Too loud. Too hot. Everything smells wrong. Something rough scrapes your arms and legs, too hard to be rock, too soft to be chitin. Even the air feels wrong, too dry, too thin. You wonder what brought you he-THE SURFACE ONES, THAT'S WHOIt burns in your memory. Failed raid, metal ringing, water in the sky, all was going as it should. Then... then it came. It howled. The world howled with it, louder than sound itself, flinging you and your cadre around like mites. You must have blacked out. Where the others are, you don't know. Dead, probably. What could survive that demon?Or rather, who besides you. There was a second group, though, followers to scavenge the dead and retrieve the wounded. Why, then, are yo-THE SCUM LEFT YOUYou're not surprised, really. More tired than angered by the thought. You were always the outcast, half feared, half ridiculed. You struggle to remember why...>Pick one from:>Understanding of Dwemer machines>Rudimentary sight>Bizzare, semiprophetic "visions">Ability to speak and understand basic Common>Strange connection with the Chaurus and other underground fauna>BERZERKER RAGESApologies for the somewhat odd writing style, but this is really to be expected of the blind, barely sentient cave monsters. Also apologies in advance for long post times or sudden vanishings, it is kind of late over here in Avalon. Just for the record, it will be possible to undo the Falmer blindness and pick up some common later in the quest.
>>30105019>Speak and Understand commonWe Gelebor nao.
>>30105019And fucked up the tripcode already, super.
>>30105019>>Rudimentary sight
>>30105019Dwemer machines. DWEMER MACHINES
>>30105019>Strange connection with the Chaurus and other underground fauna
>>30105019I know who you are, OP. You cannot hide.>BERZERKER RAGES
>>30105066>>30105112>>30105179>>30105185>>30105191Well shit.
>>30105179We dwarf now
>>30105203I feel slightly bad for making that equal.
>>30105019>Understanding of Dwemer machines
>>30105191RAAAAAAAAGE
>>30105066I think I'm just going to change my vote to understanding dorf tech. Hopefully we can sic a centurion or two on that Dovahkiin.
>>30105019>Dwemer machines
>>30105252DWEMEEEEER!
>>30105226>>30105263>>30105266Can't tell if samefag...
>>30105385
Gonna take that as a landslide for dwarf steampunk robots, all is as it should be.Chitin and fungus were never yours. You always preferred the things the Slavers left behind. Metal harder than rock, wheels and tubes and bottles, fitting together, making better things. Sometimes you even listened to their pets, the scuttling of cold chitin, faster and harder than any bug. Naturally this alienated the others, who called the Slavers demons, and they named you Brass Hands in scorn. Brass. One meaning of the word is forgotten, but everyone knows the one that matters.Feeling returns to your aching limbs, and you give a few experimental clicks. You think they have you bound in one of their carts, in a covered room large enough for maybe two of you to stand abreast. Dark, at least. That settled, your mind now turns to how to get out.>Talent time! Pick one from:>Sword and board fighter>Dual wielder>Archer>Sneak thief>A little bit of magicAlso introducing a cuttoff of five votes for one option.
>Understanding of Dwemer machinesIsn't that a paradox?
>>30105626Not everything is Numidium.
>>30105596>sword and board fighter tech warrior is go
>>30105596>magicMagitech is the way of the future
>>30105596>Magic>>30105635Yet
>>30105596Sneak thief, of course. How else do we take all the dwemer stuff without getting caught by fucking orbs and shit?
>>30105596>Sneak thief
>>30105658You. I like you.
>>30105596>A little bit of magic
Rolled 4>>30105596>magicBecome the steampunk wizard-engineer.
>>30105708>>30105712>>30105726Well shit.
Which school of magic though? This is important.
>>30105789Alteration? I assume that makes the most sense
>>30105789As an underground savage, we have no conception of the schools. They're just random powers that we understand, but nobody else does.
>>30105789Mysticism, obviously.
>>30105596Cneak-thief!C'mon guys do you really want Skyrim magic?
>>30105841There's no cneaking in Skyrim.
