Please try to keep this spoiler free.


What I want to know is, who puts the nose rings in the minotaurs? Do they do it themselves? Perhaps it is some sort of initiation rite. Therefore adding to their suspected sentience. Just because you don't wear pants and your girlfriend has 6 nipples, does not mean you can't put a hoop through your nose.

It takes me back to Morrowind, where I used to wonder about the motivation of the Ogrims nipple piercings...are they one of the more intelligent Daedra?

I always questioned where and when people use the restroom...although I guess it wouldn't be called that since there is no restroom for one to speak of. When Povuholo was building furniture out of gold I asked him to build a toilet for just that reason.

That was a great question indeed. So good.

I myself wonder, how come no NPCs notice something is weird when you're invisible and accidentally hit them while walking? Don't they have a sense of touch?

I also wonder why all the forts in Cyrodiil are in ruins, even though many of them are inhabited by kidna intelligent beings. They must extremely lazy, to not want to re-construct them.

And more important, does the character keep on drawing the local area map all the while? he/she must have amazing carthographic skills!

I was just wondering, if you turn clipping off, and start walking upwards, do you eventually get to the stars? Will have to try that later lol

i have a theory to the lack of children.. how many people have you seen in oblivion actually kiss? or for that matter hold hands? or even stand closer then 3 feet ?
husband and wife just doesnt work they don't do anything!
there must be a strange inhibiter in the food and water ala city 17 in HL2...

btw whomever is doing the child mod, have they considered modding a race of hobbits?

pete

Well if you've done the all women thieves gang mission that throws the lack of sex thing out

I want to know if bandits have a standard rulebook that outlines what they should wear and where they should stand when waiting for poor innocent victims.

Also, I want to know why Human skin is such a good alchemical ingredient, yet I can't seem to skin a human. It's like I'm all thumbs.

Nah, the stars are just an image file. No matter how far up you go you'll never get any closer. Maybe in TES V, eh? ^^

I have one. How do I keep removing meat and such from corpses without making a big mess? Good surgical skills?

In answer to the toilet question: well, it's proud Tamrielic tradition. The sewers are just there so thieves can skulk around your cellars with ease. People actually go to the toilet in their gardens, obviously. Great fertiliser that.

Ah yes...
Too bad you can't drop coins in oblivion (not that i would succeed in making something out of it) And pillows aren't seperate objects anymore either.
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My question: Why don't shopkeepers buy items over a certain price, lets say 600, while they don't mind buying items worth 600 gold a thousand times? (yes it's an innocent question)

Believe it or not I never thought of it that way....thats pretty good. I think I was so happy that they had infinite gold as long as it was under their cap (unlike morrowind), that i never even thought of how little sense that makes.

Why is it that the town guards are powerful foes if you get into a fight with them, but the citizens have to hire the Fighter's Guild to take care of the criminals?

haha thats a easy one, remember that quest to get chillrend or whatever, where a father tells you to help his sons fight goblins that atk his farm?
if you talk to a guard about it he says(i did long ago might just have to talk to them): we have to defend the city not what is outside it, or he has no proof of monsters we cant let the city be unguarded...
(or around those lines)
to put it simple guards only want to atk dark brotherhood, theives guild junkies who happen to only have a count of ...one!...lol

plus as you can tell each city has about 15 guards(give or take, alot more for imperial), and they are much weaker than you, at lvl 12 i wiped out every single last person in the entire city of bruma -castle, houses, guilds and all, all in one go, yet 3 cows standing on two feet with noise rings around a unicorn kicks my ass so much i had to use a potion and lose my 5k mount.

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what i want to know is why do you do a quest for the lord of evil?
a dadric shire has his name on it...he is evil...i do have 100 fame, why would i help the lord of evil?
(because i have 89 infamy )...

also

The gray fox helm,
detect life 120feet,200feather,25 sneak...what is the point of this helm???
i thought it was sweet just to find 5min later it sucks...
-detect life WOOT, not needed but taken WOOT!
-200feather but cant go into civilisation(typo) with it...why carry 3-6 more items if you cant take them into towns???
-25 sneak...wow just get to 100 and have 40% cham and nothing can see you anyway...

Why is it that the weather changes if you fast travel between adjacent sectors of the Imperial City?

What method of food preservation did they use, so food (e.g. on the ghost infested Emma May) is still fresh after 200 years?

...Because time advances accordingly.



