Morrowind Oddities (possible spoilers)

Deadalready · Post by **Deadalready** » Wed May 31, 2006 10:00 pm

This is just a thread for things you've found odd, I don't know how to class or describe things for this thread but it's just things in Morrowind you've noticed that seem unusual, strange, different, requiring explanation or hence odd.

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I noticed this more recently or actually gave thought to it, I use Raelan Hlalau as my storage gimp and every now and again when I place armour on him he changes into it.

One comes to three conclusions, either Raelan is not dead and seems to like me storing 6 tons of equipment on him. Raelan is dead but his strong sense of dress still resides in his corpse, or my character takes unwholesome pleasure in dressing up the dead.

Ash Slaves, they have really disturbing faces. Originally I thought they were wearing masks or something but when I looked closer I realised that they seem to have something nasty growing out of their face. Very scary stuff.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:54 am

[QUOTE=Deadalready]One comes to three conclusions, either Raelan is not dead and seems to like me storing 6 tons of equipment on him. Raelan is dead but his strong sense of dress still resides in his corpse, or my character takes unwholesome pleasure in dressing up the dead.[/QUOTE]

LOL!

Yes, that does seem to be odd, though you left out another possibility: that someone keeps coming around when you aren't and plays dress-up with him. Perhaps they're planning to use Raelan as a mannequin, and want to try out several outfits, first--audition him for the part, you know.

As for me, I find levitating books, weapons and armor singularly disturbing. It's a well known "feature" of the physics engine: stack things up, remove the bottom of the stack, and the rest floats. I've sometimes wished there was string in the gameworld and that you could tie an end to floating objects. Then you wouldn't have to worry anymore about over-burdening your character, and chould just pull floating items behind you as you went on quests.

Raven_Song · Post by **Raven_Song** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 7:21 am

One comes to three conclusions, either Raelan is not dead and seems to like me storing 6 tons of equipment on him. Raelan is dead but his strong sense of dress still resides in his corpse, or my character takes unwholesome pleasure in dressing up the dead.

Or his housekeeper comes out of her room and changes his outfit just to freak you out.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:37 am

lmao!

Things I've found a bit odd though not quite as entertaining as the above..

Tombs: There are spider webs everywhere, but no spiders. Did the assorted dead and daedra eat them? Where they wiped out in some kind of Arachnid Apocalypse? Or, did the dwemer take the spiders with them?

Gems: Scattered all over Vvardenfell are diamonds, emeralds and rubies. While there are mines for glass and ebony, no mines for minerals/crystals seem to exist.
Equally, how do they make all the iron, steel and silver items, armor and weapons when there is no evidence of manufacturing metal?

Raven_Song · Post by **Raven_Song** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:05 am

Or, did the dwemer take the spiders with them?

Perhaps, don't forget the one remaining dwemer is sat in some sort of spider-chair. I'm sensing some dwemer/spider conspiracy.

I've always wondered why there are so many plantations/farms dotted around the more fertile regions of Vvardenfell. I mean nobody on the island eats anything. Ever.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:33 am

[QUOTE=Raven_Song]Perhaps, don't forget the one remaining dwemer is sat in some sort of spider-chair. I'm sensing some dwemer/spider conspiracy.[/QUOTE]

Good Point!

In the vanilla game there are no children. So how do they reproduce? My theory is that the inhabitants of Vvardenfell clone themselves, which also helps to explain their nearly identical dialogues

Raven_Song · Post by **Raven_Song** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:39 am

In the vanilla game there are no children. So how do they reproduce? My theory is that the inhabitants of Vvardenfell clone themselves, which also helps to explain their nearly identical dialogues

:laugh: Or maybe there is only a population of about 30 and they run from place to place pretending to be diffrent people.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:40 am

[QUOTE=Raven_Song]:laugh: Or maybe there is only a population of about 30 and they run from place to place pretending to be diffrent people.[/QUOTE]

ROFL! The concept of "Rent a Crowd" comes to Morrowind

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:23 pm

I've always wondered how my character disposed of corpses so efficiently.

