#redcap

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[oldschoolfrp]

The redcap is a diminutive murderer from Scottish folklore, with a cap soaked in the blood of his victims. The D&D version of the redcap appeared in the 1993 Creature Catalog as an evil subtype of brownie, illustrated by Dave Simons.

[praisethelorde]

Jude is actually so psychotic because wdym she beat Grima Mog (a literal Redcap probably twice her size who's heavily skilled in fighting and whose very nature is to violently kill on instinct) in a one-on-one duel???

[bluepwnsu]

Xelzaz Version 1.12.0 - The Dawnguard Update is now live!

Xelzaz Version 1.12.0 - The Dawnguard Update is now live on Nexus and Bethesda.net! Featuring commentary for the entire main quest of Dawnguard, new interactions with followers, new unique model for Xelzaz's Mind of Madness 'reward', Xelzaz's new unique daggers and even a new food item! The update adds over 600 new lines of dialogue! Here are the patch notes:

Xelzaz Version 1.12.0 - The Dawnguard Update

NOTICE: Any characters that are in the process of, or that have completed the Volkihar questline will have Xelzaz abandon them after updating or installing the mod. This will happen even if Xelzaz hasn't been recruited yet, Xelzaz will simply continue on to High Rock on his lonesome. If you wish to have Xelzaz along for the Volkihar questline, please bring him along when you are joining the Vampire Clan for the first time.

This update features commentary for the main quest for the Dawnguard expansion! Other additions include bug and typo fixes, more conversations with Xelzaz, interactions with other followers and new surprise content for players that are able to find it!

Bug Fixes and Typos

Fixed some typos.

Removed disruptive conditions from some dialogues.

Added a 10 minute timer failsafe for Xelzaz finding Varona that ends the scene should he have gotten stuck.

Moved scripts checking for quest stages of Thogra and Lucifer's (Nebarra interactions) quests to a new player alias, to prevent potential script spam from the game thinking Xelzaz is constantly changing locations.

Tweaked the timer on the script forcefully equipping Xelzaz's Scarf should he be wearing his default armor, to prevent him from equipping it during fast travel.

Sinderion's Journal will now be cleared from the list of aliases attached to the Crimson Nirnroot quest, allowing it to be dropped once it is no longer relevant. (This will not work retroactively.)

Added a check that Xelzaz is following in order for him to be able to handover Roovi and the Propylon to Malborn during the Main Quest.

Additions

Added new greet lines.

Added new goodbye lines.

Added a new conversation about master spells at the College of Winterhold.

Added a new conversation relating to Master Sul after reaching 100+ Relationship and having been told a certain story.

Added new unique daggers (Kukri) for Xelzaz.

Added a new unique model for Xelzaz's Banquet Fork, which now may also be used as a weapon. (In saves that already has Xelzaz with the fork, simply leave it in his inventory and greet him until he says "Hm?" and it should swap it to the new model/weapon.)

Added a new food for Xelzaz to cook: "Lava Foot Soup".

Interactions

Added new interactions with Remiel.

Added new interactions with Redcap.

Added new interactions with Lucifer.

Added new interactions with Nebarra.

Added new interactions with Thogra.

Troubleshooting

Added a line on the Roovi debug dialogue script to tell the player if Xelzaz is in a scene or not. (Translators will likely need to update this script: BPUF_TIF_05F1A5E1)

Quest Commentary

Added commentary for the Dawnguard Main Quest line.

Added (more) commentary for 'Discerning the Transmundane'. [See changes further down.]

Changes

Disabled asking Xelzaz to cast Healing Hands on an injured player if they are a vampire.

Gave Xelzaz his own unique version of 'Reanimate Corpse' with conditions preventing him from raising animals. This should stop him from raising fearsome chickens for battle. It will unfortunately also mean that every creature that has the keyword 'animal' will not be raised by Xelzaz, such as trolls and bears. (On existing saves you will need to go toggle this spell back on.)

Added a check to prevent Argonian players from spamming Jel greetings when meeting Xelzaz for the first time for disposition.

Made Xelzaz's comment about being given Frost Resistance increase his disposition towards the player.

Revoiced some old lines.

Altered the journal entry for 'A Lawman's Ambition' to encourage players to spend more time with Xelzaz prior to bringing him to the Hammerfell Gate.

