{"id":281,"date":"2008-07-16T20:10:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livinginoblivion.wordpress.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-07-16T20:10:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T20:10:19","slug":"interlude-with-a-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.screencuisine.net\/livinginoblivion\/interludes\/interlude-with-a-vampire\/","title":{"rendered":"Interlude with a Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"

My main character in Oblivion (who you can see in the first link above) was named Murderin’ Jim. I created a custom class for him called “Murderer”. He was, as you might imagine, not the nicest guy. I put him through the Thieves Guild missions and the Assassins Guild missions, and by the time he was finished he was not only not nice, but was extremely powerful. He was also a vampire for a while.<\/p>\n

It’s fun being a vampire in the game, and I encourage everyone to try it, even for just a few levels. At first, it seems like a hassle: you take sun damage, you have to be extremely careful about fast-traveling, and if you don’t feed for a few days you really start looking ghoulish (see the second link above), which makes people refuse to talk to you or even attack you. It makes it hard to do business or get new quests.<\/p>\n

It does come with a number of perks, though, in the form of increased strength, invisibility, night-vision and life-detect, charm spells, etc.<\/p>\n

I was thinking it might be interesting for Nondrick to become a vampire. There are some pretty big hurdles, though. First off, there are only a couple ways to become a vampire. First, if you play the assassin’s guild missions, you are offered the opportunity, but there’s no way Nondrick will be sneaking around killing people. Or even sneaking around being nice to people. It’s not really his thing.<\/p>\n

You can also become a vampire though combat — if a vampire attacks you, there’s a small chance you’ll contract the disease. You can cure it easily enough at the outset — getting blessed at an altar will cure all your ills — but if you don’t, in a few days you’ll become a vampire.<\/p>\n

Curing the disease after <\/em>you’ve become a vampire is a huge headache due to the quest attached to it, and Nondrick doesn’t do quests. Not that it matters, since there’s relatively little chance that Nondrick will ever come in contact with vampires anyway, because he doesn’t do caverns and forts, either.<\/p>\n

So, just for kicks, I thought I’d save a new game and enter in the cheat codes to give him vampirism, just to see how he’d look as the disease progressed.<\/p>\n

And here is the result<\/a>. Not a good look for a guy who is already not a good-looker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"