thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

So I fixed the glitch in skyrim where one of my mods was making my bard strip out of all her clothes except her boots and fur collar and gloves–like a poor man’s medieval burlesque show–every time she tried to play the lute, and was getting along fairly well playing the game purely for the bard mod, singing my way around Skyrim and avoiding my responsibilities as the dragonborn as much as possible.

And it was nice, I was earning good coin, I had a place to sleep on my travels (everyone loves a bard at the inn), my two adopted children were happy to see me come home and listen to me play, my followers were falling in love with me for my skill with the flute (*eyebrow waggle*) and I was just basically getting on with my medieval bard simulator game, living a quiet life.

And then I got asked to play for the Jarl of Solitude, the city I had set out to buy a house in, skimping and saving every septim I could earn through my skill and killing dragons when the main quest line refused to let me ignore it any longer. And I was ready man, this was it, I got the summons from the Blue Palace to play before the Jarl and her entire court. I had Arrived.

Now I dunno if you guys are familiar with how the bard mod works, but you have a whole host of songs to choose from, ranging from purely instrumental, to bawdy tavern dances, all the way up to some beautiful in-world-theme vocals. But you gotta be careful because if you play an Imperial ballad in a Stormcloak tavern, well let’s just say things can get ugly pretty quick. So of course I was careful, going through my songbook and painstakingly removing anything to do with rebellion, and being an Imperial myself, hamming it up to the loyalist crowd. I was ready, man, so ready to play and make my family proud and go down in history as the Bard of Solitude.

Except, did I mention, that you also equip the ability to play your instrument, by pressing the same key that lets you shout through brick walls and stun dragons out of the sky and need to be careful about having the bard skill selected in the magic menu?

…so anyway, to cut a long story short I can’t go back to Solitude and me and the kids are off to Windhelm…

I wonder if Ulfric makes requests.

For those asking for more skyrim adventures, this was probably one of my favorite moments to date.

Also I’ve been making actual permanent pages that list my skyrim mods for people to go through. So you’ll be able to see sll the sketchy shut I get up to in Tamriel lol.