Jump Chain Gothic 7 - Skyrim 1 - Dawnguard
Part 5
Solitude. Skyrim.
It was already afternoon when my small group entered the city known as Solitude. The marketplace was packed with people and everyone was minding their own business. If anyone had been hanged here recently then they'd cut the body down by now, and I couldn't hear anyone talking about the death.
Before the women and I could head towards the nearest inn, so that we could once more get Serana out of the sun, and so that I could access the Cosmic Warehouse, one of the locals decided to speak to me.
"If you are heading to the Blue Palace, you might as well be properly dressed" someone said to me.
When I looked back, I saw a female High Elf, who was now standing behind me. High was a good word for this race as if this woman was an indication then they were a race of very tall people.
"Something wrong with my outfit?" I asked.
Looking down I realised that my armour was covered in things best not thought about. To be fair I had been on the road for days. Forestwind knew routes that were safe and quick, but Skyrim was an entire country, and therefore it wasn't as easy to get around as the video game suggested.
"I wouldn't know where to begin" said the High Elf.
Rather than carry on with that conversation I just turned around and started walking again. I had no desire to stand around while someone insulted me, and anyone who did make remarks was putting themselves at risk as I'd not eaten a proper meal in days, nor had I slept, and the Force could only sustain a person for so long. I was grumpy, hungry and tired.
"You know, this place is actually nice to live in" my Bosmer guide told me "But a lot of terrible things have happen here".
I knew some of what she meant.
"What do you mean?" Cameron asked.
Allnel Forestwind had a lot of information on local peoples and places, which was what I'd wanted to her to have when I'd created her. My Terminator's software updates gave her enough information to do her job no matter what universe we went to, but this didn't mean that there weren't gaps in her overall knowledge.
"Well there was a mad emperor, the Wolf Queen Potema, and recently the High King was murdered by the leader of the Stormcloaks. Seriously, this place has bad luck" the elf replied.
For the first time for a while the vampire spoke. Since we'd been travelling during the day, at least mostly, she'd been in a foul mood. The sun weakened her, making her tired, and I imagined that she was hungry too. Hopefully she was telling the truth about her feeding habits and would just take a little form some sleeping person this night.
"Is there anything good here?" she asked.
Personally I was hoping for decent local cuisine. I could replicate all the food I wanted, but there was little point travelling to new worlds if you didn't try what the natives had to offer. Which for me included food, drink, some culture, and the females.
"There's the Bards College" Allnel Forestwind answered.
I'd spent many hours playing Skyrim, yet never once had I ever entered that music school. Perhaps I should as when collecting information to put on data discs I didn't limit myself to science and technology, art in its many forms was important to.
"A college for barbs?" Serena said, looking puzzled, "Never had those in my day".
The adorable elf went on to explain that Solitude was the capital city of both Haafingar Hold, and all of Skyrim. Which was currently ruled by a woman known as Jarl Elisif the Fair, widow of the late High King Torygg.
Also it was the headquarters of the Imperial Legion that was stationed here in Skyrim. General Tullius commanded the Imperial army from the fortress here that was called Castle Dour. Which didn't sound at all inviting. Jarl Elisif, resided in the Blue Palace, and the Thalmor also an embassy that was somewhere hidden in the nearby mountains.
A good reason as to why the Legion was posted here had to do with the defensible nature of Solitude itself. The city was set upon a great stone arch that towered above the mouth of the Karth River.
Add to this the city was surrounded by the soaring peaks of the nearby mountains. Meaning that Solitude was a natural stronghold. Another thing worthy of note was that the city happened to be protected from attack from the west by the still-largely intact Fort Hraggstad, which overlooked the Sea of Ghosts.
Solitude was also a major shipping port and important Imperial supply line, the local geography gave its port much needed shelter from the strong winds of the Ghost Sea.
Most of the shipping in Solitude I knew to be run by the Imperial-financed East Empire Company, which I assumed was something akin to The East India Company back in my world which was an English and later British joint-stock company.
It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with Mughal India and the East Indies (Maritime Southeast Asia), and later with Qing China. The company ended up seizing control over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, parts of Southeast Asia, and it even colonised Hong Kong after a war with Qing China.
All of a sudden, an old Wood Elf man came over to me. The real version of this city was a lot larger than in the game so we'd had to pass through a big crowd in order to get to the inn, and now that we were at the door some crazy guy was blocking the way.
"Please, you have to help me!" he called out.
I had an inkling about where this could led, and I had no interest in getting involved in the affairs of a daedric prince who was pretty much an insane demon god.
