General Malaise "vs." reading comprehension ; also some talk of skyim and the elder scrolls (2 Viewers)

[hooter311]

oh, is it okay to admit being scared so much that I screamed like a little girl when a wolf sneaked up behind me and attacked me? If it's not okay, it didn't happen

I ate a small handful of shroom caps saturday night while playing this. Suffered from something similar but I think it was a snow sabre cat that stalked me. Encountered a Frost Troll I didn't see until he swatted me in the back as well.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Had the dragon music kick in and I went into Inventory to equip my bow. Before I could notch an arrow the dragon fell out of the sky and died in front of me. Must have scared him to death.

Close to the same thing: Was sitting on some rocks at night, trying to get my bearings, and down below me a dragon lands with his health bar almost empty (I'm assuming he came from another fight?). Promptly unloaded two arrows into him and BAM! Another dragon soul.I had three hired thugs come at me when I was trying to take down my first dragon on the main storyline, RIGHT AS THE DRAGON LANDED. I must have died at least 10 times before I figured out a way to run them in front of the dragon and let him take care of them And they were hired by the family of a hunter I killed outside of Riverwood. There were no humans around, so I can only assume that a wolf or fox, etc saw me and took out a bounty on me

I must be blind, because I haven't found any of the Shadowmarks books in the Thieves Guild, but it's cool to check the houses for marks now I'd still love to have one of the books in my inventory instead of checking it out online while I'm playing, though.

At least for me it's on a table in the cistern on your right if you're just starting to head to tunnel to the Ragged Flagon.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Do you actually have to open the book in-game to trigger the markings? Or are they just there anyway, and since I've looked at the link you shared then I'm good?

 

[hooter311]

Question about Fast Traveling to the Thieves Guild:

Spoiler

Is there a way to get in from the above ground of Riphen? When I fast travel it puts me befind that house or cemetary or whatever it is and I know there is an exit to skyrim in the guild that is blocked when I try to leave. Where is this location for me to unblock and get to? Otherwise I gotta run down through the ratways every time I want to go.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Question about Fast Traveling to the Thieves Guild:

Spoiler

Is there a way to get in from the above ground of Riphen? When I fast travel it puts me befind that house or cemetary or whatever it is and I know there is an exit to skyrim in the guild that is blocked when I try to leave. Where is this location for me to unblock and get to? Otherwise I gotta run down through the ratways every time I want to go.

Spoiler

in the cemetery there's a little area you can run into with a single large grave. you can "push button" here and it opens up and you drop down in and bypass the ratways.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Do you actually have to open the book in-game to trigger the markings? Or are they just there anyway, and since I've looked at the link you shared then I'm good?

Should be there anyway I think.

 

[hooter311]

Question about Fast Traveling to the Thieves Guild:

Spoiler

Is there a way to get in from the above ground of Riphen? When I fast travel it puts me befind that house or cemetary or whatever it is and I know there is an exit to skyrim in the guild that is blocked when I try to leave. Where is this location for me to unblock and get to? Otherwise I gotta run down through the ratways every time I want to go.

Spoiler

in the cemetery there's a little area you can run into with a single large grave. you can "push button" here and it opens up and you drop down in and bypass the ratways.

Thanks ACP!

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Question about Fast Traveling to the Thieves Guild:

Spoiler

Is there a way to get in from the above ground of Riphen? When I fast travel it puts me befind that house or cemetary or whatever it is and I know there is an exit to skyrim in the guild that is blocked when I try to leave. Where is this location for me to unblock and get to? Otherwise I gotta run down through the ratways every time I want to go.

Spoiler

As you advance a little through the Thieves Guild line, you should get a key that allows you to unlock the entrance/exit through the cistern. When you're in the cistern, look for a passageway that dead-ends with a ladder. When you climb it, you'll have to pull a chain, and that will move a tomb that allows you access to the cemetary in Riften, which is where you're fast-travelling to.

