A good retailer is always aware of his customers. Shopkeepers have a specific skill for that unavailable to those who fritter away their days saving the world.

Why is it that chameleon makes you slightly invisible and does absolutely nothing for your sound but still gives you wonderful sneak benefits regardless?

On the same note, why can't people hear me while I'm invisible?

You know how you're able to sneak undetected within a cave by staying within the shadows? The Chameleon spell "strengthens" the range of just what shadows can effectively conceal you. A relatively weak shadow that would not have hidden you suddenly becomes dark enough to remain undetected.

At 100% Chameleon, even broad daylight is dark enough a "shadow" for you.

I'm not just talking in a story-world sense, either. That's how the in-game dynamics treats visual detection: how much "light" is on your character. Chameleon reduces that "light".


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New go: if Audens escapes the Imperial City prison the same route you did, won't he run into all the Imperial Legion soldiers who now guard the escape route?

Then again, he seemed pretty good at getting past several ranks of armed guards to get at my latest character (we had our little meeting inside the Cheydinhal County Jail, and Cassie put him away in a cell in the aftermath).

Well I suppose I knew that. I just wanted to know in relation to sound how it helps to bend light or take advantage of shadows. Chameleon does indeed work off lighting but with enough chameleon you could wear heavy boots below journeyman level and have them not make a difference one way or another.

Sorry if its already been asked but:

-Why, when arrested and serving your sentence is skooma given back? Why doesnt it add to your fine at all?
Doesnt seem too illegal.

Good one. "Here are your things, sir. Don't forget your drugs."

Why does a battleaxe make a *schlank* sound when drawn? What is it 'schlanking' against? It has no scabbard or sling.

in the fighters guild there are some guys training in pairs
they attack each other but they don't hurt themselves
if i decide to join in the fun 5 secs later all the guards are all around me and i'm kicked out the FG
why can't we "attack" without hurting them?

isn't this a bit strange?



*dread guy*

this may have been addressed but ive always wondered. what happened to Uriel Septim's body? Cremation I suppose? And also is there a memorial to him somewhere in the IC or something I mean he was an emporerer and everyone seems to be pretty down about him being dead you would think they would dedicate something is his honor. and also *SPOILER HERE* how long after you save the world does it take for this statue modeled after you that ive heard about to be built. Does it show up on the battlesite of The Battle Of Bruma because I think Byrd and Jauffree's bodies are still there haha.

It takes time for things like that to appear.


*SPOILER*
It appears after the Battle for Bruma near the northeast gate of the city.

"Sithis rules with a terrible black hand..."

1.so where does this hand go at night? ( i know where mine goes )
my best bet is that it touches(caresses) da nite momma

2.Why do Necromancers still hit me even though i wear and look like them? (disguised)

3.The Spell : Stark Reality "More deadlier than an oblivion gate?" cuz more ppl die

Just, no.

Because.

EDIT: I don't know why this happens.
Have you got Shivering Piles?
If you have, you are too used to sneaking around Heretics and Zealots by wearing their clothes and carrieing a similar weapon.

(copied from my locked post)
I am a Nord warrior trying to get a full suit of Daedric armor. I've succeded for all but the helmet and gloves. Things is, I didn't find that armor in the gates of Oblivion, I found it on mauraders and bandits. Why does this happen? And why can I not remove Daedric armor from Daedra? WTF!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Because the developers thought it would be funny to watch us starting these threads and asking these questions, that's why.

Maybe Dremoras are too lazy to forge real Daedric armor, so they buy plastic armor instead (from ACME, of course!).

The answer is simple. Most Dremora don't wear Daedric armour until you get to the high levels. They wear Dremora armour which is unplayable and looks exactly the same as Daedric armour.

Where can i hire a Lusty Argonian Maid? I have a GINORMUS spear that neeeds a gooood polish

On the topic of Argonian maids, lusty or otherwise, does this mean what I think it does?

