Let's Play: Oblivion - Shiverwinter Islepeaks

[DraQ]

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
and someone here claimed SI improved OB story...bs.

It still feels like PS:T when compared to Oblivion.

 

[Herbert West]

The horror, the horror! I'd have more interesting and sensible conversation with a loaf of bread than those... abominations! Even kids still in kindergarten would have trouble abstaining from facepalming... or so I hope.

 

[WalterKinde]

Still theres no denying they really beefed up the artwork.
The Way the central Province of the Empire was supposed to look and not that Lord Of The Rings ripoff that Oblivion had.

 

[Helton]

Still theres no denying they really beefed up the artwork.
The Way the central Province of the Empire was supposed to look and not that Lord Of The Rings ripoff that Oblivion had.

It was supposed to look exactly like Morrowind?

 

[WalterKinde]

I mean the whole atmosphere with weird looking monsters etc. captures the whole Elder Scrolls feel.
Yes Shivering Isles looks like just a total conversation of morrowind using the new graphics engine but its the closet thing to the what the central province is suppose to look like.

 

[Chefe]

Decline of the Codex

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

Thank you Chefe

Anyway, BACK TO ADVENTURE

Aaaand this is the first character we meet upon our return to the city. Isn't he just darling?

Thankfully, the game allows me to give the reply I wanted to give. For once.

Hahahaha Jesus

Anyway, he wants to be taken unaware and for it to be made to look like an accident. Surprisingly, the game does not instantly providing a stunning and convenient method to do this.

He even has a little podium to stand on. How thoughtful.
I did say it wasn't instant, so it's an improvement.

In his haste to watch the funny falling animation, kingcomrade falls off himself. But it's okay, because he's the Chosen One. He takes the guy's key and makes his way to his house.

You know, even most emos have the decency not to stick their cutting implements in their front hall.
wait
what

I'd accuse them of being as subtle as CS Lewis again here, but sadly, I'm pretty sure this could pass the livejournal entry Turing Test, so I'll let it go. Too close to the bone.

Anyway, I meet a smith - called, appropriately, Cutter, which might explain why she's going in for the whole "I look like a panda, it makes me deep" fashion. She offers to forge swords and armour out of the MAAAAAADNESSSS ore dotted around the land, as well as forging special items using Ore and the Matrix things I've picked up one or two of.
I have some armour forged to see what it's like.

It is, of course, levelled, and as such is no better than the steel armour I picked up from the corpses of the adventurers killed by the Gatekeeper.
Please make the pain stop.

Oh my god he's gone luminous

NO

NO STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING

He talks a bit more about Jyggalag and the Greymarch and how hilarious he is, so kingcomrade prods him for a bit more information about Jyggalag (who some might remember as the "placeholder Daedra Lord" from Morrowind, who had a name and nothing else). For doing so, he gets this.

Remind me never to ask this guy anything more than is necessary in future.

He grants our hero another quest, to meet with the rulers of Mania and Dementia and perform tasks for them to "better understand the nature of the Shivering Isles". I do understand it. It's WACKEE and CRAZEE respectively. Can I move on past the filler and stop playing this before I actually do go insane now?
Of course not.

I visit the Duke of Mania first. This is my first visit to Mania. It's WACKEE.

LOOK AT HOW WACKEE HE IS

My quest, apparently, is to consume some incredibly addictive drug, find a chalice, and... uh... bring it back. Which will apparently give me a whole new view of reality. Or something.
Okay then.

We play "spin the pie" with his Argonian assistant for a while, and she eventually reveals this. I'm assuming it... wasn't supposed to be obvious? Or they expect most players to have forgotten what their quest was by the time they've spoken to her? Oh, I really don't give a fuck any more.

I enter Bliss, the Mania side of New Sheoth. It's CRAZEE! Look at that crazee guy down there. Isn't he crazee : : : I bet he has a WACKEE quest for us to embark upon!
He did, of course. It was about finding him somewhere to sleep so the walls wouldn't fall on him. He didn't give me a chance to decline, so I'm just not going to do it.

