Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

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.

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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

Several hours of this, followed by a meticulous cleaning of the area.

Granted, they're shambling zombies, but I found the Dragon Priest abodes to be pretty filthy.

I'm trying to clear out all the miscellaneous quests I can and, in some crypt looking for some fine salt, I decided to let Lydia, the demon dog and a frost atronach fight the big bad dude as I just wandered around opening urns and chests. It was nice and relaxing.

Key to that blackreach map, including a spoiler right at the end for something i know i'd never have figured out for myself:
http://www.arxfiles.com/skyrim/guide/4874.htm

So it turns out that you can craft spell tomes? Huh!

Played this for an hour last night, and p. much failed to get into it, but I think it was my fault for trying to watch Brian Cox at the same time.

so, kill paarthurnax y/n?

Spoilers: I've heard (but have halted 2 characters at this exact point of main quest) that Paathurnax will give the remaining dragon word locations if you let him live. Plus, I like the guy.

yeah i let him live. f the douche blades.

yeah that's what i'm leaning towards. he seems like a bro. christopher plummer and diane lane aren't really doing it for me.

http://www.charlesmartinet.com/color2.jpg > http://www.nndb.com/people/316/000023247/plummer-port.jpg + http://www.nndb.com/people/049/000025971/diane-lane.jpg?

Except for the fact that Arngeir/Plummer would prefer that you leave Paarthurnax/Charles Martinet to contemplate the voice in peace. The real turnabout is for the Blades scholar Esbern/Max Von Sydow.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_exAVWrUdZVc/TVCUf2O8AEI/AAAAAAAAACw/jtcs8bTtMt8/s1600/theseventhseal011.jpg

I may have to kill Paarthunax after a save just to see if Sydow has any more dialogue.

oh shit i got plummer and von sydow confused!

i meant the characters and not nec. the performers in my assessment. all the mystical royalism in these games seriously skeeves me out so i select against it if i have the choice.

lol i have used that phrase itt already

what is mystical royalism?

a snootier form of magic realism?

the ruling clique really is a god-descended & ordained bloodline destined to rule, only they can restore and defend the land, and their absence from the throne is the source of all the bad things happening.

this is what all the old royalists claimed about themselves but in games like this it's just basically true.

blades = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobitism

AFAIK, Tiber Septim/Talos is unique amongst the Nordic Nine in not divinely intervening in some sidequest. The only indication of his divine favor is that his shrine still works to cure disease and offer a blessing. Moreover, its his decision to use the Elder Scroll to cast Alduin forward in time that is ultimately responsible for the current dragon predicament.

So there's a case to be made that the Elves version of Talos as a false god is correct.

idk as fantasy bs goes i still much preferred dragon age, which had some metaphysical business going on (to explain the existence of magic basically) but left all the religious questions attached to that unprovable and therefore political.

in skyrim even the thieves guild questline (SPOILER) ends up revolving around some dumb god. you're thieves! you work for money! no gods no masters live for today! come on.

but then most of the gods are also super vicious... this game has a bizarre mix of total cynicism and wide-eyed wonder, i don't really get it tbh

Probably confusing 8/9 Aedra (temples & shrines, but removed from creation) with the Daedra, all of whom associated with quests.

yeah i get that there is supposed to be a distinction. my point is the world isn't religious so much as mythical. you can't really doubt these deities are real.

Manifestly real deities are surely the norm in fantasy?

probably. it creeps me out tho!

There's something strangely bathetic about the ones who manifest as regular dudes.