsite and the cavern, because I believed it might have a skill book for me. The morning I started at the Radio tower, and since I brought a rope with me from the Ravine´s train, I deployed it on the rock behind the tower and climbed down. Normally a futile task, but there is a corpse mid-way there usually, and sometimes has a backpack with a skill book in it. No luck this time. Ive traveled up the road to the long curve, but nothing of interest there. Ive heard a bear as the wind picked up, but could not see it - so I quickly removed myself from that area. After a brief stop by the lonely cabin, I made my way up the other part of the path towards TWM. I was nervous because of the bear that resides there, but luckily, a blizzard took off and i was able to pass with relative safety, altough a bit of a discomfort. Sadly, in the low visibility I lost my bearing and didnt find the point of dissagreement. Ive reached the mystic cave, though - another bow, an arrow, but no skill book, and a rifle outside. Havent seen many rifles this game but I know of a few in case I need to go grab one. Spend the night in a cave by the nice fire. Got jumped by a wolf outside in the morning. Damn, these bastards bite... took down about 20% of my condition, not bad for the fact I have pretty sturdy clothes on... (by not bad, I mean it hurt quite a bit). I stopped by the Preppers hatch to drop off some heavy items there, and continued on. Took a short nap, too, to regain some extra fatigue and condition in case I got into more struggles as I continue on.

Day 53 is now ongoing. To shorten it up - I found the rope by the Skeeter edge, but I laughed at the prospect of climbing it down. I instead expertly climbed down the ledge next to it - took me less time, no fatigue drain and I took no fall damage. For once, I didnt even sprain anything.

The weather got windy, but no worries. Heavy snowfall, gotta be carefull. This soon turned to Blizzard. Eventually I got into the Barn. I decided to take advantage of the blizzard´s savety and visited the "bear country" - the birch forest behind the barn. Then I cut through to the Derelict cabins as I started losing condition from the freezing. At Derelicts, Ive build a fire to warm up. I put on two hours worth of fuel, and I dropped a can of peaches NEXT to the fire (not actually on the top). Then I went for 2 hour long sleep. When I woke up, I have a toasty can O peaches waiting to fill my stomach.

The plan now is to get to the car at the End of the road, and then make it to the mine connector to Coastal Highway, where I plan to spend the night and recover a bit.

I am thinking of doing a forum series on "the mysteries of the Great Bear", which would focus on the mysterious and unexplained of the island, as well as on some conspiracy theories as to the nature of individual locations, events, or other phenomena of The Long dark.

I have many things in my mind, and wonder about plenty of things as I sip the reishi tea in the evening.

Things like - where the Blackrock prison is located on the island? To whom did the bones found in Forlorn Muskeg belong to? Why is there a constant winter on the island, even if we see indication that there were farms before... any many more.

I have great many theories and would love to discuss them with my fellow forum members.

Might call it Crazy Prepper´s Ted Conspiracy theories.

thoughts?
 

So just this past week I decided to try my hand at interloper as I was nearing my 100th day on a Stalker run. So my first run was 16h, spawn in PV which died to a wolf cresting a hill, no noise, as I was just about to crest it as well...

But second attempt is going well, even considering I spawned on TWM near dusk!

I spawned in a had to get my bearings as I was not 100% sure it was TWM, thought it might have been HRV. I figured out I was near the waterfall and climbing rope. So I gathered some sticks, until a wolf got too interested and climbed down the rope making my way to the Mountaineer's hut gathering more sticks along the way.

I make it to the Mountaineer's Hut, but not before find a wool toque in the fishing hut, find some matches logs, a vest, AND A HAMMER! So I throw down all my sticks and head over to the bunny grove nearby for dinner. Snag two bunnies and a bunch of sticks. By this point I also was in need of water so started a fire and made a ton of water and cooked up the bunnies. I knew the fire wouldn't last all night so I ventured out again in search of more sticks until I had enough for 8h of fire. I ate the food then went to bed. 

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In the morning with some light snow I managed to make it down the mountain into PV as the wind was picking up. I make into the bunker and start looting as I hear a blizzard outside pick up. So I hunker down for a few hours, managing to repair the wool toque I found and gathering some tinder from the boxes. The blizzard ends up being about 6 hours, I sleep thru half of it. I venture out in the freezing night. I loot the Point of Disagreement to find nothing but a lone Chocolate bar. I then sprint as fast as I can, goating down part of a cliff, to the barn. I manage to make it inside and start a fire just before frost bite hits, saving me permanent condition loss. I warm by the fire and make more water and loot the building to find some driving gloves! Say goodbye to frost bite risk! I sleep thru the rest of the night.

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I head out to the farm stead in the morning and loot the basement and main house finding some more cloths and another hammer. I then hunt some more bunnies and repair some clothing I found from all the cloth in the house then eat and sleep. 

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The next day I make it up to the signal hill and don't find anything of note. So I warm up in the bed for an hour and a blizzard hits... a bad one. I go back in but soon realized I am at around 40% condition and don't have food on me, I have to leave as if I stay I am dead. So I spirit out into the Blizzard and try to make it to the cave leading to the Carter Dam. To the amazement me to myself and my wife watching me, I make it to the cave! (I attribute the success to the Hunted Part 1 challenge and the dozen or so times I traveled this path) Inside, I carve some meat from the dear, warm up by a fire, cook the meat, and make my way to the dam. But encounter a wolf in the narrow part of the river right before it opens up by the dam. Luckily I had seen him from afar and had some gut on me, so dropped that and gave him some space and was on my way. 

I looted the entire dam as night was setting in, using some torches I pulled from the fire in the cave. and sleep in a bed inside the trailers outside the dam.

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The next day I make my way to the camp office looting about 25 cat tails along the way, using the 'safe' route over the hills between the railway and small river that leads to the lake. I make it into the camp office and drop off all my stuff and organize everything I had looted along the way.