So. I developed a bit of a bad attitude on the hike to Bruma, but I’m determined to be a bit more positive today. After all, despite the dreary, uneventful trip through the mountains, I’m in a new city, with new people to meet, new places to explore, and, potentially, new women to ogle. After […]
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Day 21 – 23: A Dubious Detour
It’s a very pensive and moody Nondrick P. Cairk’tir who awakens next to his bed in the Wawnet Inn this morning. I’m feeling a bit conflicted about a few things. First, Chorrol. I have to admit, I didn’t really spend much time there. Part of my goal is to find a home, which, granted, I […]
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Day 19 & 20: Fortitude
It’s Turdas morning, Heartfire 13 — man, is it Heartfire 13 already? I’m still writing Heartfire 12 on all my chequetims. Anyway, I’m up around nine and headed to Fire & Steel to sell the armor and weapons I took off of two dead she-bandits the night before. My own fur armor is in extremely […]
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Day 18: Close Calls and Waterfalls
I awake, feeling stronger, smarter, and even more charismatic than ever.It’s my first day as a Level Three Administrative Alchemist!Time to facilitate the strategic acquisition of salable assets! As if in recognition of my sudden gain in power, the world outside the gate of Chorrol greets me with a mouthful of wolf teeth.I don’t know […]
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Day 17: A Quested Development
Before I leave Weynon Priory, I poke my head into Jauffre‘s office, where he’s reading a book. Sup, Jauff? To simpler times, my friend. To simpler times. Actually, these are simpler times, and will remain so. With my lunkhead NPC wandering about refusing to get into adventures, there will be no adventure. Jauffre will be […]
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Day 15-16: The Grind
It’s ironic that the day after I decide to become an alchemist, I finally bring down my first deer. To be fair, though, the alchemy helped. I’m out gathering far north of Skingrad, and I spot a deer nearby. I’d just picked up some nightshade, a deadly little flower, and I’d gathered some peony seeds […]
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Day 13-14: Mortar and Pestering
Before I can become an alchemist, I have something to attend to. I head back to Colovian Traders, and sell my fancy duds back to Gunder. I let my brief success picking flowers go to my head. I’m not some wealthy fancy-pants merchant. I’m a simple dork with a bag of rapidly dwindling gold. I […]
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Day 12: Shafted
I awaken at 5am. It’s dark, quiet. The wealthy merchants who strut smugly around the city dressed in red or blue velvet are still fast asleep. This… is the time of the hunter. And I… am a hunter. Dressing in my armor, I ready my bow and a quiver of arrows, and depart, slipping through […]
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Simply put, this is an attempt to see if I can survive inside the PC game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion if I run my character like any old random NPC (Non-Player Character). You know, those nondescript, friendly-enough but not terribly important characters you brush by on your way to sell the hundreds of pounds […]
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This is just an updated list of the mods I use for Living In Oblivion, since I’m adding new ones and removing old ones fairly frequently. Parts of Modular Oblivion Enhanced, which has a number of files that you can activate separately. Specifically, the Main Quest Delayer, which lets you start the game in Anvil […]
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