"What's wrong?" Allnel Forestwind asked
The old man looked to be on the verge of tears.
"My master has left his people" we were told "and he doesn't want to return from his decade long vacation!"
I waved my hand, and used the Force Power known as Dominate Mind to make him leave me alone.
"Trust me we don't want to get involved with that guy's master" I let the group know.
We that we headed inside the inn.
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Solitude. Skyrim
Allnel Forestwind got on all fours, keeping her ass raised up, and lowered herself down until her breasts rested on either side of my cock. The warm, pliable weight of them hugged and massaged my manhood, which was indeed a very pleasant sensation.
She slid forward, caressing my cock with her breasts, and moved back and forth, rubbing it against the softness of her chest. Her skin was softer than a human woman's, and I suspected that it was very sensitive.
It wasn't long at all until the tip started of my dick began to ooze pre-cum. She bent down and licked it clean, before she began pleasuring me with her mouth. She used the tip of her tongue at first, and licked my shaft.
Before long she moved again, and she rocked her hips slowly back and forth, rubbing hers lower lips along the length of my penis and leaving a trail of wetness. She was already more than wet enough the little minx.
Her hands were now covering both her breasts, and she rubbed them up and down, lifting her breasts up, while her hands moved down, these actions elicited a few small gasps of pleasure whenever her nipples rubbed against her palms.
She moved like this for a while, pleasuring both of us. I could feel the her clitoris rubbing against me, and could hear how much it was pleasuring her, I could tell as she was letting out a series of moans.
"Okay. No more foreplay," she whispered.
I'd was giving her a chance to impress, and she took it. She reached back and I felt the grip of one of her small hands on my cock. I felt it being raised up, and then the wet sensation of the outer lips of her pussy.
There was a moment of readjusting while she leaned forward and got everything lined up, then she slowly pushed back on my cock, there was a moment of resistance where she held her lower lip in her teeth, tightly shut her eyes, then the head of my penis popped inside her, and she let out a long, slow breath of pleasure.
She was a virgin, but there was no barrier, perhaps elves didn't have that, or maybe she'd not been made with one since I'd had made her to please me, and to know how. A maidenhead would have just gotten in the way of my pleasure.
Soon tightness embraced my man meat, her pussy relaxed somewhat, allowing me to slip in an inch at a time. She slowly moved back, and angled her hips down, and the shaft of my penis was now sliding deeper into her.
Her warm and welcoming insides massaged my cock as they enveloped that part of me completely, wrapping around my shaft in a tight embrace in away that made me wonder if she'd ever let it go.
She moved back farther and her hips met mine. I looked at her and was greeted by the sight of my beautiful elf slut on top of me, fully penetrated by my cock. She let out a low mmmmm and wiggled her hips slightly causing me to let out a grunt of my own and to squeeze her thighs.
Next she leaned forward until our chests almost touched and started rocking back and forth as before, now not just rubbing against me but fully impaled on my man pole. The slick, warm fuckhole massaged my cock, rubbing it up and down.
Whenever she lifted herself up, the muscles inside her tightened around my shaft, which then relaxed as she let herself fall back down.
Before long I started thrusting upwards, timing my movements to hers, but she stopped me with her hands on my waist.
"No, let me do it, Boss. I'm here to serve you" she requested.
She straightened up until she was sitting upright, straddling my waist and I could feel the muscles in her insides tighten around me. Her pace increased, and she started moving up and down.
With my free hands, I let them run up her thighs, feeling her softness. My hands found her rump and I squeezed it, before giving her ass a good hard smack which made her give me a cute "hmm!" of surprise.
She started moving faster, and began panting heavily, either from fatigue, or pleasure. Or both.
"Are you getting tired?" I asked.
To be fair we'd been very active recently, on the move a lot, and while she was a creation of Jump Chain like Cameron, she was only mortal woman.
"Yes," she gasped, barely making the words out. "but I can't stop now".
She leaned down until our chests touched, and her face was next to mine. I could smell the trees on her, mixed with other pleasant nature scents. I didn't get to sniff her for long as soon she was sitting up again.
Forestwind rocked back and forth on my cock, and as she did so, she twisted and gyrated her hips, trying out new things to see what felt good.
"Mmm, Boss, you feel so good," she told me.
Her hand was rubbing her own crotch now, and I got to watch as she pleasured herself, rubbing her clitoris with a finger as she rode me.
Since she was more relaxed and not as tight the decrease in friction would have lessened the sensation had she not been increasing her pace, and she must have been getting close to the climax of her own because I soon felt the walls of her pussy tighten around me once again.