None. The food is replaced by magical pixies every three days, and every time you gain five levels. As for how cheeses &c. stay fresh... Pyramid power?

Which goblin's job is it to decorate with only skulls?

"Look Grogguk, we want this whole cave done before the other tribe gets here. We have to look organized. Here's a pile of skulls and some rats. Get working."

"Can I paint the skulls and put goodies inside them to make the cave more festive?"

"...No, but you can do that with the zombie bodies."

Haha, perhaps they have like a communal pot where each tribe member tosses in the skull of their kill. As far as the poles with skulls go, I would imagine a lowly common or garden goblin is assigned to that duty at random or depending on how he is viewd by his superiors.

Maybe they have trding spaces Goblin Edition... "Ok so we need to redecorate this cave using only skulls from nords, with our $50 budget your gonna have to get really good with a dagger and go to Skyrim, thats your homework....."

Hahaha, probably tried to market them to pilgrims, but failed and are now trying to write the book on how to get a 1001 uses from an old skull.

Here's my question, though it can be answered, I keep forgetting to research it.

Do beggars sleep in the rain?

First off I love this thread!

Why isn't there a food chain?
Wolf 1: Sup?
Wolf 2: Yao...
Deer 1: WASSA!
Wolf 1: Word...
Wolf 2: Look that player character is sneaking up on us again.
Deer 1: As you were! ::runs away::
Wolf 1: Grrrr
Wolf 2: Grrr ::jump off cliff::

What is it that bandits look to gain hunting wild horses?
::sneaks up on camp and readys his bow of doom::
"Oh yeah you stupid kitty, I'm gonna head shot you and drag your ragged corpse into that fire!"
Kitty: TO ARMS, TO ARMS! ::runs off in random direction::
"WTF?"
::puts away weapon and sneaks up on a rock for a better vantage point to see kitty get killed by a black horse::
"What a way to go!"

Why is it that adventurers always bust in when your 3 inches from a sneak attack on a unsuspecting creature?

I wonder why the hell every monster in cyrodiil aims to attack my 5000,- dollar horse, which is really no threat at all, instead of me...

Does a wraiths beard stop growing? When does it start?

Is your player character a virgin?

How do Dremoras breed?

I think your characters a virgin until he/she can figure out what to do with the crystal balls, and dremoras breed using the eggtimers.

Only use I can think off for them.

Why is the entire game world made out of glossy Styrofoam? It's the only way to explain the physics at work in the game. How else would it take 2 seconds for a sword to hit the ground sideways, but a quarter second upright? Or for heavy objects to react as if they were kicked by a pro football player, when you just bump into them lightly(I've seen a steel shield go flying across a room and hit the far wall, just by hitting it as I was walking past. Walking, not running). And why objects will continue to slide down a hill, no matter how slight the slope is, until it hits the bottom, or another object that can stop it... unless it slides under the new object.

In days of old, when Knights were bold
And toilets weren't invented,
They'd drop their load beside the road,
And walk away contented!

Why is the Fighters' Guild porter in the Chorrol hall an Imperial when all other porters are Bretons? And why does this one Imperial porter refuse to fix your gear when the Bretons do?

Does Branwen ever get into the Arena and see daddy?

Why does the Arena combatant I place my bet on always fight the match in a Light Raiment— and with their bare hands?

Just who was the poor guy who ended up decorating the lake near Fort Nikel?

What birthsign was Seridur born under? Because if he was born under the Lord sign, I'd imagine he'd toast up under starlight.

Why are the Bosmer men more annoying than the women?

What is it with Altmer villians? Practically every High Elf I have more than two conversations with ends up trying to kill me. I'm afraid Sinderion is going to try poisoning me soon!

Why do bandits prefer light, agile armors but then end up wielding excrutiatingly heavy axes and hammers?

Do arrows, when shot up into the sky, hurt people when they fall back down?

I pulled a bowstring back full in a clump of people, waited 5 min... It never came down...

I have shot a ripple of arrows straight up into the sky, and they did come down, one after one. I tried putting my character into their path, but they didn't 'hit' me at all. I figured it was because I was the shooter, and the game disallows the shooter from being hit by his own arrows.

I came to this suspicion because I fired an enchanted (frost damage, area-of-effect) arrow up in front of a guard. It came down and 'hit' him, causing my character to be apprehended for assault. But I don't know if it was just the spell effect, or a bona fide strike by the arrow itself.


Someone, please, answer the one about the Arena betting. The last match I placed a bet on was on the Blue combatant (have to keep the team spirit) for 100 gold. The match consisted of a Yellow Team fighter in Heavy Raiment, Elven helmet, and a Battleaxe. The Blue Team fighter was in Light Raiment, no helmet, and was going Hand-to-Hand...

"Evenly matched", my foot. I suspect there's a hidden "Arena Corruption" quest where someone is fixing the matches. You have to do some persuasion, culminating with a dealing a world of hurt upon that Bosmer bookie for cheating you.

have you tried adding to your luck attribute? the guide says that when your luck reaches 50, the fighter you bet on starts to do more damage or something. and if you go into the arena you will find this dark elf woman who claims her amulet makes her lucky in these matches. kill her while she sleeps i think you can get it. or use potions just when you need it

I think I found one answer to this. The Guild Hall in Chorrol just happens to have a blacksmith (Sabine) as well. Still, that makes the Imperial Porter next-to-useless.


Done and done. I started a new character, an Imperial Harbinger, born under the Thief sign. That, and for the first dozen level-ups or so, I'm going to add to his Luck attribute. Cheater's Nip (I'll have to send him up the Silver Road one of these days) or some other magical enhancement can cover the rest of the way.

In my latest incarnation, I found Nath Dyer (as expected). But more importantly, I found his head (actually, just the skull). Tried to slap his head back onto his body in the hope he'd reanimate and do my bidding, but the lazy git just lay there on the beach, working on his tan. Is there anything truly beyond a note and some primrose with this fellow?

And in this incarnation I was unable to complete (or pretty much begin, for that matter) getting "Caught in the Hunt" because a certain loan shark went medieval on some Bosmer (I swear, it's always a Wood Elf messing things up) before I even got a chance to say "Hello" to him, and he ended up becoming target practice for Bravil's finest. Now, Mrs. Loche simply wants to be alone with her grief. Speaking of which, my Harbinger's Spidey-sense whispers to him about a place called Fort Grief. What would happen if I took a little swim, since the loan shark is now decorating Bravil Canal?

Some questions...

Would the Oblivion gates turn up in other countries, like Morrowind?

Why don't the newsletters in Tamriel change topics after a couple of weeks? Is the journalist on permanent vacation?

Hm, maybe the next one is a spoiler question.


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I'm sure the answer is 'no' to this one, but I still feel like asking: Did anyone try to finish the main quest simply by closing all the Oblivion gates, one by one? Could it work?


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Why does Bruma (all the way to the north) ask for help from the fighters guild in anvil, (all the way south west) which is the second most far away city with a fighters guild? Not to mention they have a fighters guild themselves!

Overhear some conversations between NPCs, and you'll hear grim reports that the daedra indeed have been partying in other parts of Tamriel.




The completion of certain quests are indeed newsworthy. The trouble I'm having is that the lazy dolts who pass out free copies in the Imperial City suddenly decide I already have a copy of that issue (and I don't!) and refuse to give me any more.

Speaking of writers not doing their jobs, just where is my copy of Alessia Ottus' Guide to Kvatch? Hmmm?

I guess it got burned with everything else
Or Kvatch has never been an interesting city... We will never know... Oh wait we will, the Kvatch rebuilt mod!

Hi everyone: The WIKI said that in order to erase a custom made spell I have to look in the Leveluptxt file in oblivion program. I look for it and did't found. Is their is another place to look?

How can Necromancy be legal in Cyrodiil (listen to any Mages' Guild member) yet graverobbing is punishable by death? (one Imperial City quest tells you this)

The legal necromancers are given the corpses of condemned criminals. It's all explained in one of the books.

Arrows stick in living people. They are then in their inventory. Why can you steal arrows from a walking person with those arrows in his back, without him noticing it? I think that would hurt...

Why can't you steal people's weapons while equipped? I mean, I once did that in real-life... (Live-roleplay)
Getting an arrow or two can't be that hard... You can steal bottles and all sorts of pitchforks, (hidden in their pockets) but no arrows. Ehm. Would be cool to raise acrobatics to 250 (cheating, that is) and steal ALL arrows from the town guards in bruma... Then do a crime and jump onto a house.
"Ha-ha! Come get me, ye cowards!"
"What the mighty Daedra?! Where's my arrows?!" "And my?!" "How can that crime addict on the rooftop have got that many?"

