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aithneWent to Cirque du Soleil on Sunday, which was all kinds of strange and interesting. I desperately want a couple of the costumes--especially the huge wings attached to gloves. And the raven wigs.
I only got nervous at the end, where acrobats dressed as flames were flinging themselves from swings all over the place. I know there are a lot of people who enjoy that "are they going to die or not?" tension, but I don't, which is why I'm not generally big on either magic shows or circuses. Fortunately, until the end, I managed to convince myself that everyone on stage more or less had control over gravity.
In other news:
I finally discovered the secret to making Oblivion fun. There is, in the Options, a slider bar that will take the game from hard to easy. I set it all the way to easy, and suddenly I can kill things! I can clear out whole dungeons and loot them! I still get killed on occasion, but it's down to maybe 5% of the battles I fight, and most of those are when I've done something dumb like miss with my best spell a couple of times.
I'm currently in a "get cooler" phase--I finally managed to create a spell to do Destruction damage on myself, which means that my favorite spells will get more powerful, and I've been spending some time browsing through the books available in the game. There are a couple of sly little things in the Arcane University library, including an unofficial biography of a queen named Barenziah, who has evidently figured as a side character in several Elder Scrolls games. Barenziah's got *terrible* taste in men, overall, and the five-volume set details a number of her affairs...none of which are listed in the official biography, of course. (There's even a bit that was "removed by order of the Temple" which you can find online, and I can see why it was taken out. It has to do with exactly how much the Kajhit are like real cats, and it's pretty explicit.)
There have been more funny moments--an Imperial Forester attempting to chase down a deer on foot, screaming, "Come back here so I can kill you!" (Dude, I've been there with deer, I can so relate.) The Argonian Thieves' Guild fence in Lleyawin (I'm not in that guild yet, so he goes all coy when I select Barter) telling me a dirty Kajhit joke. Finding an ever-so-stuffy Countess wading in the river outside her castle. (Why? Beats me.) The fact that almost everyone in the game starts flirting with me after I cast my good charm spell on them. (I'm going to go back to playing the Speechcraft minigame soon, but charm spells are so much fun!) And I became an Master in Illusion kind of by accident, so everywhere I go now people tell me, "You have the hands of an illusionist!"
By the way, the game is *definitely* better in surround sound. When people are talking behind you, they sound as if they're actually behind you, which is a bizarre but nifty experience.
And, yes, I'm going to go take care of a piece of the main storyline soon, since I arrived in Kvatch, found it burned to the ground, and promptly left. Just as soon as I finish my first real Mages' Guild quest....
(My real goal? Become cool enough to cast the "Enemies Explode" spell. Heh.)
I only got nervous at the end, where acrobats dressed as flames were flinging themselves from swings all over the place. I know there are a lot of people who enjoy that "are they going to die or not?" tension, but I don't, which is why I'm not generally big on either magic shows or circuses. Fortunately, until the end, I managed to convince myself that everyone on stage more or less had control over gravity.
In other news:
I finally discovered the secret to making Oblivion fun. There is, in the Options, a slider bar that will take the game from hard to easy. I set it all the way to easy, and suddenly I can kill things! I can clear out whole dungeons and loot them! I still get killed on occasion, but it's down to maybe 5% of the battles I fight, and most of those are when I've done something dumb like miss with my best spell a couple of times.
I'm currently in a "get cooler" phase--I finally managed to create a spell to do Destruction damage on myself, which means that my favorite spells will get more powerful, and I've been spending some time browsing through the books available in the game. There are a couple of sly little things in the Arcane University library, including an unofficial biography of a queen named Barenziah, who has evidently figured as a side character in several Elder Scrolls games. Barenziah's got *terrible* taste in men, overall, and the five-volume set details a number of her affairs...none of which are listed in the official biography, of course. (There's even a bit that was "removed by order of the Temple" which you can find online, and I can see why it was taken out. It has to do with exactly how much the Kajhit are like real cats, and it's pretty explicit.)
There have been more funny moments--an Imperial Forester attempting to chase down a deer on foot, screaming, "Come back here so I can kill you!" (Dude, I've been there with deer, I can so relate.) The Argonian Thieves' Guild fence in Lleyawin (I'm not in that guild yet, so he goes all coy when I select Barter) telling me a dirty Kajhit joke. Finding an ever-so-stuffy Countess wading in the river outside her castle. (Why? Beats me.) The fact that almost everyone in the game starts flirting with me after I cast my good charm spell on them. (I'm going to go back to playing the Speechcraft minigame soon, but charm spells are so much fun!) And I became an Master in Illusion kind of by accident, so everywhere I go now people tell me, "You have the hands of an illusionist!"
By the way, the game is *definitely* better in surround sound. When people are talking behind you, they sound as if they're actually behind you, which is a bizarre but nifty experience.
And, yes, I'm going to go take care of a piece of the main storyline soon, since I arrived in Kvatch, found it burned to the ground, and promptly left. Just as soon as I finish my first real Mages' Guild quest....
(My real goal? Become cool enough to cast the "Enemies Explode" spell. Heh.)
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Date: 2006-05-09 06:27 pm (UTC)I, uhh, am still really glad I'm playing the PC version with the easy cheats.
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Date: 2006-05-09 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-09 10:58 pm (UTC)