Rolled 16>>30105789I would assume some frost-specced Destruction, we are a Snow Elf, after all.
>>30105789Illusion, obviously. That way we can turn invisible and hide while out golem buddy kills everything for us.
That settles it, magitech time.Magicka. An anicent word of your kind. Nearly forgotten to those without. You suspect some study of the machines helped, their strange gems and arcane fire. You don't know much, a little fire and frost, but it is still more than unusual.Now what? From the rattling of the cart, you suspect you're going through wild land. Fast, too. You can hear water if you strain, but it would be far. They bound your wrists and ankles, loosely, maybe, but you are still weak. No breaking them. Your head feels dull; you doubt you could manage more than a few sparks... but it may be enough, for the cart or the bonds. Or of course you could wait. But you don't like that idea. At all.>Burn the wood?>Burn the ropes?>Wait (not necessarily until you reach town)?>Write-in?
>>30105820This. Actually knowing shit may come later.
>>30105923The ropes.
>>30105923Burn the bondages
>>30105923>Burn the ropes?
>>30105923Go with >Burn the ropesAnd ready to haul ass.
Rolled 76Rolling for burninating. Should probably ask for that in future.
While op is writing, let's plan. We obviously can't go back to our own kind, and I don't really want to live in the wilds for too long. So where do we go? Maybe Markarth, lots of tunnels and Dwemer stuff there.
>>30106034These words mean little to a Falmer, we must find the underground. Names mean little
>>30106034We should also try to find herbs to heal our blindness.
>>30106092I think it's a few thousand years too late for that, anon.
>>30106092>We should also try to find herbsWhat, and shove them into our eye sockets hoping they'll turn into eyeballs?
>>30106092We should try to deal with the blindness by learning alteration. Afterall, that's the school where all detect spells are in.
You decide you need one particular half of your name now. Flexing your fingers experimentally, breathe in, breathe out, now... focus.Acrid smoke fills your nostrils at once. Heat, almost unbearable, flares around your hands. You already hear threads snapping. Your skin begins to sear, the pain jolting you into action as you strain the bonds as they burn and weaken. It only takes moments for them to break, even the hot, dry air of the surface soothing the burns. With that done, hands slightly numb from pain, you work to undo the legs, and as far as you can hear, no-one noticed. They continue as normal.Step one done. You can move, at least. Now what?>Inspect the walls of the cart.>Try to rest and regain your arcane focus.>Write-in.No rolls required for now.
>>30106034Who said you obviously can't go back? They think you're wierd, but they won't kill you on sight.
>>30106168>Inspect the walls of the cart.
>>30106160Mysticism! http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Mysticism_(skill)>>30106168>Inspect the walls
>>30106145It's a poison that did this to us. we can try to undo it. I mean we can make healing potions. Why not ones that can heal blindness from poison.
>>30106226Poison and a few thousand years of On the Origin of Species in action, bud. It won't be THAT easy.
>>30106168Recharge Magicka. Then we can kill these bastards.
>>30106226>It's a poison that did this to us. we can try to undo it. I mean we can make healing potions. Why not ones that can heal blindness from poison.>Healing potions that somehow alter your genes in such a way that you gain the ability to grow eyeballs
>>30106275Falmer have eyeballs, numbnuts.They just don't work any more.
>>30106168>Try to rest and regain your arcane focus.
>>30106222My apologies. The TES knowledge I have is limited to what little I played Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. I think the only one I ever got around finishing was Skyrim, simply because I didn't understand english back when I played Morrowind and the oblivion mob leveling was ridiculous.
>>30106168>Try to rest and regain your arcane focus.>>30106241True but it's a start and we could still use some healing potions as well.
>>30106295And by "don't work", do you mean they are covered in skin and lack properly formed nerves or receptors?Undoing thousands of years of evolution and residual poison will NOT be something we can just do on the side, guys.
>>30106313Nah, it's cool. Everyone forgets Mysticism. Hell, Bethesda removed it in Skyrim.But for a blind, chitin armored elf... It'd be quite useful.
