gabrielman
Kind of A Big Deal
I live in a tent in Morrowind, next to a Mead Hall... I win
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Post by gabrielman on Dec 23, 2014 10:02:10 GMT
Okay, so I thought about this for a while, and I'm curious... what is your big Morrowind confession? What item did you steal and hope no one found out? What did you really think when you found some item that you had never seen before? For me, there are a few moments... Once, in the Telvanni Town of Tel Mora, I went high in the main tower, and stole a few enchanted items that I deemed powerful, even though now I'd look at them and laugh. As I was leaving, I passed a Bosmer female (Gelduin), who said "I think you're a thief, because you just stole my heart." I had stopped in fear when I heard her say "I think you're a thief" as I had just got done... well... being a thief. At one point, early on, my brother and I found Keening on Red Mountain, and we had no clue what it was. He had said some old man told him a powerful sword was on the mountain, I doubted it, so we spent an hour looking, found Keening, and equipped it. We had just auto saved... which is good, as our character died instantly. We thought the gods had deemed us unworthy, and that by doing the things Vivec and the other members of the Tribunal (Sotha Sil, and Almalexia) we could be granted use of this powerful weapon. We had no clue what the main quest was, or even that there was a main quest... this was over a hundred hours in game on this character. After I found out about the main quest, and completed it, I spent hours in the Vivec Foreign Quarter smith shop (the one run by that Dunmer dude... who was contently dead) trying to reproduce Keening's enchantments on various items. I went so far as to look up online (a luxury I didn't have at home, only school) how I could get a spell to fortify my enchantment skill so I could make such enchantments. I didn't have the expansions yet, didn't even know the game had them... hell, I didn't need them as there was still a ton I had not yet done (great houses, most guilds, I was just off exploring) I found out that if I did the Morag Tong quests, I could be gifted a spell that would allow me to make a fortify enchant spell. I did this, and after hours of playing that quest line, tried it, only to fail. To this day I refuse to believe it can't be done someday, lol. Last one... once, when I had gotten my first glass longsword, I was traveling in the ashlands and I was attacked by several blight creatures, one being a cliff racer. I got Black Heart Blight, and had to leave my good stuff, like my prized sword, behind, so I could get to town. I was afraid I would die of this disease, as it was the first time I had heard of it. I was so crushed by not being able to take my sword home, that when I got cured, I went back, and spent hours looking for my loot pile. I finally found it! Ah, the golden age of my Morrowind times
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Post by Sniffles on Dec 23, 2014 12:00:34 GMT
Well, it's almost too embarrassing to mention. I'll spare myself and everyone else the sordid details. So, 3 weeks of playing the game, abouts, I managed to get out to an island. Don't remember where. Level 1 character. I couldn't get back to the mainland. Got killed by slaughterfish every time. I experimented and went brain dead and experimented with brain dead and, sigh, saved over all my save games, 2 or 3 I think, and had to restart the entire game. That was the smart part.
I restarted the game and........................................... went back to that goddam island thinking I could get my goodies back. Didn't have restart and reload fixed properly in my brain... And got stuck again.
In Oblivion I barely made it out of the sewers alive, got stuck between some rocks and spent 2 days trying to jump out.
In Skyrim I got killed by an undead goat.
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Post by DARoot on Dec 23, 2014 13:37:17 GMT
I'll share this one, even though it occurred in Daggerfall. I was sneaking around the city at night, breaking into houses, climbing walls, and generally practicing thiefly skills. I had just finished trying to pick a lock (unsuccessfully) and turned around, to come face to face (?) with a Spectre [Daggerfall is full of 'em at night]. I was startled, and just automatically took a swipe at it. Unfortunately, I didn't have a weapon in hand, and the cursor was still in "Lockpick/Pickpocket" mode ...
Yep. Ended up picking the Spectre's pocket! [Got a message that all I found was a handful of dust].
Well, I quickly equipped a weapon, and dispatched the beastie.
Lo and behold, I was then surrounded by Guards, who proceeded to arrest me for pickpocketing!
Now, really ...
DARoot [I'm tellin' ya, I get no respect ...]
