Arena Adventurings and Daggerfall Dealings, A Characters Update thread Options

[SubRosa]

new t00n! I love your names.

Looks like Sheeza found the right room!

[mALX]

I rolled a nu t00n today (it was raining) say hello to Sheeza Hawty. She will be my dark elf sorceress. I don't know why I want to play a dark elf sorceress (out of all possible choices) but I just do. The idea just jumped out at me.

Here is a pretty nighttime picture.

Hey, hello there!

Whoops, wrong room!

(hope there isn't a problem with that last one. I used imgur's blemish tool best I could).

BWAAHAA!!! I love it !!! I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out combat in these early TES games - got killed by two rats in the tutorial dungeon so many times I gave up!

[mirocu]

Jump into Arena today, first time for the season


Dindu much. Saved an heir to the Lady of Dunstad Grove, sold a Mark and slep at an inn. Just to get back on track so to speak. Boy, do I wish those Absorb and Shield spells had some sort of visual counter so you could see how much remained.

[Renee]

Boy, do I wish those Absorb and Shield spells had some sort of visual counter so you could see how much remained.

I know what you mean. There's no way to know how much health each Shield spell has, until you start taking damage again. In some situations, it's best to just recast these sort of spells, like right in the middle of some battle? Mm hmm.

[Decrepit]

Daggerfall City Fighters Guild sent my avatar on a mission to dispose of a wayward atronach holed up in Kingsly Tower. The tower was inhabited by humanoid fighters and casters of various sorts, ancient liches, and vampires (but thankfully no Vampire Ancients). These posed little problem except for when encountered en masse as occurred a number of times. This particular dungeon complex was tricky to navigate, containing one of those huge "honeycomb" sections fairly near its entrance/exit. Was a challenge to find his way out once business was finished. Not that it mattered. He had set an anchor at the exit, so could escape in a heartbeat should he so choose. He considers it a matter of pride to find exits without recourse to magic, time allowing as it was in this case, so opted to hoof it. Made a few wrong guesses, none serious enough to throw in the tower.

(My avatar continues to delay his recovery of an important valuable object, not being able to decide which of several competing factions to deliver it to. It doesn't help that my favorite web article on the matter seems to have disappeared.)

[mirocu]

Having an anchor spell would be useful in Arena too although getting out of a dungeon isn´t too time consuming. Especially not with a spell that can destroy walls.


Dunno if I´ve asked this before, but is your Daggerfall decrepit avatar an ancestor to your Oblivion decrepit avatar?

[ghastley]

I played a bit of Daggerfall this weekend. I couldn't remember what my older characters had been up to when I parked them, so I started a fresh one.

Silanu is much the same as her Oblivion and Skyrim incarnations, except that she doesn't have a riding crop of shock in this game. Still a white haired (mod) generously proportioned (mod) Dunmer (not a mod!), who doesn't use anything but leather - which is a useful character generation option in Daggerfall. She's doing Short Sword, Backstabbing and related skills, and has only just reached level three and the first main quest dungeons.

She's finding a huge number of bras in random loot. I think the game is trying to tell her something.

Over the holidays, I may make another attempt to get Morrowind running. When I tried under Windows 8, I didn't get a mouse cursor, which made the game rather difficult. I've "upgraded" that laptop to Win 10, so there might be a chance this time. Any guidance?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 21 2016, 06:55 PM

[mirocu]

Any guidance?

Yeah.


Roll back to Win 7

[SubRosa]

I have Windows 8 on my tablet. That has taught me to never use anything but Windows 7.

[ghastley]

My desktop has Win 7 Pro, but the laptop came with Win 8, and 10 is better than that only because 8 was so bad.

If I can't get Morrowind to work, I may take Daggerfall on vacation instead. Silanu needs the work. Most of the modding tools for DF need to run in DosBox, but that's not too bad.


Edit and change of subject: Silanu did a "Fetch the heirloom" quest for Lady Bridwell and had to try and pick up a ring that must have been all of 10 total pixels, without the aid of a cross-hair. And it took her about twenty attempts to get out of Scourg Barrow without falling through the exit stairs. Are these old games challenging, or what?

