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I like the stepping out of thin air to deal critical damage...
How about something like Phase Striker, or Bamf-Blade?
Or maybe Confuserator.

I've found 10 bottles so far, mostly inside forts (edit: as opposed to outside the fort ruins). They seem to only come in pairs. There are a lot of fort ruins, though... so maybe only one in five has Shadowbanish wine.

Another small caveat: converting soul gems to black ones will work only if the starting gem is empty.

I found the whole set of Brusef Amelion's armour (helm, cuirass, greaves, gauntlets, boots and shield) plus the longsword. It's all in there. If you do the fighters' guild quest related to the tomb, you should get some compass markers pointing you in the right direction...

Does the "reset actors" console command from Morrowind work in Oblivion?
If it does, that might free the NPC from his staircase...?

The other option, available to members of the Arcane University, is to create a high effect, short duration drain personality spell at an altar of spellmaking.
I think you can create a 90 point drain attribute spell with like 4 or 5 second duration with a mysticism (or alteration?) skill of 50.

I don't know... I've found a couple of notes in various places that give directions similar to the ones you quoted, but without a starting point, they're pretty much useless.

Hey, I'm not saying you guys are wrong, I'm just saying I'm right. ;)

But seriously, for sure whatever works for each person is good.
I just wanted to point out to anyone who might not have noticed the barely-audible difference that listening to the sound of the tumblers is also a reliable method ...

I have to disagree with you, Phreddie. I find picking locks with my eyes closed a heck of a lot easier: the sound of the tumbler clicking into place is noticably different when it's time to lock it into place. Once I noticed the sound difference, I could pick a very hard lock at a very low skill ...

I just completed this quest, and I found a similar problem. I convinced the 2 witnesses to testify, and then went to talk to the good guard captain. He had nothing new to tell me, but a check of the journal told me to make sure the witnesses met him first thing in the morning. I just waited the few ...

You can also recharge magic items yourself:

Equip Varla stones found in Ayleid ruins, or
Equip soul gems that are not empty. (The bigger the soul, the more points are recharged)

And for those of you who like the spoilers, a related tidbit about Azura's Star:
Azura's Star, recieved for ...

Umm... Is that a question?

Where to get the Shadowbanish wine quest:
West across the bridge outside the Imperial City stables is an Inn. Talk to the proprietess at the bar about wine, she'll give you the quest to get 6 bottles of rare wine for her

[quote="Ashen]I do like to finish them off with a fire ball if I can - they go flying![/quote"]
Especially skeletons! I love the way they explode with their skulls just flying off like rockets :laugh:

I got one word for ya:
Area. Effect. Spells.

Three words.

Every house gives you a brief quest. You ask the appropriate person in each city to "buy a house in town", and if you cough up the gold, the quest adds to your active quests. Usually, in order to complete the quest, you just buy all the relevant house fixin's from the local general merchant. Once ...

Trust me, the Orrery quest (and I use the word "quest" lightly) is NOT worth $2. Read the various forum posts of all the folks who feel cheated.

I think it's bad enough that everyone accepts the patch situation in the gaming world; i.e. games are released before they're completed, still with bugs ...

I usually use a huge-radius, long lasting light spell I made at AU when I'm poking around a dark cave or dungeon, but occasionally I'll use a torch instead because I like the colour of light and the atmosphere it gives better than the washed-out green glow of the light spell. And as for night-eye ...

I've seen some mods that will allow you to drop gold.
Check out [url="http://www.tessource.net/files/"]The Elder Scrolls Source[/url] ...

I just got that quest too.
It says that once a week, there is some celestial phenomenon. You just need to be by the altar on the right night.