The feeling of her rocking up and down was slowly driving me closer and closer to the brink of orgasm, too. She didn't move as fast as I did when I was on top of a female, but the view was better this way
I''m going to cum if you don't slow down" I told her.
"Yes, boss," was her response "please cum inside me.
That's all I needed. I felt (and I know she felt it to) my cock twitch, and with an involuntary thrust upward, I came deep inside her,
She kept rocking up and down on me, slowly now and rubbing herself with her finger furiously. Just after mine debated, she was wracked with the convulsions of the own orgasm.
Forestwind kept her eyes tightly shut, now gently rubbing her pussy back and forth with all her fingers while I was still inside her. Her head thrust back, she let out a long, soft cry that was neither a purr nor a moan but something in between. Her legs were shaking at this point.
A moment later she collapsed on top of me with her head on my shoulder, legs twitching. Her body rose and fell with every breath I took.
"Not bad" I heard Cameron say "But you should have talked dirty to him. He likes that".
The Bosmer couldn't reply to that piece of advice as she was too busy basking in the afterglow of getting her needy cunt nicely stuffed with man meat.
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Solitude. Skyrim.
While Serana hid from the sun I'd sent Cameron and my Bosmer off to do some shopping. This city had much to offer, but we'd have to do some work before our proper shopping trip as last night I'd had vision of my own.
It had involved a cave and some people in black doing some chanting, which was followed by the howling of a wolf. This had triggered a memory for me so I'd come to the Blue Palace in order to begin the quest that would lead to defeat of the evil Wolf Queen Potema.
The leader of this city held court most days so it was pretty easy to get into the palace and see her as long there weren't too many people around who wanted an audience. Thankfully there weren't. Despite my need to clean my armour I'd gotten here nice and early.
"My Jarl," I heard a man saying "We people of Dragon Bridge need your help. There are strange noises near the Wolfskull Cave and people are disappearing".
The leader of this town didn't need long to think of something to say.
"I will send soldiers to the Dragon Bridge" she decided "Your people will be safe. I promise".
That didn't sooth the visitor.
"But my lady," he said, "What about the cave?".
Clearly he wasn't just going to let this matter drop.
"I will send someone to investigate it" Elisif promised.
Seeing an opportunity, I stepped forward.
"I can check out the cave" I offered.
Everyone turned to look at me.
"You want to investigate Wolfskull Cave?" a man asked.
I figured that this was the Jarl's steward, Falk Firebeard, Forestwind had mentioned his name when I'd told her that I would be popping into the place.
"Well I am part of the Dawnguard" I mentioned to the room "And if there are people vanishing then it could be the work of vampires, so I'd like to help if I can".
In this case I knew it wasn't, but there was no sense mentioning the return of the Wolf-Queen and being considered crazy when the recent increase in vampire activity was a very real thing. Besides it might cause a panic, which did not serve my needs.
"The Dawnguard?" the court mage asked, "I've heard of a group that is organising in order to hunt down the vampires across Skyrim".
I smiled upon hearing that, she was a vampire, I could sense it, but she could be like Serana so I saw no need to out her.
"That's us" I told the court "There's myself and a couple of other members in this city. We're on a mission, and we just stopped by to get some supplies, but we have time to check out the cave, with your permission, Jarl".
Permission was granted.
"That's great," said the man from Dragon Bridge "I am glad someone is looking into this".
He had no idea how grateful he really should be.
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Cosmic Warehouse. Outside of Reality.
While I'd rented an entire floor of the inn so that I would privacy when accessing the warehouse I had not expected to be able to keep it hidden from Serana for very long, and I hadn't been able to.
Jump Chan had made a brief appearance in order to give the vampire a download, or maybe that should be upload, of information directly into the mind so that I didn't have to spend my time explaining Jump Chain.
I wondered if this meant that Serana was a potential companion, but I had no desire for a undead woman in my harem. That might change in the future, once we'd averted the vampire crisis, and had saved the world.
For now I would keep my distance from the vamp and focus on preventing the return of the Wolf Queen, as while her coming back might not be as world ending as what the dragons and vampires were getting up to, it would still get in the way of what I needed to do while this world.
Besides the Force didn't send visions to people for fun, it would only do that if I needed to know something very important. Also Necromancy was a perversion of life, so the Force would not want some powerful Necromancer around.
My mind was made up, and now it was just a matter of getting ready. Cameron and I were in full armour, using the suits that were modified versions of the Vanir environment suits that we'd obtain so many years ago.
While the tech had been modified and improved upon many times, until the point that the armour suits had more features than even I could remember, it still looked much the same, and it was easy to use.
