So, yes, after what happened to my last LP ( my laptop broke for some reason, and now does not work at god damn all ), I have decided to run this one, instead. Mainly for the fact I am currently playing on my television ( awesome ) and because Avernum got boring as hell ( not so awesome ).
Let's get onto it, and let's play...
Morrowind! ( And Expansions )
The Game
Oh, come on, you all know this. The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind ( from now on known as TES3 ) is an open world, extremely freeform game that is lots and lots of fun. It has a relatively original setting, a great storyline and you can kill stuff. What more could you want?
First Choices:
Suggest whatever you chaps like.
Visit here for the race choices. (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Races) I'd also consider some modded races, but they're usually overpowered.
Visit here for the birthsigns. (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Birthsigns) I'd consider modded birthsigns, but again, really overpowered.
Shout out the class archetype you want, ( mage, rogue, warriorpriest etc ) and I'll try to accomodate.
Feel free to browse Mod Sites ( Planet Elder Scrolls (http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=mods.List), The Elder Scrolls Nexus (http://www.tesnexus.com/) ) and suggest upto 3 mods, but I have the ability to veto it at any time and I'll be putting some of my own choices in.
Begin your voting!
Diary Entry: The Date Is Scribbled Out
Woah, I had this weird dream just before I arrived in Morrowind, this morning. There was some creepy woman talking to me and ash and stuff like that. Truly eldritch. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5I9e_6X35w&feature=related)
Then I was suddenly awoken by this person called Jiub. He hadn't talked to me the entire trip, and just as we were arriving in Vvardenfell he asked for my name. I had to tell him, I don't think he was going to let me out of the cabin, otherwise.
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The guard luckily came. I was too dizzy to defend myself, if he hadn't and Jiub had pressed his advances. But, I don't know if it was the ship or the guard or the fact I had a headache the size of a bull netch, but that guard just looked strange.
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I finally got off the shitp, and made my way to what appeared to be the Exercise Office. Before I got there, though, ANOTHER guy stopped me and asked me what race I was. I thought it was meant to be taken as an insult or a joke, because I'm 100% dark elf - waist down and waist up. But, no, it turned out that the guard was just a bit slow. Poor guy. It's not his fault he was born an Imperial. He really missed out on the sulphuric air that eventually flows over Morrowind and promotes healthy brain growth.
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By then, I finally managed to clear my head a bit and look over the scenic town of Seyda Neen. It wasn't that bad looking, although they had a giant tick thing that put a real fear of this place in me.
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I eventually got into the damn Censorshipcise office only to be asked more questions about my heritage and what sort of a profession I leant myself to. I told him I knew the honourable arts of both combat and magic ( us Dunmer learn both from birth, even if it's just mildly ) and he informed me I'm a Spellsword. Who'd've thunk it?
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Of course, I subsequently betrayed everything I'd said and filched everything I could from the place. It turns out it's true. Imperial Law IS ridiculously lax towards immigrants.
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In the process of looting the place Whilst I was receiving the brilliant gifts of the mighty Imperial Nation ( I make myself laugh sometimes ), I found an awful magical ring. Really, this thing had barely any enchantments on it at all. I pocketed it, too. You never know when it might come in useful.
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Some guy told me some stuff about having to deliver a package for him, but I ignored that and asked him a bunch of irrelevant questions. I also pocketed the key he had lying behind him, but that goes without saying. He then shoved me out of the door, informed that stuff might actually happen out there if I stole things and threw the package ( luckily along with instructions ) at my head.
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Some simpering bosmer came up to me and asked me if I'd seen his beautiful shiny ring. I'd heard of this stuff before, and I wasn't going to let him through it into any sort of volcano, but then he offered to tell his friend that I'd helped him out - and apparently that guy could help me fence legitimately sell my stolen legitimately gained goods. I took him up on this, of course.
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I went and fenced legitimately sold my stolen entirely legally gained goods. I also bought myself a mismatched set of armour and a not terrible claymore. I do, however, feel some real shame from doing this. I traded with an ALTMER. Daedra-damned finger waving pansies.
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At least I look pretty dangerous.
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After that, I went and had a look around. I found some luminous rusella or something, which I've heard gives a real cool trippy glow to skooma if you mix it allows you to find your entirely legal anti-Corprus medicines in the dark if you mix them together. Oh, and I killed a mudcrab. Disgusting creatures. And then I asked a guard about stuff and he tried to force me to join his Imperial Legion or whatever, and that isn't such a bad idea - but it's best to be never too eager. Also, it felt like I was talking to the back of his head.
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So, yeah, I went and tried to find out how to get to this Balamorya place, and it turns out I can either take the path there which may be filled with lots of stuff to loot and stuff which may have lots of places to procure items of unquestionably legal authenticity or take the Silt Strider up there ( that's what that big weird thing I saw earlier is called, apparently ). Or, you know, I could hang around in Seyda Neen, meddle for a bit and rob wherever this key leads to.
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No picture, imagine pretty things in your mind.
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So, yep, ladies and gents, pretty much three choices. Meddle in Seyda Neen for a bit and get some gold etc or head to Balmora and do the main quest / guild quests. And we can travel via silt strider or the road. Use your choosing abilities NOW.
Diary Entry: 18th Last Seed
Well, this place isn't SO bad. I decided to stay around for a bit longer and help them sort out their problems. And cause new ones.
I started out the day as usual, making a few potions ( always a useful thing to do ), having a look around and the like. I found out why the water is dangerous around here. I couldn't see anything except this fin sticking up from it, so I got to higher ground only to see a MASSIVE slaughterfish. They don't breed them that big on the mainland.
