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Character Building Event: Night of the Occult

Tags: #Event: Occult 
  • August 29, 2019

    It's so damn exciting to see everyone's stuff come out, I've been giddy about every update so far :D

    Might have a WiP up for mine soon, hit a stride a few nights ago where I just cranked out a decent portion of the build and I think I've started to nail the presentation a bit which is always where I struggle. Especially because 'Old Desert Mage' isn't the most common art, maybe if it were Skimpy Elven ____ I'd be locked in, but the old man doesn't work as well. Plus all my silly restrictions based on my complete inability to get text wrapping to work. Though...hmm will have to think on that. 

    How is anyone else doing? 

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    August 29, 2019

    Dragonborn2121 said:

    It's so damn exciting to see everyone's stuff come out, I've been giddy about every update so far :D

    Might have a WiP up for mine soon, hit a stride a few nights ago where I just cranked out a decent portion of the build and I think I've started to nail the presentation a bit which is always where I struggle. Especially because 'Old Desert Mage' isn't the most common art, maybe if it were Skimpy Elven ____ I'd be locked in, but the old man doesn't work as well. Plus all my silly restrictions based on my complete inability to get text wrapping to work. Though...hmm will have to think on that. 

    How is anyone else doing? 

    There's just not enough art of skimpy elven old men. It's a damned travesty is what it is!

    I'm glad you're getting stuck in, and on presentation no less. You say you struggle but aren't you DB the Build Banner Man? Maybe we don't need to see the character, but instead the art style could depict the theme? Loads of desert images and motifs to decorate the build...?

    I'm starting to turn my attention to presentation, but only on a casual basis so that there are placeholders up. 

  • August 30, 2019

    There's just not enough art of skimpy elven old men. It's a damned travesty is what it is!

    I'm glad you're getting stuck in, and on presentation no less. You say you struggle but aren't you DB the Build Banner Man? Maybe we don't need to see the character, but instead the art style could depict the theme? Loads of desert images and motifs to decorate the build...?

    I'm starting to turn my attention to presentation, but only on a casual basis so that there are placeholders up. 

    And this is an old human man so there's absolutely no chance, well actually it's worse because I have to throw Vampire and Mage in there too and then, be all strict about the width of the image and all. Found like two that aren't very desert themed and I'm debating just changing the colour to sepia so it fits slightly better (and has borded because a true DBuild would have borders for the images). But yeah, will have to see how I go with the presentation, might not work perfectly first time through but got plenty of time. 

    It'll be good to see some images for your build Phil, very interested in seeing what you turn up with :) Hopefully you'll have a bit more luck than me...the whole Eldritch Abomination/Elder God/Terrifying Everything thematic punch to the build is definitely easier than Vampire and Mage and Old Man and Desert and... :P

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    September 8, 2019
    I am planning on participating in this event, I already made a wip build. This will be my first event build. My inspiration for this event is the villain behind the quest blood on the ice.
  • September 9, 2019

    I am planning on participating in this event, I already made a wip build. This will be my first event build. My inspiration for this event is the villain behind the quest blood on the ice.

    Cool, nice to hear Hasir, will jump over and check it out (and throw a link up to it here). 

  • September 12, 2019

    So, mentioned this on the Discord earlier today (and Feint's WiP which you should absolutely check out) but I think we'll extend the end date to October 31st. It seems like everyone is producing some really awesome stuff but I've had a few requests to push the deadline back and, really it just makes sense to end it on Spooky-Night or whatever I'm supposed to call it. 

    Feel free to post anytime, and hey if your going to finish early enough for the original deadline why not consider either writing another build or seeing if anyone wants to team up for a smaller project? Could be interesting to design a build purely around a Daedric Quest which would be a relatively short playthrough. 

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    September 16, 2019

    I literally just got back into Skyrim yesterday and since I have a history of never completing my builds for the events (I'm a busy man) I'll sign up for this event - witch by the way has an awesome theme (pun intended) - with the goal of actually completing my build this time. 

    My build is called "The Voidwalker" (subject to change).

    For inspiration I'll be looking at Path of Exile and The Shadow Priest from WoW.

    Looking forward to this! 

     

    Edit:

    By the way, can I use mods?

  • September 16, 2019
    I literally just got back into Skyrim yesterday and since I have a history of never completing my builds for the events (I'm a busy man) I'll sign up for this event - witch by the way has an awesome theme (pun intended) - with the goal of actually completing my build this time. 

    My build is called "The Voidwalker" (subject to change).

    For inspiration I'll be looking at Path of Exile and The Shadow Priest from WoW.

    Looking forward to this! 

    Edit:

    By the way, can I use mods?

    Oh super great :D Glad to see you again Blue and very interested in seeing the build, especially if it has a bit of Path of Exile to it, haven't played in awhile (I played it mostly I think last year and then fell out for a few months) but love that game. Mods are absolutely alright and, yeah just super excited :D

  • October 11, 2019

    Hey everyone, just wanted to ask if anyone needed help with their builds or had any questions about the Event. Still have a few weeks left before the due date (though do remember that you can always upload it as a regular build if your going to miss the deadline) and I'm hoping to see a few more really good builds like the ones we've already got. 

    If you haven't seen, please check out Blue Dremora and Hasir's builds, both are interesting and deserve a bit more attention. So just follow the links to the Completed Builds, drop a like and comment and all that (also definitely do the same for people's WiP's, they're really good but feedback is always great there, even if it's just dropping a like and saying that it looks good). 

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    October 30, 2019

    I posted another build for this event called the creature from the black marsh https://tamrielvault.com/groups/topic/view/group_id/3/topic_id/10356