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Mod review: The Tools of Kagrenac

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:53:41 GMT

Just finished up running this mod in Tuxborn, so here’s my latest review, of the mod The Tools of Kagrenac.

Spoiler-free picoreview: this mod had several aspects to it that frustrated me immensely. Yet I did ultimately enjoy playing it. Details behind the fold (or, if you’re reading this on Dreamwidth, at the link immediately below).

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How I choose radial menu items for Tuxborn on a Steam Deck

Sat, 18 Oct 2025 23:27:03 GMT

This is a followup guide to this one that I wrote a while back: HOWTO: Set up a radial menu on a Steam Deck game. Tuxborn players expressed some interest in the details of my decisions on how to set my radials, so I’m going to write those out for this post here.

The primary audience for this post is Tuxborn players on Steam Decks. But a lot of this can apply to any Skyrim players on Steam Decks, especially if you’re running a load order similar to Tuxborn’s, and if that load order happens to include the BFCO-related mods we have.

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In Which Siobhan Recovers a Lost Elixir

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:44:09 GMT

Second post in my new playthrough of Enderal, using the Emissaries of Tux modpack. Main action in this post: a side quest in Riverville, in which I venture into Clearwater Cave to hunt for Tarhutie’s lost elixir.

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Final thoughts on Elessir’s Skyrim Run

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:43:16 GMT

Here’s the final thoughts wrapup post on Elessir’s run, which will let me move him into the archive of old playthroughs!

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In Which Elessir’s Last Several Sessions Are Summarized

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:42:45 GMT

I had six remaining posts pertaining to Elessir in my Drafts folder, and a few more directories’ worth of screenshots for which I never took notes. So I’m going to do an overall survey of them here, so I can knock all of that out of the queue.

This post will contain spoilers for the tail end of follower Lucien’s personal quest, and also some spoilers for Beyond Skyrim: Bruma.

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In Which Siobhan Has a Very Bad Ocean Journey

Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:27:00 GMT

Welcome to my very first post ever for playing Enderal, the total conversion mod for Skyrim that transforms it into an entirely different game!

If you’ve never played Enderal before, suffice to say, this post will be full of spoilers, like any other playthrough post on my site.

And meet my character Siobhan, half-Nehrimese, half-Kiléan, who finds out right quick that maybe sneaking on board a boat to get to Enderal is maybe not the smartest thing she ever did….

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Mod review: Carved Brink, revisited

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:16:57 GMT

My next playthrough post is going to be another one from Nona’s playthrough, and I am super behind on her in particular. I left off in the middle of running Carved Brink with her.

Y’all may recall that I put up a review post about that mod, as well. But here’s the thing: since I ran Carved Brink originally with Nona, I have since run it a few more times as Tuxborn has continued to develop its builds, and since I’ve been doing playtesting for Tuxborn, that by definition included re-running Carved Brink. This led me to discover some additional things about it that I’d missed the first time, and which honestly made me enjoy playing it more.

So at this point, I’m rather more kindly disposed to it than I was on the first playthrough. And I felt it was appropriate to put up an addendum to the original review.

Most of the commentary I gave in the original review still applies, and I’m not going to recap points where my opinion hasn’t changed. But I do have some additional stuff I like about Carved Brink, and which I want to note here.

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In Which Ashoshah Takes a Contract

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:49:06 GMT

I got Ashoshah started as a character on ESO nearly a whole year ago at this point, and have I posted about her more than once since then? No, no I have not. So here’s a post to try to get caught up on what I’ve done with that character.

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In Which Alecto Escapes a Shipwreck and Wanders South

Fri, 30 May 2025 17:27:16 GMT

This is the first of my playthrough posts for Alecto the Dunmer, and featuring version 1.0.1 of the Tuxborn modpack. Main action here: trying out the Alternate Start option that strands your character in a shipwreck; getting back to the mainland; having my ass kicked repeatedly until I finally made it to the relative safety of Dawnstar; stopping in Whiterun, and being stymied from proceeding to Riften by bandits also kicking my ass; and finally going to Solitude to talk to Auryen at the LOTD museum, and pick up Katana as a follower.

Since this playthrough is my first time running Katana, I’ve got some review commentary about her in this post, too. (A full review of her and her associated NPCs, Megara and Shale, will come later.)

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In Which Nona Quests into Faceted Stones

Sat, 10 May 2025 22:01:16 GMT

More Skyrim catchup, but this time with one of the active playthroughs. This is for my Nona playthrough in version 0.5.2 of Tuxborn, which is still in progress even though Tuxborn has now updated to its 1.0 official build.

Main action here is a mix of standard Skyrim stuff, and playing the Carved Brink mod. Accordingly, there will be spoilers for Carved Brink.

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In Which Elessir Explores Nchardak

Sat, 10 May 2025 04:46:24 GMT

Catchup post for my Elessir Skyrim run from last year. This post dates from mid-September.

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In Which Elessir Helps a Bunch of Rieklings

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 21:28:17 GMT

And now, swinging back to get caught up on Elessir’s Skyrim run! This is a pretty short post, covering Solstheim action played at the end of this past August. Mostly involving running the Thirsk Mead Hall plot, and the one to get the netch leather armor from the AE.

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In Which Nona Reunites a Dog With His Master

Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:53:43 GMT

I feel like blogging today, so let’s get a bit further along on Nona’s playthrough in Tuxborn 0.5.2, shall we?

Main action covered here is familiar territory: running the end of A Daedra’s Best Friend. But there’s a big side helping of meeting a couple of the characters from the Interesting NPCs mod, who did, in fact, live up to the label on the tin.

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ESO catchup post: Gyllerah in early April 2024

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 02:25:18 GMT

I’m so severely behind on getting ESO posts done that I’m giving myself another round of amnesty, and am going to get some posts up that are just high-level summaries of stuff that interested me across spans of play.