Normally I didn't require this level of protection, but this time I was taking no chances. Hence why Cameron and I were also armed with disruptor rifles that could easily vaporise entire beings. Since we were fighting people who made zombies out of dead bodies it made sense to destroy all the bodies we came across, so that Necromancers couldn't use them against us.
As backup weapon I carried a Traveller particle weapon, which couldn't vaporise people, but it could do enough damage to a body so that that any zombie made from it wouldn't be much of threat even if it could move.
I also carried my lightsaber in case all else failed. It was a hybrid of magic and technology, and infused with Force energy, so it was a remarkable weapon, and should things go wrong I was sure that I would need it.
While Allnel Forestwind, knew that I was a Jumper and what that involved, she had no experience with my groups's advanced technology, as such giving her the kind of weapons and armour I was using would be damn foolish. She was far more likely to harm myself or Cameron, or even herself, than the enemy. I would attend to this problem later with implanted memories and training.
During the coming mission she would use her stealth skills to remain hidden during the attack, and to guard our rear. She was a good archer, however I got the sense from my vision that we'd need more than bows and swords to deal with this menace.
"Don't forget your spare power packs" Cameron reminded me.
Vaporising a human sized target used up a lot of energy, in fact it takes around three gigajoules to entirely vaporise a person using an energy weapon, that was enough to power completely melt 5,000 pounds of steel, so extra power packs were a must.
Forestwind had also changed some of her equipment. She had a quiver full of new and deadly looking arrows, as well as a dwarven made bow, which had been expensive.
The method of producing Dwarven metal was known only to them, and since the Dwarfs of this world had vanished, it was one of many secrets lost with them. Since the only source of this metal was that came out of the Dwarven ruins, the metal has come to be known as "Dwarven metal," named after its creators.
While reforging the metal didn't create Dwarven weapons as good as what the dwarves themselves had made, the metal neither dulls nor rusts, which meant it made for a good crafting material.
I didn't think the process required to make the metal was magical, although some sort of alchemy could be involved, so I might be able to replicate it. I would have to do a proper study of the material soon, and if I couldn't replicate it then I'd have to go to a dwarven ruin in order to obtain a stockpile.
Again that was something which could wait. I needed to finish preparing for this mission. A lot of lives, not to mention my operations here in Skyrim, were threatened by this event. And while I knew that the Wolf-Queens spirit would need dealing with even if this mission was successful I'd have time to prepare, and I could Serena get out of the way before that.
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Wolfskull Cave. Skyrim.
The three of us arrived at Wolfskull Cave by the afternoon. We'd brought the Mako, which I'd nearly driven into a windmill, but no one had been hurt, and I let Cortana drive since I was clearly out of practice when it came to controlling this armoured vehicle.
I would have liked to have liked to keep my advanced tech hidden for a while longer, however there was no sense holding back when so much was at stake. The Force wouldn't have guided me to this place if anything less then very urgent.
Disruptor rifle in hand I made my way into the Wolfskull Cave. A few moments after we entered the cave and walked down the tunnel, we found a cart filled with different type of bones. In the game there were skeletons outside the cave, perhaps this pile of bones would have become those guards.
As we proceeds down the tunnel, we encountered our first foe, there was a Draugr with its Ancient Battle Axe. When the Draugr noticed us, it charged towards us. However, Cameron aimed her rifle and fired it, causing the animated corpse to seem to vanish into nothingness.
After killing the Draugr, we continued walking down the path until we found ourselves in a camp where two Necromancers were present. They were quick to react, however Cameron and I were much quicker and we'd killed them, leaving no trace any bodies.
I was glad that we weren't doing this for the bounty as at this rate there'd be no evidence that we'd killed anyone. In the game I would have looted the corpses, but that wasn't possible now, and if there was any treasure around it could wait until we cleared out the cave.
Between us Cameron and I soon took out two more regular Draugrs and what I guessed to Draugr Scourge, judging by how much it registered to my mystical senses. Its power meant nothing of course as it was easily vaporised.
After that we ended up inside was what looked like an underground temple. Purple energy was dancing everywhere and was being transferred towards the highest peck of the ruins. I'd seen this not so long ago as we'd sent in a cloaked probe, however the probe had been disabled when it close to close to the energy streams.
I wasn't worried about Cameron, who was electronic, or about my equipment being disabled, as it was all better shielded and we intended to avoid the energy streams. The streams were also why we weren't using phase cloaks, as they were delicate, and weren't as much help as they should be when dealing with people with funky powers.
"Wolf Queen," I heard an old female voice said, "Hear our call and awaken. We summon Potema".
