Morrowind experiences

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Woot!! I better do that quick... well... maybe after I get all the paperwork in line to build my Stronghold .

Yeah, it takes awhile for them to build your stronghold. It's nice to have a place to store all of your loot.

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Eroberer
The last time I played a couple days ago, I was heading off to smite the Sixth house, but the game crashed and I said the hell with it. The game now crashes about every fifth load.

Did you install the latest patch?

[November Adam]

Originally posted by loinburger


Yeah, it takes awhile for them to build your stronghold. It's nice to have a place to store all of your loot.

Is this stronghold a plug in or part of the original game?

[loinburger]

Part of the original game. You eventually get a stronghold through Great House quests.

[Eroberer]

Yea, I now have the latest patch installed. I dunno if it'll work though, 'cus I'm using a no-CD hack. I think I'm eventually just gonna reinstall the game, but I just installed CivIII (and patched it), so it may be a while.

[ravagon]

Hmmm... speaking of strongholds - what exactly are you supposed to do in the "strongholds" scattered over the map? I ran into one (Marandus?) to the South of the road leading through Molag-something (the mages quest where you have to convince somebody to join and somebody else to pay some overdue fees).
It was a Dunmer stronghold apparently so I wandered in to talk to their traders and offload a few bits and pieces but they all attacked me on sight ...
Did I do something wrong? Can you talk to them or is it just a hack and slash?

Also I nearly ran into one of the frost atronarchs in the dwemer ruins just over the bridge north of Moonmoth fortress. Not wanting to get into a fight unprepared I hid out of sight while raising protections etc but when I went out to do battle it had disappeared and around the next bend a short distance away was a flame atronarch!
Can these things transform from one aspect into another or was this just a coincidence?

[loinburger]

There isn't much to do in the strongholds besides dungeon-delve. There are a couple you need to clean out for the main quest and for some side quests, but other than that they're just another set of abandoned ruins. They do have a use for travel, though--each stronghold has a Propylon Chamber with two pylons tuned to a different stronghold, and if you have the correct Propylon Index with you, you can instantly travel from one fortress to another.

There are a few friendly people in and around the strongholds (a lady inside one of the strongholds trained my Alchemy skill all the way up to 100), but generally they're pretty hostile. (Same holds true for any ruins. I've waltzed into Daedric shrines without anybody seeming to mind (got a kickass gauntlet called Gambolpuddy in one of them, off of an Orc who was convinced that he was really a Khajit), but I've also waltzed into a few where I was apparently KOS.)

AFAIK, atronachs can't change their aspect. What you're describing was probably a concidence; I think that the random monsters "unspawn" if you're out of range, so when you go back in the same area later a new monster may have spawned in their place. I went to a Daedric shrine that was crawling with Dremoras one time, but didn't have time to clean it out and left the Dremoras alone. I came back after I'd gained several levels, and all of the Dremoras had been replaced by Golden Saints and Winged Twilights.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

I am a bit low on the main quest, but I am level 12 or 13 now, I think...

Currenntly I am in the ruins of K???? ah sorting out the third Nevarine sign for me. I just stopped last night as it was half past one, and I have to be at least a little awake for this job where I am now . I thought that the plase has been cleared - whhile killing the last bloke/ or some sixth house squid / I found the key for lower K???? on him, and than it was clear to me I finally had to go to bed.


I think I will try to clean fighter guild quests and than do the main one, or do the both slowly, so next time - if there will be a next time , I will be able to pick another guild/faction to clear and so on.

I am wandering did any of you join Morag Tong - that might be fun, assasins and all that.

[loinburger]

I joined the Morag Tong, right now I'm an Exalted Master (one rank below the top rank). They're fun, simple quests, but make sure that you don't have any stolen goods on you when you present your Writ to the Ordinators, because they'll confiscate all of it. (Lost a perfectly good ebony cuirass that way.) You can get your stuff back later by looting the Evidence chest, but it's more trouble than it's usually worth. It helps if you're in both the Morag Tong and the Thieves Guild, since often it's easier just to have the Thieves Guild remove a bounty than to present a Writ. (It seemed like most of the time I got hit up for Assault, which is only a 40 GP bounty, rather than Murder, which is a 1000 GP bounty. It was easier to pay the Thieves Guild 20 GP than it was to take off all of my stolen items and present my Writ.)

There is no limit to the number of factions that you can join, except that you may only join one of the three Great Houses. Currently, I've got the highest possible rank in the Thieves Guild, the Fighters Guild, the Mages Guild, and House Telvanni. One more quest and I'll be a Grandmaster in the Morag Tong, after which I can finish up the quests for the Tribunal Temple and Imperial Cult. I'm saving the Imperial Legion for last, since I hate having to wear their crappy armor.

I'm trying to see if I can get my Reputation up to 100. (Currently it's at 80.)

[loinburger]

A final note about the Morag Tong: They're a good faction to join early on. If you're presented a Writ for somebody you've already killed (either through another faction's quests or through your own bloodthirstiness) then the Grandmaster's reaction to you takes a hit. "I don't know why you would have already killed [insert intended victim here], we at the Morag Tong are honorable assassins, not common thugs."

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Master Loinburger

I think I will start a new game for all this just to try out a different charachter.

But did you find this?

Is there anyplace in the regular game to sell all those nice and expensive ebony/glass, armour/ weapons. Currently I did not manage to find anyone with more money than the Creeper in Caldera? So Casiuses flat is full of goodies at the moment and I don't really know what to do with all that apart to open up a museum of expensive armor and weaponary (I wish I could). Any ideas? - just within the regular game, I don't really want to add any "super rich" charachters to the game.

[loinburger]

I didn't find anybody else. I just went ahead and sold all of my super-expensive items (at least the ones I knew I wouldn't use, f'rinstance I kept the Staff of Magnus and Necromancer's Amulet) for 5,000 GP; once you start killing Dremoras and Golden Saints on a regular basis, your stock of super-expensive items increases to the point that your loot chests start filling up. Just make sure you remember where you've sold your stuff, in case you need to buy it back later.

[November Adam]

It takes time, but if you sell Creeper a pile of stuff that is normally around 1,000 gp - 5,000 gp. You can use it as change for your expensive stuff. But it is really a pain in the butt.

[Eroberer]

Yea, if you click barter with the creeper, then exit that menu, then barter again and buy back enough stuff so that he has the amount of gold to buy your item, then you sell that item, and wait a day when his money will have regenerated, and sell him back the goods. This leaves you standing in front of the Creeper for weeks on in just to sell a few quest items, but it's probably worth it in the early to mid stages of the game, when money is a problem.

You can also do the same with the mud crab merchant, but I have no idea where this little thing is.

Or, you can alter the Creeper with the TES, and give him 999K gold, which I did. Consequently, I walk around with almost 2 million in gold. =)

[November Adam]

Well I'm a purist, so no altering for me!

I just run back and forth to Shanks and sleep for 24 hours. I have a mark cast infront of Creeper, so I just recall back to him. Still takes a bit of time though.