So here’s a post to summarize stuff with Gyllerah from April through June of 2024.

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Joining the Tuxborn team as a contributor!

Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:40:47 GMT

I am very pleased to announce here that I’ve joined the team for Tuxborn, the Skyrim modpack, as a contributor! This is the result of my presence on the Tuxborn Discord channels and the assistance I’ve been giving other players there.

My contributions to the Tuxborn team will be focused on tracking useful information for other players to help them in their playthroughs, such as what followers are available in the modpack, what player homes, what armor and weapons, and such. And also, how to launch various important quests such as Legacy of the Dragonborn, Wyrmstooth, and others.

I will be contributing material on Tuxborn’s wiki, now live on its Github here:

https://github.com/Omni-guides/Tuxborn/wiki

I’m also assisting the Tuxborn devs with playtesting, since I own an OLED Steam Deck. Tuxborn is specifically intended to be performance-friendly to Steam Decks in particular, although it is definitely not limited to that device, and can be enjoyed on PCs and other handhelds as well, such as the ROG Ally.

Because of this, I’ll be giving Tuxborn a bit more visibility on this site moving forward! Look for a new page focused on Tuxborn to go live here very soon.

And, sneak preview: Tuxborn’s official final release version is very, very close to going live. So I’ll be announcing here as well when it does!

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In Which Finds-The-Way Defeats Miraak and Takes a Bride

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:01:29 GMT

This is Finds-The-Way’s final post, combining the last three sessions of her run. Main action here is finishing out as much side questing as I felt like doing on Solstheim, taking out Miraak to finish off Dragonborn, and then returning to the Skyrim mainland–and finally finding a nice Argonian lady for Finds to marry!

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In Which Finds-The-Way Goes Netch Hunting

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:30:09 GMT

Another post to try to finish off my writeup of Finds-The-Way’s playthrough in Skyrim. This one’s basically side questing on Solstheim, with obligatory German language geekery!

Four sessions left of Finds’ playthrough to cover.

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In Which Elessir Slays Some Mudcrabs and Heads to Solstheim

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:44:51 GMT

Another catchup post for my now-finished Skyrim run with Elessir. After this one, there will be 17 more posts until I can finish up his writeup!

Main action here: finishing off all the fishing-related stuff, and heading on over to Solstheim to run Dragonborn. But this time, with Lucien and Serana!

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In Which Finds-The-Way Slays Harkon and Also a Bunch of Mudcrabs

Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:43:02 GMT

Moving along on getting Finds-The-Way’s posts finished up! Here’s her session from August 11th. Main action in this was finishing up Dawnguard, and also the quests for the Fishing content in the AE.

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In Which Elessir Clears Shriekwind Bastion

Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:20:28 GMT

Catchup post for my Elessir playthrough in Skyrim, from late August. This is a very short one, just getting this posted to get it out of my queue.

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In Which Nona and Her Friends Set Out for High Hrothgar

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 22:06:52 GMT

And now, finally, a new post on a current Skyrim playthrough! Here’s the fourth session of my playthrough with Nona the Imperial, featuring the Tuxborn modpack!

Main action: heading to High Hrothgar to talk to the Greybeards, but with a heaping side helping of mod-added content!

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In Which Kendeshel Cleanses the Soul of Kodlak Whitemane

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:02:57 GMT

Swinging back around for a short catchup post for Kendeshel’s playthrough in Skyrim, now! This one’s very short, and just covers a bit of Kendeshel finishing off the main Companions questline to the point of her becoming Harbinger.

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In Which Finds-The-Way Quests Through the Soul Cairn

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 01:08:52 GMT

Time to swing back around to Finds-The-Way, to try to catch up some more on her Skyrim playthrough. This post is mostly familiar territory, since it involved moving the Dawnguard plot further along, and in particular running the Soul Cairn. So the main interesting content here is the language geekery! Enjoy!

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In Which Kendeshel Slays the Glenmoril Coven

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:30:40 GMT

There’s a big gap between my previous session of Kendeshel in Skyrim and this one–about six months. Part of this is because I decided I was going to go through Finds-the-Way’s and Elessir’s playthroughs, and finish them off before I swung back around to Kendeshel. As of this writing, Kendeshel’s playthrough is now actually finished, but her posts are not.

So here’s me swinging back around to get caught up on Kendeshel’s posts! Main action here is moving the Companions questline along, but with a side helping of working on Mehrunes’ Razor. So this post is fairly light on the commentary, since most of this is stuff I’d played before.

This post contains one very minor spoiler for Legacy of the Dragonborn (a custom location for an artifact normally found during the Fishing quests of the AE).

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Mod review: Legacy of the Dragonborn (version 5)

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 06:09:43 GMT

I am finally done with my very first Skyrim playthrough involving Legacy of the Dragonborn, so I can finally put up some organized thoughts about it! This review will avoid spoilers as much as possible; if you want to see in-depth spoiler commentary, pick any post in Kendeshel’s playthrough, where I talk about my experiences with the mod in depth.

Also, this review is based upon version 5 of Legacy, since that’s what I was running when Kendeshel’s playthrough started. Version 6 dropped before I could finish her run–and I did not update her to 6, on general “because it’s extremely unwise to try to update mods in the middle of a Skyrim playthrough, especially a mod as big as Legacy of the Dragonborn” grounds.

I’ll do a followup post later, since I’ve launched a new playthrough that has version 6. For now, though, this post will focus on what I encountered with version 5.

So let’s start this off with a picoreview out of the gate: I loved the hell out of playing Legacy. I have some quibbles with it, but these quibbles are minor, and are not in the slightest going to keep me from playing through it again.

More behind the fold.

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