Suddenly, a few more voices joined in.
"We summon Potema!" they called out.
So far this was all as expected.
"The Necromancers are planning on summoning The Wolf Queen Potema" I heard Forestwind say.
"And who is she?" Cameron asked.
Due to limited time I'd not been able to explain everything that was going on my women. I'd explained the mission, and who we would be facing, but I'd not gone into the purpose of the ritual.
"She was an insane Necromancer who challenged Uriel III for the throne of the Empire" the adorable wood elf explained "She succeeded, but met her demise years later. Now these Necromancers plan on bringing her back to life".
I slapped a fresh power cell into my weapon.
"Not if we stop them" I said.
After carefully making our way way down the cliff we encountered yet another Draugr. While Cameron vaporised that one, the Necromancer who was guarding the ritual site along with the undead almost got off a spell. Only he ended up with an arrow sticking out of his chest. Forestwind was proving to be the best 50cp I ever spent.
As we made our way to the temple, the Necromancer continued with their dark magic, which my Mystical senses did not like one bit. Also I could feel the dark side here, which made the place even colder than it should be.
"Long have you slept the dreamless sleep of death, Potema. No longer. Hear us Wolf Queen. We summon you!"
The other Necromancers chanted as well.
"We summon Potema!"
My senses screamed at me, and I had to block them out as I felt an evil presence.
"Yes! Return me to this realm!"
They had succeeded in summoning the Wolf Queen, at least in spirit.
"Fuck!" I said, "We have to hurry!"
When we made it to the stairs, there were a few more Necromancers waiting for us, but they were also vaporised. No fuss, no muss.
"As our voices summon you the blood of the innocent binds you Wolf Queen"
"Summoned with words. Bound by blood" the others said
"What!" the ghost of Potema cried, "What are you doing?! You fools! You cannot bind me to your wills!"
When we finally made it to the tower where the ritual was being performed, Potema cried out.
"You ants don't have the power to bind me!"
Trying to think of something quick led to an idea. I took out a grenade and used my mind powers to guide it up the stairs.
"What is this thing?" I heard someone ask.
All of a sudden, the grenade went off and blasted the Necromancers off the tower and into the ground below judging by the way the screaming suddenly cut off.
Then then purple energy then exploded and started to fly out through the cave. By the time all ruckus was over the whole top of the tower was gone, leaving us all looking at the roof of the cavern. Thankfully I'd been able to shield from the fall debris.
"Well that's that" I said.
Time to go and report to the Jarl.
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Solitude. Skyrim.
When I got back the court was still in session, or likely back in session as I was sure that they must have stopped for lunch. Thinking about that made me realise how hungry I was. I'd been running on the Force since entered Dimhollow. Sure I'd eaten and slept last night, but I hadn't fully recharged yet.
"Have you returned from Wolfskull Cave already?" Falk Firebeard said
Well I had taken the Mako, which had majorly cut down on journey time, and while I was sure that many people had seen it, or at least heard it, the people in the palace had no reason to link that strangeness to what I'd been getting up to. And to be fair a lot of odd stuff happened in Skyrim.
"We are surprised that you have returned so quickly" added the Jarl "You must have gone straight there after meeting with us".
Perhaps she was simply assuming we had fast horses. It didn't really matter. What did matter was that I'd killed the Necromancers. This wouldn't be the end of the matter, unless my use of explosives had an even bigger effect on the ritual than thought. Although looking bad using a grenade hadn't been the smartest idea, if I wasn't so good at moving things with my mind I could have buried, and my armour may not have been enough to protect my body.
"Well, I am glad I did," I said, "As it turns out, those strange sounds that the guy who was here earlier report, were actually Necromancers performing a ritual to summon some Wolf Queen".
Everyone's faces turned pale, well paler, the natives of Skyrim weren't exactly know for dark complexions.
"They were trying to summon Potema?!" called out Firebeard, "Please tell us you stopped the ritual."
He wasn't the only one with something to say on the matter.
"Potema coming back, I dread to even think about such a thing" muttered the court wizard.
"Don't worry," I assured the court "I interfered with the ritual, and the whole thing blew up in their faces".
More literally than they could have imagined.
"You have done us a great service" stated the Jarl.
As she waved her hand, Flak Firebeard walked up to me with a bag containing some gold coins and handed it to me. I didn't need the money, as I could make my own, but there was no sense refusing the reward.
"Thank you. Glad I could help" I said.
With that I bowed and left, intending to get a nice meal, to drink a few bottles of mead, and then to make use of one of my women's body. I hadn't decided if it would be Cameron or Forestwind yet, maybe it would be both.