>>30106222>TonguesYep, Mysticism is the school for us.
>>30106348Well then I think it's time we traveled to Winterhold, op.
>>30106372Mysticism is the only true route to ULTIMATE COSMIC POOOWAAA in the lore. At high levels it's supposed to let you stop time.
>>30106378I think it's safe to say we'd need the Tribunal for this if anything.
>>30106431Not if we look directly into the Eye of Magnus.
>>30106446I never even played through the College. What does it do?
>>30106489We don't really know. It made some Thalmor really fucking powerful though.
Gonna take that as a vote for magicka regen.Bothersome, yes, but you suspect you need more than a few sparks to escape. You crouch, leaning against the smoothest wall you can find to take weight off your protesting legs, and try to think. To think of everything. The world like a machine, gears and cogs... that you can change.Unfortunately gonna have to call it a night for now. I'll try to carry this on tomorrow, so if you guys could keep it not-404d for a couple hours, that'd be great. In fact, to help you along, I suppose we should start voting on actions.>How long do you plan to wait for?>Until you feel you can burn/break the cart>Until you notice the surroundings change>Until the surface ones open the door so you can flame their faces.>Write in?
>>30106489We don't quite know, but probably anything.
>>30106508>>30106533>Current status of Elder Scrolls lore
>>30106529>Until we can burn the cart, then some. Gotta be able to burninate the sighted ones.
>>30106529>Until you notice the surroundings change>Until you feel you can burn/break the cartWhichever comes first.
>>30106529>Until you notice the surroundings change
>>30106557>Everything has to be explained inthe same game it's introduced.
>>30106690>Implying it's ever going to be explained>Implying the games along with lore won't keep getting worse
>>30106489>What does it do?It's a powerful source of magic that can be tapped into and grants the user great power and invulnerability, so I suppose it's a little like the Heart of Lorkan. Ancano was only able to be stopped because of the prodigious magicka draining effects of the staff of Magnus which could be used to close the eye and sever his connection with it. Apparently it had enough power to unmake the world and had grown so unstable by the end of the fight that the Psijic Order had to remove it from Mundus.
>>30106529So, are we burning the cart?
>>30107292>>30106529>Unfortunately gonna have to call it a night for now. I'll try to carry this on tomorrow, so if you guys could keep it not-404d for a couple hours, that'd be great. In fact, to help you along, I suppose we should start voting on actions.
>>30107303That was meant in a "have we come to this general consensus sorta deal".
>>30107331Ah. Then yes, we gonna burn a cart.
Bampu.
>>30106226Falmer have been naturally blind for thousands of years, since they abandoned the surface. This is how Bethesda does drow.
bump
>>30107361The cart that we are in? I spot a flaw in this plan.
>>30111278I see no issues with it.
>>30111967When you are in a wooden cage, and you light that wooden cage on fire, you are lighting yourself on fire.
>>30112581...So, we're making it so the Nords can't catch us!
>>30112674Genius!
>>30113859I know!
I wouldn't think a Falmer would use fire under any circumstance. They don't even light fires.
>>30116097Eh. We're already odd for a Falmer.
Okay, I'm back, give me maybe half an hour to finish booting my brain back up and I'll get back to writing.>>30111278The essential idea is that the cart starts to break up before it burns us to death. Also, slight action movie logic may be involved.>>30116097So the fire this falmer here is crouching over ( http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120123094327/elderscrolls/images/3/3b/FalmerNightProwlerCC.png ), and the one in the background, have been kept burning since Dwemer times?Granted, yes, it does now seem a little odd when usual Falmer fare is ice and lightning, but our tinkering with steam-based stuff may have influenced that.
>>30117334Hell you could say we have that next to useless fire spell used to heat the dwemer artifacts.
Neat, this is still up
>>30118595
>>30117334OP, you still here?
>>30120035bump
>>30117334Is "half" six where you come from?
>>30121304Well he IS a Deep One, they probably have all sorts of funky notions about how to measure time.