I have come to the conclusion that he carries a compact nuclear fusion incinerator with him. Which would also incidentally explain how he could survive running from Ebonheart to Zainab Camp, nonstop.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:36 pm

Chronic Mass Insomia: Unless you have some kind of schedule modification installed, nobody ever seems to go to bed. Of course, this might also partially explain the lack of children

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:38 pm

And why is it that all these guilds and houses have such exalted goals and hatreds, but never do anything unless you're around to do it for them? I feel like saying, "Come on, now! Get it together! You're armed, and powerful: go out and kill those Telvanni if you mages really loathe them so much! Why is it all on me, and what will you do if I choose to retire?" Humph.

Raven_Song · Post by **Raven_Song** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 3:06 pm

Speaking of guilds I always found it rather strange that the Temple and Imperial Cult don't mind you serving both - I mean how many religions are there in real life that allow their perishoners to worship so promiscusously.

Also is it just me or do the Mages Guild seem a little more bloodthirsty than the Telvanni, I might be wrong but I don't remember the Telvanni telling me to wonder off and massacre the leaders of the Mages' Guild.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:58 pm

[QUOTE=Raven_Song]Speaking of guilds I always found it rather strange that the Temple and Imperial Cult don't mind you serving both - I mean how many religions are there in real life that allow their perishoners to worship so promiscusously.

Also is it just me or do the Mages Guild seem a little more bloodthirsty than the Telvanni, I might be wrong but I don't remember the Telvanni telling me to wonder off and massacre the leaders of the Mages' Guild.[/QUOTE]
1. Well, practically it is better to have an efficient but atheistic servant than to have a faithful but useless follower.
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2. It's just you and Trebonius.

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:23 am

I find it odd that you can consume not only diamonds but something as vile and vomit-worthy as corpus weepening.

Gee, wonder how they'd taste like in real life.

Also, it's strange how the Ordinators get pissy when you're wearing the chest piece OR the helmet, but if you wear anything else from their armor set, then they don't care.

One last thing. Sunder. What the hell? I expect this big cool looking legendary weapon... and here I find a freakin' mallet.

I think Keening is larger than Sunder is.

timian · Post by **timian** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:33 am

[QUOTE=Rookierookie]I've always wondered how my character disposed of corpses so efficiently.
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There's a mod that adresses this, by changing the text "Dispose of corpse" to "Eat corpse"

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:37 am

Mmmm... nothing like a Cannibalism to lighten one's mood.

I've always wonderer how how a god tasted like.

Raven_Song · Post by **Raven_Song** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:54 am

Divine

(sorry couldn't resist)

Crenshinibon · Post by **Crenshinibon** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:06 am

Indeed.

Now, this brings me back to my idea of eddible flashes/floppies that still store data.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:50 am

*shudder* I haven't even eaten breakfast yet

:laugh:

*cough* Anyway, another odd thing about Morrowind....

The Super Potent Rain: The stuff is so penetrating that open-sided shelters and tunnels are defenseless against its onslaught. I always find it bizarre to be trekking up from the lower level of a Vivec canton under ostensible cover, while the rain continues to stream over me

And on a related note, my character can be caught out in a rainstorm and get thoroughly drenched, yet she never actually looks wet or bedraggled.

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:58 am

[QUOTE=dragon wench]
And on a related note, my character can be caught out in a rainstorm and get thoroughly drenched, yet she never actually looks wet or bedraggled.[/QUOTE]

Just like when she dives to the bottom of the sea looking for pearls yet doesn't even get her hair wet lol.

I find it amusing how you can kill a ghost using a sword that does fire damage. I can understand fire etc. harming skeletons, but ghosts? Surely the flames would just pass straight through them.

And how come you can rob all the ancestral tombs on the island yet none of the locals mind? Surely you would have a lynch mob after you.