Skingrad house (SPOILERS)

[tonyd253]

Alright i beat the game right....and im tryin to buy the house in skingrad, and i have this quest that says "You must talk to blah blah to buy a house in Skingrad" so i active the quest and go to skingrad it tells me to go the the east gate i think and then leads me to another gate witch leads to back out side....so i run my ass all the way up to the bridge that leads to the castle and the arrow turns green... but theres no orc dude...so im like so i jump my ass off and go under the bridge and hes not there i go and talk to the argonian lady in the castle and shes like "The count will be with you shortly, please wait in the hall." im like i dont wanna talk to the count... so i go and kick in the counts doors and go stab the count and talk to him and hes like "please talk to my umm what she called?? i dunno but he says talk to the argonian... witch leads me no were....do i need to restart or what?

[fable]

Please remember to put a SPOILER tag on a thread like this, just as the sticky thread, at the top of the forum, requests. I'll change this one. Future threads that need a SPOILER tag from you but don't have one will mysteriously vanish.

And drop the endless "wtf's," too. You're welcome to use what some people consider profanity, since it gets filtered out, but not acronyms that bypass the filter. Hey, not my rule.

[Argonian Thief]

Skingrad eh? I remember buying the house in skingrad by an orc I think, he was in the counts throne room or castle when i found him, but I'm not quite sure.

[Uhlouis]

I believe the person you buy the house from hangs out at the bar in Skingrad. Can't remember for sure though.
I think that's also were you can hire a servant for the house.
Like I said though, not sure, it's been a while.

[galraen]

Are you playing on a PC or console?

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, but it would improve responces and responce time if people would state which platform they're using from the start.

I also had problems with the Orc in Skingrad thanks to Radiant AI (is radiant an American term meaning garbage btw?). He fell out of the world journeying between the castle and the town and the only solution was to use the console.

[lifeishell91]

Go [url="http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Buying_a_house_in_Skingrad"]here[/url] for info on buying the Skingrad house, which is called Rosethorn Hall.


Also, if it is merely a problem with the Orc wandering off, open the console, click your character, and type

moveto 0002C466

and you should be teleported right to the Orc.

[metal-head182]

skingrad house

how much is this house?
the mission is easy u find the argonian [wait for him in the hall /throne room]and hell instruct u
?

[kanga]

Xbox PS3: Highlight spoiler text

There is a glitch that causes Shum to occasionally fall of a Skingrad bridge. This is fixed in the unofficial Oblivion patch. For consoles though it seems this error is largely unrecoverable. The only way to buy the house is to start a new game and buy it early on. Also avoid Skingrad during the daytime before the purchase as it will lower the chance that Shum does a kamakazi death dive before you get to negotiate with him. I guess the orc social club was just too much for the poor blighter

Shame,... I was looking forward to buying the building too. Ah well just like real life I guess.

[LeoStarDragon1]

Please remember to put a SPOILER tag on a thread like this, just as the sticky thread, at the top of the forum, requests. I'll change this one. Future threads that need a SPOILER tag from you but don't have one will mysteriously vanish.

And drop the endless "wtf's," too. You're welcome to use what some people consider profanity, since it gets filtered out, but not acronyms that bypass the filter. Hey, not my rule.

Howdy Fable!

I've watched all 3 seasons of "Deadwood" on DVD, so I feel like I know the proper contexts on how to use profanity now, whereas before it seemed so random, like people parroting it just because they heard others use it. But anyway, to follow up on your point of order. Proper acronym use means using all capital letters, so that the reader knows that you as the writer intend to have used an acronym. So it doesn't look like a mispelled word or a typographical error, or both combined. Such as, "NASA" or "N.A.S.A.", never "nasa". (Except for that example that I just used of course.) But now I have a question concerning his aforementioned usage of "WTF". I'd vote that it is an improper acronym, for it contains an acronym because of "F". Hence why my usage of "SNAFU" uses the more proper "Fouled" and not a variation of what he wants to use via the "F" in his "WTF". Plus if you know what acronym I'm referring to, it doesn't seem at all profane. That acronym was confused with a German word, that in itself translates to "woopie". Then there's the whole "Pluck you!" confusion to add to it.

[fable]

But now I have a question concerning his aforementioned usage of "WTF". I'd vote that it is an improper acronym, for it contains an acronym because of "F". Hence why my usage of "SNAFU" uses the more proper "Fouled" and not a variation of what he wants to use via the "F" in his "WTF". Plus if you know what acronym I'm referring to, it doesn't seem at all profane. That acronym was confused with a German word, that in itself translates to "woopie". Then there's the whole "Pluck you!" confusion to add to it.

You're quoting a post from July of last year, LSD. Rules have changed, and the site owner no longer cares concerning acronyms. Myself, I never gave a **** one way or the other about these vulgarities, having worked for years first in radio and then in writing, where I have to swim daily in the sewer of my own mind. But if you still have want to discuss this, feel free to ask BuckGB to please return to the old rule, so you can argue with him about it. I'm sure he'll take this with all the solemnity it is due.