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Post by graykin on Dec 24, 2014 0:41:23 GMT
I started with Daggerfall, all I remember now is traveling for a godawful amount of time to get anywhere! Still it was fun in a way. When I got Morrowind it took me a long time to get out of Seyda Neen. Every time I tried to travel somewhere those damn Cliff Racers would kill me, or a bandit and once some guy just fell out of the sky, in the middle of nowhere and landed on me! Fast forward a year or more and I had a huge number of mods that increased my land mass, number of NPC's, more quest and of course Constance, Laura and Sydna. When I first went to the Underground in Balmora's sewer I was captivated! Fell in love with the music and started searching for more Gothic, Darkwave, Trance and Indie songs. Found several compilations make by Project Records (The Unquiet Grave, etc...). It's most of what I continue to listen to, til today!
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Post by mewgull on Dec 24, 2014 22:42:45 GMT
I confess I never really managed to defeat Dagoth Ur in fair combat. As I was definitely fed up with the atmosphere in his lair and I wanted to go back to Pelagiad to spend some nice evenings with my very special friend Ahnassi, I loaded up the Construction Set and made myself some uber weapons, armor and healing drinks that finally did the trick. I never really liked the main quest in Morrowind or Oblivion, I got it past me as quickly as possible! BTW: Isn´t it funny how some names like Ahnassi´s still stick after so many years?
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Post by blockhead on Dec 24, 2014 23:23:35 GMT
Umm, can't think of any specific "secrets" but I must confess that my first character was a wuss. He ran from rats. One time I was approaching a new (to me) town and saw some guards were running towards me and I was getting nervous ... then they ran past me. Whew, OK. They ran past me to attack this rat that had been following me since the last town! Yikes! I hadn't realized it was there! Eeeep! Stalked by a rat, oh the shame. EDIT: and kwama foragers terrified me. They still give me the willies even now! Those things are just wrong!
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Post by jgf on Dec 25, 2014 0:22:52 GMT
I confess I never really managed to defeat Dagoth Ur in fair combat. .... I never really liked the main quest in Morrowind... I didn't like the main quest either, but for the opposite reason - it was too easy to eliminate Mr. Ur, and it's so anti-climactic. I once played through the default game (only graphics mods, nothing else) with what I deemed the lowest option on the social scale - a female Argonian ...by the time she was level 18 she had done everything: head of all the factions, head of Telvanni, defeated Dagoth Ur (she also sent Vivec to his demise, which was a much harder battle). And when you add Tribunal and Bloodmoon, old Ur is a comparative wimp. I once started a mod to make the old boy much more formidable, wanted him to be so powerful you would need to be at least level 50 to even consider attacking him. In all these years I've finished the main quest three times.
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gabrielman
Kind of A Big Deal
I live in a tent in Morrowind, next to a Mead Hall... I win
Posts: 73
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Post by gabrielman on Dec 25, 2014 0:57:55 GMT
Haha, my first death was by slaughter fish! I didn't even know what was going on, and had no idea what was attacking me until it was too late! Also, I really enjoyed the main quest, though Dagoth Ur was pathetic and fell into his own lava pit... I mean, it would have been just too difficult for the devs to make that a lot less likely.. or so they'd have you think, lol. With a few mods, he's a good fight I never climbed to the top of all the guilds at that low a level though... since they all have different skill requirements. I ended up being level 50 before I did Tribunal when it first came out... honestly, I was so angry at the Tribunal that I went in there fully expecting to just barge in and kill Almalexia... turns out that I can't do that... and that over time I started to believe her LIES!!!! Then, she tries to kill me... so I finally got what I wanted, and they were all gone.. good times
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Post by jgf on Dec 25, 2014 1:18:20 GMT
... what is your big Morrowind confession? What item did you steal and hope no one found out? ... I played one character as a completely disreputable person. No qualms about killing anyone for any reason, steal anything, anytime, from anyone. He trained in personality, sneak, and telekinesis primarily, with a modicum of blade and light armor. Eventually, with a suit of clothes all carrying a CE chameleon spell and a strong telekinesis power, he could walk into any shop and steal them blind, then sneak up to the shopkeeper and pickpocket whatever he had. Most of this loot was comparatively worthless so started piling it all around the statue in Ebonheart, just to see how large a pile I could create (not a good idea, frame rates eventually dropped to single digits whenever I was near Ebonheart). Soon all the shops, homes, shrines, tents, and caves had been stripped of contents, and NPCs had been pickpocketed; so he went on a killing spree (I was bored with this character by then) - take out all the guards, Ordinators, Her Hands, etc. (futile, many of these respawn). A favorite tactic was levitating to a roof and summoning daedra, then watch them and the guards fight. Acquired such a bounty on my head NPCs would run away and guards would attack on sight. A more interesting use of theft is to have your character be a dedicated, even obsessed, collector. Decide at the start what they will collect. Wooden spoons? Red candles? Extravagant shoes? Doesn't matter what, but they must have every one they find; they will pay any price, they will steal if necessary (whether they will kill is optional), they will even leave more valuable loot in order to take the item home
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Post by jgf on Dec 25, 2014 1:19:36 GMT
somehow a duplicate post
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gabrielman
Kind of A Big Deal
I live in a tent in Morrowind, next to a Mead Hall... I win
Posts: 73
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Post by gabrielman on Dec 25, 2014 10:11:08 GMT
This isn't in Morrowind directly, but Dagoth Ur greets me when I turn on my PC and also tells me goodbye when I turn it off...