 

[Drifter]

Question about Fast Traveling to the Thieves Guild:

Spoiler

Is there a way to get in from the above ground of Riphen? When I fast travel it puts me befind that house or cemetary or whatever it is and I know there is an exit to skyrim in the guild that is blocked when I try to leave. Where is this location for me to unblock and get to? Otherwise I gotta run down through the ratways every time I want to go.

Spoiler

As you advance a little through the Thieves Guild line, you should get a key that allows you to unlock the entrance/exit through the cistern. When you're in the cistern, look for a passageway that dead-ends with a ladder. When you climb it, you'll have to pull a chain, and that will move a tomb that allows you access to the cemetary in Riften, which is where you're fast-travelling to.

Spoiler

From the oustide, you press a button on the sarcophagus

 

[joker]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

 

[hooter311]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

There's a separate fast-travel location for the Thieves Guild as opposed to Rifton proper.

 

[AcerFC]

I just realized that I have a Rangers game tonight and will not be able to play

 

[TexanFan02]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

That's what that reminds me of! Thanks, it's been bugging me.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

I've found that thing (assume you're talking about clairvoyance) to be 98% worthless.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

I've found that thing (assume you're talking about clairvoyance) to be 98% worthless.

I've actually found it really useful when I'm trying to get to one of the innumerable hidden-at-the-top-of-a-mountain locations that this game keeps forcing you to find.

 

[Kanil]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

 

[Jobber]

I just realized that I have a Rangers game tonight and will not be able to play

THAT'S when you know you're addicted.

 

[GregR]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

I've found that thing (assume you're talking about clairvoyance) to be 98% worthless.

I've actually found it really useful when I'm trying to get to one of the innumerable hidden-at-the-top-of-a-mountain locations that this game keeps forcing you to find.

Same here. It's bad in places like a dungeon that has a bridge that can be raised or lowered and it may try to send you across the bridge even though it's up.But when you're trying to get to somewhere new in the world it's great. Got locations for the Shrine of Azura and the mage college from people before I had ever went that way, and without it I would have taken some wrong paths in trying to get there.

 

[hooter311]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

I've found that thing (assume you're talking about clairvoyance) to be 98% worthless.

I've actually found it really useful when I'm trying to get to one of the innumerable hidden-at-the-top-of-a-mountain locations that this game keeps forcing you to find.

I'm not quite sure if there is anything more satisfying than short hopping the wrong way to a peak of a mountain.From Cracked.com:

I have yet to do a single thing in Skyrim in the proper order. I'm constantly showing up to some dude's castle that I've never seen before, only to hand over a mystical item that I'd mentally scratched off as garbage hours ago, and then sit and listen to the story be retroactively explained to me:

King: Wanderer! Thank the gods you've come! The prophecy told us that a mighty warrior would arise, worthy of wielding Fjalnir, the God-axe, and slaying the evil Demon Prince Synraith. We believe you to be that warrior. What say you, traveler? Will you accept this task?

Me: Yea, verily I shall accept thine task and vanq- wait, Synraith? Fiery dude in a floating city? Cape made out of screeching souls? Ahhh, ####. I already killed that guy.

King: You ... already slew the Demon Prince, the Knife in the Dark, the Void at the Heart of All Men, whose identity you did not learn until just now?

Me: Yup. I saw that castle floating up in the sky, and I wanted to know if I could jump up the rocks to get in the back way. It took a lot of reloads, but I finally managed to hop on up in there.

King: You "hopped on up" into the Abyssal Palace?

Me: Yeeeep, yep yep yep. Just squat-jumped on in there and looted the place. Then I killed that Sydney guy-

King: Synraith, Demon Prince of the Abyss.

Me: -yeah him. I ganked that guy. Mostly just to see if I could. Plus he looked like kind of a ####.

King: Indeed, the Foulest of the Foul was "kind of a ####." But you vanquished him without the aid of sacred Fjalnir, the God-axe?