Removed commentary on getting the (Dragon) Elder Scroll from Main Quest commentary. It is now instead located in the commentary for the quest 'Discerning the Transmundane'.

Made it so the persuasion check at the Hammerfell Gate will always succeed if the player has Telvanni Bug Musk applied (in case people have patches nerfing it.)

Altered line about 'Altmer eugenics' to 'Altmer traditions'.

Added a line to the bleedout scrips preventing Xelzaz or the followers he interacts with to comment on each other going down if they are already in a scene. (This was done to prevent, for example, Xelzaz from crying out about Khash being injured way after combat has ended, due to already being in a scene while combat was happening.)

Upon death or when permanently dismissed, Xelzaz's tracker will now be removed from the quest log.

Misc.

Migrated some of the Main Quest commentary to Discerning the Transmundane commentary.

Added failsafes to Remiel-Xelzaz-Redcap Winking Skeever scene

Xelzaz's Saltrice Noodle Bowl's meshes and textures were modified in order to allow the bowl to be reused for more unique foods. Thus the noodles have a new mesh path. This means you must update the AE plugin if you are using it.

Xelzaz AE Plugin 1.12.0

Compatibility

Changed the mesh path for Xelzaz's Saltrice Noodles.

Added hunger and warmth effect to Xelzaz’s Lava Foot Soup.

Fixes

Added Xelzaz's small treats (from Sweets and Such) to the AE treats formlist.

[acrowwithakeyboard]

Hey Skyrim, I know 'Dragons have returned' is a pretty important part of the game but droping one half dead and pissed in the middle of Falkreath forest was not on my bingo card

[anonymouscreampuff]

scribble page :)

[croxot]

People be like why are goblin girls all sexy and goblin boys are ugly creatures? And they're right, we need hot goblin boys.

This is Derva, the Redcap.

[jackiefoureyes]

HEADCANON

if inigo just started giggling, lucien would laugh too, the dragonborn (that's you!) would start laughing as well, recap would get excited and silently marvel in it, and then remi would start laughing at recap's little foot taps, and then gore would wheeze laugh very loudly causing everyone to laugh even harder and causing auri to join in, lucifer and khash would fake laugh just to be included

meanwhile xelzaz, still connected to the hist and immune to hysteria, would be loudly and increasingly angrily screaming "what in the fucking oblivion is so funny?!"

[pixiebombblog]

The boy will be getting a bunch of new armors & new 3D models for existing armors in Redcap's GIGANTIC v1.5.0 update (forever in progress it will be worth the wait 😘) Here are some teaser pics of a few of them including from top to bottom: - Wood Armor (be careful around fire this one is extra flammable!) - Mudcrab Armor (a tanky boi) - Ash Hopper Armor (gotta go fast) - Falmer Armor (this is one of the visual upgrades to an existing armor)

[darksilvania]

Fakemon Challenge #3 - GRIMSON (Water/Dark) The Red fin pokemon

It is based in the Goblin Shark and Redcaps, a type of violent goblin that according to its tale, soaks its cap in the blood of its victims, making it red, hence the name "redcap"

GRIMSON uses the bones of other fishes as weapons and its attracted to the scent of blood, they will use their claws, teeth and weapons to draw flesh blood which sends them into a feeding frenzy.

GRIMSON has two forms and will change between them with its ability "Frenzy", after knocking out an opponent its attack will rise sharply, but wont be able to use any move that is not an offensive one, and wont be able to be taken out of battle.

[wayward-wendy]

How are you holding up during summer?

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Redcaps! 3 ft (91 cm) fey murderers, that cap is soaked in blood to heal them and give them supernatural strength. They're always old-looking with pointed ears, but not always bearded and masculine. Just like how not every wizard's an old guy in a pointy hat and robes, that's just the iconic look for them. They're sadistic bullies who relent to people stronger than them, pick on those who aren't, and are terrified of gods (and religious symbols in general). They're pretty solitary though, only gathering for hunting parties and swapping stories of kills.

[theoasiswinds]

Fun commission for the lovely @lennertlivet 

This was very fun, Gwen is in a unfortunate event with my map maker... so fun, I know Gwen can survive... My Gal not so much lol

[themonsterundermystairs]

skyrim mods for pride month!

these are some queer mods i use. if you know any others, please share!

