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[monkeyemoness]

Loremaster Lawrence Schick is moving to Ireland and thus leaving the ESO Team

Gonna miss him tbh, and whoever replaces him has some big shoes to fill. Or else.



EDIT: Oh, his successor wrote a good chunk of the Clockwork City! Okay, I'm not worried at all.

This post has been edited by monkeyemoness: Feb 7 2019, 05:54 AM

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

The Green Pact is so [censored] stupid.

I'm not talking about it being in the lore per se. The actual pact is so damn absurd and unreasonable. I mean, a Bosmer that follows the Green Pact accidentally snaps a twig on the ground and suddenly the forest and Y'ffre rain fury upon them and even other Bosmer pact followers that had nothing to do with it? Okay, so the twig example hasn't actually happened, but it wouldn't surprise me if that were to happen in the lore.

I had been thinking on this for a while going through Valenwood content, but doing the quest for Karthdar in Grahtwood really just added fuel to the fire. It's the quest where you have to decide between whether a Khajiit or a spinner or a spinner's wife were responsible for cutting a sacred flower (or at least shared most of the blame), with the forest and its creatures retaliating against them in turn. Nevermind the fact that it isn't entirely clear who is responsible, but everything about the quest kind of pissed me off and I almost abandoned the quest because I hated it. The Khajiit is just trying to make a living and obviously isn't a follower of the Green Pact since he isn't a Bosmer. But the spinner's wife had just been on death's doorstep with how sick she was recently, and the spinner was desperately searching for a cure, which apparently came from that sacred flower.

So because the spinner desperately wanted to cure his wife and the wife really needed and wanted the plant's curative properties, one of them deserves to die because they broke the Green Pact that one time? And apparently any Bosmer that violate the Green Pact after agreeing to it can potentially spend an eternity in torment because of even one minor incident? You got to be [censored] kidding me. Seriously, Y'ffre can't every once in a while be lenient? And even if they are repeat offenders, is it really enough to merit years upon years of torment, possibly without end? [censored] out of here with that [censored]!

*Deep breath* It also doesn't help that this past week saw Cincy just plow through Valenwood content. He and I are absolutely sick of seeing these damn forests. We took the first ticket out of Valenwood as soon as he got the last skyshard in Valenwood (and by extension, the Dominion).

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Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED talk. Thoughts?