is it ever 'worth it' to let an npc go if he asks for mercy? or does he just heal up enough to come at you again in a minute? i have soul trapped many a begging man.
btw soul trapping, how sick is that, when you think about it??
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
that's why black soul gems are considered evil i guess
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
i haven't figured out the distinction btw which souls are 'black'. is it all people, or just important people?
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
all people. i read a book about it in game. animal souls are white, ppl souls are black.
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i feel weird that a bandit is trapped for eternity inside my boots, but it is the easiest way to get a grand soul
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
our fallen nature and all
xp lol tell me there wouldn't be some lord with a black soul slave farming operation to kit out his knights. does nobody consider basic incentives when they dream up these worlds...
― slandblox goole, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
dlc idea
the only creature i have found that gives a grand soul is a mammoth
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Thursday, 15 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Haven't had the heart to kill a mammoth yet.
― ledge, Friday, 16 December 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
Haha so I have been practicing FOUL ARTS because I've been soul trapping ppl who attack me?
― OH NOES, Friday, 16 December 2011 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit I just skyrimmed for five hours straight.
― ledge, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Found dan's dwarvish ruins, full of copious amounts of heavy dwarven artefacts. Unfortunately this was just after Lydia suddenly started refusing to be a beast of infinite burden, and she was already laden down with my ingot collection and a bunch of dragon bones I forgot to sell. However she is wearing a mask I gave her which gives an extra lol every time I ask her to try and carry something more.
The dwarven ruins looked great but were just too big and too samey, as was the mage castle I had to battle through inmediately before. Found both sections a bit of a chore tbh.
― ledge, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
i'm so jealous of you guys having lydia - i accidentally killed her within about 20 seconds of the first battle i entered with her.
― Z S, Friday, 16 December 2011 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
I really want the potions submenu fixed. All poisons together, all potions together. Then, all magicka potions, all stamina potions, all health potions, etc. Alphabetical order is just a huge chore.
I only ever use beast form to fast travel to places I've not already been to - wolf sprint is way faster than horse gallop.
― JimD, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
omg i just figured out something about the alchemy menu
if you go down it's sorted by the effects that you know. but if you go RIGHT from the top of the menu, you go to a list of all the ingredients you have. and you can just mix stuff up blind! which is how you're supposed to learn more effects (apart from eating the stuff). all the ingredients have all their abilities whether you know what they are or not. so by luck (or looking shit up hint hint) you can make a lot of potions right away.
― slandblox goole, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
oooohhh...i may try that later. i mainly use alchemy to get restore health and magika potions, because the stores never seem to carry enough and i'm often in dire need in the midst of boss battles.
― Z S, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
somehow my heavy armor AND sneak skills are leveled way up. no idea how this is actually working, but it seems nice
if i can unlock the heavy armor perk that makes wearing heavy armor more quiet for sneaking, i should be set there
― Z S, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
just letting everyone know.
― Z S, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, experimenting with ingredients is my favourite minigame
― horseshoe loves tom brady, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
especially when you exit the ingredient screen and your dude is like
UUNNNGHHHHHHhhhhh1hh1!!
― Z S, Saturday, 17 December 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
my character is pretty much always on drugs
It is amazing how little of the main storyline I've done. I just got the last part of unrelenting force push shout last night and I am Level 21.
Anyway, I am two-handed, light armor, conjuring, and focusing a lot of attention on smithing, alchemy, and enchanting. Also I don't sneak nearly enough considering I'm a lizard.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Just fucking twatted a dragon in two goes with force push and then perked up two-handed bashing. That was after dicking around for multiple reloads with a +50 damage fireball staff.
― ledge, Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Ooh, good tip. I can never seem to hit with my fireball unless the dude is on the ground already.
― polyphonic, Saturday, 17 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing as anti-climactic as a dragon going down quickly though. When I should be "WOO I KILLED A LEGENDARY BEAST" I'm "oh great, more bloody bones to lug back to the apartment".
― JimD, Saturday, 17 December 2011 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
(Have about 10 spare dragon souls though and nothing I particularly want to spend them on, might feel differently if I knew more words).
Just completed the final penultimate stage in the main winterhold quest, no spoilers but omg lol :D
― ledge, Sunday, 18 December 2011 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
where does that quest start? i don't think i've done it yet
― Mordy, Sunday, 18 December 2011 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
All mage quests so far:
1) "Dude, we need this special item! Go and get it."2) I trudge through a dungeon filled with Felons or whatever until I get told that the princess item is not in this dungeon.3) I go back to college.4) "That's very interesting. Go try here instead."5) wash rinse repeat
These quests better get good soon otherwise I'm fucking off to be a singer or a thief or something.
― You failed, you didn’t eat the whole pizza (NotEnough), Sunday, 18 December 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/jRWvsnxmjzx58.jpg
― cccccc, Sunday, 18 December 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to enter Leviathianenenion, those frost trolls were really causing me fits until I firebombed one while it smacked the shit out of Lydia, then dragged the other one past the mining camp along the road over to a bandit ambush, where I let the troll kill the bandits whe I firebombed it from afar. Of course, I think this tactic killed an important NPC at the mine but oh well.
The best part was Lydia jogging up 2 min later all "sup, how's that troll doing?"
― OH NOES, Sunday, 18 December 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Mage quests are a bit samey. Taking a break from dungeons for a while, spent all day today crafting up armour for me and my bestest pal Lydia. NB mordy the winterhold quests start at... winterhold!
― ledge, Sunday, 18 December 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
Lydia got killed during a stormfront attack in my game - i'd switched to another companion for a while. Her body is still sitting in front of the blacksmiths. :(
― adventure in the zonule of zinn (mrfusion), Sunday, 18 December 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
RIP
― ledge, Sunday, 18 December 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Only realised this recently but if you hold down A when you go to search a body (or pick up an item), you can drag it around instead.
― JimD, Monday, 19 December 2011 07:37 (twelve years ago) link
Works for all the objects in the game world.
― clay, Monday, 19 December 2011 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
this thread is really fun to read if you have no idea what it's about but badly want to convince yourself it's about some kind of weird rimjob-related meme
― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Monday, 19 December 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
Rule 34
― polyphonic, Monday, 19 December 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
i am watching my brother play this and it is like watching a backwoodsman maniac killer exist in real time, seems boring
― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 19 December 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
It's a bit like all the Elder Scrolls / Fallout games in that there's an awful lot of trudging through wilderness and searching in barrels but it's enormously engaging to play.
― ShariVari, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiJ1or56wr0
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
haha wth
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I have two enchanted elven swords that I named Galadriel and Finrod, and just picked up a bunch of two-handed perks. My follower is J'zargo, and he is ridiculous.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
u r drizzt
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
kinda wish there was some online component to this -- but only so bethesda could mine cool stats like what the global race/perk choice breakdowns are. and what dumm names everybody is using.
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
That fucking dog! Stop trying to push me off cliffs.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
dammit I have to get a dog
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
ugh you guys i dunno how you put up with followers at all. some quests assign one temporarily and i'm like, get the fuck away from me or go die (but please don't bug this quest to shit)
― slandblox goole, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
I have a follower because of things like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MTMwjYgJsFQ
― OH NOES, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
er rather:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTMwjYgJsFQ