Quote from: Narf the Mouse;246479...Well, that would be a problem.

I have a fuzzy, vague memory that you may be able to pay people to enchant for you.

Yeah, you can, but something that you'd pay a hundred gold for in a shop turns into thousands when you have someone enchant it for you. Which is the idea behind enchanting your own, i suppose.

No matter, i'm a fighty type. I'll use what i find!

In fact, thinking about it, i'm shit at everything except beating people up and mending my armour. My security sucks, my sneak sucks, my merchant & speechcraft sucks, and even though i've been using alchemy a lot - that sucks too, still at 18, i think. You should see me try to cast a light or opening spell. I think my chance is about 10% Lucky i can buy (or find) lots of opening spells for all the pesky locks. Wierdly, i have yet to fail at disarming a trap, even though my security is only 10 or 11.

Never mind, my long blade skill is now 74, and i can wear lots of heavy armour.

Oblivion added minigames for lockpicking and speechcraft skills, there is a benefit to a higher skill in little add-ons that make the games easier (or in speechcrafts case, also makes the total effect higher (the make standing you can get, expressed as a percentage).  There isn't really a merchant mini-game, but speechcraft helps the haggle system. I've been unable to really 'grind' merchant... but my goal is eventually 100 in all skills (I always hit it with primary weapon skills...)....

Yeah, gotta get my Morrowwind up on the 360 now... got nostalgia for the better iteration of the game.

Diary 13: Oh dear. I had my first marathon tonight. 6 hours or more. Cleared out 2 lots of caves - got scared in a big ruin when this bloke came at me covered in a globe of sparkly stuff. Killed him but legged it. At another big ruin thing this big flaming whatsit came at me and killed me (twice) before i decided not to tackle it again. Best 'till last - i got told to retreive a bow from an ancestral tomb. Big place and just had to be explored all in one sitting. Sadly i didn't have more than one levitate potion (and no spell), so i missed out on loads of treasure up high. Never mind, i did get a magic sword called Magebane, which is big , green and awesome and protects me against magic. Found a cool bit of armour at the bottom of a pool too. Armour now 48.

Cool. And yeah, Levitate is teh awesome.

They removed it in Oblivion, which says a lot.

Diary 14: Got told to clear out a base of baddies in some place i've never heard of before. Spent a bit of time rambling around, got a mission from the Legion to get some scrap metal. I already had some and this was the easiest 500 gold pieces ever. I have now created 3 of my own spells! All Restore spells, which turned out to be a hell of a lot cheaper than any other spell i've thought about making. Restore 20 for 3 Magica points and a 50% chance of success - not too shabby. Only cost me about 40 gps each too. After that huge dungeon and today, i've found myself at 11th level with a Longsword skill of 87! Next up - clear out that Sixth House place...

Ah, the Sixth House...*Evil Grin*

*Wanders off whistling*

That's going to be an interesting read

Diary 15: Well, that was a piece of piss. I romped through those wimpy sixth house guys. Bit disappointing that. The head honcho didn't wound me at all and went down in 4 blows - bastard cursed me, of course ,with corprus disease, which i now have to get cured of. Anyhoo, cleaned up in treasure. Gauntlets of Doom! (+20 to Strength & Agility. Armour rating 180 odd). A few dwarven weapons, some glass boots and a hammer that weighs a ton. No way i'm going to be able to sell the boots, which is a shame (8000 gold!)

So, currently, i'm 11th level, have a Strength of 107, an armour rating of 63 and have 5000 gold in the bank and another 10000 gold in items to sell somehow. Maybe i'll get something enchanted with the cash. A Levitate item is favourite at the moment.

Just wait until you meet the guys who look like upright slugs...

Quote from: Narf the Mouse;247281Just wait until you meet the guys who look like upright slugs...

Well, he did warn me that he was the least of the sixth house mob, so i guess things will get tougher. Some bloody ash zombie attacked me after i rested too, which is a new development. I prefer the assassins - much more money to be made!

The disease should be the fun part

Or, more accurately, finding a cure...

Ooh, yeah, corprus. Missed that.

Plooot...

Diary 16: So i got to the wizard's tower where i'm supposed to get a cure. I spoke to him and i have to get some magic boots from some bloke in the dungeons below in order to get a potion that might well kill me...Oh, the disease got worse the moment i set foot in the tower, even though i restored all my stats back to normal. Cheating! So next up is the corpsorium (or whatever it's called).

Bad! No cheating! Ruins game experience!