Me: Totally. It wasn't even a thing. I just hid on top of a bookshelf where he couldn't reach me and shot him with arrows. Then I waited until he forgot I was shooting him, and did it all again to get the sneak damage bonus. Took a while, but he died all the same.

King: Forsooth! Thine heroic deeds are ... well, that sounds kind of ####ed up, actually. Never thought I'd feel bad for He Who Devours. So you have no need of our sacred totem weapon?

Me: What, the gold dealy, with the shiny bits? Nah, I already stole that out of the display case four hours ago, before I knew who you were. I gave it to Sven, but he Quantum Leaped out of the game with that ####.

King: Huh. So. I guess ... the bards will ... sing of your tale now?

Me: Oh yeah? Sweet, let's hear it.

Bard: The hero came with eyes aflame / his tasks already done / the land was rescued all the same / but 'tis kind of a ####ty song.

Me: Word.

Read more: 5 Personality Flaws Skyrim Forces You To Deal With | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-personality-flaws-skyrim-forces-you-to-deal-with_p2/#ixzz1f1fxaBqS

 

[The Flying Elvis]

 

[The Gator]

CHICKEN!

 

[valence]

Haven't read the last 20 pages or so, but you should do the house of horrors quest line to get the mace of malog bal. I'm level 30 and haven't found a 1h anywhere near as good as this one.

Just finished dark brotherhood and thieves guild questlines also. I read somewhere that the guildmaster armor is the best light armor in the game.

 

[Ignoramus]

Me: Totally. It wasn't even a thing. I just hid on top of a bookshelf where he couldn't reach me and shot him with arrows. Then I waited until he forgot I was shooting him, and did it all again to get the sneak damage bonus.

 

[The Real Hipster Doofus]

Haven't read the last 20 pages or so, but you should do the house of horrors quest line to get the mace of malog bal. I'm level 30 and haven't found a 1h anywhere near as good as this one. Just finished dark brotherhood and thieves guild questlines also. I read somewhere that the guildmaster armor is the best light armor in the game.

Just finished that quest. That mace is nasty

 

[dharmapunk]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

Wait. How the hell did you make it to Solitude while remaining Level 1? Even if you beelined it there without doing a quest, you'd still end up fighting enough to gain a level, right? That's one hell of a walk.

 

[dharmapunk]

Wait, fast travel to Riften puts you in a cemetery? Mine always puts me inside the gate near the market.

Right, I've been trying to fast travel to the thieves guild specifically. It doesn't help that the Donnie Darko spell leads you around in circles from there too.

I've found that thing (assume you're talking about clairvoyance) to be 98% worthless.

I've actually found it really useful when I'm trying to get to one of the innumerable hidden-at-the-top-of-a-mountain locations that this game keeps forcing you to find.

I'm not quite sure if there is anything more satisfying than short hopping the wrong way to a peak of a mountain.From Cracked.com:

I have yet to do a single thing in Skyrim in the proper order. I'm constantly showing up to some dude's castle that I've never seen before, only to hand over a mystical item that I'd mentally scratched off as garbage hours ago, and then sit and listen to the story be retroactively explained to me:

King: Wanderer! Thank the gods you've come! The prophecy told us that a mighty warrior would arise, worthy of wielding Fjalnir, the God-axe, and slaying the evil Demon Prince Synraith. We believe you to be that warrior. What say you, traveler? Will you accept this task?

Me: Yea, verily I shall accept thine task and vanq- wait, Synraith? Fiery dude in a floating city? Cape made out of screeching souls? Ahhh, ####. I already killed that guy.

King: You ... already slew the Demon Prince, the Knife in the Dark, the Void at the Heart of All Men, whose identity you did not learn until just now?

Me: Yup. I saw that castle floating up in the sky, and I wanted to know if I could jump up the rocks to get in the back way. It took a lot of reloads, but I finally managed to hop on up in there.

King: You "hopped on up" into the Abyssal Palace?