So...are Argonians hermaphrodites?

why the hell can you kill 20 people and spend about 300 days in jail,and not get hung.


if ur guy jumps off a large hill and get hurt does he break bones?if so how can he still run?


how can u pick up and hold something in the air with a sword and sheild drawn?


how come if u hold a item(the z key) you get a bounty? you technicly didnt steal it.

how come you don't pass out when you run out of oxogen when underwater?

...because you die.

Well, Since Uriel Septim says u'll save Tamriel and u are the one in his dreams(hmm?) he
wants to make sure that u'll do ur job (closing gates) and not waste time doing time in jail. Yeah... If Oblivion
were a MMORPG and u are replacable u'd pretty much be dead by now.

the rest of the questions is just besthda being lazy on the realism bit.

I have just found a shipwreck North-West of Anvil, and I was wondering 'What does it do? Is it part of a quest?'.
So:
What does it do? (Apart from sit there and rot, obv.)
Is it part of quest?

Why did Mazoga the Orc think the best way to find out the location of Fisherman's Rock was to pace aimlessly around in Leyawiin's County Hall, especially when she knew the name of the Argonian who could tell her what she needed? Oooh, is the big, bad Orc too scared to go out into the streets and look for this fellow all by herself?


No quest. Just scenery. Kind of like this one skeleton I found in a cave whose name I do not recall— the fellow was pinned by a boulder and you could see his outstretched arm trying to reach a small sack of food just barely out of his reach. Funny, in a "sucks-to-be-you" kind of way.


Well, if you refuse to go to jail, the guards do give you their opinion on the death penalty issue...

"...then pay with your blood!"

Not yet.

Not right away. If you have good healing potions or spells you can stay underwater for a long time. Weird.

Ah, I see.
Beth couldn't be bothered.

another question why are ALL goblin shamans women?..i think they are all women...or "female" if u prefer.

That just means that goblins live in a matriarchy. The women are the rulers.
And yes, all goblin shamans are female.

Sexier? Agnoians? Kajiits?

In the future will redguards be "down for da hood"? and "doin drive-bys"?

Everyones grey... Grey Fox , Grey Prince , Grey Lady , Grey Mare , etc....?

Any one who has played oblivion for more than a week knows the answer to that: people in Tamriel can't even whipe thier ass with out the players help, so there is no way Mazoga would be able to walk a block or two on her own

Why are the vast majority of bandits Redguards? Seems a bit racist to me.

That may just be the random variables. I find mostly Imperials, Nords, and Kajiits.

I am the head of all the Guilds, I saved Tamriel, I've killed countless Daedra...why not make me Emporer? sure the obvious reason is my character is not Septim bloodline, but with all the Septim bloodline extinct no more Septims will rule the throne of Tamriel so what difference does it make? Why give the authority of emporer duty to weak ass Ocato when you could give it the man who runs Cyrodiil basically.

Everyone has been asking that since Oblivion came out...

My Bandits tend to be Khajiit, Wood Elf and Redguard. My Marauders, on the other hand, are Nords, Orcs and Argonians. It's very rare that I run into any Imperials while fort raiding.

Here's a question: Why is it that 3 people can build two houses in one month, but a year later the Imperial City Temple District is still missing chunks of stone out of the pathways?

And another one that's been bugging me: How can Scamps (Even the stunted ones) take more hits than a Dremora in armor?

Well obviosly you are not hitting them hard enough

That's rather ingenious of you, responding to both questions at once like that.

Its a tallent
Question:Who just sets up a camp and leaves it there? You would think they might need thier tents and bedrolls a little later.

Dead people?

Well, concerning that: exactly who is it that goes to the abandoned, overgrown campsite near Anutwyll and lights the campfire there every night? And why doesn't that set the grass on fire?

What crime are you meant to have committed? And having committed it why are you compelled to suddenly become good?

Thats the reason I made my mod (below) [/shameless plug]


How do those drunk goblins get in such awkward positions?

A do-gooder might have been wrongfully imprisioned.

My self-named good-hearted Breton spellsword was caught consorting with people that the Watch suspected to be part of some secret society in the city, so they nabbed him in order to get him to spill the beans.

Since he didn't actually know anything about the society, he couldn't go free.

