{"id":1532,"date":"2012-05-15T04:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmd.desaline.com\/?page_id=1532"},"modified":"2012-06-13T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T23:24:50","slug":"the-elder-strolls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/the-elder-strolls\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elder Strolls"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Elder Strolls is a series I wrote for PC Gamer, following in the spirit of Living in Oblivion<\/a>: I played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/em> as a lowly NPC named Nordrick (a distant descendant of Nondrick from LiO). My goals were simple: avoid adventure, find some way to make a living, find my own home, and get married, if possible. This ten-part series can be read by visiting the links below.<\/p>\n

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Part One<\/a><\/strong>: Nordrick arrives in the coastal town of Dawnstar, ready to seek his fortune. He meets some of the locals and investigates a career in mining.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Two<\/a><\/strong>: Nordick takes a break from mining to do some hunting. You might say the hunter quickly becomes the hunted, but that’s such a cliche. Don’t say that.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Three<\/a><\/strong>: Unhappy with his prospects in the tiny town of Dawnstar, Nordrick sets out to find a larger city, hoping the game won’t notice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Four<\/a><\/strong>: The NPCs in Windhelm make Nordrick jealous of their jobs and homes. While out hunting, he stumbles across a shack and its two inhabitants, one of whom is eating the other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Five<\/a><\/strong>: After a week of living in his new shack, Nordrick gets irritated by his dead roommate and heads for Riften to begin his search for a spouse with a nice home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Six<\/a><\/strong>: Nordrick finds Riften to be a depressing dump full of jerks who would rather fight over his discarded hat than marry him. After a bleak week, however, he finds a companion, albeit a furry one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Seven<\/a><\/strong>: Back in Windhelm with Jasper, Nordrick finally meets someone who wants to get married. Unfortunately, it’s a homeless beggar who has even less to offer than Nordrick does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Eight<\/a><\/strong>: Nordrick, after deciding not to marry a stinky homeless man, travels to Whiterun, where he meets a woman keen to get hitched… but only if he’ll slay a mammoth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Nine<\/a><\/strong>: Having successfully wooed a woman with a piece of dead elephant, Nordrick takes a long walk back to Riften to attend his wedding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Part Ten<\/a><\/strong>: Now semi-happily married to a wife he can’t find, Nordrick rushes back to Whiterun with Jasper in tow, eager to begin his new life. The final entry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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If you’re looking to incorporate some Nondrick into your Skyrim, there are a couple mods some fans made here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Welcome to The Elder Strolls! The Elder Strolls is a series I wrote for PC Gamer, following in the spirit of Living in Oblivion: I played The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim as a lowly NPC named Nordrick (a distant descendant of Nondrick from LiO). My goals were simple: avoid adventure, find some way to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1718,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1532","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}