1. LGBTQ Hold Banners & LGBTQ Pride Guard Armor Retexture

Technically twwo separate mods, but they work best together, since you will get the same pride flags for each hold. (links: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/58526 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/62402)

2.  Queering Skyrim - The Children of Azura (Trans Lore) &  Queering Skyrim - Blueflower Necklace &  Queering Skyrim - Lavender Menace Necklace

These mods add amulets for wlw, mlm and trans pride. The trans one also adds a lot of lore, in the form of books and letters. (links: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/41145 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27733 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/27079)

3. Simply Gay Letters

Adds a lot of gay letters. They reveal that quite a few characters are gay.

(Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26423)

4. Gender Neutral Clothes

These mods make clothing gender neutral, meaning women can now wear pants and men can wear dresses.

(Links: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/47037 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/49898 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/53067 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/77468 & https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/34320)

5. Pride Capes

Allows you to make pride capes and give them to your followers or wear them yourself.

(Link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/51876)

6.  Handicapped Citizens- Mihail NPCs and Followers (SE-AE version) (''disabled'')

This mod adds NPCs with disabilities and at least one of them is gay.

(link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/63235)

(Tip if you use it together with the pride guard armor:

1. go to [whatever your pride guard folder is]/textures/armor/stormcloaks.

2. Find the file stormcloakscuirasswhiterunf.dds and copy it.

3. then go to [whatever your handicapped citizens folder is]/Textures/Deepening Elements of Skyrim/Handicapped Citizens/Whiterun Guard.

4. Paste your pride armor and agree to replace old file. if you don’t do that, you will have one guard who wears vanilla whiterunarmor)

7. gore

a follower who will respect your nonbinary identity. you can give him top surgery scars.

(link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/85298)

8. redcap

a riekling follower that just got a pride patch!

(link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/73441)

9.  Top Surgery Scars Overlay - SE

If you want your character to have top surgery scars, this is the mod for you.

(link: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/48654)

[malky-tea]

Today is my WoD-ask colleague's birthday. This year, I didn't find it in me to make time for a gift. BUT. This blog still hasn't seen my gift from last year. So here it is. The Beautiful and Terrible Redcap Hjordis.

[acrowwithakeyboard]

CVF fights and who seems to be able to beat who if caught in friendly fire

Putting a spoiler curtain over so it isn't taking up a huge chunk of screen unless you want to read

Basically what the tins got printed. While I try to rotate for a smaller group, sometimes my LDBs (mostly Ieama) has 8 people trudging along behind. When everyone aggros on a wolf the chances of someone NOT hitting a ally is never zero. There's been enough fights that I can figure who can beat who in a fight, tie with, or otherwise has a fluctuating score going. I’ve compiled more or less how the followers I currently have fare against each other in those fights. Now this is all based off of fights in my game, so if they are better in someone else's, I'll raise a glass for ' 'em!

Val: Spellswords are devastating. Pirates play dirty. Being both means he's not an easy opponent. He can take Redcap and Auri most times (unless Auri is far enough and has a clear shot she can take him out before his spells can reach her, while Redcap is a fast little friend and dodges his spells well). He hasn't fought Remi, though I think its just luck on that part, and it’s fluctuating with Tally and Xelzaz (I figure them to be a strategic lot, along with Nebarra), Gore has beat him down more than he’s won (their fighting lines really make for a scene) and he has yet to start shit with Nebarra, so we don't know yet if he would win or not. I'm thinking he'd lose though.

Auri: A very good archer indeed, she doesn't miss much, and constantly moves and creates distance between her and whoever messes with her. Can take down Nebarra and Redcap (the former usually isn't fast enough to get into close combat, and she has wicked aim when she's mad). She has not been in a fracas with Gore or Remi (by sentiment or luck I'm not sure) while Val, Tally and Xelzaz and can go toe to toe so the win/lose ratio is fluctuating. Generally, she fights the last three as an aid to someone else. Her taunts and fight lines about her eating her enemies hearts might also add a touch of fear into most of her opponents too. (Also, she keeps shooting me but I usually front line enemies, so, well call it an accident)

Gore: Generally, once he's set to beat someone's face clean through their ass he's not stopping, and will shrug off whatever is thrown at him to get the job done. He can and will fuck up Val, Xelzaz, Tally and Redcap if they hit him, (the first two have had wins, but Gore has beaten them more, the latter two... tried at least, but only managed once each) but he will get cut to ribbons if he pisses off Nebarra. He can adapt or overcome different opponents in close combat very well with his chosen weapon, and seems to have different approaches to each opponent. He will not hurt Auri or Remiel though. Not sure if he’s just never gotten aggro’d on those two or vise versa, if there’s a implemented code to keep him from going berserk on em, or he’s uniquely aware Auri will eat him should she kill him and just decided to Not Do That and Remi is, in his words, like a little sister so he wont hurt her no matter what, but he’s yet to fight them.