And we have this guy who plays the race card as part of his introduction dialogue. No thank you.

Well, looks like Mania is... much the same as Dementia, except with a more colourful palette. Oh well. Looks nice enough, I suppose.

Fairly nice view. Spoiled by how fucking stupid the trees look from here.

And here we are, at the barrow I've been sent to for the chalice. There's a big, squishy membrane covering the entrance.

I batter it again and again with my mighty weapon, but all I do is drain my endurance. The answer?

Substance abuse, of course! The best way to get through those heavily resistant membranes.

And it widens quickly with an incredibly distressing shhhlurp noise.
I'm not even going to make a joke here. I'm really quite scared to enter. But I bravely adjust my helm, grip my mighty weapon and...
...okay, with this game, you have to take entertainment where you can get it. Moving on.

A generic cave again! I pass through a couple of identical areas, which are much the same as the other dungeons we've seen, except they have these ant things instead of Grummites.

that is not how drug addiction works you are doing it rong

Thankfully, the ant-things which carry more of that Felldew stuff are... uh... glowing and green. It... helps, I guess.

Another generic area. Twitch. Twitch.

Another. Area. Of hacking. And stabbing. And Felldewing.

Dear Allah I will sacrifice a thousand virgins in your name if you will just grant me the sweet release of death

And... here we are. brb, getting virgins.

And now we have a very small tower-like area - unique for a tower in that it only has one level - and find...

THE CHALICE :!: :!: :!: :!:

I pick it up, there's a blue smoky flash, and my addiction vanishes.
Bethesda is giving the wrong message to our children.

Outside the cave, I find one of these Obelisk things that the Knights of Order, Jyggalag's servants, use to attack the r00flepeaks. He says if I kill enough knights and feed their hearts to the Obelisk, it'll be overloaded and temporarily shut down.

Right. Destroyed obelisks yield potions of cure disease.
Right.

Anyway, kingcomrade victoriously returns to New Sheoth, not at all tired and pissed off by being forced into yet another uninspired, stupid dungeon crawl.

No, I don't.

No I don't.

Next up is the Duchess of Dementia.

Yes. I do. I really do.
Unfortunately, it appears to be a rhetorical question.
Apparently she's paranoid about her followers and wants proof that they're spying on her or planning to assassinate her or something. Sound familiar? Well, if this quest also ends in guards chasing down and brutally murdering wood elves who don't fight back, then pretending they didn't know what happened, I'm all for it. That was a wonderful outcome.

k
At least this won't involve another horrible dungeon. I hope.

 

[aron searle]

what. the. fuck.

Do they think people have shiny rubber skin, bloom bloom bloom bloom.

If he want's it to be made to look like an accident, why is there someone standing in the corner?




.

 

[Ahzaruuk]

what. the. fuck.

Do they think people have shiny rubber skin, bloom bloom bloom bloom.

If he want's it to be made to look like an accident, why is there someone standing in the corner?




.

I did that quest, and the Guard just says "Oh, that happens all the time."

 

[Murk]

I kind of thought the 'dex was being overly harsh on oblivion for how suck it was

then i read the dialog

you guys can't be harsh enough.

 

[HanoverF]

 

[Murk]

creepier than goatse

 

[racofer]

I wonder what force drives Admiral jimbob to endure such task.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Haha, at the "I am the only black guy in this city".

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I wonder what force drives Admiral jimbob to endure such task.

I had a look at the UESP guide, and apparently I'm only about a third of the way through.
I propose a wager; I continue playing, and if I'm still capable of throwing a sentence together in some coherent manner without descending into gibbering rage by 2/3 of the way through, I get the custom title "THE CODEX".

 

[Shoelip]

Here here! Or is it "Hear hear?" Where the heck did that saying come from anyway?

 

[JarlFrank]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Zc-RrA ... re=related

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Good thread, I want moar.

 

[Aegeri]

I wonder what force drives Admiral jimbob to endure such task.