>>30121304Probably
>>30121304Apologies about that. Didn't seem to be all that many people responding to my return, so I figured most of you had left/gone too sleep.
>>30121811If you are ready to resume now, we can wait to see if more people are here to participate
>>30121811Nope, I've had this tab up for hours.
>>30121889same
>>30121811Just saw the thread, read up to here and I'm up for voting. I'm fairly certain there was a Falmer quest a while back that died in a few threads.
>>30121811I've just been purposely avoiding posting until you brought it back, so as to avoid limits and clogging the frontpage. I've had it open all night.
>>30121811Hello
Real helpful, guys. :VA sudden jolt brings an end to your trance... no, you are mistaken. It's a lack of a sudden jolt. The cart rattles less, you smell less nature and more dust and distant smoke than before. You're approaching a settlement. Damn it, you were out too long. You straighten, still swaying on weak legs. Your captors already begin to slow as you gather yourself for the kind of spell you need to break out.Two options. Either you burn your way out or break down the gateway with a frostbolt. You admit the former was your first plan, but hardly a flawless one. It would surely get you out easier, but at no small risk to yourself, and the surface ones may notice before it comes to anything. Decisions, decisions.>Fire?>Ice?
>>30122837Oh damnit. Set the cart on fire.
>>30122837Set the cart on fire.BURN with desire!
>>30122837>Fire
>>30122837Fire
>>30122837Wait until they jail us, then break out.
Gonna need rolls on those fire votes, guys. Again, sorry for forgetting, first real quest I've ever run.
>>30122999What dice?
>>30123009Until I say otherwise, assume it's all d100s.
Rolled 55>>30123022Okay then
Rolled 5>>30122999Fus roh daaah... I mean fire spell.
>hype intensifies
Rolled 29>>30122837Cart. Fire. >>30122999
>>30123022Are we trying to roll high or low?
>>30123045You need a guaranteed way out. No chancing it with frost for now. Slowly and precisely you go through the motions, building up the magicka carefully and... FLY!The plant chitin catches fire immediately, and in mere moments the heat on your face becomes almost unbearable as you back away, hot cinders burrowing into your flesh. You suspect the entire doorway has caught, and the fire is fast spreading. Your captors have certainly noticed, as the cart lurches to a halt. Though the fire is deafening, you can tell the wood won't give out on its own for a while, and you can scarsely tell what the surface ones will do. Now comes the risky part. What next?>Brace yourselves and bust down the door>Try casting another firebolt>Wait to see what the surface ones do>Write inRolls required for the top two options, along with anything that really involves more spellcasting or an active effort on your part. I need to go for a bit now, be back in about half an hour. Also, higher=better until I say otherwise.
>>30123223>>Brace yourselves and bust down the doorgotta go fastorYOUR TO SLOW
Rolled 26>>30123223SMASH DOOR
Rolled 62>>30123223Cast another bolt to break down the door.
Rolled 35>>30123223>Brace yourselves and bust down the doorSHOW ME YA MOVES
Rolled 47>>30123223>try another firebolt
>>30123223>brace yourselves>Fight your way out
Rolled 39>>30123223>>Wait to see what the surface ones do
>>30123282>>30123310>>30123343>>30123890You can just FEEL the love of the /tg/ dice.
Rolled 3>>30123223Gonna go with this:>Brace yourselves and bust down the door
Rolled 50>>30123909>>30123910Holy shit. No joke.
Rolled 86>>30123152Guessing trying high, unless otherwise stated.
Rolled 25>>30123223Moar fire>Try casting another firebolt
>there will never be a Falmer option to play in an elder scrolls game>even if it's a sapient falmer>best you can do is make a very light skinned dunmer or mod that shitTh-thanks bethesda
>>30123982Oh please, what other flavor of elf do you want next? Left-handed, Tropical, or extinct Assyrian?
>>30124040>extinct Assyrian?Yes
Is OP kill?Can't really blame it on lack of players this time.
>going down to Blackreach>Falmer bowmen>Somehow hitting me
>>30124040>not wanting elf-der scrolls 6 Hammerfell, circa mid-late 1st era
>>30124160OP gave up. We ded.