Me: Yeeeep, yep yep yep. Just squat-jumped on in there and looted the place. Then I killed that Sydney guy-

King: Synraith, Demon Prince of the Abyss.

Me: -yeah him. I ganked that guy. Mostly just to see if I could. Plus he looked like kind of a ####.

King: Indeed, the Foulest of the Foul was "kind of a ####." But you vanquished him without the aid of sacred Fjalnir, the God-axe?

Me: Totally. It wasn't even a thing. I just hid on top of a bookshelf where he couldn't reach me and shot him with arrows. Then I waited until he forgot I was shooting him, and did it all again to get the sneak damage bonus. Took a while, but he died all the same.

King: Forsooth! Thine heroic deeds are ... well, that sounds kind of ####ed up, actually. Never thought I'd feel bad for He Who Devours. So you have no need of our sacred totem weapon?

Me: What, the gold dealy, with the shiny bits? Nah, I already stole that out of the display case four hours ago, before I knew who you were. I gave it to Sven, but he Quantum Leaped out of the game with that ####.

King: Huh. So. I guess ... the bards will ... sing of your tale now?

Me: Oh yeah? Sweet, let's hear it.

Bard: The hero came with eyes aflame / his tasks already done / the land was rescued all the same / but 'tis kind of a ####ty song.

Me: Word.

Read more: 5 Personality Flaws Skyrim Forces You To Deal With | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-personality-flaws-skyrim-forces-you-to-deal-with_p2/#ixzz1f1fxaBqS

 

[AcerFC]

That walk from Riverun to Solitude was the suck. But that skeletal dragon scene was cool.

I love clairvoyance. Use it all the time.

I wish I would have watched YouTube vids earlier. There ate destruction spells that I need to get ASAP.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

Wait. How the hell did you make it to Solitude while remaining Level 1? Even if you beelined it there without doing a quest, you'd still end up fighting enough to gain a level, right? That's one hell of a walk.

It's like 30-40gp to go anywhere via carriage.Edit: at least the major cities.

 

[Sand]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

Wait. How the hell did you make it to Solitude while remaining Level 1? Even if you beelined it there without doing a quest, you'd still end up fighting enough to gain a level, right? That's one hell of a walk.

It's like 30-40gp to go anywhere via carriage.Edit: at least the major cities.

Goodness - I haven't even tried to get a carriage. Nor a horse. Too much fun wandering around on foot. And I may be odd, but of the nine major cities I've been to 3 (level 25 or so). It'll be interesting to see what cities I'm forced to go to. Next time around I'm going to do the thief thing and rob every city blind. This one I'm avoiding cities for the most part.

Im getting very frustrated not being able to defeat this one guy. I have tried Arrows, arrows with potions, magic, swords, shouts and scrolls. This is the only guy in the game that has given me any kind of trouble. Killing dragons alone is easier. I may need to get a companion and come back.

Spoiler

Morokei?

Spoiler

yes. I couldnt remember his name but I posted about him pages back

Spoiler

Yeah, by far the hardest guy in the game I've faced so far.

I remember you guys talking about him being tough so I went to check out that quest. Walked through him without even taking a potion, that is when I started thinking about just doing the main quest and hopefully things get tougher or I will just start over with a new character. That particular guy is very tactics dependent. I died many, many times until I figured out how to go about dealing with him. When I did he went down pretty darn easily. If you went about it wrong he was just about impossible.

 

[hooter311]

That particular guy is very tactics dependent. I died many, many times until I figured out how to go about dealing with him. When I did he went down pretty darn easily. If you went about it wrong he was just about impossible.

Kind of thought this was still the point of pretty much all video games. If not, is should be.

 

[AcerFC]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

Have fun.

 

[The Flying Elvis]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

Don't get too caught up in "powergaming" or "powerleveling". There are certain builds which may be the most efficient to create the strongest character but thats not what the game is about. It's a single player world for you, so just create a character you think you will have fun with and don't get too caught up in the perks. You don't have to worry about being the "best" character since it is your own big world. If you really like the way iron armor looks compared to deadric etc, screw it and wear the iron armor.

