#oblivion shenanigans

[hannah-heartstrings]

Apparently if a guard attacks you in the Skingrad Mage's Guild they all gang up on and kill him, which makes me wonder about them, especially since they're the ones who called the guard on me in the first place.

[hannah-heartstrings]

Not the previous asker, but you said you had a funny story about the Elven Maiden quest. Clearly I have to ask about it, because that sounds interesting!

Thanks for the ask! I might've taken forever to post this if you hadn't. XD (I still took a while but hey.)

Kind of a long post ahead. Hopefully this story's as funny as I think it is:

Dungeons in Oblivion freak me out, I tend to avoid them, ghosts and zombies especially freak me out, I completely avoid them. I thought I was going to be brave once and do a quest where you fight ghosts in a ship, actually I was planning on running past them and seeing how far I could get. I couldn't even be that brave I reloaded the second I heard ghostly noises and battle music.

So when a beggar told me that the undercroft was said to be haunted I wanted out.

I thought I was signing up to rob the count not fight ghosts! I didn't even have anything to fight ghosts with, unless I wanted to throw novice fireballs at it, and I didn't think that would cut it.

But I'm here, it's my next thieves quest, maybe I can run past them or try the fireball, I could at least try it.

I didn't. I went back to the Imperial City to do some other quests. But as I walked into the city a guard comes up to me goes "Do you know where Armand Christophe is hiding?" and walks off. He's in hiding? That must happen at some stage of the quest. I later find him and he says "I'm in hiding from the Imperial Watch." Except he isn't??? He's standing in the middle of the street with a torch out and there's two guards on screen.

Oh no the quest broke didn't it? Looking at the bugs on uesp this whole questline looked put together with cheap duct tape. I figured I needed to hurry up and finish the Elven Maiden quest to see but even then I kept putting it off, doing Imperial Corruption and going shoplifting for my new house. But I kept thinking that if it was broke I'm going to have to go back before I accepted the quest and do all of this all over again.

I really needed to move on with it but how do I fight the ghost? Mom looked up where to find enchanted or silver weapons, once she reaches the silver sword in Bruma castle I decide that's the one, it isn't too far and I can sell to Ongar while I'm there.

So I steal the sword, (which was laughably easy the warden's room doesn't even have a door, I hope he complained about that later) and make my way to Cheydinhal.

I'm still scared but I sneak into the undercroft, watch the guard for a minute, wait till she's walking away, make a dash towards the quest arrow and-

There's the bust? Just sitting there on the Countess's coffin? I thought the undercroft would be bigger? And have ghosts?? Or something???

I grab the bust, escape, then just kind of stand there confused. At this point I'm sure the quest must be broken so I check uesp, which I probably should've done before, and find out that the ghost only appears if you try to steal from the coffin, which I didn't even consider doing because I was trying to get out as fast as possible.

I run back to the Waterfront and guards are looking for Armand Christophe who's actually hiding now. The rest of the quest continues on as normal, it wasn't broken the dialogue just updates a step ahead for some reason.

So I turned a simple quest into a big to do because I apparently react like Scooby Doo when I hear the word haunted.

It was in character though. Basically Lecrinn's a coward to justify me being one. XD

[your-exo-highness]

Oblivion puzzles:

Here's some buttons

And here's something

And that's a thing

And you can see the door aaaaaaall the way up there

Good luck!

[your-exo-highness]

I made a new Oblivion character

it was supposed to be a Bosmer but then things and Dunmer happened (typical)

and I decided that I'll finally make them a goddamn ashlander. Because reasons. And ashlanders are cool. And they have cool names.

Like Odairan Assarrimisun.

... this time I used a name generator because I don't think I could've come up with a satisfying ashlander name.

[your-exo-highness]

You know what, guys?

Puzzles of Oblivion...

-sobbing-

[your-exo-highness]

The dumbest thing about Oblivion is that if something has damaged your attributes (and seriously, everyone wants to drain your attributes) the only way to restore them is to go to a chapel and pray on the altar.

What? You have more infamy than fame? Tough luck, buddy. Enjoy those damaged attributes.

[orangejuicegod]

theredthirst reblogged your photo: skyrimconfessionss: "Archery is by far the best...

Agreed. Skyrim is the first Elder Scrolls game where I’ve actually enjoyed using a bow.

Skyrim was the first elder scrolls I played. I'm currently finishing off Oblivion for my first time with an archer character. Though I'm currently doing the Fighter's Guild questline using the Fork of Horripilation (because my archery is now OP XD)

[orangejuicegod]

Since I havn't had time to play it in an age

Time for more Oblivion Shenanigans!

If I remember correctly, I was doing the Fighter's guild questline as an archer wielding a fork