I had a look at the UESP guide, and apparently I'm only about a third of the way through.
I propose a wager; I continue playing, and if I'm still capable of throwing a sentence together in some coherent manner without descending into gibbering rage by 2/3 of the way through, I get the custom title "THE CODEX".

I would support this motion.

 

[OccupatedVoid]

I wonder what force drives Admiral jimbob to endure such task.

I had a look at the UESP guide, and apparently I'm only about a third of the way through.
I propose a wager; I continue playing, and if I'm still capable of throwing a sentence together in some coherent manner without descending into gibbering rage by 2/3 of the way through, I get the custom title "THE CODEX".

You have my support comrade.

If it makes you happy, you're almost done with the somewhat interersting quests and on to 100% KEEL DEM KNIGHTS LOL quest.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

You bastards ate my photobucket bandwidth
I have a second account, anyway. I did two quests today, since it'll be the last update for 2-3 weeks (going on holiday). Will be up in a bit.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

And so kingcomrade heads to Lady Syl's dungeon, where he fetches her chief torturer fellow. As you can see, he is ever-alert and watchful for enemies of the court of dementia.

He is also incredibly shiny. This appears to be a recurring theme. Is it WACKEE? No.

Kithlan claims to know nothing about any shading dealings. I know he is lying, because he's black.

After one or two shocks, Rodney King reveals that Anya something-or-other was looking more nervous than usual. kingcomrade knew of her, he'd seen her about the court, blocking him in corridors and being ginger at him without provocation. She would be zapped, too.

I could get used to this.

The furry is hiding something, but won't reveal it without evidence of some kind. So we decide to go and torture Sickly Bertha or whatever her name was.

After brutally electrocuting her several times, kingcomrade politely and civilly pays for one of her beds, and levels up.

She claims to have seen the furry meeting with the captain of Syl's guard. We go and torture her too.

She reveals nothing whatsoever. However, we soon discover - probably through torturing more people, though I can't really remember - that she and the furry have been meeting at night somewhere in Crucible. kingcomrade decides to follow them to see what is to be discussed.

A-ha! Proof of their treachery, at last. However, kingcomrade is sad, because this means he's probably going to have to stop electrocuting random citizens. He confronts the furry with the knowledge of their meeting, and the deviant reveals the true reason behind the plot to kill Syl...

k

He says to meet with him at midnight to receive hard evidence of the guard captian's involvement, so kc waits a while then heads to his house.

Surprise!
Upstairs, in a drawer, he finds a blade conveniently bearing the name of the guard captain, and takes this newfound evidence to her in the court of dementia.

Sadly, I do not get to torture her again. She claims that some random fortune teller woman is behind it all, which I somehow doubt, until I enter her home.

She's an Altmer.
Now, I don't know why, but Oblivion seems to have a fetish for making the villains Altmer. Mankar Camoran? Altmer. Not sure how much sense that makes, can't really remember the lore behind him. King of Worms? Altmer. What? He's not an Altmer go away. Umaril from Knights of the Ni? Looks like a fucking Altmer to me.
Anyway.

k
She's quickly taken to the Dementia dungeon.

As you can see, the torturer is again as alert as ever. A stalwart bastion of alert-ness, he is.

Duchess comes downstairs, kills her, etc. The end. I'll admit, torturing people was fun, but this has potential to be a far more interesting quest than it was.

Okay but I'm going to kill you two quests from now fyi
And now... back to Sheogorath. Sigh.

Instead of being WACKEE at me, he actually explains a bit about the plot and what I'm supposed to be doing. Which would be nice if anyone with half a brain hadn't worked it out already. Except there appears to be a slight twist.

"I'll be you? wat" kingcomrade asks, somewhat worried. He doesn't want a stupid beard.

Don't do as he commands, that is, not avoid thinking about it. They don't encourage thinking around here.

And, finally, my next quest. Apparently I've to light some beacon thing which two squads of Golden Saints and Fat Seducers are fighting over.

