Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Oh man I'm stuck in some quest where I have to sneak into a party unarmed but I seem to have failed to give my inside contact anything to sneak in for me! This will sorely challenge Queenie the Orc

You can always just roast some dude with flames and steal his shit.

But anyway, whatever was in your inventory when you started the mission is in a chest in the larder near the kitchen.

Yeah I found the chest but there's nothing in it. Or maybe just a dagger. Will try flaming a guard.

The stuff you gave the dude in the tavern is in the chest; everything else is being held for you by Delphine and you don't have access to it.

Anybody beaten this yet? I captured a dragon and rode him to Alduin' fortress/nest/whatever, but then I died in battle. Am I near the end? If so, I kind of want to hold off on this so I can run around and do more things. Also, recommendations for other fun escapades? I'm archmage of the college and I'm head of the thieves guild. Anything else along those lines of long-ish quests? I collected all the blood for Septimus and the blue orb light thingy said he'd be back or something but that hasn't really played out. I've only clocked 46 hours! It can't be over yet...

yeah you are close. i am not even sure if you can go back from dragon ride land until you finish.

Might load a saved game from before the capture then.

Have you done the black hand assassination stuff? Probably my fave quest line.

I haven't! I've not even discovered all of the major cities yet, I don't think. Where do I start that quest?

Walk around windhelm, someone will mention that some kid is performing the black sacrament, you'll get a misc quest to see what all that's about. Set it as active then follow the indicator to the kid's house. Voila.

Yeah, I'm definitely going back to a pre-dragon capture save point and just running around the world for a while. I even enjoy clearing bandits out of ruins, which is the kind of silly side-quest I never have the patience for in games like this.

The quest that begins when the lizard dude in Solitude tells you to turn out a lighthouse light is awesome.

Marriage is yet another source of "hilarious" inappropriate NPC dialogue. "Hello my love. Back from another adventure already?" No, I... you saw me in the other room two minutes ago. You idiot.

"i am swoooooooorn to carry your burrrrrrrrdennnnnnns"

that one never gets old tbf

I like J'zargo. "J'zargo only has so much room to carry things."

Marriage is great. I just turn up occasionally and ask for money.

The quest that begins when the lizard dude in Solitude tells you to turn out a lighthouse light is awesome.

I haven't been to Solitude, but is it the lighthouse where you investigate the owners' deaths? Frostsomething? Absolutely terrifying Lovecraft vibe going on.

I love this game. I'm completely ignoring the main quests and the Stormcloaks vs Imperials stuff atm. Mainly just enchanting shit.

It's a different lighthouse, i think. The frost one is great, though.

I finally took sides and demolished the Stormcloaks. Something worth bearing in mind is that if you do it later in the game, it's probably a little too easy. I could take down an entire fort on my own without resorting to health potions. There are some pitched battles that would have represented a great challenge had i done them at level 20, rather than 40. I imagine that would have closed off a lot of tangential threads early though.

yeah I'm at lvl 21 now and the difficulty feels really well-balanced. I can breeze through most of the more boring fetch quest dungeons but still find enough of the bigger battles a challenge.

I keep getting attacked by dark brotherhood assassins when I'm just strolling around. I think it's cos I pissed off Maven Black-Briar by tipping her off that I was going to steal her horse before I went ahead and did it.

Yeh, I keep getting assasination attempts. I need to figure out how to stop that. I suppose joining the dark brotherhood would be a start.

so if you go to reddit.com and search 'bundoran' you'll see my mate brian standing at the lover's stone irl, apparently

Your mate Brian looks kinda female?

blackreach: wow!

^^^^ ya rly

I kind of want to go back and spend like 40 hours just running around there killing falmer

it felt like i did spend 40 hours in there, being lost, collecting crimson nirnroot, ocd mining all the countless ores, juggling inventories to try to carry all those ores between me and roggi. it came close to breaking me. i think i actually went insane for a while.

just wandering around i got to 24/30 of those plants. and then i'm like, the last 6 are gonna be a huge bitch to find aren't they

I found a geode vein! But it just gave me corundum ore ;_; But yeah I've just got into Blackreach, done the main Elder Scroll thing, plan to spend some quality time there.

Apparently the nirnroot regenerate in ten days.

also there are like 50 down there. like i said, i was there a long time.

the geode veins were great tho. i got a stack of black soul gems.

btw can I just say alchemy just took an incredibly disturbing turn for me

i kinda wish there was a hardcore mode in this, like new vegas. the healing boosts from food are kinda useful for the first 5 levels and then it's like, leave the cabbages, i am too heroic for food now

xp how??

I discovered... HUMAN FLESH

you know the trick of eating one of yr alchemy ingredients to get the first property? well apparently it gives me pause to do this in a game when I've just picked up a chunk of flesh next to the tortured body of a dude I've been reading about in journals

there are human hearts too

why those aren't harvestable from every dead person i'll never understand

anybody join those cannibals? i felt bad bringing the priest to the feast so i turned on the cannibals and killed them all.

ha maybe it's his wife xps i just speedread his facebook tbh

I was all "whatever" when that chick ran up yelling zombie philosophy at me. Haven't followed it up at all.

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anybody join those cannibals? i felt bad bringing the priest to the feast so i turned on the cannibals and killed them all.

― encarta it (Gukbe), Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i did the same thing! poorly scripted ending iirc

i wish creatures other then humans/dragons spoke. falmer felt too cardboard in their little villages, wanted to hear them making weird noises to each other.

It wasn't until my seventh month with the creatures that they seemed to accept me. Well, "accept" isn't really the proper word, but they seemed to have decided that I posed no threat to them and gradually ceased their attacks.

I'll never know whether there was some sort of agreement communicated among them, for the only utterances they make seem to be in that heathen tongue that I can't even pronounce, much less transcribe. In time, I learned more of their intentions towards me from their general movements and tones rather than specific words. Hostility in any creature is easily read, but in these most peculiar of the living dead, with such variations in gait and speed, what amounts to a hostile charge in one may simply be casual movement in another.

Amongst the Draugr

I'm sure some modder will be adding mostly ultrasonic dolphin noises to the Falmer as soon as the CK/scripting is released.

huh interesting text there honestly!

Every day, a different set of draugr would awaken, shamble their way to the sarcophagus of their priest, and prostrate themselves before it. Several hours of this, followed by a meticulous cleaning of the area.

would have been cooler if they put routines like this in

I can't cope with Blackreach because there's no map. :-(

(But what I do love about it is that I first heard about it irl weeks ago, when this guy told me a friend of a friend had found this huge underground city that covered a third of the map or something. And it sounded like a totally made up internet rumour or whatever. So then actually finding it much later was "OMG THE LEGENDS ARE TRUE" and that was really fun).

I kept O_O-ing when I'd find another elevator and pop up many miles away from where I started

Even though it's a dungeon, in-game it's considered to be outdoors. This can be troublesome for some vampire players.

there was a moment (when i came out of a building maybe?) when it was snowing and everything was much brighter. lol bethesda

I can't cope with Blackreach because there's no map. :-(

!¡!Spoilers!¡!

A map of Blackreach:

http://www.arxfiles.com/skyrim/guide/backreach-exterior.jpg

A) Exit to Mzinchaleft Gatehouse
B) Elevator to Alftand Cathedral
C) Exit to Blackreach Elevator (Raldbthar)
D) Exit to Blackreach Elevator (Alftand)
E) Elevator to Raldbthar Deep Market
F) Exit to Mzinchaleft Exterior

why wouldn't sinderion just have a nice garden with two rows of fifteen