Tag: Morrowind

The Silver Staff of Peace

AND THERE IT STAYED FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

OK I know it seems bad and that Steen is really giving Master Aryon some mixed signals, but I had a very good reason for doing this! You see, the place where I store all my sentimental Morrowind items is… on Aryon’s floor. Sooo, it was only logical that the Silver Staff of Peace went straight there. And I really was super stoked to receive it. So there, no mixed signals after all! The Silver Staff of Peace got treated with deference after all. As to whether Aryon saw it that way… well…

Additionally in my defense, when I had to give the staff to Fast Eddie when I named him my Mouth, I knew exactly where the staff was. Unlike all the multitudes of people that sold/lost it. They kind of have my sympathies… but not really.

Going to pick it up to give to Eddie was probably pretty awkward, though. Imagine:

Aryon: Oh, Steen! You’re back!
Steen: Oh, hey Aryon, I’m uhh… just here to pick up some of my stuff.
*Steen fidgets around a bit, then picks up the staff*
Steen: Ah, there it is… right where I left it.
Aryon: … What are you finally going to do with that staff?
Steen: Oh, uhh, oh. This? Yeah. I’m just gonna give it to uhh, Fast Eddie, you know. He seems like a cool guy and all. It’s like, the traditional gift for a Mouth.
Aryon: So it is.
Steen: Anyway, so yeah, I’ll see you around?

Leg Day

At long last, I’ve been able to combine the two great passions of my life: climbing and Morrowind! Frankly, I’m surprised it took me this long.

Anywhoo, I do like mountaineering and climbing IRL, and I’ve always been super impressed at the fitness level of my Morrowind character. Like, it is difficult to even *walk* up one mountain in a day, and yet she jumps up multiple mountains almost every day. That is ridiculous. So I like to imagine that she would be super buff, woody, and fit from jumping up mountains all the time. Her jumping muscles would be especially well developed!

I like to think that Turedus Talanian is amazed and perhaps somewhat envious of Steen’s amazing muscles, whilst Master Aryon is just completely unperturbed by the whole thing. Partly because I imagine it would take a lot to ruffle his feathers, but also partly because Aryon sees Steen all the time so it is old hat for him.

I also thought it would be a good sub-joke if Steen got so huge that she couldn’t fit into her old pants anymore, so she would start walking around wearing… essentially a leotard I guess. But I’m not sure if that part of the joke really reads well here, hence why I decided to spell it out.

Eat Your Heart Out

Eat Your Heart Out

Things can get weird when you’re born under the Sign of the Atronach. Like, you can cast amazing spells that most could never even dream of! But you also spend all your time THINKING about magicka and scrounging for magicka potions/ingredients and clearing out all the Mage’s Guild’s supply chests and budgeting your magicka and obsessing over it.

Sometimes (early in the game) I even found myself seeking out bandit caves, thinking “bandits usually have at least one mage in their group…” then finding said mage, and just standing there letting him bathe me in flames so I could absorb some magicka back.

And yes, I have chowed down on raw daedra hearts. Void and frost salts are just TOO DARN RARE! And I almost always did have, like, 50 lbs of daedra hearts. Sooooooo…

(Of course, once I installed the Blood Moon expansion and there were just piles of belladonna berries lying around on the ground, things didn’t feel quite so lean…)