This post has been edited by ghastley: Nov 21 2016, 10:49 PM

[Renee]

C'mon now, Windows 8 is fine for me. I actually like the dual-interface thing (with the tiles) though most of the time I use the normal desktop.

Dang there are bras in this game? Nice. I haven't played Daggerfall in about 2 weeks, but I'll get back into it eventually.

[ghastley]

Fired up Morrowind under 10 and it's better than 8. It starts windowed, so I lose a bit of screen to the border, until I find how to turn that off. Under Win 8 it stretched the 4:3 to fit the 16:9 and distorted everything. I believe it's possible to play in native resolution if you know where to set it.

Learning the controls, especially combat, always takes a time. But I know to save often, so I can go do silly things to find out how it works.

I need a better body mod, maybe Better Bodies, maybe Roberts. Then I'll think about installing the CS and doing other things.

[Decrepit]

Dunno if I´ve asked this before, but is your Daggerfall decrepit avatar an ancestor to your Oblivion decrepit avatar?

Nay, they are not the same person. Though I've never been given permission to relate much of it, my Cyrodiilic Decrepit Avatar has a fairly well defined pre Imperial City Prison history. I have not been told all. Nor can I be sure everything he tells me is legit. He was certainly alive when events in the Iliac Bay unfolded. But unlike that prior champion, he was not a "friend and ally" of the emperor and indeed never set eyes on him (except via artwork) until their fated meeting in the depths of the Imperial City Prison at the onset of the Crisis.

This post has been edited by Decrepit: Nov 22 2016, 11:07 PM

[Renee]

I am doing my first dungeon crawl in Daggerfall right now. I see what everybody means, the sound effects in this game are creepy and frightening.

Edit: Wow. Sheeza Hawty just bolted. Got the hell out of that dungeon she was in. She saw some sort of wolfman-looking monster. She had NO inclination to go against that thing, whatever it was.

I'm switching to Mann Buubz's game.

This post has been edited by Renee: Nov 23 2016, 10:46 PM

[mirocu]

I am doing my first dungeon crawl in Daggerfall right now. I see what everybody means, the sound effects in this game are creepy and frightening.

It was pretty atmospheric in Arena too

[Renee]

I am doing my first dungeon crawl in Daggerfall right now. I see what everybody means, the sound effects in this game are creepy and frightening.

It was pretty atmospheric in Arena too

You're right, those first few tries in Arena's tutorial dungeon especially were scary. Something about Daggerfall though goes beyond. It's because there's more sound-effects, and more of everything, I guess.

[Renee]

27th of Morningstar -- So Mann Buubz is supposed to be accompanying a shopkeeper he met to an inn, in a town called Newwick. He's got 7 days to do this task, and he'll earn somewhere over 300 gold. He gets to the town in 3 days and I'm thinking this is just as easy as Arena's town quests, but then, a twist.

Turns out, the man being escorted is part of the thieves guild, and so this guy from the TG comes up and attacks my character initially, but then he stops and says his "attack is meant for Bedistyr Wicksly" (the shopkeeper who's a TG member). And the game actually gave me a choice whether to protect the shopkeeper or not.

Well duh, of course he's going to be protected. This is good too. Mann Buubz's reputation is pretty [censored] because of all the foibles he's made.

[mirocu]

Wow, cool twist in the mini quest there

[Renee]

I have picked up Daggerfall on this Memorial Day Monday. Rolled a new Redguard guy named Rowan Tushorrgh, who I think is some sort of fisherman. Rushed him through the tutorial dungeon, and he left the place with a few chain armor pieces, a few leather armor, a steel claymore which he really seems to like, and a few miscellaneous items.

Somebody said a few months ago that unlike Arena, Daggerfall's wilderness actually does connect with its map. In other words, it is possible to walk to various locations on the map. So that's what Rowan just managed to do. He found a town called Gothway Garden. Just bought and sold, spent the night in some inn, etc.

[ghastley]

Wow, you got out of Privateer's hold without the Ebony Dagger! Meaning you didn't get one, because you would not have left it behind. Most people can't get past the imps without it. Does a Steel Claymore affect Imps? Iron stuff doesn't, but steel might.

Claudia would like to meet Rowan.

This post has been edited by ghastley: May 30 2017, 04:42 PM