 

[Jobber]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

What everyone else said. That, and don't worry about missing out on things, or not following one path or another. The game rules no matter what you decide to do.

 

[ConnSKINS26]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

Hope you've got plenty of snacks/drinks within arms reach. Diapers may be useful as well.

 

[EYLive]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

Hope you've got plenty of snacks/drinks within arms reach. Diapers may be useful as well.

I was gonna say: remove your pants.

 

[dharmapunk]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

Wait. How the hell did you make it to Solitude while remaining Level 1? Even if you beelined it there without doing a quest, you'd still end up fighting enough to gain a level, right? That's one hell of a walk.

It's like 30-40gp to go anywhere via carriage.Edit: at least the major cities.

Oof, forgot all about those. I used them like once. I guess I can't see having this open unexplored world before you, and taking a carriage to skip it all.

 

[dharmapunk]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

Hope you've got plenty of snacks/drinks within arms reach. Diapers may be useful as well.

"MOM! BATHROOM!"

 

[The Gator]

Game is in hand. Moments away from firing her up. Any last bit of advice before I go in?

See you next week.

 

[Notorious T.R.E.]

Has anyone done the bard college quests? If so, are they worth doing? The first quest was a huge PITA for my guy (granted he was level 1 when I started it so that might have something to do with it).

Wait. How the hell did you make it to Solitude while remaining Level 1? Even if you beelined it there without doing a quest, you'd still end up fighting enough to gain a level, right? That's one hell of a walk.

It's like 30-40gp to go anywhere via carriage.Edit: at least the major cities.

Oof, forgot all about those. I used them like once. I guess I can't see having this open unexplored world before you, and taking a carriage to skip it all.

I used it once on whatever fool's errand I was running.

 

[Smoo]

These Dark Brotherhood quests are raising an interesting question. 10 year old girl's body, 200 year old vampire's mind. Legitimate romantic partner, or still creepy?

 

[Smoo]

These Dark Brotherhood quests just raised another interesting question. HOW ####### COOL IS THAT

Spoiler

HORSE

?!?

 

[ConnSKINS26]

These Dark Brotherhood quests just raised another interesting question. HOW ####### COOL IS THAT

Spoiler

HORSE

?!?

Never played Oblivion, huh? It was there as well.

 

[Smoo]

I played Oblivion. I beat Oblivion. I have never seen that before ever.

 

[AhrnCityPahnder]

There's a "trap door" inside Fort Dunstad that requires a key. I can't find it, and I see about 20 other people from the internet who are all YEAH WTF WARE IS TEH KEY.

Anyone here got the scoop?

 

[ConnSKINS26]

I played Oblivion. I beat Oblivion. I have never seen that before ever.

You must not have played through the Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion, then.

 

[Smoo]

I played Oblivion. I beat Oblivion. I have never seen that before ever.

You must not have played through the Dark Brotherhood questline in Oblivion, then.

Never did. Not sure why.

 

[The Gator]

I just got knocked the ##### out by some tall creature with a stick??? I'm so lost in this game.

Giants are the Tebows of Skyrim...you don't #### with them

 

[dharmapunk]

These Dark Brotherhood quests are raising an interesting question. 10 year old girl's body, 200 year old vampire's mind. Legitimate romantic partner, or still creepy?

Let's ask Homer before asking ourselves. If he's creeped out then we should be. If he's turned on, then we may have to face our own inner pedo bear.

 

[The Gator]

These Dark Brotherhood quests are raising an interesting question. 10 year old girl's body, 200 year old vampire's mind. Legitimate romantic partner, or still creepy?

Let's ask Homer before asking ourselves. If he's creeped out then we should be. If he's turned on, then we may have to face our own inner pedo bear.

Twilight says romantic parter