iMPERIAL dRAGON aRMOR - pos spoil

gray.wizard.TakeThisOut@moria.mines wrote:
> I finished the main quest & I felt that Ocato did the equivalent of:
>
> "Hey! Mad props for saving the world, dude! Uhhhh....yeah...ok. Well,
> I gotta go now. Bye."

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I think the key is that you DIDN'T save the world. You weren't the
hero. Martin was. Yeah you got him there, yeah you did a lot of dirty
work but in the end there wasn't a blessed thing you could do.

It did give me this horribly strange feeling that everyone else was
just moving on with life (literally the AI just reverts to its normal
schedule) and I was left sitting there going "WAIT a minute!" Felt a
bit of the shell shocked fighter wanting SOMEONE to acknowledge that
something horrible had just happened and they were all too busy with
thier nice comfy little lives. That worked for me, I thought it was a
good thing. IT actually took my character a few real in game days and
a bit of "retrace her steps" journey to get back into the swing of
things and start doing some dungeon delving and some quests. It all
seemed rather, well POINTLESS after what she'd just witnessed.

Ocato struck me all the way through as a little, mmm, less than
helpful. The guy gets to KEEP power now, no handing it over to some
upstart royal bastard. I got the impression he wanted to sweep the
whole unpleasant mess under the rug and get back to being "regent".
You were useful, but you are also a rather unpleasant reminder of
unpleasant things. Give you a reward, send you on your way.

For me the ending was rather a shock. I'm an OLD TES player, the
Emperor has always been a character back there in the shadows of the
story. Even if he didn't make an appearance his hands were in
everything. Its a wild change for the TES world, I'm looking forward
to see where they take it. I'm imagining civil war will figure in the
next game.

Tandaina
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gray.wizard.TakeThisOut@moria.mines wrote:
> >I think the key is that you DIDN'T save the world. You weren't the
> >hero. Martin was. Yeah you got him there, yeah you did a lot of dirty
> >work but in the end there wasn't a blessed thing you could do.
>
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> I'm also the one who carried the Amulet half-way across the continent.
> I'm the one who tracked down the imperial heir. I'm the one who
> rescued the Amulet when that retard Jauffre left it in his spare
> change dish on his dresser. I am the one who united all the city's
> rulers & troops for the Great Battle. I am the one who cleansed the
> Septim Shrine and retrieved the Septim Armor that had been lost for
> centuries.

Yeah, I agree with you that it was a little abrupt. I do however now
have every drunk in the game wanting to regale me with "The Fall of
Dagon" and guards the world over calling me Champion in a slightly awed
manner.

> Even a token comment from Ocato saying, "You rock!" would have been
> better than what I got. Yeah, I have a spiffy set of Dragon Armor
> coming to me in two weeks, but all reports I have read about it so far
> say it's pretty lame. Give me a set of armor I can wear that makes me
> look & feel like the total bad-ass mojammer that I truly am.

I downlaoded a mod that made the dragon armor a bit more spiffy stat
wise. However, since my character is a lightly armored archer/theif
the armor just doesn't make sense for her anyway. It sits on a shelf
with my Kvatch chainmail and the bow that I used in the final rush.

> I'd even settle for my Adoring Fan following me around with a boombox
> playing the theme from Shaft... ::grumble::

Please, no!

> It does seem pointless...I'm feeling the exact same thing. I'm feeling
> no desire to get back into the exploring groove of thing in spite of
> still having numerous unsolved quest-lines open.

I'm glad its not just me. In previous TES games the story came to a
nice end and I went off feeling pretty good about myself. This time it
was so earthshattering and history changing that looting old temples
seems rather, crass. What my character ended up doing was taking
Martin's horse back to Cloud Ruler. I picked up Jaffre and Baurus's
swords on the way (they both died in my game) and left them there also.
Sort of annoyed me there was no way to have them hung wth the rest, so
I left then on a table in the main hall. Then put her Blades gear in
the sleeping room and said "OK, life goes on till the Empire needs me
again!". So now she's back to dungeon diving, working up some
faction trees, etc. But I did need to do my own sort of "ending
ceremony" since the game didn't.

> Next game? Are you kidding? I'm sure Oblivion is going to get the
> Morrowind treatment & have at least two full-blown expansions. Given
> Ocato's comments about how there is internal strife in the provinces I
> am sure you are spot on that the next TES installment (whether it be
> game or expansion) will deal with this internal strife and unrest.

Yeah, expansion/game. I hope I don't have to wait another 4 or 6 YEARS
for the next bit of the story. I'm hoping for a VERY large expansion.

Tandaina
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> You quickly equip with whatever you used to stagger Dagon the first time
> you got Martin past him and fire away.
>

? Did I miss something, Dagon just stood there the whole time while
escorting Martin.
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>> You quickly equip with whatever you used to stagger Dagon the first time
>> you got Martin past him and fire away.
>>
>
> ? Did I miss something, Dagon just stood there the whole time while
> escorting Martin.

I think he was writing a story based on Oblivion. Alternate ending.
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