The secret society in question? The Order of the Virtuous Blood (first time I played the game, Ralsa Norvalo ran up to me and, quite inexplicably, exclaimed "You're back! Have you reconsidered?..." and I had no clue what she was talking about, I concluded she referred to something that my character was supposed to consider before he ended up in prison).



As to what my current character did (the cold-hearted DB one) she was caught disseminating the accounts of events in MLB games without the express written consent from the Commissioner of Baseball. As you know, a capital offense.

how come people arent scared of me when i have a bounty greater than 200 000 and over 400 infamy? How come guards know who i am when im wearing a hood and face mask? how come short little wood elfs run up to me and demand money or my life from my lvl 50 redguard in full daedric? How come civilians try to attack me after i just butchered half the imperial watch? How come i have so many questions?!

A1. The people are short-sited and don't know who you are.
A2. The guards are psychic and know everything and would kill you over a fork or a strawberry.
A3. The wood elves are mentally retarded and are psycho and mental and will find the first person they can see and attack them.
A4. As I said, the people are short-sited and don't know what just happened, who you are and why they are attacking you.
A5. You are a wood elf.*

Hope those answers helped

*Or that could be the fact that this thread is supposed to answer a lot of questions.

Will Kajit purr when having Sex?=)

Another one: When beating each other to pulp, the first two "Gods" dunno what the Names are, the first beeings in the tes world, lets call them "Franz" and "Alfred". When Franz finally defeated Alfred, Alfred managed to stab Franz once before dying.
Now, the Blood of the Good one became the eight Divines. Talos was invited to the Club a little later.
The mingled Blood became all sorts of Men, Mer, Lizards, Cats and Greenskins.
The Blood of the Evil one became the Daedra. Princes of Darkness who can make the Sky red and turn your Life into endless orment and Pain. Daedra are pretty much like Ordane Ministers
So, the Daedra are supposed to be evil, Bad to the Bone. How come Azura and some others arent such evil creatures?

The Cyrodiilic pantheon of The Nine versus the Daedric Princes is but one interpretation of one religion found on Nirn. What you are questioning is akin to asking a Mormon to explain the nature of Kali.

Well...
I`ve got some questions too.

To be exact, they are about Ayleid Ruins.

Where did they sleep?

Didn`t they have any privacy? I mean, no houses, no walls, nothing. Not even curtains.

As I see it, the way of a AR is pretty clear, theres only one way. Now, how did they go to the bathroom?
Suppose King Gindelion of Nenalata wanted to go to the toilet.
He goes along the corridor to the toilet and suddenly gets sliced in half by a swinging blade, or when he sits on the toilet, suddenly he realises that it has been built upon trap(the ones who you stand upon and then get squashed to the ceiling) and experinces that that hadn`been a good idea.

They had to be really careful.

Well thats about all, no wait, how do headless zombies moan?

Why would anyone build a toilet when People can go their entire Life without eating?

The Traps in Ayleid Ruins probaply keep functioning with magical means. Which would be the same Thing that kept them from going off when the original inhabitants wandered the Halls.

Headless Zombies can walk, attack and get "killed". How do they moan? Well, even without a Head or a mouth for that matter, you can still breathe. Why you would do that when you are an undead is beyond me, but the Pressure Builduo is done by Muscles expanding your Chest and therefore, te Lungs in it. Air is pulled in.

That Air being pulled through the Rest of the Neck would make some Sound, of course i dont know if it would be that "moaning" sound from the Zombies.

I never decapitated someone to hear the Sound it would make when the last Air escapes from the Lungs, gotta try that sometime. If i do, I'll record the Noise and post it here

Wood is a convenient building material. Wood decays, especially if unmaintained. What makes you think that the ruins (and Imperial City) were the only things the Ayleids built?

As for the blood origins previously mentioned, the account you read was probably one of the versions of the Anuad, one version of which says this:


However, it could be argued that "good and evil" is less appropriate than "stasis and change", or "order and chaos".

Wrong thread.

How is it that npc baddies can distinguish between your footsteps and the footsteps of their fellow baddies?