>>30123282Need to get out now, whatever the risk. The surface ones could be preparing to kill you, and the fire will if they don't. You put your shoulder ahead, tense and start running...And get flung back as if you'd hit a giant spring. You heard the door flex outwards, crack a little-it's certainly weakened. But then again, so are you. You may barely have avoided dislocating your arm completely, though it will still be stiff for some time, and your skin is seared deep. Fire begins to lap at your feet, causing you to scramble up to swiftly vanishing safety. You could try that again, but now you begin to doubt how much good it will do your chances of survival. Other plans may be in order.>Keep battering?>Now turn to spells?>Hope the surface ones open the door?Same roll rules as before.
>>30124173>can hear/smell/feel almost flawlessly>how are they knowing wear I am?!It's not their fault you're stupid.
>>30124271How can they aim?
Rolled 1>>30124253Firebolt, dumbass!
Rolled 77>>30124253>>Hope the surface ones open the door?Fuck it. Our life is in the hands of whatever gods have forgotten our race years ago.
>>30124253>FrostboltHow the fuck will more fire help us?
>>30124299wow
>>30124253>Hope the surface ones open the doorClimb to the back of the cart, and see if they come in for you. That way you'll know whether they want to kill you or keep you alive.
Rolled 8>>30124253>>30124253cast frostbolt
>>30124296>what is sonar augmented by other heightened sensesBut it is a Bethesda game, so one can only explain so much of it away. Magic could be involved..?
>>30124350The falmer are actually pretty interestingly handled in Skyrim. Torches and so on don't alert them unless you're really close, and invisibility doesn't affect them, but casting muffle on yourself makes you pretty much undetectable.
>>30124387So they did put forth effort...huh. Good for them. And despite Dawnguard being meh, the Falmer lore-building was THE shit.
>>30124387Yeah i never really noticed till i decided to dick around. i always had boots that had muffle on them. Got them really early in the game and never took them off till i found a better pair.
Rolled 4>>30124253We have to... >FREEZE THE DOOR
So after we burn to death can we be a dwemer automaton?
Rolled 38>>30124253Yeah, let's freeze shit.
Rolled 12These damn dice follow anyone who even touched a Cosgrove quest. Truely, pic related.
>>30124530>you are now a Dwemer automoton>you are awaiting the Landfall so the final attack may commence>but until then you wait, guarding your masters home from treasure hunters>it has been centuries and it will be many more until you are needed>what will you do to pass the time?How's this?
>>30124535Going to use the highest roll here, because wow you guys are getting the shittiest rolls.Need a different approach. The door has been weakened, now it could be broken with a frostbolt. Bit of a longshot because of the fire, but you suspect magic ice will hold long enough. Carefully, slowly, making sure it will hold... FIRE!Although weaker than you expected, the bolt slams into the partly ashen door, cracking and tearing, and a waft of fresh air instantly greets you in the almost entirely burning cart. It lies across a burning floor, possibly watched by armed surface dwellers, and it will need forced open... but it's there. A way to safety.Gonna call it a night for now, folks. Glad to see people want to see more of this, so I guess it's time to look at putting together a solid schedule. Watch the QTG.[/space]
>>30124729Good deal, man. This thing has promise.
>>30124729Could you perchance make a twitter account where you can put up a notice if you're running?
>>30124661>you realise you don't have a choice in what you are going to do>you are in a pipe next to a latched doorway awaiting an intruder>you realise in a burst of existentialism that you were created with a consciousness>but also with a set purpose>your masters were truly brilliant and cruel>you come to the conclusion you have a few options>get existential>patrol the halls>run diagnostics>sit and wait for an intruderNow this is not a quest, just seeing how it's recieved by you guys. Don't try voting, because nothing will happen.
>>30106198>On sightRimshot.wav
>>30124875I'd play it, but I made the suggestion, so take that how you will.
>>30124661>>30124875>WALL-E>with Dwemer Automaton Protagonist
>>30124875I would play.