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Post by Sniffles on Dec 25, 2014 13:02:38 GMT
In Morrowind, I took over someones house in Caldera while the person was still in residence. The house just north of the mages guild. I slowly filled the house with equipment which I repaired and enchanted and stored of left lying around after I had too much money and nothing to do with it. Eventually entering the house sort of dialed things down to slow motion. Then repeat, taking over the pawnbroker and trader's houses in Balmora. About a year of playing and loot hording. Eventually all three places would almost crash the game if I went in them.
Not learning my lesson I became a compulsive flower picker in Oblivion, slowly filling Rosethorn hall with alchemy gear, potions and ingredients. My organization skills needed improvement and the place slowly filled up. Ultimately it became impossible to enter the house without the game crashing.
I then did something similar to Breezehome in Skyrim and I believe it was Dova who introduced me to corrupted form lists. You could enter Breezehome but if you looked in any of the containers you became trapped. If you tried to go out the door the game would crash. I should add it was Vilja who bailed me out of that mess. I loaded her to the gills with junk from one container then sent her shopping. I then tried to exit the house until I succeeded. The game was not well at all so zip super quick up to Belethor, save, cross fingers and restart. If the game started, take Vilja back to Breezehome and repeat. About 800,000 in gold, maybe 50 game crashes and 20 some trips to Belethor the place was cleaned out and I could exit trouble free and take 5 or even 10 steps before the game crashed because my wuss video card couldn't handle the improved and reforested Whiterun.
I also got that reforestation mod that lets you plant trees and bushes everywhere. I created a forest between Whiterun and the Western Watch Tower so dense it was a fairy tale. It also crashed the game before you could get all the way through it so if you went in you had to stay there forever.
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Post by mewgull on Dec 25, 2014 21:46:02 GMT
Sniffles: Oh my, all that sounds all too familiar. My char had a mobile home called Bottle Home which basically was a magic bottle you could place anywhere and by activating it, teleported into it. It served, in fact, as a huge backpack you could even live in. My procedure usually was: Get my char loaded up to the point of immobility, get out the bottle, get in there, get rid of the loot, get out, loot again. From time to time it became so bad he could not move inside his home, so he just had to beat a path thru all the junk, sort the stuff he wanted to keep and sell all the rest. Fortunately, I am no messie in real life, but my char definitely was.
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gabrielman
Kind of A Big Deal
I live in a tent in Morrowind, next to a Mead Hall... I win
Posts: 73
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Post by gabrielman on Dec 26, 2014 4:04:35 GMT
In Morrowind, after I got the expansions, I would often dress up as a bear and go to Red Mountain before the prophecy and go straight to Dagoth Ur. I vainly wanted to hear "Dagoth Ur welcomes you Nerevar my old friend. But to this place where destiny is made, why have you come dressed like a bear?" Tell me I'm not the only one O__O
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Post by Sniffles on Dec 26, 2014 5:51:14 GMT
In Morrowind, after I got the expansions, I would often dress up as a bear and go to Red Mountain before the prophecy and go straight to Dagoth Ur. I vainly wanted to hear "Dagoth Ur welcomes you Nerevar my old friend. But to this place where destiny is made, why have you come dressed like a bear?" Tell me I'm not the only one O__O A post like that one makes me feel an urge to go out and check that I'm in the right house then test to make sure the toilets flush.
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