Well, that conversation wasn't too bad, no particularly stupid jokes or anything. I then ask him about the Obelisks again, however...

.............................................................................

Okay. Deep breaths. One wasn't bad. Even that one. Calm... soothing... calm... happiness. Bliss. Cheer. Puppies. RAAAAEGA aegaegak[etsmd'hzdhpdzhpodhpooho]\[phkzhlhp[lkh[p nononononononohnopo god why

Okay looking at the map we are quite far from where we need to be

sigh

Actually had a decently challenging fight with this guy. And only a novitiate, apparently. Though that probably just means his boss won't appear until I'm level 15.

The view can be nice sometimes.

Run into one of those Obelisk things along the way. Wary of any possible free sweetrolls, kingcomrade approaches and begins feeding surplus Hearts of Order into it before any knights can spawn.
Sadly, as it turns out, this approach just means that (since two or three apparently spawn per heart used) you get gangraped.

Fucking shit halp

Ran into a nice, pleasant village just beside the Obelisk. It is particularly pleasant because there are no people around. kingcomrade hates people for what they have done to Mother Gaia.

WILL YOU GET MY MEDALLION BACK NOBLE SIR

Oh, apparently kc has a water-walking constant effect now. Not sure when that happened. Don't really care. Anyway, he heads into the ruins and meets with the Fat Seducer leader.

Predictable like this quest

The battle music starts pounding, and kingcomrade waits in suspense alongside the noble Fatling archers.

The battle music continues pounding, and kingcomrade waits in suspense alongside the noble Fatling archers.

Then a small ragtag group of Golden Saints enter the passage, kingcomrade jumps down and hacks up their leader (without actually realising that was who he was fighting - if there's one thing that can be said for Oblivion combat, it's that it's suitably confusing and hectic when there are a lot of people involved) and... that was about it.

The Fatmother moves forwards to sacrifice herself to the Altar of Despair. What about the Altar of Rapture the Golden Saints had been guarding? Aren't we supposed to light that too?

Oh well.

kingcomrade steps into the beacon, and receives the holy flame. As in, literally receives the holy flame.

I DO BELIEVE I AM ON FIYAH

FIRE FIRE! FIRE FIRE! FIIIIIIIIIIRE

He enters the great chapel of Arden-Sul. kc seems to hear a lot about this chap. Never quite bothered working out who he is/was.

No I am helping Dementia for some reason I was never certain of go awa-

Go on.

Oh. Fuck off.

kingcomrade, dispirited and blueballed, heads off to talk to the Dementia priest instead.

Sounds like kc alright. As he rules General Discussion through fear, he himself is in turn ruled by fear.

After lighting the beacon and receiving a hilariously useless piece of armour (full-body piece with no AC value - guhbuh), kingcomrade turns to see Sheogorath doing his retard-golf-clap in the pews. He grits his teeth and approaches.

Start.
Start.
Start.
Please god let it end soon.

Oh, that sounds a bit more like it. Surely great political power struggles and intrigue await me! And if you believe there's even a slight chance of that for even a second, I have a bridge in London to sell you.

A complex ritual, you say? In order to avoid confusion, kingcomrade requests only the details of how it is performed. No need to muddle his head with really stupid backstory.

Imaginative!

Well that's, uh... rather more interesting.

So which court should I choose to rule, RPGCodex? The future of kingcomrade lies in your hands.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

The 'choice' is rather shallow, like everything else in Oblivion. It doesn't really matter who you pick.

 

[JarlFrank]

This fugly face actually made me lol for real. I knew that Oblivion had some really ugly faces, but this...

It's not a face, it's feces.

EDIT:
Upon closer inspection, I can find some similarities to the photo of Pete's retard smile.

 

[Athiska]

Depends on what shiny armor you want. Seeing a male character in those armors makes me snicker. Just be sure to join the opposite---
Eh, choose Dementia. It's less troublesome than the other (designed for sneaks and mages who disappear). This one involves a straightforward hackquest. In a maze.