Oh, yeah, I found out where that key led to. It was a massive storehouse, so I filched some goods legally procured through entirely legal mercantile methods some goods, and then fenced them sold them ( legally, of course ) to that damned Altmer. He looks so smug. I'll get him, one day.
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After being so terrified I made a little guar in my pants mildly shocked at the size of the monster, I decided to take my gaze off it and go talk to others in the village about what's going on.
I found out one of the tax collectors went missing ( big loss hah ), that midget Bosmer had an enemy in a Nord, who wanted me to find out where he was hiding his stuff and one of the guys in the village was depressed.
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I decided to sort out the guy with the depression first. After all, I could get paid to murder someone in cold blood! It turned out it was really crappy and to do with ANOTHER ring. I made sure that he didn't want me to just kill him ( he didn't ) and so I bought it off him. It wasn't too bad a ring. Pretty crappy, though. I just sold it to that ugly Altmer.
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It started getting dark, and I sped up my ( now literal ) busybody routine accordingly. I mean, time is money, right?
I decided to track down that damned tax collector, so I figured I'd explore the wilderness around Seyda. It didn't take me long to see his body, but I was attacked by a ghost - his I'd guess. These Imperials really don't know how to look after their dead.
It kept paralysing me, and my weapon was doing nothing. I knew I learnt magic for stuff other than stealing things from houses saving people from the vice of greed.
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I also got attacked by some hopping thing. That was just odd.
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Anyhow, I found the guy's corpse ( and stole his things ) ( and obtained his things to give to his nearest family ) and headed back to Seyda Neen. The guy in the Census Office ( the big nosed bastard ) asked me for the gold. I gave it to him ( not a good idea to mess around with Imperials in an Imperial town ) and he said that I should find the murderer.
Oh, and some other guy there offered to send me off to an island filled with undead to recover a shield. I don't think so. Maybe some other time.
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The guy was apparently putting his Imperial Might onto some Dunmer woman ( race traitors, that saying "Once you go Imp you walk with a limp" really isn't true, or so I've heard ), so I decided to visit there first.
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She told me some stuff about her boyfriend being a nice guy and not her being an Imperial's coin repository how she had only ever seen him arguing with someone once, some guy called Foryn who lived next to the water in one of the shacks. I planned to visit him, but first I had a midget Bosmer to spy on. I also gave her his ring back. She gave me TWO potions. I could've bought three with that bloody thing, and have had a bit left over. Cheap skank.
So, I headed up to the top of the lighthouse, and started watching that sneaky little Bostard Bosmer wander around, until he thought he no one could see him and threw the stuff into a tree trunk in the middle of a bit of swampland.
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I ran down the lighthouse quickly ( he really wasn't hiding that well ) and robbed him of all his earthly possessions and repossessed his goods. I knew that damn Nord would send someone after me, so I dropped off his gold and told him where I was headed soon if he needed more work being done. Some woman at the bar overheard me and gave me directions to Balmora, which I suppose was lucky.
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After that, I had only one last thing to do, and that was to visit this Foryn guy and find out if he killed the tax collector. He readily admitted to it, and gave me some spiel about the tax collector being corrupt. I didn't really care since the Imperials would pay better than he could I am a good citizen who believes in the justice of the Emperor. ( Anyway, he called me a lackey of the Empire. What a dick. )
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He resisted me bashing his skull in arrest, so I had to beat him down and then go inform the tax collector's boss that I'd found the guy who'd killed his tax collector. He gave me five hundred septims (not bad for murder!) and told me I could have the guy's hut. I figured I could have a decent place to dump my ill gotten goods to sleep and store my mercantile stock because I am a merchant.
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Good night, diary.
Take Redoran or telvanni as a great house. IGNORE Hlaalu. Main reason being that you can do an exploit after the main quest is done that automatically makes you master of Hlaalu and you keep your old house as well.
oh, and since you use long blades:
Go to ebonheart with a few levitation potions and enter the underwater tunnels beside the castle. There is a glass longsword on the ledge above the guy with the lords mail.
Well, I woke up today and it was a truly beautiful day. for stealing people's livelihoods.
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I wandered to the inn, only to get stopped halfway and be informed that a bunch of bandits had ran into town, stolen a bunch of stuff and ran back to their cave with it. I had a lot of respect for these guys at this point. Why no one woke me up when this was happening, I don't know.
Anyway, I ignored everything that the bitch woman was telling me, except for where the cave was, and instead walked towards a tower that I hadn't seen before. I could've sworn it'd just appeared from nowhere. Some slavers had set up shop there, and they said that I could get recruited if I showed up with a few slaves for their leadership. It's apparently not a bad paying job.
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So, I took all that into account, and decided to go visit this cave where the pretty cool guys terrible bandits were coming from. I only wanted to talk, but I immediately got attacked by some crazy bitch with a knife. I killed her, of course.
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I got a bit deeper in, got attacked by some crazy wizard guy ( again, killed ) and found a ring of theft or something. With my lifestyle, it may come in useful. I confiscated it to make sure unsavoury types couldn't get it.
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I found a key, and soon found the door for it.
It's a slave pen.
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I'm not sure what to do with them. Release or betray the flimsy morals I have return them to their "rightful owners". They're begging me to let them go.
( I installed the Twin Lamps mod (http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=190), which lets you join and do a bunch of quests for the Twin Lamps faction or - I think, anyway - the Slavers. Your choice, guys. You might like to remember that Hlaalu and Redoran are against slavery, and Telvanni are for it. )
( Also, I'd rather not do the "Two Houses" exploit, just one for us. =p Your choice. )