Lit Apropos of Nothing - ACKBAR IN CAPITALS - The Lit Forum Social Thread, v2.0.15

I knew I smelled snow and ice in the air outside tonight!

 

Okay, the name is Fraypa. Or Siipder. Happy now? Unless it is Whill, and Yoda and the rest were exiled because they don't like writing, the mystery can't have a satisfying answer.

 

Calling it now: Moglin. Mogwai-Gremlin.

Also sounds like "Boglin"! And Boglins were cool.

 

It further turns out that the speedo-wearing bodyguard in Clockwork Orange was David Prowse. Apparently a few hours on the internet is all it takes to reveal my ignorance of fandoms I claim to belong to.

 

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SWEET VIVEC THE RUMORS WERE TRUE!!!!!!!!! Oh my gods I can't wait to see the New North, as the ruins of Vvardenfell are supposedly called. This is perfect, because I've been working on a Dunmer character whose backstory involves fleeing Dunmer politics on Solstheim.

If you all will excuse me for a moment, I seem to have soiled myself.

EDIT: and now I notice that they haven't put out a PC release date yet, while XBox gets it on December 4th. On the one hand, dangit Bethesda stop it Microsoft already gave you a lifetime supply of XBL points; on the other hand, the console players get to bug test this for the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race. This will make the first Skyrim DLC that I actually buy.

 

Holy crap! I am SOOOOOOOO excited to return to there. Vvardenfell AND Solstheim? That is wicked. I wonder what happened to old Imperial Legion base there, as well as that city you found. Holy crap, there are TONS of memories from Elder Scrolls: Morrowind flooding back into my brain...

--Adm. Nick

 

I still go back to it at times. MGSO+Tamriel Rebuilt=whole new game. And the lore confirms that the Dunmer resettled on Solstheim; there was a monkeytruth over on the forums a few months back that gave some speculation as to the political makeup of the island and the rebuilding efforts on Vvardenfell. As for the other DLC, well I did "play" them on PC, if you take my meaning. Hearthfire was kind of cool, but doesn't play nicely with mods. Dawnguard had some really neat stuff- the best parts were lore-based (Soul Cairn, St. Jiub, Auriel's Bow, Gelebor, the Aetherium Forge, etc.). That port had to be a resettled Raven Rock, I saw a netch, I saw corprus victims, Hermaeus Mora's realm, maybe Divayth Fyr's tower?, and that Dragon Priest's mask looks like a Falmer helmet, which is interesting considering how the Falmer originated on Solstheim.

 

Hearthfire hates the Unofficial patch, randomly gets screwed up by Wildlife mods... there's a big list floating around somewhere. It messes with some really random scripts.

TR now has quests implemented (though no main quest yet), and extends from the tippy top of eastern Morrowind as far south as the northern border of the Indoril holdings. Port Telvannis, Kemel-ze, Necrom, Firewatch... they've all been implemented, and they're awesome. I'll try and see if I can upload some of my screenies from it.

MGSO is a huge graphics and sound overhaul that basically brings Morrowind's graphics up to Oblivion levels, but with Morrowind's massively superior art style. The 3.0 version is out, but for now I'm sticking with the 2.2 or 2.5 or whatever the previous version was. http://www.ornitocopter.net/morrowind-overhaul/

 

I haven't got to play anything The Elder Scrolls, let alone Skyrim, but I have been tremendously interested in it ever since virtually everything I have heard about it basically said it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

 

Morrowind might just be the greatest game ever. It's seriously written on a literary level. Oblivion was... well it was fun at the time. Skyrim is fun, but lacks the mind-blowing Morrowind writing. But you should definitely give either Morrowind or Skyrim a try.

Heck, my current icon is derived from ES lore. Good old Vivec. Became a god by murdering his friend/realizing that he was in a videogame.

 

What's the Latin word for that?

Spades. I mean.

 

Apparently the 1.8 Beta update had various hidden references to the upcoming DLC, and enterprising folk managed to ferret them out.

I came into Elder Scrolls late (haven't bothered with a fantasy-type computer game since the original Bard's Tale) but bought Oblivion cheap while I waited for Skyrim to go on sale. What can I say? I was impressed. Going through iteration Number Two on the game, with both current DLCs. Man, that game is big. And it really rewards you if you take the time to actually learn how to do things besides just swing a sword.

 

My God, I don't even want to know the total number of hours I poured into Morrowind and it's expansions. I know it is easily triple or quadruple what I ever put into Oblivion or Skyrim. Morrowind was my first foray into the world of TES and I will always have the fondest of memories for it.

--Adm. Nick

 

Shoot, I wasn't too clear, was I? I should've mentioned that I *did* get Skyrim (after playing Oblivion) and I'm on the Second Iteration of that game right now.

 

Damn you Jello, I am loading up Skyrim on my XBOX 360 right now. Guess I will see what my Imperial Dragonborn is up to. Probably upholding the Empire and defeating traitorous Nords.

Thank Akatosh I kept Skyrim in the Empire. All that remains is Cyrodill, Skyrim, and High Rock. We must rebuild our strength and reunite all of Tamriel under the glory of the Empire! Those traitorous High Elves and their new Dominion must be stopped at all costs.

For the Empire!

--Adm. Nick (seriously, Jello didn't hack my account, I just love TES)

 

Personally, I wish Bethesda had allowed the player character to make a bid for either the throne of Skyrim or the Ruby Throne itself. Or both. Dragonborns do have this tendency to end up in such a position, after all.