[LeoStarDragon1]

You're quoting a post from July of last year, LSD. Rules have changed, and the site owner no longer cares concerning acronyms. Myself, I never gave a **** one way or the other about these vulgarities, having worked for years first in radio and then in writing, where I have to swim daily in the sewer of my own mind. But if you still have want to discuss this, feel free to ask BuckGB to please return to the old rule, so you can argue with him about it. I'm sure he'll take this with all the solemnity it is due.

Well, hey! It did post after all, despite the one hour freeze up! No, arguments with anyone, I just wanted some clarification! Because of "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge". With that in mind "WTF" then becomes, "What The For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge"! :laugh:

I've read and heard that Church Police use to charge people with that and then they made an acronym of it. Leave it to a poor reader or someone overhearing it, to confuse it with actual sex, or the German word "freck" I think it was, that translates into "woopie". Then there was the theory of how the archery phrase, "Pluck you!" confused the origin even more so. It's more a question of which side of the Entomology, er uh, oops! I meant, "Etymology"! Uh, which side the forum owner believes the most. But if the point is moot, then give me a bovine cow icon to place here!

But hey, congratulations on avoiding the manual labor pool! I've managed to slowly wade out of it, but thus far unsuccessful at diving into the intellectual labor pool as yet.

[fable]

I've read and heard that Church Police use to charge people with that and then they made an acronym of it. Leave it to a poor reader or someone overhearing it, to confuse it with actual sex, or the German word "freck" I think it was, that translates into "woopie".

That reminds me of some dirty French books from the early Renaissance that have survived, containing the first known instances of the traveling salesman and the farmer's daughter. (I'm not making this up.) He was simply called, if I recall correctly, Le Baiseur, and he figured in a number of these stories. Which, by the way, were told around the dinner tables of the same nobility that listened the next moment to tales of gallant knights fighting hordes of Saracens for the honor of their ladies.

I'm not quite sure if that's relevant, but it should be.

Then there was the theory of how the archery phrase, "Pluck you!" confused the origin even more so. It's more a question of which side of the Entomology, er uh, oops! I meant, "Etymology"! Uh, which side the forum owner believes the most. But if the point is moot, then give me a cow icon to place here!

Well, we are a getting a bit off course, unless someone prefers to discuss the Skingrad house being modded into a house-of-ill-repute. (Which always struck me as a heart-before-the-course kind of phrase, since you don't know if it's really a bad whorehouse until you've tried it, and those who call it a house-of-ill-repute probably haven't, or at least did so very morally after dark while disguised. I mean, it could be a house-of-very-good-repute-and-extremely-clean,-too sort of place.)

But hey, congratulations on avoiding the manual labor pool! I've managed to slowly wade out of it, but thus far unsuccessful at diving into the intellectual labor pool as yet.

It comes naturally when you're a layabout who can't shut up.

[LeoStarDragon1]

Hello, Fable!

"Look! Up in the sky! Its Super Moderator!"

This is one of your posts whose style reminds me of Sheogorath! :laugh:

#00: Hm. I think so! Dad used to have a tumor in his ear and he had it for so long that he got used to not hearing well and forgot how loud sounds can be and he forgot how to whisper. Even after having it removed, he's like a small boy whose ears are getting used to the world, but all over again. He thinks movie theater speakers are too loud, but hates it when I try to whisper. When he tries, he annoys people when he says, "What?" at normal tones or louder. When we get together with my younger brother and the older woman he lives with, we go out to eat. She likes to talk a lot, about subjects that I think shouldn't be discussed at a dinner table in public, especially with a man who is hard of hearing. As for me, I can hear the conversations around me, unlike my family, and I notice when they react to her topics and Dad's lack of volume control. Being cat owners, cats come up in conversation a lot. So then it sounds like we're "talking pussy" as they say if the reactions of the people around us mean anything. Anyway, after tyring to get Dad to understand that he is saying "pussy"/"pussies" too loudly and often, so when I got home I looked it up again. In American-English, it still refers to something made of "pus" or pertaining to it. As in, "that festering sore is full of pus" ergo it is "pussy". (Pus: "The yellowish-white matter produced by supperation." From the Latin pus = "matter".) As to how it became attached to feline cats and vulvas, is still in dispute. But the something new I learned is that, "Pussy" is the name of a village in France. There it means, "little boy". Upon learning that, "You big pussy!" becomes an oxymoron. Otherwise, calling a boy that is just pardonable French for what he is. Albeit the context Americans use it in implies undesirable feminate traits, they could learn to realize that they mean he is still behaving like a child rather than an adult and that he should grow up already! So yes, I am familiar with dinner topics pertaining to blush inducing topics.

#01: Well, yes I understand that thought completely! (By the way, see "The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button"! Or is it "Curious"? Anyway, they think he's a little "dirty old man", when he's just a curious pre-teen or teen curious as to what all the fuss is about! Heheh!:laugh: ) So to get us back on topic about the Skingrad Manor. There's a mod called "Romancing Eyja" that upgrades both the house and her! She's not exactly a whore or slut though as you do actually have to romance her.

#02: Well, it still sounds like you're keeping a trade secret to yourself! I've listened to writers speak, but they won't share their managers or agents!