What I want to know is why the people don't run away when you summon a daedra in a city arter the mq. Also, that M'raaj Dar says that your an annoying whelp unworthy of licking his boots. And why there isn't a box that you can check that starts you out as a vampire or not.

becuse the guards cant go away form there post unlese on break and wean on breakthey just want to sleep unless its an emergency like kavach or whatever its spelled so the "Fighters Guild" were make for that area of the game and to train your char this is my opinion and is not nesely the opion of "Bethesda Softworks" or eny other maker

[quote name='Povuholo' post='151691' date='Jul 1 2006, 07:21 AM']
Arrows stick in living people. They are then in their inventory. Why can you steal arrows from a walking person with those arrows in his back, without him noticing it? I think that would hurt...
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Why can't you steal people's weapons while equipped? I mean, I once did that in real-life... (Live-roleplay)
Getting an arrow or two can't be that hard... You can steal bottles and all sorts of pitchforks, (hidden in their pockets) but no arrows. Ehm. Would be cool to raise acrobatics to 250 (cheating, that is) and steal ALL arrows from the town guards in bruma... Then do a crime and jump onto a house.
"Ha-ha! Come get me, ye cowards!"
"What the mighty Daedra?! Where's my arrows?!" "And my?!" "How can that crime addict on the rooftop have got that many?"
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You LARP o_0

What I want to know is why the people don't run away when you summon a daedra in a city arter the mq.
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Mages summoning deadra is actually fairly normal. They are often kept as "pets"(like the imp in the mages guild or summoned for practice. Although unerved, it's not something people are terrified of.

[quote name='Evangelion_2014' date='Jul 2 2006, 09:11 PM' post='151973']
[quote name='Povuholo' post='151691' date='Jul 1 2006, 07:21 AM']
Arrows stick in living people. They are then in their inventory. Why can you steal arrows from a walking person with those arrows in his back, without him noticing it? I think that would hurt...
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Why can't you steal people's weapons while equipped? I mean, I once did that in real-life... (Live-roleplay)
Getting an arrow or two can't be that hard... You can steal bottles and all sorts of pitchforks, (hidden in their pockets) but no arrows. Ehm. Would be cool to raise acrobatics to 250 (cheating, that is) and steal ALL arrows from the town guards in bruma... Then do a crime and jump onto a house.
"Ha-ha! Come get me, ye cowards!"
"What the mighty Daedra?! Where's my arrows?!" "And my?!" "How can that crime addict on the rooftop have got that many?"
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You LARP o_0

What I want to know is why the people don't run away when you summon a daedra in a city arter the mq.
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Mages summoning deadra is actually fairly normal. They are often kept as "pets"(like the imp in the mages guild or summoned for practice. Although unerved, it's not something people are terrified of.
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1)Imps can't be summoned
2)Their Mythic Creatures
3)I haven't seen any clannfear in the Imperial Orrery, and Traven must be hiding his scamp somewhere
4)The only daedra I can remember being used by mages is that one in the Thieves' Guild quest there Lex invaded the Waterfront
5)What's with the picture, too? Is that in 7E895? Come on, what is it? Looks like guys dressing as a mix of the storm troopers on Star Wars and Kvatch Guards!

I Ain't THAT Geeky...


I must have missed that one... I love the waterfront. You can get away with ANYTHING if you have acrobatics 90+


Must say that looked weird...
Their scenario (some modern road) was also ... misplaced.
(We sew our costumes ourself, we don't dress in gaffa-tape )

If they turned up in Vvardenfell, do you think they'd notice?

Actually there is a snippet of dialouge talking about that:"The Deadra have ravenged morrowind, they've even killed St. Juib(I always knew he was awesome), who drove the cliff racers from Vvardenfell."

Why is it that if you are at the top of a guild and you kill someone in the guild, you get thrown out of that guild! I'm the leader! I shouldn't be able to get thrown out of my own guild! If somebody knows of a mod to change this, please give a link.

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Thanks for proving my point .

Me thinks there is a mod for that. Wait a sec... Yeah, Clicky!!! Have fun killing them

Well, not exactly a daedra, it was a Dremora.

By all appearance, you gain rank and position in the Fighters' Guild through promotions of merit. Yet Viranus Donton will speak to you of his expectations to inherit the title of Master of the Fighters' Guild from his mother, should the time come for her to step down.

Since when does a secular order whose ranks are based on merit treat the top position as if it were a hereditary title, to be passed down from parent to their eldest surviving child?

Why are there no massive cliffs that if you had 5000 acrobatics you'd still die 20 times?