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That's all good and all, but I'll make this for myself, it'll be my first attempt at a "house/dungeon" (the private dungeon located near the house) mod, and well I want to see if I am capable of doing this. And besides I'd rather make this myself, get it exactly how I want it!
That sounds reasonable by me, though it does sound rather nifty. I mean it takes a lot to mod. I know as I do very, very minor tweaks sometimes and the hours just fly by while I'm doing them. Truly building something like what you describe, would more than likely cause me to die of an aneurysm. I can do tiny things with CS, which usually takes me a long time. But I am a total laymen when it comes to actually crafting an actual mod, let alone texturing, and meshing, and scripting, and ughhh! How people pull this off is beyond me, but I'm happy they are there!

It blows my mind how people can just do it sometimes, even with the tiniest of mods. Not to mention so many modders put a lot of work into their projects only to get yelled at by people. That always, always annoys me! It's like you're providing me with a free-addon to my game? Whether I like or dislike it THANK YOU! So by all means keep it for yourself. I made a bunch of Katana's mixing Snow Dragon Temple, and Samurai Sword OBSE, which is basically a script that enables you to hold a one handed blade with two hands. Took me forever but, I made a bunch of one to two handed katanas with that script for sale at Fighting Chance. I even posted screenshots in the Samurai OBSE mod screenshot dealy, and someone PMed and asked me if I could release "my mod." Uhhh since it isn't exactly "my mod," rather me using existing mods and playing around with the CS. I told them I don't have permission from either author, and that it's for personal use.
Bleehhh anyhoo,
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My character's going through something really weird now. It's almost like writing a story when you play this game, you know, the characters seem to take on a life of their own and dictate their own storylines.
She just hasn't been the same since the main quested ended, she's going into a really dark place. I swear to god she stole something I never even saw her take! (It was a beer.) I only caught it because I was going through my inventory.
Oh I can relate believe me... Maybe it's because I'm a writer? Despite my grammatical errors on message boards and such, yes I'm an aspiring writer and in the process of trying to get published right now. Maybe it's because I used to LARP when I was teenager? Vampire The Masquerade.

Maybe it's just because I'm insanely eccentric, but believe me I can relate... Especially with TES games. My brother started my addiction when I was 14 with Daggerfall! With TES games it becomes very, very easy to form an attachment to your character, even if they are nothing like you. I had this occur with Daggerfall, I had this occur with Morrowind, and I've had this seriously occur so far twice in Oblivion.
I'll stick to Oblivion, since this is a forum for it.

The first character I really had that crazy kind of attachment to, where I could write a book about her was Allecia Lestala my Vamperic/Necromancer/Meglomaniac/Psycho character. The thing about playing evil is you have to get in your characters head, which can be difficult. But from Allecia's perspective she felt perfectly justified in all her actions. She felt Tamerial by in large was flawed, and impure. Being such an impure realm she felt it was her place to essentially grow in her power to the point where she could jail the souls of Tamerial. In a way she was an aspiring Daedric Prince looking to call Tamerial her domain. She was clever, and knew to start small, and conceal her misdoings well. But the little megalomaniac in me wishes there was someway to actually conquer the cities of Cyrodill, eventually conquering all of Cyrodiil its self! I mean with a really neat Necromacy mod, she had like a horde of undead servants, pretty much a small army who could easily take most of the cities, say for the Imperial City... She would need to harvest more body parts and souls for that task. But I mean, yeah that would be my dream for this character, to wage war on The Empire, and conquer it. It certainly took me a long enough time to build my army and level this character. By the time Allecia was done with Cyrodiil, the forces of Oblivion would think twice about invading Tamerial let me tell you.

But while she turned into a vampire in the Dark Brotherhood questline, I wound up in my head saying okay she's been Listener for several centuries and now she's looking to take over the Mages Guild for political influence, and to stamp out rival Necromacers. She was a fun character to play, her mind became really twisted by Dark Brotherhood fanatasism, and that of course evolved into her own warped philosophy over the imaginary centuries. But she believed what she was doing was good. I'll spare you the details.
So like a year and half or so later I made a character raised on the Akaviri Kojima, Akane Tsunada. She was trained how to fight there by her sensei, but she wound up becoming more of a Ronin than a Samurai at first. Since she never completed her training, and wanted to go off to do her own thing and right wrongs. But she was a little misguided until she wound caught up in the main quest, and yes like you're character she had a thing for Martin. She wandered a bit after she became Champion, helping people wherever she went, finally attaining the status of Samurai. This included helping out these castles that had quests attached to them. When complete and so-and-so offered her the castle she would decline and just wander, almost trying to run away from the scars the whole Oblivion crisis left on her. Then she's asked by Ocato to become Countess of Kvatch, which is apparently rebuilding. Well she lead the troops well enough in the Defense of Bruma, which I used a mod to make much, much longer, and feel more epic. Not to mention she felt as though she needed some kind of purpose, and meaning. Maybe she could help the people of Kvatch rebuild? She was welcome as their Countess with open arms being their Hero and all, and yeah... Again I'll spare the details, but I became seriously attached to this character, and then a computer virus killed her. I really should have backed those saves up more.

I just had to respond to this because, yes I know! I used to have a lot of screenshots too, chronicling my Good characters adventures. But they were lost. Ah well my next Hero will probably be even better, but I'm going to wait until either the mood strikes me to play again, or a new computer before trying to save the world again. Hopefully both will kind of happen at once. Also are you by chance running BAB? Because I recognize that clothing as BAB, either that or Eshme? I used to run Eshme before BAB.