Remi: She generally gets people with a combo of skill and teamwork, and is pretty resourcful, Scrap helping out is also a given. Has beaten Xelzaz but apologized profusely, almost beat Redcap but stopped herself, and tried Nebarra but it, didn't go well. Most time if she is hit someone jumps in to help (Scrap automatically, but Gore also jumps in, and he can smoke quite a few folks in the party). She hasn't attacked Gore, Auri or Val, as of right now, BUT has had a near 10 minute long knock out drag down fist fight with Tally on a mountain in the Rift that ended in a tie and I’m waiting for round two to see who wins. They've yet to re-instigate the fight since. Scrap helped but she held her own very well without him after he was ejected quite suddenly from the fight.

Tally: He lasts a longer in a fight with people than other combinations, win or defeat. I chalk it up to him being used to close combat, working in and out of groups, and his experience in the Great war. Him and Nebarra are long time contenders and he’s won by both scrape of luck and strategy, has fought Xelzaz well and won more (only recently, not by much though). He got folded by Gore a lot when we first found him, still gets folded on the occasion, and he's only had one win against him. Auri has head shot him more than I can count but ultimately they are fluctuating, and Remi and him have had no winner but the longest fight I’ve ever seen between followers without one or the other falling. Neither were downed and I am waiting for the next one with concern and excitement.

Xelzaz: That Telvanni's stray firebolts have started a lot of fights. But as a good poisoner and a well taught wizard, he's got a good standing with most combatants. He has won some fights (Nebarra if he’s not right next to him immediately, Auri he has surprising good aim on though they are more or less equal) he can contend with Val and Tally for a bit, situational on who loses more, but apologizes to Remi and Redcap if he starts something with them, though he's been downed by Redcap. Gore I think has the drop on him with heavy steel and fast reflexes and the general bullheaded determination that affords pushing through being actively burnt and poisoned by Xel’s spells and weapons, so Xelzaz loses a fair bit more with him.

Redcap: Small body, big determination. He has beaten Gore, once. It was in Bleak Fall and he had 4 spears launched at him before he got close enough to hit Redcap, after which he made short work of the fight. He has had fights with him since but Gore is not an easy fight and gets the win now. Tally is his most recent win, (I got hit in the crossfire in that one), and he has taken Xelzaz down a few times but does stop the fight usually before that, same with Remi, if it happens at all. He’s been skewered by Auri, her aim is pretty damn good despite his small stature and speed, and he does damn well against Nebarra but ultimately loses (Nebarra usually gets him from behind first for some reason). Val can contend and win sometimes but hes small and VERY good at dodging Val's lightning. He also has skewered me and I and pretty sure I have died from a spear and low health combo once, so I’ll give that to him.

Nebarra is a vicious, embittered veteran of the Great war and it shows. Gore is often down in seconds, Remi taken off guard faster than you can say Dwemer, Redcap didn’t know what the Oblivion hit him, pretty sure Val hasn’t fought him only out of some begrudging respect for his skills. Regardless of these wins, him and Xelzaz have an Equal standing score more or less. Auri and Tally though are the closest thing to HR intervention to his not-so-appropriate comments on other races, but even then, those are hard won fights on their side. He's an old soldier doing whatever it takes to survive. This mer does not pull punches.

Finally, Scrap has taken down Gore, Auri, Xelzaz, Val, Redcap and a two of Xelzaz’s flame Atronachs, and they’ve all only fought him once ish to a completion. (the rest were stopped before his intervention) He attempted to aid Remi with her and Tally’s throw down but was blasted off the cliff by a well-placed ice spike. So, technically, Tally has probably the most wins against scrap in the group. But in conjunction with that, Scrap is the best fighter based on ratio of wins vs loses.

Ieama is one who has seen the most of these fights, and mostly let them resolve with a win before intervening. She is of the idea that beating the Oblivion out each other builds character and strengthens relationships. She is also a firm believer of 'talk shit, get hit' in Nebarra's case.